zebthecat
4:38 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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G Smith
S Gavaskar
S Ponting
V Richards
S Tendulkar
I Botham
M Procter
I Khan
S Warne
A Knott
M Marshall
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Oh dear
4:06 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Fuck the new rules (sorry whoever proposed them)
G Gooch
V Sehwag
Viv Richards
J Miandad
R Ponting
I Botham
A Gilchrist
S Warne
W Akram
M Marshall
D Underwood.
I left out Muttiah Muralitharan as he is a chucking cunt. Hobbs and Sutcliffe would have obviously replaced Gooch and Sehwag had pre-war players counted.
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Eerie Descent
3:32 Wed Sep 12
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Northern Sold 1:55 Wed Sep 12
I'm sorry for not being old enough to see him in his pomp, son.
I caught the back end of Gooch, and him being a fellow countryman I obviously have more memory of him
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Far Cough
2:47 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Hmmm, I would have dropped Marshall or Holding as good as they are whereas Sobers can bat and bowl
But it's your call
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:25 Wed Sep 12
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Sorry FC, I had to drop him when I saw the rules. We both know though, really, don't we ;)
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:25 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Ah 2 players rule
Gavaskar
Gooch
Tendulkar
Richards
Sangakkara
Kallis
Knott
Warme
Marshall
Lillee
Donald
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Far Cough
2:23 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Hurrah, someone picked Sobers
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:19 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Gavaskar
Gooch
Tendulkar
Richards
Lara
Sobers
Gilchrist
Warne
Marshall
Lillee
Holding
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Northern Sold
1:55 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Right so you changed the goal posts that was set in stone.... and you still did not pick IVA Richards?? Yup... you are there with oh matty matty when it comes to cricket i'm afraid ED son
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Eerie Descent
1:10 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Going by a limit of 3 per country...
1. G. Gooch (ENG)
2. Y. Khan (PK)
3. J. Kallis (SA)
4. B. Lara (WI)
5. S. Tendulkar (IND)
6. K. Sangakkara (SL)
7. A. Gilchrist (AUS)
8. W. Akram (PK)
9. S. Warne (AUS)
10. A. Donald (SA)
11. G. McGrath (AUS)
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Takashi Miike
12:50 Wed Sep 12
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sachin wouldn't be happy playing there but tough shit :.)
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Takashi Miike
12:43 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Tendulkar
Gavaskar
Richards
Kallis
De Villiers
Gilchrist
Botham
Hadlee
Warne
Marshall
Akram
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Northern Sold
12:13 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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One of my fav ever players Ken Mckewan... great times being a Essex STH and bunking off school to watch him play... genius of a bat
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Sven Roeder
12:04 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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One thing against the modern fast bowler is shorter tours.
Anderson has just played 5 Tests v India in 6 weeks.
Mentioned a while back that in the 1936/37 Ashes it took them 12 weeks to play 5 Tests.
Probably another reason that no other fast bowler will get close to 564.
When I was looking at the career of Anderson (2003- ?) & ‘here today gone tomorrow’ McGrath (1993 -2007) I saw that Steyn started around the same time as Anderson.
And because of injury & SA not playing so regularly only has about 88 (?) Tests compared to Anderson with 140 something
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lowermarshhammer
11:59 Wed Sep 12
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I think Hampshire have already got two in my team and they are not having another. Feel sorry for SA players like Barry Richards, at least he got to play a few tests unlike Kenny McEwan who was quality.
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Northern Sold
11:57 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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lowermarsh... like the 2 player rule... in which case...
1. S.Gavaskar (IND)
2. A.Flower (ZIM)
3. I.V.A.Richards (WI)
4. S.Tendulkar (IND)
5. J.Kallis (SA)
6. I.Botham (ENG)
7. A.Knott (ENG)
8. R.Hadlee (NZ)
9. D.Lillee (AUS)
10. S.Warne (AUS)
11. M.Holding (WI)
12. J.Foster (ESS)
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Far Cough
11:47 Wed Sep 12
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lowermarsh, nice that you included Barry Richards in your team :-)
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lowermarshhammer
11:45 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Northern Sold 1113
I enjoy the lifetime fantasy test 11. I think the one rule should be maximum TWO players from any one test playing nation in the starting eleven. Today I'm picking:-
Cook
Sehwag
Richards
Tendulkar
Kallis
Sangakkara
Botham
Warne
Akram
Marshall
McGrath
12th Man Rhodes
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Northern Sold
11:41 Wed Sep 12
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Don't think comparing bowling is a bad argument... I mean... the speed gun has been around now for what?? 45 years or so?? So you know whether someone was Quick or not... the video evidence is there on how much swing, seam movement or spin a bowler would get?? The one thing in modern day test cricketers favour is central contracts... if Jimbo was having to play county cricket as his predecessors did I'm not sure he'd be up where he is...
Fred Trueman's figures.... played in 603 FC games... bowled 99701 balls ... took 2304 wickets and yet only played in 67 Tests
Jim Anderson figures.... played in 234 FC games.... bowled 47688 balls... taken 909 wickets and played in 143 Tests...
... so that's 76 more tests......
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Sven Roeder
11:22 Wed Sep 12
Re: England vs India 2018
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Discredit = Put into PERSPECTIVE
To be honest one of my bugbears is comparing players as I find it extremely boring.
Just thought I’d add my views to stop the thread degenerating into a dull place where everyone agrees.
I see A Cook described Anderson as England’s greatest ever cricketer
More evidence to my point a while back about England’s greatest bowling combination and greatest batsman (plus his possible successor) playing in the last Ashes.
The idea that this was like England playing against a team containing Warne McGrath Ponting and Bradman was violently disagreed with.
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Northern Sold
11:13 Wed Sep 12
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McGrath would deffo be in my all time test team (that I have seen in my lifetime) as one of the bowlers (along with Lillee, Holding, Warne and Botham)... perfect balance that would skittle any team....
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