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Post by coverpoint on Apr 17, 2021 13:01:15 GMT
Runs-Ave-HS-100s-50s-W-Ave-BB-5wI-10wM
CG Greenidge 7558 45 226 19 34
DL Haynes 7487 42 184 18 39 1 8 1-2 0 0
BC Lara 11953 53 400* 34 48 0 0 0
SC Chanderpaul 11867 51 203* 30 66 9 98 1-2 0 0
IVA Richards 8540 50 291 24 45 32 61 2-17 0 0
GSA Sobers 8032 58 365* 26 30 235 34 6-73 6 0
C Walcott 3798 57 220 15 14 53 11
MD Marshall 1810 19 92 0 10 376 21 7-22 22 4
CEL Ambrose 1439 12 53 0 1 405 21 8-45 22 3
CA Walsh 936 8 30* 0 0 519 24 7-37 22 3
LR Gibbs 488 7 25 0 0 309 29 8-38 18 2
Missed out
CH Gayle 7214 42 333 15 37 73 43 5-34 2 0
CH Lloyd 7515 47 242* 19 39 10 62 2-13 0 0
RB Kanhai 6227 48 256 15 28
J Garner 672 12 60 0 1 259 21 6-56 7 0
MA Holding 910 14 73 0 6 249 24 8-92 13 2
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Post by gmdf on Apr 17, 2021 13:07:18 GMT
Brilliant batsman, but how good a keeper was Rohan Kanhai? You could replace him with Clyde Walcott: 3798 runs 220 HS 56.68 av 15 hundreds 53 ct 11 st
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Post by coverpoint on Apr 17, 2021 13:09:03 GMT
Brilliant batsman, but how good a keeper was Rohan Kanhai? You could replace him with Clyde Walcott: 3798 runs 220 HS 56.68 av 15 hundreds 53 ct 11 st I was really struggling to find a keeper. Good shout. I was torn between Lloyd and Haynes because although Lloyd is arguably the better batsman the only recognised openers were Gayle, Haynes and Greenidge. Leaving out Garner and Holding wasn't an easy decision. |
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Post by philh on Apr 17, 2021 13:13:20 GMT
I reckon the all-time West Indies 2nd XI would have rather useful pace attack. Who would fancy facing Roberts, Holding and Garner?
What about Kallicharan? Dujon as keeper?
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Post by tiptoes on Apr 17, 2021 16:01:11 GMT
Both George Headley and Everton Weekes would make an all time best ever WI XI ahead of Haynes and Chanderpaul.
An all time Australian XI must be least subjective;
Hayden
Ponting
Bradman
G Chappell
Smith
Miller
Gilchrist
Lindwall
Warne
Lilley
McGrath
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Post by tiptoes on Apr 17, 2021 16:27:18 GMT
West Indies draw their cricket team from 6 countries or technically Independent Commonwealth Nations. Back in the late 70s and 80s Barbados, a nation with a population of just 250,000 people could produce a fast bowling attack of Marshall, Sylvester Clarke, Wayne Daniel and Garner. That's a stronger pace attack than any cricketing country in the world at that time.
It's akin to Millwall a little London club with a following of 5,000 for home games being the most feared football hooligans in the country in the same era.
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Post by coverpoint on Apr 17, 2021 17:15:43 GMT
Both George Headley and Everton Weekes would make an all time best ever WI XI ahead of Haynes and Chanderpaul. An all time Australian XI must be least subjective; Hayden Ponting Bradman G Chappell Smith Miller Gilchrist Lindwall Warne Lilley McGrath Hayden, Ponting, Bradman, Gilchrist, Warne, Lillee and McGrath deserve to be there. I had Taylor (needed a second opener), Border, Steve Waugh and Jeff Thomson in place of Chappell, Smith (Bradman averages almost 100 and Border, Ponting and Waugh have over 10,000 test runs), Miller and Lindwall (Lillee and Thomson were a formidable partnership). |
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