All time sides with a twist . . .

[marc71178]

Gavaskar
Hobbs
Bradman
Pollock
Miandad
Sobers
Crowe
Sangakkara
Hadlee
Imran
Dev
Muralitharan

 

[Agent Nationaux]

How about this side? (I went the extra yard and got my bottom six to cover the whole century too)

1. Bob Simpson (57-78) 4869 runs @ 46.81, 71 wkts @ 42.26
2. Jack Hobbs (08-30) 5410 runs @ 56.94, 1 wkt @ 165.00
3. Don Bradman (28-48) 6996 runs @ 99.94, 2 wkts @ 36.00
4. Sachin Tendulkar (89-11) 14965 runs @ 56.25, 45 wkts @ 53.68
5. Allan Border (78-92) 11174 runs @ 50.56, 39 wkts @ 39.10
6. Frank Worrell (48-63) 3860 runs @ 49.48, 69 wkts @ 38.72
7. Garry Sobers (54-74) 8032 runs @ 57.78, 235 wkts @ 34.03 (Simpson era)
8. Imran Khan (71-92) 3807 runs @ 37.69, 362 wkts @ 22.81 (Border era)
9. Gubby Allen (30-48) 750 runs @ 24.19, 81 wkts @ 29.37 (Bradman era)
10. Godfrey Evans (46-59) 2439 runs @ 20.49, 173ct 46st (Worrell era)
11. Muralitharan (92-10) 1261 runs @ 11.67, 800 wkts @ 22.72 (Tendulkar era)
12. Wildred Rhodes (1899-30) 2325 runs @ 30.19, 127wkts @ 26.96 (Hobbs era)

Maybe not the best bowling attack for Perth (although Imran and Gubby would surely be a handful), but they'd have plenty to defend.

Didn't know Jack Hobbs was on Skype

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Twist number 2 :-

Select a twelve with players from eight different countries but you have to stick to these numbers from each country.

Australia, England, SAfrica, Windies - one each
India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka - two each.

You can not pick two specialist batsmen or two specialist bowlers from the same country.

Lets see a really worthy all time side from this :-)

Players I have seen

Cook
Anwar
Tendulkar
Lara
Sangakkara
Dhoni
Cairns
Warne
Waqar
Bond
Donald
Vaas

 

[Howe_zat]

Gavaskar
Hobbs
Bradman
Pollock
Miandad
Sobers
Crowe
Sangakkara
Hadlee
Imran
Dev
Muralitharan

Can't really argue with this, but I reckon with the batting depth you've got there, you can drop a batsman and play a better, full-time keeper rather than giving Sanga the gloves.

 

[marc71178]

Yes I did consider that but with the teams to pick from I couldn't think of one to fit in easily, basically a Pakistani or a Kiwi.

 

[SJS]

Gavaskar
Hobbs
Bradman
Pollock
Miandad
Sobers
Crowe
Sangakkara
Hadlee
Imran
Dev
Muralitharan

Interesting.

You have taken the entire bowling attack from the latter entrants to the test arena. With such a long batting line up (Sangakarra at 8, Imran at 10. Kapil 11), the bowling looks relatively slender. I can understand that the condition of not having two specialist batsmen from the same country is a bit restrictive.

What would I do if I was allowed to tinker with this side ???

Its not easy. The short cut is to drop Bradman and bring in Lillee , Lindwall or a great leg spinner - they have three.

Another possibility ios to drop the great Hobbs and take someone like barnes in the bowling and get Sangakarra to open the batting. Also with too many new ball bowlers, I might be tempted to leave out the great Kapil Dev (we already have Sobers, Imran and even Hadlee as all rounders) and bring in another spinner from india - Kumble, Gupte, Chandra, Bedi - take your pick.

I might have picked a side like

1. Gavaskar
2. Richards Barry
3. Bradman
4. Sobers
5. Miandad
6. Arawinda
7. Imran
8. Ian Smith
9. Hadlee
10. Barnes
11. Kumble
12. Murali

and play three of the last four in that list depending upon conditions

 

[Howe_zat]

don't think you need Kumble in that lineup SJS - if the track is a very spin-friendly one, Murali can bowl a ton of overs, Barnes has a few tricks and Sobers' left arm tweak would be there too. Kapil for Kumble as 12th man would give you a lot more flexibility, and I daresay that's simply a case of picking the better cricketer.

