POLL - 'The Richie Benaud Tribute Draft'

[watson]

‘THE RICHIE BENAUD TRIBUTE DRAFT’

Please choose your top 3 strongest ‘Richie Benaud Tribute’ teams.

Note: The poll will finish in one week and the WINNER and Runner-Up will be posted on the Honour Board.

(If anyone would like some last minute changes to their team then please ask me. My apologies in advance for any mistakes made.)



1. Honestbharani
01. Eddie Barlow
02. Hashim Amla
03. Everton Weekes (c)
04. Bob Cowper
05. Steve Smith
06. Andy Flower (wk)
07. Doug Walters
08. Richard Hadlee
09. Michael Holding
10. Derek Underwood
11. Fred Trueman


2. Camo999
01. Bill Lawry
02. Bob Simpson 6
03. Richie Richardson
04. Kevin Pietersen
05. *Frank Worrell 5
06. Younis Khan
07. Ian Botham 3
08. +Godfrey Evans
09. Shane Warne 4
10. Andy Roberts 1
11. Frank Tyson 2


3. AndyZaltzHair
01. Hanif Mohammad
02. Graham Gooch
03. Ken Barrington
04. Denis Compton
05. Allan Border
06. Clyde Walcott [+]
07. Vinoo Mankad [5]
08. Imran Khan [c] [3]
09. Subhash Gupte [4]
10. Neil Adcock [2]
11. Glenn McGrath [1]


4. Michael7777777
01. Arthur Morris
02. Desmond Haynes
03. David Gower
04. Jacques Kallis (5)
05. Steve Waugh (6)
06. Clive Lloyd (*)
07. Brendon McCullum (+)
08. Peter Pollock (2)
09. Dennis Lillee (1)
10. Bill Johnston (3)
11. Muttiah Muralitharan (4)


5. AldoRaine18
01. Matthew Hayden
02. Justin Langer
03. Ricky Ponting[*]
04. Sir Vivian Richards
05. Inzamam Ul Haq
06. VVS Laxman
07. Jeff Dujon [+]
08. Anil Kumble [4]
09. Wes Hall [3]
10. Waqar Younis [2]
11. Curtly Ambrose [1]


6. randycricfreak
01. Alec Stewart (wk)
02. Virender Sehwag
03. Rahul Dravid
04. Mahela Jayawardena (C)
05. Shiv Chanderpaul
06. Michael Clarke
07. Daniel Vettori
08. Wasim Akram
09. Dale Steyn
10. Jim Laker
11. Joel Garner


7. Saint Kopite
01. Len Hutton.
02. Barry Richards.
03. Rohan Kanhai.
04. Javed Miandad.
05. Peter May. (*)
06. Garry Sobers. (5)
07. Denis Lindsay. (+)
08. Shaun Pollock. (2)
09. Alec Bedser. (3)
10. Allan Donald. (1)
11. Lance Gibbs. (4)


8. Watson
01. Graeme Smith
02. Conrad Hunte
03. Ted Dexter
04. Graeme Pollock
05. Neil Harvey
06. Tony Greig
07. Mike Procter
08. Rod Marsh+
09. Richie Benaud*
10. Alan Davidson
11. Jeff Thomson


9. Red Hill
01. Gordon Greenidge
02. Geoff Boycott
03. Ian Chappell
04. Brian Lara
05. Keith Miller * (2)
06. AB DeVilliers
07. Andrew Flintoff (5)
08. Ian Healy +
09. Ray Lindwall (1)
10. Stuart MacGill (4)
11. Courtney Walsh (3)


10. Kyear2
01. Sunil Gavaskar
02. Roy Fredricks
03. Kumar Sangakkara
04. Greg Chappell *
05. Martin Crowe
06. Mushtaq Muhammad
07. Allan Knott +
08. Malcolm Marshall
09. Hugh Tayfield
10. John Snow
11. Ian Bishop

 

[watson]

The most notable omission is Abdul Qadir - one of Benaud's favourite bowlers. Apart from Qadir all of the other available favourite players got picked I think.

