Themed Cricket XI's

[happy_eagle]

Sloggers XI

1. Herschelle Gibbs
2. Chris Gayle
3. Brendan McCullum
4. A.B De Villiers
5. Adam Gilchrist
6. Glenn Maxwell
7. Shahid Afridi
8. Corey Anderson
9. James Faulkner
10. Kieron Pollard
11. Andre Russell

 

[sherb]

Kent is a first name?

Yeah, mostly American.

 

[Ashton Agar]

Yeah, mostly American.

Yeah, realised after I posted that. Kent Kingsley for example. Not a common one, but I'll pay it!

 

[sherb]

Yeah, realised after I posted that. Kent Kingsley for example. Not a common one, but I'll pay it!

I did hold off cheating a little by not using players with surnames Matthews, Edwards, Phillips, etc..........

 

[Wallaby]

Still waiting for someone to try and knock off my Australian 'Scrabble score XI'.

1. Jacques - 25
2. Jackson - 20
3. Khajawa - 24
4. Kippax - 21
5. Fairfax - 20
6. Chipperfield - 25
7. Blackham - 21
8. McKenzie - 25
9. Kasprowicz - 30
10. McCormick - 23
11. Fleetwood-Smith - 26

If you went international, you would just pick the latest Sri Lankan team - all those 'j's and 'w's.

Maybe a lowest score XI. I'll start - Tony Dell.

 

[ioppolo]

Sloggers XI

1. Herschelle Gibbs
2. Chris Gayle
3. Brendan McCullum
4. A.B De Villiers
5. Adam Gilchrist
6. Glenn Maxwell
7. Shahid Afridi
8. Corey Anderson
9. James Faulkner
10. Kieron Pollard
11. Andre Russell

They'd need that lineup for the 250+ score the bowlers will concede.

 

[Hinkler]

Captains XI?

 

[eth-dog]

Captains XI?

Bob Simpson
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman
Greg Chappell
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Adam Gilchrist (+)
Jack Ryder
Richie Benaud
Ray Lindwall
Ian Johnson

Not to many fast bowlers there, have to play Jack Ryder as an A/R to take the new ball.

 

[happy_eagle]

The Anti Hero Ashes XI

qualification
Batsmen = must not have scored a century in an Ashes series
Bowlers = must not have taken 5 wickets in an Ashes match

1. Marcus Trescothick
2. Mike Brearley (c)
3. John Crawley
4. Greame Hick
5. David Hookes
6. Rod Marsh (wk)
7. Kerry O'Keeffe
8. Trevor Bailey
9. Brett Lee
10. Ashley Giles
11. Devon Malcolm

 

[Mancey]

Good work. Mine was using surnames so I will have a crack with the same letters for surnames.

Langer, Justin
Marsh, Geoff
North, Marcus
O'Neill, Norman
Ponting, Ricky
Quaife, Willie (Just beating out Bob Quiney after a google search)
Russell, Jack +
Spofforth, Fred
Thomson, Jeff
Underwood, Derek
Vettori, Daniel

Noffke, Ashley
Veletta, Michael
Rackermann, Carl

Gilchrist, Adam
Nicholson, Mathew
Alderman, Terry

Gillespie, Jason
Voges, Adam

Umar Gul

Umar Akmal
Pattinson, James

 

[kickazz]

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

Needs more David Brain (Zim). Bowl left arm, throw right arm.

 

[bomber2013]

Pair Capitan XL capitan who made a pair as capitan
M.Taylor (Aus)
M.Appatatu (SRL)
S.Fleming (NZ)
A.Border (Aus)
N.Hussien (Eng)
J.Adams (WI)
R.Latif ( Pak)
I.Botham (Eng)
W.Younis (Pak)
C.Walsh (WI)
B.Bedi (Ind)

 

[krisholio14]

Still waiting for someone to try and knock off my Australian 'Scrabble score XI'.

1. Jacques - 25
2. Jackson - 20
3. Khajawa - 24
4. Kippax - 21
5. Fairfax - 20
6. Chipperfield - 25
7. Blackham - 21
8. McKenzie - 25
9. Kasprowicz - 30
10. McCormick - 23
11. Fleetwood-Smith - 26

If you went international, you would just pick the latest Sri Lankan team - all those 'j's and 'w's.

Maybe a lowest score XI. I'll start - Tony Dell.

Wouldn't they have to only have 9 letters max?

 

[krisholio14]

What about an 11 of test cricketers who played another sport at a high level?

I can think of a fair few vfl players going back to Warwick Armstrong right up to simon o'donnell but the only ones I know on the world stage are:C.B.Fry Dennis Compton and jehan Mubarak. Any suggestions?

A few Kiwis have done it. Brian McKechnie and Jeff Wilson are two that spring to mind. Both AB's and played ODI's for NZ.

Eddie Barlow and Peter Kersten played Currie Cup in South Africa.

here's an International Cricket - V.F.L/W.A.F.L/S.A.N.F.L XI

Clem Hill (South Adelaide)
Graeme Wood (East Fremantle)
Vic Richardson (Sturt)
Warwick Armstrong (South Melbourne)
Eric Freeman (Port Adelaide)
Keith Miller (St Kilda)
Sam Loxton (St Kilda)
Gil Langley (Essendon/Sturt)
Max Walker (Melbourne)
Neil Hawke (Port/Torrens/East Perth)
Laurie Nash (South Melbourne)

Jack Worrall (Fitzroy)

 

[Wallaby]

Wouldn't they have to only have 9 letters max?

