All time Best XI of your home town

He was a great matchwinner mate. Often Barlow would make what seemed like suicidal declarations to push for the win. His secret weapon was Hobson who always bowled into the south easterly wind - this helped give outrageous dip , which coupled to viscous turn made him practically unplayable.
          More's the pity that whilst the south-easter still blows , the pitch just doesn't have the bounce or grip of yesteryear.   Having said that though , he'd still be a real handful.

        Returning to my selected XI. If that's a test team then there could well be reason to bring in Brian McMillan over Adrian Kuiper. Not if we're talking one day cricket though!

Originally posted by kirankri Also what about the English county team from your home town Sledge?

 I'll have a go at Lancashire Kiran

   1) Cyril Washbrook
   2)  Michael Atherton  (capt)
   3) Geoff Pullar
   4) Len Hopwood
   5)  Frank Hayes
   6) Andrew Flintoff
   7) Warren Hegg  (w/k)
   8) Jack Simmonds
   9) Brian Statham
  10) Peter Lever
  11) Ken Shuttleworth

      Some selections there might not warrant their place , but I'm looking through my personal rose-tinted glasses !
 

We assume that picking Lancs team your criteria is only local players.

Make them play on a karachi pitch and keep bowling for 5 days!! I assume Lancs team will also be quite strong by this method

Edited by zuhair_abbasi - 17 March 2009 at 11:08am

And guess who I've got, Nixon Mclean.

Yes JP, one time I played a fete match and everyone on the team was related either by blood or marriage.  I was related to everyone though!

Originally posted by -JP- Must be, otherwise my Somerset team would be Sunil Gavaskar, Graeme Smith, Ricky Ponting,  Sanath Jayasuriya, Viv Richards, Martin Crowe, Justin Langer (wk), Bill Alley, Ian Botham, Joel Garner, and Andy caddi£k!

Last time Justin kept wicket was in the early 90s. I'd rather choose a specialist and have a real keeper there then have someone who is capable of it, but not the best. Then again I can't think of any Somerset keepers.

No one from Mumbai in the forum? I am sure Mumbai would have one of the strongest.

Certainly Mumbai team would be strong. fewnames I can think of are Ajit Vadekar Sachin Vengsarkar Gavaskar (captain) umrigar Munaf patel rohit sharma farokh engineer (WK)

Not too long to go until both he and Jacques Rudolph are able to play for England.

Hahaha, sorry about that mate. I'd forgotten about Mushy for a minute there .

Mushtaq always kept things a bit more simple, but Saqlain always had to keep innovating. In business, as they say, innovation is necessary but it is also the riskiest thing one can do. Now we know why Saqlain is not in the Pakistani side, he really did get found out by many batsman, not to mention his obsession with creating new deliveries which did the same thing as the last one.
Such a shame, back in 1999, when he was still 23 he looked like he could be one of the best off spinners in history, now he is just a faded memory.
And no, he will never play for England.

Originally posted by milkman Now we know why Saqlain is not in the Pakistani side

Sadly I cerainly dont know that. He was handled poorly by the board and they started prefering kaneria over Saqlain. And when kaneria had a few good series against the mighty bangladeshis they completely forgot Saqlain. He was also strugling with a knee injury. But they never got him back, never took him in confidence. He certainly was a very very fine bowler. Must have played a lot more than he actually did. Was easily a 100+ test matches guy

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi Originally posted by milkman Now we know why Saqlain is not in the Pakistani side Sadly I cerainly dont know that. He was handled poorly by the board and they started prefering kaneria over Saqlain. And when kaneria had a few good series against the mighty bangladeshis they completely forgot Saqlain. He was also strugling with a knee injury. But they never got him back, never took him in confidence. He certainly was a very very fine bowler. Must have played a lot more than he actually did. Was easily a 100+ test matches guy

I still think a lot of his demise was his own doing. He needed more form in the big games when he actually was given a chance and then when he didn't perform he became a scapegoat, which was really unfair.

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi he got that so called  chance straight in a test match against the indians of a lifeless track. and you cant just judge Saqlain on one poor performance and throw him out. that is pakistan politics in the game of cricket which destroyed him. Pity