Cricket XIs by first name

[Nepia]

@mn5 said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia said in Cricket XIs by first name:

You lot have too much time on your hands ....

I’m just very good at multi tasking.

Would you like me do do a Hawkes Bay XI ?

Do you know 11 HB cricketers? I can't think of any - as much as Smithy pumps the Magpies I don't think he ever played cricket for us even when he was in Central Districts.

[MN5]

@nzzp said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@higgins Ntini - pushing it A bit, but reckon it fits

In the absence of alternatives we’ll go with him. One thing this utterly pointless exercise has taught me is it’s tough to name a top quality team even with supposedly common names.

[MN5]

James Vince
James Marshall
James Taylor
Jim Burke
Jimmy Adams ( has to keep cos there’s no one else and he did it briefly at test level )
James Neesham
James Faulkner
James Franklin
James Pattinson
Jim Laker
James Anderson

Another one that was surprisingly tough, I had to google Vince, Taylor and Burke…..Pretty weak top order but decent bowlers and bits and pieces all rounders.

[Higgins]

@nepia I'll make a start
Martin Crowe
Mark Greatbatch
Dipak Patel
Mike Shrimpton
Doug Bracewell
Scott Briasco
Blair Tickner
Michael Mason (think he played for us late in his career)
Jesse Ryder
Tom Lowry
Ajaz Patel

[Nepia]

@higgins said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia I'll make a start
Martin Crowe
Mark Greatbatch
Dipak Patel
Mike Shrimpton
Doug Bracewell
Scott Briasco
Blair Tickner
Michael Mason (think he played for us late in his career)
Jesse Ryder
Tom Lowry
Ajaz Patel

Did Crowe play for Hawkes Bay at some stage?

I should remember Briasco, he taught at Hastings Boys when I was there.

Actually, is Hawkes Bay a sub union (or whatever cricket uses) of CD and does it actually pick a rep team?

[Higgins]

@nepia said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@higgins said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia I'll make a start
Martin Crowe
Mark Greatbatch
Dipak Patel
Mike Shrimpton
Doug Bracewell
Scott Briasco
Blair Tickner
Michael Mason (think he played for us late in his career)
Jesse Ryder
Tom Lowry
Ajaz Patel

Did Crowe play for Hawkes Bay at some stage?

I should remember Briasco, he taught at Hastings Boys when I was there.

Actually, is Hawkes Bay a sub union (or whatever cricket uses) of CD and bolded textdoes it actually pick a rep team?bolded text

What do you mean???????? Hawkes Bay are current holders of the Hawke Cup (symbol of supremacy in minor association cricket) after taking it from North Otago last season and then defending it against Hamilton in the final defense of the season, smashing them outright to really rub it in!!

http://www.cdcricket.co.nz/CDCA-Competitions/Hawke-Cup-Challenges-1

[Chris B.]

@nepia said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@mn5 said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia said in Cricket XIs by first name:

You lot have too much time on your hands ....

I’m just very good at multi tasking.

Would you like me do do a Hawkes Bay XI ?

Do you know 11 HB cricketers? I can't think of any - as much as Smithy pumps the Magpies I don't think he ever played cricket for us even when he was in Central Districts.

Smithy was born in Nelson, Poachy!

[Nepia]

@higgins said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@higgins said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia I'll make a start
Martin Crowe
Mark Greatbatch
Dipak Patel
Mike Shrimpton
Doug Bracewell
Scott Briasco
Blair Tickner
Michael Mason (think he played for us late in his career)
Jesse Ryder
Tom Lowry
Ajaz Patel

Did Crowe play for Hawkes Bay at some stage?

I should remember Briasco, he taught at Hastings Boys when I was there.

Actually, is Hawkes Bay a sub union (or whatever cricket uses) of CD and bolded textdoes it actually pick a rep team?bolded text

What do you mean???????? Hawkes Bay are current holders of the Hawke Cup (symbol of supremacy in minor association cricket) after taking it from North Otago last season and then defending it against Hamilton in the final defense of the season.

I just haven't been into cricket for so long I forgot the Hawke Cup existed but remembered the instant I saw the name.

[Nepia]

@chris-b said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@mn5 said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@nepia said in Cricket XIs by first name:

You lot have too much time on your hands ....

I’m just very good at multi tasking.

Would you like me do do a Hawkes Bay XI ?

Do you know 11 HB cricketers? I can't think of any - as much as Smithy pumps the Magpies I don't think he ever played cricket for us even when he was in Central Districts.

Smithy was born in Nelson, Poachy!

We'll happily send him back, but he's impossible to move from his bar stool at Turks.

[Higgins]

@nepia Martin Crowe played for Taradale when he can to HB as a youngster and was bound to have played for the rep team at some stage.

[MN5]

I can’t believe @Nepia has Hawkes Bayed my thread.

[Nepia]

@mn5 said in Cricket XIs by first name:

I can’t believe @Nepia has Hawkes Bayed my thread.

I think you deserve a half share of the credit for bringing HB into the thread.

[ACT Crusader]

Peter Fulton
Peter Taylor
Peter Sleep
Peter Siddle

[booboo]

@act-crusader said in Cricket XIs by first name:

Peter Fulton
Peter Taylor
Peter Sleep
Peter Siddle

Peter Pollock
Peter Willey

[MN5]

Matthew Hayden
Matthew Bell
Matthew Elliot
Matthew Sinclair
Matt McEwen
Matthew Wade
Matt Prior
Matt Hart
Matt Henry
Matthew Hoggard
Matthew Kelly

Started with a hiss and a roar and ended up having to google two guys who’ve never played international cricket ( Kelly and McEwen ).

[dogmeat]

@booboo peter pocock
peter roebuck
peter may
peter nevil

[rotated]

@mn5 said in Cricket XIs by first name:

Jimmy Adams ( has to keep cos there’s no one else and he did it briefly at test level )

James Foster had a stint as English keeper prior to Geriant Jones. Very much an old school gloves first keeper.

[rotated]

Two short on the Stuarts, but has the makings of remarkably well balanced side.

Stuart Law
Stuart Williams
Alec Stewart
Stewie Dempster
Shannon Stewart
Anthony Stewart
Stuart Clark
Stuart Broad
Stuart McGill

[dogmeat]

@rotated Alec's Dad?

https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/micky-stewart-20376

[rotated]

@dogmeat said in Cricket XIs by first name:

@rotated Alec's Dad?

https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/micky-stewart-20376

When specialist short leg fielder is in the first sentence of your Cricinfo bio that is a worry!