by The Professor » Wed Apr 29, 2020 12:21 pm
ODI team......slightly harder
Mark Waugh - Australia, Essex, New South Wales
Sachin Tendulkar - India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire
Jacques Kallis - South Africa, Africa XI, Cape Cobras, Glamorgan, ICC World XI, Kolkata Knight Riders, Middlesex, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sydney Thunder, Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel, Warriors, Western Province
Aravinda Da Silva - Sri Lanka, Auckland, Kent, Nondescripts Cricket Club
Mushfiqur Rahim -Bangladesh, Bangladesh Under-19s, Karachi Kings, Khulna Tigers, North Zone (Bangladesh), Rajshahi Division, Rajshahi Kings, Sylhet Division, Sylhet Royals
Paul Collingwood - England, Delhi Daredevils, Durham, Impi, Perth Scorchers, Rajasthan Royals, World-XI
Richard Hadlee - New Zealand, Canterbury, Marylebone Cricket Club, New Zealand Invitation XI, Nottinghamshire, Tasmania
Wasim Akram - Pakistan, Hampshire, Lahore, Lancashire, Pakistan Automobiles Corporation, Pakistan International Airlines
Kyle McCallan – Ireland, Cliftonville
Dawlat Zadran – Afghanistan, Band-e-Amir
Joel Garner – West Indies, Barbados, Somerset, South Australia
Notable Absences
My main issue for this team was Jacques Kallis who stopped me from getting a veritable plethora of players – and for a variety of increasingly obscure teams. His time at Middlesex blocked David Warner, Desmond Haynes and Tim Murtagh whilst his IPL jaunt with Kolkota stopped Eoin Morgan and Chris Woakes. Perhaps most surprisingly is Western Province’s Alan Lamb, Keppler Wessels and Graham Gooch.
Akram proved a bit of an issue too featuring, as he did, for Hampshire and Lancashire. Hampshire stopped luminaries such as Gordon Greenidge, David Gower, George Bailey, Pietersen, Robin Smith and Mujeeb ur Rahman making the cut. Lancashire had some likely contenders too with Flintoff, Jimmy Anderson, Jos Buttler and even Phil Defreitas under consideration. Somerset was the last of the counties to screw me over. Garner was the chosen one from the perennial nearly men which meant that Andrew Caddick, Vic Marks, Ian Botham and George Dockrell were non-starters.
Other nearly men were: Ponting and Hussey (blocked by Tendulkar and Mumbai Indians), Michael Bevan and Michael Gough (Tendulkar and Yorkshire), Swann (Hadlee and Notts)
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