All time XIs discussion

[CricAddict]

Dont worry, i have a couple of different plans once finished. I need help with the SIM though.

Great. Waiting for it.

 

[NUFAN]

What I am planning (if the whole sim thing isn't too hard) is to have a bracket tournament similar to College Basketball.

This would mean:
- 64 teams in total
- Roughly 24-28 of all selected teams would miss out.
- At least 50 percent of each countries XIs would make the top 64
- 16 seeds: all 10 countries top side, plus an additional 6
- 4 seeds per bracket
- Unseeded teams will be positioned using a random generator
- 2 teams from the same country can't meet in the first round only.

- 3 Test Series, winner progresses, loser is out.
- That will increase to 5 Tests at either the final or semi final

 

[Victor Ian]

Will the 3 test series be home away neutral, or 3 random grounds to favour pace, spin, batsmen. Or don't Sims care about grounds? Whatever... Sounds awesome.

 

[Victor Ian]

We need to make sure we have series stats for our virtual players.

 

[Starfighter]

West Indies XI 1. GC Greenidge 2. CC Hunte 3. GA Headley 4. BC Lara 5. IVA Richards 6. GSA Sobers * 7. PJ Dujon + 8. MD Marshall 9. J Garner 10. CEL Ambrose 11. LR Gibbs	West Indies A XI 1. DL Haynes 2. RC Fredericks 3. CL Walcott 4. ED Weekes 5. FMM Worrell * 6. RB Kanhai 7. DL Murray + 8. MA Holding 9. AME Roberts 10. S Ramadhin 11. CA Walsh	West Indies B XI 1. JB Stollmeyer 2. CH Gayle 3. AI Kallicharran 4. CH Lloyd * 5. S Chanderpaul 6. OG Smith 7. LN Constantine 8. JL Hendriks + 9. WW Hall 10. IR Bishop 11. CEH Croft	West Indies C XI 1. AF Rae 2. LG Rowe 3. RB Richardson * 4. SM Nurse 5. BF Butcher 6. GE Gomez 7. FCM Alexander + 8. CC Griffith 9. ST Clarke 10. WW Daniel 11. AL Valentine	West Indies D XI 1. KC Brathwaite 2. SL Campbell 3. CA Davis 4. RR Sarwan 5. JC Adams * 6. CL Hooper 7. RD Jacobs + 8. WKM Benjamin 9. BP Patterson 10. EM Martindale 11. R Gilchrist
West Indies E XI 1. CA Roach 2. JK Holt 3. DM Bravo 4. HA Gomes 5. MN Samuels 6. AL Logie 7. D Ramdin +* 8. RA Harper 9. KAJ Roach 10. GN Francis 11. HC Griffith	West Indies F XI 1. MC Carew 2. WW Hinds 3. SD Hope 4. JS Solomon 5. BP Nash 6. DSE Atkinson * 7. DA Murray + 8. KD Boyce 9. DM Bishoo 10. KCG Benjamin 11. AH Gray	West Indies G XI 1. G Challenor 2. GS Camacho 3. KLT Arthurton * 4. RL Chase 5. J Blackwood 6. DJ Bravo 7. JR Murray + 8. DAJ Holford 9. WW Davis 10. JE Taylor 11. LG Hylton	West Indies H XI 1. PV Simmons 2. D Ganga 3. KA Edwards 4. MLC Foster 5. CL King 6. JDC Goddard * 7. CS Baugh + 8. VA Holder 9. FA Rose 10. D Ramnarine 11. CD Collymore	West Indies I XI 1. KOA Powell 2. RG Samuels 3. AG Ganteaume 4. RJ Christiani 5. KH Weekes 6. FR Martin 7. BD Julien 8. IM Barrow + 9. S Shillingford 10. M Dillon 11. PT Collins

 

[Starfighter]

