Themed Cricket XI's

[freddy mercury]

I'll have a go at this. I will do best left sided cricketers, I will build it on the best I have seen, I was born in 1990. So anyone from 2002 to now will be my base. If it has been done, I am sorry.

1.Matthew Hayden
2.Graeme Smith
3.Brian Lara
4.Kumar Sangakkara
5.Michael Hussey
6.Sanath Jayasuriya
7.Sourav Ganguly
8.Adam Gilchrist
9.Mitchell Johnson
10.Chaminda Vass
11.Zaheer Khan

12th man Daniel Vettori

Explanations, was struggling to pick an opener with the Dos, but went Smith instead. Leadership.
Could not think of an allrounder better than Jayasuriya. Could not fit him in at the top of the order, for obvious reasons.
Zaheer Khan, could not think of another bowler. Bowled well when it was swinging around, can bat a bit.
Not one decent spinner has sprung to mind. Brad Hogg?

I actually had Vettori in over Jayasuriya as a spinner but the all round option was more enticing.

Love this thread.

 

[freddy mercury]

#  Player         Nat   LBW %
1. G Gambhir      IND   23.00
2. GC Smith*      RSA   21.46
3. GA Gooch       ENG   23.26
4. Younis Khan    PAK   21.67
5. Misbah-ul-Haq  PAK   23.00
6. PD Collingwood ENG   20.87
7. SR Watson      AUS   26.61
8. BB McCullum+   NZ    19.02
9. CL Hooper      WI    19.08
10.HH Streak      ZIM   18.69
11.Waqar Younis   PAK   18.33

Honourable Mentions
12.MW Gatting     ENG   22.46
13.LRPL Taylor    NZ    21.37
14.ADR Campbell   ZIM   20.18
15.RR Sarwan      WI    20.13

Tendulkar, Amla and Chanderpaul all have 19% lbws but I decided to keep a top 7 with all over 20%

Wow 26% almost 27 is an amazingly bad number considering the amount of tests played to the others.

 

[freddy mercury]

My best XI I have seen.

1. Matthew Hayden.
2. Graeme Smith.
3. Ricky Ponting.
4. Brain Lara.
5. Michael Hussey.
6. Jacques Kallis.
7. Adam Gilchrist.
8. Shaun Pollock.
9. Shane Warne.
10. Dale Steyn
11. Glenn McGrath

12th man Sangakkara. Never opened. Batted middle order, find me somebody to take out.

So much harder than I thought.




Would maybe swap Sangakkara and Smith.

 

[happy_eagle]

Sangakkara is better than Hussey
Also no Sachin Teundulkar ?

 

[freddy mercury]

Sangakkara is better than Hussey
Also no Sachin Teundulkar ?

Yeah, got a soft spot for Mike Hussey, but I know Sangakkara is a better player.

Sachin was a hard one. He is a great no doubt. But who do I take out.

 

[Demosthenes]

I would bump Lara up as a makeshift opener (IIRC he played there a few times in ODIs and Tests and did alright) and ditch Hayden/Hussey for Tendulkar/Sangakkara. The latter two are miles better bats than the former.

 

[ioppolo]

I'll have a go at this. I will do best left sided cricketers, I will build it on the best I have seen, I was born in 1990. So anyone from 2002 to now will be my base. If it has been done, I am sorry.

1.Matthew Hayden
2.Graeme Smith
3.Brian Lara
4.Kumar Sangakkara
5.Michael Hussey
6.Sanath Jayasuriya
7.Sourav Ganguly
8.Adam Gilchrist
9.Mitchell Johnson
10.Chaminda Vass
11.Zaheer Khan

12th man Daniel Vettori

Explanations, was struggling to pick an opener with the Dos, but went Smith instead. Leadership.
Could not think of an allrounder better than Jayasuriya. Could not fit him in at the top of the order, for obvious reasons.
Zaheer Khan, could not think of another bowler. Bowled well when it was swinging around, can bat a bit.
Not one decent spinner has sprung to mind. Brad Hogg?

