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Players who would NOT play 20/20 ?

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,757
    Miserableoldgit said:

    Today's England XI ?

    Not exactly the most thrilling day of cricket is it.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Ken Barrington instead of Athers ?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,875
    Interestingly Trott has by far the best strike rate of any of the English batsmen today. He'll get dropped from our non playing T20 team at this rate!
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    edited May 2013
    Agree about Emburey - he would have been IN my 20/20 team.
    My recommendation for ROW would be 'the Wall' Dravid - even though he does play in IPL.
    another one would be Sunil Gavaskar after this innings...http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?t=93501
    How can anyone bat all innings in a 60 over ODI for just 36 runs.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    In that match England scored over 300 runs in their 60 overs - almost unheard of then, so Gavaskar decided that as there was no way India could win that he'd settle for batting practice.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Actually he did it as a protest against what he saw as England ruining the game by scoring too many. He had not support from the rest of his team and was punished by the Indian authorities.
    What must be rememberd is that was not only the first ever cricket WC but international ODI's were also very new and not everyone had got the hang of how to play them.
    Gavaskar was one of the best of his generation and to dismiss him as a 20/20 mug is just ignorant.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Riviera said:

    Actually he did it as a protest against what he saw as England ruining the game by scoring too many. He had not support from the rest of his team and was punished by the Indian authorities.
    What must be rememberd is that was not only the first ever cricket WC but international ODI's were also very new and not everyone had got the hang of how to play them.
    Gavaskar was one of the best of his generation and to dismiss him as a 20/20 mug is just ignorant.

    You're right Riv, Gavaskar was a class bat, i was just using that as a classic example. In the same way that i cant believe that anybody would think that Emburey would be a crap 20/20 player.
    In those days they would bowl 120 overs in a day! whereas in a Test match today you will only get 90 , and 100 in an ODI.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    edited May 2013
    Absurdistan said:

    Wonder how your team would do against my fantasy 11

    Gordon Greenidge
    David Warner
    Viv Richards
    Chris Gayle
    Gary Sobers
    Brendon McCullum (wk)
    Richard Hadlee
    Imran Khan
    Kapil Dev
    Shane Pollock
    Shane Warne

    Good side.You missed out one player though - Gary Pratt.
    Where's Botham?

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