Pakistan XI 1. Saeed Anwar 2. Hanif Mohammad 3. Younis Khan 4. Javed Miandad 5. Inzamam-ul-Haq 6. Mushtaq Mohammad 7. Imran Khan * 8. Wasim Akram 9. Saqlain Mushtaq 10. Wasim Bari + 11. Waqar Younis	Pakistan A XI 1. Azhar Ali 2. Majid Khan 3. Zaheer Abbas * 4. Mohammad Yousuf 5. Salim Malik 6. Asif Iqbal 7. Imtiaz Ahmed + 8. Abdul Qadir 9. Fazal Mahmood 10. Shoaib Akhtar 11. Mohammad Asif	Pakistan B XI 1. Shoaib Mohammad 2. Mudassar Nazar 3. Saeed Ahmed 4. Misbah-ul-Haq * 5. Ijaz Ahmed 6. Asad Shafiq 7. Sarfraz Ahmed + 8. Sarfraz Nawaz 9. Iqbal Qasim 10. Saeed Ajmal 11. Khan Mohammad	Pakistan C XI 1. Mohsin Khan 2. Aamer Sohail 3. Mohammad Hafeez 4. Qasim Umar 5. Wasim Raja 6. Sadiq Mohammad 7. Moin Khan + * 8. Mohammad Amir 9. Yasir Shah 10. Mushtaq Ahmed 11. Wahab Riaz	Pakistan D XI 1. Taufeeq Umar 2. Rameez Raja * 3. Haroon Rasheed 4. Umar Akmal 5. Shoaib Malik 6. Shahid Afridi 7. Rashid Latif + 8. Abdul Razzaq 9. Pervez Sajjad 10. Junaid Khan 11. Aaqib Javed
Pakistan E XI 1. Imran Farhat 2. Ahmed Shehzad 3. Waqar Hasan 4. Javed Burki 5. Abdul Kardar * 6. Azhar Mahmood 7. Saleem Yousuf + 8. Tauseef Ahmed 9. Umar Gul 10. Shabbir Ahmed 11. Danish Kaneria	Pakistan F XI 1. Salman Butt 2. Taslim Arif 3. Yasir Hameed 4. Wazir Mohammad 5. Asim Kamal 6. Sami Aslam 7. Kamran Akmal + 8. Intikhab Alam * 9. Abdur Rehman 10. Azeem Hafeez 11. Sikander Bakht	Pakistan G XI 1. Alimuddin 2. Khurram Manzoor 3. Nazar Mohammad * 4. Basit Ali 5. Faisal Iqbal 6. Asif Mujtaba 7. Adnan Akmal + 8. Nasim-ul-Ghani 9. Mahmood Hussain 10. Rahat Ali 11. Mohammad Zahid

 

[jimmy101]

Cheers Starfighter. Hopefully it's not too late to edit Rameez Raja's name.

 

[Starfighter]

Sadly, it is. Spellcheck likes to check spelling when you click 'submit'.

 

[jimmy101]

Looks like harsh saved the day.

 

[Starfighter]

Surprised he didn't lock the thread tbh.

 

[CricAddict]

Both countries WI and Pak have awesome top 3 teams and go downhill quite fast after that, moreso for WI. Think the first 3 WI teams will beat the Paks while C-G will be beaten by corresponding teams.

 

[Starfighter]

New Zealand XI 1. GM Turner 2. B Sutcliffe 3. KS Williamson 4. MD Crowe * 5. LRPL Taylor 6. BB McCullum + 7. CL Cairns 8. DL Vettori 9. RJ Hadlee 10. SE Bond 11. J Cowie	New Zealand A XI 1. CS Dempster 2. MH Richardson 3. SP Fleming * 4. MP Donnelly 5. AH Jones 6. JR Reid 7. BJ Watling + 8. BR Taylor 9. N Wagner 10. TA Boult 11. HJ Howarth	New Zealand B XI 1. JG Wright 2. TWM Latham 3. BE Congdon 4. NJ Astle 5. CD McMillan 6. JV Coney * 7. IDS Smith + 8. DJ Nash 9. JG Bracewell 10. TG Southee 11. RO Collinge	New Zealand C XI 1. GT Dowling 2. BA Edgar 3. JF Reid 4. GP Howarth * 5. JD Ryder 6. SB Styris 7. AC Parore + 8. BL Cairns 9. RC Motz 10. FJ Cameron 11. SL Boock	New Zealand D XI 1. HG Vivian 2. BA Young 3. MG Burgess * 4. BF Hastings 5. MJ Greatbatch 6. JDP Oram 7. KJ Wadsworth + 8. TR MacGibbon 9. SB Doull 10. JC Alabaster 11. EJ Chatfield
New Zealand E XI 1. JA Raval 2. L Vincent 3. MS Sinclair 4. RC Blunt 5. WM Wallace * 6. KD Rutherford 7. WS Lees + 8. DR Hadlee 9. TB Burtt 10. DK Morrison 11. CS Martin	New Zealand F XI 1. WA Hadlee * 2. GO Rabone 3. HJH Marshall 4. BW Sinclair 5. JJ Crowe 6. C de Grandhomme 7. MJ Santner 8. DR Tuffey 9. GA Bartlett 10. KC James + 11. IEC O'Brien	New Zealand G XI 1. MJ Horne 2. MJ Guptill 3. HM Nicholls 4. GL Weir * 5. JM Parker 6. SD Thomson 7. DN Patel 8. JEC Franklin 9. AE Dick + 10. RW Blair 11. SB O'Connor	New Zealand H XI 1. VJ Scott 2. PG Fulton 3. RG Twose 4. DG Brownlie 5. DR Flynn 6. ML Page * 7. FLH Mooney + 8. FT Badcock 9. BW Yuille 10. RS Cunis 11. MC Snedden	New Zealand I XI 1. CM Spearman 2. TJ Franklin 3. SN McGregor * 4. JFM Morrison 5. V Pollard 6. JDS Neesham 7. T Blain + 8. DAG Bracewell 9. KD Mills 10. WE Merritt 11. W Watson

 

[Starfighter]

