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Battle of the Subcontinent

Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Neither does it make sense because

a) It denies some good player a place.
b) It sets up a boring one sided matches.
 
adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
I just gave you like 5. Sehwag, Jayawardene, Nazar, Venkatraghavan, Atapattu.
Take your pick.

EDIT: Add Shastri as a sixth option.
 
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bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
shastri should be there in the first 64. he can lose in the first round doesnt mater. but with 3000 runs and 150 wickets (at a horrible average, i admit) he definitely deserves to be in the top 64 sub continental cricketers ahead of all bangladeshis - this is not about being politically correct. also, shastri had 11 test hundreds - two against the best windies fast bowlers ever and three agains the best of pakistan - and played vital roles in many great tests (madras - 1986, lords - 1990, sydney - 1992, bridgetown - 1988, bombay 1985). fit him in somehow SS, i beg you!! (i was one of the die hard shastri fans in the mid 80s)
 
adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
SS, you've got ten guys to consider adding into the list of 64 now. (including Sanz's nominations here)

Mahela Jayawardene
Mudassar Nazar
Marvan Atapattu
Srinivas Venkatraghavan
Ravi Shastri
Tiger Pataudi
Ajit Wadekar
Intikhab Alam
Roy Dias
Shoaib Akhtar

Remove the following: Javed Omar, Khaled Mashud, Madhav Apte, Mohammad Iqbal Qasim (Iqbal Qasim is already there), Mohammad Rafique, possibly Nayan Mongia
 
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Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
SS, how do you justify including Wasim Akram, considering what that judge said regarding how he was treated lightly, yet not include Azhar etc.

Not that I'm stating for one second that they are in similar boats (though who knows?), and I am a huge fan of Akram, but really, if you're going to get on your high horse and not include match-fixers, is it only those that were banned for life?
 
nightprowler10

nightprowler10

Global Moderator
I feel that Azhar and Malik should be included. If people don't think they deserve their votes, they won't vote for them.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
Jono said:
SS, how do you justify including Wasim Akram, considering what that judge said regarding how he was treated lightly, yet not include Azhar etc.

Not that I'm stating for one second that they are in similar boats (though who knows?), and I am a huge fan of Akram, but really, if you're going to get on your high horse and not include match-fixers, is it only those that were banned for life?
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Well, I can only go by the punishments given out. Since I wasn't in on the hearings, I can't say what happened. You can call it a high horse if you want, but don't you think it would inappropriate if Azhar or Malik beat out someone else in any rounds?
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
nightprowler10 said:
Exactly. Hansie was included in the Battle of the Test Captains.
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And he lost because people didn't want to vote for him. I wouldn't have put him in there in the first place.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
nightprowler10 said:
He didn't lose by much IIRC.
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Nope, and it ****ed me off that he didn't. In any case, if someone else feels strongly about this, they can run the competition and include whoever they want. If you want to run it, let me know, and I'll step down.

Otherwise, they stay off.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
Updated List:, we need to remove some names to get down to 64:

  1. Abdul Qadir
  2. AH Kardar
  3. Amar Singh
  4. Anil Kumble
  5. Aravanida De Silva
  6. Arjuna Ranatunga
  7. Asif Iqbal
  8. Bhagvat Chandrashekhar
  9. Bishan Bedi
  10. Dilip Vengsarkar
  11. Eknath Solkar
  12. Erapalli Prasanna
  13. Farokh Engineer
  14. Fazal Mahmood
  15. Gundappa Viswanath
  16. Hanif Mohammad
  17. Harbhajan Singh
  18. Imran Khan
  19. Inzamam Ul-Haq
  20. Iqbal Qasim
  21. Javagal Srinath
  22. Javed Miandad
  23. Kapil Dev
  24. Khan Mohammad
  25. Kumar Sangakkara
  26. Lala Amarnath
  27. Majid Khan
  28. Mohammad Nissar
  29. Mohammad Yousuf
  30. Mohinder Amarnath
  31. Mushtaq Ahmed
  32. Mushtaq Ali
  33. Mushtaq Mohammad
  34. Muttiah Muralitharan
  35. Navjot Sidhu
  36. Polly Umrigar
  37. Rahul Dravid
  38. Rusi Modi
  39. Sachin Tendulkar
  40. Saeed Anwar
  41. Sanath Jayasurya
  42. Saqlain Mushtaq
  43. Sarfraz Nawaz
  44. Saurav Ganguly
  45. Subhash Gupte
  46. Sunil Gavaskar
  47. Syed Kirmani
  48. Vijay Hazare
  49. Vijay Merchant
  50. Vinoo Mankad
  51. Virender Sehwag
  52. VVS Laxman
  53. Waqar Younis
  54. Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas
  55. Wasim Akram
  56. Wasim Bari
  57. Younis Khan
  58. Zaheer Abbas
  59. Habibul Bashar
  60. Mahela Jayawardane
  61. Mudassar Nassar
  62. Marvan Attapattu
  63. Srinivas Venkataraghavan
  64. Ravi Shastri
  65. Mansur Pataudi
  66. Ajit Wadekar
  67. Intikhab Alam
  68. Roy Dias
  69. Shoaib Akhtar
 
nightprowler10

nightprowler10

Global Moderator
silentstriker said:
Nope, and it ****ed me off that he didn't. In any case, if someone else feels strongly about this, they can run the competition and include whoever they want. If you want to run it, let me know, and I'll step down.

Otherwise, they stay off.
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I disagree with you on this but not to the point that I want you to step down.

As for the exclusions: Sachin Tendulkar :ph34r:
 
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