World XI the day you were born

[zaremba]

1st Feb 1936

 

[zaremba]

Oh oh Idid not realise there was a methodology prescribed. Here are the top ranked batsmen and top ranked bowlers on the day I was born.

[B]ID      	Rat.	Name        	Career Best Rating[/B]	
Batsman 1	889	A.D. Nourse	922 v England, 07/06/1951	
Batsman 2	853	L. Hutton	945 v West Indies, 30/03/1954	
Batsman 3	841	G.A. Headley	915 v England, 21/01/1948	
Batsman 4	838	D.C.S. Compton	917 v Australia, 08/07/1948	
Batsman 5	793	A.R. Morris	850 v West Indies, 09/11/1951	
Batsman 6	737	V.S. Hazare	869 v Pakistan, 13/11/1952	
Batsman 7	701	E.A.B. Rowan	777 v England, 16/08/1951	
Batsman 8	697	E.D. Weekes	927 v New Zealand, 03/03/1956	
Batsman 9	672	C. Washbrook	730 v West Indies, 20/07/1950	
Batsman 10	660	R.N. Harvey	921 v South Africa, 06/02/1953	

Bowler 1	846	R.R. Lindwall	897 v England, 26/11/1954	
Bowler 2	821	W.A. Johnston	900 v West Indies, 31/12/1951	
Bowler 3	642	A.V. Bedser	903 v Australia, 09/07/1953	
Bowler 4	596	K.R. Miller	862 v South Africa, 09/01/1953	
Bowler 5	581	N.B.F. Mann	586 v England, 26/07/1951	
Bowler 6	545	I.W. Johnson	640 v West Indies, 14/05/1955	
Bowler 7	474	D.V.P. Wright	556 v South Africa, 26/07/1947	
Bowler 8	411	C.L. McCool	473 v South Africa, 03/03/1950	
Bowler 9	396	W. Ferguson	438 v England, 03/03/1948	
Bowler 10	393	J. Trim      	435 v Australia, 31/12/1951	
				
Top Keeper	423	C.L. Walcott	938 v Australia, 11/06/1955

5th February 1950?

 

[SJS]

5th February 1950?

Yes sir

 

[slugger]

dec 1972

BOWLING

1 884 D.L. Underwood 907 v New Zealand, 05/03/1971
2 778 J.A. Snow 835 v Australia, 21/01/1971
3 769 B.R. Taylor 769 v West Indies, 20/04/1972
4 726 B.S. Bedi 804 v Australia, 16/12/1977
5 705 A.A. Mallett 747 v England, 25/01/1975
6 691 Pervez Sajjad 737 v England, 17/06/1971
7 676 E.A.S. Prasanna 747 v Australia, 28/11/1969
8 670 D.K. Lillee 884 v England, 12/03/1977
9 653 G.S. Sobers 715 v India, 31/12/1966
10 604 S. Venkataraghavan 663 v England, 22/07/1971
11 603 R. Illingworth 647 v Australia, 12/02/1971
12 591 B.S. Chandrasekhar 730 v Australia, 07/01/1978
13 579 L.R. Gibbs 897 v England, 02/06/1966

BATTING
1 776 G.S. Sobers 938 v India, 13/01/1967
2 774 K.R. Stackpole 782 v England, 10/08/1972
3 748 G.M. Turner 845 v Australia, 22/03/1974
4 717 C.A. Davis 747 v New Zealand, 23/03/1972
5 703 I.M. Chappell 811 v West Indies, 26/12/1975
6 671 R.B. Kanhai 875 v England, 22/08/1963
7 668 K.D. Walters 922 v South Africa, 19/02/1970
8 659 I.R. Redpath 756 v West Indies, 31/01/1976
9 655 G. Boycott 764 v Pakistan, 08/07/1971
10 634 S.M. Gavaskar 916 v England, 30/08/1979
11 612 B.E. Congdon 680 v England, 21/06/1973
11 612 Saeed Ahmed 784 v India, 02/12/1960
13 604 G.S. Chappell 883 v Pakistan, 01/01/1977
18 563 A.P.E. Knott 650 v Australia, 11/08/1977

1 S Gavaskar
2 G Turner
3 G Chappell
4 G Sobers
5 C A Davis
6 D Walters
7 A Knott
8 J Snow
9 D Underwood
10 D Lillee
11 B Bedi

 

[morgieb]

My brothers birthday - guess when it is...

