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

[The Passenger]

Maher
Hayden
Love
Law
???
Symonds
Hartley
Bichel
Kaspar
Dale
???

Joe Dawes and Ashley Noffke were real good players, but don't think you can fit them both in.

 

[eth-dog]

Joe Dawes and Ashley Noffke were real good players, but don't think you can fit them both in.

I'd probably put Noffke in at 8. Who bats at 5 though?

 

[The Passenger]

I'd probably put Noffke in at 8. Who bats at 5 though?

Hopes started 01/02 - can't remember when he established. Like most, probably took a couple of years. May have been too late for that era.

 

[The Passenger]

just quick scan of the shield final scorecards and Foley played 6 in at least couple (probably more) but he was probably considered the weak link in the team at the time.

 

[sherb]

Would have Di Venuto in for Klinger and Siddons in for Shane Lee. Bichel got a decent run, probably switch him for an Adam Dale or Matthew Inness.

I'd put Shaun Young in front of Shane Lee.

But I'm biased.

 

[Gibbke]

Tasmanian Best All-Time XI - International home grown reps only
Charles Eady
Michael Divenuto
David Boon
Ricky Ponting (c)
Jack Badcock
George Bailey
Tim Paine (wk)
Shaun Young
James Faulkner
Ben Hilfenhaus
Laurie Nash

Tasmanian Best All-Time XI - International imported reps only!
Shane Watson
Khalid Ibadulla
Rohan Kanhai
Michael Bevan
Brian Davison (c)
Colin Miller
Allan Knott (wk)
Michael Holding
Winston Davis
Dennis Lillee
Patrick Patterson

 

[FredLeDeux]

Tasmanian Best All-Time XI - International home grown reps only
Charles Eady
Michael Divenuto
David Boon
Ricky Ponting (c)
Jack Badcock
George Bailey
Tim Paine (wk)
Shaun Young
James Faulkner
Ben Hilfenhaus
Laurie Nash

Tasmanian Best All-Time XI - International imported reps only!
Shane Watson
Khalid Ibadulla
Rohan Kanhai
Michael Bevan
Brian Davison (c)
Colin Miller
Allan Knott (wk)
Michael Holding
Winston Davis
Dennis Lillee
Patrick Patterson

Nash is a cuckoo.

 

[worbod]

A perfectly-paired eleven (twelve)

Percy Holmes and
Shane Watson
Will Pucovski
and
WG Grace
Bill Brown
and
Ben Stokes
Tom Graveney
and
Gerry Alexander (w/k)
Wayne Daniel
and
Garth McKenzie
Bert Ironmonger
and
Ernie Toshack

 

[FredLeDeux]

A perfectly-paired eleven (twelve)

Percy Holmes and
Shane Watson
Will Pucovski
and
WG Grace
Bill Brown
and
Ben Stokes
Tom Graveney
and
Gerry Alexander (w/k)
Wayne Daniel
and
Garth McKenzie
Bert Ironmonger
and
Ernie Toshack

Langer and Martin, in their progression through the elite junior ranks, were known as Bill & Ben the Flowerpot Men

 

[archibald]

An Acrostic Cricket Team


Conrad Hunte
Roy Fredericks
Ian Chappell
Clive Lloyd
Kumar Sangakkara
Eddie Barlow
Tim Paine (w/k)
Trent Boult
Eldine Baptiste
Allan Donald
Muttiah Muralitharan

Ijaz Ahmed
Len Hutton
Lindsay Hasset
Umar Akmal
Mark Waugh
Ian Healy
Neil Johnson
Abdul Razzaq
Tony Lock
Imran Khan
Triangle

Coach: David Icke

 

[archibald]

This one should be fairly easy

Michael Atherton
Alec Stewart
Rahul Dravid
Nasser Hussain
Hansie Cronje
Graham Thorpe
Ashwell Prince
Mark Boucher
Ashley Giles
Steve Harmison
Andrew Caddick

 

[jle101]

Tasmanian Best All-Time XI - International home grown reps only
Charles Eady
Michael Divenuto
David Boon
Ricky Ponting (c)
Jack Badcock
George Bailey
Tim Paine (wk)
Shaun Young
James Faulkner
Ben Hilfenhaus
Laurie Nash

Tasmanian Best All-Time XI - International imported reps only!
Shane Watson
Khalid Ibadulla
Rohan Kanhai
Michael Bevan
Brian Davison (c)
Colin Miller
Allan Knott (wk)
Michael Holding
Winston Davis
Dennis Lillee
Patrick Patterson

Jamie Cox incredibly unlucky not to make the home grown side. Either Jackson Bird or Rod Tucker would be better picks than Marsh @ No. 8.

 

[jle101]

An Aussie XI of golden age players which never got much of a run in Tests, if at all...

Jamie Cox
Martin Love
Michael Klinger
Stuart Law*
Brad Hodge
Shane Lee
Tim Neilsen+
Ian Harvey
Bradley Hogg
Andrew Bichel
Damien Wright

Wanted to include Jamie Siddons here, but he was in his prime a decade earlier.

