capt_Luffy
Cricketer Of The Year
Then everyone's teams are complete I believe.
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Calendar Draft
- Thread starter JOJOXI
- Start date
| Drafter | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | |
| honestbharani | Josh Hazlewood | Bob Simpson | Bill Edrich | Denis Compton | Stuart Broad | MS Dhoni | Trevor Goddard | Ravichandran Ashwin | Wilfried Rhodes | Mitchell Johnson | Aubrey Faulkner | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Archer6K | Monty Noble | Patsy Hendren | Sydney Barnes | Hedley Verity | Peter Pollock | WG Grace | Simon Katich | Bert Oldfield | Jacques Kallis | Dudley Nourse | Doug Walters | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| SillyCowCorner1 | Richie Richardson | Farokh Engineer | Colin Croft | Alf Valentine | Kagiso Rabada | Javed Miandad | Ken Farnes | Abdul Qadir | Bill Ponsford | Seymour Nurse | Hanif Mohammad | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Krypto | Chaminda Vaas | Graeme Smith | Hashim Amla | Ian Healy | Shane Watson | Jonty Rhodes | Mohammad Yousuf | Basil Butcher | Courtney Walsh | Waqar Younis | Andrew Flintoff | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| AndyZaltzHair | Andy Roberts | Rangana Herath | Alec Stewart | George Headley | Shane Bond | Barry Richards | Clive Lloyd | Archie Jackson | Anil Kumble | Keith Miller | Rohan Kanhai | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| howitzer | John Waite | Jim Laker | Neil Wagner | Vinoo Mankad | Wally Hammond | Richard Hadlee | Graham Thorpe | Chris Gayle | Ian Bishop | Ken Barrington | Peter May | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Fuller Pilch | Arthur Morris | AB de Villiers | Heath Streak | David Gower | Mahela Jayawardene | Brian Statham | Shaun Pollock | Tom Blundell | Richie Benaud | Ian Botham | Jack Hobbs | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| AndrewB | Johnny Wardle | Viv Richards | Andy Flower | Michael Hussey | Derek Underwood | Stan McCabe | Jack Gregory | Mike Procter | Vijay Merchant | Victor Trumper | Jasprit Bumrah | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Kenneth Viljoen | Hugh Tayfield | Bill Johnston | Jason Gillespie | Bob Willis | Kevin Pietersen | Maurice Leyland | Greg Chappell | Saeed Anwar | Tony Greig | Gary Kirsten | Les Ames | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Patience and Accuracy+Gut | Bruce Mitchell | Gundappa Viswanath | Ross Taylor | Arthur Shrewsbury | Misbah-ul-Haq | Alec Bedser | Shoaib Akhtar | KS Ranjitsinhji | Ray Lindwall | Adam Gilchrist | Bill O'Reilly | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Bitmap | Fazal Mahmood | Vijay Hazare | Sachin Tendulkar | Ted Dexter | Steve Smith | Dennis Lillee | Eddie Barlow | Denis Lindsay | Geoffrey Boycott | Harold Larwood | Subhash Gupte | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Pothas | Mitchell Starc | Fred Trueman | Andrew Strauss | Michael Clarke | Glenn Turner | Ben Stokes | Curtly Ambrose | Kumar Sangakkara | Younis Khan | Clarrie Grimmett | TEAM COMPLETE | ||
| JOJOXI | Rahul Dravid | Jack Cowie | Craig McDermott | Brian Lara | Steve Waugh | BJ Watling | Frank Worrell | Shane Warne | Virender Sehwag | Manny Martindale | Alastair Cook | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Line and Length | Everton Weekes | Neil Adcock | Alan Knott | Pat Cummins | Sid Barnes | Garfield Sobers | Jack Ryder | Ian Chappell | Ryan Harris | Herbert Sutcliffe | Ravindra Jadeja | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| capt_Luffy | Kapil Dev | Glenn McGrath | Muttiah Muralitharan | Frank Wooley | Frank Tyson | Sunil Gavaskar | Kane Williamson | Brendon McCullum | Matthew Hayden | Virat Kohli | Colin Cowdrey | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| trundler | Michael Holding | Clem Hill | Malcolm Marshall | Maurice Tate | Len Hutton | Bill Brown | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Lance Gibbs | Neil Harvey | VVS Laxman | Quinton de Kock | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| kingkallis | Mohammad Azharuddin | Graeme Swann | Saleem Malik | Gordon Greenidge | Wasim Akram | Graham Gooch | Jeff Thomson | Martin Crowe | Allan Donald | Rod Marsh | Ricky Ponting | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| ataraxia | Imtiaz Ahmed | Graeme Pollock | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Conrad Hunte | Alan Davidson | James Anderson | Bill Woodfull | Bishan Bedi | Imran Khan | Mushtaq Mohammad | Joe Root | TEAM COMPLETE | |
| Himannv | Clyde Walcott | Bill Lawry | Shakib Al Hasan | Hugh Trumble | Dale Steyn | Allan Border | Lindsay Hassett | Wes Hall | Rishabh Pant | Justin Langer | Joel Garner | TEAM COMPLETE |
Okay, have copied over everyone's squads who have posted their squads into a word document only final XI is missing is @SillyCowCorner1.
