Some Fun Cricket XIs

[Supreme General]

So it's been probably about seven years since I last did this, but I'm going to go back through and make some left-handed XIs.

The rules are:

• All bowlers must be left-handed
• No right-handed batters can bat above number 9, or above any left-handed batter (this is to make sure players like Trent Boult don't miss out)
• The wicket-keeper must bat left-handed

Let's start with England

	Test XI	ODI XI	T20I XI
1	Ben Duckett	Ben Duckett	Ben Duckett
2	Keaton Jennings	Keaton Jennings	Tom Alsop
3	Nick Gubbins	Miles Hammond	Miles Hammond
4	Jacob Bethell	Jacob Bethell	Jacob Bethell
5	Ben Stokes	James Rew	Sam Curran
6	James Rew	Sam Curran	Paul Walter
7	Sam Curran	Paul Walter	Dan Mousley
8	Tom Hartley	Luke Wood	Luke Wood
9	Jack Leach	James Coles	Jake Lintott
10	Josh Hull	Danny Briggs	Reece Topley
11	Reece Topley	Reece Topley	Tymal Mills

Spoiler: Unavailable due to retirement

Moeen Ali - all formats
Dawid Malan - all formats
Ben Stokes - ODI, T20I, I think

David Willey - all formats

Tymal Mills - Test, ODI

I think all of my teams look like they're a bowler heavy, but that's mostly because of Jacob Bethell - he has so far shown himself to be far more of a batter than a bowler, and I think that's reflected in how I've deployed him in my teams. I've also tried to give a slight bias to players already being picked by England or the Lions, which is how come Dan Mousley still makes the T20 side as a specialist number seven batter, and why Josh Hull is there at all. Reece Topley for the Test side feels a bit presumptuous, but it was between him and Luke Wood - and neither has played a Championship game this year.

I'll probably do Australia next time.

I’d probably go

Test XI
1. Ben Duckett
2. Alex Lees
3. Keaton Jennings
4. Ben Stokes
5. James Rew
6. John Simpson (WK)
7. Jacob Bethell
8. Sam Curran
9. Luke Wood
10. Jack Leach
11. Josh Hull


ODI XI

1. Ben Duckett
2. Keaton Jennings
3. Miles Hammond
4. Jacob Bethell
5. Dan Mousley
6. Tom Alsop
7. Sam Curran
8. Luke Wood
9. Danny Briggs
10. David Payne
11. Reece Topley

T20I XI

1. Ben Duckett
2. Miles Hammond
3. Tom Alsop
4. Jacob Bethell
5. Dan Mousley
6. Sam Curran
7. Paul Walter
8. George Garton
9. James Coles
10. Jake Lintott
11. Reece Topley

 

[Aislabie]

I’d probably go

Yeah I certainly don't hate your changes at all. The only ones I would slightly object to are the ones that result in James Rew's presence in the side being slightly lessened - I'd definitely keep him as the Test WK-batter and have a specialist batter over Simpson, and also stick to Rew over Alsop as the ODI keeper as Rew has played unofficial ODIs for the Lions.

Other than that, really excellent changes

 

[ddrap14]

Tom Rogers The Batsman making the ODI side off the back of one innings

It's worth noting that he should be in the coversation for the ACTUAL ODI side if we're going off his Marsh Cup performance last year:

 

[pillowprocter]

It's worth noting that he should be in the coversation for the ACTUAL ODI side if we're going off his Marsh Cup performance last year:
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