ICC Greatest Test Team

[silentstriker]

It's possible you are wrong on every single one of your counts.

 

[Cevno]

Would be very surprised if Courtney Walsh is there unless GotSpin has been rigging their system

 

[zaremba]

Hobbs
Trumper
Richards
Gower
Woolley
Sobers
Gilchrist
Wasim
Warne
Larwood
Donald

Probably outside the rules, and maybe not the best team ever, but a pretty damn good one and one which I'd miss work to watch play a Test match.

 

[Jacknife]

My team without restrictions:

Hobbs
Hutton
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran
Hadlee
Warne
Marshall
Lillee

That''s very similar to mine but I'd change Lillee for Trueman.

 

[Jacknife]

lol sutcliffe ahead of gav and hammond (who!) ahead of srt

 

[smash84]

Hobbs
Trumper
Richards
Gower
Woolley
Sobers
Gilchrist
Wasim
Warne
Larwood
Donald

Probably outside the rules, and maybe not the best team ever, but a pretty damn good one and one which I'd miss work to watch play a Test match.

I would miss a day at work just to watch Wasim and Warne bowl in tandem

 

[GotSpin]

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.

How dare you misspell his name

 

[kyear2]

I would love someone to explain why wasim is held is such great esteem. Statistically he wasnt even the best Pakistani fast bowler, Waquar and Imran both were better in almost every catergory. Of his era Donald, Ambrose and Mcgrath were better and more consistant match winners. Of all of the fast bowlers listed, he is the only one who was never rated no. 1 in the World and had the highest # of tailend wickets. 28% of all of his dismissals were the last 3 batsmen, and of all bowlers mentioned had the lowest percentage of top order batsmen dismissed. He was great, but in no wasy in the same conversation as Marshall, Imran, Mcgrath and Warne.

 

[centurymaker]

I would love someone to explain why wasim is held is such great esteem. Statistically he wasnt even the best Pakistani fast bowler, Waquar and Imran both were better in almost every catergory. Of his era Donald, Ambrose and Mcgrath were better and more consistant match winners. Of all of the fast bowlers listed, he is the only one who was never rated no. 1 in the World and had the highest # of tailend wickets. 28% of all of his dismissals were the last 3 batsmen, and of all bowlers mentioned had the lowest percentage of top order batsmen dismissed. He was great, but in no wasy in the same conversation as Marshall, Imran, Mcgrath and Warne.

cricket is not all about stats.

 

[smash84]

cricket is not all about stats.

This

 

[weldone]

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.

Ha ha

I agree with most of the ex-cricketers claiming that Dennis Lillee is the best fast bowler in history.

I agree with most England supporters claiming that Ian Botham has been the best allrounder in history bar none.

I agree with Ian Chappell that there has been no batsman as fearsome and aggressive as Virender Sehwag after Bradman.

And yeah I also think Walcott>Viv Richards and Ponsford>Any other Aussie batsman who played with Bradman

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Hobbs
Trumper
Richards
Gower
Woolley
Sobers
Gilchrist
Wasim
Warne
Larwood
Donald

Probably outside the rules, and maybe not the best team ever, but a pretty damn good one and one which I'd miss work to watch play a Test match.

You love your aesthetically appealing types, don't you? Sureshot crowd pullers and that also reads like a very difficult team to beat.

 

[kyear2]

Slightly Different Format.
Len Hutton
Sunil Gavaskar/Barry Richards
Don Bradman
Gary Sobers
Sachin tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist
Imran Khan
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Denis Lillee
Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[Prince EWS]

I would love someone to explain why wasim is held is such great esteem.

He looked better than he was. It pretty much just comes down to that.

 

[centurymaker]

He looked better than he was. It pretty much just comes down to that.

than his stats suggest!

 

[Cevno]

Plus he could bat better than others and was the greatest left armer ever so added variety in such a team.

Don't think statistics compared to others do him justice too due to different factors.IIRC his average might have dropped a bit in the last few years where he carried on too long not the same bowler.

 

[centurymaker]

Plus he could bat better than others and was the greatest left armer ever so added variety in such a team.

Don't think statistics compared to others do him justice too due to different factors.IIRC his average might have dropped a bit in the last few years where he carried on too long not the same bowler.

yeah overall average figure can be misleading

 

[Prince EWS]

than his stats suggest!

You're only as good as what you actually did. What people think you were capable of means nothing once you retire.

 

[smash84]

than his stats suggest!

awta

 

[NUFAN]

My team - I didn't get to vote in time.

1 Len HUTTON
2 Jack HOBBS
3 Don BRADMAN
4 Wally HAMMOND
5 Javed MIANDAD
6 Garry SOBERS
7 Adam GILCHRIST
8 Shane WARNE
9 Malcolm MARSHALL
10 Fred TRUEMAN
11 Curtly AMBROSE