Team of the Century

[WCE2000]

Cricket is the type of game where statistics tell alot more truth than they do in a game such as football.

So that said, this is my team of the century:

Player.............Batting...........Bowling Average
Jack Hobbs.........5410 at 56.96.....1 at 165.00
Herb Sutcliffe.....4555 at 60.73.....never bowled
Don Bradman........6996 at 99.94.....2 at 36.00
Wally Hammond......7249 at 58.46.....83 at 37.81
Everton Weekes.....4455 at 58.62.....1 at 77.00
Gary Sobers........8032 at 57.78.....235 at 34.04
Keith Miller.......2958 at 36.97.....170 at 22.98
Imran Khan.........3807 at 37.69.....362 at 22.81
Rod Marsh..........3663 at 26.74.....0 at -
Malcolm Marshall...1810 at 18.85.....376 at 20.95
Clarrie Grimmett....557 at 13.93.....216 at 24.22


I made a squad of 20, before picking my final 11. The others in my 20 man squad were:
Richard Hadlee
Ken Barrington
Graeme Pollock
Len Hutton
Sachin Tendulkar
Ian Healy
Curtly Ambrose
Fred Trueman
Jim Laker

Your Thoughts?????

 

[servo]

Hmmm, I reckon I might have had Ian Botham in there somewhere. Maybe also Bill Ponsford.

 

[jod23]

No Merv Hughes

 

[Darky]

Hadlee, Healy and Hutton would have to be a bit stiff there, but it would be hard to argue who they would replace. Overall a great side regardless of one or two debatable spots, and a good effort to name them on the whole. As Jod and I could probably point out no "best of" will ever be unanimous, so it's a pretty thankless task, and a good effort to name an 11 without looking like a goose.

 

[Dipper]

Where's DK? & I reckon you'd be better off with Hadlee than Imran anyday & wasn't O'reilly better than Grimmett & wasn't Warne better than both of them.....blah....blah......blah....seriously it's like Darky days you're never gonna get everyone to agree but remember 'There's lies, damned lies & then there's statistics.' but if you can't find a place for Lillee then something's gotta be wrong.