Most feared cricketers against ur team.

[Outswinger@Pace]

Ashish Nehra - whenever he played for India, I feared for India.

 

[Spark]

My thinking is along these lines.

If the team faces a top-notch attack with three great fast bowlers, a world-class spinner and a good all-rounder, planning the innings is important.

Langer & Sehwag would keep the run-rate ticking and the Aussie is the type who can knuckle down if it gets tough.

Lara and Tendulkar are truly great batsmen and being natural strokeplayers, they'd add runs quickly. These men are expected to take apart the bowling. Pace or spin matters not to them.

At this stage, I'd need a consolidator/accumulator (a good player of top-quality spin) + someone who can play with the tail. That's why Yousuf and Waugh (Sr.) would be my best bets. Kallis would take forward Waugh's role and Gilly is there to decimate the opposition!

I just think though whilst this is all well and good, in the long run the gap between Ponting and Yousuf in terms of their quality as batsmen is more than enough to cover for the position issue. Put simply, I would back a team with Ponting at #5 to score more runs more consistently than a team with Yousuf at #5.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

I just think though whilst this is all well and good, in the long run the gap between Ponting and Yousuf in terms of their quality as batsmen is more than enough to cover for the position issue.

I do not think the gap is that glaring. Yousuf actually would be a comparable all-round player in my books. Where Ponting scores highly is his ability to play pace on hard, bouncy tracks. I've seen him struggle pathetically against lateral movement and his lack of patience is not befitting an ATG player. This is just my opinion, not Gospel truth!

 

[Austerlitz]

Yeah,add andy flower and younis khan to the list.Partially shoaib malik.

And the greatest of them all,mr AJIT AGARKAR.The man responsible for most matches lost in indian cricket history.

 

[smash84]

...maybe that's because you don't like Sehwag...but you can't deny that he has been a brute force against Pakistan...certainly more than the likes of Irfan Pathan and Dravid (though these 2 have also played a major role against Pakistan at times)

Not really......with sehwag up against good bowlers you always thought you were in with a chance............with Dravid you knew that they didn't call him the wall for nothing

Add Dhoni to the list of dangerous players against Pakistan...........gets stuck to the crease

 

[vcs]

lol @ Khatmal in the list

Genius. Never noticed that the first time.

 

[Borges]

Names that come to mind immediately:

Andy Roberts
Zaheer Abbas
Tony Greig
Jimmy Adams
Hashim Amla
Jacques Kallis

 

[smash84]

For Pakistan most feared in no particular order

Any bowler on any pitch that supports bowling

 

[Fusion]

3 teams???How can you support 3 teams?



Never.I was more afraid of Dravid.

Dravid was the consistent threat, but Sehwag always scared me more. He brutalized us like no other. If we were playing in the subcontinent, I was always afraid that he was going to break some type of a batting record against us that day.

For Pakistan most feared in no particular order

Any bowler on any pitch that supports bowling

 

[Blaze 18]

1) Matthew Hayden
2) Sanath Jayasuriya
3) Younis Khan
4) Shiv Chanderpaul
5) Mahela Jayawardene
6) Inzamam-ul-Haq
7) Andy Flower (w/k)
8) Shaun Pollock
9) Dale Steyn
10)Allan Donald
11)Glenn McGrath

 

[Jono]

As an Indian, McGrath and Pollock come to mind immediately.

 

[jeevan]

Sanath Jayasuriya
Matthew Hayden
Andy Flower
Jacques Kallis
Mohd Yusuf
Inzamam Ul-Haq
Damien Martyn
Wasim Akram
Dale Steyn
Allan Donald
Glenn McGrath

Ashish Nehra - whenever he played for India, I feared for India.

Md Yousuf from Pakistan?? Has been so-so against India, especially while playing in India. Had two series on either side of his purple patch and did nothing of note.

Salman Butt, Misbah, Younis have been more productive against India. In the 2007, Misbah just would not get out. As a batsman, even Kamran Akmal has been tough vs India (and not just 'that' Karachi knock) - except he's more than made up for it behind the stumps so he'd walk in any time into my team to play India :-)

 

[salman85]

...maybe that's because you don't like Sehwag...but you can't deny that he has been a brute force against Pakistan...certainly more than the likes of Irfan Pathan and Dravid (though these 2 have also played a major role against Pakistan at times)

Ofcourse he has been a force against us.And you are very right when you say that i don't like him - infact that's putting it very nicely.But everytime India played against Pakistan,Dravid's wicket was the one i wanted most from a pure non-emotional perspective.More than Sachin,Sehwag or anyone else's wicket.

 

[zaremba]

1. Haydos
2. Sehwag
3. Richards
4. Ponting
5. Lara
6. Waugh S
7. Gilchrist
8. Warne
9. Marshall
10. Murali
11. McGrath

As an England supporter I would be genuinely scared facing that team.

If I had to pick one, it would be Chimpy at 4. Even though he's had some ropey series against us, I can't think of a scarier player when he really gets going.

 

[BoyBrumby]

First chap I thought of was SR Waugh. In my memory he seemed to be the bulwark we could never shift. I think it actually took 3 tests in 1989 for us to dismiss him even once.

Obviously the two spinning gods of recent times had their successes against us too. Pretty much every Sri Lankan test win over us has been based around Murali taking shed loads of wickets and Warne cast a spell over some of our more timid batsman that was by equal parts bluster, bull**** and brilliance.

Graeme Smith seems to reserve his best for England too; ground us into the dirt in 2003 and added another couple of tons in both the 2008 & 2009/10 series for good measure.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Gilly
Sehwag
Tendulkar
Lara
Dravid
S.Waugh
Warne
McGrath
Ambrose
Donald
Anderson

 

[marc71178]

Graeme Smith seems to reserve his best for England too; ground us into the dirt in 2003 and added another couple of tons in both the 2008 & 2009/10 series for good measure.

Would disagree on Smith to be honest - got him out early too many times to be classed as reserving his best IMO.

Would fear McGrath above anyone else to be honest.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Any spinner/any swing bowler/any pace bowler

 

[Dan]

Looking at it as an XI (vs Australia)

Tests:
Cook/Sehwag
AB de Villiers
Tendulkar
Richards
Sangakkara (wk)
Laxman
Flintoff
Wasim
Harbhajan
Steyn
Ambrose

ODI:
Tendulkar
Ganguly
Richards
de Villiers (wk)
Jayasuria
Flintoff
Kluesner
Wasim
Vaas
Garner
Bond

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Looking at it as an XI (vs Australia)

Tests:
Cook/Sehwag
AB de Villiers
Tendulkar
Richards
Sangakkara (wk)
Laxman
Flintoff
Wasim
Harbhajan
Steyn
Ambrose

Really? Apart from the 2001 series in the sub-continent, I am not sure if he's been that much of a threat to Aussie batsmen. Unless the threat to cricket administrators and his own team-mates was your concern!