Thank **** He Is Injured

[Jono]

Sheeysh, Shankar's clearly the only one of you lot who's familiar with Arjun.

No I am, but I never thought he'd take it to this extreme, by hoping Albie Morkel doesn't play vs. India in a test match rather than Kallis or Steyn.

 

[sanga1337]

Australia

England - Kevin pieterson
South Africa - Dale Steyn
India - Sachin Tendulkar
Sri Lanka - Kumar Sangakarra
Pakistan - Mohammad Asif
New Zealand - Daniel Vettori
West Indies - Shiv Chanderpaul

 

[DaRick]

Australia

As for the rest:

India - Sachin Tendulkar (inspirational abiltiies, batting virtuosity, record against Australia, etc.)
Pakistan - Hard to pick, really, but Mohammad Yousuf (although Indians may select Younis Khan) stands out as being their best batsman at the moment.
South Africa - Jacques Kallis (Well, duh)
England - Kevin Pietersen (he always seems to lift himself against us)
Bangladesh - Shahriar Nafees (his blazing 138 marked him out as a player with obvious talent)
New Zealand - Daniel Vettori (more by default, given Shane Bond's unavailability - astute captain, too)
Sri Lanka - Kumar Sangakkara (Muttiah Muralitharan has only occasionally done well against Australia, plus Sangakkara is probably their best batsman)
West Indies - Shivnarine Chanderpaul (well, duh)

 

[nightprowler10]

My team: Pakistan.

Aus - Ponting
India - Dravid
Sri Lanka - Muralitharan/Sanga
South Africa - Kallis/Steyn
England - KP
New Zealand - Taylor
West Indies - Shiv

 

[unccricket]

as an indian fan,

australia - michael clarke - anyone remember sydney? i'd rather not take my chances against the man with the golden arm
england - pietersen
new zealand - mccullum
pakistan - younis khan
south africa - steyn
sri lanka - sanga
west indies - chanderpaul

 

[masterblaster]

Australia

As for the rest:

Bangladesh - Shahriar Nafees (his blazing 138 marked him out as a player with obvious talent)

Really interesting choice. Nafees doesn't get much support on these boards, but he should. That innings was fantastic and I think he's one of the more technically sound players in Bangladesh.

 

[Athlai]

Tamim Nafees Ashraful Shakib are all good batsman in their own right, all young and with buckets of talent. The players that Bangladesh need to develop to become competitive in the near future (5 years).

 

[Jono]

Really interesting choice. Nafees doesn't get much support on these boards, but he should. That innings was fantastic and I think he's one of the more technically sound players in Bangladesh.

He used to get quite a bit of praise here. Its unfortunate he went through a drop in form post-WC (ever since he got those wisdom teeth out)!

His name is on the back of my Bangladesh top

 

[jeevan]

My team: Pakistan.

Aus - Ponting
India - Dravid
Sri Lanka - Muralitharan/Sanga
South Africa - Kallis/Steyn
England - KP
New Zealand - Taylor
West Indies - Shiv

May want to think about Sehwag, instead. He's got 2 double tons and a triple ton against Pakistan .

 

[NUFAN]

My team Bangladesh.

Australia - Hayden, Jaques, Langer, Ponting, Hussey, Hussey, Clarke, Symonds, Marsh, Watson, Hopes, Martyn, Gilchrist, Haddin, Healy, Lee, Gillespie, McGrath, Clark, Warne, Johnson, MacGill, DiVenuto, Pomersbach, Voges, Kasprowicz, Bichel, Maher, Love, Hodge, White, McDonald, Lewis, Magoffin, Noffke, Tait, Cosgrove, Cullen, Hauritz, Bailey, Birt, Hilfenhaus, Bracken, Geeves, North, Hughes, Katich, Lehmann, Ronchi.

 

[Jnr.]

Australia

India - VVS Laxman
Pakistan - Mohammad Asif
South Africa - Dale Steyn
England - Ryan Sidebottom/Simon Jones
New Zealand - Jacob Oram
Sri Lanka - Kumar Sangakkara
West Indies - Shivnarine Chanderpaul

 

[Flem274*]

Why are people still nominating Bond when he's near certainly gone for good?

 

[Jnr.]

Why are people still nominating Bond when he's near certainly gone for good?

Good point. I'll change my choice to Jacob Oram.

 

[Laurrz]

Why are people still nominating Bond when he's near certainly gone for good?

what happens if ICL will crash (which seems likely)
does he get to play intl again

 

[PhoenixFire]

Australia - Ponting
India - Dravid
Pakistan - Mohammed Yousuf
Sri Lanka - Muralitharan
South Africa - Kallis
New Zealand - McCullum
West Indies - Chanderpaul

 

[Johnners]

England - KP
India - HB Singh/Tendulkar (Singh because of his record against Ponting)
Pakistan - MoYo
Sri Lanka - Sanga
South Africa - Kallis
New Zealand - Doesn't matter tbh, we'd thrash them anyways
West Indies - Chanderpaul

 

[Richard]

what happens if ICL will crash (which seems likely)
does he get to play intl again

It's unlikely to happen any time in the immediate future, and it's not like Bond is a youngster. He'd very possibly have retired in a year or two's time anyway.

 

[NFFC]

Australia - Ricky Ponting
Bangladesh - None
India - Rahul Dravid
New Zealand - Brendon McCullum
Pakistan - Younis Khan
South Africa - Makhaya Ntini
Sri Lanka - Muttiah Muralitharan
West Indies - Shiv Chanderpaul

My Team - England

 

[Jigga988]

Dont really support a team do it for everyone

Aussies - Hayden (his ability to demoralise attacks is invaluable)
Kiwis - Brendon (if it was a year ago i'd pick Oram but not now)
Sirils - Muttiah (destroy a batting side in a matter of overs)
South Africa - Kallis (class with the bat and an underrated bowler)
Windies - Bravo (when batting correctly can change a game more so than any other Windies batsman, can swing and reverse swing a cricket ball and his fileding can spark up the Windies side - underrated as an all round cricketer in my opinion)
India - Kumble (Harby is eratic and Chawla is new to test side also a good no.8)
England - Sidebottom (his control, swing and agresssion make him a lethal fast bowler)
Pakistan - Moho Yousef (genuine quality)

 

[Zinzan]

Right now for me

Tests

AUS - Ponting/Lee
SA - Steyn
SL - Murali
India - Dravid
WI - Chanderpaul
Pakistan - Yousuf
ENG - Sidebottom


ODI's

AUS - Lee
SA - Smith
SL - Mendis (yup - after just a couple of looks)
India - Sehwag
WI - Gayle
Pakistan - Yousuf
ENG - Pietersen