 

[watson]

In a nutshell, went for the teams with the classical leg-break googly bowler backed-up by some aggressive pace bowling and batting. Overall, the team must be both attacking and entertaining. If some of Richie's favourite players were included then so much the better.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

voted for kopite, watson and kyear

 

[Coronis]

How did Smith not get captain. Travesty.

 

[harsh.ag]

HB, Aldo, and Kopite.

 

[AldoRaine18]

A 4-way tie!

 

[watson]

A 4-way tie!

Unprecedented as far as I can recall. We need a brave person to vote and break the deadlock.

 

[Saint Kopite]

Unprecedented as far as I can recall. We need a brave person to vote and break the deadlock.

Love the footie team, Watson!

But Che Capitano? Ahead of Moore, Baresi, Scirea, Nesta and all?

Also, I would get Leo in ahead of Ronaldo. Ronaldo is my favourite player of all time but think Leo has done enough to be considered higher than O Fenomeno.

 

[watson]

Love the footie team, Watson!

But Che Capitano? Ahead of Moore, Baresi, Scirea, Nesta and all?

Also, I would get Leo in ahead of Ronaldo. Ronaldo is my favourite player of all time but think Leo has done enough to be considered higher than O Fenomeno.

I did consider Moore, Baresi, Scirea and Nesta as the teams Sweeper but in the end couldn't go past Beckanbauer as the 'ball playing' Centre-Back. So the role of 'stopper' Centre-back really had to go to Cannavaro who dominated the 2006 World Cup. I also liked Desailly and the great Santamaria in that role as well.

Messi is competing with Pele, Maradonna, and Cryff for one of the forward positions, and I couldn't bring myself to leave any of those three out. So Messi sits on the bench and Ronaldo (Brazil) becomes the stand-alone Striker in the centre of the attack. In effect Ronaldo, Pele, Maradonna, and Cryff together create a 'diamond' formation. The other classic Striker I considered was Muller (Germany 1974), but he was a 'poacher' and I wanted a more versatile and complete player up-front.

Initially I picked Matthaus as the Box-to-Box Midfielder, but in the end chose Neeskens because of his legendary partnership with Cryff. Peters, Robson, and Tigana unlucky. I don't think that there has been a better defensive Midfielder than Rijkaard, so he camps just in front of the back-four.

Zoff was so cool in goal, and speaks the same lingo as his CB and LB which can't hurt when trying to organise the defense - so he edges out Yashin, Banks, Maier.....

Formation creator = http://www.footballuser.com/1259643/Dream_Team

Anyway, I see that no one extra has voted yet.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Lock ins:

Yashin
Maldini
Beckenbauer
Cruyff
Maradona
Pele

also maybe Zidane too. Have to think about the rest and formation

 

[Red]

Gavin Wanganeen - Steven Silvagni - Matthew Scarlett

Andrew McLeod - Glen Jakovich - Paul Roos

Peter Matera - Ben Cousins - Matthew Richardson

Gary Ablett Sr - Wayne Carey - Peter Daicos

Jason Dunstall - Tony Lockett - Darren Jarman

Dean Cox - Michael Voss- Gary Ablett Jr

 

[Saint Kopite]

I did consider Moore, Baresi, Scirea and Nesta as the teams Sweeper but in the end couldn't go past Beckanbauer as the 'ball playing' Centre-Back. So the role of 'stopper' Centre-back really had to go to Cannavaro who dominated the 2006 World Cup. I also liked Desailly and the great Santamaria in that role as well.

