The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[h_hurricane]

Players born in the first half of the year pitted against the players born in the second half. Second team should smoke it on most days.

First half team

Len Hutton
Graeme Smith
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Vivian Richards
Wally Hammond
Alan Knott
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn Mcgrath

Second Half Team

Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Greg Chappell
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Adam Glichrist
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose

 

[trundler]

How the **** did you get the idea for that

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Players born in the first half of the year pitted against the players born in the second half. Second team should smoke it on most days.

First half team

Len Hutton
Graeme Smith
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Vivian Richards
Wally Hammond
Alan Knott
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn Mcgrath

Second Half Team

Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Greg Chappell
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Adam Glichrist
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose

Murali alone is enough for Bradman

 

[h_hurricane]

How the **** did you get the idea for that

I wanted to somehow have Kallis and Sobers in the same team, then saw that both of them were born in the same half. Built team around that.

 

[h_hurricane]

Murali alone is enough for Bradman

Shouldn't be a problem dealing with a 90 year old Bradman.

 

[trundler]

If you remove Bradman it's a lot closer.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Murali alone is enough for Bradman

Yes, he can score 100 from Murali overs alone , others just bonus.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

If you remove Bradman it's a lot closer.

It's not
With bat

Gilly > Knott
Imran > Akram
Hadlee > Marshall
Warne > Murali
Ambrose > McGrath

Also a definite Better specialist in Gavaskar compared to Smith.

+
5 th and 6 th bowlers of 2nd half team is better than 5th bowler of first half team.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

I wanted to somehow have Kallis and Sobers in the same team, then saw that both of them were born in the same half. Built team around that.

Still it's not convincing .
Sobers already there as 5th bowler.selecting Greater batsmen like Headley , Pollock ..etc makes more sense.

 

[h_hurricane]

Still it's not convincing .
Sobers already there as 5th bowler.selecting Greater batsmen like Headley , Pollock ..etc makes more sense.

Headley and Pollock may have been greater than Kallis if they had longer careers. We never know. I find it a bit unfair on ATG players who had insanely long careers if players with 20-25 tests are picked ahead of them.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Headley and Pollock may have been greater than Kallis if they had longer careers. We never know. I find it a bit unfair on ATG players who had insanely long careers if players with 20-25 tests are picked ahead of them.

Ok

 

[ankitj]

There is such a bada$$ feel about having first and second name starting with the same letter,isn't it ? Across the world, Marilyn Monroe, Boris Becker come to mind.

Gautam Gambhir FTW.

 

[vcs]

Gautam Gambhir FTW.

Just when you thought the little ****er couldn't get any more dislikeable, he goes and joins politics as a Hindutva firebrand..

 

[ankitj]

Just when you thought the little ****er couldn't get any more dislikeable, he goes and joins politics as a Hindutva firebrand..

Yeah, I do get it. But it's also bit one dimensional to put a person down to one description like that. Hasn't GG also pledged funds for education of some children who got orphaned in terror strikes? He also appears to do his bit for dignity of inter-*** people. People are complex.

 

[h_hurricane]

Hothead XI

David Warner
Michael Slater
Ricky Ponting
Virat Kohli
Saurav Ganguly
Andrew Symonds
Sarfraz Ahmed
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Allan Donald
Glenn Mcgrath

12th Man : Harbhajan Singh

 

[trundler]

An overabundance of Australians. Huh. Bizarre.

 

[h_hurricane]

An overabundance of Australians. Huh. Bizarre.

While looking around the cricket world, there would be a lot of other hotheads, but cricketing ability also matters.

 

[mr_mister]

Was Symomds a hot head? He seemed pretty laid back on the cricket field

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Donald looks a touch out of place on that list. Either Shoaib, Rabada or Broad would make much more sense IMO

Agree with Mr_mister, Symonds was more wild but not really a hothead

 

[mr_mister]

Donald looks a touch out of place on that list. Either Shoaib, Rabada or Broad would make much more sense IMO

Have you seen his famous spell against Atherton in 1998? He blew a fuse that day