2011 World Cup Squad Prediction Thread

[sami ullah khan]

^Same here mate. I don't want to see any of those to play ever for Pakistan. Although I do have a soft corner for Aamer but he should be banned for at least 3 years IMHO. Banning the country from participating in WC is not the solution.

 

[aditya123]

^I will quote Ghalib's Urdu Poetry here for you Akshay
Hazaron Khwahishain aisi kay har khwahish pay dum niklya
Bohat niklay mairay arman lakin phir bhe kum niklay>
Translated as
I have many desires that I will die for
Many have I achieved but I want more

I actually love this one by Mirza Ghalib. Wah Wah! Wah Wah!

 

[Little Punter]

My Australia 15 man squad (Listed by role in the team, but by no particular order within that):

S.Marsh
R.Ponting
M.Clarke
C.White
M.Hussey

S.Watson
S.Smith
J.Hopes

B.Haddin

M.Johnson
R.Harris
N.Hauritz
D.Bollinger
S.Tait

Fifteenth member would depend on in what area (as in batting or bowling) we're struggling/lacking in at the time of the World Cup.

Mine would be almost the same. Drop Hopes and put in Fergo and the 15th would be Tim Paine.

 

[IndiCric]

ya agree with you srikanth is from chennai surely he will include ashwin and vijay

Snide remarks aside, maybe you could think about this. After the recent Champions League T20, you don't need Srikanth to bring these two cricketers to the BCCI's notice. Considering the fact that they both got two awards each (for the best bowler and batsman respectively), I think they are more appropriate choices than Harbhajan or Yuvraj, both of whose performances in the recent past can be described as sporadic at best.

 

[King Pietersen]

England XV:

1. Andrew Strauss
2. Steven Davies +
3. Kevin Pietersen
4. Ian Bell
5. Paul Collingwood
6. Eoin Morgan
7. Michael Yardy
8. Stuart Broad
9. Graeme Swann
10. Ajmal Shahzad
11. James Anderson

12. Tim Bresnan
13. Jonathan Trott
14. Craig Kieswetter
15. Samit Patel

Unlikely that Patel will be picked, but he's the perfect guy to fill in for Yardy if something goes badly wrong for him. I'd certainly prefer him to Wright anyway. Would like Napier in for Bresnan, and then have him in at 10 too, but that aint gonna happen.

 

[Bhargav]

I think they are more appropriate choices than Harbhajan or Yuvraj, both of whose performances in the recent past can be described as sporadic at best.

Is it?

 

[Cricketman]

Erm, quite obviously. They will stay in the team because of so called experience but I think Ashwin is a guy who can win it for India.

Hell, I'd even open the bowling with him.

 

[afridi118]

i can guarantee that asif aamir butt suspension will not be upheld and maybe a ban.
as if these 2 quickies play there is no way we can lose any match with gul in the mid overs.

plus butt will do good with bat.

pietersen cant play asif aamir
ponting cant play
few others cant play
so why not take thsm out by a planning.

so we will see lot of comeback faces possible
faisal iqbal he is ready he told geo super all formats

 

[stefan]

My SA squad.

1.Smith
2.Amla
3.Kallis
4.De Villiers
5.Duminy
6.Miller
7.A.Morkel
8.Botha
9.Parnell
10.Steyn
11.Theron
12.R.Peterson
13.M.Morkel
14.Tsotsobe
15.Bosman

Ideally I would rather take rille rossouw,colin ingram,morne van wyk or davey jacobs instead of bosman but with the political situation need to get the numbers right.

Boucher seems to have been discarded from limited overs cricket so that's why I didn't include him.

For me robbie p adds more to the squad then van der merwe so he gets the second spinner spot.

Questions marks still over the death bowling but I think this is about the best squad we could pick. I listed it in preference of who should play. Depending on the pitch peterson comes in for parnell/a.morkel if we need an extra spinner or if the pitch has some bounce(not happening but one can hope) m.morkel comes in .

 

[razahood]

Pakistan XI(hopefully Younis gets the chance)


Salman
Kamran
Hafeez
Yousuf
Younis/Malik/Misbah
Afridi
U.Akmal
Fawad
Razzaq
Asad Shafiq/Abdur Rehman(because of conditions)
Ajmal
Gul
Aamer
Akhtar
Asif

 

[aditya123]

Pakistan XI(hopefully Younis gets the chance)


Salman
Kamran
Hafeez
Yousuf
Younis/Malik/Misbah
Afridi
U.Akmal
Fawad
Razzaq
Asad Shafiq/Abdur Rehman(because of conditions)
Ajmal
Gul
Aamer
Akhtar
Asif

:doh You seriously think those three deserve to represent the country at the biggest stage of them all! At least I would do away with such suspect cricketers from an event like the World Cup! Cricket cannot deserve people looking at World Cup matches with suspicion,

 

[Gaurav_7]

Leave it Aditya, he wants them to be proved guilty first in what manner no one knows.

 

[Varun]

Wahab Riaz and Naved-ul-Hasan (Is he banned?) can be worthy replacements for Aamer and Asif.

Varun added 0 Minutes and 58 Seconds later...

Razahood probably thinks like Ijaz Butt.

 

[razahood]

No way :doh i don't think like him

But Naved is unbanned and Riazis also good s yeah they can be replacement of them and about Salman i think Hafeez is doing a pretty good jobso if they on't get free still we can make a good playing XI

And if Razzaq plays then we just need 2 seamers those can be Gul and Riaz so no place for Naved in XI but can be a choice if someone get injured

 

[irottev]

I think New Zealand, West Indies, Bangladesh and Pakistan will miss out. They're all bad teams.

England will probably win the final over Australia. England are the best ODI side in the world at the moment.