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Left-handed all time Test XI

Shaggy Alfresco

Shaggy Alfresco

State Captain
Help me out here.

So far I've put down

Anwar
Hayden
Pollock
Lara
Border (c)
Sobers
Gilchrist (wk)
Akram
Davidson
Johnston
Bedi
 
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adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
silentstriker said:
If we're playing on uncovered pitches, Underwood should get in over Bedi, otherwise Bedi is good.
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How about both? Akram and Davidson are all-time greats but the next best seamer is far, far below. Sobers is far better as a seamer than he is as a spinner so he can be the first-change seamer. Next, you can have two completely different left-arm spinners in Bedi and Underwood.
 
Shaggy Alfresco

Shaggy Alfresco

State Captain
I'm putting in Bill Johnston at number 10. 160 wks @ 23.91

I would have went for Derek Underwood, but since Bedi and Sobers can already bowl spin I think I needed an extra pace bowler.
 
stumpski

stumpski

International Captain
Matteh said:
Nick Knight?
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Not in a Test XI, surely - his Test record is very moderate compared to Trescothick's.

Fact is an all left-handed team would be pretty ugly to watch ... I know sides have put out all right-handed teams in the past, but it's not quite the same, somehow.


And Gower >>> Lawry at # 5, isn't he? Lawry opened for pretty much all his career.
 
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Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Presuming it's left-arm bowlers and left-hand batsmen (and batting is disregarded if the bowler can't bat, and likewise if the batsman is right-handed but never bowls)...

It'd depend hugely on eras, TBH. There are 4 or 5 (mostly English) left-arm spinners (Rhodes, Verity, Lock, Underwood) who could quite easily play as a specialist attack if it was in the days of uncovered wickets, and unless it was on wickets that offered nothing to seam there's no way I'd have Hayden anywhere near a side.

Given that uncovered wickets that offered something to seam have been in the majority through Test history you can probably make a selection for such times... I'd have summat along the lines of...
Roy Fredericks
Arthur Morris
Brian Charles Lara
Graeme Pollock
Sir Garfield Sobers
Allan Border
Adam Gilchrist (w)
Alan Davidson
Wasim Akram
Wilfred Rhodes (c)
Hedley Verity \ Tony Lock \ Derek Underwood

On very flat wickets you'd probably want Hayden instead of Lawry, and obviously none of the fingerspinners would be much use so you'd probably pick two seamers like Bruce Reid and (EDIT) Bill Johnston. Unless (at the risk of sending Bennett into frenzy) you plumped for Dave Mohammed.
 
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Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
On the same principle as Knight? (Though Mullally's FC record was hardly especially flash)
 
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