The Outsider Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Sooda will like this thread. :icflove: Barbados XI : Greenidge Haynes Walcott Weekes Worrell Sobers Murray Marshall Wayne Daniel Garner Hall Bombay XI : Gavaskar Mankad Hazare Tendulkar Vengsarkar Merchant Engineer Ghavri Zaheer Khan Padmakar Shivalkar Subhash Gupte As good as the Bombay XI is, I feel the Barbados XI would win 7/10.
coffee_rules Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Ravi Shastri has accomplished more than Ghavri in test cricket. I would even open with him. He has scored a 200 opening in Aus in the 90s. I would open bowling with ZK and SMG, and play RJS instead of Ghavri. 3 spinners would be good on spin pitches. Shivalkar is unknown in International cricket. So, he could be in the reserves, not in playing XI.
Serani Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Barbados side is ridic good, would win 9 times out of 10.
ravishingravi Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 To be honest, that Barbados side would have beaten any side in the world. Stunning group of cricketers from such a small island
Raghav_12 Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 To be honest' date=' that Barbados side would have beaten any side in the world. Stunning group of cricketers from such a small island[/quote'] Seriously awesome for such a small island.:hatsoff::hatsoff: In case you have any doubt on how small this island is check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados
Ultimate_Game Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 In Tests it's the bowling which wins you matches and the only way Bombay would manage a win would be if the game were played on a rank turner. On a flat deck or pace/swing/seam friendly conditions Barbados should win easily.
akshayxyz Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Seriously awesome for such a small island.:hatsoff::hatsoff: In case you have any doubt on how small this island is check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados lol, very true.. 12 million vs just about 300K. even Barbados vs Thane (>1million) would be unfair. :)
Sooda Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 I Likes the thread :woot: Would Polly Umrigar, for Vengsarkar, be worth considering? About on par as a batsman? And bowled handy offies. Also do you want Merchant and Mankad to swap places? Just to make it a fascinating triangular heres a NSW team :D Trumper Morris Bradman S Waugh A Border N Harvey A Gilchrist Lindwall Lee/Davidson McGrath O Reilly
Sooda Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 ^Wow' date=' fantastic team :hatsoff:[/quote'] Yeah..and thats leaving out guys like Watson, Benaud http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_Blues#Most_first-class_runs Anyway, heres Yorkshire...(some ancients in this one...) G Boycott H Suttcliffe L Hutton M Vaughan Maurice Leyland W Rhodes Jimmy Binks F Trueman Bill Bowes M Hoggard H Verity
zen Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Sooda will like this thread. :icflove: Barbados XI : Greenidge Haynes Walcott Weekes Worrell Sobers Murray Marshall Wayne Daniel Garner Hall Bombay XI : Gavaskar Mankad Hazare Tendulkar Vengsarkar Merchant Engineer Ghavri Zaheer Khan Padmakar Shivalkar Subhash Gupte As good as the Bombay XI is, I feel the Barbados XI would win 7/10. I would have Merchant (one of the great openers of Indian cricket) open with Gavaskar, arguably Ind's best test player. I don't know who Padmkar is. Is he better than Sir Aggy? Munaf is playing for Mumbai Indians too so may be he can be considered too but against that Barbodas batting line up, I don't know how effective Mumbai bowlers would be except for Gupte, and maybe Mankad and Zak to some extent. Mumbai's batting line up is pretty good with Vensarkar probably being the weakest link if playing in WI.
Sooda Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Shivalkar was a left arm spinner I believe, a very good one who because of the spin riches in India in the 70's did not get a chance to play. Would have walked into any other teams XI. Sunil Gavaskar has him down as on of his Idols in the book of that name. Another great spinner in that book Rajinder Goel who too was unlucky to be born in the era. There is V V Kumar a leggie who only got one or two tests but should haved played more. If only those guys had been born 50 yrs later Shivalkars FC record Mat Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10 First-class 124 34125 11603 589 8/16 19.69 2.04 57.9 42 13
zen Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Shivalkar was a left arm spinner I believe, a very good one who because of the spin riches in India in the 70's did not get a chance to play. Would have walked into any other teams XI. Sunil Gavaskar has him down as on of his Idols in the book of that name. Another great spinner in that book Rajinder Goel who too was unlucky to be born in the era. There is V V Kumar a leggie who only got one or two tests but should haved played more. If only those guys had been born 50 yrs later Shivalkars FC record Mat Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10 First-class 124 34125 11603 589 8/16 19.69 2.04 57.9 42 13 Hmmm, then on a turning track Mumbai would fancy its chances (probably many would rate it as a fav), esp. with Gupte (arguably Ind's best spinner), Mankad and Shivalkar.
Cricket Tragic Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 I would have Merchant (one of the great openers of Indian cricket) open with Gavaskar, arguably Ind's best test player. I don't know who Padmkar is. Is he better than Sir Aggy? Munaf is playing for Mumbai Indians too so may be he can be considered too but against that Barbodas batting line up, I don't know how effective Mumbai bowlers would be except for Gupte, and maybe Mankad and Zak to some extent. Mumbai's batting line up is pretty good with Vensarkar probably being the weakest link if playing in WI. :facepalm:
Sooda Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 Hmmm' date=' then on a turning track Mumbai would fancy its chances (probably many would rate it as a fav), esp. with Gupte (arguably Ind's best spinner), Mankad and Shivalkar.[/quote'] Yeah id say at home on a turning track it would be fave, WI would struggle against that calibre of spin. Batting lineup aint too shabby either... wonder who any Barbados-ian spinners are? Also if that Mumbai XI were to change to a West Zone XI..would it be any different?
Sachin=GOD Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 Do one for a Pakistani team as well. I'd like to see how many of them have been banned/retired-unretired/fined etc :D
The Outsider Posted June 22, 2011 Author Posted June 22, 2011 I Likes the thread :woot: Would Polly Umrigar, for Vengsarkar, be worth considering? About on par as a batsman? And bowled handy offies. Also do you want Merchant and Mankad to swap places? Just to make it a fascinating triangular heres a NSW team :D Trumper Morris Bradman S Waugh A Border N Harvey A Gilchrist Lindwall Lee/Davidson McGrath O Reilly Yeah, Umrigar can definitely come in place of Vengsarkar, though for me Vengsarkar would edge it due to his record against the West Indies - sure he made most of his runs at home, but still had 6 test hundreds against them. The NSW team is probably the best in my view - they even have the luxury of playing Benaud as the second spinner on a turning track in place of Davidson. The middle order is just nuts - Bradman, Waugh, Border, Harvey!
The Outsider Posted June 22, 2011 Author Posted June 22, 2011 With the NSW bench they could probably put in a second XI with the likes of Taylor, Slater, MacGill, Benaud, Noble, Simpson, McCabe, Lee, Lawson, M Waugh, Katich, Clarke, Watson, Bollinger!
The Outsider Posted June 22, 2011 Author Posted June 22, 2011 Karnataka XI would have a good bowling attack, but would be severely depleted in batting with the likes of Flathappa (maybe I am missing some names here) : 1. Uthappa 2. Binny 3. Dravid 4. Viswanath 5. Brijesh Patel 6. Kunderan 7. Kirmani 8. Kumble 9. Srinath 10. Prasanna 11. Chandra
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