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

[Trojan90]

Have only recently discovered this thread. Marvellous stuff.

Here you go, probably pretty easy to get:

1. Chris Gayle
2. Brendan McCullum
3. AB DeVilliers
4. Brian Lara
5. David Hookes
6. Ian Botham
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Kapil Dev
9. Phil DeFreitas
10. Mitchell Johnson
11. Andy Roberts

I like this one but i'm having trouble with it. Something to do with stroke play/strike rate/six hitting. I'll keep at it.
Gayle's test SR (60.3) is surprisingly low to me.

 

[Partridge]

I like this one but i'm having trouble with it. Something to do with stroke play/strike rate/six hitting. I'll keep at it.
Gayle's test SR (60.3) is surprisingly low to me.

Getting warmer for sure. Not so much the six hitting although it definitely helps.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Getting warmer for sure. Not so much the six hitting although it definitely helps.

Something like combined highest average and strike rate per position?

i.e the 'best batsmen' with also the highest SR?

 

[Wallaby]

Have only recently discovered this thread. Marvellous stuff.

Here you go, probably pretty easy to get:

1. Chris Gayle
2. Brendan McCullum
3. AB DeVilliers
4. Brian Lara
5. David Hookes
6. Ian Botham
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Kapil Dev
9. Phil DeFreitas
10. Mitchell Johnson
11. Andy Roberts

Something to do with Runs off a single over? I know Roberts had a big over, as did Hookes, and I can imagine all the others having big overs while batting.

 

[Gough]

Something to do with Runs off a single over? I know Roberts had a big over, as did Hookes, and I can imagine all the others having big overs while batting.

de Villiers destroyed poor old Bryce McGain.

 

[big_e]

Something to do with Runs off a single over? I know Roberts had a big over, as did Hookes, and I can imagine all the others having big overs while batting.

All of them scored 20+ runs in one over in test cricket, I think.

 

[Partridge]

All of them scored 20+ runs in one over in test cricket, I think.

Correct you are.

I was trying to find more obscure and older ones than the last few decades.

Would have loved to have included Bert Sutcliffe for his insane 80 in 1953/54 against South Africa - but technically he only scored 19 off the one over (with 3 sixes, the number 11 hit one in the same over). Botham came very close to doing it three times (24 off Stirling v New Zealand, 22 off Hughes v Australia, and 19 off Lillee v Australia in 1981 at Old Trafford). Lara did it at least twice that I know of (28 v South Africa, 22 v Australia).

 

[dogs105]

Correct you are.

I was trying to find more obscure and older ones than the last few decades.

Would have loved to have included Bert Sutcliffe for his insane 80 in 1953/54 against South Africa - but technically he only scored 19 off the one over (with 3 sixes, the number 11 hit one in the same over). Botham came very close to doing it three times (24 off Stirling v New Zealand, 22 off Hughes v Australia, and 19 off Lillee v Australia in 1981 at Old Trafford). Lara did it at least twice that I know of (28 v South Africa, 22 v Australia).

Would have liked George Bailey, just because he did it from Jimmy Anderson.

 

[Partridge]

Would have liked George Bailey, just because he did it from Jimmy Anderson.

Was trying to find ones from ye olden days, they must be on the interwebs somewhere.

 

[CrazyJoeFevola]

Favourite Aus XI from my formative years watching (95-02ish) - All format (Not best, just players I loved) Think it would be competitive in both formats tbh. Bats very deep and lots of bowling options

Di Venuto
Elliott
Blewett
Lehmann
Law
I.J Harvey
Campbell
Bichel
Reiffel
Fleming
Miller

12th man: K.Harvey

 

[eth-dog]

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.

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

Cricketers who can't wait for Dave Warner to piss off:

Shikhar Dhawan
Rohit Sharma
Joe Root
(the late) Martin Crowe
Faf du Plessis
Cameron Bancroft
Jonathan Trott
Quinton de Kock (w)
Mitchell Johnson
Stuart Broad
Brett Geeves

Thami Tsolekile (12th man)

 

[nobbyiscool]

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

Nick Davis is on a rookie deal, and has played for Australian junior teams and made runs this season for Tassie's second XI - and he's apparently a more than useful bowler. He's probably next cab off the rank in terms of debuts.

It's a bit ominous to be suggesting 21 year olds out of the second XI who hasn't yet debuted for this exercise, but that's the bed that Tassie cricket has made for itself by prioritising results ahead of development, which I've bitched about for years up until this season when we have a lot more Tasmanians playing.

 

[Zach Package]

An XI of exclusively Scott Kremerskothens

Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
12th man: Andy Bichel

 

[nobbyiscool]

An XI of exclusively Scott Kremerskothens

Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
12th man: Andy Bichel

Sean Clingeleffer unlucky to miss.

 

[eth-dog]

Nick Davis is on a rookie deal, and has played for Australian junior teams and made runs this season for Tassie's second XI - and he's apparently a more than useful bowler. He's probably next cab off the rank in terms of debuts.

It's a bit ominous to be suggesting 21 year olds out of the second XI who hasn't yet debuted for this exercise, but that's the bed that Tassie cricket has made for itself by prioritising results ahead of development, which I've bitched about for years up until this season when we have a lot more Tasmanians playing.

And that has Freeman batting 6, yikes.

 

[nobbyiscool]

And that has Freeman batting 6, yikes.

Nah, you'd slot Davis in at 6 I think.

 

[eth-dog]

Nah, you'd slot Davis in at 6 I think.

Still, not a strong batting line up.

Good football name though, right Grand Uncle Horace?

 

[PhatBoy]

An XI of exclusively Scott Kremerskothens

Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
Kremerskothen
12th man: Andy Bichel

I’ve probably posted this before in this actual thread but I yearn for the era when they fielded Kremerskothen, James Polkinghorne and Shaun Clingeleffer in the same side

If you were lucky enough to switch the tv on while the scorecard was on the screen you would think just for a moment you had wandered into a Sri Lankan odi match before you adjusted

 

[nobbyiscool]

I’ve probably posted this before in this actual thread but I yearn for the era when they fielded Kremerskothen, James Polkinghorne and Shaun Clingeleffer in the same side

If you were lucky enough to switch the tv on while the scorecard was on the screen you would think just for a moment you had wandered into a Sri Lankan odi match before you adjusted

My man Butters and Hilfy were of a similar vintage as well.

 

[PhatBoy]

My man Butters and Hilfy were of a similar vintage as well.

Yes absolutely

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

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.

That SA side is downright depressing.

 

[PhatBoy]

Grenfell native Henry Hunt ftw.
Can still remember him playing for Lachlan as a kid - my local council side which yours truly also managed to get picked in years and years and years ago albeit I never actually played a match for them. It’s a tiny little place. He was always a good player but not ‘gee this kid will be a possible Test candidate one day’ good

 

[corbies]

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.

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.

 

[Rabish Binney]

My man Butters and Hilfy were of a similar vintage as well.

And going back to the late 1970's, don't forget Gary Cowmeadow.