Who is the best allrounder of your current national cricket team

[Arjun]

The Indians are short of either a batsman, or a bowler, or even a wicketkeeper. They need all-rounders more than ever, if this match going on has anything to suggest.

 

[deeps]

i'd be more inclined to have one bits and pieces player, who can pull a rabbit out of the hat.... a type of razzaq,malik,afridi

opener
opener
opener/geniune batsman
geniunie batsman-Stroke maker , must be v.good,preferabbly can bowl a bit
Solid batsman-play anchor role
geniunie batsman- single taker , runs hard between wickets,preferabbly can bowl a bitORbits and pieces player again
Bits and pieces player - heavy hitter who can play as 4th bowler
WK
genuine bowler
genuine bowler
genuine bowler

 

[FRAZ]

Strange . Did'nt know that openers are not called batsmen or genuine batsmen .....

 

[Arjun]

This would be a good option:

Batsman
Batsman
Batsman
Batsman
Batsman
Genuine all-rounder (Batting)
Genuine all-rounder (bowling)
Wicketkeeper (who can keep)
Bowler
Bowler
Bowler

 

[marc71178]

Erm, if he's a genuine all-rounder, he's neither bat nor bowl?

 

[Swervy]

This would be a good option:

Batsman
Batsman
Batsman
Batsman
Batsman
Genuine all-rounder (Batting)
Genuine all-rounder (bowling)
Wicketkeeper (who can keep)
Bowler
Bowler
Bowler

if he is a genuine allrounder,,then they arent bowling all rounders or batting allrounders..they are bowlers who can bat a bit or batters who can bowl a bit ie.bit and pieces players

 

[Neil Pickup]

+Gilchrist
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
*Flintoff

 

[a massive zebra]

Erm, if he's a genuine all-rounder, he's neither bat nor bowl?

err...no.

Sobers was a genuine allrounder (batting) and Imran was also a genuine allrounder (bowling).

 

[Swervy]

err...no.

Sobers was a genuine allrounder (batting) and Imran was also a genuine allrounder (bowling).

again thats up for debate...I personally think Sobers could have been in the team on his bowling (remember that Sobers was a number 9 batsman in his early career)..and in the last few years of Imrans career, he most definatly would have got into the pakistan team as a batsman alone (indeed he did when he had injury problems)

 

[Magrat Garlick]

+Gilchrist
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
*Flintoff

You mean he can't keep? Shocking! Surely he can not be called a geniune allrounder!

 

[marc71178]

+Gilchrist
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
Flintoff
*Flintoff

No Viv Richards?

Oops, sorry, wrong thread

No Rikki Clarke?

 

[Swervy]

That is a silly way of looking at things. Gary Sobers would not have made the West Indies side for his bowling, but no one is questioning his right to be deemed the best allrounder of his time. It should be the same with Kallis who is clearly the best allrounder in the world by far.

just to add about the mini-debate on whether Sobers was a good enough bowler...here is something I found in a book by John Arlott..this was written in 1974.:

"Garfield Sobers was 17 when he first played for West Indies-primarily as an orthodox left arm bowler (4 for 81), though he scored 40 runs for once outin a losing side. His batting developed more rapidly than his bowling and, in the 1957/58 series with Pakistan in West Indies, he played 6 consecutive innings of over fifty, the last three of them centuries. Through the sixties he developed left arem wrist spin, turning the ball sharply and concealing his googly well. Outstandingly, however, at the need of his perceptive captain, Frank Worrell, he made himself into a test class fast medium bowler. Out of his inate athleticism, he evolved an ideally economic action, coupling life from the pitch with late movement through the air and,frequently ,off the seam. Nothing at all in his cricket was more impressive than his ability to switch from any one of his bowling styles to another with instant control.

He was always capable of bowling orthodox left arm spin accurately, witha surprising faster ball and as much turn as the pitch would allow a finger spinner. He had, though,an innate urge to attack, which was his fundamental reason for taking up the less economical, but often more penetrative,'chinaman';and the pace bowling enabled him to make such hostile use of the new ball" from John Arlotts book 'Book Of Cricketers'

 

[Prince EWS]

You mean he can't keep? Shocking! Surely he can not be called a geniune allrounder!

Actually, he can keep!

Anyway, back on topic.

Prosper Utseya. And it saddens me to say it.....

 

[Son Of Coco]

No Viv Richards?

Oops, sorry, wrong thread

No Rikki Clarke?

Rikki Clarke? She's the one with that American white-trash talk show isn't she?