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The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

Coronis

International Coach
Trumper
Simpson*
Bradman
Smith
McCabe
Waugh
Lindwall
Davidson
Oldfield
O’Reilly
McGrath

Gilchrist I didn’t put for obvious reasons, Border too. Cummins to soon be in there. You could probably put Waugh or Bevan in too for McCabe.

Too bad our blokes are always playing internationals, imagine a team with Warner, Smith, Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazelwood coming at you in the Shield.
 

Gob

International Coach
Trumper
Simpson*
Bradman
Smith
McCabe
Waugh
Lindwall
Davidson
Oldfield
O’Reilly
McGrath

Gilchrist I didn’t put for obvious reasons, Border too. Cummins to soon be in there. You could probably put Waugh or Bevan in too for McCabe.

Too bad our blokes are always playing internationals, imagine a team with Warner, Smith, Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazelwood coming at you in the Shield.
Imran
 

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
That's an impressive NSW line-uo.

Off the top of my head, here's a WA XI (without 'imports' like Simpson, Gilchrist, Lock etc)

J.Langer
G.Wood
S.Katich
M.Hussey
K.Hughes
D.Martyn
R.Marsh
D.Lillee
B.Yardley
G.McKenzie
T.Alderman

Tempted to include J.Inverarity as captain. A.Voges unlucky along with Marsh x 3

C.Green walks in as the all-rounder which my XI lacks. But who misses out?
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Vics

Lawry
Woodfull *
Ponsford
Jones
Harvey
Hassett
Miller
Armstrong
Wade +
Warne
Hughes

Hodge, Reiffel, Boland, Pattinson, Ironmonger, Siddle
 

ataraxia

International Coach
That NSW side is incredible; it's about as good as AT England.

This sort of discussion is enjoyable when it comes up every so often; should probably have its own thread.
 

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
Following a comment from a Somerset fan about how sad it was that Trescothick would never play for a Championship-winning side, I was wondering what the best England team of such players would be: maybe

Marcus Trescothick
CB Fry
Wally Hammond
Ranjitsinhji
Ted Dexter
Tony Greig*
Les Ames+
Maurice Tate
David Allen
Frank Tyson
Sydney Barnes
Thinking about this the other day - what would be the best Australian XI who never won the Sheffield Shield?
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
NSW is wild.

Sid Barnes
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman
Steve Smith
Steve Waugh
Keith Miller
Adam Gilchrist
Alan Davidson
Pat Cummins
Glenn McGrath
Bill O'Reilly

Mark Taylor
Archie Jackson
Charlie Macartney
Allan Border
Stan McCabe
Doug Walters
Brad Haddin
Richie Benaud
Ray Lindwall
Brett Lee
Fred Spofforth



Michael Slater
Usman Khawaja
Neil Harvey
Mark Waugh
Norm O'Neill
Michael Clarke
Monty Noble
Bert Oldfield
Mitchell Starc
JJ Ferris
Nathan Lyon
 

Slifer

International Captain
NSW is wild.

Sid Barnes
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman
Steve Smith
Steve Waugh
Keith Miller
Adam Gilchrist
Alan Davidson
Pat Cummins
Glenn McGrath
Bill O'Reilly

Mark Taylor
Archie Jackson
Charlie Macartney
Allan Border
Stan McCabe
Doug Walters
Brad Haddin
Richie Benaud
Ray Lindwall
Brett Lee
Fred Spofforth



Michael Slater
Usman Khawaja
Neil Harvey
Mark Waugh
Norm O'Neill
Michael Clarke
Monty Noble
Bert Oldfield
Mitchell Starc
JJ Ferris
Nathan Lyon
Fck me is that really a NSW team? Yeah they'd beat any other atg xi nevermind first class XIs.
 

Slifer

International Captain
That first NSW XI will actually beat a combined rest of the world atg XI.
Let's see:

Barnes
Morris
Bradman
Smith
Waugh
Miller
Gilchrist +
Davidson
Cummins
O'Reilly
McGrath

Vs

Hobbs
Hutton
Headley
Sachin
Viv
Sobers
Ames+
Imran
Hadlee
Marshall
Murali

Edge to the world imo between the two actually. The world's openers make up for Bradman. And the world bats until number 10. So for me the world has the slight advantage in batting. Bowling is edge to world as well. Because the main fast bowlers probably cancel each other out but Murali is greater than O'Reilly. I rate O'Reilly highly, he's just an unproven commodity.
 

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