Given that they didn't go back to before 1900 because there wasn't enough international cricket before then, it seems odd to pick Bradman for 1936, when in Test cricket in that year Grimmett took 33 wickets in his 3 matches, Fingleton scored 4 hundreds in consecutive innings, Hammond scored 167, 217, 5*, 0, 25 and 231*; while Bradman scored 38, 0, 0, 82 and captained Australia to 2 defeats.
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I'm going to blow a gasket here
You shouldn't (fine i'll rephrase it I won't but you can if you want) pick bits and pieces players when you have properly good players at one discipline and when you pick ATG sides, you have a very large pool of players to select so if I'm going to pick and all rounder, I'll pick some one who is legitimately good in one aspect (Flintoff for bowling or Watson for batting) over some one who is mediocre over both aspects but at equal amounts
This has some merit. Stats wise Harris has done much better than Flintoff or Klusener. But on a subcontinental wicket I think Shakib or Jadeja would hit it. On Aussie conditions I'd like to throw in Abdul Razzaq, who was pretty special against Aussies. Once again he had things Aussies hate as a bowler, boeling full, swinging it, reverse swinginging it and plenty of yorkers and slower balls.
Chris Harris Vs Australia 38 matches 31 wickets @37.5 SR 50.90
Oh kinky. I'm starting to like the follically challenged basterd now
It's 'weird' because it was teetering on 'not'
Hayden, Gilchrist, Andy Flower too. Our bowlers sucked against all left-handers back then. Not sure about Kirsten and Tresco.Man, watching Jayasuriya take apart our bowlers, esp. Venky Prasad was like a rite of passage growing up.
Anwar used to do it for fun too. And even Chanderpaul used to open against us and smash our opening bowlers. Boy, we sucked against left handed openers back then.
