Favourite All-Time XI

[Lillian Thomson]

Not based on anything other than your personal favourite cricketers, and yes Fred Swarbrook can open the bowling if he's one of your favourites.

1. Barry Richards
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Viv Richards
4. Archie Jackson
5. W.G.Grace
6. Tony Greig
7. Alan Knott
8. Dennis Lillee
9. Fred Trueman
10.Jeff Thomson
11.Bishen Bedi

 

[BoyBrumby]

I'll try to give arbitrary one line justifications for my choices:

1. Jack Hobbs - Cambridge man; fairly useful bat too
2. Alec Stewart - Loved those bat twirls
3. Brian Lara - Genius incarnate
4. Douglas Jardine* - made the Aussies hop about a bit
5. Steve Waugh - Reminded me of Clint Eastwood in the dollars films at the crease; all gimlet eyes & steely determination
6. Andrew Flintoff - just seems a top fella; greatest living Englishman (after Federer)
7. Adam Gilchrist+ - a gentleman & a player
8. Shane Warne - just a player, but what a player
9. Curtley Ambrose - coolest man ever: fact
10. Fred Trueman - admirably bitter right to the end; RIP big fella
11. Devon Malcolm - splendidly crap bat, blind as a bat, rocket throwing arm, bowling potentially lethal to friend & foe alike

12. Graham Thorpe - Wonderfully saturnine in demeanour; reminds me of Morrissey

 

[ClownSymonds]

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Brian Lara
5. Don Bradman (c)
6. Viv Richards
7. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
8. Garfield Sobers
9. Wasim Akram
10. Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath

12th Man: Younis Khan
13th Man: Shivnarine Chanderpaul
14th Man: Blessing Mahwire
15th Man: Prosper Utseya
16th Man: Kennedy Obuya

Note: Clown loses because he was mean to me.

 

[silentstriker]

1) Sunil Gavaskar
2) Jack Hobbs
3) Don Bradman
4) Sachin Tendulkar
5) Viv Richards
6) Gary Sobers
7) Adam Gilchrist (wk)
8) Imran Khan (c)
9) Curtly Ambrose
10) Glenn McGrath
11) Muralitharan

 

[silentstriker]

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Brian Lara
5. Don Bradman (c)
6. Viv Richards
7. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
8. Garfield Sobers
9. Wasim Akram
10. Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath

You'd have the Don give up his customary #3 spot for Ricky Ponting?

I actually like that list though.

 

[FRAZ]

Gavaskar
Tendulkar
Dravid
Ricky Ponting
Steve Waugh
Imran Khan
Adam Gilchrist
Wasim Akram
Shoaib Akhtar
Muralitharan
Mcgrath
P.S. (My line up keeps on changing because every now and then I discover different things about the players + I am including players of the recent era cuzz I dunno much about Bradman and all the other greats)

 

[shortpitched713]

1. Gavaskar- Got to love a guy who can block for 60 overs sitting on a target of 300.
2. Anwar- My favorite attacking opener that I have seen.
3. Bradman- The Greatest Ever.
4. Lara- The most entertaining ever.
5. Richards- The most intimidating batsman to face.
6. Gilchrist+- The best ever wicket-keeper batsman.
7. Khan*- The greatest true allrounder.
8. Akram- A dream cricketer.
9. Warne- Greatest leg-spinner.
10. Younis- Can you say reverse swing yorker?
11. Murali- The Greatest bowler of all time.

 

[pug]

For ODIs

Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist+
Rahul Dravid
Brian Lara
Jaques Kallis
Michael Bevan
Imran Khan*
Shane Warne
Wasim Akram
Glenn McGrath
Muralitharan

12th - Jonty Rhodes
13th - Curtely Ambrose
14th - Andy Flower
15th - Saeed Anwar
16th - Waqar Younis

I would keep it a rotating playing XI from this pool.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Brian Lara
Andy Flower+
Viv Richards
Gary Sobers
Imran Khan*
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[oz_fan]

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Don Bradman
4. Brian Lara
5. Viv Richards
6. Steve Waugh
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Imran Khan
9. Shane Warne
10. Curtley Ambrose
11. Glenn McGrath

12. Shaun Pollock
13. Muttiah Muralithrin
14. Michael Holding
15. Ricky Ponting

 

[Pedro Delgado]

1. Jack Hobbs - simply magnificent
2. Kim Barnett - Derbys legend and odd stance
3. Sachin Tendulkar - my #1 fellow of all time
4. Ranjitsinhji - the magical Indian prince
5. W.G.Grace - gave us the modern game
6. Fuller Pilch - played the round-arm loonies the best, marvellous hat
7. Jack Russell - baked bean eating painter and decent gloveman, splendid 'tash.
8. Sir Frederick of Flintoff - finally became the player we'd hoped, and a gent to boot
9. Dominic Cork - Derbys legend, mad, on his day a match winner with bat or ball, saviour of English cricket
10. Shane Warne - Lucky to be around during his era. I bow to thee.
11. Ole "Stan" Mortensen - Derbys and Danish legend

