Themed Cricket XI's

[happy_eagle]

Thought this might be a fun idea for a thread. Basically come up with a lineup that all have something in common (eg Best 11 not to play test cricket, Best 11 with orange hair etc..)

Here are a couple to kick things off


Michael's XI - Players named Michael
1. Michael Atherton
2. Michael Slater
3. Michael Vaughan
4. Michael Hussey
5. Michael Clarke (c)
6. Michael Bevan
7. Michael Brearley (wk)
8. Michael Kasprowicz
9. Michael Holding
10. Michael Whitney
11. Michael Beer


Movember 11 - Players with Moustaches
1. David Boon
2. Graham Gooch
3. Ian Chappell
4. Ian Botham
5. Richard Hadlee
6. Rod Marsh (wk)
7. Kapil Dev
8. Mitchell Johnson
9. Ravinda Jadeja (team needed a spinner)
10. Merv Hughes
11. Fred Spofforth


Feel free to come up with your own

 

[Bingle_21]

Australian Left Handers XI (from 90s onwards). Probably missed a few as did it fairly quickly.

Hayden
Warner
Langer
Katich
Hussey
Border
Gilchrist
Johnson
Hogg
Starc
Reid

 

[worbod]

Best XI of cricketers who were never chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year.

Ian Redpath (Australia)
Trevor Goddard (South Africa)
Eddie Barlow (South Africa)
Vijay Hazare (India)
Doug Walters (Australia)
Vijay Manjrekar (India)
Gundappa Viswanath (India)
John Waite (South Africa)
Jeff Thomson (Australia)
Wes Hall (West Indies)
Bishen Bedi (India)

 

[worbod]

BEST XI OF WEST INDIANS WHO NEVER HAD AN AFRO

1. Ramnaresh Sarwan
2. Joe Solomon
3. Rohan Kanhai
4. Alvin Kallicharran
5. Shiv Chanderpaul
6. Larry Gomes
7. Deryck Murray
8. Rangy Nanan
9. Ezra Moseley
10. Inshan Ali
11. Sonny Ramadhin

(bowling attack not quite first rate)

 

[eth-dog]

All Rounder XI (may miss a few):

Shane Watson
Aubrey Faulkner
Jacques Kallis
AB de Villiers (+)
Keith Miller
Andrew Symonds
Ian Botham
Kapil Dev
Richie Benaud
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee

 

[The_Reaper]

1. Geoff Marsh
2. Bob Simpson
3. Greg Chappell
4. Andy Flower
5. Darren Lehmann
6. Ravi Shastri
7. Kapil Dev
8. Moin Khan+
9. John Bracewell
10.Waqar Younis
11.Geoff Lawson

12. Tom Moody

Players who have coached test teams

 

[Ronnie Baby]

My Angels XI from DB2014

Phil Hughes*
Runako Morton
Trevor Madondo
Tom Maynard
Hansie Cronje
Ben Hollioake
Zulfihar Bhatti
Laurie Williams
Raman Lamba
Sandeep Singh +
Collie Smith

 

[happy_eagle]

The Fake ID XI - cricketers that look like they are 12

1. Quniton De Kock
2. Tim Paine
3. Steve Smith (c)
4. Shane Dowrich
5. Joe Root
6. Ben Stokes
7. James Faulkner
8. Ashton Agar
9. Stuart Broad (when he first started playing)
10. Taskin Ahmed
11. Ajantha Mendis

 

[Carbine Chaos]

The Alliteration XI

Graham Gooch
Colin Cowdrey
Richie Richardson
Steve Smith
Chris Cairns
Mitchell Marsh
Tatenda Taibu (+)
Ashton Agar
Morne Morkel
Bishan Bedi
Muttiah Muralitharan

Better produce a spinning deck!

 

[Ashton Agar]

Ambidextrous XI

(Bowls with the opposite side that he bats)

1. Mark Taylor
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Brian Lara
4. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
5. Michael Clarke
6. Clive Lloyd
7. Andy Flower (+)
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Wilfred Rhodes
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Zaheer Khan

 

[happy_eagle]

The Ginger Ninjas X1

1. Chris Rogers
2. Hamish Marshall
3. Eoin Morgan
4. Niall O'Brien (wk)
5. Paul Collingwood
6. Ben Stokes
7. Kevin O'Brien
8. Andrew McDonald
9. Shaun Pollock (c)
10. Craig McDermott
11. Colin Miller (It had to be orange at some point)

Makes a good ODI side, provided its a day nighter and they are fielding second

 

[Carbine Chaos]

The Ginger Ninjas X1

1. Chris Rogers
2. Hamish Marshall
3. Eoin Morgan
4. Niall O'Brien (wk)
5. Paul Collingwood
6. Ben Stokes
7. Kevin O'Brien
8. Andrew McDonald
9. Shaun Pollock (c)
10. Craig McDermott
11. Colin Miller (It had to be orange at some point)

Makes a good ODI side, provided its a day nighter and they are fielding second

Ian Bell has to get a gig ahead of basically that whole batting line up!