Will stick with the Ross Taylor pick re @Patience and Accuracy+Gut as other picks made between that and Angelo Mathews pick coupled with it being consistent with Line and Length not getting John Snow when they picked Ryan Harris and had a change of heart after another pick or 2 were made. Have just got Ross Taylor in at 6 but tag me @Patience and Accuracy+Gut if you want Taylor higher in the order and will edit my word document.
Thank you for all for participating and helping to make this a smooth draft with helping to let people know its their turn etc.
I will post a voting thread in a couple of days. I am leaning towards doing one big vote - vote for best 5 teams out of the 19 (any one with strong preferences - I did think about 3 groups - 1 of 7 and 2 of 6 but always just wonder about 2 stage voting if there is a risk of not the same level of engagement with the final vote compared to the first vote. But am open to doing this if there is a strong preference from multiple people.
Will stick with the Ross Taylor pick re @Patience and Accuracy+Gut as other picks made between that and Angelo Mathews pick coupled with it being consistent with Line and Length not getting John Snow when they picked Ryan Harris and had a change of heart after another pick or 2 were made. Have just got Ross Taylor in at 6 but tag me @Patience and Accuracy+Gut if you want Taylor higher in the order and will edit my word document.
Thank you for all for participating and helping to make this a smooth draft with helping to let people know its their turn etc.
I will post a voting thread in a couple of days. I am leaning towards doing one big vote - vote for best 5 teams out of the 19 (any one with strong preferences - I did think about 3 groups - 1 of 7 and 2 of 6 but always just wonder about 2 stage voting if there is a risk of not the same level of engagement with the final vote compared to the first vote. But am open to doing this if there is a strong preference from multiple people.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Moooo
1. Hanif Mohammad
2. Ponsford
3. Miandad
4. Nurse
5. Richie Richardson (capt.)
6. Engineer (wk)
7. Kadir
8. Rabada
9. Farnes
10. Croft
11. Valentine
Pretty str8 forward lineup.
1. Hanif Mohammad
2. Ponsford
3. Miandad
4. Nurse
5. Richie Richardson (capt.)
6. Engineer (wk)
7. Kadir
8. Rabada
9. Farnes
10. Croft
11. Valentine
Pretty str8 forward lineup.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Have to have a solid keeper with those two spinners in tandem
Patience and Accuracy+Gut
State Vice-Captain
My Bad, I forgot there are 11 players in cricket and 12 months a year. Will go with Ross Taylor @JOJOXI.
The Team
Bruce Mitchell (5)
Arthur Shrewsburry
Gundappa Viswanath
K.S Ranjitsinjhi
Ross Taylor
Misbah ul-haq*
Adam Gilchrist+
Ray Lindwall (1)
Tiger O’Reilly (3)
Shoaib Akhtar (4)
Alec Bedser (2)
Himannv
Hall of Fame Member
Who is Kadir?
