Wasim Akram and Alan Davidson both born in June... indisputably the 2 greatest left arm quicks ever. Spooky.

OK, so the team is:

Dempster
H Sutcliffe
Barrington
Trumper
B Sutcliffe
Miller
Imran
Gilchrist
Botham
Waqar
Larwood

What a bowling side that is, what an action packed middle order too.

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Originally posted by Ngam:

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Originally posted by Leo:
Also, Keith Miller was born in November. Poor Both is now at no. 9.

Arrghh!! Couldn't edit it! Makes me look like a fool.

Not to worry. Something like this:

Dempster
H Sutcliffe
Barrington
B Sutcliffe
Trumper
Miller
Imran
Gilchrist
Botham
Larwood
Waqar

Nice. If your name is Sutcliffe and you want your son to be a great test cricketer, February is the date for a conception it seems.

Oops.

With respect to Bob Taylor, I have to think 'Jock' Cameron deserves the July wicketkeepers spot ahead of him.

Cameron was an option. A better bat definately.

No spinner in that November team.

Peterg, I accept your apology for your mistake. Trying to replace the keeper with a bowler.

July XI is:

Gavaskar
Richards
Zaheer
McCabe
Border
Sobers
Cameron
Hadlee
Harbajan
Lillee
Bedser

Lillee
Hadlee
Bedser
Harbajan
Sobers

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Originally posted by My Name is Luca:
No spinner in that November team.

Don't need one. There's a variety of pace, reverse swing, conventional swing, aggression, accuracy. Plenty there to knock a team over on a belter.

That is rubbish. Why have 5 seamers and no spinner. Not all matches are at Headingly in May.

This thread has had me interested for a while, but I'm losing the will to live now, so I'm going to post what I've found so far and stop. Corrections/suggestions obviously welcome.

First quarter:

JANUARY
1. Bruce MITCHELL
2. Arthur MORRIS
3. Rahul DRAVID
4. Clyde WALCOTT
5. Richie RICHARDSON
6. Kapil DEV
7. Adam PARORE
8. Chaminda VAAS
9. Hugh TAYFIELD
10. Ted MCDONALD
11. Andy ROBERTS


FEBRUARY
1. Bob SIMPSON
2. Bill LAWRY
3. Everton WEEKES
4. Graeme POLLOCK
5. Norm O'NEILL
6. Bevan CONGDON
7. Farokh ENGINEER
8. Michael HOLDING
9. Fred TRUEMAN
10. Jim LAKER
11. Glenn MCGRATH

MARCH
1. Michael ATHERTON
2. Andrew STRAUSS
3. Viv RICHARDS
4. Clem HILL
5. INZAMAM-ul-Haq
6. Dean JONES
7. Heath STREAK
8. WASIM Bari
9. Colin CROFT
10. Neil ADCOCK
11. Jack SAUNDERS

Second quarter.

APRIL
1. Gary KIRSTEN
2. Alec STEWART
3. David GOWER
4. Sachin TENDULKAR
5. Andy FLOWER
6. Vinoo MANKAD
7. Alan KNOTT/Ian HEALY
8. Malcolm MARSHALL
9. Craig MCDERMOTT
10. Muttiah MURALITHARAN
11. Sidney BARNES

MAY
1. Gordon GREENIDGE
2. Conrad HUNTE
3. Brian LARA
4. George HEADLEY
5. Denis COMPTON
6. Ted DEXTER
7. Jack KELLY/George DUCKWORTH
8. Hedley VERITY
9. Bob WILLIS
10. Sonny RAMADHIN
11. Erapalli PRASANNA

Clearly, one of the two off-spinners needs to be replaced by a pace bowler. Any thoughts? Ted taking the new ball is a bit of a worry.

JUNE
1. Len HUTTON
2. Tom GRAVENEY
3. Walter HAMMOND
4. DULEEPSINHJI
5. JAVED Miandad
6. Steve WAUGH
7. Alan DAVIDSON
8. Steve RHODES
9. WASIM Akram
10. Peter POLLOCK
11. Brian STATHAM

Obviously an alternative keeper would be nice.

Duckworth v Kelly and Healy v Knott stressed me as well.

Fred Titmus or Bert Vogler could be possible spinners for November.

Third quarter.

JULY
1. Sunil GAVASKAR
2. Barry RICHARDS
3. William Gilbert GRACE
4. Stan MCCABE
5. Allan BORDER
6. Gary SOBERS
7. Jock CAMERON
8. Shaun POLLOCK
9. Richard HADLEE
10. Dennis LILLEE
11. Jim HIGGS/HARBHAJAN Singh

AUGUST
1. Bill WOODFULL
2. Eddie BARLOW
3. Don BRADMAN
4. Greg CHAPPELL
5. Frank WORRELL
6. Clive LLOYD
7. Trevor GODDARD
8. Jack GREGORY
9. Godfrey EVANS
10. IQBAL Qasim
11. SHOAIB Akhtar

There would be one hell of a fight over who was to be captain of this team...

SEPTEMBER
1. Saeed ANWAR
2. MAJID Khan
3. RANJITSINHJI
4. Martin CROWE
5. Denis LINDSAY
6. Nathan ASTLE
7. Shane WARNE
8. Curtly AMBROSE
9. Fred SPOFFORTH
10. Lance GIBBS
11. Bishen BEDI

Final quarter.

