All time world test XI selection

[Red]

- select a #4 bat
- select a spinner

 

[Prince EWS]

Sanga
O'Reilly

 

[morgieb]

Greg Chappell
Bill O’Reilly

 

[TheJediBrah]

Which was better out of Grimmett and O'Reilly? One of them minnow-bashed IIRC

 

[Red]

I’ve always considered OReilly better. Get the impression Grimmett was naggingly accurate and miserly, while OReilly was more of an attacking weapon while also maintaining good economy

 

[kyear2]

Sangakkara

O'Reilly

 

[ataraxia]

Sanga
Grimmett (O'Reilly isn't a spinner )

q: is Aubrey Faulkner eligible to be picked (because of that one test in 1924 or whenever)?

 

[Nikhil99.99]

Sanga
O’Reilly

 

[Flametree]

Sangakkara
O'Reilly

 

[CricAddict]

Both pretty good keepers too, unlike Andy Flower

edit: and would like to add my appreciation for no one picking Flower to play as keeper. That would be a horrible selection

Andy Flower being a terrible keeper is an opinion that has taken root in CW for some reason. In my years of watching him, I haven`t found him to be a bad keeper. There are neither articles nor videos or any interviews by former players saying that his keeping was bad.

 

[Red]

Sanga
Grimmett (O'Reilly isn't a spinner )

q: is Aubrey Faulkner eligible to be picked (because of that one test in 1924 or whenever)?

Yes

 

[subshakerz]

- select a #4 bat
- select a spinner

Greg Chappell

O'Reilly

 

[TheJediBrah]

Andy Flower being a terrible keeper is an opinion that has taken root in CW for some reason.

If anything CW overrates his keeping

 

[Jfry]

Greg Chappell

O'Reilly

+1

 

[CricAddict]

If anything CW overrates his keeping

I don`t think so. May be his batting but not his keeping. From what I have read so far here, everyone only bashes his keeping unlike outside circles where everyone considers him when it comes to top keeper-batsmen.

And what I said above will become very clear in this voting thread when his name crops up.

 

[Prince EWS]

His keeping is not fondly remembered on the Zimbabwe Cricket Forum.

 

[Prince EWS]

His keeping is not fondly remembered on the Zimbabwe Cricket Forum.

@TheJediBrah Haha not sure why you laughed, I was serious.

 

[TheJediBrah]

His keeping is not fondly remembered on the Zimbabwe Cricket Forum.

Does not surprise me. Keeping is one of those things when you're doing an ordinary job you tend to get backlash very quickly from fans. I recall them being desperate for a proper keeper that Taibu was rushed in basically as a child (though tbf he still looks like a child)

@TheJediBrah Haha not sure why you laughed, I was serious.

fixed

 

[honestbharani]

Andy Flower being a terrible keeper is an opinion that has taken root in CW for some reason. In my years of watching him, I haven`t found him to be a bad keeper. There are neither articles nor videos or any interviews by former players saying that his keeping was bad.

Its been a crappy take forever and its peddled by the usual suspects coz "muh Gilchrist". Funnily enough its couple of posters who have literally never seen him keep too.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Its been a crappy take forever and its peddled by the usual suspects coz "muh Gilchrist". Funnily enough its couple of posters who have literally never seen him keep too.

You know that thing you do where you perpetuate an ignorant opinion just for the sake of being disagreeable and emphatically and rudely insist that everyone who doesn't share said ignorant opinion either "hasn't watched cricket" or "is biased"? Can you just not for a while?