In addition to this, here's an England XI from the same time period which should have played more Tests considering their selection woes of the time.

Nick Knight
Alistair Brown
Matthew Maynard
Chris Adams
Neil Fairbrother
Ben Hollioake
Chris Read+
Robert Croft
Alex Tudor
Dean Headley
Ryan Sidebottom

 

[royboy2]

Not really an obscure XI but in the Lara thread, I said if I was picking a team of the best I've seen Lara would be first picked and that got me thinking about who else?

1.  S. Tendulkar       (IND)
2.  K. Sangakkara (wk) (SRI)
3.  R. Ponting         (AUS)
4.  J. Kallis          (RSA)
5.  V. Richards        (WIN)
6.  B. Lara            (WIN)
7.  I. Botham          (ENG)
8.  I. Khan        (c) (PAK)
9.  W. Akram           (PAK)
10. S. Warne           (AUS)
11. R. Hadlee          (NZL)

12. M. Murilitharan    (SRI)

 

[PhatBoy]

Not really an obscure XI but in the Lara thread, I said if I was picking a team of the best I've seen Lara would be first picked and that got me thinking about who else?

1.  S. Tendulkar       (IND)
2.  K. Sangakkara (wk) (SRI)
3.  R. Ponting         (AUS)
4.  J. Kallis          (RSA)
5.  V. Richards        (WIN)
6.  B. Lara            (WIN)
7.  I. Botham          (ENG)
8.  I. Khan        (c) (PAK)
9.  W. Akram           (PAK)
10. S. Warne           (AUS)
11. R. Hadlee          (NZL)

12. M. Murilitharan    (SRI)

I’m excluding players like Richards, Greenidge, Imran, Marshall because I only watched them well into their twilight. Mind you my team would change every five minutes probably


G. Smith (c)
A. Cook
R. Ponting
B. Lara
J. Kallis
S. Smith
A. Gilchrist
S. Warne
C. Ambrose
D. Steyn
G. McGrath

S. Tendulkar (12th)

 

[eth-dog]

Not really an obscure XI but in the Lara thread, I said if I was picking a team of the best I've seen Lara would be first picked and that got me thinking about who else?

1.  S. Tendulkar       (IND)
2.  K. Sangakkara (wk) (SRI)
3.  R. Ponting         (AUS)
4.  J. Kallis          (RSA)
5.  V. Richards        (WIN)
6.  B. Lara            (WIN)
7.  I. Botham          (ENG)
8.  I. Khan        (c) (PAK)
9.  W. Akram           (PAK)
10. S. Warne           (AUS)
11. R. Hadlee          (NZL)

12. M. Murilitharan    (SRI)

G Smith (c)
M Hayden
K Sangakkara
J Kallis
R Ponting
B Lara
A Gilchrist (+)
S Warne
D Steyn
M Muralitharan
G McGrath

 

[AFDogs]

Steve Smith is almost first picked in a 'best I've seen' team.

 

[PhatBoy]

Steve Smith is almost first picked in a 'best I've seen' team.

He’s in mine but a lot of people would leave him out because his career is still in progress and also a lot of us are waiting to see what the back end of his career brings because he is SO reliant on what is frankly probably the best eye in the last 70 years of cricket - when that starts to let him down a bit more there is a strong suspicion that his technique is going to be fairly ineffective. It will be fascinating to watch how he copes because so far he’s found an answer to every question he’s been asked as a test batsman

 

[jle101]

An XI of aesthetically pleasing cricketers I've seen

Saeed Anwar
Alistair Cook
Brian Lara
Mark Waugh
Damien Martyn
VVS Laxman
James Foster+
Wasim Akram
Curtly Ambrose
Dale Steyn
Stuart MacGill

 

[royboy2]

Gordon Greenidge
Alistair Cook
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Richie Richardson
Ian Botham
Clive Lloyd
Curtley Ambrose
Richard Hadlee
Wes Hall
Alec Bedser

Andrew Strauss

Don't have a keeper, I'm thinking Bradman could put the gloves on

 

[FredLeDeux]

Gordon Greenidge
Alistair Cook
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Richie Richardson
Ian Botham
Clive Lloyd
Curtley Ambrose
Richard Hadlee
Wes Hall
Alec Bedser

Andrew Strauss

Don't have a keeper, I'm thinking Bradman could put the gloves on

Geez, did you really see Bradman and Bedser play?

 

[royboy2]

Geez, did you really see Bradman and Bedser play?

No, I unfortunately missed Wes Hall too. These all have a common link though.

 

[FredLeDeux]

No, I unfortunately missed Wes Hall too. These all have a common link though.

Sorry, I thought it was your entry in the best team you'd seen.

 

[dogs105]

No, I unfortunately missed Wes Hall too. These all have a common link though.

Knighted cricketers?

 

[dogs105]

Maher
Hayden
Love
Law
???
Symonds
Hartley
Bichel
Kaspar
Dale
???

Muller Dawes Healy