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

[eth-dog]

I'm about to pick them apart a bit but don't think it's because I don't enjoy reading them. I do and appreciate the effort you go to do them.

Labuschagne is surely in QLD's XI? If he's not because he moved to Australia when he was 10 then that also rules Neser out of QLD (and probably rules Inglis out of WA).

Aiden Cahill is from Newcastle. Only moved to SA last season.

Radhakrishnan and Carlisle are also from NSW.

Lab was an honest oversight.

Cahill just assumed he was a rookie contract from SA. Rad I thought spent most of his juniors in Tassie?

 

[corbies]

Lab was an honest oversight.

Cahill just assumed he was a rookie contract from SA. Rad I thought spent most of his juniors in Tassie?

Radhakrishnan moved to Australia when he was 10. Lived in Sydney from then until he got the Tasmania contract.

Meet Nivethan Radhakrishnan: Australia’s ambidextrous cricket prodigy

Australia unearth ambidextrous cricket prodigy

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[reggie]

Bumping for my annual SoO sides:

NSW:

Hunt
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Maddinson
Doran (+)
Cummins (c)
Starc
Lyon
Tremain
Hazlewood

Qld:

Street
Renshaw
Burns
Clayton
McSweeney
Peirson (+, c)
Neser
Wildermuth
Steketee
Swepson
Doggett

SA:

Weatherald*
K Smith
Drew
Head
Carey (+)
Neilsen
T Kelly
A Cahill
S Johnson
D Grant
Pope

Tas:

Jewell
Wright
Webster
Wade (+, c)
Owen
??? (nobbyiscool any thoughts? Can't find any other Tassie players in your squad)
Freeman
Rainbird
Carlisle
Radhakrishnan
Bell

Vic:

Short
Pucovski
Handscomb
Kellaway
Maxwell
Harper (+)
A Agar
Sutherland (c)
Perry
Murphy
Boland

WA:

Harris
Bancroft
Whiteman
Green
M Marsh (c)
Cartwright
Inglis (+)
Paris
Richardson
Rocchiccioli
Morris

*counting him as SA as NT don't have a team.

Surely Hardie makes the WA team? In for Cartwright

 

[eth-dog]

Surely Hardie makes the WA team? In for Cartwright

Cartwright the better bat. Don't think you need all of Marsh, Green and Hardie tbh

 

[reggie]

Cartwright the better bat. Don't think you need all of Marsh, Green and Hardie tbh

Your call for your teams obviously but Hardie ave 43, Cartwright 35. For that matter Hardie has the best bowling average out of all four of them. I absolutely guarantee you that if WA are ever full strength Hardie will be selected ahead of Cartwright.

 

[eth-dog]

Your call for your teams obviously but Hardie ave 43, Cartwright 35. For that matter Hardie has the best bowling average out of all four of them. I absolutely guarantee you that if WA are ever full strength Hardie will be selected ahead of Cartwright.

Hardie started his career batting 7 or 8 and his average is boosted by having been not out in 25% of his innings. Cartwright has batted 3-5 nearly his entire career and has always batted ahead of Hardie. If you cut 2/3 his not outs to be a similar ratio to that of Cartwright then he averages less than him.

Hardie has the best bowling average but he isn't getting picked as a bowler.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Has anyone put up a ‘Bowlers who didn’t know where the business end of a bat was’?

1. Chris ‘The Phantom’ Martin
2. Courtney Walsh
3. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
4. Glenn ‘61’ McGrath
5. Phil Tufnell
6. Alan Mullally - how’s that? Quack quack
7. Danish Kaneria
8. Devon Malcolm
9. Fidel Edwards
10. Monty Panesar
11. Mervyn Dillon

12. Allan Donald

 

[ioppolo]

Has anyone put up a ‘Bowlers who didn’t know where the business end of a bat was’?

1. Chris ‘The Phantom’ Martin
2. Courtney Walsh
3. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
4. Glenn ‘61’ McGrath
5. Phil Tufnell
6. Alan Mullally - how’s that? Quack quack
7. Danish Kaneria
8. Devon Malcolm
9. Fidel Edwards
10. Monty Panesar
11. Mervyn Dillon

12. Allan Donald

Former Zimbabwean bowler Chris Mpofu. Averaged 5 in tests and 2.5 in ODIs

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Former Zimbabwean bowler Chris Mpofu. Averaged 5 in tests and 2.5 in ODIs

Listen, it’s a tough team to break into, but with numbers like that he’s a shot.

 

[eth-dog]

Has anyone put up a ‘Bowlers who didn’t know where the business end of a bat was’?

