All Time Test XI

[BhupinderSingh]

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers
+Andy Flower
*Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Malcom Marshall/Bill O'Reilly
Muttiah Muralitharan

A fine team I think with 5 frontline bowlers,batting till # 9 & choice of playing Marshall & O'Reilly when suited according to conditions.

All Time 2nd XI:

Herbert Sutcliffe
Sunil Gavaskar
Greg Chappell
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Keith Miller
+Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Joel Garner
Allan Donald
Glenn McGrath

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

Not another one of these.

My XV:

Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman (c)
Hammond
Sobers
Ponting
Gilchrist (wk)
Hadlee
Marshall
Muralitharan
Barnes
-------------------
Imran
Headley
Ambrose
Warne

Edit: This is my most recent one. It changes quite frequently.

 

[Flem274*]

Hobbs
Richards
Headley
Hammond
Pollock
Khan
Gilchrist
Akram
Hadlee
Warne
Marshall

No Bradman, Sobers or Lillee because everyone else chooses them and I want mine to be different.

 

[Richard]

I'll leave it at Vivian Richards should be nowhere near an all-time World XI. All time West Indian one, yes, all-time World absolutely no way.

I do get bored of these threads TBH. This one probably more than any other.

EDIT: I won't say it, because I have actually read the post in question fully...

 

[Lillian Thomson]

No balance here whatsoever, just the best two openers, best three middle order batsman, best allrounder, best wicketkeeper, best two fast bowlers and best two spinners.

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Don Bradman
4. Viv Richards
5. Sachin Tendulkar
6. Garry Sobers
7. Alan Knott
8. Shane Warne
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[Perm]

I'll leave it at Vivian Richards should be nowhere near an all-time World XI. All time West Indian one, yes, all-time World absolutely no way.

I do get bored of these threads TBH. This one probably more than any other.

EDIT: though I will say... Kieran, how can you leave Sobers out of an all-time World XI?

Agree with your first comment.

Oh, just read Phlegm's last sentence and you'll see why.

 

[Richard]

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Even allowing for the partial reading it was still a bit odd to query Sobers absence but not Bradman's.

 

[Richard]

I read the other XI and spotted Sobers; I then read Kieran's XI and spotted no Sobers. I didn't go up to the top of the order.

 

[NUFAN]

No balance here whatsoever, just the best two openers, best three middle order batsman, best allrounder, best wicketkeeper, best two fast bowlers and best two spinners.

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Don Bradman
4. Viv Richards
5. Sachin Tendulkar
6. Garry Sobers
7. Alan Knott
8. Shane Warne
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

Seems balanced to me..

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Seems balanced to me..

By not balanced I meant I'm just choosing who I consider to be the best in each position rather than choosing Gilchrist instead of Knott because of his superior batting or worrying whether or not Sobers was a good enough third seamer in a five man attack and other such considerations.

 

[JBH001]

No balance here whatsoever, just the best two openers, best three middle order batsman, best allrounder, best wicketkeeper, best two fast bowlers and best two spinners.

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Don Bradman
4. Viv Richards
5. Sachin Tendulkar
6. Garry Sobers
7. Alan Knott
8. Shane Warne
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

Tbh, I rather like that team.

 

[Flem274*]

I'll leave it at Vivian Richards should be nowhere near an all-time World XI. All time West Indian one, yes, all-time World absolutely no way.

I do get bored of these threads TBH. This one probably more than any other.

EDIT: I won't say it, because I have actually read the post in question fully...

I was talking about Barry Richards

 

[Richard]

I know you were. My Richards comment was aimed at BhupinderSingh.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

On ability alone I would have put Barry Richards in as well, unfortunately he never got the chance to prove it at Test level beyond one prolific series against Australia.

 

[grecian]

Hobbs
Greenidge
Lara
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Ames
Imran
Warne
Garner
Murali

 

[silentstriker]

Hobbs
Greenidge
Lara
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Ames
Imran
Warne
Garner
Murali

I want to be there when the captain explains to Bradman that he is being demoted and Lara will be taking his customary #3 spot.

Captain: Donald, considering your score in the last innings, we've decided to have you to come down at #4 and Brian here will be taking your spot.
Bradman: LOL
Lara (the other side of the room): WTF?

 

[grecian]

I want to be there when the captain explains to Bradman that he is being demoted and Lara will be taking his customary #3 spot.

Captain: Donald, considering your score in the last innings, we've decided to have you to come down at #4 and Brian here will be taking your spot.
Bradman: LOL
Lara (the other side of the room): WTF?

Hey Lara is the iffy personality here. Number 4 is the place for the best batsman, imo.

 

[Matteh]

N Knight
D Maddy
B Lara *
R Twose
B Hogg
I Bell
K Sangakkara +
S Pollock
A Giles
S Bond
A Donald

 

[Days of Grace]

Based on my ratings

1 Hobbs
2 Hutton
3 Bradman
4 Ponting
5 Tendulkar
6 Sobers
7 Gilchrist (wk)
8 Hadlee
9 Muralitharan
10 Barnes
11 McGrath

Based on personal reading and observation

1 Hobbs
2 Hutton
3 Bradman
4 V. Richards
5 Lara
6 Sobers
7 Imran Khan
8 Knott (wk)
9 Hadlee
10 Marshall
11 Muralitharan