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

[cricketnut14]

M.Attapattu
M.Atherton
Younis Khan
M.Waugh
S.Waugh
Wasim Bari
S.Warne
M.Murali
C.Walsh
G.McGrath
C.Martin

any guesses guys ?

 

[Woody15]

Something to do with scoring ducks looking at those batsmen?

 

[cricketnut14]

Something to do with scoring ducks looking at those batsmen?

TOP OF THE CLASS !!

 

[Sammo360]

Modern midget XI

David Warner
Parthiv Patel
Sachin Tendulkar
Tatenda Taibu
Kruger Van Wyk (c)
Matthew Wade
Mushfique Rahim
Rangana Herath
Kemar Roach
Fidel Edwards
Tino Best

 

[worbod]

Best Unfortunately Named XI

Arthur Fagg
Geoff Pullar
Peter Willey
Joe Root
Jack Crapp
Ejaz Faqih
Arthur Dick
Des Hoare
Fred Root
Shahid Mahboob
Edward Bastard

 

[big_e]

Best Unfortunately Named XI

Arthur Fagg
Geoff Pullar
Peter Willey
Joe Root
Jack Crapp
Ejaz Faqih
Arthur Dick
Des Hoare
Fred Root
Shahid Mahboob
Edward Bastard

Home ground would be somewhere in Sussex.

 

[worbod]

Home ground would be somewhere in Sussex.

I should have mentioned that their wickets would be prepared by Lord's groundsman Mike Hunt.

 

[big_e]

Hardik Pandya 12th man, I presume?

 

[ioppolo]

Modern midget XI

David Warner
Parthiv Patel
Sachin Tendulkar
Tatenda Taibu
Kruger Van Wyk (c)
Matthew Wade
Mushfique Rahim
Rangana Herath
Kemar Roach
Fidel Edwards
Tino Best

No room for Punter? As modern as Taibu.

 

[eth-dog]

Modern midget XI

David Warner
Parthiv Patel
Sachin Tendulkar
Tatenda Taibu
Kruger Van Wyk (c)
Matthew Wade
Mushfique Rahim
Rangana Herath
Kemar Roach
Fidel Edwards
Tino Best

Who keeps?

 

[Sammo360]

No room for Punter? As modern as Taibu.

More manlet than midget

He can be 12th man

 

[worbod]

A very manly Eleven.

Vinoo Mankad
Vijay Manjrekar
Don Bradman
VVS Laxman
Darren Lehmann
Barry Jarman
Paul Wiseman
George Lohmann
Fred Trueman
"Tich" Freeman
Terry Alderman


Patron: Nelson Mandela

 

[worbod]

Best completely left handed XI
(those who both bat and bowl left handed)

Arthur Morris
Roy Fredericks
Bert Sutcliffe
Darren Lehmann
Frank Woolley
Garfield Sobers
Allan Border
Trevor Goddard
Alan Davidson
Wasim Akram
Bobby Peel

 

[eth-dog]

Best completely left handed XI
(those who both bat and bowl left handed)

Arthur Morris
Roy Fredericks
Bert Sutcliffe
Darren Lehmann
Frank Woolley
Garfield Sobers
Allan Border
Trevor Goddard
Alan Davidson
Wasim Akram
Bobby Peel

And the opposite:

Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Don Bradman
Wally Hammond
Jacques Kallis
Sachin Tendulkar
MS Dhoni
Imran Khan
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralidaran

 

[Belnakor]

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the best commentary moment in my lifetime

 

[worbod]

Best Controversial personalities XI

Geoff Boycott
David Warner
Ian Chappell
Saleem Malik
Douglas Jardine
Hansie Cronje
Mohammad Azharuddin
Ian Botham
Dennis Lillee
John Snow
Sydney Barnes

 

[worbod]

