From: Sanjay.Naik@launchpad.unc.edu (Sanjay Naik)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: The best ever 1 day XIs
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:49:40 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1993Jan26.233452.14375@nmsu.edu> sbasu@huey (BASU) writes:
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>
>AUSTRALIA
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>Ian Chappel (Captain)          
>Paul Sheahan                   
>Dean Jones/ Kim Hughes         
>Greg Chappel                   
>Allan Border                   
>David Hookes                   
>Rod Marsh (Deputy;Keeper)      
>Dennis Lillee
>Craig McDermott
>Len Pascoe
>Jeff Thomson
>
	Don't remember much about Sheehan. I'd rather have Marsh, who 
surprisingly has a good one-day record. Hookes would go (never performed in
either tests or 1-dayers). This would give room for both Hughes and Jones.
Pascoe ? No way! In comes Gary Gilmour - tremendous performance in wc '75.
I think Thomson might be a liability in the one-dayers with no balls and
wides, just like Hogg. I might even go for un-sung Alan Hurst instead, or
maybe one day speciallist O'Donnell.
how come everyone spells 'chappell' as 'chappel' ??

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>ENGLAND
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>Graham Gooch
>Ian Botham
>David Gower
>Mike Gatting (d)
>Allan Lamb
>Derek Randall
>Tony Greig (c)
>Allan Knott (k)
>Graham Dilley
>Bob Willis
>Norman Cowans
>

	I drop Both down the order and let Amiss open with Gocch. Amiss
had some super performances when one-dayers really began in the early 70's.
If I'm not mistaken, he may be the first to score an official one-day ton.
So, I guess Randall would go, which is a shame when you consider his
brilliant fielding. Dilley and Cowans ? Both overrated cricketers IMO and
I don't recall either of them doing anything special over a period of time
in the one-dayers. Firstly, I'd take Underwood for one of them. "Deadly' was
the mingiest, stingiest, the best spinner I ever saw performing in the one
day game. And he didn't bowl flat or arrows at the leg stump to achieve this.
'Deadly' was brill - he wouldn't give too many runs away and he'd take
vital wickets.

When you consider his test performances, he was one of cricket's finest
performers. For the other bowler, I'd have Chris Old. Knott would be my
deputy.

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>
>INDIA
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>Sunil Gavaskar (c)
>Syed Kirmani (k)
>Jimmy Amarnath (d)
>Md Azharuddin
>Dilip Vengsarkar
>Sandip Patil
>Manoj Prabhakar
>Kapil Dev 
>Bishen Singh Bedi
>S Venkataraghavan
>Maninder Singh
>
	Hmm, having Bedi, Venkat & Maninder is too much of a luxury, espe.
when you consider that Bedi & Venkat were coming towards the end of their
careers during the late seventies. Sadly, both would go - I'd have Binny
in there - one of our best one-day performers. Shastri too! Prabhakar would
be replaced by madan lal and Kirmani (although our best keeper) with S. Vishy.
I thought Sadanand was excellent in Aust '85 (admittedly, I'm picking him
on one tourn.). Wait a min! Just notice that there's no Srikkanth. Not a great
fan of his, but he'd have to come in - but for who? I'd make Kapil as 
Gavaskar's deputy or the other way around (cringe!)

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>NEW ZEALAND
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>Glen Turner (d)
>Bruce Edgar
>Mark Greatbatch
>Jeff Crowe
>Martin Crowe (c)
>Chris Harris
>Richard Hadlee
>Dipak Patel 
>Ian Smith (k)
>Martin Snedden
>Evan Chatfield
>
    Jeremy Coney for Jeff Crowe. I'm afraid Jeff doesn't look much of a 
player, compared to his younger bro. Coney comes in handy as a bowler too.
Snedden would be replaced by Lance Cairns and Chris Harris with Chris
Cairns. Turner for the skipper's job, though- although Crowe was very
shrewd in Oz recently.


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>
>PAKISTAN
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>Majid Khan
>Ramiz Raza
>Zaheer Abbas
>Javed Miandad
>Salim Malik
>Asif Iqbal (d)
>Imran Khan (c)
>Wasim Akram
>Wasim Bari (k)
>Waqar Younis
>Sarfraz Nawaz
>

	Hmm, one day teams with names like Majid, Zaheer, Asif, Imran, Bari,
and Sarfraz scare me. They kept screwing up despite what looked like a
majestic team on paper. All six were in the '79 cup. Hard to argue with a
team like the above though. Somehow room would have to be found for Qadir,
probably at Waqar's expense. Yes, Waqar! They didn't need him in Oz.
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>
>SOUTH AFRICA
>------------
>Barry Richards
>Andrew Hudson
>Peter Kirsten
>Graemae Pollock
>Adrian Kuiper
>Clive Rice (d)
>Jonty Rhodes
>Eddie Barlow(k)
>Mike Procter (c)
>Merrick Pringle
>Allan Donald
>
	Does Pollock qualify ? I guess so if the Chappell's and Gavaskar do.
I'd get rid of Kirsten (despite a good wc) and take Ken McEwan - a brilliant
one day performer. Van Der Bijl would come in for Pringle and Le Roux for 
Kuiper (who doesn't belong in this team - Rhodes is lucky too, fielding is
his only attribute). Infact, I'd rather have Brian McMillan over Rhodes.
I'm not sure about Bunty Barlow's keeping abilities. Possibly Jimmy Cook over
Hudson - unfortunately, SA (I'll never confuse them with South Australia ;-))
got back into intl. cricket when Cook's career was coming to an end, so we
didn't see the best of him. Either way, a powerful one day side.

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>WEST INDIES
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>Gordon Greenidge
>Desmond Haynes
>Brian Lara
>Richie Richardson (d)
>Viv Richards
>Clive Lloyd (c)
>Derryk Murray (k)
>Andy Roberts
>Malcolm Marshall
>Joel Garner
>Michael Holding
>
  
     Kalli for Lara (easy) and Dujon for Murray. Another powerful side -
you could get a 2nd XI that would give the others a run for their money.
Richards would be my deputy and he'd definetely come in at #3, no place
else.
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 Always interesting doing this kind of a thing. 


Bye,

Sanjay Naik.
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