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The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

Howe_zat

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I'm not sure you can compare-

Procter (bowling AR)
G. Pollock (LH middle order bat)
Barry Richards (RH opening bat)
Donald (RH opening bowler)
Pollock (bowling AR)
&
Kallis (batting AR)
Course you can. Isn't Bradman the greatest Australian cricketer?

Requires a fair bit of conjecture but so do all these comparisons.
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Course you can. Isn't Bradman the greatest Australian cricketer?

Requires a fair bit of conjecture but so do all these comparisons.
Indeed. All players bring something slightly different to the table. I've never really got the idea that you can't compare two different types of players; if anything the opposite is true and it'd be impossible to compare two players who were exactly the same...
 

Red

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You can rank players based on their importance to their teams, impact on the game, performance in their eras etc etc.

To just go...

player d>>>>player e = player a>>>player b>>>player c

doesn't make a heap of sense to me.
 

Coronis

International Coach
Damn, seems like my World XI changes every week. Anyways

1. Hobbs
2. Sutcliffe
3. Bradman*
4. Pollock
5. Richards
6. Sobers
7. Gilchrist+
8. Procter
9. Marshall
10. Barnes
11. McGrath

Am trying different bowling combinations it seems, 1 through 7 are still the same, as are Marshall and McGrath. Since it seems Barnes was more an O'Reilly type of bowler, I'd rather have him than Warne/Murali. On Procter - from what I can tell, he was a better bowler than any of the great bowling all rounders, bar Hadlee, and very close to Imran, and was a better bat than all of them bar Miller.
 
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Red

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Best team I've seen

- Gordon Greenidge
- Graham Gooch
- Ricky Ponting
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Viv Richards
- Steve Waugh
- Adam Gilchrist
- Wasim Akram
- Malcolm Marshall
- Shane Warne
- Glenn McGrath


- Brian Lara
- Jaques Kallis
- Curtly Ambrose
- Muralitharan
 

kyear2

International Coach
Best team I've seen

- Gordon Greenidge
- Graham Gooch
- Ricky Ponting
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Viv Richards
- Steve Waugh
- Adam Gilchrist
- Wasim Akram
- Malcolm Marshall
- Shane Warne
- Glenn McGrath


- Brian Lara
- Jaques Kallis
- Curtly Ambrose
- Muralitharan
nice, mine would be

Gordon Greenidge
Matthew Hayden
Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulkar/ Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Glenn Mcgrath
 

Cabinet96

Hall of Fame Member
Best team I've seen is pretty limited, but here goes.

1. Mathew Hayden
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Brian Lara
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Shane Warne
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
 

Daemon

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Best team I've seen (must've played well during the time I saw them)


1. Graeme Smith
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Jacques Kallis
6. VVS Laxman
7. Matt Prior
8. Chaminda Vaas? dunno.
9. Mohammad Asif
10. Dale Steyn
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Best team I've seen (must've played well during the time I saw them)


1. Graeme Smith
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Jacques Kallis
6. VVS Laxman
7. Matt Prior
8. Chaminda Vaas? dunno.
9. Mohammad Asif
10. Dale Steyn
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
Someone who knows so much about current cricketers as you being too new to the game to remember Shaun Pollock playing well makes me feel so, so old.
 

Daemon

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Yeah I can barely recall Gilchrist, McGrath, Warne in Tests. Have a few memories for when Dad subscribed to the channel to watch the WC but that's about it. It's all muddled until about '08.
 

Flem274*

123/5
Best eleven I've seen

1. Matt Hayden
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Brian Lara
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shane Warne
9. Dale Steyn
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath
 

Coronis

International Coach
Yeah I can barely recall Gilchrist, McGrath, Warne in Tests. Have a few memories for when Dad subscribed to the channel to watch the WC but that's about it. It's all muddled until about '08.
Yikes, I still remember watching Waugh play.
 

morgieb

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Best eleven I've seen

1. Matt Hayden
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Brian Lara
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shane Warne
9. Dale Steyn
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath
Pretty much this.
 

Red

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Yikes, I still remember watching Waugh play.
I must be old. I can remember the Border era clearly. The first time I payed real attention to the details of cricket was during the 1989 Ashes, but I can remember thinking the WIs were so cool when they were thrashing us in the 80s.

I guess my general life pessimism stems from the fact I saw my cricket team (Aus) getting thrashed through the 80s, while the Tiges were getting slaughtered by everyone in the footy as well.
 

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