1. Chris ‘The Phantom’ Martin
2. Courtney Walsh
3. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
4. Glenn ‘61’ McGrath
5. Phil Tufnell
6. Alan Mullally - how’s that? Quack quack
7. Danish Kaneria
8. Devon Malcolm
9. Fidel Edwards
10. Monty Panesar
11. Mervyn Dillon

12. Allan Donald

Going the other way, great batters with under 10 wickets at test level:

1. Alastair Cook
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Kumar Sangakkara (+)
6. Brian Lara
7. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
8. Mahela Jayawardena
9. Younis Khan
10. Hashim Amla
11. Inzimam Ul-Haq

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Going the other way, great batters with under 10 wickets at test level:

1. Alastair Cook
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Kumar Sangakkara (+)
6. Brian Lara
7. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
8. Mahela Jayawardena
9. Younis Khan
10. Hashim Amla
11. Inzimam Ul-Haq

Thought Graeme Smith used to roll the arm over a bit early on, clearly not

 

[eth-dog]

Thought Graeme Smith used to roll the arm over a bit early on, clearly not

So did I, but only 8 wickets in his test career

 

[dogs105]

Geoff Marsh
Greg Ritchie
Dean Jones
Allan Border
Dirk Wellham
Steve Waugh
Peter Sleep
Tim Zoehrer
Peter Taylor
Merv Hughes
Bruce Reid

 

[Gough]

Geoff Marsh
Greg Ritchie
Dean Jones
Allan Border
Dirk Wellham
Steve Waugh
Peter Sleep
Tim Zoehrer
Peter Taylor
Merv Hughes
Bruce Reid

1986/87 in Sydney against England.

 

[dogs105]

1986/87 in Sydney against England.

If you want to feel old, Bruce Reid is now 60!

 

[Rabish Binney]

Former Zimbabwean bowler Chris Mpofu. Averaged 5 in tests and 2.5 in ODIs

Former Australian leg spinner Jim Higgs has to be in that side

1st class batting average: 5.50
Test batting average: 5.54

 

[Daniel B]

NSW:

Hunt
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Maddinson
Doran (+)
Cummins (c)
Starc
Lyon
Tremain
Hazlewood

That team would be very hard to beat, particularly in longer format.

 

[Daniel B]

Has anyone put up a ‘Bowlers who didn’t know where the business end of a bat was’?

1. Chris ‘The Phantom’ Martin
2. Courtney Walsh
3. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
4. Glenn ‘61’ McGrath
5. Phil Tufnell
6. Alan Mullally - how’s that? Quack quack
7. Danish Kaneria
8. Devon Malcolm
9. Fidel Edwards
10. Monty Panesar
11. Mervyn Dillon

12. Allan Donald

Didn't Ajit Agarkar make something like 9 consecutive ducks at one point?

 

[ioppolo]

Didn't Ajit Agarkar make something like 9 consecutive ducks at one point?

Has a test century to go with that remarkably.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Didn't Ajit Agarkar make something like 9 consecutive ducks at one point?

I believe so, Mullally went Olympic when he was out here I believe

 

[Bedi]

If you want to feel old, Bruce Reid is now 60!

and packed on the pounds

 

[worbod]

An alphabetical team of John variants
(Listed in reverse batting order to highlight alphabetical unity)


Jonathan Agnew
Jonny Bairstow w/k (Down the order to support the tail, until he learns to stop sooking)
John Cleese (Listed in Wisden for his exploits with Clifton College. He can inform Bairstow about the true meaning of doing a silly walk)
Johnny Douglas
John Emburey
Jack Fingleton
Jack Gregory
Jack Hobbs
John Inverarity
John Jameson
Jacques Kallis

 

[gordo2016]

Former Australian leg spinner Jim Higgs has to be in that side

1st class batting average: 5.50
Test batting average: 5.54

Alan Hurst, who played with him in that 78/79 series with him against England, wasn't much better. Test average of 6.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Has anyone put up a ‘Bowlers who didn’t know where the business end of a bat was’?

1. Chris ‘The Phantom’ Martin
2. Courtney Walsh
3. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
4. Glenn ‘61’ McGrath
5. Phil Tufnell
6. Alan Mullally - how’s that? Quack quack
7. Danish Kaneria
8. Devon Malcolm
9. Fidel Edwards
10. Monty Panesar
11. Mervyn Dillon

12. Allan Donald

Great list.

Carl Rackemann unlucky...

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

If you want to feel old, Bruce Reid is now 60!

We need a Bruce team.

Bruce Laird
Bruce Edgar
Bruce Murray
William Bruce
Bruce Taylor
Bruce French w/k
Bruce Yardley
Bruce Martin
Bruce Morrison
Bruce Dooland
Bruce Reid