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

[sabso]

A team of saints (not really, but their surnames begin with ST)

Keith Stackpole
Jeff Stollmeyer
Andrew Strauss
Andrew Stoddart
Alec Stewart
Ben Stokes
Heath Streak
Franklyn Stephenson
Mitchell Starc
Dale Steyn
Brian Statham

I recall 6 players with saint in their names, all West Indian. Not sure I could stretch those to a full xi

 

[worbod]

I recall 6 players with saint in their names, all West Indian. Not sure I could stretch those to a full xi

Sobers is the main one, with St Aubrun being his middle name. Not sure who the others are off the top of my head. I was half contemplating doing a team like this, thinking I could also add in Shane Warne, who played district cricket for St Kilda, but I couldn't think of other saintly links.

 

[sabso]

Sobers is the main one, with St Aubrun being his middle name. Not sure who the others are off the top of my head. I was half contemplating doing a team like this, thinking I could also add in Shane Warne, who played district cricket for St Kilda, but I couldn't think of other saintly links.

Wilton st hill, Edwin st hill, Denis st Eval Atkinson, Eric st Eval Atkinson, Easton Dudley Ashley St John mcmorris

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Matthew Hayden
Bob Simpson
David Boon
Steve Smith
Michael Hussey
Shane Watson
Adam Gilchrist
Bill O’Reilly
Jack Gregory
Ian Meckiff
Scott Boland

 

[ioppolo]

Opened the batting for Australia in tests. Though I don't remember Gilly doing it tbh.

 

[Wallaby]

Matthew Hayden
Bob Simpson
David Boon
Steve Smith
Michael Hussey
Shane Watson
Adam Gilchrist
Bill O’Reilly
Jack Gregory
Ian Meckiff
Scott Boland

Need to Include (just the recent ones):

Glenn Maxwell
Alex Carey
Kerry O'Keefe
Peter Taylor
Bruce Yardley
Rod Marsh
Matt Kuhnemann
Greg Matthews
Ian Chappell
Richie Robinson
Matty Wade


Seems like Keepers are well represented. A few spinners - not many quicks - Boland a leader as always.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Opened the batting for Australia in tests. Though I don't remember Gilly doing it tbh.

Once - first test in Brisbane in 2001. Second innings. Looks like Australia had very little time to put on a few runs to set the Kiwis a target. Gilly opened with Hayden. They declared having made 2/84 off 14 overs - he made 20.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Need to Include (just the recent ones):

Glenn Maxwell
Alex Carey
Kerry O'Keefe
Peter Taylor
Bruce Yardley
Rod Marsh
Matt Kuhnemann
Greg Matthews
Ian Chappell
Richie Robinson
Matty Wade


Seems like Keepers are well represented. A few spinners - not many quicks - Boland a leader as always.

Yep not may quicks. Gregory is a great story though, sounds like he would’ve been fantastic to watch.

As well as 129 first class matches for New South Wales he played in 24 Tests between 1920 and 1928. He was known mainly as a fearsome right-arm fast bowler but he also achieved a batting average of 36.50 and 1146 runs including two centuries, batting left-handed and gloveless. He also batted without a box.[1] His best bowling was 7/69 in an innings and 8/101 in a match at the 1920/21 Test against England at the MCG.[1]

At the Johannesburg Test in 1921 he scored a century from 67 balls in 70 minutes, which was at the time the fastest hundred in terms of both balls faced and minutes taken in the history of Test cricket. The record stood until 1985 when Viv Richards managed the feat with 56 balls but it remains the record for the fastest hundred in terms of minutes. His record of 15 catches in the 1920–21 Ashes series still stands as the record for the most catches by a fieldsman in a Test series.[2] A knee injury suffered in the 1928 Brisbane Test match brought his cricket career to an abrupt end.

A ton in 70 minutes - without gloves or a box!

 

[ioppolo]

Yep not may quicks. Gregory is a great story though, sounds like he would’ve been fantastic to watch.

As well as 129 first class matches for New South Wales he played in 24 Tests between 1920 and 1928. He was known mainly as a fearsome right-arm fast bowler but he also achieved a batting average of 36.50 and 1146 runs including two centuries, batting left-handed and gloveless. He also batted without a box.[1] His best bowling was 7/69 in an innings and 8/101 in a match at the 1920/21 Test against England at the MCG.[1]

At the Johannesburg Test in 1921 he scored a century from 67 balls in 70 minutes, which was at the time the fastest hundred in terms of both balls faced and minutes taken in the history of Test cricket. The record stood until 1985 when Viv Richards managed the feat with 56 balls but it remains the record for the fastest hundred in terms of minutes. His record of 15 catches in the 1920–21 Ashes series still stands as the record for the most catches by a fieldsman in a Test series.[2] A knee injury suffered in the 1928 Brisbane Test match brought his cricket career to an abrupt end.

A ton in 70 minutes - without gloves or a box!

Gregball

 

[sabso]

Yep not may quicks. Gregory is a great story though, sounds like he would’ve been fantastic to watch.