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Qadir
Kenneth Viljoen
International Regular
Azharuddin and Malik captained by a Punter is beautiful irony , they made Punters really happy during their playing days
mr_mister
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Haha, I'm a big fan of both actually. I'd have picked them in drafts myself if it wasn't guaranteed vote repellent
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
And Rod Marsh bet against Australia in their famous Headingley 81 loss.Azharuddin and Malik captained by a Punter is beautiful irony , they made Punters really happy during their playing days
capt_Luffy
Cricketer Of The Year
Best of the Rest XI:
1. Dennis Amiss (April)
2. Michael Slater (February)
3. Zaheer Abbas (July)
4. Alvin Kalicharan (March)
5. Mohinder Amarnath (September)
6. Stanley Jackson (November)
7. Mark Boucher (December) (wk)
8. Vernon Philander (June)
9. Ted McDonald (January)
10.John Snow (October)
11.B S Chandrashekhar (May)
12th Man: Godfrey Evans (August)
1. Dennis Amiss (April)
2. Michael Slater (February)
3. Zaheer Abbas (July)
4. Alvin Kalicharan (March)
5. Mohinder Amarnath (September)
6. Stanley Jackson (November)
7. Mark Boucher (December) (wk)
8. Vernon Philander (June)
9. Ted McDonald (January)
10.John Snow (October)
11.B S Chandrashekhar (May)
12th Man: Godfrey Evans (August)
kingkallis
International Coach
All 3 picks were planned and executed smartly.Azharuddin and Malik captained by a Punter is beautiful irony , they made Punters really happy during their playing days
Himannv
Hall of Fame Member
Haynes from February. Potentially Spofforth from September as well, but you'll have to balance it out elsewhere. A couple of other good shouts in there as well but my brain is fried right now so I can't think.
January
Clyde Walcott - picked
February
Prior
Weekes
Macgill
Engineer
Slater
Norm O’Neill
Fazal Mahmood
ABdV
Don Tallon
Desmond Haynes
Gundappa Vishwanath
Bobby Peel
Bill Lawry
Fred Trueman
Patsy Hendren
Bob Simpson
Graeme Smith
March
Inzy
Viv
Neil Adcock
Phil Mead
Jackie McGlew
Hazare
Neil Wagner
Colin Croft
Heath Streak
Clem Hill
Rangana Herath
Alvin Kallicharan
Aravinda de Silva
Wasim Bari
Shakib
Swann
Tom Hayward
Wally Grout
Jack Cowie
Amla
April
Jofra Archer
David Gover
Stephen Fleming
Michael Clarke
Colin Bland
Shaheen Afridi
Bert ironmonger
Alec Stewart
Alan Knott
Arthur Shrewsbury
Vinoo Mankad
Jason Gillespie
C B Fry
Andy Flower
Rohit Sharma
Ian Healy
May
Ted Dexter
Gordon Greenidge
Herbie Taylor
Conrad Hunte
Ian Redpath
Jack Blackham
Jim Parks
Hugh Trumble
Chandrasekhar
Hedley Verity
Prasanna
Warwick Armstrong
Sarfaraz
Denis Compton
Glenn Turner
Mahela
Hussey
Woolley
Dujon
Maurice Tate
Colin Blythe
Bob Willis
June
Steyn - picked
July
Border - picked
August
Shoaib Akhtar
Frank Worrell
Trevor Goddard
Kane Williamson
Eddie Barlow
Jack Gregory
Jeff Thomson
Godfrey Evans
Simon Katich
Bill Woodfull
MoYo
Lindsay Hassett
Clive Lloyd
September
Denis Lindsay
Archie Jackson
Saeed Anwar
Fred Spofforth
Bert Oldfield
Ranjitsinhji
Wes Hall
Abdul Qadir
Ravichanrdan Ashwin
Bishan Bedi
Ian Chappell
