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McGill, nice pick.

 

Yup, just too bad for him that he was in the same era, playing for the same nation and had the same bowling type as one of the greatest cricketers of all time.

 

He'd have walked into any other team in the world, could turn the fuckers a mile!

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Surely it's the same as with the captain. They have to have been a test cricket wicketkeeper.

 

It would be more beneficial to the team as well, picking a part time wicket keeper or a one day specialist would be a huge risk to take over a test series.

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You'll be losing points from me if you haven't got a recognised 'keeper and captain.

 

I've picked. Dale Steyn with the new ball. Monty is up. He's been notified.

 

Steyn has already been picked by Remmie mate.

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Oh fuck.

 

Sorry peeps. My bad. Couldn't see for looking.

 

I've gone for Shoaib Akhtar now.

 

I must admit i have to double and treble check my players.

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Incidentally, how strict is the keepers position? Or are we looking at team balance and assessing them as keepers? As I will have to be creative to nick a decent one.

 

Up to you, as no one knows what the voters will vote for.

 

However I think it is fair to say if they haven't kept wicket in a Test they won't be recognised as a very good keeper, which could be costly.

 

For example if you chose batsman who might keep as a keeper in one day cricket but hasn't done it at Test level, I doubt it would look good, you'd be better having someone who could keep properly like Jack Russell (not saying Russell couldn't bat, whoever selected him!).

 

Re: Captain. Probably the least important selection for me. I think in cricket a lot of the time the players make the captain look great. You can't tell me Steve Waugh could have turned that England team of the 80s / 90s into the best team in the world. Likewise the England captains of that era probably would have looked great captaining Warne, Mcgrath etc.

 

But others might disagree with the opinion of a captain. Some might think it is very important. If I saw two even teams and couldn't pick between them, then the captain would probably make a difference, but otherwise I'd be picking the best teams because of the players.

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Yup, just too bad for him that he was in the same era, playing for the same nation and had the same bowling type as one of the greatest cricketers of all time.

 

He'd have walked into any other team in the world, could turn the fuckers a mile!

 

I agree. He still got over 200 Test wickets, despite being back up to Warne for his whole career. I guess he got most of those wickets when Warne was banned?

 

I nearly chose another spinner instead of him, but the amount of wickets he got and could have got had he played more meant I chose him over the other guy. I watched some youtube clips of his bowling yesterday to remind me how good he was.

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Up to you, as no one knows what the voters will vote for.

 

However I think it is fair to say if they haven't kept wicket in a Test they won't be recognised as a very good keeper, which could be costly.

 

For example if you chose batsman who might keep as a keeper in one day cricket but hasn't done it at Test level, I doubt it would look good, you'd be better having someone who could keep properly like Jack Russell (not saying Russell couldn't bat, whoever selected him!).

 

Re: Captain. Probably the least important selection for me. I think in cricket a lot of the time the players make the captain look great. You can't tell me Steve Waugh could have turned that England team of the 80s / 90s into the best team in the world. Likewise the England captains of that era probably would have looked great captaining Warne, Mcgrath etc.

 

But others might disagree with the opinion of a captain. Some might think it is very important. If I saw two even teams and couldn't pick between them, then the captain would probably make a difference, but otherwise I'd be picking the best teams because of the players.

 

 

The fuck you saying about Jack Russell. Glos Legend.

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