ICC Greatest Test Team

[G.I.Joe]

Personally I think Kallis > Sobers, Lara is unarguably the second greatest batsman ever, Allan Donald easily a top 5 paceman, and Lindwall > McGrath and Lillee in any XI on the basis of he could hold a bat to greater effect than those hacks.

 

[ankitj]

Trueman was bloody awesome tbh

This.

 

[weeman27bob]

Personally I think Kallis > Sobers, Lara is unarguably the second greatest batsman ever, Allan Donald easily a top 5 paceman, and Lindwall > McGrath and Lillee in any XI on the basis of he could hold a bat to greater effect than those hacks.

Psssh.

Andy Flower is obviously one of the best keeper-batsmen ever-Oh wait, he is.
Malcolm Marshall is arguably the best fast bowler ever - Oh wait, he is
Kapil Dev is surely one of the ATG allrounders - Oh wait, he is

Things get a little tricker now though.

I mean, it's not like Alec Bedser got the greatest batsman the world 6 times in 17 innings...wait a minute...

Or that Ken Barrington has one of the top ten averages of all time or anything. Hold on a moment...


I'll claim that as fairly good going.

 

[Jarquis]

I'm pretty happy that 3 out of my first 4 picks make quite a lot of people's ATXIs.

 

[Ikki]

I missed this, but I'll make one with arguably the 3 best all-rounders.

Sutcliffe
Hobbs
Bradman
Richards (Viv)
Miller
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran
Warne
Lillee
McGrath

 

[Howe_zat]

Liking the support for Trueman.

 

[hang on]

I missed this, but I'll make one with arguably the 3 best all-rounders.

Sutcliffe
Hobbs
Bradman
Richards (Viv)
Miller
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran
Warne
Lillee
McGrath

good grief, ikki. your standards are slipping. only 6 australians! when the cricinfo chappies did the same thing a few months ago, u had 7. better buck up, me ol' mucker! otherwise, the next time someone comes up with an exercise of this sort, u might end having a majority of non australians and, god forbid, more than 1 person from the subcontinent in the team!

 

[Cevno]

, Lara is unarguably the second greatest

Yeah ,I'll concede second place to him behind Allan Border


Bradman just lost 14 votes,thanks to Himannv

 

[ankitj]

Liking the support for Trueman.

One of the top 5 pacers of all time for mine

 

[smash84]

I missed this, but I'll make one with arguably the 3 best all-rounders.

Sutcliffe
Hobbs
Bradman
Richards (Viv)
Miller
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran
Warne
Lillee
McGrath

Great team but would rather have Marshall in place of McGrath.

Yes, in place of McGrath and not Lillee. According to Ian Chappell (and I think it makes sense) "Lillee could do everything that McGrath could do and at higher pace"

 

[smash84]

One of the top 5 pacers of all time for mine

Massively under rated that chap Trueman

 

[Cevno]

Yes, in place of McGrath and not Lillee. According to Ian Chappell (and I think it makes sense) "Lillee could do everything that McGrath could do and at higher pace"

According to Ian Chappel Sachin should have retired 4/5 years ago ,and Rohit Sharma and J.P Duminy are the next Tendulkar and Lara

 

[centurymaker]

According to Ian Chappel Sachin should have retired 4/5 years ago ,and Rohit Sharma and J.P Duminy are the next Tendulkar and Lara

yup thats quite true

 

[smash84]

According to Ian Chappel Sachin should have retired 4/5 years ago ,and Rohit Sharma and J.P Duminy are the next Tendulkar and Lara

You missed the part where I said it made sense

 

[silentstriker]

I've long since stopped reading or listening to anything that comes out of Chappelli's mouth.

 

[centurymaker]

I've long since stopped reading or listening to anything that comes out of Chappelli's mouth.

he picked sehwag in his 1st xi all time team.

crazy guy


btw i still read/listen to his **** just to laugh at it :P

 

[Prince EWS]

You missed the part where I said it made sense

It doesn't though. You don't get extra points for bowling faster if it doesn't actually result in more effective bowling, and it didn't.

 

[Ikki]

good grief, ikki. your standards are slipping. only 6 australians! when the cricinfo chappies did the same thing a few months ago, u had 7. better buck up, me ol' mucker! otherwise, the next time someone comes up with an exercise of this sort, u might end having a majority of non australians and, god forbid, more than 1 person from the subcontinent in the team!

Changes depending on when I'm asked Usually half the team is Australian - rightly so IMO.

Great team but would rather have Marshall in place of McGrath.

Yes, in place of McGrath and not Lillee. According to Ian Chappell (and I think it makes sense) "Lillee could do everything that McGrath could do and at higher pace"

According to Lillee himself, McGrath is the greatest . But I reckon Lillee is the best, myself. If I didn't pick McGrath it'd be between Donald (IMO incredibly underrated) and Marshall.

I pick McGrath because, well, he is as good as anybody and I know how he'd do in tandem with Warne and how both are a more known quantity with Gilchrist. This is also the logic for me picking Sutcliffe and Hobbs instead of possibly Gavaskar or Hutton. They are not only amongst the greatest openers separately but were actually partners.

 

[Ikki]

It doesn't though. You don't get extra points for bowling faster if it doesn't actually result in more effective bowling, and it didn't.

Well, you can't really be sure of the efficacy. What if McGrath did have more pace? It's more a hypothetical - who knows how Lillee would have done in McGrath's time.

 

[markfinn]

icc test team

I think in opning batsman Sehwag will be included.In all rounnder Imran khan,in fast bowler wasim akram,Mc grath and courtny walsh,in spinner murlidharan and wicket keeper will be gilchirst.