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Which alphabet has the best cricketers ? Create an XI

Migara

Migara

International Coach
Starfighter said:
Yet the India-Bangladesh all-time XI would be handily beaten by the Eng/Aus/SA/WI/NZ one. The split in ATG cricketers ≠ the split in population.
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Don't see the relevance of this point.

The point was raised that the XI are going to differ if different scripts are used. Devanagari is used as much s Latin script through out the world.
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
Victor Ian said:
Q's disqualified for failing to field a full team.

Rob Quiney
Willie Quaife
Iqbal Qasim
Abdul Qadir
Neville Quinn
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Q amd K are pronounced samein SC names. Qadir and Kadir / Karder pronounced exactly the same. So is Qasim and Cassim.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Migara said:
Don't see the relevance of this point.

The point was raised that the XI are going to differ if different scripts are used. Devanagari is used as much s Latin script through out the world.
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What I said pertains to all-time XIs, and the native scripts of the players in those XIs. The total number of people using Devenagiri is as relevant as the number of users of Chinese script. The Ind-Bang XI is not as strong. I also think you'll find that significantly more people use Latin script, but that's completely beside the point here. Plus I was trying to make a humorous point and you've gone and taken it far too seriously.
 
Victor Ian

Victor Ian

International Coach
Migara said:
Q amd K are pronounced samein SC names. Qadir and Kadir / Karder pronounced exactly the same. So is Qasim and Cassim.
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Very good point - i wondered about that and was thinking it could be another concept to group players by sound. B and P could be the same. Maybe some Vowels would go into different groups. X (hey I forgot about X as another group that I can disqualify to get Z up the ladder) could probably go elsewhere.

Just because someone chooses one way to spell a name in English as opposed to an alternative does not make it right. But, on the other hand... I think the database is king for this exercise.
 
T

tony p

State Regular
A team of W's,

Warren Bardsley,
William Lawry,
Walter Hammond, (c)
Warwick Armstrong,
Willie Watson,
Wayne Phillips
Wilfred Rhodes,
Wally Grout, (WK)
Wasim Akram,
Waqar Younis,
Wayne Parnell
 
F

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Greenidge
Gooch
Gower
Grace
Ganguly
Greig/Goddard/Green
Gilchrist
Gregory
Gillespie
Garner
Grimmett

Edited to replace Lance Gibbs with Grimmett

Some decent players missed out: Goddard, Gooch, Gayle, Graveney, Grout, Gibbsx2 etc

If he stays fit, Green could/should surpass Greig
 
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The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Additionally, as good as Gooch was - particularly for those few years in the early 1990s - I'd have Greenidge in that side ahead of him.
 
D

DCH

Cricket Spectator
Rohit Sharma
Roy Fredericks
Rahul Dravid
Ricky Ponting
Rohan Kanhai
Rishab Pant
Ravindra Jadeja
Ravi Ashwin
Richard Hadlee
Ray Lindwall
Ryan Harris
 
A

Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
Do we need separate teams for players whose first name as written in English begin with a given letter, and a second team for those whose second name behind with the same letter? They then have to face off in a qualifier for the right to represent that letter in the property alphabet tournament. Where alliterative XIs can be formed, then we can have a mini-qualifying group.

Shame Brazil doesn't play cricket as we could have a third team of one name players and have mini-tournaments.
 
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