What is your ALL TIME WORLD XI TEAM for tests?

[Gob]

Yeah. And Jaddu didn't play.

Anyhow Aubrey Faulkner IMO.

I know

 

[Coronis]

If you’re making an ATG XI and feel its important your bowlers can bat decently then sure, Jadeja is well in the conversation. Obviously though if you’re just picking one of the greatest spinners of all time (purely on bowling) he’s well down the order.

 

[CricAddict]

h_huricane selected Ravi as the primary spinner. Cricaddict concurred that idea when I assume he suggested the idea of Ravi being picked as a specialist spinner has merit.

Do you think it has merit? Do you concur?

I just said that he will not look out of place in that team. Not that he genuinely holds a place there above Warne and Murali. But on second thoughts, why not? Apart from his batting and bowling, he is disputably the best fielder in the world right now. Influences every match that he plays with his fielding. How many ATGs can boast that? I believe none.

If a spin bowling all-rounder is the best fit for your ATG team, Sir Jadeja is absolutely in the all-time top 3 contenders for that position.

 

[ataraxia]

If a spin bowling all-rounder is the best fit for your ATG team, Sir Jadeja is absolutely in the all-time top 3 contenders for that position.

Nah, I don't think he's quite there. Sobers, Faulkner, Benaud.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Jadeja has only scored 1 century in 51 tests. He might be a good bowler and superb fields man but in terms of scoring 100s that doesn't match up well against (in no particular order):

Shakib 5 in 57, Benaud 3 in 63, Ashwin 5 in 77, Faulkner 4 in 25, Mushtaq Mohammed 10 in 57, Mankad 5 in 44, Vettori 6 in 113, Shastri 11 in 80.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Apart from his batting and bowling, he is disputably the best fielder in the world right now. Influences every match that he plays with his fielding. How many ATGs can boast that? I believe none.

It's a bit of a random standard to judge an ATG on but to answer the question Ponting is probably the best fielder of players who could be considered ATG. I think Viv and Bradman could have been at least as good fielders as Jadeja too from what I've heard.

 

[Burgey]

Influences every match that he plays with his fielding. How many ATGs can boast that?

Ricky Pointing, Viv Richards, Allan Border and Garry Sobers spring to mind off the top of my head. If you're going to start using fielding as such a big justification for picking one player over another, there's going to be some significant changes in a number of ATG sides.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Jadeja has only scored 1 century in 51 tests. He might be a good bowler and superb fields man but in terms of scoring 100s that doesn't match up well against (in no particular order):

Shakib 5 in 57, Benaud 3 in 63, Ashwin 5 in 77, Faulkner 4 in 25, Mushtaq Mohammed 10 in 57, Mankad 5 in 44, Vettori 6 in 113, Shastri 11 in 80.

Fair point. But its a lot to do with his batting position. Most of the ones mentioned there bat in the top-middle order. For the team that he picked, jadeja fits best at number 8 (maybe apart from vettori) and is a better spinner than everyone in your list apart from Ashwin and benaud.

 

[Burgey]

Fair point. But its a lot to do with his batting position. Most of the ones mentioned there bat in the top-middle order.

Which is also why they’re better value in an AT team

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Look, it is debatable if Jadeja is currently a better allrounder than Shakib, Stokes, Holder, and Ashwin (and there is a good chance he will be surpassed by Jamieson and possibly Green, Mulder, and Ravindra in future), so he can hardly make an all-time side.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I'm annoyed I've got Wasim Akram and Chaminda Vaas mixed up, absolute brain fade on that one. ?‍

It’s the nose.

 

[harsh.ag]

Barry
Viv
Smith
Lara
ABdV
Sobers
Gilly
Wasim
Marshall
McGrath
Donald

 

[Burgey]

Absence of a genuine frontline spinner, particularly a finger spinner, gives this team a lot of kudos.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Absence of a genuine frontline spinner, particularly a finger spinner, gives this team a lot of kudos.

Jadeja's taking 6 wickets for 9 runs vs that lot, and scoring 69 not out. It's absolute murder.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Absence of a genuine frontline spinner, particularly a finger spinner, gives this team a lot of kudos.

Graeme Smith is the frontline finger spinner, in addition to batting 3

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

*checks sword man stats in NZ*

Lol

 

[srbhkshk]

*checks sword man stats in NZ*

Lol

*Checks NZ stats in sword man's land*

Lol

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

And that's even with all the PEDs he's taking

 

[rtramdas]

My test team

Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman(c)
Kallis
Sachin Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Gary Sobers
Adam Gilchrist
Kapil Dev
Dale Steyn
Ambrose
Shane Warne

 

[Burgey]

Imagine moving a bloke whos the best batsman in history by a factor of two from the position where he scored all his runs to accomodate a bloke who wasn’t even the best number three of his generation