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Name your countries all star XI

Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Matt79 said:
Argh, these threads need to happen every month or two. New members like them, and they're (to me at least) always at least casually interesting. Bitching about them does no good, and to be honest a new guy digging up a thread from a year ago with a similar heading and tacking his 2 cents on the end is no less 'annoying' than a new thread.
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I think it is TBH, because most people just leave them that way, rather than repeating what they've said 2 years earlier, and the newer members can read the old comments if they want.

Equally, the people who said "I'd have X" can say "go back 2 years and shoot me" if they fancy.
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Flem274* said:
Hmm Bert Suttcliffe opening? Interesting choice. Best to have him at 3-5 IMO
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Spent the majority of his career as an opener though, didn't he?

FWIW, this would be my All Time NZ XI

Glenn Turner
Bert Sutcliffe
Stephen Fleming
Martin Crowe
Martin Donnelly
John Reid
Chris Cairns
Richard Hadlee
Daniel Vettori
Ken Wadsworth
Shane Bond

The team bats exceptionally deep, and the all-round trio of Reid-Cairns-Hadlee is very powerful. Where I'd see an issue is with the bowling attack, beyond Paddles of course. For his new ball partner Motz, Collinge and Morrison were all great servants but none were the genuinely world class fast bowler that Bond is, or at least has the potential to be. The other three - Cairns, Vettori and Reid were all excellent, productive Test bowlers but given their nominal opposition (ie the batting line-ups of other All Time XIs) I'd worry about their ability to take the 20 wickets required.

Fleming and Reid would fight over the captaincy, with the team being in superb hands whoever got the nod.
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Matt79 said:
You're a Kiwi?!?!?!?! :-O :-O
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:lol:

Nope, but it was worth you thinking I was for that reaction.

Meh, I just can't resist picking teams, especially when I reckon the one I've picked is better than the one most kiwis would pick. ;)
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
I would have been floored if you'd confirmed that.

Then I would have tried to claim you as an Aussie anyway, in the tradition of Russell Crowe (Oscar winning Russ, not phone throwing country singing Russ) and pretty much every horse that's ever won the Melbourne Cup!
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
I was actually going to start a thread about an All Time NZ XI because in the spate of All Time XI threads we've seen over time, it's always seemed to me that NZ selections were under-represented and I was curious to see what CWers (particularly our kiwi brothers and sisters) thought were the best ever to represent those islands.
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
The Sean said:
Spent the majority of his career as an opener though, didn't he?

FWIW, this would be my All Time NZ XI

Glenn Turner
Bert Sutcliffe
Stephen Fleming
Martin Crowe
Martin Donnelly
John Reid
Chris Cairns
Richard Hadlee
Daniel Vettori
Ken Wadsworth
Shane Bond

The team bats exceptionally deep, and the all-round trio of Reid-Cairns-Hadlee is very powerful. Where I'd see an issue is with the bowling attack, beyond Paddles of course. For his new ball partner Motz, Collinge and Morrison were all great servants but none were the genuinely world class fast bowler that Bond is, or at least has the potential to be. The other three - Cairns, Vettori and Reid were all excellent, productive Test bowlers but given their nominal opposition (ie the batting line-ups of other All Time XIs) I'd worry about their ability to take the 20 wickets required.

Fleming and Reid would fight over the captaincy, with the team being in superb hands whoever got the nod.
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That then is the earlier John Reid, not his latter day namesake?
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Matt79 said:
I would have been floored if you'd confirmed that.

Then I would have tried to claim you as an Aussie anyway, in the tradition of Russell Crowe (Oscar winning Russ, not phone throwing country singing Russ) and pretty much every horse that's ever won the Melbourne Cup!
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Not to mention "Aussie" music greats the Finn Brothers/Split Enz/Crowded House.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
gonna juz pick my favourite Indian players at each position, don't really care if the team will be good enough to beat other all time teams or whatever:


Krish Srikkanth
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Mohammed Azharuddin
Kapil Dev
Manoj Prabhakar
Nayan Mongia
Anil Kumble
Erapalli Prasanna
Zaheer Khan


Looks quite balanced, at least on paper... I know it is a huge punt with Srikkanth and Sehwag at the top but I reckon my middle order is good enough to withstand collapses and of course, in a crisis situation I can send up either Mongia or Prabhakar to stone wall for a while before the stroke makers can come in. And the bowling is decent enough for all conditions..

May not be the best but what the heck, this is my MY team...
 
Beleg

Beleg

International Regular
Hanif
Saeed
Zaheer
Inzy
Miandad
Imran
Bari
Wasim
Waqar
Fazal
Shoaib


with this bowling they ought to steamroll everybody, regardless of the lack of lower-order batting.
 
shortpitched713

shortpitched713

International Captain
Beleg said:
Hanif
Saeed
Zaheer
Inzy
Miandad
Imran
Bari
Wasim
Waqar
Fazal
Shoaib


with this bowling they ought to steamroll everybody, regardless of the lack of lower-order batting.
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Test match on a traditional Pakistani featherbed, and even five seamers aren't going to be enough, especially considering two of them are Shoaib and Waqar, not known for bowling long spells. You're going to need a spinner in such conditions, and its no surprise that Pakistan have always gone with at least one, even having had such prodigious fast bowling talent throughout the years.
 
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