1 894 B.C. Lara 911 v South Africa, 02/01/2004
2 889 R.T. Ponting 942 v England, 01/12/2006
3 883 R. Dravid 892 v Pakistan, 16/03/2005
4 879 M.L. Hayden 935 v England, 07/11/2002
5 837 J.H. Kallis 935 v New Zealand, 18/11/2007
6 825 H.H. Gibbs 825 v West Indies, 16/01/2004
7 808 Inzamam-ul-Haq 870 v England, 29/11/2005
8 781 S.R. Tendulkar 898 v Zimbabwe, 21/02/2002
9 773 M.H. Richardson 773 v Pakistan, 26/12/2003
10 753 V.V.S. Laxman 753 v Australia, 02/01/2004
17 700 A.C. Gilchrist 874 v South Africa, 08/03/2002 (Best keeper)

1 908 M. Muralidaran 920 v Bangladesh, 11/07/2007
2 860 S.M. Pollock 909 v England, 25/11/1999
3 855 Shoaib Akhtar 855 v New Zealand, 26/12/2003
4 800 G.D. McGrath 914 v England, 23/08/2001
5 773 M. Ntini 863 v India, 26/12/2006
6 760 J.N. Gillespie 812 v New Zealand, 26/11/2004
7 756 A. Kumble 859 v Sri Lanka, 26/01/1994
8 723 D.R. Tuffey 750 v Pakistan, 19/12/2003
9 710 S.K. Warne 905 v England, 24/12/1994
10 670 Harbhajan Singh 765 v New Zealand, 12/12/2002

So...
1. Hayden
2. Gibbs
3. Dravid
4. Ponting
5. Lara
6. Kallis
7. Gilchrist
8. Pollock
9. Shoaib Akhtar
10. Muralitharan
11. McGrath

Strong lineup.

Guess when his birthday is, and you get a prize.

 

[Jarquis]

16/01/2004?

 

[morgieb]

16/01/2004?

Oooh, very close.

 

[Jarquis]

2 or 3 days later?

 

[The Sean]

Nov 1977

Gordon Greenidge
Majid Khan
Viv Richards
Greg Chappell
Clive Lloyd
Tony Greig
Alan Knott
Dennis Lillee
Jeff Thomson
Andy Roberts
Bishan Bedi

I'd be happy with that team playing for me.

 

[morgieb]

2 or 3 days later?

1 week later actually.

 

[Jarquis]

1 week later actually.

Not bad

 

[slugger]

i was wondering if someone could assess m choices some names Im well aware of but some I wasnt, I struggled to indentify a wicket keeper and find allan knott setting at that time 18th on the list. Can the team be made better??/

 

[Smudge]

Gavaskar
Greenidge
Miandad
Richards
Kallicharran
Viswanath
Allan Knott (wk)
Botham
Willis
Nawaz
Hogg

 

[Athlai]

Haha awesome thread.

6 July 89 has one of the best looking bowling attacks in history.

The team:

Greenidge
Haynes
R Richardson
Miandad
Viv Richards
Border
Imran Khan
Dujon (+)
Hadlee
M Marshall
C Walsh

The 15 man squad includes:
Crowe, Kapil Dev, Ambrose and Qadir.

 

[JBMAC]

January 1936 ??

February

 

[Furball]

Taking the top 6 batsmen, top wicketkeeper and 4 top bowlers on 28/4/85:

IVA Richards
AR Border
KC Wessels
CG Greenidge
Javed Miandad
JV Coney
PJL Dujon
MD Marshall
RJ Hadlee
MA Holding
GF Lawson

 

[NZTailender]

29th April, 1987 (not in ranking order, but by their general batting position)

1. CG Greenidge
2. DB Vengsarkar
3. IVA Richards
4. MD Crowe
5. AR Border
6. D Gower
7. Imran Khan
8. PJL Dujon+
9. RJ Hadlee
10. MD Marshall
11. EJ Chatfield

 

[SJS]

February

Aha !