South Africa XI 1. BA Richards 2. GC Smith * 3. JH Kallis 4. RG Pollock 5. AB de Villiers 6. AD Nourse 7. MJ Procter 8. JHB Waite + 9. HJ Tayfield 10. DW Steyn 11. AA Donald	South Africa A XI 1. B Mitchell 2. G Kirsten 3. HM Amla 4. HW Taylor * 5. KC Bland 6. GA Faulkner 7. DT Lindsay + 8. SM Pollock 9. VD Philander 10. PM Pollock 11. NAT Adcock	South Africa B XI 1. EJ Barlow 2. EAB Rowan 3. PN Kirsten 4. DJ Cullinan 5. F du Plessis * 6. TL Goddard 7. MV Boucher + 8. AEE Vogler 9. PS de Villiers 10. K Rabada 11. M Ntini	South Africa C XI 1. DJ McGlew 2. HH Gibbs 3. KC Wessels 4. BL Irvine 5. AG Prince 6. BM McMillan 7. HB Cameron *+ 8. RO Schwarz 9. PS Heine 10. M Morkel 11. BN Schultz	South Africa D XI 1. D Elgar 2. SJ Cook 3. A Melville 4. ND McKenzie 5. WJ Cronje * 6. Q de Kock + 7. JH Sinclair 8. CR Matthews 9. KA Maharaj 10. KJ Abbott 11. AE Hall
South Africa E XI 1. AC Hudson 2. RH Catterall 3. WR Endean 4. JN Rhodes 5. AW Nourse * 6. L Klusener 7. DJ Richardson + 8. JM Blanckenberg 9. CL Vincent 10. PR Adams 11. A Nel	South Africa F XI 1. PGV van der Bijl 2. AK Markram 3. JA Rudolph 4. A Bacher * 5. RA McLean 6. HR Lance 7. PW Sherwell + 8. CB Llewellyn 9. GB Lawrence 10. JT Partridge 11. M Hayward	South Africa G XI 1. JW Zulch 2. AN Petersen 3. KG Viljoen 4. JP Duminy 5. GC White 6. SJ Snooke * 7. WW Wade + 8. RP Snell 9. NBF Mann 10. PHJ Trimborn 11. AJ Bell	South Africa H XI 1. SC Cook 2. AJ Pithey 3. HH Dippenaar 4. T Bavuma 5. JE Cheetham * 6. EL Dalton 7. EA Halliwell + 8. AMB Rowan 9. GF Bissett 10. SJ Pegler 11. JJ Kotze

 

[jimmy101]

Think I might have a go at selecting RSA "I" later tonight.

 

[ataraxia]

Are people keen to do this exercise again? Been almost 5 years since it started and I reckon CW opinion has changed a non-trivial amount, but it might well be too soon. I'd be very happy to run it.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Pakistan F would gain notably with Arif keeping for them instead of Kakmal....

 

[smash84]

What I am planning (if the whole sim thing isn't too hard) is to have a bracket tournament similar to College Basketball.

This would mean:
- 64 teams in total
- Roughly 24-28 of all selected teams would miss out.
- At least 50 percent of each countries XIs would make the top 64
- 16 seeds: all 10 countries top side, plus an additional 6
- 4 seeds per bracket
- Unseeded teams will be positioned using a random generator
- 2 teams from the same country can't meet in the first round only.

- 3 Test Series, winner progresses, loser is out.
- That will increase to 5 Tests at either the final or semi final

Good old N00fers, wonder why he left?

 

[Coronis]

Are people keen to do this exercise again? Been almost 5 years since it started and I reckon CW opinion has changed a non-trivial amount, but it might well be too soon. I'd be very happy to run it.

Aw man. I feel bad this post just got completely ignored for no reason rip.

 

[CricketFan90s]

South Asia XI vs World XI Who will win in South Asia ? (Players from 1975-2024)
7 Tests in South Asia
1st Test : National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan
2nd Test : Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan
3rd Test : Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
4th Test : Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India
5th Test : Chepauk Stadium, Chennai, India
6th Test : R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka
7th Test : Galle International Stadium, Galle, Sri Lanka

South Asia XI
1) Sunil Gavaskar - 6254 - 50.84
2) Virender Sehwag - 6256 - 57.39
3) Rahul Dravid - 7370 - 51.18
4) Javed Miandad- 5492 - 57.20
5) Sachin Tendulkar - 9674 - 56.24
6) Kumar Sangakkara+ - 9355 - 61.54
7) Imran Khan(c) - 2066 - 41.32 (205 Wickets - 20.28)
8) Ravichandran Ashwin - 2164 - 27.39 (413 Wickets - 21.40)
9) Wasim Akram - 1620 - 25.31 (216 Wickets - 22.53)
10) Muttiah Muralitharan - 865 - 13.51 (612 Wickets - 21.69)
11) Waqar Younis - 525 - 10.09 (215 Wickets - 20.64)

Pick the World XI that can defeat this Team in South Asia

 

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