You are Selctor for One game

[chris.hinton]

And all you players are fit what oneday or test team would you pick

Test
Trescothick
Vaughan
Hussain
Bell
Troughton
Foster
Flintoff
Jones
Gough
Giles
Harmision

I will drop Butcher and Stewart andCrawley. i would have Key,Anderson and a Leg-spinner in reserve

One day team

Trescothick
Knight
Vaughan
Hussain
Stewart/Smith
Collingwood
Blackwell
Foster
Batty
Caddick
Anderson



[Edited on 10/12/2002 by chris.hinton]

[Edited on 11/12/2002 by chris.hinton]

 

[Eclipse]

Test:

Hayden
Langer
Ponting
Martyn
Clark
Gilchrist
Watson
Warne
Lee
Gillespie
McGrath

ODI:

Gilchrist
Hayden
Ponting
Martyn
Clark
Beven
Watson
Lee
Huritz
Gillespie
McGrath.

 

[Rik]

Chris...what's wrong with Stewart? He may be 40 odd now but he's still our best Wicket-Keeper Batsman and is still delivering. You should not discriminate he because of his age, quite a few players have played Tests who are older than he is. Also why replace him with Foster? Foster has proven that the only reason he was picked was because he scored a 50 in the England A Tour 2 years ago, he is a decent batsman but not in the Stewart Class and can't catch. Now why would you replace someone who is averaging 39 with the bat and 30 in ODIs and is keeping well...with some guy who averages 20 odd in Tests and 11 or so in ODIs and has been responsible for several terrible dropped catches. Get Read in there, he's good enough, or just keep Stewart, he's done nothing wrong and I doubt Foster could get anywhere near to him anyway.

 

[Kiwi]

NZ test team

Richardson
Papps
Fleming
McMillan
Astle
Vincent
Cairns
Adams
Vettori
Griggs
Bond

Backup batsman is J. Marshall
Backup Allrounder is J.Oram
Backup Bowler is Butler

 

[Anil]

India:

Test:

Sehwag
Bangar/Das
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman
Ganguly
Patel/Ratra
Harbajan
Khan
Srinath/Agarkar
Nehra//Karthik/Yohannan

One day:

Sehwag
Ganguly
Tendulkar
Laxman
Dravid
Yuvraj
Kaif
Harb
Khan
Bangar/Nehra//Karthik
Srinath/Agarkar/Yohannan

 

[Rik]

What...no Kumble in either team?

 

[Choora]

India TESTS,

Gambhir
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Ganguly
Laxman
Patel
Harbhajan
Khan
Nehra
Balaji


Oneday
----------

Sehwag
Ganguly
Dravid
Tendulkar
Kaif
Yuvraj
Agarkar
Bangar
Srinath
Khan
Harbhajan

 

[Anil]

Originally posted by Rik
What...no Kumble in either team?

No....I think he is well past his best and anyway, it's time to look for new talent. Karthik has been sidelined without proper reasons for far too long.

 

[Tim]

Tamara:

Why have you got Griggs so low? he's a wicket-keeper batsman.

 

[Bazza]

OK, if this was today:

Tests
Trescothick
Vaughan
Butcher
Hussain
Thorpe
Stewart
Flintoff
Giles
Gough
Caddick
Hoggard

ODI
Knight
Trescothick
Hick
Hussain
Thorpe
Stewart
Flintoff
Ealham
Gough
Caddick
Mullally


I know Marc will shout me down because he dislikes 3 bowlers who can't bat and also Ealham, but never mind eh? Irani would possibly get in the ODI side for one of the bowlers, could be anyone - Gough's always injured, Mullally wouldn't get back in now and Caddick is always out of form!

[Edited on 10/12/02 by Bazzaroodoo]

 

[thethirdumpire]

Test Team

1.Trescothick
2.Vaughan
3.Key
4.Hussain
5.Thorpe
6.Flintoff
7.Read
8.Dawson
9.Jones
10.Hoggard
11.Harmison

One Day

1.Trescothick
2.Knight
3.Flintoff
4.Hussain
5.Shah
6.Vaughan
7.Irani
8.White
9.Dawson
10.Jones
11.Harmison

 

[age_master]

Aus Test

Hayden
Slater
Ponting (c)
Martyn
Clarke
Katich
Gilchrist
Lee
Warne
Gillespie
McGrath

12th - Bichel




ODI
Hayden
Gilchrist
Ponting (c)
Clarke
Bevan
Martyn
Katich
Lee
Warne
Gillespie
Mcgrath

Katich, Clarke, Martyn, bevan and Ponting would share the last 10 overs

 

[marc71178]

I know Marc will shout me down because he dislikes 3 bowlers who can't bat and also Ealham, but never mind eh?

2 points Bazza - firstly those line ups only contain one bowler who can't bat for the position he's selected in IMO, Mullally, and secondly I'm a big Ealham fan!

So I'm going to shout you down for saying I'll shout you down for something I wouldn't shout you down for!

 

[Rik]

Originally posted by marc71178
2 points Bazza - firstly those line ups only contain one bowler who can't bat for the position he's selected in IMO, Mullally, and secondly I'm a big Ealham fan!

So I'm going to shout you down for saying I'll shout you down for something I wouldn't shout you down for!

Chill Out Dude

 

[Bazza]

I was sure you were the guy who always used to criticise Ealham for being crap. Or at least a bits and pieces player (which he is to an extent, but Harris works well, so do a few others and there's always room for one I think. Symonds might be another example.)? Anyway I'm still a fan of his, Hick's and Mullally's. They won't come back now, and maybe if I took over I wouldn't go back to them at this stage, but they should have been in the side for the last couple of years...

 

[marc71178]

No, I've always liked Ealham and can't understand why he suddenly disappeared from the International scene.

 

[Rik]

Originally posted by marc71178
No, I've always liked Ealham and can't understand why he suddenly disappeared from the International scene.

Because he got canned by Australia and wasn't getting any runs...Mullally just didn't take enough wickets...although he kept the runs down which is a good thing in ODIs...just look at AA...

 

[Bazza]

Yeah but Ealham batted 17 and bowled 32, though with an econ of barely 4, which is good. You don't need to bowl sides out if you can restrict them to 216.

Mullally averaged 27 with a SR of 42 and most importantly an econ of 3.84. Combine those two with Gough and Caddick and White (who made up the 5 bowlers about 2 years ago) and the average opposition score comes to barely 200 runs (about 209) and maybe 7 or 8 wickets. I think even our batsmen could chase that (Knight, Trescothick, Stewart, Hussain would put in about 130-140 between them on average). Anyway I'm digressing....

 

[Top_Cat]

Because he got canned by Australia and wasn't getting any runs...

Actually Mark Ealham averages lower with the ball and higher with the bat against Australia in Tests than his career averages.

I always thought he was unfairly canned by the English selectors. He could bowl pretty well I thought. Plus he could hit the ball pretty hard but was a determined character.

 

[muralilal]

For test matches,

Laxman
Sehwag
Kaif
Dravid
Tendulkar
Ganguly
Patel
Khan
Mohanty
Nehra/Karthik
Harbhajan.

Oneday team

Sachin
Ganguly
Sehwag
Kaif
Dravid
Yuvraj
Bangar
Khan
Srinath
Harbhajan
Agarkar