As well as 129 first class matches for New South Wales he played in 24 Tests between 1920 and 1928. He was known mainly as a fearsome right-arm fast bowler but he also achieved a batting average of 36.50 and 1146 runs including two centuries, batting left-handed and gloveless. He also batted without a box.[1] His best bowling was 7/69 in an innings and 8/101 in a match at the 1920/21 Test against England at the MCG.[1]

At the Johannesburg Test in 1921 he scored a century from 67 balls in 70 minutes, which was at the time the fastest hundred in terms of both balls faced and minutes taken in the history of Test cricket. The record stood until 1985 when Viv Richards managed the feat with 56 balls but it remains the record for the fastest hundred in terms of minutes. His record of 15 catches in the 1920–21 Ashes series still stands as the record for the most catches by a fieldsman in a Test series.[2] A knee injury suffered in the 1928 Brisbane Test match brought his cricket career to an abrupt end.

A ton in 70 minutes - without gloves or a box!

 

[big_e]

The most recent eleven test players from each Shield side (based on where they were playing when first picked, and in a rough sort of batting order):


NSW
Warner
Konstas
Patterson
Maddinson
Henriques
Nevill
Cummins
Starc
Copeland
Hazlewood
O'Keefe


WA
S Marsh
Bancroft
Voges
Cartwright
Green
M Marsh
Inglis
Connolly
Agar
Richardson
Beer


VIC
Pucovski
Harris
Quiney
Handscomb
Finch
Maxwell
Wade
Murphy
Hastings
Boland
Holland


TAS
Cowan
Weatherald
Doolan
Bailey
Webster
Faulkner
Paine
Hilfenhaus
Krezja
Bird
Doherty


SA
Head
McSweeney
Ferguson
Carey
Manou
George
Mennie
Sayers
Doggett
Lyon
Cullen



QLD
Burns
Renshaw
Labuschagne
Watson
Symonds
Johnson
Neser
Hauritz
Harris
Swepson
Kuhnemann

 

[ioppolo]

For all our pace bowling dominance it's interesting that Richardson is the only one to have a test cap of recent times.

 

[big_e]

For all our pace bowling dominance it's interesting that Richardson is the only one to have a test cap of recent times.

Yeah, we do better in white-ball formats with Paris. Morris, Behrendorff, Tye and Coulter-Nile, I guess. But I don't think there's really anyone who could feel hard done by in missing out on test selection from WA lately.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Yeah, we do better in white-ball formats with Paris. Morris, Behrendorff, Tye and Coulter-Nile, I guess. But I don't think there's really anyone who could feel hard done by in missing out on test selection from WA lately.

Behrendorff could have been a real handful at test level. The way he could get lift off dead surfaces would have been particularly useful in Asia.. But on the few occasions a spot came open, he was injured.

 

[cricketnut14]

Phil Jaques
Wayne Phillips (wk)
Jason Gillespie
Martin Love
Brad Hodge
Stuart Law
Kurtis Patterson
Tony Dodemaide
Andy Bichel
Bruce Yardley
Colin Miller

 

[happy_eagle]

Phil Jaques
Wayne Phillips (wk)
Jason Gillespie
Martin Love
Brad Hodge
Stuart Law
Kurtis Patterson
Tony Dodemaide
Andy Bichel
Bruce Yardley
Colin Miller

Scoring a hundred in their last test ?

 

[eth-dog]

Scoring a hundred in their last test ?

Nah, Hodge played 3 more tests after his 200

 

[happy_eagle]

Ok, must be something to do with those players being "backups", or born in the wrong era.

 

[big_e]

Phil Jaques
Wayne Phillips (wk)
Jason Gillespie
Martin Love
Brad Hodge
Stuart Law
Kurtis Patterson
Tony Dodemaide
Andy Bichel
Bruce Yardley
Colin Miller

A list of players I have an irrational amount of affection for?

 

[cricketnut14]

Scoring a hundred in their last test ?

close but no cigar.

 

[ioppolo]

close but no cigar.

Something to do with their highest score/best bowling figures?

Andy Bichel is throwing me off

 

[cricketnut14]

Something to do with their highest score/best bowling figures?

Andy Bichel is throwing me off

not quite their highest score/best bowling figures.

tell ya what though, i'll make james faulkner the 12th man

 

[troybe]

Phil Jaques
Wayne Phillips (wk)
Jason Gillespie
Martin Love
Brad Hodge
Stuart Law
Kurtis Patterson
Tony Dodemaide
Andy Bichel
Bruce Yardley
Colin Miller

All have batted at No 3 in Tests

 

[ioppolo]

Highest test score was made on either their debut or final test match?

EDIT..Scratch that, Hodge doesn't fit.

 

[MisterMarcus]

not quite their highest score/best bowling figures.

tell ya what though, i'll make james faulkner the 12th man

Won some individual award like MOTM in their final game (whether it be Test or first class or one-dayer)??