Tim's ATG Test Series

In a break from my ongoing ATG campaign, we now feature a ground breaking piece of cross-blog cooperation! Over on the Third Umpire blog, Tim has selected his Greatest Test XI and has also nominated a 2nd XI for them to play against, and the two sides now meet over a five match series that will put Tim's powers of selection to the test.

Tim's teams are:

1st XI: H Sutcliffe, L Hutton, DG Bradman, WR Hammond, GStA Sobers, *Imran Khan, +AC Gilchrist, MD Marshall, SK Warne, CEL Ambrose, M Muralitharan.

2nd XI: JB Hobbs, *SM Gavaskar, GA Headley, BC Lara, RG Pollock, KR Miller, +LEG Ames, RJ Hadlee, AK Davidson, DK Lillee, WJ O'Reilly.

The series will be played in five different countries, with the first match taking place in Cape Town, and there will be no injury rules in place. To ensure impartiality, I will be letting the computer autoplay each match, and all the results and averages will be posted shortly.

Let battle commence...