Your Country's Alltime XI

[BhupinderSingh]

I'll do it for both Pakistan & India as I follow their cricket regularly.

Pakistan:

Saeed Anwar
Hanif Muhammad
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Saleem Malik
*Imran Khan
+Rashid Latif
Wasim Akram
Saqlain Mushtaq
Waqar Younis

India:
Sunil Gavaskar
Vinoo Munkad
Vijay Hazare
Sachin Tendulkar
*Muhammad Azharuddin
Kapil Dev
+Syed Kirmani
Anil Kumble
Javegal Srinath
B.Chanershekhar
Venkatesh Prasad

Didn't pick Merchent,Nissar & Amar Singh because they didn't play much test cricket.

 

[archie mac]

Aussie Team (if I pick one tomorrow it would change quite a bit)

Victor Trumper
Bill Ponsford
Don Bradman
Greg Chappell
Mark Waugh (so I can watch him bat at his peak again)
Clem Hill
Keith Miller
Adam Gilchrist
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly
Fred Spofforth

 

[Days of Grace]

Prasad for an all-time Indian XI?? Surely, you're having a barkin larf there...

New Zealand
1. Turner
2. Sutcliffe
3. Fleming
4. Crowe
5. Donelly
6. Astle
7. Cairns
8. McCullum
9. Hadlee
10. Vettori
11. Bond
11.

 

[JBMAC]

AUSTRALIAN SIDE OF THE CENTURY
(In Batting Order)
Bill Ponsford
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman[Captain]
Greg Chappell
Neil Harvey
Keith Miller[Vice Captain]
Ian Healy[Keeper]
Ray Lindwall
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly
Allan Border[12th Man]

Find myself in the same predicament as Archi Mac...Could select another entirely different side tomorrow with a few exceptions

 

[archie mac]

AUSTRALIAN SIDE OF THE CENTURY
(In Batting Order)
Bill Ponsford
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman[Captain]
Greg Chappell
Neil Harvey
Keith Miller[Vice Captain]
Ian Healy[Keeper]
Ray Lindwall
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly
Allan Border[12th Man]

Find myself in the same predicament as Archi Mac...Could select another entirely different side tomorrow with a few exceptions

I quite like that side, was just a bit disappointed that no one from the first 50 years of Aussie Test cricket was considered good enough

 

[JBMAC]

TEAM !(in Batting Order)
Bob Simpson[Captain]
Kepler Wessels
Ricky Ponting
Doug Walters
Steve Waugh
Norm O'Neill
Ian Healy[keeper]
Allan Davidson
Dennis Lillee
Shane Warne
Ray Lindwall


TEAM 2(in Batting Order)
Ian Redpath
Mark Taylor
Kim Hughes
Neil Harvey
Mark Waugh
Allan Border
Wally Grout[keeper]
Graham MacKenzie
Jeff Thompson
Ritchie Benaud[Captain]
Bob Massey

Both Teams would be fairly evenly matched.Maybe "the warne factor" could make the difference but I have seen Benaud do the same thing.

Bloody Hell Archie Mac...Here is another two that could give any of them a run for their money.I even took the liberty of NOT naming Bradman for the hell of it.

 

[Fiery]

Prasad for an all-time Indian XI?? Surely, you're having a barkin larf there...

New Zealand
1. Turner
2. Sutcliffe
3. Fleming
4. Crowe
5. Donelly
6. Astle
7. Cairns
8. McCullum
9. Hadlee
10. Vettori
11. Bond
11.

Good team but it might be a bowler short so would have Jack Cowie instead of Fleming and I would also have John R. Reid before Astle I think

 

[Fiery]

TEAM !(in Batting Order)
Bob Simpson[Captain]
Kepler Wessels
Ricky Ponting
Doug Walters
Steve Waugh
Norm O'Neill
Ian Healy[keeper]
Allan Davidson
Dennis Lillee
Shane Warne
Ray Lindwall


TEAM 2(in Batting Order)
Ian Redpath
Mark Taylor
Kim Hughes
Neil Harvey
Mark Waugh
Allan Border
Wally Grout[keeper]
Graham MacKenzie
Jeff Thompson
Ritchie Benaud[Captain]
Bob Massey

Both Teams would be fairly evenly matched.Maybe "the warne factor" could make the difference but I have seen Benaud do the same thing.

