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Post by Guest Fri 02 Sep 2011, 12:19 pm

What is the greatest test eleven of all time? This is mine, let me know what you think and/or make your own..

1)Stephen Fleming (C)
2)Jack Hobbs
3)Jacuqes Kallis
4)Sachin Tendulkar
5)Mahela Jaywardene
6)Ricky Ponting
7)Mark Boucher (WK)
8)Shane Warne
9)Allan Donald
10)Anil Kumble
11)Glenn McGrath

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Post by Dorothy_Mantooth Fri 02 Sep 2011, 3:26 pm

Have you not tried this wind up before?

You call it a "best of all time team" but pick mainly guys from the last 20 years and then defend it by saying you are only 17 or whatever....

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Post by Liam_Main Fri 02 Sep 2011, 3:29 pm

Mark Boucher shouldn't be anywhere near that side.
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Post by Mad for Chelsea Fri 02 Sep 2011, 3:36 pm

TBH cf that looks like a "best of what I've seen" with Jack Hobbs thrown in. My all-time XI tends to change every five minutes or so, but essentially looks something like this

Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Ken Barrington
Gary Sobers
Alan Knott
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Joel Garner
Glen McGrath

unlucky to miss out: plenty of fast bowlers (I've gone for balance in the attack), Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskat, Suttcliffe, Brian Lara, and many others...

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Post by Guest Fri 02 Sep 2011, 7:17 pm

Mad for Chelsea wrote:TBH cf that looks like a "best of what I've seen" with Jack Hobbs thrown in. My all-time XI tends to change every five minutes or so, but essentially looks something like this

Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Ken Barrington
Gary Sobers
Alan Knott
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Joel Garner
Glen McGrath

unlucky to miss out: plenty of fast bowlers (I've gone for balance in the attack), Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskat, Suttcliffe, Brian Lara, and many others...

who out of mine shouldnt be in there then?

there cant be many

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Post by Liam_Main Fri 02 Sep 2011, 7:22 pm

Bradman and Sobers are automatic inclusions
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Post by Fists of Fury Fri 02 Sep 2011, 7:32 pm

Lara anyone???

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Post by Mad for Chelsea Fri 02 Sep 2011, 7:39 pm

mentioned him in the "unlucky to miss out" bracket FoF. Bradman, Tendulkar and Sobers are always in my world XI, and today I felt the solidity of Barrington would complement them better than the flashier Lara or Richards. This could of course change tomorrow.

CF, wouldn't have Fleming (fine captain, but not that great a batsman), Jayawardene (struggled comparatively outside the sub-continent), Boucher (so many better keepers and keeper-batsmen) or Kumble (pretty ordinary outside the subcontinent TBH, fine bowler though he was) anywhere near a world all-time test XI.

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Post by gboycottnut Fri 02 Sep 2011, 9:52 pm

My all-time Test XI to take on any test team in :-

1) Lara
2) Hutton
3) Bradman
4) Tendulkar
5) V Richards
6) Sobers
7) Ames
8) Hadlee
9) Marshall
10)Warne
11)McGrath

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Post by Liam_Main Fri 02 Sep 2011, 10:00 pm

Brian Lara opening?
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Post by gboycottnut Fri 02 Sep 2011, 10:30 pm

Liam_Main wrote:Brian Lara opening?

He did open for the West Indies in a few test matches during the early 1990's.

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Post by Liam_Main Sat 03 Sep 2011, 11:55 am

1) Jack Hobbs
2) Sunil Gavaskar
3) Don Bradman
4) Sachin Tendulkar
5) Viv Richards
6) Gary Sobers
7) Adam Gilchrist (WK)
8) Malcolm Marshall
9) Shane Warne
10) Muttiah Muralitharan
11) Glen McGrath
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Post by ShankyCricket Sat 03 Sep 2011, 5:00 pm

Even if its a " from what i have seen" XI then how is Fleming in the side??????????????

Boucher ahead of Gilly and Flower?????????????????????????

Mahela batting above Ponting???????????????

Kumble ahead of Murali?

Donald ahead of Akram?????????????




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Post by GG Sat 03 Sep 2011, 6:17 pm

Hobbs
Hutton
Bradman
Kallis
Richards
Sobers
Gilchrist (w)
Warne (c)
Marshall
Ambrose
Muralitharan

unlucky to miss out - Flower, Tendulkar, Lara & McGrath

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Post by Mad for Chelsea Sat 03 Sep 2011, 11:14 pm

for a bit of fun, if I was picking a test XI from when I started watching (about 96) it would look something like this:

Hayden
Langer
Kallis
Lara
Tendulkar
S. Waugh (capt)
Gilchrist
Akram
Warne
Donald
McGrath

with Murali replacing Donald on subcontinent pitches

Ponting very unlucky to miss out, but wanted the steeliness of Waugh in there. Sehwag's awful record in England, SA and NZ counts against him

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Post by ShankyCricket Sun 04 Sep 2011, 7:17 am

From 2000 XI
Hayden
Cook(similar no. of centuries to Langer in almost half the matches)
Ponting(in Aus/SA)/Dravid(in England/Subcontinent)
Tendulkar
Kallis
KP(Lara was in his peak in the 90s)
Gilly(wk)
Warne
Steyn
Bond/Murali
Mcgrath

Unlucky to miss out-Lara,Langer,Sanga,Gillespie,Pollock,Ntini,Kumble


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Post by Hoggy_Bear Sun 04 Sep 2011, 12:25 pm

All-time:
Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Sobers
Imran Khan(c)
Knott(wk)
Marshall
Warne
Barnes

From what I've seen (since the mid 1970s):
Boycott
Gavaskar
Richards V.
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Imran Khan(c)
Knott(wk)
Marshall
Warne
Garner


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Post by ShankyCricket Sun 04 Sep 2011, 1:43 pm

CF is this a wind up?

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Post by Guest Sun 04 Sep 2011, 3:07 pm

i wouldnt say it should be on an alert mod thread shanky!

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Post by Liam_Main Sun 04 Sep 2011, 3:14 pm

Little harsh alerting a mod about this
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Post by Guest Sun 04 Sep 2011, 3:16 pm

thats what i thought :/

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Post by Guest Sun 04 Sep 2011, 3:18 pm

As Hobo has stated on the alert a mod thread, drop it.

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Post by Stella Mon 05 Sep 2011, 8:13 am

Hobbs
Gavasker
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Sobers
Gilchrist
Marshall
Ambrose
McGrath
Murali
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Post by Stella Mon 05 Sep 2011, 8:15 am

What's the alert thread???
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Post by Guest Fri 09 Sep 2011, 3:26 pm

alert a mod thread stella, its at the top of the home page.

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