The ATG World XI's game

[Jacknife]

Dexter
Tate.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Walters

Rhodes

 

[Jager]

Smaller vote pool this time, Tate and Walters the winners.

World H XI
1. G Smith
2. V Sehwag
3. R Kanhai
4. M Crowe
5. Inzamam ul-Haq
6. D Walters
7. I Healy
8. M Tate
9. A Kumble
10. W Hall
11. J Snow

Our teams are getting weaker now, but here's to some upsets in the sim.

 

[Jager]

Teams compiled so far

World XI
1. J Hobbs 2. L Hutton 3. D Bradman 4. V Richards 5. S Tendulkar 6. G Sobers 7. A Gilchrist+ 8. I Khan 9 S. Warne 10. M Marshall 11. G McGrath

World A XI
1. S Gavaskar 2. H Sutcliffe 3. G Headley 4. B Lara 5. W Hammond 6. J Kallis 7. A Knott+ 8. R Hadlee 9. W Akram 10. C Ambrose 11. M Muralitharan

World B XI
1. B Richards 2. V Trumper 3. G Chappell 4. G Pollock 5. A Border 6. K Miller 7. L Ames+ 8. D Lillee 9. F Trueman 10. B O'Reilly 11. S Barnes

World C XI
1. G Boycott 2. W.G Grace 3. R Ponting 4. K Barrington 5. S Waugh 6. C Walcott+ 7. I Botham 8. A Davidson 9. M Holding 10. J Laker 11. A Donald

World D XI
1. G Greenidge 2. M Hayden 3. R Dravid 4. D Compton 5. E Weekes 6. F Worrell 7. D Lindsay+ 8. S Pollock 9. R Lindwall 10. J Garner 11. C Grimmett

World E XI
1. G Gooch 2. A Morris 3. N Harvey 4. J Miandad 5. D Nourse 6. A Flower+ 7. M Procter 8. R Benaud 9. D Steyn 10. A Roberts 11. W Younis

World F XI
1. B Mitchell 2. B Simpson 3. K Sangakkara 4. K Ranjitsinhji 5. C Macartney 6. C Lloyd 7. K Dev 8. D Tallon+ 9. H Verity 10. H Larwood 11. C Walsh

World G XI
1. V Merchant 2. H Mohammad 3. S McCabe 4. K Pietersen 5. S Chanderpaul 6. A Faulkner 7. F Engineer+ 8. H Tayfield 9. A Bedser 10. I Bishop 11. C Croft

World H XI
1. G Smith 2. V Sehwag 3. R Kanhai 4. M Crowe 5. Inzamam ul-Haq 6. D Walters 7. I Healy+ 8. M Tate 9. A Kumble 10. W Hall 11. J Snow

 

[Jager]

1. Select two openers please
2. Three middle order batsmen too

Suggested middle order batsman
Zaheer Abbas, Hashim Amla, Mohammad Azharuddin, Charles Bannerman, David Boon, Ian Chappell, Michael Clarke, Colin Cowdrey, Aravinda de Silva, Ted Dexter, AB de Villiers, Kumar Duleepsinhji, David Gower, Tom Graveney, Tony Greig, Lindsay Hassett, Vijay Hazare, Patsy Hendren, Clem Hill, Michael Hussey, Stanley Jackson, Douglas Jardine, Mahela Jayawardene, Alvin Kallicharan, Younus Khan, VVS Laxman, Peter May, Norman O'Neill, Eddie Paynter, Richie Richardson, Lawrence Rowe, Arthur Shrewsbury, Herbie Taylor, Graeme Thorpe, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mark Waugh, Frank Woolley, Mohammad Yousuf

Suggested opening batsman
Dennis Amiss, Saeed Anwar, Eddie Barlow, Alastair Cook, John Edrich, Roy Fredericks, Herschelle Gibbs, Trevor Goddard, Desmond Haynes, Conrad Hunte, Sanath Jayasuriya, Bill Lawry, Justin Langer, Archie McLaren, Bill Ponsford, Mark Richardson, Michael Slater, Navjot Sidhu, Alec Stewart, Andrew Strauss, Mark Taylor, Marcus Trescothick, Glenn Turner, Cyril Washbrook, Bill Woodfull

 

[Dan]

Ponsford
Barlow

Dexter
de Villiers
Hassett

 

[Jager]

Ponsford
Barlow

Dexter
de Villiers
Hassett

Should we consider AB as a wicketkeeper?

 

[watson]

If I could get good odds I'd put a lazy hundred bucks on 'World E XI' to take out the comp amoung all those teams. Their four pronged pace attack led by Steyn and Roberts looks really strong. My only concern is that Gooch wouldn't last the hour if he came up against Barnes, Bedser, or Tate judging by his prior performances against Terry Alderman.

 

[watson]

Lawry - Fredericks

Ian Chappell - May - Jayawardene

 

[Jager]

If I could get good odds I'd put a lazy hundred bucks on 'World E XI' to take out the comp amoung all those teams. Their four pronged pace attack led by Steyn and Roberts looks really strong. My only concern is that Gooch wouldn't last the hour if he came up against Barnes, Bedser, or Tate judging by his prior performances against Terry Alderman.

The World E team's attack looks unstoppable, I must agree. H's attack looks the weakest to me, but the middle order is very good.

 

[Howe_zat]

Trevor Goddard has the bowling figures to match anyone left in the game, which sets him apart from the remaining openers. Would allow a unique looking side that can bat deep.

When I was watching Fire in Babylon with Howe Snr, he claimed that Desmond Haynes was actually better than his more famous opening partner, having apparatly batted out togher runs than Greenidge. Not sure how much of that is true, but his is the name that stuck out to me from the list.

~

Pick David Gower already.

Clem Hill was once the leading run-scorer in 30 years of Test cricket, and was widely considered the best in the world over the likes of Ranji and Jackson.

VVS Laxman is a personal favourite and would be the team's firefighter at #5.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Goddard, Haynes
May, Hazare, Jardine

 

[Eds]

Howe's selection but with Jardine in for Laxman, please.

 

[Dan]

Should we consider AB as a wicketkeeper?

No way - hasn't kept very much at all at test level IIRC. Played one test in place of Boucher that I can remember.

BTW, could you change my vote from Barlow to Goddard?

 

[Camo999]

Haynes
Lawry

Chappelli
Clem Hill
Zaheer Abbas

Would it be possible to add Richie Richardson next time if he's not already in the shortlists? Same with Big Merv.

 

[marc71178]

Not a fan of people changing their votes - surely goes against the whole concept of what's being tried here?

Stewart
Ponsford

Cowdrey, Gower, De Villiers

 

[vic_orthdox]

Lawry
Anwar

I Chappell
Dexter
May

Like to see Greig slot in at 6 for this side, think that gives it a decent balance.

EDIT: yeah, Camo999, going to lump for Richardson next as my number 3 after I Chappell.

 

[grecian]

*wanders in, asks where Patsy Hendren is without bothering to check thread, wanders out*

 

[Jacknife]

Barlow Lawry

Gower Dexter May

 

[Jager]

*wanders in, asks where Patsy Hendren is without bothering to check thread, wanders out*

Adding him now. I added Boon and Richardson, too.