Bloody Hell Archie Mac...Here is another two that could give any of them a run for their money.I even took the liberty of NOT naming Bradman for the hell of it.

Kepler Wessels in an all-time team? Surely there are better options than him, e.g Hayden or Langer for starters

 

[archie mac]

Kepler Wessels in an all-time team? Surely there are better options than him, e.g Hayden or Langer for starters

He was a gutsy player, and I always rated him. Was handy with his fists as well so be careful Fiery

 

[Fiery]

He was a gutsy player, and I always rated him. Was handy with his fists as well so be careful Fiery

Isn't Langer as well?

 

[archie mac]

Isn't Langer as well?

Karate black belt I think

 

[Fiery]

Karate black belt I think

I always rated Wessels too but not highly enough to be in an all-time Aus XI tbh when there so many other great Australian openers

 

[archie mac]

I always rated Wessels too but not highly enough to be in an all-time Aus XI tbh when there so many other great Australian openers

True, but our friend who picked him is a Queenslander

I was thinking we should try and pick an all time 11 that you would not want to meet in a dark alley

Kepler, Justin, and I know Bill Alley was a fine boxer. Also JWHT Douglas won a gold medal for boxing, although his father was the Ref

Any more?

 

[andyc]

True, but our friend who picked him is a Queenslander

I was thinking we should try and pick an all time 11 that you would not want to meet in a dark alley

Kepler, Justin, and I know Bill Alley was a fine boxer. Also JWHT Douglas won a gold medal for boxing, although his father was the Ref

Any more?

Theres been a thread with pretty much that exact title tbh. Will try and find it.

Edit: There we go

 

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Ireland

Trent Johnston
Andre Botha
Jeremy Bray
Kenneth Carroll
Peter Gillespie
David Langford-Smith
Kyle McCallan
John Mooney
Paul Mooney
Eoin Morgan
Kevin O'Brien
Niall O'Brien
William Porterfield
Boyd Rankin
Andrew White








Yes I just posted the world cup squad.

 

[archie mac]

Theres been a thread with pretty much that exact title tbh. Will try and find it.

Edit: There we go

Thanks for that

I read it and noticed two things:

One: how many members have left

Two: apart from Langer not many of them had anything other than size to recommend them for the title. Maybe I should call it 'handy with their fists 11'

 

[pasag]

Changes often but for today:

Ponsford
Hayden
Bradman
G Chappell
Harvey
Miller
Gilchrist
Warne
O'Reilly/Spofforth
Lillie
McGrath

 

[JBMAC]

I quite like that side, was just a bit disappointed that no one from the first 50 years of Aussie Test cricket was considered good enough

Archie Mac, there probably is..names like Bannerman,Spoffoth etc but where do you draw the line? We could most probably name at least one side for every decade since the end of WW1 and be able to justify their selection in a balanced side.Then set about naming a Pre WW1 side that would,given all things being equal, give them all a run for their money.The same could be said about the English sides as well.

 

[Fiery]

True, but our friend who picked him is a Queenslander

I was thinking we should try and pick an all time 11 that you would not want to meet in a dark alley

Kepler, Justin, and I know Bill Alley was a fine boxer. Also JWHT Douglas won a gold medal for boxing, although his father was the Ref

Any more?

I don't think I would want to take Matt Hayden or Andrew Symonds on in a scrap

 

[BomasticBushkin]

For the Windies, based on actual history,

1. Sobers
2. Lara
3. Lloyd*
4. Richards
5. Kanhai
6. Gomes
7. Solomon
8. Dujon(wk)
9. Walsh
10. Ambrose
11. Gibbs

But, if history had gone differently, my gramps Ivor Mendonca would replace Dujon as keeper and #7.

Yeah, he was actually that good.