BEST OF THE BEST teams /players

[wenchbarwer]

I would have Viv at 3, averaged 61.5 there. Drop Lara down to 5

That's the beauty of these hypothetical lists, there is no right or wrong answers, the Supercat and Richie Richardson were very unlucky to miss out too, I shall email them both to apologise.

Supercat is at 6 in the above list, and would most definitely be captain. Loved seeing his bat on the MCG tour, the amount of grips he had on that thing was incredible!

[wenchbarwer]

I should add, Viv was my favourite cricketer of all time. Saw him hook a six that bounced once on the George Giffen stand roof, and into the tennis courts

You're no Robinson Crusoe there mate, everyone in that era loved Sir Isaac!

I loved Imran, Akram (I modeled my bowling action and run up on his), Kapil Dev was right up there as was John Wright and Martin Snedden from the shaggers.

I had the pleasure of seeing the King & I tour with Viv & Beefy in the early 90's (I reckon it was 1992 or 1993). Was a great night, they had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hand.

They did a Q&A session at the end, and one questions was "Which one of you is the King?"

Beefy grabbed his mike, and said something like "I think it's pretty obvious" and gestured towards Viv.

Viv just shrugged his shoulders and said "It's true"

[Lightning McQueen]

I would have Viv at 3, averaged 61.5 there. Drop Lara down to 5

That's the beauty of these hypothetical lists, there is no right or wrong answers, the Supercat and Richie Richardson were very unlucky to miss out too, I shall email them both to apologise.

Supercat is at 6 in the above list, and would most definitely be captain. Loved seeing his bat on the MCG tour, the amount of grips he had on that thing was incredible!

That sums up my day

forgot whether I selected him or Shiv, I rated the latter high as he carried a shit team.

[wenchbarwer]

I would have Viv at 3, averaged 61.5 there. Drop Lara down to 5

That's the beauty of these hypothetical lists, there is no right or wrong answers, the Supercat and Richie Richardson were very unlucky to miss out too, I shall email them both to apologise.

Supercat is at 6 in the above list, and would most definitely be captain. Loved seeing his bat on the MCG tour, the amount of grips he had on that thing was incredible!

That sums up my day

forgot whether I selected him or Shiv, I rated the latter high as he carried a shit team.

I would have chucked Richie in before Shiv, but for a little bloke he sure carried a massive load.

Clive's captaincy was immense, turned a bunch of islands that hated each other into a superpower that took cricket by storm.

[Lightning McQueen]

Cook
Gooch
Gower
Root
Pieterson
Stewart
Botham
Flintoff
Broad
Anderson
Willis

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Cook
Gooch
Gower
Root
Pieterson
Stewart
Botham
Flintoff
Broad
Anderson
Willis

Good side
No spinner?
I’d have Swann over Flintoff for balance

[whufc]

Favourite South Australian side….not necessarily best

Blewett
Faull
Hookes
Lehmann
Siddons
Cosgrove
Manou
Scuderi
Gillespie
George
May

[Lightning McQueen]

Cook
Gooch
Gower
Root
Pieterson
Stewart
Botham
Flintoff
Broad
Anderson
Willis

Good side
No spinner?
I’d have Swann over Flintoff for balance

Yeah, flipped that one a few times but at the end of the day I thought Swann was garbage

and I didn't like his sunnies.

[Lightning McQueen]

Favourite South Australian side….not necessarily best

Blewett
Faull
Hookes
Lehmann
Siddons
Cosgrove
Manou
Scuderi
Gillespie
George
May

No Carey?

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Cook
Gooch
Gower
Root
Pieterson
Stewart
Botham
Flintoff
Broad
Anderson
Willis

Good side
No spinner?
I’d have Swann over Flintoff for balance

Yeah, flipped that one a few times but at the end of the day I thought Swann was garbage

and I didn't like his sunnies.

Fair call
And he’s a flog!