Messi is competing with Pele, Maradonna, and Cryff for one of the forward positions, and I couldn't bring myself to leave any of those three out. So Messi sits on the bench and Ronaldo (Brazil) becomes the stand-alone Striker in the centre of the attack. In effect Ronaldo, Pele, Maradonna, and Cryff together create a 'diamond' formation. The other classic Striker I considered was Muller (Germany 1974), but he was a 'poacher' and I wanted a more versatile and complete player up-front.

Initially I picked Matthaus as the Box-to-Box Midfielder, but in the end chose Neeskens because of his legendary partnership with Cryff. Peters, Robson, and Tigana unlucky. I don't think that there has been a better defensive Midfielder than Rijkaard, so he camps just in front of the back-four.

Zoff was so cool in goal, and speaks the same lingo as his CB and LB which can't hurt when trying to organise the defense - so he edges out Yashin, Banks, Maier.....

Formation creator = Dream Team (Fantasy Teams) Football Formation

Anyway, I see that no one extra has voted yet.

Think Nesta and Moore were quite complete to feature alongside a sweeper, TBH. They weren't your out and out stoppers like a Gentile but they were very complete and could play alongside Beckenbauer.

My All Time XI:-

Cruyff-----------------Pele-------------------Messi
---------------------Maradona------------------------
------------Matthaus-------Rijkaard---------------
Maldini----Baresi-----Beckenbauer----Vogts
------------------------Yashin--------------------------

Subs:- Buffon, Moore, Thuram, Di Stefano, Garrincha, Puskas, Ronaldo.

 

[AldoRaine18]

I did consider Moore, Baresi, Scirea and Nesta as the teams Sweeper but in the end couldn't go past Beckanbauer as the 'ball playing' Centre-Back. So the role of 'stopper' Centre-back really had to go to Cannavaro who dominated the 2006 World Cup. I also liked Desailly and the great Santamaria in that role as well.

Messi is competing with Pele, Maradonna, and Cryff for one of the forward positions, and I couldn't bring myself to leave any of those three out. So Messi sits on the bench and Ronaldo (Brazil) becomes the stand-alone Striker in the centre of the attack. In effect Ronaldo, Pele, Maradonna, and Cryff together create a 'diamond' formation. The other classic Striker I considered was Muller (Germany 1974), but he was a 'poacher' and I wanted a more versatile and complete player up-front.

Initially I picked Matthaus as the Box-to-Box Midfielder, but in the end chose Neeskens because of his legendary partnership with Cryff. Peters, Robson, and Tigana unlucky. I don't think that there has been a better defensive Midfielder than Rijkaard, so he camps just in front of the back-four.

Zoff was so cool in goal, and speaks the same lingo as his CB and LB which can't hurt when trying to organise the defense - so he edges out Yashin, Banks, Maier.....

Formation creator = Dream Team (Fantasy Teams) Football Formation

Anyway, I see that no one extra has voted yet.

Indeed, Cannavaro compliments Beckenbauer better than other top CBs.

 

[watson]

Just to get back to cricket after an interesting diversion - voting is supposed to end Saturday morning, Sydney time.

 

[ankitj]

A 4-way tie!

Unprecedented as far as I can recall. We need a brave person to vote and break the deadlock.

I didn't vote for any of the four

 

[kingkallis]

Kopite, HB, Aldo in that order. Seems Kopite benefited from my vote.

 

[watson]

Looks like the week is up and that SK's great team has the most votes. A worthy winner over the 5 tied for 2nd place I reckon.

01. Len Hutton.
02. Barry Richards.
03. Rohan Kanhai.
04. Javed Miandad.
05. Peter May. (*)
06. Garry Sobers. (5)
07. Denis Lindsay. (+)
08. Shaun Pollock. (2)
09. Alec Bedser. (3)
10. Allan Donald. (1)
11. Lance Gibbs. (4)

 

[honestbharani]

I still think the epicness of RedHill' side is rather underrated in this poll.. That team would not just be ultra successful but bloody watchable..

 

[Saint Kopite]

Yay!

My first draft win here.

Thanks to all who voted for me.