Red_Ink_Squid
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Brendon McCullum & Ben Stokes would be enough.
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The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread
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Coronis
International Coach
My second XI
Hutton
Gavaskar
Lara
Smith
Chappell
Kallis
Sangakkara+
Imran*
Steyn
Ambrose
Murali
Yes I chose Sanga instead of say Knott or someone else. I’m aware he likely won’t contribute as much as his full capability, but his batting ability when keeping still outstrips pretty much everyone bar Gilly. Plus, for this team, he has experience keeping to Murali.
Less sure of the batting order for this team than my first XI.
As it happens, across the two XI’s I’ve managed to include my top 13 batsmen, my top 6 pacers and top 2 spinners, along with Gilly.
Hutton
Gavaskar
Lara
Smith
Chappell
Kallis
Sangakkara+
Imran*
Steyn
Ambrose
Murali
Yes I chose Sanga instead of say Knott or someone else. I’m aware he likely won’t contribute as much as his full capability, but his batting ability when keeping still outstrips pretty much everyone bar Gilly. Plus, for this team, he has experience keeping to Murali.
Less sure of the batting order for this team than my first XI.
As it happens, across the two XI’s I’ve managed to include my top 13 batsmen, my top 6 pacers and top 2 spinners, along with Gilly.
kyear2
International Coach
Yeah, that's a good selling point that we generally don't factor in.
You have Hadlee and McGrath in your first team, or Wasim with McGrath?
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Daily reminder that Lara > Sachin.
Corrected
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Coronis
International Coach
Hadlee and McGrath.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
AT XI:
Hobbs
Gavaskar
Bradman
Tendulkar
Sangakkara
Sobers
Imran
Hadlee
Marshall
Warne
Barnes
Second XI:
Hutton
Sutcliffe
Hammond
Lara
Richards
Miller
Gilchrist
Akram
Ambrose
McGrath
Murali
Hobbs
Gavaskar
Bradman
Tendulkar
Sangakkara
Sobers
Imran
Hadlee
Marshall
Warne
Barnes
Second XI:
Hutton
Sutcliffe
Hammond
Lara
Richards
Miller
Gilchrist
Akram
Ambrose
McGrath
Murali
Pap Finn Keighl
International Debutant
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Watling > Dhoni
capt_Luffy
International Captain
Does captaincy counts? Then it's Dhoni, otherwise very close imo.
Coronis
International Coach
Yeah nah.
_00_deathscar
International Regular
Dhoni was an average test captain
capt_Luffy
International Captain
I would say above average, and his game reading was really excellent.
Nah I think he had a tendency to let his game management go a bit across some stages of a Test match. Average Test captain, Excellent ODI captain.
Funnily enough i think the opposite of Kohli. Excellent Test captain, but didn't always know how to manage his bowling resources in ODI.
Funnily enough i think the opposite of Kohli. Excellent Test captain, but didn't always know how to manage his bowling resources in ODI.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
MSD is really the best captain you can have when you have limited resources at your disposal. He is like that guy who is an excellent manager of finances as a middle class person but is not really sure on how to manage his funds when he gets very rich.
I remember him beating Australia in 2008 2-0 in a 4 test series in India with an over the hill Kumble, darty Harbhajan and slower than slow Amit Mishra as the spin attack on some pretty flat tracks. The way he cajoled match winning performances on absolute feather beds out of those spinners along with Zaheer (granted at his peak mentally as a bowler though mostly past it physically) and Ishant 1.0 is something I am sure Virat will never be able to do. Its easy to let the perception of MSD's test captaincy be spoiled by 8-0 and his defensive mindset in SENA but he still got us wins around the world in tests and got us the mace with a very very limited attack, even if we did have an ATG batting line-up on paper.