EDIT: And Allan Donald was a ginger, yeah?

 

[The_Reaper]

The Alliteration XI

Graham Gooch
Colin Cowdrey
Richie Richardson
Steve Smith
Chris Cairns
Mitchell Marsh
Tatenda Taibu (+)
Ashton Agar
Morne Morkel
Bishan Bedi
Muttiah Muralitharan

Better produce a spinning deck!

Malcolm Marshall can't get a gig?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Malcolm Marshall can't get a gig?

Ahead of Agar? Plz.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Colin Croft and Patrick Patterson should be added to that attack too, actually.

 

[happy_eagle]

Ian Bell has to get a gig ahead of basically that whole batting line up!

EDIT: And Allan Donald was a ginger, yeah?

Forgot about Donald
Ian Bell wasnt ginger enough for mine. Real gingers don't go changing their hair colour like Bell has over the years

 

[The_Reaper]

Knighted for the cricket performances

1. Sir John Berry Hobbs
2. Sir Leonard Hutton
3. Sir Donald George Bradman*
4. Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
5. Sir Everton Weekes
6. Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers
7. Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott+
8. Sir Richard John Hadlee
9. Sir Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts
10.Sir Alec Victor Bedser
11.Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose

12. Sir Wesley Winfield Hall
13. Sir Conrad Cleophas Hunte
14. Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson
15. Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell

 

[The_Reaper]

African born English test cricketers

1. Andrew Strauss* (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2. Jonathan Trott (Cape Town, South Africa)
3. Graeme Hick (Salisbury, Rhodesia) (Now Harare, Zimbabwe)
4. Kevin Pietersen (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
5. Allan Lamb (Langebaanweg, South Africa)
6. Robin Smith (Durban, South Africa)
7. Matt Prior+ (Johannesburg, South Africa)
8. Tony Greig (Queenstown, South Africa)
9. Basil D'Oliviera (Cape Town, South Africa)
10.Derek Pringle (Nairobi, Kenya)
11.Phil Edmonds (Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia))

12. Ian Greig (Queenstown, South Africa)
13. Chris Smith (Durban, South Africa)
14. Gary Ballance (Harare, Zimbabwe)
15. Nick Compton (Durban, South Africa)
16. Paul Parker (Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
17. Neal Radford (Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia))

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

All Rounder XI (may miss a few):

Shane Watson
Aubrey Faulkner
Jacques Kallis
AB de Villiers (+)
Keith Miller
Andrew Symonds
Ian Botham
Kapil Dev
Richie Benaud
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee

Sobers in, Watson out. Way, way out.
Shaun Pollock? So few spinners in there.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Alliteration XI

Gordon Greenidge (WI)
Graeme Gooch (ENG)
Ramiz Raja (PAK)
Richie Richardson (WI)
Colin Cowdrey (ENG)
Steve Smith (AUS)
Tatenda Taibu (ZIM)
Peter Pollock (RSA)
Chris Carins (NZ)
Bishin Bedi (IND)
Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)

12th man : Rumesh Ratnayeke (SL)

A couple of those aren't their actual first names, but are the names they were mostly known by.

 

[eth-dog]

Sobers in, Watson out. Way, way out.
Shaun Pollock? So few spinners in there.

My god, can't believe I missed that...

 

[happy_eagle]

All time Ashes XII
For those who were always at their best when fighting for the urn

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Geoff Boycott
3. Don Bradman (c)
4. Alan Border
5. Steve Waugh
6. Greg Chappell
7. Ian Healy (wk)
8. Ian Botham
9. Shane Warne
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[bomber2013]

brother XL
Grant Fowler
Martin Crowe (vc)
Jeff Crowe
Mark Waugh
Steve Waugh (C)
Andy Flower
Shane Lee
Brett Lee
James Pattinson
Darren Pattinson
Mornie Morkel
12th man Albie Morkel

 

[Carbine Chaos]

All time Ashes XII
For those who were always at their best when fighting for the urn

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Geoff Boycott
3. Don Bradman (c)
4. Alan Border
5. Steve Waugh
6. Greg Chappell
7. Ian Healy (wk)
8. Ian Botham
9. Shane Warne
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Glenn McGrath

Would replace Healy with Haddin, who goes to beast mode against England it seems.

 

[The_Reaper]

Needs more Terry Alderman