The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[Fuller Pilch]

Excuse me but yeah that second southern xi is missing a certain Allan Border over Kane anyway of the week. Or even Steve Waugh.

And the NH team should have Hammond in it instead of Dravid or Sanga. Hammond only just missed the first team middle order.

 

[Slifer]

And the NH team should have Hammond in it instead of Dravid or Sanga. Hammond only just missed the first team middle order.

Yeah. How did Hammond miss out?? ???

 

[AndrewB]

CC Hunte
CC McDonald
HH Gibbs
TT Samaraweera
RR Sarwan
RR Pant+
WW Armstrong
HH Streak
RR Lindwall
AA Donald
JJ Bumrah

Edit: With 11 different double initials

CC Hunte
HH Gibbs
TT Samaraweera
KK Nair
BB McCullum+
WW Armstrong
MM Ali
RR Lindwall
GG Arnold
AA Donald
JJ Bumrah

If you're being more flexible, could bring in VVS Laxman.

 

[AndrewB]

Short-lived XI (<40):
Victor Trumper
Archie Jackson
Phil Hughes
Tip Foster*
Hansie Cronje
Jock Cameron+
Collie Smith
Amar Singh
Hedley Verity
George Lohmann
Ken Farnes

40-somethings:
Colin Milburn
Arthur Shrewsbury
Frank Worrell*
David Hookes
Andrew Symonds
Aubrey Faulkner
Albert Trott
Wally Grout+
Malcolm Marshall
Ted McDonald
Tom Richardson

50-somethings:
Sid Barnes
Roy Fredericks
Ken Barrington
Stan McCabe
Martin Crowe*
Allan Steel
Billy Murdoch+
Keith Boyce
Shane Warne
Graham Dilley
Harry Boyle

60-somethings:
Conrad Hunte
WG Grace
Wally Hammond
Ranjitsinhji
Clem Hill
Tony Greig*
Denis Lindsay+
Monty Noble
Learie Constantine
Maurice Tate
Jim Laker

70-somethings:
Len Hutton*
Stewie Dempster
George Headley
Denis Compton
Dudley Nourse
Jack Gregory
Rod Marsh+
Ray Lindwall
Fred Spofforth
Fred Trueman
Subhash Gupte

80-somethings:
Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Clyde Walcott
Vijay Hazare
Ted Dexter
Keith Miller*
Les Ames+
Bill O'Reilly
Clarrie Grimmett
Jack Cowie
Frank Tyson

Long-lived XI (90 or more):
Bill Ponsford
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman*
Frank Woolley
Everton Weekes
John Reid
Jim Parks+
Wilfred Rhodes
Alan Davidson
Harold Larwood
Sydney Barnes

 

[Coronis]

80-somethings:
Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Clyde Walcott
Vijay Hazare
Ted Dexter
Keith Miller*
Les Ames+
Bill O'Reilly
Clarrie Grimmett
Jack Cowie
Frank Tyson

That is a deadly XI.

 

[h_hurricane]

Players born on prime number year XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Victor Trumper
Rishabh Pant (wk)
Shaun Pollock
Richard Hadlee
Dennis Lillee
Sydney Barnes
Colin Blythe

 

[Xix2565]

Sensing a certain tendency here...

 

[Bolo.]

Short-lived XI (<40):
Victor Trumper
Archie Jackson
Phil Hughes
Tip Foster*
Hansie Cronje
Jock Cameron+
Collie Smith
Amar Singh
Hedley Verity
George Lohmann
Ken Farnes

40-somethings:
Colin Milburn
Arthur Shrewsbury
Frank Worrell*
David Hookes
Andrew Symonds
Aubrey Faulkner
Albert Trott
Wally Grout+
Malcolm Marshall
Ted McDonald
Tom Richardson

50-somethings:
Sid Barnes
Roy Fredericks
Ken Barrington
Stan McCabe
Martin Crowe*
Allan Steel
Billy Murdoch+
Keith Boyce
Shane Warne
Graham Dilley
Harry Boyle

60-somethings:
Conrad Hunte
WG Grace
Wally Hammond
Ranjitsinhji
Clem Hill
Tony Greig*
Denis Lindsay+
Monty Noble
Learie Constantine
Maurice Tate
Jim Laker

70-somethings:
Len Hutton*
Stewie Dempster
George Headley
Denis Compton
Dudley Nourse
Jack Gregory
Rod Marsh+
Ray Lindwall
Fred Spofforth
Fred Trueman
Subhash Gupte

80-somethings:
Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Clyde Walcott
Vijay Hazare
Ted Dexter
Keith Miller*
Les Ames+
Bill O'Reilly
Clarrie Grimmett
Jack Cowie
Frank Tyson

Long-lived XI (90 or more):
Bill Ponsford
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman*
Frank Woolley
Everton Weekes
John Reid
Jim Parks+
Wilfred Rhodes
Alan Davidson
Harold Larwood
Sydney Barnes

Make Hansie the captain of the short-lived team you coward

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Players born on prime number year XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Victor Trumper
Rishabh Pant (wk)
Shaun Pollock
Richard Hadlee
Dennis Lillee
Sydney Barnes
Colin Blythe

Vs
Another xi of players born in prime number year
G.Smith
Hayden
Headley
S.Smith
Hammond
Jardine*
Miller
Marsh+
Trueman
Ambrose
O’Reilly

 

[honestbharani]

The "Players in their Prime" series...

 

[h_hurricane]

Vs
Another xi of players born in prime number year
G.Smith
Hayden
Headley
S.Smith
Hammond
Jardine*
Miller
Marsh+
Trueman
Ambrose
O’Reilly

Several of these players are born in non prime years. For instance, Ambrose was born in 1963, exactly divisible by 13. Good team anyways.

 

[AndrewB]

Make Hansie the captain of the short-lived team you coward

What happened there was I'd started with a "under 45" team, and had Worrell as captain; then decided "under 40" made more sense, so replaced Worrell (and Marshall), and without thinking left Worrell's replacement as captain.

 

[Jayro]

Team with initial "S"
Sid Barnes,
Sunil Gavaskar,
Steve Smith,
Sachin Tendulkar,
Steve Waugh,
Shivnarine Chanderpaul,
Shaun Pollock
Sayyed Kirmani (wk)
Shane Warne,
Sydney Barnes,
Shane. Bond,

 

[Xix2565]

I like how Shane Bond's the only one formatted as "Shane. Bond,".

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I like how Shane Bond's the only one formatted as "Shane. Bond,".

It should be Bond. Shane Bond.

 

[Prince EWS]

I like how Shane Bond's the only one formatted as "Shane. Bond,".

I think Jayro probably meant to change the comma at the end of the last player to a period but messed up and put the period in the wrong spot.

 

[Jayro]

Team with initial R
RB Simpson,
Rohit Sharma,
Ricky Ponting,
Rahul Dravid,
Rohan Kanhai,
Ross Taylor/Ravindra Jadeja
Rishabh Pant,
Richard Hadlee,
Richie Benaud,
R Ashwin/ R Bob Willis,
Ray lindwall,

 

[Xix2565]

I think Jayro probably meant to change the comma at the end of the last player to a period but messed up and put the period in the wrong spot.

Ok.

 

[Xix2565]

Also, is Rohit Sharma the best Test opener whose name begins with the letter R? Just out of curiosity.

 

[Prince EWS]

Also, is Rohit Sharma the best Test opener whose name begins with the letter R? Just out of curiosity.

No, it's clearly Simpson.