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Hmmm, did you see much of Kallis' bowling during this tour of Australia? He's bowled really well. I think rather than the current 'drought' being a phase, it was simply the case that the 1980s was a phase where there was an unusally high number of quality allrounders. We've simply...

The one where he took 12 wickets?

Hadlee was more of an allrounder than Akram - he's really a bowler who can bat a bit, in the mould of a Ray Lindwall, Shane Warne or Alan Davidson. Also, Aubrey Faulkner and Jacques Kallis both have a place on that list, near or ahead of Kapil Dev, great those he was. Hazare and Engineer need...

Marsh is very poor from what I've seen to date. Agree with that Jaques should be the next up. Rogers and Hughes are very good back up for that, but hopefully by the time the next change becomes necessary, Rogers will be well and truly too old, and Hughes will be cherry ripe. If neither...

Disagree strongly with the suggestion in this thread. To me, Clarke remains an elite ODI batsman, and the struggles we've had this series reflect him either being absent, or playing under duress. You'd pick him for his batting alone, but his brilliance in the field, and useful spin bowling...

My team: Hobbs Hutton Bradman* Hammond Richards Sobers Gilchrist+ Imran Warne Marshall Ambrose 2nd XI: Gavaskar Sutcliffe Headley Tendulkar Lara Flower+ Miller Hadlee Wasim Lillee O'Reilly Real line ball for Lillee and Tendulkar not to make the first XI, but who would you leave out?

The rule that most annoys me is actually a few rules relating to where a bowler CAN'T bowl in one-day cricket. The corridor in which a legitimate ball can land is too narrow, and with short-pitched bowling also totally forbidden, it leaves bowlers with very little scope to vary things to avoid...

Except that's going to tear up the pitches and make maintain a decent strip a hell of a lot harder than need be the case. On one hand, whether or not its intention, it would lead to the same problem as batsmen being allowed to run on the pitch - extra deterioration of the conditions of the...