ALL TIME XIs MEGA THREAD

[sherb]

Don't forget Tasmania (like everyone)

David Boon
Michael DiVenuto
Ricky Ponting
Shaun Young
Tim Paine
Roger Wooley
Doug Ring
Brett Geeves
Ben Hilfenhaus
Greg Campbell
Xavier Doherty

HOME GROWN
Hills
Cox
Di Venuto
Boon
Ponting
Young
Woolley
Butterworth
Griffith
Doherty
Hilfenhaus

AUST IMPORTS
Watson
Cowan
Bevan
Tucker
Marsh
Wellham
Atkinson
Wright
Miller
Clough
Gilbert

 

[worbod]

You don't fancy putting Lillee in your Aust Imports team?

 

[SouthSwans]

Aussie Understudys XI

1. Phil Jaques (Alfie)
2. Matthew Elliott (Haydos)
3. Brad Hodge (Punter)
4. Darren Lehmann (Junior)
5. Stuart Law (Tugga)
6. Martin Love (Marto)
7. Brad Haddin (Gilly)
8. Andy Bichel (Binga)
9. Michael Kasprowicz (Dizzy)
10. Stuart Clark (Pidg)
11. Stuart MacGill (Warney)
12. Nathan Bracken (Flemo)

 

[worbod]

A Bovine XI


Ed Cowan
Matt Horne
Colin Cowdrey
Bob Cowper
Ian "Beefy" Botham
Tom Moody
Frank Mooney
Jack Cowie
Patrick Patterson
Norman Cowans
Garry Cowmeadow

 

[sherb]

You don't fancy putting Lillee in your Aust Imports team?

I was trying to place a bit of emphasis on performances for the state.

 

[Wallaby]

'Couldn't Back Up My Debut performance' - Australian

1. Charles Bannerman (165*)
2. Bruce Laird (92, 75)
3. Shaun Marsh (141) - too soon?
4. Dirk Wellham (103)
5. Roy Minnett (90)
6. Roger Hartigan (48, 116)
7. (wk) Brian Taber (8 dismissals)
8. Tony Dodemaide (50, 6/58)
9. Albert Trott (38*, 72*, 8/43)
10. Peter Taylor (42, 6/78)
11. Bob Massie (8/84, 8/53)

 

[krisholio14]

'Couldn't Back Up My Debut performance' - Australian

1. Charles Bannerman (165*)
2. Bruce Laird (92, 75)
3. Shaun Marsh (141) - too soon?
4. Dirk Wellham (103)
5. Roy Minnett (90)
6. Roger Hartigan (48, 116)
7. (wk) Brian Taber (8 dismissals)
8. Tony Dodemaide (50, 6/58)
9. Albert Trott (38*, 72*, 8/43)
10. Peter Taylor (42, 6/78)
11. Bob Massie (8/84, 8/53)

Like that one

 

[The Passenger]

krezja would be close to getting in... but all in all bob massie is king for that team... 16 wickets on debut ffs. only 5 people have ever done that. 4th best match figures....

although i'd have to ask people who were around then how he fell out of favour so quick. he still had 15 wickets at 34 in his next 5 matches. hardly disastrous. and his first class record of ~170 wickets at ~24.5 suggests he wasn't just a one match wonder....

 

[Wallaby]

krezja would be close to getting in... but all in all bob massie is king for that team... 16 wickets on debut ffs. only 5 people have ever done that. 4th best match figures....

although i'd have to ask people who were around then how he fell out of favour so quick. he still had 15 wickets at 34 in his next 5 matches. hardly disastrous. and his first class record of ~170 wickets at ~24.5 suggests he wasn't just a one match wonder....

O yes - forgot Krezja - good get.

Re Bob Massie - I was very young, but I do rmember he actually got dropped from the WA side at the same time - his form must have really declined. But you look at some of the Youtubes of his bowlling that test at Lords, and some of the Poms didn't have a clue.
Technically, he wasn't just a one-hit wonder - he took a 7-for against the Rest of the World in 71/72 - but that doesn't count as a test.

 

[Kram]

Big Footy Favourites XI

Warner
Haddin (wk)
Quiney
Bailey
Maxwell
Henriques
Steve Smith (c)
Christian
Johnson
Starc
Lyon

 

[ioppolo]

Big Footy Favourites XI

Warner
Haddin (wk)
Quiney
Bailey
Maxwell
Henriques
Steve Smith (c)
Christian
Johnson
Starc
Lyon

12th man: Ed Cowan

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

'Couldn't Back Up My Debut performance' - Australian

1. Charles Bannerman (165*)
2. Bruce Laird (92, 75)
3. Shaun Marsh (141) - too soon?
4. Dirk Wellham (103)
5. Roy Minnett (90)
6. Roger Hartigan (48, 116)
7. (wk) Brian Taber (8 dismissals)
8. Tony Dodemaide (50, 6/58)
9. Albert Trott (38*, 72*, 8/43)
10. Peter Taylor (42, 6/78)
11. Bob Massie (8/84, 8/53)