OCTOBER
1. Bill PONSFORD
2. Matthew HAYDEN
3. Kumar SANGAKARRA
4. Jacques KALLIS
5. Neil HARVEY
6. George ULYETT
7. Wilfred RHODES
8. Richie BENAUD
9. Ray LINDWALL
10. John SNOW
11. Courtney WALSH

DECEMBER
1. Jack HOBBS
2. HANIF Mohammad
3. Rohan KANHAI
4. Peter MAY
5. Doug WALTERS
6. Aubrey FAULKNER
7. Les AMES
8. SAQLAIN Mushtaq
9. Bill O'REILLY
10. Joel GARNER
11. Clarrie GRIMMETT

One Kevin Douglas Walters to open the bowling... bit of a worry. Has to be someone who could replace Saqlain, but I can't find them.

In the September side: Mike Procter would be the 3rd fast bowler if you could bear to ditch one of the spinners. Alternatively he could bat at 6, but that would be brave.

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MAY
1. Gordon GREENIDGE
2. Conrad HUNTE
3. Brian LARA
4. George HEADLEY
5. Denis COMPTON
6. Ted DEXTER
7. Jack KELLY/George DUCKWORTH
8. Hedley VERITY
9. Bob WILLIS
10. Sonny RAMADHIN
11. Erapalli PRASANNA

Clearly, one of the two off-spinners needs to be replaced by a pace bowler. Any thoughts? Ted taking the new ball is a bit of a worry.

Maurice Tate?

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DECEMBER
1. Jack HOBBS
2. HANIF Mohammad
3. Rohan KANHAI
4. Peter MAY
5. Doug WALTERS
6. Aubrey FAULKNER
7. Les AMES
8. SAQLAIN Mushtaq
9. Bill O'REILLY
10. Joel GARNER
11. Clarrie GRIMMETT

One Kevin Douglas Walters to open the bowling... bit of a worry. Has to be someone who could replace Saqlain, but I can't find them.

Flintoff?
Hoggard?

November seems to be unbeatable.

What abt June. It'd have Akram.

I think July would be the favourites in most circumstances - not a weak link in the side. I'd have Bob Taylor though.

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Originally posted by Wide Wally:

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DECEMBER
1. Jack HOBBS
2. HANIF Mohammad
3. Rohan KANHAI
4. Peter MAY
5. Doug WALTERS
6. Aubrey FAULKNER
7. Les AMES
8. SAQLAIN Mushtaq
9. Bill O'REILLY
10. Joel GARNER
11. Clarrie GRIMMETT

One Kevin Douglas Walters to open the bowling... bit of a worry. Has to be someone who could replace Saqlain, but I can't find them.

Flintoff?
Hoggard?

Yeah, Flintoff would be good. And Tate for Prasanna in the other team. Cheers Wal.

Any thoughts on Kelly v Duckworth? Not that I think you saw them play but I don't know a lot about them. Was one thought to be considerably better than the other?

And I imagine no-one outside Queensland rates Healy equal to Knott...

Good stuff My Name is Luca and Leo.

A few extra suggestions.

January: Keeepr = Strudwick

February: Keeper = Tallon

March: Tom Hayward an automatic choice as opener

May: I'd have Freeman and Verity as the spinners, Tate and Ferris as seamers. Farrimond and Blackham were also born in May - obviously a month for great keepers.

August: Tom Richardson is first choice quickie for this month.

September: Either Constantine or George Hirst instead of Astle. Bert Oldfield as keeper.

October: Merchant should fit in here somewhere. It would be nice to find room for Bart King but I can't see how.

November: All that batting isn't needed so i'd have CTB Turner for Miller.

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Originally posted by Leo:
Any thoughts on Kelly v Duckworth? Not that I think you saw them play but I don't know a lot about them. Was one thought to be considerably better than the other?

And I imagine no-one outside Queensland rates Healy equal to Knott...

I like the idea of a Kelly v Duckworth thread.

Duckworth is regarded by many as England's finest ever keeper - great both standing up and back. Evans and Knott would be the others in the usual shortlist.

My father rated Hugh Farrimond of Lancashire as about equal to Duckworth. He thought Duckworth was way ahead of Evans and slightly better than Knott.

Kelly (not a contemporary of Duckworth BTW) has nothing like the same standing. He was a respected keeper and kept well to some very good fast bowling (presumably from the likes of Cotter and Jones). He had a reputation for spilling too many chances however and is someway down the list of Aussie greats.



Other suggestions for the list:

Arthur Shrewsbury would get an openers spot ahead of Kirsten or Stewart. CB Fry maybe as well.

A bit of juggling with the order might get Hazare in March instead of Strauss.

Davidson should fit in somewhere in July and Sydney Smith in January.

I notice Taibu and Deryck Murray were also born in May - an amazing month for keepers.

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Originally posted by ten years after:
Davidson should fit in somewhere in July

Ah. Wrong Davidson. Forget that.

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And I imagine no-one outside Queensland rates Healy equal to Knott...

I'd be surprised if anyone in Queensland rates Healy equal to Knott (including Healy).

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Originally posted by Wide Wally:

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And I imagine no-one outside Queensland rates Healy equal to Knott...

I'd be surprised if anyone in Queensland rates Healy equal to Knott (including Healy).

Just Leo, and maybe Healy's mum.

Even I don't, really...

Just couldn't leave TGLQ entirely off the list.