Brendan McCullum
Lance Gibbs
October
Tom Goddard
Ray Lindwall
Johnny Briggs
Pant
Markram
Basil D’Oliveira
Bob Cowper
Greig
Benaud
Jack Russell
Neil Harvey
Ryan Harris
Vijay Merchant
John Snow
Ajmal
Dilshan
Rashid Latif
Babar Azam
Anil Kumble
Bill Ponsford
Sehwag
Donald
Boycott
Ulyett
Douglas Jardine
Warner
Sanga
Mark Taylor
Wilfred Rhodes
Courtney Walsh
November
Mitchell Johnson
Victor Trumper
Rod Marsh
Kohli
Paynter
Shai Hope
Seymour Nurse
Roy Fredricks
Dudley Nourse
Harold Larwood
Waqar
Charlie Turner
Nathan Lyon
Justin Langer
Stanley Jackson
Gary Kirsten
Ian Botham
Younis Khan
Bobby Abel
Mushtaq Mohammed
December
Garner - picked
Clyde Walcott - picked
February
Prior
Weekes
Macgill
Engineer
Slater
Norm O’Neill
Fazal Mahmood
ABdV
Don Tallon
Desmond Haynes
Gundappa Vishwanath
Bobby Peel
Bill Lawry
Fred Trueman
Patsy Hendren
Bob Simpson
Graeme Smith
March
Inzy
Viv
Neil Adcock
Phil Mead
Jackie McGlew
Hazare
Neil Wagner
Colin Croft
Heath Streak
Clem Hill
Rangana Herath
Alvin Kallicharan
Aravinda de Silva
Wasim Bari
Shakib
Swann
Tom Hayward
Wally Grout
Jack Cowie
Amla
April
Jofra Archer
David Gover
Stephen Fleming
Michael Clarke
Colin Bland
Shaheen Afridi
Bert ironmonger
Alec Stewart
Alan Knott
Arthur Shrewsbury
Vinoo Mankad
Jason Gillespie
C B Fry
Andy Flower
Rohit Sharma
Ian Healy
May
Ted Dexter
Gordon Greenidge
Herbie Taylor
Conrad Hunte
Ian Redpath
Jack Blackham
Jim Parks
Hugh Trumble
Chandrasekhar
Hedley Verity
Prasanna
Warwick Armstrong
Sarfaraz
Denis Compton
Glenn Turner
Mahela
Hussey
Woolley
Dujon
Maurice Tate
Colin Blythe
Bob Willis
June
Steyn - picked
July
Border - picked
August
Shoaib Akhtar
Frank Worrell
Trevor Goddard
Kane Williamson
Eddie Barlow
Jack Gregory
Jeff Thomson
Godfrey Evans
Simon Katich
Bill Woodfull
MoYo
Lindsay Hassett
Clive Lloyd
September
Denis Lindsay
Archie Jackson
Saeed Anwar
Fred Spofforth
Bert Oldfield
Ranjitsinhji
Wes Hall
Abdul Qadir
Ravichanrdan Ashwin
Bishan Bedi
Ian Chappell
Brendan McCullum
Lance Gibbs
October
Tom Goddard
Ray Lindwall
Johnny Briggs
Pant
Markram
Basil D’Oliveira
Bob Cowper
Greig
Benaud
Jack Russell
Neil Harvey
Ryan Harris
Vijay Merchant
John Snow
Ajmal
Dilshan
Rashid Latif
Babar Azam
Anil Kumble
Bill Ponsford
Sehwag
Donald
Boycott
Ulyett
Douglas Jardine
Warner
Sanga
Mark Taylor
Wilfred Rhodes
Courtney Walsh
November
Mitchell Johnson
Victor Trumper
Rod Marsh
Kohli
Paynter
Shai Hope
Seymour Nurse
Roy Fredricks
Dudley Nourse
Harold Larwood
Waqar
Charlie Turner
Nathan Lyon
Justin Langer
Stanley Jackson
Gary Kirsten
Ian Botham
Younis Khan
Bobby Abel
Mushtaq Mohammed
December
Garner - picked
capt_Luffy
Cricketer Of The Year
I think June had the most World Class players unpicked by far. It was painful to not be able to include both of Charlie MaCartney and Chris Cairns; but I just couldn't overlook Philander. October had many good players too, but Snow was clearly a standout (bad luck, Line and Length). November and December were also strong months. Another difficult choice was between Warwick Armstrong and Chandrashekhar; I wanted Armstrong but not many World Class spinners were left, and the ones left were of Nov and Dec.
