The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[Socerer 01]

I was thinking a NetFlix series

perfect, it gets cancelled after an average run in the 1st season

just like the dude

 

[Starfighter]

Well, fourteen and a half pages later, I can only say: that was wild.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Man its not any offence be Broadminded. You accept when i divide players into 2 different Teams based on Political differences (India and Pakistan) you cannot accept when i divide them based on Cultural Similarity ?

Hint: Don't divide people racially. It never ends well. Amidst other horrors too numerous to name there was this Austrian chap who governed in Germany, hutus and tutsis in Rwanda, apartheid in SA, segregation in the US, and this thing called the slave trade.

How would you divide Ross Taylor when he is 50% Polynesian (Samoan) and 50% NZ European/Caucasian?

 

[Howe_zat]

Hint: Don't divide people racially. It never ends well. Amidst other horrors too numerous to name there was this Austrian chap who governed in Germany, hutus and tutsis in Rwanda, apartheid in SA, segregation in the US, and this called the slave trade.

How would you divide Ross Taylor when he is 50% Polynesian (Samoan) and 50% NZ European/Caucasian?

He's banned mate

 

[Fuller Pilch]

In an all-time context, you have to assume the match fixers are operating at a higher standard as well.

Elite honesty always loses to elite fixing

Edit: Actually it doesn't. Elite fixing usually loses to bog average teams

 

[Fuller Pilch]

He's banned mate

Just caught up while reading the thread. Good decision

 

[Burgey]

Well, just calling the doctor about the blood pouring out of my eyes after reading the past few pages of this thread

 

[Fuller Pilch]

This thread went from 20,000 posts to 20, 328 very quickly.

 

[Coronis]

Hint: Don't divide people racially. It never ends well. Amidst other horrors too numerous to name there was this Austrian chap who governed in Germany, hutus and tutsis in Rwanda, apartheid in SA, segregation in the US, and this thing called the slave trade.

How would you divide Ross Taylor when he is 50% Polynesian (Samoan) and 50% NZ European/Caucasian?

Cut him in half. Whoever gives him up has the right to him.

 

[Coronis]

Anyway, to move on, compared to the relative strengths of each country’s first ATG XI would any country move up or down significantly if we went to 2nd or 3rd XI’s?

 

[srbhkshk]

Anyway, to move on, compared to the relative strengths of each country’s first ATG XI would any country move up or down significantly if we went to 2nd or 3rd XI’s?

I don't think it actually impacts the ranking - but nations other than Aus/WI/SA are very hard hit in bowling terms once you go to the second XI - so as good as those three's first XIs are, imo the gap between their second XIs with other nations second XIs is probably even bigger.

 

[bagapath]

He's banned mate

Good call
This wasn’t some innocent mistake.
He is exactly the person this forum doesn’t need.

 

[trundler]

There's dozens of random and pointless XIs in this thread. More than once someone has tried to do an island vs continent XI so it's almost impressive that someone could make teams so ****ty they get banned. Just when I thought we'd run out of ideas!

 

[Coronis]

There's dozens of random and pointless XIs in this thread. More than once someone has tried to do an island vs continent XI so it's almost impressive that someone could make teams so ****ty they get banned. Just when I thought we'd run out of ideas!

Island vs continent XI (Australia as a continent for this XI)

Hobbs
Sutcliffe/Hutton
Sangakkara+
Hammond
Lara
Richards*
Sobers
Hadlee
Marshall
Ambrose
Muralitharan

Gavaskar
Smith
Bradman*
Tendulkar
Smith
Kallis
Gilchrist+
Imran
Warne
Steyn
McGrath

Quite well matched actually.

 

[Burgey]

Does Ricky Ponting qualify for the island XI, the continent XI or both here?

I'm not suggesting he's in-incontinent btw

 

[ataraxia]

what about Headley?

 

[Starfighter]

Does Ricky Ponting qualify for the island XI, the continent XI or both here?

I'm not suggesting he's in-incontinent btw

Last time I checked Australia was a continent

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Does Ricky Ponting qualify for the island XI, the continent XI or both here?

I'm not suggesting he's in-incontinent btw

Last time I checked Australia was a continent

He's from Tasmania (not the Australian mainland)

 

[Starfighter]

He's from Tasmania (not the Australian mainland)

True

 

[Fuller Pilch]

what about Headley?

Born in Panama (continent), but represented Jamaica (island), so I'd say Jamaica.