The ATG World XI's game

[marc71178]

Adcock, Anderson
Russell
Gibbs

 

[NUFAN]

1 - Neil Adcock and John Snow
2 - Ian Healy
3 - Anil Kumble

 

[Dan]

George Lohmann, Maurice Tate
Godfrey Evans
Wilfred Rhodes

EDIT:Just re-arranged the order to fit the questions. Godfrey Evans is not my selection for lead spinner

 

[vic_orthdox]

Snow, Statham
Healy
Kumble

 

[Jarquis]

Turner, Lohmann
Waite
Kumble

 

[Howe_zat]

Wes Hall & Maurice Tate
Jeff Dujon
Wilfred Rhodes

 

[Jager]

Votes
Last: Eds

Pace
Turner: 3
Mahmood: 1
Adcock: 3
Tate: 3
Anderson: 1
Snow: 4
Lohmann: 3
Statham: 1
Hall: 4
Gillespie: 1

Keep
Waite: 2
Stewart: 3
Russell: 1
Healy: 4
Evans: 1
Dujon: 1

Spin
Kumble: 7
Rhodes: 3
Gibbs: 1
Qadir: 1

 

[watson]

Snow and Hall

Stewart

Abdul Qadir

 

[Jacknife]

Snow & Hall

Alec Stewart

Anil Kumble

 

[Jager]

How people are choosing Stewart over Dujon, Evans, Waite, Grout etc. is beyond me, to be honest.

 

[Jacknife]

How people are choosing Stewart over Dujon, Evans, Waite, Grout etc. is beyond me, to be honest.

For me batting simple as that, I think this side needs it and I don't think you lose too much in the wicket keeping.

 

[marc71178]

Stewart as a keeper batsman is extremely over-rated. Russell was a far better keeper and not that much worse a batsman.

 

[Jager]

For me batting simple as that, I think this side needs it and I don't think you lose too much in the wicket keeping.

For sure, but picking Stewart is a huge step down in wicketkeeping skill, which puts me off.

 

[Jacknife]

Stewart as a keeper batsman is extremely over-rated. Russell was a far better keeper and not that much worse a batsman.

Don't think he is extremely over-rated, otherwise he'd have been picked before now.

Stewart playing as Wicketkeeper batmen averaged around 36, so he's a fair bit better than Russell in the batting stakes when keeping and he was excellent against some of the best fast bowlers around in the 90's. Sure Russell was the better keeper but Stewart wouldn't let you down.

I just thought looking at the batting line up we could do with the best bat who was decent enough with gloves so I went with the all rounder, rather than the specialist, I really rate Russell though and have picked him before.

 

[kyear2]

Rev. Wes Hall
Jason Gillespie

Anil Kumble

Ian Healy

Am I seeing correct that arguably the greatest pure keeper of the modern era is still available.

 

[Eds]

Charlie Turner
George Lohmann

Anil Kumble

Ian Healy

 

[Howe_zat]

Am I seeing correct that arguably the greatest pure keeper of the modern era is still available.

Yes, becuase the modern era is about 1/6 of cricket, give or take, and being"arguably" the best from a given era means he's probably in the top 2 or 3 just from that era alone.

So yeah, someone who you qualified as being roughly in the top 15 pure keepers hasn't been selected in the first 8 teams, not all of which would be suited to playing a pure keeper at all. That sounds entirely reasonable, no?

 

[Jager]

Yes, becuase the modern era is about 1/6 of cricket, give or take, and being"arguably" the best from a given era means he's probably in the top 2 or 3 just from that era alone.

So yeah, someone who you qualified as being roughly in the top 15 pure keepers hasn't been selected in the first 8 teams, not all of which would be suited to playing a pure keeper at all. That sounds entirely reasonable, no?

Agree with what you're saying, although I want to add that this forum seems to favour modern players overall (my opinion) which might be where some of kyear's surprisal comes from.

 

[kyear2]

Yes, becuase the modern era is about 1/6 of cricket, give or take, and being"arguably" the best from a given era means he's probably in the top 2 or 3 just from that era alone.

So yeah, someone who you qualified as being roughly in the top 15 pure keepers hasn't been selected in the first 8 teams, not all of which would be suited to playing a pure keeper at all. That sounds entirely reasonable, no?

Was just saying that I was surprised he is still available, to the point I went back to check to make sure he wasn't already picked, so I picked him.

No need to disect every thing I say.

 

[marc71178]

Am I seeing correct that arguably the greatest pure keeper of the modern era is still available.

Yes, but then you didn't pick him.