Possible teams for each month from the players picked (some months had to be given a non-selected keeper, shown in italics):
January
Arthur Morris
Bruce Mitchell
Rahul Dravid
Richie Richardson*
Clyde Walcott
Monty Noble
John Waite+
Kapil Dev
Andy Roberts
Hugh Tayfield
Chaminda Vaas
Imtiaz Ahmed
Josh Hazlewood, Johnny Wardle, Mitchell Starc
February
Bob Simpson*
Graeme Smith
Everton Weekes
Graeme Pollock
Gundappa Viswanath
AB de Villiers
Farokh Engineer+
Michael Holding
Fred Trueman
Jim Laker
Glenn McGrath
Patsy Hendren, Mohammad Azharuddin, Bill Lawry
Bill Johnston, Fazal Mahmood
March
Andrew Strauss*
Bill Edrich
Viv Richards
Hashim Amla
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Shakib Al Hasan
Heath Streak
Wasim Bari+
Jack Cowie
Colin Croft
Neil Adcock
Clem Hill, Vijay Hazare, Ross Taylor
Neil Wagner, Rangana Herath, Graeme Swann
April
Arthur Shrewsbury
Vinoo Mankad
David Gower
Sachin Tendulkar
Michael Clarke
Andy Flower*
Alan Knott+
Malcolm Marshall
Jason Gillespie
Sydney Barnes
Muttiah Muralitharan
Alec Stewart, Saleem Malik
Ian Healy
Alf Valentine, Craig McDermott
May
Gordon Greenidge
Conrad Hunte
George Headley
Brian Lara
Denis Compton
Ted Dexter
Jeff Dujon+
Maurice Tate
Hedley Verity
Pat Cummins*
Kagiso Rabada
Glenn Turner, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mahela Jayawardene, Michael Hussey, Frank Woolley
Bob Willis, Hugh Trumble
June
Sid Barnes
Len Hutton
Wally Hammond
Javed Miandad
Steve Smith
Steve Waugh*
Mohammad Rizwan+
Wasim Akram
Alan Davidson
Dale Steyn
Derek Underwood
Shane Watson, Kevin Pietersen, Ben Stokes
Stuart Broad, Peter Pollock, Shane Bond, Brian Statham, Frank Tyson
July
Barry Richards
Sunil Gavaskar
WG Grace
Stan McCabe
Garfield Sobers
Allan Border*
MS Dhoni+
Richard Hadlee
Shaun Pollock
Dennis Lillee
James Anderson
Bill Brown, Graham Gooch, Jonty Rhodes, Maurice Leyland
BJ Watling, Jock Cameron
Ken Farnes, Alec Bedser
August
Eddie Barlow
Trevor Goddard
Greg Chappell
Frank Worrell*
Kane Williamson
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Clive Lloyd
Godfrey Evans+
Jack Gregory
Shoaib Akhtar
Jeff Thomson
Simon Katich, Bill Woodfull, Mohammad Yousuf, Graham Thorpe, Jack Ryder, Lindsay Hassett
September
Archie Jackson
Saeed Anwar
KS Ranjitsinhji
Martin Crowe
Ian Chappell*
Denis Lindsay+
Ravichandran Ashwin
Mike Procter
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Wes Hall
Chris Gayle, Tom Blundell, Basil Butcher, Brendon McCullum
Bert Oldfield
Abdul Qadir, Lance Gibbs, Bishan Bedi
October
Virender Sehwag
Geoffrey Boycott
Kumar Sangakkara
Jacques Kallis
Neil Harvey
Tony Greig
Rishabh Pant+
Imran Khan
Richie Benaud*
Ray Lindwall
Allan Donald
Matthew Hayden, Vijay Merchant, Bill Ponsford
Courtney Walsh, Ian Bishop, Ryan Harris, Wilfred Rhodes, Anil Kumble
November
Herbert Sutcliffe
Victor Trumper
Ken Barrington
VVS Laxman
Keith Miller
Mushtaq Mohammad*
Adam Gilchrist+
Ian Botham
Harold Larwood
Mitchell Johnson
Waqar Younis
Gary Kirsten, Justin Langer, Dudley Nourse, Seymour Nurse, Younis Khan, Virat Kohli
Rod Marsh
Manny Martindale
December
Jack Hobbs
Alastair Cook*
Ricky Ponting
Joe Root
