Can't remember if I've posted in this thread before, but I'm bored (there are downsides to finishing assignments 2 weeks before the deadline I guess) so I'll have a go now. This on the basis not of playing a single match or for a year or 4, but for a 7-year period of 10 or so Tests per year. So players whose careers have yet to last, continuously or near-continuously, anywhere near that long can't be counted.
England
Gooch
Atherton (may be Strauss by the end of his career - we wait to see on that score) (whichever of these plays will (C))
R Smith \ Hussain (honestly just cannot make-up my mind on this one - would depend on whether the game was in the subcontinent and\or whether a Warne\Murali was present or not; if neither, then Smith without a doubt)
Gower
Stewart (W)
Thorpe
Pietersen (the aforementioned two may bat either way around)
Flintoff
Caddick (would be replaced by Croft if the deck was a turner and non-seamer)
Gough
Fraser
NB: I did see Botham play as a game was in progress, but only in 1991 and 1992, by which time he eminently was not the Botham who would get into almost any England time any time. So I've not counted him. Equally I saw Ramprakash bat in domestic cricket several times and if this was a side for a domestic match he'd be in ahead of all the batsmen, including currently Pietersen. Ditto Hick.
Australia:
Taylor (C)
Slater
Boon
M Waugh
S Waugh
Ponting
Gilchrist (W)
Warne
Fleming
Gillespie
McGrath
NB: I don't recall ever seeing McDermott actually on a teamsheet, though I must have done at some point. If I did, he'd be in instead of Fleming.
South Africa:
G Smith (C)
G Kirsten
Kallis
Cullinan
McMillan
Rhodes
Boucher (W)
Klusener
Pollock
Donald
Ntini
NB: Cronje would be considered, and probably be in, if I could have a guarantee that he'd been purged from bookmakers before every game, but sadly as such a guarantee could not exist I can't consider him. Probably rather contentuously, that's an almost-all-white side, but I think it pretty much just says that there are still not many Coloured players to have had long careers yet. Steyn will almost certainly replace either Klusener or Ntini once his career progresses.
West Indies:
Campbell
Gayle
Hooper
Lara
Chanderpaul
Adams (C)
Jacobs (W)
Ambrose
Bishop (would have to draft in K Benjamin when he had his lengthy spells out of the side)
W Benjamin
Walsh
NB: Richardson would be considered, and in fact would play ahead of Hooper, except I only saw him in 1994 and 1995 when he was past his best and probably no better than Hooper, who I'd have from 1993 onwards.
New Zealand:
Richardson
Horne
M Crowe
Fleming (C)
Astle
Cairns \ Oram (hopefully one would always at one point be fit - if both are, Cairns plays)
McCullum (W)
Vettori
Three specialist seamers would be selected from whoever was presently fit from: Doull, Nash, O'Connor, Bond and Tuffey. If by some miracle all were the first-choice three would be Doull, Nash, Bond.
India:
Shastri
Sidhu
Dravid
Tendulkar
Vengsarkar
Sehwag
Mongia (W)
Kumble
Srinath
V Prasad (would be replaced by Harbhajan Singh on a typical home or Sri Lankan deck but would play anywhere else in the cricket World)
Z Khan
Pakistan:
Aamir Sohail
Saeed Anwar
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Haq (C)
Mohammad Yousuf
Younis Khan
Imran Khan
Rashid Latif (W)
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Shoaib Akhtar (when he's not fit I'd call in someone else, not sure who)
NB: I sincerely hope in due course Mohammad Asif will be added. I cheated a bit on Imran Khan as I never actually saw him play a Test but I did see him play ODIs.
Sri Lanka:
Atapattu
Jayasuriya
M. Jayawardene
de Silva
Sangakkara
Dilshan
Kaluwitharana (will probably be replaced by P. Jayawardene in time)
Vaas
Zoysa
?????? (there's no-one really who fits the criteria among Lankan bowlers - in due course I suspect Kulasekera will)
Muralitharan
Why on Earth not Smith-Kirsten-Gibbs, given Gibbs was only ever a manufactured opener anyway and Kirsten was a natural?