All Time XI
Sir Jack Hobbs
Sir Leonard Hutton
Sir Donald Bradman*
Sir I.V.A. Richards^
Sachin Tendulkar
Sir Garfield Sobers^(5)
Adam Gilchrist+
Imran Khan (3)
Malcolm Marshall (1)
Shane Warne^(4)
Glenn McGrath (2)
Team to watch and play for the planet
Barry Richards^
Jack Hobbs
Don Bradman*...
Len Hutton
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Gary Sobers
Ian Healy
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall
Fred Trueman / Muttiah Muralitharan
Lets start with the selections that I disagree with. I personally think that Richards, Lillee and Akram are all a tad overrated, they are all great, just not 1st team great. I would like some one to explain to me how Akram is better than Khan, and how Richards is better than Lara. I understand...
My last guess for cricinfo 11
Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulkar
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrst
Imran Khan
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall
Dennis lillee.
Not my 11, I would prefer Barry Richards over Gavaskar, Mcgrath over Lillee and Lara or Pollock over...
Top 10
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Glenn Mcgrath
Muttiah Muralitharan
Dennis Lillee
Michael Holding
Fred Trueman
Alan Donald
Waqar Younis
Curtly Ambrose, Wasim Akram
They are now doing an all excluded team as a prelude to the all time 11, here's mine based on the players cricinf excluded from their short list.
Herbert Sutcliffe
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting(c)
Everton Weekes
Denis Compton
Clyde Walcott(wk)
Tony Greig
Jim Laker
Joel Garner
Ray...
So any last bets on what team will be selected on tuesday. Also is the team to be named linked to Wisden in any way, is this anythinh historical or official
Australia
Matthew Hayden
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman
Ricky Ponting
Greg Chappell
Adam Gilchrist
Keith Miller
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly
Gelnn Mcgrath
W.I
Gordon Greenidge
Conrad Hunte
George Headley
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers
Jeffrey Dujon
Malcolm...
Wally Hammond exists in the same statosphere as Tendulkar, Richards ect, and Englands at worst 3rd best batsman and best middle order batsman. He was also a useful medium pacer and a superb slip fielder, which always acts as a tie-breaker for me when constructing a team.
If we are using that...
When Punter came in there was less pressure because they were runs on the board and after Haydos's assault, the bowlers were already broken, plus knowing the batting strenght behind him, Pontings job was half done.
Dont get me wrong, Ponting is a great batsman, but Hayden, along with Gilchrist...
Made some adjustments to short list, and added a few names to make it a nice round number of players (40)
Is it possible to use this or a comparable list to start a poll in a new thread.
I agree about Faulkner, he was next in line, Evans along with Waite/Cameron were considered, but decided to stick with the best combo batsman/keeper. With Hayden, I must disagree, he was the foundation of that great Aussie team, and made life easier for Punter, Gilly and co., while Morris feeded...
Yeah, was going to choose Hutton, Richards, Bradman, Tendulkar, Sobers, Gilchrist, Khan, Marshall, Warne, Muralitharan, Mcgrath, but combination wasnt posible. Would have been only plausible way to select two spinners.
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