Six teams - Who will win this series?

[iniqbal223]

Forming four teams of great players from late 90s and 2000 (Before the start of T20 business , and player debuted before 2007 wc and players retired after 1999 wc are ignored) :

Team A

Sehwag
Hayden
Sangakkara (Wk/C)
Mohammad Yousuf
Dravid
Suresh Raina
Klusner
Pollock
Brett Lee
Mohammad Asif
Murali



Team B

Jayasurya
Gilchrist (wk)
Ponting (c)
Kallis
Inzamam
Flintoff
Symonds
Wasim Akram
Shoaib Akhtar
Mcgrath
Warne


Team C

Sachin
Anwar
Ganguly (c)
Kevin Peterson
Shane Watson
Michael Bevan
MSD (wk)
Saqlain
Shane Bond
Makhaya Ntini
Nathan Bracken

Team D

Chris Gayle
Mccullam (C/wk)
Greame Smith
Jayawardena
Scott styris
Clarke
Razzaq
Vettori
Zaheer Khan
Waqar Younis
Allan Donald

Team E

Herschelle Gibbs
Fleming (c)
Lara
AB Devilliers (wk)
Sakib Ul Hasan
Damien Martyn
Jacob Oram
Harbhajan
Gillispie
James Anderson
Mitchell Johnson






... And the surprise beast team

Team F

Kamran akmal (wk)
Salman Butt
Imran Farhat
Hafeez
Umar Akmal
Adnan Akmal
Malik
Sohail Tanvir
Tanvir Ahmed
Rao Iftikhar
Saeed Ajmal

 

[Ab Fan]

Team B obviously but Symonds at 6 and Freddie at 7.

 

[Srtfan]

Team B and team A

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Team F obviously not even a question )

 

[tyron_woodley]

rofl at team F. nice.

team B I agree would be the winner

 

[sweep_shot]

Team B

Jayasurya
Gilchrist (wk)
Ponting (c)
Kallis
Inzamam
Flintoff
Symonds
Wasim Akram
Shoaib Akhtar
Mcgrath
Warne

Team B should win easily. This is a brilliant team.

 

[MMHS]

Teams (First 5) are not well balanced picks - team B is head and shoulders above others. With a bowling line-up of Wasim, Mac, Warne & Shoaib, basically Sanath, Kallis, Flintoff & Symonds will be part-timers for 10 overs - that's luxury. These 4 were one regular bowlers for there very good sides (two of them ATG teams, and another one former world champions). Warne at 9, that batting line-up is one of the best. In an ATG 25 men ODI squad, about 7-8 players from that team should make it, with probably 3 confirm starters - Wasim, Gilly & Mac and three in reserves - Warne, Ponting, Sanath. Then comes Symonds, Kallis, Inzi, Shoaib & Flintoff - almost looking like second class citizen in that XI and each ware ODI greats!!!!!

Difficult question is - who'll make the other spot in Final. After all sorts of permutation & combination, my hunch is Team E. It's over all, the most balanced team among the rest and led by a brilliant Captain. I think, only team C has better batting line-up that E, but inferior bowling while team A & D will contest for the last spots (excluding F).

My final standing will be

0. Team F

1. B
2. E
3. C
4. A
5. D

 

[iniqbal223]

I think team C is as solid as B

 

[Mobashir]

Forming four teams of great players from late 90s and 2000 (Before the start of T20 business , and player debuted before 2007 wc and players retired after 1999 wc are ignored) :

Team A

Sehwag
Hayden
Sangakkara (Wk/C)
Mohammad Yousuf
Dravid
Suresh Raina
Klusner
Pollock
Brett Lee
Mohammad Asif
Murali



Team B

Jayasurya
Gilchrist (wk)
Ponting (c)
Kallis
Inzamam
Flintoff
Symonds
Wasim Akram
Shoaib Akhtar
Mcgrath
Warne


Team C

Sachin
Anwar
Ganguly (c)
Kevin Peterson
Shane Watson
Michael Bevan
MSD (wk)
Saqlain
Shane Bond
Makhaya Ntini
Nathan Bracken

Team D

Chris Gayle
Mccullam (C/wk)
Greame Smith
Jayawardena
Scott styris
Clarke
Razzaq
Vettori
Zaheer Khan
Waqar Younis
Allan Donald

Team E

Herschelle Gibbs
Fleming (c)
Lara
AB Devilliers (wk)
Sakib Ul Hasan
Damien Martyn
Jacob Oram
Harbhajan
Gillispie
James Anderson
Mitchell Johnson






... And the surprise beast team

Team F

Kamran akmal (wk)
Salman Butt
Imran Farhat
Hafeez
Umar Akmal
Adnan Akmal
Malik
Sohail Tanvir
Tanvir Ahmed
Rao Iftikhar
Saeed Ajmal

Not only team F was a surprise but all teams were a little strange. I am trying to guess how did you make those teams or was it completely randomly.
To put an attack of McGrath, Wasim, Akhtar and Warne in the same team seal the comparaisons.

One notable thing was the absence of Shahid Afridi. Look like you are from the haters because he surely deserves his place in these teams.
So, keep hating!

 

[iniqbal223]

Not only team F was a surprise but all teams were a little strange. I am trying to guess how did you make those teams or was it completely randomly.
To put an attack of McGrath, Wasim, Akhtar and Warne in the same team seal the comparaisons.

One notable thing was the absence of Shahid Afridi. Look like you are from the haters because he surely deserves his place in these teams.
So, keep hating!

What an extremist you are ?

There are lot batter players than Afridi in that era (even with less number of games and more match winning and consistency). In the end he was remembered as an entertainer, who was highly inconsistent..

So keep living in your dream

 

[TeymurBlake]

Hahahaha Team F is nuts!!!!!

Lets go Team F, why not

 

[Bhaijaan]

Can't tell.

When IPL started we all started predicting based on how solid the squad looked but almost everytime the results seemed very different.

It's a team game and about how well the players play as a unit

Remember how Ponting's Australia destroyed the World XI in 2005?

 

[MMHS]

Can't tell.

When IPL started we all started predicting based on how solid the squad looked but almost everytime the results seemed very different.

It's a team game and about how well the players play as a unit

Remember how Ponting's Australia destroyed the World XI in 2005?

There is a difference between that IPL example and these teams. First, in T20, it's too small a game for bringing 11 players into action - squad depth hardly works in T20, because just couple of batsmen and bowlers can win you a tournament. Second issue is draft picks - often teams pick players within their budget with an eye for the branding, often ignoring the combination and in a capped draft, most of your draft picks are determined by the auction and budget. For IPL, there was a third factor - T20 was new that time (even now) and each of us was judging teams/squads based on their ODI stats, without much clue of the T20 game itself. This was the case of ODI teams in 1970s as well, when ODI & Test teams were almost same - selectors used to pick best 15 players without much clue of the demand of a different ball game.

This one is a different scenario - no matter what batting order you use or whichever batsman/men are in blistering for ... every other team will have to face 40 overs of Wasim, Mac, Warne & Shoaib. That attack has absolutely every thing - give Mac 7 overs with new ball, Wasim 5 .... then use Shoaib in 3 short spells - finally finish with Wasim, Flintoff & Kallis bowling last 10 overs between them - add to that a small matter of 10 overs between over 15-40 by a guy named Shane Warne. I doubt even how many of these star studded batting line-up can play-out 50 overs against that attack.