Australians who played domestic cricket for more than one state

Bob Simpson (NSW & WA)
Adam Gilchrist (NSW & WA)
Don Bradman (NSW & SA)
Greg Chappell (SA & QLD)
Neil Harvey (VIC & NSW)
Allan Border (NSW & QLD)
Keith Miller (VIC & NSW)
Ray Lindwall (NSW & QLD)
Dennis Lillee (WA & TAS)
Clarrie Grimmett (VIC & SA)
Fred Spofforth (VIC & NSW)

 

[eth-dog]

Best LH Bat/RH Bowl XI:

Graeme Smith (c)
Matthew Hayden
Kumar Sangakkara
Brian Lara
Graeme Pollock
Andy Flower
Adam Gilchrist (+)
Richard Hadlee
Stuart Broad
Bill O'Reilly
James Anderson

Best RH Bat/LH Bowl XI:

Vinoo Mankad
Wilfred Rhodes
Inzimam-ul-Haq
Denis Compton
Michael Clarke
Frank Worrall
Murray Bisset (+)
Zaheer Khan
Richard Collinge
Derek Underwood
Trent Boult

 

[Wallaby]

This is one I did a while back - highest scoring Scrabble team (tests only). Has to be a real team with bowlers, bats, keeper etc.

Australia only.

1. Jaques - 22
2. Jackson - 20
3. Khajawa - 24
4. Kippax - 21
5. Fairfax - 20
6. Chipperfield - 25
7. Blackham - 21
8. McKenzie - 25
9. Kasprowicz - 30
10. McCormick - 23
11. Fleetwood-Smith - 26

Maybe to update it today, Krejza gets in (if we play 2 spinners), Hazlewood, maybe Henriques? Haven't worked out Labuschagne. (needs 'j's, 'z's, 'x's, & 'q's).

An England team could be fun.

As for all-time international - away you go.

 

[eth-dog]

The Australian All Rounder XI:

1. Shane Watson
2. Bob Cowper
3. Jack Ryder
4. Allan Border
5. Steven Waugh
6. Keith Miller
7. Matthew Wade (Need a keeper haha, thought he'd be the most appropriate)
8. Richie Benaud
9. Alan Davidson
10. Ray Lindwall
11. Brad Hogg

Border is very iffy but he bowled those nice little left arm tweakers. I wanted to get the 4 different varieties of spin in there, hence the Hogg selection. A worldwide one would be interesting.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

The Australian All Rounder XI:

1. Shane Watson
2. Bob Cowper
3. Jack Ryder
4. Allan Border
5. Steven Waugh
6. Keith Miller
7. Matthew Wade (Need a keeper haha, thought he'd be the most appropriate)
8. Richie Benaud
9. Alan Davidson
10. Ray Lindwall
11. Brad Hogg

Border is very iffy but he bowled those nice little left arm tweakers. I wanted to get the 4 different varieties of spin in there, hence the Hogg selection. A worldwide one would be interesting.

An attempted second XI...

Bob Simpson
Mark Waugh
Warwick Armstrong
Greg Chappell
Michael Clarke
Doug Walters
Tim Zoehrer (+)
Tom Moody
Mitchell Johnson
Shane Warne
Jason Gillespie

 

[eth-dog]

An attempted second XI...

Bob Simpson
Mark Waugh
Warwick Armstrong
Greg Chappell
Michael Clarke
Doug Walters
Tim Zoehrer (+)
Tom Moody
Mitchell Johnson
Shane Warne
Jason Gillespie

Andrew Symonds?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Andrew Symonds?

Ahead of any of those players, assuming it was Tests? Nah. George Giffin was another I thought of.

 

[eth-dog]

Ahead of any of those players, assuming it was Tests? Nah. George Giffin was another I thought of.

I'd just define him more of an all rounder than some in that top 7. I mean Mark Waugh bowled 6 overs a test on average compared to 13 for Symonds.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I'd just define him more of an all rounder than some in that top 7. I mean Mark Waugh bowled 6 overs a test on average compared to 13 for Symonds.

Bowling averages pretty similar really, Waugh could bowl.