I'd keep Sangakkara as a pure batsman too.

 

[centurymaker]

1) Gavaskar
2) Hobbs
3) Bradman
4) Miandad
5) Sobers
6) Crowe/Sangakkara
7) Engineer (wk)
8) Imran
9) Hadlee
10) Muralitharan
11) Allan Donald

cricinfo-

Engineer - A flamboyant batsman and an agile wicketkeeper, Farokh Engineer was one of the best of his trade, as shown by his selection as the first-choice keeper for the Rest of the World XI series in England and Australia in the early 1970s.

Allan Donald - Inswinger at pace missed out on a good couple of years due to apartheid.

 

[marc71178]

Interesting.

You have taken the entire bowling attack from the latter entrants to the test arena.

As I had to pick a bowler from each of the 4 I thought it made sense to pick the best bowler from each of them, that 3 of them can bat made the depth of my batting line-up pretty good.

 

[hang on]

sjs,

regarding the riff on keepers, how would you rank taylor, bari, knott, marsh, kirmani, murray, dujon and engineer?

 

[NUFAN]

1 Jack Hobbs
2 Sunil Gavaskar
3 Don Bradman
4 Jacques Kallis
5 Javed Miandad
6 Martin Crowe
7 Farokh Engineer
8 Richard Hadlee
9 Wasim Akram
10 Malcolm Marshall
11 Muttiah Muralitharan

12 Kumar Sangakarra

Kallis makes my team as I want a batting allrounder. I'm really happy with my bowling combination of Marshall, Akram, Hadlee and Murali.

Sangakarra vs. Crowe is close - I prefer Crowe with this particular lineup as I see Sangakarra more of a number 3 and I have a fairly decent guy in at 3.

 

[NUFAN]

Current XI

1 V Sehwag
2 S Watson
3 K Sangakarra
4 Y Khan
5 S Chanderpaul
6 R Taylor
7 P Jayawardene
8 D Vettori
9 D Steyn
10 Z Khan
11 J Anderson

12 S Ajmal (unlucky really to not edge out Dan).

 

[ankitj]

Twist number 2 :-

Select a twelve with players from eight different countries but you have to stick to these numbers from each country.

Australia, England, SAfrica, Windies - one each
India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka - two each.

You can not pick two specialist batsmen or two specialist bowlers from the same country.

Lets see a really worthy all time side from this :-)

Sunil Gavaskar
Barry Richards
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Garry Sobers
Kumara Sangakkara (+)
Imran Khan (c)
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sydney Barnes

12th Man - Chris Cairns

 

[Blakus]

Will have a crack at this.

1.Jack Hobbs
2.Barry Richards
3.Don Bradman
4.Sachin Tendulkar
5.Kumar Sangakkara
6.Garry Sobers
7.Imran Khan
8.Farokh Engineer
9.Richard Hadlee
10.Waqar Younis
11.Murali

12.Martin crowe

 

[J_C]

Twist number 2 :-

Select a twelve with players from eight different countries but you have to stick to these numbers from each country.

Australia, England, SAfrica, Windies - one each
India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka - two each.

You can not pick two specialist batsmen or two specialist bowlers from the same country.

Lets see a really worthy all time side from this :-)

Gavaskar
Dempster
Bradman
Pollock
Miandad
Sobers
Sangakkara (+)
Imran
Hadlee
Murali
Barnes

12th Man: Kapil Dev

 

[adub]

Twist number 2 :-

Select a twelve with players from eight different countries but you have to stick to these numbers from each country.

Australia, England, SAfrica, Windies - one each
India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka - two each.

You can not pick two specialist batsmen or two specialist bowlers from the same country.

Lets see a really worthy all time side from this :-)

Gavaskar
Turner
Bradman
Miandad
Kallis
Sobers
Sangakara
Imran
Hadlee
Trueman
Muralitharan

12th Dev