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

[Gnske]

01. Mark Taylor 7
02. Michael Slater 5
03. Brian Lara 1
04. Sachin Tendulkar 7
05. Inzamam ul-Haq 3
06. Jimmy Adams 10
07. Alec Stewart 20
08. Shane Warne 1
09. Wasim Akram 3
10. Curtly Ambrose 2
11. Glenn McGrath 17

12th: Courtney Walsh 6

Left Courtney out due to being similar to Ambrose and the nice look of that swing/brute/control pace attack.

 

[Adders]

Never attempted one of these (so go easy on me!!) Sadly my knowledge of players pre my watching days (mid 80's) is rather limited, but going by rankings this shouldn't be so hard......

23/07/1971

1: Boycott (3)
2: Gavaskar (7)
3: Edrich (8)
4: Rohan Kanhai (5)
5: KD Walters (2)
6: Garry Sobers (1 on batting, 7 for bowling)
7: Knott† (21)
8: Bruce Taylor (11)
9: John Snow (2)
10: Derek Underwood (1)
11: Bishen Bedi (3)

Bit of a shortage of good quicks in 1971 eh........all spinners in the top 10 apart from Snow. So hopefully this team isn't playing in Perth or on a Headingly green top.

So how did I go.......did I win??? Should at least get a prize for being one of the oldest ****s here........think only Fred topped me there.

 

[Daemon]

Never attempted one of these (so go easy on me!!) Sadly my knowledge of players pre my watching days (mid 80's) is rather limited, but going by rankings this shouldn't be so hard......

23/07/1971

1: Boycott (3)
2: Gavaskar (7)
3: Edrich (8)
4: Rohan Kanhai (5)
5: KD Walters (2)
6: Garry Sobers (1 on batting, 7 for bowling)
7: Knott† (21)
8: Bruce Taylor (11)
9: John Snow (2)
10: Derek Underwood (1)
11: Bishen Bedi (3)

Bit of a shortage of good quicks in 1971 eh........all spinners in the top 10 apart from Snow. So hopefully this team isn't playing in Perth or on a Headingly green top.

So how did I go.......did I win??? Should at least get a prize for being one of the oldest ****s here........think only Fred topped me there.

Not even close

 

[stumpski]

Excellent! I had no idea it was so easy to call up the rankings from yesteryear. I was born in the middle of the '62/63 Ashes:

Hanif Mohammad - 9
Bob Simpson - 12
Colin Cowdrey - 5
Ken Barrington - 4
Ted Dexter (c) - 2
Gary Sobers - 1/9
John Waite (w) - 25
Alan Davidson - 32/1
Richie Benaud - 36/5
Wes Hall - 2
Fred Trueman - 3


Testament to the strength of England's batting in the early sixties, and to the sharp decline of FST - number 3 in the world in 1963, left off the tour to South Africa 18 months later.

 

[bagapath]

pathetic XI

turner 1
amiss 2
i.m.chappell © 6
redpath 4
walters 5
mushtaq 3
marsh (wk) 22
walker 2
arnold 3
underwood 1
collinge 4

 

[kyear2]

pathetic XI

turner 1
amiss 2
i.m.chappell © 6
redpath 4
walters 5
mushtaq 3
marsh (wk) 22
walker 2
arnold 3
underwood 1
collinge 4

Off the top of my head I would guess '74/ '75?

 

[kyear2]

Excellent! I had no idea it was so easy to call up the rankings from yesteryear. I was born in the middle of the '62/63 Ashes:

Hanif Mohammad - 9
Bob Simpson - 12
Colin Cowdrey - 5
Ken Barrington - 4
Ted Dexter (c) - 2
Gary Sobers - 1/9
John Waite (w) - 25
Alan Davidson - 32/1
Richie Benaud - 36/5
Wes Hall - 2
Fred Trueman - 3


Testament to the strength of England's batting in the early sixties, and to the sharp decline of FST - number 3 in the world in 1963, left off the tour to South Africa 18 months later.

