a team of players from 1995-2010 can beat any other.

[miscer]

You mad, old people, that the players of your era sucked?

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath
Wasim Akram

come at this team.
The only rule is you're not allowed to pick bradman because he is a statistical freak.

edit: we've got the best leg and off spinner, the best left arm bowler, second best all rounder, and one of the top 5 bowlers in general (mcgrath) of all time.
We've also got the best wicketkeeper of all time.
We've got 2 all-time great openers, and a godly middle order with ponting, tendulkar and lara.

edit2: Yes you can pick any other player besides bradman who is not on this side.

 

[GotSpin]

You mad, old people, that the players of your era sucked?

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath
Wasim Akram

come at this team.

The only rule is you're not allowed to pick bradman because he is a statistical freak.

What's the point then

 

[Janki_Jasoos]

Replace Sehwag with Anwar.

 

[miscer]

Replace Sehwag with Anwar.

on what basis..?

Sehwag averages 54.7 with a 82 SR in 144 innings with 6 not outs and 22 centuries.
Anwar averages 45.5 with a 55 SR in 91 innings with 2 not outs and 11 centuries.

is this even a serious suggestion?

 

[Debris]

Don't get it. What are the rules for choosing the other team. Can I pick anyone aside from Bradman not in this side?

 

[Spikey]

1. Phil Hughes
2. Shane Watson
3. Simon Katich
4. Michael Clarke
5. Usman Khawaja
6. Steve Smith
7. Brad Haddin
8. Nathan Hauritz/Simon O'Keefe
9. Mark Cameron/Stuart Clark
10. Trent Copeland
11. Dougeh

 

[Prince EWS]

You mad, old people, that the players of your era sucked?

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath
Wasim Akram

come at this team.
The only rule is you're not allowed to pick bradman because he is a statistical freak.

edit: we've got the best leg and off spinner, the best left arm bowler, second best all rounder, and one of the top 5 bowlers in general (mcgrath) of all time.
We've also got the best wicketkeeper of all time.
We've got 2 all-time great openers, and a godly middle order with ponting, tendulkar and lara.

edit2: Yes you can pick any other player besides bradman who is not on this side.

Well there's only one player from that lot I'd pick in my ATW XI, and it's Gilchrist. So I reckon a few teams would have it covered.

 

[Janki_Jasoos]

on what basis..?

Sehwag averages 54.7 with a 82 SR in 144 innings with 6 not outs and 22 centuries.
Anwar averages 45.5 with a 55 SR in 91 innings with 2 not outs and 11 centuries.

is this even a serious suggestion?

Anwar averaged 60 against Aussies in the era of great bowlers & good pitches....Anwar these days would have averaged way more than Sehwag...Sehwag is lucky not to have played in 90s.

 

[MrIncredible]

Ill have a go:

Hutton
Hobbs
Sir Viv
G Chappell
Sobers
Imran*
Hadlee
Marshall
Grimmett
Oreilley
Knott+

 

[MrIncredible]

Ill have a go:

Hutton
Hobbs
Sir Viv
G Chappell
Sobers
Imran*
Knott+
Hadlee
Marshall
Grimmett
Oreilley

 

[Debris]

Anwar averaged 60 against Aussies in the era of great bowlers & good pitches....Anwar these days would have averaged way more than Sehwag...Sehwag is lucky not to have played in 90s.

You can't really cherry-pick results against one side, almost every batsman has a side where their average is disproportionately high. On that basis, Laxman is a better batsman than Tendulkar.

 

[Prince EWS]

You can't really cherry-pick results against one side, almost every batsman has a side where their average is disproportionately high. On that basis, Laxman is a better batsman than Tendulkar.

Please don't feed the troll. Read his posting history - it consists of "Aleem Dar is a legend", "Zaheer averages 40 in South Africa", "Saeed Anwar was the best batsman of all time" and other obvious anti-India, pro-Pakistan crap, repeated over and over.

 

[Spark]

1. Phil Hughes
2. Shane Watson
3. Simon Katich
4. Michael Clarke
5. Usman Khawaja
6. Steve Smith
7. Brad Haddin
8. Nathan Hauritz/Simon O'Keefe
9. Mark Cameron/Stuart Clark
10. Trent Copeland
11. Dougeh

 

[Prince EWS]

1. Phil Hughes
2. Shane Watson
3. Simon Katich
4. Michael Clarke
5. Usman Khawaja
6. Steve Smith
7. Brad Haddin
8. Nathan Hauritz/Simon O'Keefe
9. Mark Cameron/Stuart Clark
10. Trent Copeland
11. Dougeh

Get Hauritz the **** out of that team. Lambert > Hauritz.

 

[Debris]

Not too sure who this Simon O'Keefe is though. Any relation to Stephen O'Keefe?

 

[vcs]

Please don't feed the troll. Read his posting history - it consists of "Aleem Dar is a legend", "Zaheer averages 40 in South Africa", "Saeed Anwar was the best batsman of all time" and other obvious anti-India, pro-Pakistan crap, repeated over and over.

I wonder if it's that bloke Umar_Akmal.

 

[subshakerz]

You can't really cherry-pick results against one side, almost every batsman has a side where their average is disproportionately high. On that basis, Laxman is a better batsman than Tendulkar.

Yes, it's hard to say that Anwar is a better player than Sehwag given the overall destructivenesss of Sehwag. However, I am confident that if Sehwag had to play against Wasim/Waqar, Donald/Pollock, Ambrose/Walsh and McGrath/Gillespie in the 90s, it would be extremely difficult to believe that he would average over 50, especially given his lack of adaptability in his approach to more sporting wickets. Being an opener in the 90s was one of the toughest tasks ever in cricket. The very notion that he would have this exceptional strikerate against those bowling pairs in ridiculous.


Guys like Jayawardene and Youhana boosted their averages 10+ points in the 2000s for a reason also.

 

[bagapath]

for that matter, a team from 1970-85 would be good enough to beat several other all time xi's as well.

gavaskar
greenidge
v.richards
g.chappell
border
imran
knott (wk)
hadlee
marshall
lillee
chandrasekar

this bowling attack can bowl out any batting lineup. and this middle order is godly too.

the point is,any random 20 year chunk from cricket history would have featured 15-20 great players. making a winning xi out of them would never be a problem. we did a 8 month exercise a few years ago and selected best xis from different eras. we finally ended up with teams of equal quality.

 

[subshakerz]

for that matter, a team from 1970-85 would be good enough to beat several other all time xi's as well.

gavaskar
greenidge
v.richards
g.chappell
border
imran
knott (wk)
hadlee
marshall
lillee
chandrasekar

this bowling attack can bowl out any batting lineup. and this middle order is godly too.

the point is,any random 20 year chunk from cricket history would have featured 15-20 great players. making a winning xi out of them would never be a problem. we did a 8 month exercise a few years ago and selected best xis from different eras. we finally ended up with teams of equal quality.

Would back this team, definitely. Better bowling unit, the four-man pace attack is frightening, and Imran as captain to boot. Batting is roughly equal.

 

[Migara]

The only rule is you're not allowed to pick bradman because he is a statistical freak.

Nah, pick the bastard. He's not superman after all. At best it would be like letting Tendulkar have two lives or getting 12 wickets instead of 11. He'd give that extra 40 runs to the team. But McGrath, Wasim, Warne and Murali are quite capable to nip that extra 40 off the rest.