World's Best XI The Day You Were Born As Per The ICC Rankings

[kyear2]

After looking at all those teams I'm wondering what the average age of CWers is? For a sport that has the reputation for being an old farts game it seems to be rather young.

A lot of these guys were just born apparently.

 

[Days of Grace]

23/02/1982

Gavaskar (3)
Gooch (14)
Richards (1)
Border (2)
Javed Miandad (4)
Lloyd (c) (5)
Botham (13 & 7)
Dujon (wk) (32)
Holding (1)
Lillee (2)
Garner (3)

Doshi (4)
Hadlee (5)

I have left the spinner Doshi out since his rating seems to have been heavily influenced by a decent home series vs. England in 1981/82 and he wasn't much chop away from Indian conditions anyway. Gavaskar also streets ahead of any other opener at the time.

 

[morgieb]

23/02/1994

1. Gooch (1)
2. Haynes (2)
3. Boon (5)
4. Tendulkar (2)
5. Richardson (2)
6. Stewart+ (21) (NFI if he was actually keeping at this stage)
7. Dev (38/10)
8. Kumble (4)
9. Warne (3)
10. Ambrose (2)
11. Waqar (1)

Good bowling, meh batting,

 

[GIMH]

Cabinet was born after Euro 96. This is ridiculous.

The username does kind of hint to him being young...

Cbf to post my side but it'd be the best one.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

After looking at all those teams I'm wondering what the average age of CWers is? For a sport that has the reputation for being an old farts game it seems to be rather young.

What would once have been CWers from long ago never caught up to computers, instead still discuss their cricket at the pub, a la father Schearzie

 

[NZTailender]

29/4/1987
1. CG Greenidge (1)
2. DI Gower (5)
3. IVA Richards (4)
4. AR Border (2)
5. DB Vengsarkar (3)
6. MD Crowe (6)
7. PJL Dujon+ (19)
8. Imran Khan (21) (3)
9. RJ Hadlee (23) (1)
10. MD Marshall (45) (2)
11. EJ Chatfield (99) (4)

Love it. NZ had a good year eh

 

[adub]

Nov 70

Bill Lawry (5)
John Edrich (4)
Rohan Kanhai (6)
Graeme Pollock (1)
Doug Walters (2/46)
Gary Sobers (3/12)
Denis Lindsay (18)
Peter Pollock (2)
Derek Underwood (1)
Alan Connolly (4)
Bishan Bedi (3)

John Snow (6) to come in for Bedi if two spinners is overkill.

Pretty tasty batting line up I reckon, but a bit short on the pace attack. Would be pretty nasty proposition on an dry deck though.

 

[superkingdave]

Gavaskar(2)
Gooch(13)
Richards(1)
G Chappell(4)
Miandad(5)
Border(3)
I Khan (37/2)
Dujon(34)
Hadlee(4)
Holding(1)
Garner(3)

Not so many options for the opening position, could force one of the other batsmen to open instead of Gooch and pick Dileep Doshi (6) as a spin option. The number of awesome bowlers about is noticeable, just missing out were Lillee, Botham, Qasim, Dev, Willis.

April 82 btw

 

[Slifer]

Gavaskar(2)
Gooch(13)
Richards(1)
G Chappell(4)
Miandad(5)
Border(3)
I Khan (37/2)
Dujon(34)
Hadlee(4)
Holding(1)
Garner(3)

Not so many options for the opening position, could force one of the other batsmen to open instead of Gooch and pick Dileep Doshi (6) as a spin option. The number of awesome bowlers about is noticeable, just missing out were Lillee, Botham, Qasim, Dev, Willis.

April 82 btw

Wow we have more or less the exact same team and imo ours is the best. Great to be born in 1982

 

[watson]

Why is Imran batting above Dujon? I know that Imran's average was a bit higher, but Dujon was still the better batsman overall.

 

[Prince EWS]

1. Greenidge (6)
2. Gooch (10)
3. Richards (3)
4. Vengarkar (1)
5. Border (2)
6. Dujon (13)
7. Kapil (23/9)
8. Imran (24/3)
9. Hadlee (26/2)
10. Marshall (1)
11. Qadir (7)

12. Miandad (4)
13. Chatfield (4)

 

[Michaelf7777777]

1. Desmond Haynes (4)
2. Mark Taylor (5)
3. Javed Miandad (1)
4. Martin Crowe (5)
5. Allan Border (*) (3)
6. Richie Richardson (2)
7. Jeffrey Dujon (+) (29)
8. Richard Hadlee (1)
9. Malcolm Marshall (2)
10. Curtley Ambrose (4)
11. Courtney Walsh (3)

 

[kyear2]

1. Greenidge (6)
2. Gooch (10)
3. Richards (3)
4. Vengarkar (1)
5. Border (2)
6. Dujon (13)
7. Kapil (23/9)
8. Imran (24/4)
9. Hadlee (26/3)
10. Marshall (1)
11. Qadir (7)

12. Miandad (4)
13. Chatfield (4)

Who was the second rated bowler?

 

[Prince EWS]

Who was the second rated bowler?

Hadlee and Imran were actually 2 and 3 rather than 3 and 4.

Imran, Hadlee and Marshall all make all-time World XI and they were the top three bowlers when I was born, which I found awesome at first. However, it's a bit of a coincidence that my pace attack all peaked at around the same time in over century of Test cricket to the point where the way I go about rating players across history may be a tad biased towards bowlers of that area.

 

[fredfertang]

3 June 1960, and no none of you bastards made a HB thread for me this year, two of my three kids forgot and my current squeeze had a cob on so thanks yet again to my dear old Mum for taking the trouble to buy me lunch

.... having got that off my chest

Hanif Mohammad
Trevor Goddard
Colin Cowdrey
Peter May
Neil Harvey
*Garry Sobers
Alan Davidson
+Wally Grout
Fred Trueman
Wes Hall
Fergie Gupte

 

[The Battlers Prince]

What a middle order Fred! But the attack is what makes it, two ATG's and the fiery pace of Hall.
Good gloveman behind the stumps too.

 

[kyear2]

What a middle order Fred! But the attack is what makes it, two ATG's and the fiery pace of Hall.
Good gloveman behind the stumps too.

I would rate Hall as an ATG as well.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Happy 54th Birthday Fred.

 

[kyear2]

Happy 54th Birthday Fred.

Hope you had a great one Fred.

 

[Blocky]

31/01/1981

1. Gavaskar ( 5th)
2. Howarth ( 7th )
3. Viv Richards ( 1 )
4. Greg Chappell ( 2 )
5. Kim Hughes ( 3 )
6. Imran Khan ( 7 in bowling)
7. Alan Knott ( first wicket keeper in batting )
8. Ian Botham ( 2 in bowling)
9. Richard Hadlee ( 3 in bowling Bowler)
10. Qasim ( 1st spinner)
11. Joel Garner ( 1 in bowling)