I'm late onto this thread.
Wayne Phillips (the South Australian, 159)
Rob Quiney (never matched his magnificent nine)

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

International Shield Import XI

Kepler Wessels (SAf / Qld)
Andrew Flower (Zim / SA) (+)
Barry Richards (SAf / SA)
Viv Richards (WI / Qld)
Brian Davison (Zim / Tas)*
Ian Botham (Eng / Qld)
Imran Khan (Pak / NSW) (c)
Richard Hadlee (NZ / Tas)
Clarrie Grimmett (NZ / SA)**
Michel Holding (WI / Tas)
Joel Garner (WI / SA)

I'm struggling for batting, I know I am missing plenty better than Davison I just can't think of them. There are too many bowlers in that side, all top shelf though. Botham would be a part-timer in that side.

*Technically, Davsion was from southern Rhodesia at the time and not Zimbabwe
**Not sure if Grimmett qualifies, this eleven is for those who played first class cricket elsewhere before Australia. I don't think Grimmett moved for cricket reasons, so while he migrated was he "imported"?

Alan Knott played for Tasmania, but I think that was pre-Shield.

As others are suggested, I'll edit just to show how bad my import knowledge and memory was.
Kepler Wessels (SAf / Qld)
Andrew Flower (Zim / SA) (+)
Barry Richards (SAf / SA)
Viv Richards (WI / Qld)
Garfield Sobers (WI / SA)
Ian Botham (Eng / Qld)
Imran Khan (Pak / NSW) (c)
Richard Hadlee (NZ / Tas)
Clarrie Grimmett (NZ / SA)**
Michel Holding (WI / Tas)
Joel Garner (WI / SA)

 

[sherb]

International Shield Import XI

Kepler Wessels (SAf / Qld)
Andrew Flower (Zim / SA) (+)
Barry Richards (SAf / SA)
Viv Richards (WI / Qld)
Brian Davison (Zim / Tas)*
Ian Botham (Eng / Qld)
Imran Khan (Pak / NSW) (c)
Richard Hadlee (NZ / Tas)
Clarrie Grimmett (NZ / SA)**
Michel Holding (WI / Tas)
Joel Garner (WI / SA)

I'm struggling for batting, I know I am missing plenty better than Davison I just can't think of them. There are too many bowlers in that side, all top shelf though. Botham would be a part-timer in that side.

*Technically, Davsion was from southern Rhodesia at the time and not Zimbabwe
**Not sure if Grimmett qualifies, this eleven is for those who played first class cricket elsewhere before Australia. I don't think Grimmett moved for cricket reasons, so while he migrated was he "imported"?

Alan Knott played for Tasmania, but I think that was pre-Shield.

I reckon a bloke called Sobers might get a gig.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I reckon a bloke called Sobers might get a gig.

You think so? Was he any good?
Yeah, he is one of numerous who I forgot played Shield cricket.

 

[sherb]

International Shield Import XI

Kepler Wessels (SAf / Qld)
Andrew Flower (Zim / SA) (+)
Barry Richards (SAf / SA)
Viv Richards (WI / Qld)
Brian Davison (Zim / Tas)*
Ian Botham (Eng / Qld)
Imran Khan (Pak / NSW) (c)
Richard Hadlee (NZ / Tas)
Clarrie Grimmett (NZ / SA)**
Michel Holding (WI / Tas)
Joel Garner (WI / SA)

I'm struggling for batting, I know I am missing plenty better than Davison I just can't think of them. There are too many bowlers in that side, all top shelf though. Botham would be a part-timer in that side.

*Technically, Davsion was from southern Rhodesia at the time and not Zimbabwe
**Not sure if Grimmett qualifies, this eleven is for those who played first class cricket elsewhere before Australia. I don't think Grimmett moved for cricket reasons, so while he migrated was he "imported"?

Alan Knott played for Tasmania, but I think that was pre-Shield.

Knott did indeed play for Tassie pre-shield. As did Rohan Kanhai, who also played for WA, and Indian test cricketer Billy Ibadulla. I also recall an English county keeper called Rod Cass playing for Tassie pre-shield, along with English fast bowler Peter Lever and Pakistani opener Sadiq Mohammed.

If you didn't want to include Grimmett, you could have either Lance Gibbs or Tony "Dodgy Action" Lock as the spinner.

As for the batting, in addition to Sobers, you've got Majid Khan (Pakistan), John Hampshire (Tas), Tom Graveney (Qld), Rohan Kanhai (WA), Graeme Hick (Qld), Alvin Kallicharan (Qld) to name a few.

There's still some handy fast bowling that didn't make it too. Andy Roberts (NSW), Wes Hall (Qld), Patrick Patterson, Winston Davis and Franklyn Stephenson (Tas), Gladstone Small (SA).

And a couple of useful all-rounders in Rusi Surti (Qld) - recently deceased (RIP) and Tassie's first ever Shield captain "Flat Jack" Simmons.

