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[Mod Police]

It would be difficult to fit everyone in as there are only 16 teams playing this season.

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[Akshay.]

Hashim Amla
Herschelle Gibbs
Gary Kirsten

Jacques Kallis
Kepler Wessels

Hansie Cronje
AB de Villiers
Jonty Rhodes

Mark Boucher
Lance Klusener
Shaun Pollock
Clive Rice

Allan Donald
Morne Morkel
Makhaya Ntini
Dale Steyn

Nicky Boje
Imran Tahir
@Akshay.

How about de Kock in place of Rhodes?

 

[VC the slogger]

How about de Kock in place of Rhodes?

If you're really that desperate to bring him in, I'd suggest removing one of Wessels or Cronje. Leaving Rhodes out of an all-time SA ODI squad would be criminal.

 

[Fenil]

Pakistan

Saeed Anwar
Shahid Afridi
Majid Khan

Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Inzamam ul Haq
Mohammad Yousuf

Sarfaraz Ahmed

Abdul Razzaq
Imran Khan
Mohammad Hafeez

Wasim Akram

Waqar Younis
Shoaib Akhtar
Mohammad Amir

Saeed Ajmal
Saqlain Mushtaq
Abdul Qadir

I have trusted Hafeez over Mahmood, Safaraz over Moin, Kamran (batting keeper) & Latif and Amir over Nawaz, Asif etc.

Hope the move pays rich dividends.

 

[Fenil]

Graham Gooch
Marcus Trescothick
Kevin Pietersen
Allan Lamb
David Gower
Neil Fairbrother
Joe Root

Alec Stewart
Jos Buttler

Ian Botham
Andrew Flintoff
Adam Hollioake

Graeme Swann
Darren Gough
Bob Willis
James Anderson
Alan Mullaly
Derek Underwood

Hi there. Just to want to ask what you make of Nick Knight? Knight was one of my favorite England cricketers apart from Gough, Flintoff, Stewart and Trescothick. He was below average in tests but brilliant in ODIs.[DOUBLEPOST=1502905501][/DOUBLEPOST]

Aw shucks, looks like they're all taken again.

Would you be willing to co-manage Pakistan alongside @Fenil (if he's agreeable)? You guys made a pretty awesome team back in the day in some of my old leagues.

It would be great if @User2010 decides to join in.

 

[Umair7]

Symonds is a better bowler. They're both the same as batsmen, imo.

Well Better Bowler yes! Better Batsman NO!! but as a AR Symonds is better so it makes sense to have him!! so no changes

 

[Umair7]

He's right. My ratings were shit back then. Too stats-based, plus I had been following the ratings guides posted by others rather than my own. By the time I sorted it out, it was too late and the season was almost over.

Never Forget !

 

[El Loco]

Hi there. Just to want to ask what you make of Nick Knight? Knight was one of my favorite England cricketers apart from Gough, Flintoff, Stewart and Trescothick. He was below average in tests but brilliant in ODIs.

Very familiar with him as he's a Warwickshire icon. You make a good point.
Actually I may bring him in for Buttler if VC will let me have Tresco as a secondary keeper.

 

[VC the slogger]

Very familiar with him as he's a Warwickshire icon. You make a good point.
Actually I may bring him in for Buttler if VC will let me have Tresco as a secondary keeper.

I could allow Trescothick to keep wickets if that's what you want, but know that it could risk hampering his batting form. Personally reckon you'd be better off with someone who averages 37 and strikes at almost 120 in ODIs from the middle/lower-middle order, especially when you've already got the likes of Trescothick, Gooch, Stewart and even Gower (to some extent) who are quite capable of opening the batting. Meanwhile, the number or power hitters down the order in your squad isn't all that high with Flintoff being mostly hit or miss, Botham being a complete ODI dud (on the batting front anyway) and Hollioake not particularly convincing either. Your choice though.

 

[VC the slogger]

Tamim Iqbal
Habibul Bashar
Imrul Kayes
Mushfiqur Rahim
Anamul Haque
Mohammad Ashraful
Soumya Sarkar
Sabbir Rahman
Mominul Haque
Mahmudullah
Nasir Hossain
Shakib Al Hasan
Mashrafe Mortaza
Mustafizur Rahman
Taskin Ahmed
Abdur Razzak
Taijul Islam
Al-Amin Hossain

Does look like a pretty good squad. Any chance of bringing in Mohammad Rafique though? He deserves to be there in an all-time Bangladesh squad far more than the likes of Taijul IMO. Easily their best bowler in the 2000s by quite a distance, and one who generally saved his best performances for some of the strongest opponents of that era.

 

[stinson99]

Does look like a pretty good squad. Any chance of bringing in Mohammad Rafique though? He deserves to be there in an all-time Bangladesh squad far more than the likes of Taijul IMO. Easily their best bowler in the 2000s by quite a distance, and one who generally saved his best performances for some of the strongest opponents of that era.

Okay you if you say so then you can replace him with Nasir Hossain(far too many allrounders).Btw I didn't know much about bangladesh's past in cricket so that's why I must have left him.

PS- Appreciate the suggestion.

 

[Neo 7]

Jeremy Bray
William Porterfield
Paul Stirling
Ed Joyce
Niall O'Brien
Eoin Morgan
Andrew White
Andre Botha
Kevin O'Brien
Gary Wilson
Alex Cusack
John Mooney
Trent Johnston
Barry McCarthy
Tim Murtagh
Boyd Rankin
Craig Young
George Dockrell

 

[Samuels]

Gordon Greenidge
Chris Gayle
Desmond Haynes
Viv Richards
Clive Lloyd
Brian Lara
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Rohan Kanhai
Dwayne Bravo
Carl Hooper
Garry Sobers
Jeff Dujon
Malcolm Marshall
Andy Roberts
Michael Holding
Joel Garner
Curtly Ambrose
Sunil Narine

@VC the slogger You can PM if you have any better suggestions.

 

[VC the slogger]

@VC the slogger You can PM if you have any better suggestions.

Looks fine just the way it is.

 

[VC the slogger]

Jeremy Bray
William Porterfield
Paul Stirling
Ed Joyce
Niall O'Brien
Eoin Morgan
Andrew White
Andre Botha
Kevin O'Brien
Gary Wilson
Alex Cusack
John Mooney
Trent Johnston
Barry McCarthy
Tim Murtagh
Boyd Rankin
Craig Young
George Dockrell

A couple of changes I'd like to suggest here - Dave Langford-Smith for Craig Young and Kyle McCallan for Gary Wilson. Despite his pretty stats, Young has been largely untested against Test level opposition unlike L-Smith who was one of Ireland's most consistent bowlers in their superb 2007 WC campaign. Also, Wilson shouldn't be anywhere near an all-time XI of any sort IMO, he's way too average a player (plus you've already got Bray in your squad as a backup keeper to NOB). McCallan on the other hand was one of Ireland's best spinners in the 2000s and a pretty handy lower-order bat too.