Trichromatic Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Top Indian XI before 1990s 1. Gavaskar 2. Pankaj Roy 3. Amarnath 4. Vengsarkar 5. Vishwanath 6. Vinoo Mankad/Hazare 7. Engineer - WK 8. Kapil Dev 9. Bedi 10. Chandrashekhar 11. Gupte Link to comment
Trichromatic Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 5 minutes ago, sarchasm said: Mankad was an allrounder, Hazare a proper bat, so how are they interchangeable? What happened to Merchant? Unsure who should get picked. Hazare and Merchant both were very good batsman. When I starting writing that post I added their names first and later found that team is already full upto no 6. Team already has 2 spinners as Bedi and Chandrashekhar, so if Mankad is picked then we can drop extra spinner and pick one seamer. However, Indian spinners were better than many of our pacers even in away matches. Link to comment
Ankit_sharma03 Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Since i started watching cricket after 1996 , i wud like learn a few thing about past players How wud u rate following players who are not in ur squad shastri- spin bowling all rounder also an opener Azhar - debut in 1985 Srikanth- fiery opener Prasanna ???? Pataudi or wadekar???? who was a better batsman kirmani or engineer??? whom wud kapil share new ball with ???? amarnath???? Link to comment
Trichromatic Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 8 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said: Since i started watching cricket after 1996 , i wud like learn a few thing about past players How wud u rate following players who are not in ur squad shastri- spin bowling all rounder also an opener Azhar - debut in 1985 Srikanth- fiery opener Prasanna ???? Pataudi or wadekar???? who was a better batsman kirmani or engineer??? whom wud kapil share new ball with ???? amarnath???? Shastri rarely opened in tests. Anyway don't rate him much as player. Link to comment
Jimmy Cliff Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Gavaskar Merchant Amarnath Hazare Vishy Mankad Kapil Engineer Prasanna Chandrasekhar Nissar zen 1 Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Mankad 50/50 you *ing kidding . Walks in to all time Indian 11 full stop let alone pre 90s merchant and hazare automatic pics legends and greatest Indian players of their eras . Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 20 minutes ago, Jimmy Cliff said: Gavaskar Merchant Amarnath Hazare Vishy Mankad Kapil Engineer Prasanna Chandrasekhar Nissar Much better team Amar Singh ahead of Nissar for me Link to comment
Vijy Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 On 8/13/2017 at 1:29 PM, Jimmy Cliff said: Gavaskar Merchant Amarnath Hazare Vishy Mankad Kapil Engineer Prasanna Chandrasekhar Nissar Mankad was at his best when opening. I'd push Merchant to 3. Gavaskar, Mankad, Merchant, Hazare, Vengsarkar (Vishy was a HTB), Amarnath, Kapil, Kirmani (better keeper), Pras, Chandra and Nissar. Lot of bowling options: 5 + 1 (Hazare), and batting till 8. Link to comment
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