Name your countries all star XI

[Richard]

Who needs stock-bowlers if your strike-bowlers can keep taking wickets in their short spells?

Let's face it - Waqar and Shoaib have done this often enough. Fazal, Imran and Wasim can surely bowl for long enough to give them some sort of break, and offer far more threat than an Iqbal Qasim would?

 

[shortpitched713]

Who needs stock-bowlers if your strike-bowlers can keep taking wickets in their short spells?

Let's face it - Waqar and Shoaib have done this often enough. Fazal, Imran and Wasim can surely bowl for long enough to give them some sort of break, and offer far more threat than an Iqbal Qasim would?

Fazal offer far more threat on a dead pitch than Saqlain? Maybe, but somehow just don't see that.

 

[Richard]

From everyhing I know Fazal was a master on non-seaming pitches, just like Imran and all who followed him.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Fazal offer far more threat on a dead pitch than Saqlain? Maybe, but somehow just don't see that.

Fazal Mahmood was Imran Khan of 1950s & was capable of causing threat to any batsman on any type of surface.In any conditions:

Fazal Mahmood>>>Saqlain Mushtaq

 

[Perm]

He wasn't good enough.

He wasn't good enough.

Compelling argument.

 

[shortpitched713]

From everyhing I know Fazal was a master on non-seaming pitches, just like Imran and all who followed him.

Fazal Mahmood was Imran Khan of 1950s & was capable of causing threat to any batsman on any type of surface.In any conditions:

Fazal Mahmood>>>Saqlain Mushtaq

I heard he was a monster on a matting pitch. Don't know what that would imply about his abilities on a featherbed though, tbh.

 

[andruid]

Anyway for that Associate XI I promised you earlier

A N Keverzee (Netherlands)
WTS Poterfield(Ireland)
+Kennedy Otieno(Kenya)
Steven Tikolo( Kenya)
Ryan Ten Doeschate(Netherlands)
David Hemp( Bermuda)
Morris Odumbe( Kenya)
Thomas Odoyo (Kenya)
Trent Johnston (Ireland)
Aasif Karim (Kenya)
David Langford-Smith(Ireland)

 

[Richard]

I heard he was a monster on a matting pitch. Don't know what that would imply about his abilities on a featherbed though, tbh.

I seem to recall him doing well at The Oval once, which (unless there's rain) has rarely ever been a pitch to offer much to the seamers.

 

[Julian87]

Anyway for that Associate XI I promised you earlier

A N Keverzee (Netherlands)
WTS Poterfield(Ireland)
+Kennedy Otieno(Kenya)
Steven Tikolo( Kenya)
Ryan Ten Doeschate(Netherlands)
David Hemp( Bermuda)
Morris Odumbe( Kenya)
Thomas Odoyo (Kenya)
Trent Johnston (Ireland)
Aasif Karim (Kenya)
David Langford-Smith(Ireland)

John Davison's 2003 WC performances with both bat and ball not good enough for him to make the side as an all rounder?

 

[andruid]

John Davison's 2003 WC performances with both bat and ball not good enough for him to make the side as an all rounder?

Wl its either him or one of Tikolo, Ten Doeschate, Odumbe,and Hemp

 

[Beleg]

Compelling argument.

As good as any other arguement ever put forward on CW.

 

[Matt79]

If we're doing the team we'd most like to go see play my team would be:

Trumper
Hayden
Bradman
Chappell
M. Waugh
Miller
Gilchrist
Warne
Lindwall
Lillee
Thomson

Actually replace one of Chappell or Waugh with Walters...

 

[Richard]

Would this be a one-off game? If so I can forgive you selecting Thommo, presuming of course it was the Thommo of 74\75. If it was over a career, I'm afraid I'll never, ever forgive you for selecting Thommo over Davo.

 

[Matt79]

This isn't the "best team", its the team I'd most like to sit down and watch play - my best team has Ponsford/Simpson for Hayden, McGrath for Thomsom and Harvey for Walters/M.Waugh. And yes, its the Thommo of 74/75.

 

[Richard]

I know, I can read. Just can't fathom why anyone'd prefer watching that horrible abomination for an action Thommo had to Davo's poetry-in-motion really.

 

[Matt79]

Being different didn't make it an abomination. And look down on me if you want, but for visceral excitement I'd prefer to watch perhaps the fastest bowler ever terrorising batsmen than even the very best medium paced swing merchant.

 

[Richard]

Mate, I'm kidding. I hoped the use of ridiculously strong terms like "abomination" and "I'll never, ever forgive you" would demonstrate that. Clearly not.

 

[Matt79]

 

[shortpitched713]

can't fathom why anyone'd prefer watching that horrible abomination for an action Thommo had

My action, tbh.

 

[Perm]

As good as any other arguement ever put forward on CW.