The ATG World XI's game

[morgieb]

 

[NUFAN]

Damien Martyn 4
Mushtaq Mohammad 3
Aravinda de Silva 8
Vinoo Mankad 4
Norman O’Neill 1
Dean Jones 1
Maurice Leyland 1
Kumar Duleepsinhji 1
Frank Woolley 3
Mohammad Azharuddin 1
Robin Smith 1

I've gone for Mankad as pretty much everyone decided to pick an all rounder alongside a batsman.

World O XI
1. Sid Barnes
2. Mark Taylor
3. Younis Khan
4. Douglas Jardine
5. Aravinda de Silva
6. Vinoo Mankad
7. Jack Russell
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Hugh Trumble
10. Craig McDermott
11. James Anderson

 

[watson]

I'd like to watch this team in action at the SCG. A good mixture of different styles, and a ruthless bastard as a captain. Nice.

 

[NUFAN]

The 16 All Time World XI's

World XI (1)
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 (2)
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 (3)
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 (4)
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 (5)
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 (6)
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 (7)
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 (8)
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 (9)
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

World I XI (10)
1. W Ponsford 2. W Lawry 3. T Dexter 4. P May 5. D Gower 6. A Greig 7. J Dujon+ 8. P Pollock 9. C Turner 10. B Statham 11. L Gibbs

World J XI (11)
1. T Goddard 2. E Barlow 3. I Chappell 4. E Paynter 5. AB de Villiers 6. VVS Laxman 7. J Waite+ 8. G Lohmann 9. D Underwood 10. F Tyson 11. Neil Adcock

World K XI (12)
1. D Haynes 2. B Woodfull 3. C Hill 4. M Jayawardene 5. A Jackson 6. A Stewart+ 7. C Cairns 8. A Flintoff 9. W Rhodes 10. F Mahmood 11. B Willis

World L XI (13)
1. S Anwar 2. C Hunte 3. R Richardson 4. L Hassett 5. C Cowdrey 6. W Armstrong 7. R Marsh+ 8. J Wardle 9. S Bond 10. J Thomson 11. T Richardson

World M XI (14)
1. G Kirsten 2. R Fredericks 3. D Boon 4. M Yousuf 5. V Hazare 6. S Jackson 7. G Evans+ 8. J Briggs 9. J Gillespie 10. F Spofforth 11. S Akhtar

World N XI (15)
1. A Cook 2. J Langer 3. Z Abbas 4. G Thorpe 5. M Clarke 6. M Waugh 7. M Noble 8. G Swann 9. J Blackham+ 10. J Cowie 11. B Johnston

World O XI (16)
1. S Barnes 2. M Taylor 3. Y Khan 4. D Jardine 5. A de Silva 6. V Mankad 7. J Russell+ 8. C Vaas 9. H Trumble 10. C McDermott 11. J Anderson

 

[NUFAN]

I'd like to watch this team in action at the SCG. A good mixture of different styles, and a ruthless bastard as a captain. Nice.

Yeah I agree, the team would be awesome at the SCG. Its a really hard, ruthless team with a wide variety of bowling options that should be good in all conditions.

Jardine as captain and Taylor as probably the most over qualified vice captain in any of the 16 sides. I think the team is superior to the World N team and would have a very close tussle with the M team.

 

[Jager]

Even the L and K XI's match up relatively evenly against the O XI, so it will be very interesting to see what happens with the bottom 8. What do we need to do now in order to get things organised?

 

[Dan]

Even the L and K XI's match up relatively evenly against the O XI, so it will be very interesting to see what happens with the bottom 8. What do we need to do now in order to get things organised?

There isn't a huge amount separating the second half, IMO. It all comes down to how they perform in the sim, I guess. The difference between the World F XI and World O XI isn't as big as one might think.

 

[NUFAN]

Yeah I'm not sure how easy or time consuming it is to input data into a sim for the 176 players named.

 

[weldone]

One Pakistani keeper had to be there among the 16 - there were 3 good ones available - Latif, Bari and Moin.

Also, Swann already better than all Indian spinners in history other than Kumble is an interesting call.

 

[marc71178]

Yeah I'm not sure how easy or time consuming it is to input data into a sim for the 176 players named.

Depends what information PEWS has available to be honest - he may already have it, but if not I guess I'll need his figures (updated for current players) and a few hours of time with nothing else on!

 

[Jager]

One Pakistani keeper had to be there among the 16 - there were 3 good ones available - Latif, Bari and Moin.

Also, Swann already better than all Indian spinners in history other than Kumble is an interesting call.

Gupte and Chandrasekhar are especially harsh omissions. If we keep selecting, they'll surely get spots easily.

I will collate all of the numbers to input if that's what needs to be done, I am on holidays for over seven weeks and haven't got any shifts until next week, so I have plenty of time to kill.

 

[Dan]

Gupte and Chandrasekhar are especially harsh omissions. If we keep selecting, they'll surely get spots easily.

I will collate all of the numbers to input if that's what needs to be done, I am on holidays for over seven weeks and haven't got any shifts until next week, so I have plenty of time to kill.

Are we going to continue selecting sides?

 

[NUFAN]

Depends what information PEWS has available to be honest - he may already have it, but if not I guess I'll need his figures (updated for current players) and a few hours of time with nothing else on!

Are you able to get in touch with him? It would be great if we could start it at some point shortly.

Gupte and Chandrasekhar are especially harsh omissions. If we keep selecting, they'll surely get spots easily.

I will collate all of the numbers to input if that's what needs to be done, I am on holidays for over seven weeks and haven't got any shifts until next week, so I have plenty of time to kill.

Chandra is within my top 10 spinners of all time. I was hoping he would be in a team with a offie and Engineer as keeper.

Should we keep going or what?

