The obscure XI's you've always wanted to make but never found the appropriate place thread

[Pippen94]

Overseas born team would be handy.

Usman Khawaja
Matt Renshaw
Marnus Labuschagne
Meg Lanning (capt)
Moises Henriques
Hilton Cartwright
Sam Whiteman (wk)
Michael Neser
Aaron Hardie
Fawad Ahmed
Steven O'Keefe

Overseas born team would be handy.

Usman Khawaja
Matt Renshaw
Marnus Labuschagne
Meg Lanning (capt)
Moises Henriques
Hilton Cartwright
Sam Whiteman (wk)
Michael Neser
Aaron Hardie
Fawad Ahmed
Steven O'Keefe

Was is there women's player in men's team??

 

[big_e]

Was is there women's player in men's team??

Um, because it's my team and I can pick whoever the **** I want to pick?

 

[Godchin]

Um, because it's my team and I can pick whoever the fu** I want to pick?

Yeah but why?

 

[Pippen94]

Um, because it's my team and I can pick whoever the fu** I want to pick?

Great - I wouldn't mix men's & women's teams cause you end with female facing short pitched bowling.

 

[big_e]

Yeah but why?

Why not?

 

[big_e]

Great - I wouldn't mix men's & women's teams cause you end with female facing short pitched bowling.

This team wouldn't play anyway. Steve O'Keefe would get pissed in the team meeting, which would annoy Khawaja and Fawad, and then accuse Meg of being a lesbian, who would retort with "but I'm still a better cricketer than Hilton ****ing Cartwright", at which point it all degenerates into a scene that would make Simon Katich and Michael Clarke blush.

 

[STFU Donnie]

Afghanistan would do pretty well in this. South Africa as well.

It's a shame Poland doesn't play test cricket.

 

[the fly]

Or is it the first L that's silent ?

According to BT, neither!

MY RANDOM CRICKET IDENTITIES FANTASY ELEVEN

I would've expected to see either Bill Wyman or Charlie Watts in there.

Russell Crowe (New Zealand): Rusty would bring a hard-edged Romper Stomper mentality to this team. He loves his rugby so why wouldn’t he take to cricket? Rusty needs a bit of regular exercise, so he could prove himself a real master and commander with some gladiator-style stroke-play at number five. And don’t forget, Russell does have some cricketing pedigree in his blood as New Zealand’s greatest ever batsman Martin Crowe was his cousin.

I remember Rusty talking in an interview about a match played between a Crowe Family XI and a Maltese side. Rusty came in early and was dismissed cheaply, but not before running out 2 of his cousins (including either Martin or Jeff).

 

[Gough]

XI selected from signed books on my shelf.
Hobbes
B Richards
Bradman
Pollock
Ponting
Sobers
Botham
Gilchrist
Warne
Walsh

 

[eth-dog]

XI selected from signed books on my shelf.
Hobbes
B Richards
Bradman
Pollock
Ponting
Sobers
Botham
Gilchrist
Warne
Walsh

Surely Gilly bats 7 and Beefy 8? Also you need one more

 

[Gough]

Surely Gilly bats 7 and Beefy 8? Also you need one more

Add Allan Donald.

 

[eth-dog]

Add Allan Donald.

Okay, that's a fair side.

 

[dogs105]

Great - I wouldn't mix men's & women's teams cause you end with female facing short pitched bowling.

Bradman probably wouldn't fare very well against short pitched bowling these days either.

 

[dogs105]

XI selected from signed books on my shelf.
Hobbes
B Richards
Bradman
Pollock
Ponting
Sobers
Botham
Gilchrist
Warne
Walsh

XI from autographs I got as a kid:

Kepler Wessels
Andrew Hilditch
David Gower
Allan Border
Martin Crowe
Greg Chappell
Richard Hadlee
John Bracewell
Ray Bright
Geoff Lawson


Not enough wicket-keepers field near the fence...

 

[Pippen94]

Bradman probably wouldn't dare very well against short pitched bowling these days either.

You heard of bodyline??

 

[dogs105]

You heard of bodyline??

Yes??

 

[Pippen94]

Yes??

Then he'd do fine

 

[dogs105]

Then he'd do fine

He's dead mate...

 

[Pippen94]

He's dead mate...

I assumed if he was playing in this era, but ur right he is dead

 

[dogs105]

I assumed if he was playing in this era, but ur right he is dead

Yep. These are fantasy teams, so comments about women being in "men's" teams being unrealistic are a it pointless.

 

[Pippen94]

Yep. These are fantasy teams, so comments about women being in "men's" teams being unrealistic are a it pointless.

Stretching the fantasy aspect.

 

[dogs105]

Stretching the fantasy aspect.

Which part? Women, or dead people?

 

[Pippen94]

Which part? Women, or dead people?

Having Meg Lanning face Joel Garner from my all time xi

 

[dogs105]

Having Meg Lanning face Joel Garner from my all time xi

Why is your all time XI playing the overseas born XI?

 

[Pippen94]

Why is your all time XI playing the overseas born XI?

To win this thread of course