shahid6995
Club Cricketer
How about selecting your choices for each team's all-time XI?
Pick a total of 16 players 11 for a team and 5 reserves. Each team can have its own thread so I will make this one Pakistan's thread. Here is my All-time Pakistan team:
1. Hanif Mohammad
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Zaheer Abbas
4. Javed Miandad
5. Inzimamul Haq
6. Imran Khan (Capt) :hpraise
7. Rashid Latif (WK)
8. Wasim Akram
9. Abdul Qadir
10. Waqar Younis
11. Shoaib Akhtar
Reserves
12. Saqlain Mushtaq
13. Mudassar Nazar
14. Mushtaq Mohammad
15. Wasim Bari
16. Majid Khan
A few problems with my list...
1. The tail is longer than I would like it to be, even though Qadir could hang in there like a leech sometimes.
2. Only 5 frontline bowlers, no backup like a front-line batter who also bowls (Aamir Sohail for example), but with the quality of five bowlers I have in there, hopefully wont need a backup!
3. Shoaib Akhtar
!!! People who have seen my posts know how much I hate the guy. But I have to put him in there just because of his raw pace, and two more factors: With Imran as captain, you can bet there would be no showmanship or any less-than-100% effort from Shoaib, or he would be out on his ass faster than you can say Rawalpindi Express. Secondly, we can still use him in his usual 5 over bursts because with a backup like Waqar, Wasim, Imran and Qadir, he would not be carrying the bowling alone.
4. Wasim Bari was picked because I think you should have a second WK in the reserves. Moin deserves a mention but with his rotten keeping skills, he doesnt make the cut. I would pick Saleem Yousuf before Moin!
Any comments about my selections?
Someone from India should make a thread for the All-time Indian XI, an Aussie should make one for Australia and so on and so forth. Should be fun!
I shudder to think about the all-time West Indian XI!! Holding, Garner, Griffith, Hall, Marshall, Clarke, Ambrose, Walsh, Croft, Roberts..... holy freaking crap who ever makes that list has one hell of a bowling attack to pick from. I do believe that if these teams ever hypothetically faced off, an All-time WI XI would beat an all-time Australian or England XI, Bradman or no Bradman.
Pick a total of 16 players 11 for a team and 5 reserves. Each team can have its own thread so I will make this one Pakistan's thread. Here is my All-time Pakistan team:
1. Hanif Mohammad
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Zaheer Abbas
4. Javed Miandad
5. Inzimamul Haq
6. Imran Khan (Capt) :hpraise
7. Rashid Latif (WK)
8. Wasim Akram
9. Abdul Qadir
10. Waqar Younis
11. Shoaib Akhtar
Reserves
12. Saqlain Mushtaq
13. Mudassar Nazar
14. Mushtaq Mohammad
15. Wasim Bari
16. Majid Khan
A few problems with my list...
1. The tail is longer than I would like it to be, even though Qadir could hang in there like a leech sometimes.
2. Only 5 frontline bowlers, no backup like a front-line batter who also bowls (Aamir Sohail for example), but with the quality of five bowlers I have in there, hopefully wont need a backup!
3. Shoaib Akhtar
!!! People who have seen my posts know how much I hate the guy. But I have to put him in there just because of his raw pace, and two more factors: With Imran as captain, you can bet there would be no showmanship or any less-than-100% effort from Shoaib, or he would be out on his ass faster than you can say Rawalpindi Express. Secondly, we can still use him in his usual 5 over bursts because with a backup like Waqar, Wasim, Imran and Qadir, he would not be carrying the bowling alone.4. Wasim Bari was picked because I think you should have a second WK in the reserves. Moin deserves a mention but with his rotten keeping skills, he doesnt make the cut. I would pick Saleem Yousuf before Moin!
Any comments about my selections?
Someone from India should make a thread for the All-time Indian XI, an Aussie should make one for Australia and so on and so forth. Should be fun!
I shudder to think about the all-time West Indian XI!! Holding, Garner, Griffith, Hall, Marshall, Clarke, Ambrose, Walsh, Croft, Roberts..... holy freaking crap who ever makes that list has one hell of a bowling attack to pick from. I do believe that if these teams ever hypothetically faced off, an All-time WI XI would beat an all-time Australian or England XI, Bradman or no Bradman.
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