Well it had to be between 1st January 1936 (the day the 4th Test between the touring Australians and South Africa started) and 14th February 1936 (the day before the next test started). Now I have to guess between 1st and 14th Feb so let me start with my trivia methodology.

Were you born in the first week of February ?

By the way, I dont like the idea of crediting (or debiting) the results of a test match's performance on the day it started. How can you credit a batsman on day 1 for a century he scored four days later?

They should credit the scores only at the end of the Test match and the ratings should apply from the next day.

 

[SJS]

Guess the date and win a prize:

Batting

1. Sobers
2. I Chappell
3. Mushtaq Mohammad
4. GM Turner
5. Kanhai
6. KD Walters
7= Boycs
7= Stackpole
9. Sadiq Mohammad
10. Clive Lloyd
21 Engineer

Bowling

1. Arnold
2. Bedi
3. Chandrasekhar
4. Snow
5. Underwood
6. Gibbs
7. Prasanna
8. Mallett
9. Sobers
10. Collinge
18. Mushtaq Mohammad

Giving a team thus:

1. Glenn Turner
2. Geoff Boycott
3. Ian Chappell (c)
4. Rohan Kanhai
5. Mushtaq Mohammad
6. Garry Sobers
7. Farokh Engineer (w)
8. John Snow
9. Geoff Arnold
10. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
11. Bishan Bedi

12. Richard Collinge


Lots and lots of spinners to choose from. Geoff Arnold an unlikely world leader with the ball.

Its a long period of over four months.

From 23rd August 1973 and 28th December 1973 - between the start of the last test of West Indies tour of England and the first of New Zealand in Australia.

 

[gwo]

24/06/1987

Batsmen:

1 793 C.G. Greenidge WI 844 v England, 26/07/1984
2 789 A.R. Border AUS 877 v England, 27/08/1981
3 784 D.B. Vengsarkar IND 837 v New Zealand, 12/11/1988
4 782 I.V.A. Richards WI 938 v England, 27/03/1981
5 750 M.D. Crowe NZ 776 v Australia, 26/12/1987
6 749 D.I. Gower ENG 822 v West Indies, 21/03/1986
7 742 R.B. Richardson WI 876 v India, 28/04/1989
8 739 D.L. Haynes WI 785 v New Zealand, 20/02/1987
9 696 Javed Miandad PAK 885 v New Zealand, 24/02/1989
10 651 A. Ranatunga SL 687 v India, 17/12/1986

19 567 P.J.L. Dujon WI 703 v Australia, 22/12/1984
21 556 Imran Khan PAK 650 v Sri Lanka, 12/12/1991
24 535 R.J. Hadlee NZ 562 v England, 03/02/1984
31 502 Kapil Dev IND 598 v England, 08/07/1982

Bowlers:

1 903 R.J. Hadlee NZ 909 v Australia, 30/11/1985
2 872 M.D. Marshall WI 910 v England, 30/06/1988
3 786 Imran Khan PAK 922 v India, 30/01/1983
4 654 E.J. Chatfield NZ 678 v England, 25/02/1988
5 637 Kapil Dev IND 877 v Pakistan, 15/01/1980
6 629 Maninder Singh IND 629 v Pakistan, 13/03/1987
7 598 Tauseef Ahmed PAK 605 v Australia, 07/10/1988
8 587 G.F. Lawson AUS 855 v Pakistan, 02/01/1984
9 584 Iqbal Qasim PAK 770 v Sri Lanka, 14/03/1982
10 577 P.H. Edmonds ENG 654 v New Zealand, 10/08/1978

Team:

CG Greenidge
DL Haynes
IVA Richards
DB Vengsarkar
AR Border*
PJL Dujon+
K Dev
I Kahn
RJ Hadlee
MD Marshall
EJ Chatfield

Can't say I'd be overly keen to take them on tbh. Could bring in Singh for Chatfield and Gower for Dev if you wanted a spinner.

Exact same team. Same birthday