Squad members:

Charlotte Edwards - I had a dream about her once and fell in love for a week or so
Frederick Spofforth splendid bowler and excellent 'tash
Brian Lara - all we ever talked about during "that" year
Sir Viv -
SF Barnes - Fascinated by this enigma, just misses out to "Stan"

 

[Perm]

1. A Strauss
2. J Langer
3. B Lara
4. D Martyn
5. K Pietersen
6. J Oram
7. A Gilchrist (+)
8. J Franklin
9. S Warne
10. B Lee
11. S Bond

 

[ClownSymonds]

You'd have the Don give up his customary #3 spot for Ricky Ponting?

I actually like that list though.

Yes, I would. Bradman has been out of form for some time and needs to be protected. And thank you.

 

[Langeveldt]

1. Daren Ganga
2. Kim Barnett
3. Michael Vaughan
4. Boeta Dippenaar
5. Rahul Dravid
6. Mark Boucher
7. Justin Kemp
8. Shane Warne
9. Clare Connor
10. Curtley Ambrose
11. Allan Donald

12. Fidel Edwards

 

[Johnners]

1.Jack Hobbs - Legend!!
2.Michael Slater - Most devastating opener mid to late 90's
3.Don Bradman - Simply the best!!!
4.Ponting - 1 of, if not the Best no.3 Since bradman (had to bat at 4 though in this team)
5.Steve Waugh* - Ice Man, won us quite a few series single handidly in the 90's
6.Sir Garfield Sobers - Greatest Allrounder
7.Ian Healy - Best ever Australia to pull on the gloves... and a queenslander to boot!!
8.Shane Warne - Expert text messager, oh he can bowl some handy leg spin as well
9.Wasim Akram - Greatest left armer so had to put him in (being a lefty myself and all)
10.Malcom Marshall - The Greatest pace bowler, and would give warne & murali a run for their money in greatest of all!
11.Glenn McGrath - Legendary batsmen (see 61* against NZ 2004) who can bowl a bit might i add!

12th Man. Andy Bichel - Specialist 12th man!! Gave his all every match not matter if he was in the XI or not.
13th Man. Freddie Flintoff - despite what he did to us between July -Sept last year
14th Man. Adam Gilchrist - Simply devastating with the bat, best allrounder keeper IMO.

EDIT: Forgot about Slats, so Sunny gets the flick

 

[Matt79]

Hayden
Slats
Bradman
Waugh, M
Viv Richards
Waugh, S
Gilchrist
Keith Miller
Warne
Ambrose
Lillee

fairly biased towards Aussies, but you did say favourite, which I took to mean players I love to watch, or would love to have watched (Bradman natch, and Miller, the real coolest man ever to play)

 

[Jono]

Tendulkar
Lara - Just think these two legends (my 2 fav players ever) coming out to open would be awesome. Particularly in ODIs. The opposition would crap themselves. I'm sure they could do it in tests too
Dravid - Utter respect for him.
Sir Don - Greatest of all time, says it all.
Sir Viv - Sheer brutality. Chewing gum + No helmet =
Sangakkara - Love watching him bat, and he's a top bloke. Very sophisticated.
Warne - as a spinner myself I love watching him work his art and bamboozle the opposition batsmen
Akhtar - Love watching him bowl. Excitement machine.
Ambrose - Prob my favourite bowler ever
Murali - Ditto Warne

 

[NZTailender]

1. M Slater
2. L Vincent
3. S Tendulkar
4. S Fleming (c)
5. S Waugh
6. A Flower (wk)
7. C Cairns
8. R Hadlee
9. C Walsh
10. S Bond
11. A Kumble

 

[bagapath]

gavaskar
greenidge
richards
tendulkar
lara
gilchrist
imran (C)
marshall
hadlee
warne
murali

based on players i've seen....

 

[FRAZ]

Tendulkar
Lara - Just think these two legends (my 2 fav players ever) coming out to open would be awesome. Particularly in ODIs. The opposition would crap themselves. I'm sure they could do it in tests too
Dravid - Utter respect for him.
Sir Don - Greatest of all time, says it all.
Sir Viv - Sheer brutality. Chewing gum + No helmet =
Sangakkara - Love watching him bat, and he's a top bloke. Very sophisticated.
Warne - as a spinner myself I love watching him work his art and bamboozle the opposition batsmen
Akhtar - Love watching him bowl. Excitement machine.
Ambrose - Prob my favourite bowler ever
Murali - Ditto Warne

Love it !!!
Excemaxillent Jono !!!!