I actually had Vettori in over Jayasuriya as a spinner but the all round option was more enticing.

Love this thread.

Rangana Herath.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Rangana Herath.

A very good option.

 

[Slax]

The Racist XI
D. Haynes
J. Root
D. Jones
G. Ritchie
D. Lehmann (c)
R. Latif (+)
S. Tanvir
H. Singh
R. Hogg
G. Lawson
B. Patterson

One very notable omission

D. Bradman - racist as they come, didn't even like sitting at the same table as the Indian or West Indies team. Religious bigot as hated the Catholics and Irish.

 

[Slax]

Thought this would be easy, but quickly realised it wasn't

William Woodful
Gordon Greenidge
Graham Gooch (c)
Steve Smith
Richie Richardson
Gerry Gomez
Mulvatrai Mankad
Adnal Akmad +
Malcolm Marshall
Morne Morkel
Muttiah Muralithran

 

[freddy mercury]

A very good option.

Has issues against top tier sides and playing away from home.

 

[happy_eagle]

Brothers XI

1. Mark Waugh
2. Grant Flower
3. Steve Waugh (c)
4. Ian Chappell
5. Greg Chappell
6. Andy Flower (wk)
7. Richard Hadlee
8. Albie Morkel
9. Dayle Hadlee
10. Brett Lee
11. Morne Morkel

12. Shane Lee

 

[happy_eagle]

The Father/Son XI

1. Chris Broad
2. Geoff Marsh
3. Shaun Marsh
4. Lala Amarnath (wk)
5. Mohinder Amarnath
6. Mitchell Marsh
7. Chris Cairns
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Peter Pollock
10. Stuart Broad
11. Lance Cairns

 

[The_Reaper]

1. Peter Kirsten
2. Grant Flower
3. Ian Chappell*
4. Mark Waugh
5. Jeff Crowe
6. Surinder Amarnath
7. Adnan Akmal+
8. Peter Pollock
9. Darren Pattinson
10.Dayle Hadlee
11.Bryan Strang

Test players with a brother who is recognised as a better cricketer

 

[eth-dog]

1. Peter Kirsten
2. Grant Flower
3. Ian Chappell*
4. Mark Waugh
5. Jeff Crowe
6. Surinder Amarnath
7. Adnan Akmal+
8. Peter Pollock
9. Darren Pattinson
10.Dayle Hadlee
11.Bryan Strang

Test players with a brother who is recognised as a better cricketer

Still laughing over D. Patto. The bloke couldn't even get a game for Victoria at that time!

 

[happy_eagle]

In light of our recent Ashes defeat

The Individual Ashes Performance XI

1. Len Hutton (364, 5th Test 1938)
2. Bob Simpson (311, 4th Test 1964)
3. Don Bradman (334, 3rd Test 1930)
4. Alan Border (196, 41*, 2nd Test 1985)
5. Steve Waugh (157*, 5th Test 2001)
6. Adam Gilchrist (102* off 59, 3rd Test 2006)
7. Ian Botham (149*, 6/95, 3rd Test 1981)
8. Stuart Broad (8/15, 4th Test 2015)
9. Shane Warne (8/71, 1st Test 1994)
10. Jim Laker (9/37, 10/53, 4th Test 1956)
11. Bob Massie (8/84, 8/53, 2nd Test 1972)

 

[happy_eagle]

Bump

One Day Speclialists
(players who were only known in the shorter form. High ODI/Test Ratio required. Gayle/Gibbs etc not considered cause they still played alot of tests)
(doing from memory, so really only going back from the late 90's with this one)

1. Suresh Raina (wk)
2. Upul Tharanga
3. Eoin Morgan
4. Yurajv Singh
5. Jonty Rhodes
6. Andrew Symonds
7. Michael Bevan
8. Shahid Afridi
9. Brad Hogg
10. Nathan Bracken
11. Lasith Malinga

 

[krisholio14]

Bump

One Day Speclialists
(players who were only known in the shorter form. High ODI/Test Ratio required. Gayle/Gibbs etc not considered cause they still played alot of tests)
(doing from memory, so really only going back from the late 90's with this one)

1. Suresh Raina (wk)
2. Upul Tharanga
3. Eoin Morgan
4. Yurajv Singh
5. Jonty Rhodes
6. Andrew Symonds
7. Michael Bevan
8. Shahid Afridi
9. Brad Hogg
10. Nathan Bracken
11. Lasith Malinga

Simon O'Donnell?

