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The ATG World XI's game

watson

watson

Banned
As a bowler he began by modelling his style closely upon that of Blythe, but of late he has gained much in individuality. He makes good use of his height-he must be well over 6ft.-and bowls with an easy swing.

Wisden - Frank Woolley
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Colin Blythe was born in 1879 in Deptford, but he learnt his cricket in the Nursery at the County Ground in Tonbridge. He was a slow left arm bowler and there was beauty as well as deadliness in his bowling. The rhythm in his action and his mastery of flight and spin were poetic. ‘Charlie’, as he was known, took 2,506 wickets at 16.81 runs each for Kent and played 19 times for England.

Tonbridge Cricketers
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Again, it seems that Woolley's natural inclination would be to bowl slow spin.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
watson said:
It's difficult to find any definitive descriptions of his bowling; but I would hazard a guess and say he bowled more slow left arm orthodox than medium pace.
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Yeah cheers. I thought that would be the case, but wasn't 100% given his profile mentioned both.
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
NUFAN said:
rvd, are you keen to do the World Q and R teams?
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Yep, definitely good to do the next couple.

Your Selections - Teams 1 through 17 said:
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

World P XI (17)
1. G Turner 2. M Slater 3. M Leyland 4. H Taylor 5. M Hussey 6. F Woolley 7. M Prior+ 8. J Gregory 9. T Lock 10. M Ntini 11. B Reid
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I'm going to try and do this one a little differently, if it doesn't work I'll go back to the other way.

1. Select the TWO bowlers you most want in the side.
They can be either pace or spin.
2. Select a wicketkeeper.

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, Charlie Griffith, Neil Hawke, Peter Heine, Ken Higgs, George Hirst, Merv Hughes, Zaheer Khan, Brett Lee, Lasith Malinga, Garth McKenzie, Dick Motz, Sarfraz Nawaz, Vernon Philander, Peter Siddle, Amar Singh, Javagal Srinath, Heath Streak, Ernie Toshack, Max Walker.

OR

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, 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 Keepers
Gerry Alexander, Wasim Bari, Mark Boucher, Jock Cameron, MS Dhoni, Wally Grout, Jackie Hendriks, David Houghton, Prasanna Jayawardene, Syed Kirmani, Rashid Latif, Deryck Murray, Bert Oldfield, Adam Parore, Jack Russell, Ian Smith, Bob Taylor, Hashan Tillekaratne, Dave Richardson.

EDIT: If you want people added to the shortlist, just let me know. You can definitely vote from outside them.
 
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NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Bhajwath Chandrasekhar and Erapalli Prasanna

Wasim Bari.

I found it difficult picking the best quick, so I've gone for two spinners who were brilliant. I probably overall think that Mark Boucher is the keeper that should be chosen next in a normal side, but the thing that holds me from selecting him in this team is his ability or inability against spin. From the footage of Bari and what I've read about him, I think he is the best pure keeper available against spin, better then Latif even.
 
fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's getting trickier now

Bowler 1 the criminally underrated Sylvester Clarke is the easy one

Bowler 2 I'm going to give a shout to Bert Ironmonger, although he does nothing for the batting or fielding

Keeper - got to go for the best so I'll follow my Dad's view and say, again, Wally Grout
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
NUFAN said:
Bhajwath Chandrasekhar and Erapalli Prasanna

Wasim Bari.

I found it difficult picking the best quick, so I've gone for two spinners who were brilliant. I probably overall think that Mark Boucher is the keeper that should be chosen next in a normal side, but the thing that holds me from selecting him in this team is his ability or inability against spin. From the footage of Bari and what I've read about him, I think he is the best pure keeper available against spin, better then Latif even.
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Not sure how he was against spin per se, but Bert Oldfield's stumping record was extremely good at the time and utterly ridiculous by modern standards.

I remember seeing one of the World Series Classics ODIs on FoxSports, Pakistan vs Australia, with Bari wicketkeeping; he copped one on the chin off a mildly successful off-spinner, then took a fantastic stumping off him a couple of balls later. Great wicketkeeper.

I think it was this game - Ijaz Faqih the bowler.
 
watson

watson

Banned
Jager

Jager

International Debutant
Votes so far: last vote kyear

Mckenzie: 2
Ironmonger: 2
Asif: 3
de Villiers: 1
Srinath: 1
Hughes: 2
Chandrasekhar: 5
Prassana: 4
Clarke: 1
Constantine: 2
Peel: 1

Latif: 4
Boucher: 3
Bari: 1
Grout: 1
Dhoni: 2
Alexander: 1
 
D

Dan

Hall of Fame Member
It's been a while since the last vote, so I think I'll call it here.

Latif beats out Boucher by a vote and Prasanna gets ahead of Asif; looks like we're getting a pretty strong spin attack.

World Q XI
(Batting order subject to change)

  1. -
  2. -
  3. -
  4. -
  5. -
  6. -
  7. Rashid Latif +
  8. -
  9. -
  10. Erapalli Prasanna
  11. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar

1. Select an opening pairing
2. Pick a batsman to fill the number 3 position

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, Navjot Sidhu, Michael Slater, Jeff Stollmeyer, Andrew Strauss, Marcus Trescothick, Michael Vaughan, Cyril Washbrook

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

Feel free to vote for players who aren't on the shortlist, should you so wish.
 
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