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There was a successful draft a few years ago on this board involving Australian players, where each person takes turns to choose a player from Australian test match history with the intention of creating a final XI. In this draft you can choose any player from any nation in test history (past...

Who do you think will be in the Aust test team next time the Ashes come round? 2013. I think we'll be looking at a pretty exciting young outfit along the lines of: Usman Khawaja Nick Maddinson Shane Watson Callum Ferguson Michael Clarke Shaun Marsh Matthew Wade Steven O'Keefe James Pattinson...

I'm a bit of a selection nerd, love an all time team in any sport. What is your all time Australian XI. 1st XI 1. Bill Ponsford 2. Bill Lawry 3. Don Bradman 4. Greg Chappell 5. Ricky Ponting 6. Keith Miller 7. Adam Gilchrist 8. Shane Warne 9. Bill O'Reilly 10. Dennis Lillee 11. Glenn McGrath...

So, I'm bored at work! Thought I'd pretend I'm a club selector with every player in history at my disposal. I have to make three teams. Firsts Jack Hobbs (Eng) Herb Sutcliffe (Eng) Don Bradman (Aus) Graham Pollock (SA) Wally Hammond (Eng) Garry Sobers (WI) Adam Gilchrist (Aus) Imran Khan (Pak)...

What happened to him? Is he fit? And is he any chance of playing tests again? He was impressive initially.

I am bored at work and my idea was to pretend I'm a club selector with every Australian test player in history to choose from to play cricket this weekend. I picked my first eleven, then the second from players remaining, then the third. What are your thoughts, anyone I've overlooked or anything...

West Indies all time XI They're doing it on cricinfo West Indies all-time XI: Openers shortlist | All-time XIs | Cricinfo Magazine | Cricinfo.com I reckon it'd be something like: Gordon Greenidge Desmond Haynes George Headley Viv Richards Brian Lara Gary Sobers Jeff Dujon...

Best in Tests- 1970s Sunil Gavaskar Geoff Boycott Greg Chappell Javed Miandad Viv Richards Dennis Amiss Rod Marsh Dennis Lillee Andy Roberts Bob Willis Derek Underwood

Best in Tests- 1980s Selected as a team to play a test: 1. Sunil Gavaskar 2. Gordon Greenidge 3. Viv Richards 4. Javed Miandad 5. Allan Border 6. Imran Khan 7. Jeff Dujon 8. Richard Hadlee 9. Malcolm Marshall 10. Abdul Qadir 11. Joel Garner

Pick three best ever Australian teams Imagine you are a selector at the local club, but you can pick any cricketers from Australia's history. Who would be in your 1st, 2nd and 3rd XI, and why? 1st XI Matthew Hayden Bill Ponsford Don Bradman Greg Chappell Ricky Ponting Allan Border...

All time world xi Yeh, I'm bored. Let's debate, nicely! All Time World XI 1. Sunil Gavaskar (Ind) 2. Jack Hobbs (Eng) 3. Don Bradman (Aus) 4. Wally Hammond (Eng) 5. Viv Richards (WI) 6. Garfield Sobers (WI) 7. Adam Gilchrist (Aus) 8. Wasim Akram (Pak) 9. Shane Warne (Aus) 10...

Cricket Master Tour- Speculative Mas Cambios mentioned this in another thread, imagine a cricket master's tour. It'd draw the crowds, and could perhaps be done for charity. Maybe a short 20/20 tournament every few years. You'd have to get the ol' characters involved! Australia Matthew...

Border- From Ltd's Ponting love fest thread.... (from LionsthenDaylight in the Ponting thread) Just wanted to pick up on this and the other thread is locked. I thought it needed clarification. Border was not a "battler" as you put it. There has been an image created around him as a...

Predict the test team in 4 years time Shaun Marsh/ Dave Warner Phil Hughes Shane Watson Michael Clark Callum Ferguson Usman Khawaja Steve Smith Tim Paine Mitchell Johnson Clint McKay/Ben Hilfenhaus/Peter Siddle Doug Bollinger If Smith could become a good enough spinner to play as...

The next big Aust test transition In the next few years, the Australian test team will lose Ponting, Katich, Hussey. You'd also reckon that North may be gone in 3 years. Ponting is over 35, and Katich and Hussey are almost 35. Four out of our current top six will be gone in 2-3 years, leaving...

All time 11 from each test playing country Some of you may have seen that cricinfo are selecting a best 11 from each test playing nation. Might be fun to do the same in here. Who would be in the best 11 for: Australia? West Indies? England? South Africa? New Zealand? Pakistan...

Australia's current 2nd test XI? If the first XI is as follows: Watson Katich Ponting M.Hussey Clarke North Haddin Johnson Hauritz Siddle Hilfenhaus what do you think the second XI would be? I'd say: Rogers Jaques Hughes Hodge White D.Hussey Paine...

Schoolyard team selection- ALL TIME!! Basically the idea is we have four people playing, and they take turns selecting one cricketer from history until we each have a team of 11 players. Then we argue about whose team is best. I'm in, now we need three others. The first three posters can...