 

[Wallaby]

Bump

One Day Speclialists
(players who were only known in the shorter form. High ODI/Test Ratio required. Gayle/Gibbs etc not considered cause they still played alot of tests)
(doing from memory, so really only going back from the late 90's with this one)

1. Suresh Raina (wk)
2. Upul Tharanga
3. Eoin Morgan
4. Yurajv Singh
5. Jonty Rhodes
6. Andrew Symonds
7. Michael Bevan
8. Shahid Afridi
9. Brad Hogg
10. Nathan Bracken
11. Lasith Malinga

Bit tough on Afridi. Yeah, he only played 27 tests, but that was more because of politics than form. He averaged 36 with the bat and 35 with the ball. He made test centuries as an opener.

 

[happy_eagle]

Simon O'Donnell?

Wasn't thinking back that far, but good call he should be in there

Bit tough on Afridi. Yeah, he only played 27 tests, but that was more because of politics than form. He averaged 36 with the bat and 35 with the ball. He made test centuries as an opener.

Yeh Afridi was a tough one, but he is certainly more known for his ODI performances

How about Test Match specialists though
The BBC XI (Test Match Specials)
(really only including players who played when ODI cricket was big)

1. Justin Langer
2. Allistair Cook
3. Sunil Gavaskar
4. VVS Laxman
5. Shiv Chanderpaul
6. Simon Katich
7. Matt Prior (wk)
8. Matthew Hoggard
9. Jason Gillespie
10. Merve Hughes
11. Rananga Herath

 

[krisholio14]

Wasn't thinking back that far, but good call he should be in there

Yeh Afridi was a tough one, but he is certainly more known for his ODI performances

How about Test Match specialists though
The BBC XI (Test Match Specials)
(really only including players who played when ODI cricket was big)

1. Justin Langer
2. Allistair Cook
3. Sunil Gavaskar
4. VVS Laxman
5. Shiv Chanderpaul
6. Simon Katich
7. Matt Prior (wk)
8. Matthew Hoggard
9. Jason Gillespie
10. Merve Hughes
11. Rananga Herath

I would think him being Pakistan test captain for a period should preclude him from the list. Having said that, if you'd left him out, more people would have been saying 'where's Afridi????' lol

 

[ioppolo]

Wasn't thinking back that far, but good call he should be in there

Yeh Afridi was a tough one, but he is certainly more known for his ODI performances

How about Test Match specialists though
The BBC XI (Test Match Specials)
(really only including players who played when ODI cricket was big)

1. Justin Langer
2. Allistair Cook
3. Sunil Gavaskar
4. VVS Laxman
5. Shiv Chanderpaul
6. Simon Katich
7. Matt Prior (wk)
8. Matthew Hoggard
9. Jason Gillespie
10. Merve Hughes
11. Rananga Herath

Graeme Thrope perhaps ahead of Simon Katich?

 

[happy_eagle]

The Early Risers XI (Young debutants)

1. Greame Pollock (19)
2. Sachin Tendulkar (16)
3. Javed Miandad (19)
4. Adam Parore (wk) (19)
5. Garfield Sobers (17)
6. Aravinda De Silva (19)
7. Doug Walters (19)
8. Kapil Dev (19)
9. Imran Khan (18)
10. Anil Kumble (19)
11. Waqar Younis (17)

Pakistan sure do like debuting young players. Also Parore stands out pretty badly in that lineup, but not a lot of keepers debut young. Same goes for opening bats

 

[The_Reaper]

Yeah but you have to add 4 years to those Pakistani ages

 

[happy_eagle]

Yeah but you have to add 4 years to those Pakistani ages

That is true