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- From: mabg1084@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Alan Brodie)
- Subject: Re: The best ever 1 day XIs
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:11:16 GMT
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- pieter@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Pieter Vermeulen) writes:
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- ...[deleted]
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- >my team would look like this:
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- >Barry Richards
- >Jimmy Cook
- >Kenny McEwan
- >Graeme Pollock
- >Eddie Barlow (c)
- >Clive Rice (d)
- >Mike Proctor
- >Alan Kourie / Brian McMillan (depending on the pitch)
- >Ray Jennings (k)
- >Garth le Roux / Peter Pollock
- >Vince van der Bijl
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- >If you need a spinner, then Kourie is the man and if there are ssome
- >snakes around, Mac is the man. You need one of them to fille first and
- >second slips, because better hands man have not seen. As for le Roux
- >and Pollock; it is a toss-up. Peter Kirsten, Henry Fotheringham and
- >Adrian Kuiper are unlucky to be left out. This team would have vd
- >Bijl, le Roux / Pollock, Proctor and Rice as strike bowlers, with
- >Barlow, McMillan / Kourie for the 2nd change. BTW, if Lamb was
- >eligible for SA, he would not make this tem either I think.
-
- >Pieter
-
- Excellent team, though my own preference would be Kirsten at 3
- with McEwan at 5 instead of Barlow. Also Lamb, if available,
- might make it in in place of McEwan. There is the usual problem
- of Richardson or Jennings as wk. By the way, how much 1-day
- cricket did Peter Pollock ever play?
-
- Mark
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