Doug Walters
Aubrey Faulkner
Quinton de Kock+
Andrew Flintoff
Bill O'Reilly
Clarrie Grimmett
Jasprit Bumrah
Hanif Mohammad, Rohan Kanhai, Peter May, Colin Cowdrey,
Les Ames
Ravindra Jadeja, Subhash Gupte
January
Arthur Morris
Bruce Mitchell
Rahul Dravid
Richie Richardson*
Clyde Walcott
Monty Noble
John Waite+
Kapil Dev
Andy Roberts
Hugh Tayfield
Chaminda Vaas
Imtiaz Ahmed
Josh Hazlewood, Johnny Wardle, Mitchell Starc
February
Bob Simpson*
Graeme Smith
Everton Weekes
Graeme Pollock
Gundappa Viswanath
AB de Villiers
Farokh Engineer+
Michael Holding
Fred Trueman
Jim Laker
Glenn McGrath
Patsy Hendren, Mohammad Azharuddin, Bill Lawry
Bill Johnston, Fazal Mahmood
March
Andrew Strauss*
Bill Edrich
Viv Richards
Hashim Amla
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Shakib Al Hasan
Heath Streak
Wasim Bari+
Jack Cowie
Colin Croft
Neil Adcock
Clem Hill, Vijay Hazare, Ross Taylor
Neil Wagner, Rangana Herath, Graeme Swann
April
Arthur Shrewsbury
Vinoo Mankad
David Gower
Sachin Tendulkar
Michael Clarke
Andy Flower*
Alan Knott+
Malcolm Marshall
Jason Gillespie
Sydney Barnes
Muttiah Muralitharan
Alec Stewart, Saleem Malik
Ian Healy
Alf Valentine, Craig McDermott
May
Gordon Greenidge
Conrad Hunte
George Headley
Brian Lara
Denis Compton
Ted Dexter
Jeff Dujon+
Maurice Tate
Hedley Verity
Pat Cummins*
Kagiso Rabada
Glenn Turner, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mahela Jayawardene, Michael Hussey, Frank Woolley
Bob Willis, Hugh Trumble
June
Sid Barnes
Len Hutton
Wally Hammond
Javed Miandad
Steve Smith
Steve Waugh*
Mohammad Rizwan+
Wasim Akram
Alan Davidson
Dale Steyn
Derek Underwood
Shane Watson, Kevin Pietersen, Ben Stokes
Stuart Broad, Peter Pollock, Shane Bond, Brian Statham, Frank Tyson
July
Barry Richards
Sunil Gavaskar
WG Grace
Stan McCabe
Garfield Sobers
Allan Border*
MS Dhoni+
Richard Hadlee
Shaun Pollock
Dennis Lillee
James Anderson
Bill Brown, Graham Gooch, Jonty Rhodes, Maurice Leyland
BJ Watling, Jock Cameron
Ken Farnes, Alec Bedser
August
Eddie Barlow
Trevor Goddard
Greg Chappell
Frank Worrell*
Kane Williamson
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Clive Lloyd
Godfrey Evans+
Jack Gregory
Shoaib Akhtar
Jeff Thomson
Simon Katich, Bill Woodfull, Mohammad Yousuf, Graham Thorpe, Jack Ryder, Lindsay Hassett
September
Archie Jackson
Saeed Anwar
KS Ranjitsinhji
Martin Crowe
Ian Chappell*
Denis Lindsay+
Ravichandran Ashwin
Mike Procter
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Wes Hall
Chris Gayle, Tom Blundell, Basil Butcher, Brendon McCullum
Bert Oldfield
Abdul Qadir, Lance Gibbs, Bishan Bedi
October
Virender Sehwag
Geoffrey Boycott
Kumar Sangakkara
Jacques Kallis
Neil Harvey
Tony Greig
Rishabh Pant+
Imran Khan
Richie Benaud*
Ray Lindwall
Allan Donald
Matthew Hayden, Vijay Merchant, Bill Ponsford
Courtney Walsh, Ian Bishop, Ryan Harris, Wilfred Rhodes, Anil Kumble
November
Herbert Sutcliffe
Victor Trumper
Ken Barrington
VVS Laxman
Keith Miller
Mushtaq Mohammad*
Adam Gilchrist+
Ian Botham
Harold Larwood
Mitchell Johnson
Waqar Younis
Gary Kirsten, Justin Langer, Dudley Nourse, Seymour Nurse, Younis Khan, Virat Kohli
Rod Marsh
Manny Martindale
