Team of the Year 2022

[Sunil1z]

Khwaja
Shafique
Babar Azam
Daryl Mitchell
Bairstow
Pant (wkt)
Stokes (C)
Jansen
Rabada
Lyon
Anderson

12th Man : Cummins

 

[Shady Slim]

can't think if a team off my head but root surely a bit hard done by there? i know that ingerlund benefit from test match spam but it feels like he's piled mountains on this year

 

[Sunil1z]

can't think if a team off my head but root surely a bit hard done by there? i know that ingerlund benefit from test match spam but it feels like he's piled mountains on this year

Averages around 45 iirc
All these guys average more than 60 ( 3 to 6)

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

can't think if a team off my head but root surely a bit hard done by there? i know that ingerlund benefit from test match spam but it feels like he's piled mountains on this year

He randomly tanked in the recent 3 Tests against Pakistan in the friendliest batting conditions he faced all year.

 

[Howe_zat]

Root’s batting is inversely proportional to the rest of the team.

 

[Sunil1z]

Assuming most of the people agree with this Team , when was the last time none of the FAB4 couldn’t make 11 of a particular year ?
2011or 2012 ?

 

[GIMH]

can't think if a team off my head but root surely a bit hard done by there? i know that ingerlund benefit from test match spam but it feels like he's piled mountains on this year

Possibly a case of him suffering from English spam here. He was in sublime form V NZ and India. Less so in the two series since.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Root has tried to reinvent himself when he was the only one that didn’t need to.

 

[Howe_zat]

Assuming most of the people agree with this Team , when was the last time none of the FAB4 couldn’t make 11 of a particular year ?
2011or 2012 ?

In 2013 you’re presumably picking Sanga and Kallis. Maybe Smith as well but he’d only just got back into the team iirc. Don’t remember when KW kicked up exactly.

By 2014 there’s no argument for leaving all of them out.

 

[Howe_zat]

In 2013 you’re presumably picking Sanga and Kallis. Maybe Smith as well but he’d only just got back into the team iirc. Don’t remember when KW kicked up exactly.

By 2014 there’s no argument for leaving all of them out.

Checking, 2013 had Taylor, De Villiers and Pujara all averaging 70+.

2014 very much the coming of the Fab Four era though.

 

[GIMH]

Checking, 2013 had Taylor, De Villiers and Pujara all averaging 70+.

2014 very much the coming of the Fab Four era though.

When was Clarke’s godly year, was that 2012?

 

[Sunil1z]

Yes in 2012 he scored 4 double century including a 300

 

[subshakerz]

Smith has had a pretty good 2022.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Khwaja
Shafique
Babar Azam
Daryl Mitchell
Bairstow
Pant (wkt)
Stokes (C)
Jansen
Rabada
Lyon
Anderson

12th Man : Cummins

Chandimal and Brathwaite are both very unlucky to miss out.

To play:

Brathwaite
Imam Ul-Haq
Labuschagne
Chandimal
Head
Blundell (wk)
Mayers
Cummins (c)
Robinson
Jayasuriya
Boland

 

[Shady Slim]

Possibly a case of him suffering from English spam here. He was in sublime form V NZ and India. Less so in the two series since.

i think this might be it yeah

without seeing the numbers i would have largely agreed with the sunilz team with joe root and blundell in for d-mitch pant, but now on notice of mitchell having averaged more than 60 i would have to return to my grotto and consider the point more

 

[Fuller Pilch]

but now on notice of mitchell having averaged more than 60 i would have to return to my grotto and consider the point more

More than 70 actually, although Chandimal averaged more than 100.

 

[ashley bach]

Trundler (youth required at the top of the order, Trundler and Shady perfect for this)
Shady slim
Flem 274
Prince Ews
Fuller Pilch
SillyCowcorner1
GIMH (every team needs a wicket keeper)
Thierry Henry (Thierry and Sledger perfect for dishing out the sledging)
Sledger
Migara (every team can do with a Murali)
Heath Davis speed (speed required speaks for itself)

Burgey (12th man) (every team needs someone to carry the drinks trolley)

Could easily make a 2nd, 3rd, 4th 11 but it's almost time to watch Warner turn his fortunes around.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Possibly a case of him suffering from English spam here. He was in sublime form V NZ and India. Less so in the two series since.

This doesn't really make sense unless you're assuming that the bonus "spam" matches are the ones he struggled in and not the ones he did well in. You could just as well say that he's benefited from it than suffered from it.

In 2013 you’re presumably picking Sanga and Kallis. Maybe Smith as well but he’d only just got back into the team iirc. Don’t remember when KW kicked up exactly.

By 2014 there’s no argument for leaving all of them out.

You're definitely not picking Smith in 2013

 

[ZK$]

Root has tried to reinvent himself when he was the only one that didn’t need to.

Yeah, I think his average will drop rapidly due to the new Bazball approach. Someone should probably tell him to just bat normally lol.

 

[Spark]

Yeah no one is picking Smith in a toty in 2013. People were still questioning his place in the national side (though that was already absurd at that point)