Nope. Someone puts 'ASP' on the board - you wrap 'K---SPROWICZ' around it. Can be done.

 

[The_Reaper]

A few Kiwis have done it. Brian McKechnie and Jeff Wilson are two that spring to mind. Both AB's and played ODI's for NZ.

Eddie Barlow and Peter Kersten played Currie Cup in South Africa.

here's an International Cricket - V.F.L/W.A.F.L/S.A.N.F.L XI

Clem Hill (South Adelaide)
Graeme Wood (East Fremantle)
Vic Richardson (Sturt)
Warwick Armstrong (South Melbourne)
Eric Freeman (Port Adelaide)
Keith Miller (St Kilda)
Sam Loxton (St Kilda)
Gil Langley (Essendon/Sturt)
Max Walker (Melbourne)
Neil Hawke (Port/Torrens/East Perth)
Laurie Nash (South Melbourne)

Jack Worrall (Fitzroy)

Geoff Marsh would be close

 

[Demosthenes]

Dual Test Players (Cricket / Rugby)

Andrew Stoddart (England)
MJK Smith* (England)
James Sinclair (South Africa)
John Taylor (Australia)
Curly Page (New Zealand)
Clive van Ryneveld (South Africa / England)
Gregor MacGregor+ (England / Scotland)
Sammy Woods (England / Australia)
Reggie Schwarz (South Africa / England)
George Dickinson (New Zealand)
Otto Nothling (Australia)

12th Man: Maurice Turnbull (England / Wales)

Umpire: Eric Tindill (New Zealand)

 

[Gough]

An XI to party with.
David Boon
Herschelle Gibbs
Graeme Pollock
Denis Compton
Garfield Sobers
Colin Bland
Doug Walters
Keith Miller
Ian Botham
Rod Marsh
Shane Warne

 

[sherb]

The Died Too Young XI.

Scott Mason
Wilf Slack
Victor Trumper
Archie Jackson
Phil Hughes
Hansie Cronje
Ken Wadsworth WK
Collie Smith
Ben Hollioake
Malcolm Marshall
Ken Farnes

 

[sherb]

The At Least 85 And Still With Us XI

Arthur Morris (A)
Colin McDonald (A)
Neil Harvey (A)
Everton Weekes (WI)
Tom Graveney (Eng)
John Reid (NZ)
Imtiaz Ahmed (Pak) WK
John Watkins (SA)
Alan Davidson (A)
Frank Tyson (E)
Sonny Ramahdin (WI)

 

[eth-dog]

Commentator's XI:

Vaughn
Taylor
Ponting
Border
Waugh
Richards
Gilchrist
Warne
Holding
Fleming
Julian

Obviously biased towards Australians, due to not knowing many outside except for Ian Smith, Bumble (not sure what sort of player he was) and Michael Atherton

 

[happy_eagle]

The Lords XI
(players who play very well at the home of cricket)
(must have played 5 or more tests at lords)

1. Warren Bardsley (bat avg 115 from 7 innings)
2. Graham Gooch (53/39) (longevity)
3. Alan Border (c) (101/9)
4. Shivnarine Chanderpaul (85/9)
5. Joe Root (86/10) (doesn't bode well for thursday )
6. Garfield Sobers (95/9)
7. Les Ames (wk) (68/10)
8. Hedley Verity (bowl avg 15 from 14 innings)
9. Steven Finn (21/9)
10. Bob Willis (19/16)
11. Derek Underwood (17/14)

 

[happy_eagle]

And on the opposite end we have....
The Un-Lords XI
(alot of these guys are in the team, mainly because they performed poor in comparison to usual output elsewhere)

1. W.G Grace (bat 32/8)
2. Sunil Gavaskar (34/10)
3. Sachin Tendulkar (c) (22/9)
4. Greame Thorpe (34/24)
5. Mark Ramprakash (10/13)
6. Alan Knott (wk) (26/21)
7. Paul Collingwood (bowl 187/10)
8. Craig White (55/8)
9. John Emburey (43/15)
10. Liam Plunkett (62/10)
11. Neil Foster (51/12)

Was about to add in Ashely Giles and his Lords bowling average of 40 until I realised that it was on par with his career figures

 

[ioppolo]

And on the opposite end we have....
The Un-Lords XI
(alot of these guys are in the team, mainly because they performed poor in comparison to usual output elsewhere)

1. W.G Grace (bat 32/8)
2. Sunil Gavaskar (34/10)
3. Sachin Tendulkar (c) (22/9)
4. Greame Thorpe (34/24)
5. Mark Ramprakash (10/13)
6. Alan Knott (wk) (26/21)
7. Paul Collingwood (bowl 187/10)
8. Craig White (55/8)
9. John Emburey (43/15)
10. Liam Plunkett (62/10)
11. Neil Foster (51/12)

Was about to add in Ashely Giles and his Lords bowling average of 40 until I realised that it was on par with his career figures

That's one weak bowline lineup. Imagine being the lucky side padding up to that.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

That's one weak bowline lineup. Imagine being the lucky side padding up to that.

A Shane Watson XI?