Love the bowling attack and the cordon (Simpson, Sobers, Cowdrey, wow), both top notch. Would personally bat Sobers higher, likely at 4 in that line up.

 

[Dan]

1. M Atherton* (4)
2. D Boon (=5)
3. J Adams (2)
4. S Tendulkar (1)
5. B Lara (3)
6. S Malik (=5)
7. A Stewart+ (8)
8. W Akram (4)
9. S Warne (1)
10. C Ambrose (3)
11. W Younis (2)


Dat bowling attack...

 

[Spikey]

November 92

Gooch
Boon
Crowe
Richardson
Robin Smith
Malik
cbf working out who the keeper is
Akarm
McDermott
Ambrose
Waqar

unless i've missed someone, Narendra Hirwani at 14, 300 points behind Akram at 4, was the best ranked spinner.

 

[Athlai]

When I was 10:

Anwar 5
Jayasuriya 15 - 61
Dravid 4
Lara 1
Tendulkar 3
Waugh 2
Stewart 7
Pollock 43 - 3
Donald 1
Murali 5
McGrath 2

 

[Langeveldt]

Great thread, but can you guess when I was born from the team?

1. Haynes
2. Greenidge
3. Gower
4. Border
5. Richards
6. Vengasarkar
7. Dujon
8. Imran Khan
9. Hadlee
10. Marshall
11. Maninder Singh

 

[stumpski]

I'm guessing around 1983.

 

[NZTailender]

Great thread, but can you guess when I was born from the team?

1. Haynes
2. Greenidge
3. Gower
4. Border
5. Richards
6. Vengasarkar
7. Dujon
8. Imran Khan
9. Hadlee
10. Marshall
11. Maninder Singh

86-88

 

[Red]

Roy Fredericks (5)
Sunny Gavaskar (7)
Viv Richards (1)
Greg Chappell (2)
Clive Lloyd (8)
Tony Greig (6)
Allan Knott (17- as a batsman)
Andy Roberts (4)
Dennis Lillee (1)
Bishen Bedi (2)
Derek Underwood (3)

 

[kyear2]

Roy Fredericks (5)
Sunny Gavaskar (7)
Viv Richards (1)
Greg Chappell (2)
Clive Lloyd (8)
Tony Greid (6)
Allan Knott (17- as a batsman)
Andy Roberts (4)
Dennis Lillee (1)
Bishen Bedi (2)
Derek Underwood (3)

Very close to my team so I am guessing some time in early '77

 

[Red]

Very close to my team so I am guessing some time in early '77

Correct!

 

[straw man]

Feb 1984

Sunil Gavaskar (5)
Gordon Greenidge (11)
Viv Richards (4)
Javed Miandad (3)
Allan Border (2)
Clive Lloyd (1)
Jeff Dujon (22)
Imran Kahn (2)
Richard Hadlee (3)
Malcolm Marshall (5)
Geoff Lawson (1)

Mohsin Kahn has a couple of ratings points on Greenidge as opener but Greenidge a familiar name. Cheated slightly too by picking Marshall over Dev despite lower points, though gave in to the spirit of the thread by including number one ranked bowler Geoff Lawson over Dev and several other great names. Highest ranked spinner is Iqbal Qasim at 10.

 

[chasingthedon]

You lot do make me feel old (yes Fred, even you). April, 1957:-

Goddard
Walcott+
Harvey
May*
Weekes
Compton
Benaud
Lindwall
Tayfield
Mahmood
Adcock

Come on JBMAC, don't leave me as the elder statesman.

 

[bagapath]

Great thread, but can you guess when I was born from the team?

1. Haynes
2. Greenidge
3. Gower
4. Border
5. Richards
6. Vengasarkar
7. Dujon
8. Imran Khan
9. Hadlee
10. Marshall
11. Maninder Singh

1987?

 

[bagapath]

Off the top of my head I would guess '74/ '75?

Yup. 26th Oct 1974