[amber_fluid]

Favourite South Australian side….not necessarily best

Blewett
Faull
Hookes
Lehmann
Siddons
Cosgrove
Manou
Scuderi
Gillespie
George
May

No Carey?

No Head

[amber_fluid]

Favourite South Australian side….not necessarily best

Blewett
Faull
Hookes
Lehmann
Siddons
Cosgrove
Manou
Scuderi
Gillespie
George
May

Why Faull?

[whufc]

Could have Head to open instead of Faull but can’t go past Hookes, Siddons and Lehmann.

[whufc]

Favourite South Australian side….not necessarily best

Blewett
Faull
Hookes
Lehmann
Siddons
Cosgrove
Manou
Scuderi
Gillespie
George
May

Why Faull?

Went and watched a district game when I was only real young and it was TTG. Faull hit 100 that day and after the days play was walking across the oval to his car. Stopped and bowled a few balls to me with a quick chat. This was all before he had played a shield game.

Enjoyed watching his career progress. An honest battler in a real tough era of cricket who seemed to always make ‘crucial’ runs. Never a star but a solid honest battler.

[locky801]

My SA Team (Gotta remember been watching them since the early 60's)

B.Richards
Blewett
I Chappell
G Chappell
Hookes
Sobers
Carey
Mallett
Gillespe
May
Hammond

[mal]

WINDIES
Greenidge
Haynes
Lara.........................RICHARDS
Sobers.....................LARA
Richards..................SOBERS
Lloyd
Dujon
Ambrose.................MArshalL
Marshall..................AMBROSE
Garmer
Walsh

.......GIBBS if spinners deck...HALL if not

Only 1 different player Top 10 same as Lefty_Mcqueen
Same except number 11 and the batting order
Lightning Hall was a magnificent fast bowler- but could have picked Roberts, Holding, Walsh , Bishop, Croft as well
Lance Gibbs was an offspinner and a wicket taking machine
Lance also played SS cricket for South Australia , but was not outstanding , hard gig bowling off spin in Australia

[jackpot jim]

My SA Team (Gotta remember been watching them since the early 60's)

B.Richards
Blewett
I Chappell
G Chappell
Hookes
Sobers
Carey
Mallett
Gillespe
May
Hammond

Cant put them all in but Hogg, Garner and Tait were 3 pretty exciting and effective Quicks which would be in some peoples lists i'm sure.
Darren Lehmann simply has to be in the team somewhere , even as a spinner ahead of Mallett

[Lightning McQueen]

My SA Team (Gotta remember been watching them since the early 60's)

B.Richards
Blewett
I Chappell
G Chappell
Hookes
Sobers
Carey
Mallett
Gillespe
May
Hammond

Cant put them all in but Hogg, Garner and Tait were 3 pretty exciting and effective Quicks which would be in some peoples lists i'm sure.
Darren Lehmann simply has to be in the team somewhere , even as a spinner ahead of Mallett

I'd have Tait in the ODD side.

[Lightning McQueen]

Hilditch
Blewett
I Chappell
G Chappell
Hookes
Lehmann
Carey
Gillespe
Mennie
Mallett
Sayers

Obviously only going by early 80's onwards.

[wenchbarwer]

WINDIES
Greenidge
Haynes
Lara.........................RICHARDS
Sobers.....................LARA
Richards..................SOBERS
Lloyd
Dujon
Ambrose.................MArshalL
Marshall..................AMBROSE
Garmer
Walsh

.......GIBBS if spinners deck...HALL if not

Only 1 different player Top 10 same as Lefty_Mcqueen
Same except number 11 and the batting order
Lightning Hall was a magnificent fast bowler- but could have picked Roberts, Holding, Walsh , Bishop, Croft as well
Lance Gibbs was an offspinner and a wicket taking machine
Lance also played SS cricket for South Australia , but was not outstanding , hard gig bowling off spin in Australia

Great call on the batting order, mal, Malcolm Marshall was very handy with the bat, Curtley, not so much. And every Windies side must have Viv at three!