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You're right actually! Didn't see that coming. Well, I suppose I should sub out Boony for the guy who scored the next highest amount of votes, Swampy Marsh?
i mean we want a real ordinary team don't we
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You're right actually! Didn't see that coming. Well, I suppose I should sub out Boony for the guy who scored the next highest amount of votes, Swampy Marsh?
Okay then, let's drum up a side that will give the 1999 England team a run for it's money ;-) Border drops back down to #5 for now.i mean we want a real ordinary team don't we
Yeah, he seems a guy like Holding where he spent about same amount of time in each decade now I look at it year by year.Had a glorious run from 1991 - 1993 including three tons on the trot against the Poms. His form took a bit of a dip after that though.
I've looked into the options and sadly came to same conclusion.well i wasn't copping fat cat.
Last test was vs Sri Lanka here(Adelaide) in Jan 1996. I saw his final ever innings. The hill were all calling for him to be given in the last half hour of the day.1995 I think? I'm still torn on Boony, played a greater number of Tests in the 90's. Might even be statistically better in the 90's as well.
I going for Border at six as we going to need his skill to farm the strike and keep the tailenders off strike
True either way.border is by far the best player in the side and is a waste at 6.
sadly, he would be shielding the tail batting at 3,4 or 5 as well.
England | Trent Bridge | 1st | b M Hendrick | 13 | 47 | 439 | 39.91 | |
| | | 2nd | c M W Gatting b I T Botham | 6 | 34 | 445 | 37.08 |
England | Lord's | 1st | b G R Dilley | 1 | 7 | 446 | 34.31 | |
| | | 2nd | c I T Botham b R G D Willis | 3 | 32 | 449 | 32.07 |
Sri Lanka | Asgiriya Stadium | 1st | lbw b A L F De Mel | 98 | 238 | 547 | 36.47 | |
Pakistan | WACA Ground | 1st | b Azeem Hafeez | 141 | 274 | 688 | 43.00 | |
Pakistan | Brisbane Cricket Ground | 1st | c †Wasim Bari b Rashid Khan | 33 | 71 | 721 | 42.41 | |
Pakistan | Adelaide Oval | 1st | c Qasim Omar b Sarfraz Nawaz | 68 | 82 | 789 | 43.83 | |
| | | 2nd | c Javed Miandad b Abdul Qadir | 14 | 29 | 803 | 42.26 |
Pakistan | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 1st | c †Wasim Bari b Sarfraz Nawaz | 268 | 517 | 1071 | 53.55 | |
Pakistan | Sydney Cricket Ground | 1st | c †Wasim Bari b Mudassar Nazar | 30 | 45 | 1101 | 52.43 |
Wessels
Phillips
Yallop
Hughes
D Jones
Border
Mathews
Yardley
Lawson
Alderman
Reid
I've looked into the options and sadly came to same conclusion.
fu** this period is really dark period of Australian cricket.
It is like visiting the black lodge in David Lynch's Fire Walk With Me.
I have to cop Mo Mathews as much as it kills me.
I just looked at list of players available and honestly hard to find anyone to keep, find anyone to bat first drop and so left with real crazy looking line-up of someone batting 3 like Hughes or Border because no one else any good to do it
I feel there I have to pick make shift keeper Wayen Phillips and maybe he should bat at first drop and Mo Mathews plays as allrounder and bats 7 where keeper normally is.
Wessels
Laird (you guys going for Swampy so I accept he will not get into collective team)
W Phillips (keeper)
Hughes
D Jones
Border (captain)
Matthews
Yardley
Lawson
Alderman
Reid
I going for Border at six as we going to need his skill to farm the strike and keep the tailenders off strike
Weird side but best I can come up with given this horrible decade and rules that mean guys mainly from 70's or 90's cannot be included.
Border could bat 6 and was good at it.How bout moving Border up the order & maximizing time at the crease for the side's best batsman?!
It was horrible. Mid 80's virtually would give you nightmares if you lived through it.Horrible era if for some reason you can't select the best performed players
It was horrible. Mid 80's virtually would give you nightmares if you lived through it.
Border could bat 6 and was good at it.
Not sure Jones suited to it.
Hughes 4 is his spot.
He scores at first drop in 1980's are below. He did not normally bat there. Most times it when someone at top of order probably injured.Border was good at 3 too. You want your best players to potentially spend more time at crease
England | Edgbaston | 1st | c †R W Taylor b C M Old | 2 | 24 | 950 | 45.24 | |
| | | 2nd | c M W Gatting b J E Emburey | 40 | 175 | 990 | 45.00 |
Pakistan | Iqbal Stadium | 2nd | c Haroon Rashid b Abdul Qadir | 31 | 106 | 1021 | 44.39 | |
England | WACA Ground | 1st | c †R W Taylor b I T Botham | 8 | 20 | 1029 | 42.88 | |
| | | 2nd | not out | 32* | 65 | 1061 | 44.21 |
England | Brisbane Cricket Ground | 1st | c D W Randall b R G D Willis | 0 | 7 | 1061 | 42.44 | |
| | | 2nd | c I T Botham b E E Hemmings | 15 | 29 | 1076 | 41.38 |
West Indies | Antigua Recreation Ground | 1st | c †P J L Dujon b E A E Baptiste | 98 | 202 | 1174 | 43.48 | |
| | | 2nd | c C G Greenidge b E A E Baptiste | 19 | 67 | 1193 | 42.61 |
West Indies | Sabina Park | 1st | c †P J L Dujon b M D Marshall | 41 | 104 | 1234 | 42.55 | |
| | | 2nd | not out | 60* | 191 | 1294 | 44.62 |
West Indies | Adelaide Oval | 2nd | b M D Marshall | 18 | 25 | 1312 | 43.73 | |
India | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 2nd | st S M H Kirmani b N S Yadav | 163 | 358 | 1475 | 47.58 | |
India | Sydney Cricket Ground | 1st | c C Sharma b R J Shastri | 71 | 172 | 1546 | 48.31 |
You clearly very lucky to not live through it.Yeah but it's an 80's team not mid 80's
You clearly very lucky to not live through it.
Try being up late in night of 1981 and watching Botham slice ball over slips a billion times and cope with losing the match when you put them in for follow on.
The nightmares more frequent in mid 80's bit not just restricted to middle of decade. Sprinkled all over the decade in scary fashion.