All Time Subcontinent Test XI Draft - np10's pick

[King Cricket]

Are you turning into KC?

So unfunny. :sarcasm

Show me another poor cricketer I picked apart from Sanath and Binny.

 

[SciD]

So unfunny. :sarcasm

Show me another poor cricketer I picked apart from Sanath and Binny.

We will see in last 3 rounds.

 

[nightprowler10]

Show me another poor cricketer I picked apart from Sanath and Binny.

Those picks were easily trumped by Shoaib Malik to be fair. :ninja

 

[Cricketman]

Well you might have a stacked top order but your Siril/Bangla combo will suck as will the rest of your bowling attack. We might even see you resort to *gasp* King Aggers??

 

[nightprowler10]

We'll see who has the last laugh.

 

[Dare]

Khan Mohammad
Needed another pace bowler and it ended up being Khan Mohammad. He led the Pakistani bowling attack in 13 tests and took 54 wickets at 23.92.

1 Saeed Anwar
2 Marvan Atapattu
3
4 Javed Miandad
5
6 Hanif Mohammad +
7
8
9 Zaheer Khan
10 Khan Mohammad
11 Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[Cricketman]

Took you long enough .

 

[Dare]

Took you long enough .

I was pretending to be Cricketman for a while

 

[Cricketman]

Ooooooooh... good one dare, good one...

You better watch your back .

 

[nightprowler10]

Going to strengthen my team in the spin department and add an offie to complement the leggie in my team. I'll pick Saqlain Mushtaq, one of the best spinners to hail from Pakistan. People often rave on about his wicket taking ability in ODIs but they forget how potent he was against the best players of spin in their own backyard in Tests. Saqi had an incredible 13 5ers with a very respectable SR in just 49 matches in a team that was packed with world class bowlers.

NP11

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Zaheer Abbas
4. Mohammad Yousuf
5.
6. Farrokh Engineer
7.
8.
9. Saqlain Mushtaq
10. Waqar Younis
11. BS Chandrashekar

 

[Cricketman]

I had Saqi in as my pick. I decided to overlook him though - even though Malik was a more mediocre pick, he's still a good player and one of the few quality middle order batsman that remain.

Saqlain was good, but wasn't that great in test match cricket. There are still better options available.

 

[nightprowler10]

His Test match bowling is seriously under rated. When you take into account the bowlers he had to share his wickets with, its pretty amazing that he was able to average over four wickets a Test. If you pay close attention to most other spinners left to pick from you'll see they were pretty mediocre outside of their comfort zone, unlike Saqi who dominated Indian batsmen in India, something not many could acheive.

 

[King Cricket]

I pick Mohammad Nissar.

Feeling too lazy to write. So I will just quote some text from Cricinfo;

Mohammed Nissar was India's first pace bowler, possible one of the fastest they have ever produced, and one of the best too. A bull of a man, Nissar could swing and cut the ball with verve, but it was his express speed that marked him out from his peers. Of his 25 Test victims, 13 were bowled or leg-before, testimony enough to his sheer pace. Nissar's partnership upfront with Amar Singh was as legendary as it was successful. In India's maiden Test at Lord's in 1932, he plunged the England innings into disarray by knocking over the stumps of Holmes and Sutcliffe, who only ten days earlier had added 555 for the first wicket for Yorkshire, and ended with 5 for 93. On that trip, he grabbed 71 wickets at 18.09 to head the averages. The MCC tour in 1933-34 provided the setting for more heroics as he took another innings bag of five in the inaugural Test in India at the Brabourne Stadium. The only defeat that was inflicted upon the visitors on that tour was also courtesy of Nissar, whose match figures of 9 for 117 helped Vizzy XI to a 14-run victory at Benares.

Another compelling demonstration of his hostility came against Jack Ryder's Australians on their tour of India in the winter of 1935. Thirty two wickets in four 'Tests' at 13 runs apiece spoke volumes for the damage he unleashed. On his final tour of England, Nissar departed the Test scene with a devastating spell that yielded four wickets in five overs to send England hurtling from 422 for 3 to 463 for 7. He continued to entertain domestic audiences for a while longer and helped Southern Punjab to the Ranji Trophy final in 1938-39 taking 17 wickets at 11.94, including a tour de force of 6 for 17 against Sind in the semis that sent them packing for 23.

Badly needed a decent Indian seamer. And Nissar was one of those few still left. One legendary bowler the guy indeed was!

1. Sanath Jayasuriya
2.
3. Polly Umrigar
4. VVS Laxman
5. Inzamam Ul Haq
6.
7. Mushtaq Mohammad
8. Anil Kumble
9. Roger Binny
10.
11. Mohammad Nissar

 

[SciD]

Never heard of this guy.

 

[shravi]

I think Nissar would have had to play at least 4 matches more (10 matches in total) to be in an all time XI. Decent pick, but should have played just a little more international cricket to be considered imo.

By the way, KC, you can no longer pick Indians. You've reached the 5 player limit.