Australian XI: 1995-2005

[andyc]

How could you have Love in the worst XI - that is a joke. He didn't have a chance to prove himself.

Well...

Batting was particularly hard because they've all been good.

 

[Prince EWS]

How could you have Love in the worst XI - that is a joke. He didn't have a chance to prove himself.

And he performed reasonably well in his matches as well. Very harsh call.

 

[aussie]

well for me up until now:

Hayden
Taylor*
Ponting
M Waugh
S Waugh
Hussey
Gilchrist+
Warne
Gillespie
McDermott
McGrath

backup in a probable 16-man sqaud would come from, Martyn, Fleming, Lee, MacGill, Healy.

Best World test XI from 1995-2006 to challenge

G Kirsten
V Sehwag
B Lara
S Tendulkar
R Dravid
J Kallis
A Flower+
Wasim Akram*
C Ambrose
M Muralitharan
A Donald
12th man: A Flintoff

 

[mefly]

1) why does everyone rate Jason Gillespie ever since he got the 200, it is good but he would not make the best XI easilly

2) not katich, bracken, McDermott, love, hodge, you guys on ****in drugs or something?

TEST
hayden
langer
S.Waugh
ponting
boon
watson
healy
warne
mcgrath
cullen (like him already, would he count?)
lee

 

[vic_orthdox]

1) why does everyone rate Jason Gillespie ever since he got the 200, it is good but he would not make the best XI easilly

2) not katich, bracken, McDermott, love, hodge, you guys on ****in drugs or something?

TEST
hayden
langer
S.Waugh
ponting
boon
watson
healy
warne
mcgrath
cullen (like him already, would he count?)
lee

...

 

[marc71178]

1) why does everyone rate Jason Gillespie ever since he got the 200, it is good but he would not make the best XI easilly

So he hasn't taken 250+ Test wickets then?

 

[mefly]

So he hasn't taken 250+ Test wickets then?

yeah he has but before he got the 200 he has been over-rated, who cares if he got 200 it doesnt mean he is suddenly the best bowler in the side.

 

[aussie]

yeah he has but before he got the 200 he has been over-rated, who cares if he got 200 it doesnt mean he is suddenly the best bowler in the side.

What made Dizzy over-rated before he got his 200th test wicket?

 

[Smudge]

What made Dizzy over-rated before he got his 200th test wicket?

He didn't have a test double century?

 

[mefly]

What made Dizzy over-rated before he got his 200th test wicket?

before the runs he was really crap, if someone had of posted this topic probably 1 person would of picked, a south australian. what made him so good?

 

[aussie]

before the runs he was really crap, if someone had of posted this topic probably 1 person would of picked, a south australian. what made him so good?

really you cant be serious..

 

[andyc]

I'd have thought Darren Lehmann would have been mentioned at least once by now. Perfectly respectable record, and a batting average superior to Mark Waugh.

 

[vic_orthdox]

I'd have thought Darren Lehmann would have been mentioned at least once by now. Perfectly respectable record, and a batting average superior to Mark Waugh.

When you don't get selected behind a number of batsmen for the best part of a decade, it's hard to fit him in IMO.

 

[marc71178]

When you don't get selected behind a number of batsmen for the best part of a decade, it's hard to fit him in IMO.

When you're as big as he is, it's hard to fit him in as well!

 

[vic_orthdox]

When you're as big as he is, it's hard to fit him in as well!

So that's why they originally didn't give Inzy a run in the Super-Test?

 

[marc71178]

No, with Inzy and Warne at the same game, there would've been a World Pie shortage as pie makers hadn't scheduled that extra game into their production schedule.

 

[vic_orthdox]

No, with Inzy and Warne at the same game, there would've been a World Pie shortage as pie makers hadn't scheduled that extra game into their production schedule.

The only reason that Inzy decided to make himself available again was because of the Infamous Pie Treaty of 2005, where it was decided that Warne and Inzy would have a daily "rock-off" to see who would get to eat all the pies, while the loser had to make do with the sausage rolls.

Inzy - can play "Scissors-Paper-Rock"

 

[marc71178]

Ah yes, and I believe certain sausage rolls are also now immoral, which might have impacted on the original decision - nobody likes immoral food!

 

[vic_orthdox]

Ah yes, and I believe certain sausage rolls are also now immoral, which might have impacted on the original decision - nobody likes immoral food!

Honestly, you think Warney cared?

 

[marc71178]

Good point, he probably was paid by some bookmaker for inside information on what he was going to choose in the scissors paper stone match-off...