The Alphabet Game

[Dr Cricket]

Dev is a D.

[Dr Cricket]

Full name is technically.
Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhan
personally think with Sri lanka, indians, pakistani it would make more sense to use the letter they are mostly associated with.
so for Dev D, Vaas V etc.

Also with his daughter surname being Dev think it should be enough evidence for him to be in the D team.

[Arthur Crabtree]

If so, I'd be inclined to leave out Dhoni/Dolly and play Kapil Dev.

Only fogeyish old English commentators called him Dev though. His name on the scorecard is the whole thing, like that's all his name.

[rich1uk]

so ABDV as the keeper ?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Yes.

Alternatively, Fanie or Kapil Dev.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Jeffrey Dujon might challenge Dhoni.

Lots of D keepers.

[rich1uk]

Jeffrey Dujon might challenge Dhoni.

Lots of D keepers.

Dujon would probably get my vote as keeper and just play ABDV as a batsman

[Arthur Crabtree]

And leave out?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Or make Kapil Dev a K, which'll be a tougher team to fill.

[rich1uk]

And leave out?

dhawan

i know it would mean dravid opening but i dont think dhawan has really done enough

[Arthur Crabtree]

Hmm. See what others think.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Each team so far has an Indian spinner.

Ashwin
Bedi
Chandrasekhar
Doshi

[Gingerfinch]

Dravid to open, pick ABDV as a batter, bring in Dujon, and play Dev ahead of Fannie De-Villiers.

[rich1uk]

Dravid to open, pick ABDV as a batter, bring in Dujon, and play Dev ahead of Fannie De-Villiers.

[Arthur Crabtree]

So that's now

Dravid
Dilshan
Dexter
de Silva
de Villiers
Dujon
Kapil Dev
Donald
Davidson
Doshi

So someone can go back in. Dhoni won't play as a specialist bat, so of recently featured players that's Fanie, Dhawan or D'Oliveira. Dexter was a 3 and averaged over 50 there. Dravid opened 23 times and averaged 42.5 (52.9 at 3)