Easily enough for two sides in all that lot. The only thing really lacking is a top notch keeper, you'd have to go with Flower and Kanhai over the two sides.

 

[sherb]

You think so? Was he any good?
Yeah, he is one of numerous who I forgot played Shield cricket.

They reckon he went okay.

But he was probably over-rated.

 

[_DBF_]

The Australian All-Time Greatest XI
1. Victor Trumper
2. Arthur Morris
3. Don Bradman (captain)
4. Greg Chappell
5. Allan Border (vice-captain)
6. Ricky Ponting
7. Keith Miller
8. Adam Gilchrist
9. Shane Warne
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Glenn McGrath

The Australian All-Time Second Greatest XI
1. Matthew Hayden
2. William Ponsford
3. Neil Harvey
4. Steve Waugh (captain)
5. Michael Clarke (vice-captain)
6. Michael Hussey
7. Ian Healy
8. Ray Lindwall
9. Brett Lee
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Jeff Thomson

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Brett Lee wouldn't get close to the 2nd XI.

 

[SouthSwans]

The Australian All-Time Greatest XI
1. Victor Trumper
2. Arthur Morris
3. Don Bradman (captain)
4. Greg Chappell
5. Allan Border (vice-captain)
6. Ricky Ponting
7. Keith Miller
8. Adam Gilchrist
9. Shane Warne
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Glenn McGrath

The Australian All-Time Second Greatest XI
1. Matthew Hayden
2. William Ponsford
3. Neil Harvey
4. Steve Waugh (captain)
5. Michael Clarke (vice-captain)
6. Michael Hussey
7. Ian Healy
8. Ray Lindwall
9. Brett Lee
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Jeff Thomson

Good luck 1st XI!!! You'd be shitting bricks with non-stop Binga & Thommo

 

[courtjester]

The Australian All-Time Greatest XI
1. Victor Trumper
2. Arthur Morris
3. Don Bradman (captain)
4. Greg Chappell
5. Allan Border (vice-captain)
6. Ricky Ponting
7. Keith Miller
8. Adam Gilchrist
9. Shane Warne
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Glenn McGrath

The Australian All-Time Second Greatest XI
1. Matthew Hayden
2. William Ponsford
3. Neil Harvey
4. Steve Waugh (captain)
5. Michael Clarke (vice-captain)
6. Michael Hussey
7. Ian Healy
8. Ray Lindwall
9. Brett Lee
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Jeff Thomson

There are mine at the moment, they change regularly...

First XI
1. Arthur Morris
2. Bob Simpson
3. Don Bradman (c)
4. Greg Chappell
5. Victor Trumper
6. Keith Miller
7. Adam Gilchrist (+)
8. Allan Davidson
9. Ray Lindwall
10. Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath

Second XI

1. Mark Taylor (c)
2. Bill Lawry
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Stan McCabe
5. Allan Border
6. Neil Harvey
7. Ian Healy
8. Jack Gregory
9. Fred Spofforth
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Bill O'Reilly

 

[monty1104]

There are mine at the moment, they change regularly...

First XI
1. Arthur Morris
2. Bob Simpson
3. Don Bradman (c)
4. Greg Chappell
5. Victor Trumper
6. Keith Miller
7. Adam Gilchrist (+)
8. Allan Davidson
9. Ray Lindwall
10. Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath

Second XI

1. Mark Taylor (c)
2. Bill Lawry
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Stan McCabe
5. Allan Border
6. Neil Harvey
7. Ian Healy
8. Jack Gregory
9. Fred Spofforth
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Bill O'Reilly

Would love to see Glenn McGrath bowl to himself

 

[Kram]

Would love to see Glenn McGrath bowl to himself

He wouldn't be good enough to nick any of his deliveries

 

[pluga_4]

There are mine at the moment, they change regularly...

First XI
1. Arthur Morris
2. Bob Simpson
3. Don Bradman (c)
4. Greg Chappell
5. Victor Trumper
6. Keith Miller
7. Adam Gilchrist (+)
8. Allan Davidson
9. Ray Lindwall
10. Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath

Second XI

1. Mark Taylor (c)
2. Bill Lawry
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Stan McCabe
5. Allan Border
6. Neil Harvey
7. Ian Healy
8. Jack Gregory
9. Fred Spofforth
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Bill O'Reilly

mcgrath must be good

no lillee wtf !!!!

 

[courtjester]

Would love to see Glenn McGrath bowl to himself

mcgrath must be good

no lillee wtf !!!!

Oops...

First XI
1. Arthur Morris
2. Bob Simpson
3. Don Bradman (c)
4. Greg Chappell
5. Victor Trumper
6. Keith Miller
7. Adam Gilchrist (+)
8. Allan Davidson
9. Ray Lindwall
10. Shane Warne
11. Dennis Lillee

Second XI

1. Mark Taylor (c)
2. Bill Lawry
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Stan McCabe
5. Allan Border
6. Neil Harvey
7. Ian Healy
8. Jack Gregory
9. Fred Spofforth
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Bill O'Reilly