December
Jack Hobbs
Alastair Cook*
Ricky Ponting
Joe Root
Doug Walters
Aubrey Faulkner
Quinton de Kock+
Andrew Flintoff
Bill O'Reilly
Clarrie Grimmett
Jasprit Bumrah
Hanif Mohammad, Rohan Kanhai, Peter May, Colin Cowdrey,
Les Ames
Ravindra Jadeja, Subhash Gupte
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Cook as captain
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capt_Luffy
Cricketer Of The Year
Really good teams, the changes I would make:
February: Vishwanath for Bill Lawry. Lawry to open and Simpson to bat at middle order.
March: Clem Hill for Hashim Amla, Neil Wagner for Jack Cowie.
May: Frank Woolley for Ted Dexter, Bob Willis for Maurice Tate.
October: Matthew Hayden for Virendra Sehwag.
November: Younis Khan and Virat Kohli for V V S Laxman and Mushtaq Mohammad.
December: Les Ames for Quinton de Kock, Rohan Kanhai for Doug Walters, Ravindra Jadeja for Aubrey Faulkner (too many leg spinners).
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Did think it seemed the last few months had a lot of strong players!
Final 3 months you could build an XI of - Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Ponting, Kallis, Nourse, Botham, Gilchrist (wk), Imran Khan, Lindwall, Donald, O'Reilly
October XI could potentially beat some quarters - the batting lineup at least seems better for October than first quarter XI. Second quarter XI am intrigued how that lines up with Lara, Tendulkar and S Smith all battling for the number 4 spot there. Perhaps you back S Smith to have similar effectiveness as an opener - if so S Smith and Hutton, although harsh to knock out a great opener in Greenidge for a great batter in S Smith but not definitively a great opener yet. Something like the following for second quarter?:
S Smith, Hutton, Hammond, Tendulkar, Lara, S Waugh, Knott (wk), Wasim Akram, Marshall, Steyn, Muralitharan.
Hammond at under 1 wpm as the 5th bowling option but an elite bowling attack. You could make an argument that you have the best spinner ever, best pacer ever, best left-arm pacer ever and a top 5 fast bowler in Steyn.
Final 3 months you could build an XI of - Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Ponting, Kallis, Nourse, Botham, Gilchrist (wk), Imran Khan, Lindwall, Donald, O'Reilly
October XI could potentially beat some quarters - the batting lineup at least seems better for October than first quarter XI. Second quarter XI am intrigued how that lines up with Lara, Tendulkar and S Smith all battling for the number 4 spot there. Perhaps you back S Smith to have similar effectiveness as an opener - if so S Smith and Hutton, although harsh to knock out a great opener in Greenidge for a great batter in S Smith but not definitively a great opener yet. Something like the following for second quarter?:
S Smith, Hutton, Hammond, Tendulkar, Lara, S Waugh, Knott (wk), Wasim Akram, Marshall, Steyn, Muralitharan.
Hammond at under 1 wpm as the 5th bowling option but an elite bowling attack. You could make an argument that you have the best spinner ever, best pacer ever, best left-arm pacer ever and a top 5 fast bowler in Steyn.