I wonder which team has scored the most Test runs and wickets? World A has probably taken the most wickets, world C perhaps for most runs, despite Grace not scoring many.

 

[Jager]

Should we keep going or what?

I wonder which team has scored the most Test runs and wickets? World A has probably taken the most wickets, world C perhaps for most runs, despite Grace not scoring many.

Definitely keep going with the selections, I think. They are really interesting and now we'll have three of us running them, it will be easier.

I'll tally up those team statistics tonight actually, it will be interesting and I need something to do whilst I watch the cricket/football.

We're going to be using standardised averages I'd assume, but we need to find out whether ITC needs more detailed career statistics to be accurate (SR, centuries scored, high score etc.) so I can collate them manually if that's what's needed.

 

[NUFAN]

Okay, I'll start the World P XI in a few minutes. I'm going to try something a little different and offer 8 or 9 spots today.

 

[Jager]

Okay, I'll start the World P XI in a few minutes. I'm going to try something a little different and offer 8 or 9 spots today.

Sounds good. Will rvd take the one after that?

 

[NUFAN]

If he likes. Or you can, I don't mind.

1) Select 2 openers
2) Select batsman 3,4,5
3) Select a keeper
4) Select a spinner
5) Select 2 quicks

Suggested openers
Dennis Amiss, Marvan Atapattu, Michael Atherton, Charles Bannerman, Warren Bardsley, Bill Brown, Jimmy Cook, Stewie Dempster, John Edrich, Gautam Gambhir, Chris Gayle, Herschelle Gibbs, Sanath Jayasuriya, Simon Katich, Majid Khan, Colin McDonald, Jackie McGlew, Archie McLaren, Alan Melville, Mudassar Nazar, Mark Richardson, Pankaj Roy, Michael Slater, Navjot Sidhu, Michael Slater, Jeff Stollmeyer, Andrew Strauss, Herbie Taylor, Marcus Trescothick, Glenn Turner, Michael Vaughan, Cyril Washbrook

Middle Order Batsman
Shakib Al Hasan, Mohinder Amarnath, Hashim Amla, Mohammad Azharuddin, Ian Bell, Colin Bland, Herbie Collins, Daryl Cullinan, Charlie Davis, Martin Donnelly, Kumar Duleepsinhji, Sourav Ganguly, Gerry Gomez, Murray Goodwin, Tom Graveney, Michael Hussey, Alvin Kallicharan, Darren Lehmann, Maurice Leyland, Saleem Malik, Damien Martyn, Ken Mackay, Brian McMillan, Mushtaq Mohammad, Seymour Nurse, Norman O'Neill, John R Reid, Lawrence Rowe, Jack Ryder, Thilan Samaraweera, Arthur Shrewsbury, Robin Smith, Raman Subba-Row, Herbie Taylor, Polly Umrigar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Gundappa Viswanath, Frank Woolley

Suggested keepers
Gerry Alexander, Wasim Bari, Mark Boucher, Jock Cameron, MS Dhoni, Wally Grout, Jackie Hendriks, David Houghton, Ridley Jacobs, Prasanna Jayawardene, Moin Khan, Syed Kirmani, Rashid Latif, Deryck Murray, Bert Oldfield, Adam Parore, Matt Prior, Ian Smith, Bob Taylor, Hashan Tillekaratne

Suggested Spinners
Mushtaq Ahmed, Saeed Ajmal, Shakib Al-Hasan, Bishan Bedi, Charlie Blythe, Bhajwath Chandrasekhar, George Giffen, Subhash Gupte, Regana Herath, Bert Ironmonger, Jack Iverson, Ian Johnson, Lindsay Kline, Tony Lock, Stuart MacGill, Arthur Mailey, Saqlain Mushtaq, Bobby Peel, Erapalli Prasanna, Abdul Qadir, Iqbal Qasim, Sonny Ramadhin, Pervez Sajjad, Reggie Schwarz, Harbajhan Singh, Alf Valentine, Daniel Vettori, Bert Vogler,

Suggested quicks
Mohammad Asif, Terry Alderman, Bill Bowes, Stuart Broad, Andy Caddick, Lance Cairns, Stuart Clark, Sylvester Clarke, Learie Constantine, Wayne Daniel, Fanie de Villiers, Darren Gough, Jack Gregory, Charlie Griffith, Neil Hawke, Peter Heine, Ken Higgs, George Hirst, Merv Hughes, Zaheer Khan, Brett Lee, Lasith Malinga, Garth McKenzie, Dick Motz, Sarfraz Nawaz, Makhaya Ntini, Vernon Philander, Bruce Reid, Peter Siddle, Amar Singh, Javagal Srinath, Heath Streak, Ernie Toshack, Max Walker

 

[vic_orthdox]

Glenn Turner
Michael Slater

Alvin Kallicharan
Damien Martyn
Jack Ryder

Mark Boucher

Subhash Gupte

Bruce Reid
Fanie de Villiers

 

[Howe_zat]

Turner & Atherton

Woolley, Leyland & Herbie Taylor

Latif

Chandra

Reid and Zaheer

 

[Jager]

Openers
John Edrich- would really like to see him in a team.
Chris Gayle- three triple centuries from both my openers is impressive, Gayle the aggressor here.

Middle order
Dean Jones- so gutsy. Extremely talented.
Hashim Amla- so classy, what a talent.
Norman O'Neill- a forgotten star of the past.

Wicketkeeper
Gerry Alexander- great keeper, excellent batsman and a gentleman.

Spinner
Tony Lock- again harsh on Gupte and Chandra, but Lock was deadly.

Pacemen
Mohammad Asif- explained beforehand. Outstanding bowler.
Wayne Daniel- I'll vote for Toshack later, it was a toss-up here.