Uploaded 5 squads for the1980s! There is enough of the marque players here to form a league.
Squads A, B, C and D have 22 players each and squad E has a lot of one day players who played well in the decade as well as Rebels and South Africans. I've gone for the same format as I used in the 1970s, there was just a lot to choose from! The majority are my childhood heros, especially Gatting, Border, Laird, Yardley, Dujon, Dean Jones, Holding, Imran and Mohsin Khan, and Abdul Qadir,
An era of all time allrounders in Botham, Imran, Kapil and Richard Hadlee. Not to forget Franklyn Stephenson who never played a game of Test Cricket, but probably would have been the 5th best in the world.
Here they are "Beefy", "The Master Blaster", "Swampy", "Whispering Death", "Lamby", "Dooj", "Daffy", "Big Bird", "Shake", "Spook", and "Fat Gat" amongst many.
A Squad - Botham, Imran, Viv Richards, Border, Gooch, Marshall, Shastri, Greenidge, Haynes, Le Roux, Javed Miandad, Vengsarkar, Holding, Gatting, Gower, Alderman, Qadir, Mudassar Nazar, Lawson, Dujon, Garner, Ian Smith, .
B Squad - M.Crowe, Kapil, Hadlee, M.Amanarth, Boon, Jimmy Cook, S.Clarke, Richardson, Lamb, K.Hughes, Mohsin Khan, Croft, John Wright, McDermott, Neil Foster, Wood, Iqbal Qasim, Emburey, Dilley, Chatfield, Yousuf (WK), Kirmani.(WK)
C Squad - Dean Jones (bless him and his family), Stephenson, Wessells, Larry Gomes, Coney, Shoaib Mohammad, Sandeep Patil, Yallop, Chris Broad, Saleem Malik, Merv Hughes, Hogg, Dyson, Lance Cairns, Wayne Daniel, Ravi Ratnayake, Bruce Yardley, Bruce Reid, Rumesh Ratnayeke, Kiren More (WK), Tauseef Ahmed, Ray Jennings (WK)
D-Squad - Adrian Kuiper, Ken McEwan, Phil Edmonds, Peter Kirsten, Logie, Greg Matthews, Fotheringham, Bright, Rupert Hanley, Qasim Umer, Hookes, Geoff Marsh, Gladstone Small, Rackeman, Tavare, Chetan Sharma, Laird, Asantha de Mel, Bruce Edgar, David Murray, Paul Downton, Azaeem Hafeez.
E Squad - Madan Lal, Binny, Geoff Miller, Roger Harper, Alleyne, deFreitas, Boock, John Bracewell, Nick Cook, Alan Kourie, John F Reid. Peter Willey, Roy Dias, Simon O'Donnell, Kris Srikkanth, Derek Pringle, Winston Davis, Dilip Doshi, Maninder Singh, Martin Snedden, Carlisle Best, Vic Marks, Greg Ritchie, Tim Robinson, Wayne B Phillips, Shivlal Yadav, Jack Richards, Norman Cowans, Yasphal Sharma, Patrick Patterson, Kevin Curran, Jeff Crowe, Ezra Moseley, Omar Henry, Duncan Fletcher, Dave Houhgton, and Tony Grey
I've done my best to remember the great West Indian bowlers there were so many!
Played an exhibition the other night and it was great to see the all stars. The B side smashed the A side the other night how exciting to see all these greats on the pitch at the same time! Richardson was brilliant in that 20/20 game.
Here's hoping
@wasteyouryouth does complete the 80s league! Anyway lots of tweaks to players ones that come to mind are Joel Garner especially his face, Sylvester Clarke, Azeem Hafeez, Henry Fotheringham, Hartley Alleyne are the ones that I did anything major with. There may be others.
Looking forward the South Africans compete here, like Jimmy Cook, Ken McEwan, Ray Jennings, Adrian Kuiper, Alan Kourie, Garth LeRoux, Henry Fortheringham and my man Rupert "Spook" Hanley.
Hmm I wonder how my "Fire In Babylon" team would do against these sides?
Though I've said thanks on previous posts, many thanks to
@wasteyouryouth @blockerdave @gleeso73 @Dale88 and any others I've forgotten for some of their bases or touch ups of my originals, they are fab!
Thanks to the bat, uniform, logo and stadium makers,
Enjoy!
The 90s, 00s, and 10s to come! Should get it done over the weekend. I am really looking forward to the new game announement! I think it's your choice if you want Moh Azharduddin in the 80s but I thnk he played more in the 1990s.