Establishing the best decade for cricket: Finding the ATG XI from 12 decades of test cricket - then having a KO tourney to decide the best

[Fuller Pilch]

Fully expect shameless Australian poster @stephen to pick Warner as his opener in 2010-20 side.
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I don't like Warner but I think he is guaranteed to make the 2010-20 side along with Cook. No way that Azhar Ali (who moved to 3 anyway), Gayle, Latham, or Karunaratne, Vijay, Elgar, or Tamim would be picked ahead of Warner and Cook.

 

[sunilz]

don't like Warner but I think he is guaranteed to make the 2010-20 side along with Cook. No way that Azhar Ali (who moved to 3 anyway), Gayle, Latham, or Karunaratne, Vijay, Elgar, or Tamim would be picked ahead of Warner and Cook.

Or you can push Pujara to the top and have Williamson at 3

Cook
Pujara
Williamson

Pujara has shown he can bat in Australia and is definitely one of the best players of spin( See Warner's average in Asia)

 

[ankitj]

And Stephen, you didn't pick Tendulkar in 90s team either right ?

Somebody gotta counter balance biased Indians

 

[sunilz]

Somebody gotta counter balance biased Indians

The best thing is out of 9 vote Hayden has received in other thread , 4 are from Indian posters. And I myself have voted for Smith.?

 

[ankitj]

I switched from Hayden to Greenidge in the other thread. Undecided between those 2.

Actually I think Hayden is bit underrated here. Yes his peak came at a time when there were some dozen batters averaged 50+ but fair to say he was at par with other top 3-4 (Ponting, Kallis and Dravid being others).

 

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Gooch (C)

Hayden
Smith

Ponting

McGrath
Ntini

 

[honestbharani]

And Stephen, you didn't pick Tendulkar in 90s team either right ?

TBF, it is not just bias in that case. Its also salt.

 

[ankitj]

Gooch to captain my 90s team

Smith and Sehwag
Dravid
Mcgrath and Steyn

Dravid averages 4-5 runs more than Ponting overseas in 2000s.

56.03 vs 51.56

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Ponting made a great team greater. Dravid made a good team look very good. That counts more imo.

Dravid was scoring more hundreds (many of them big hundreds). May be that gives the impression Ponting was better. Dravid was scoring more 50+ scores.

 

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Waugh (C)

Hayden
Sehwag

Ponting

McGrath
Akhtar

 

[sunilz]

Dravid was scoring more hundreds (many of them big hundreds). May be that gives the impression Ponting was better. Dravid was scoring more 50+ scores.

Ponting was fast scoring batsman who are always rated higher.

See Richards vs Gavaskar

 

[ankitj]

Hayden
Sehwag

Ponting

McGrath
Pollock

Edit: Going with Sehwag instead of Smith. It's quite close between 3 of them

 

[Gob]

Hayden
Sehwag

Ponting

McGrath
Steyn

 

[trundler]

I'll go with Akhtar instead of Steyn too actually

 

[honestbharani]

Is there a good left armer from the 00s? If not, Akhtar will make a great 3rd seamer.

Steyn, McGrath, Akhtar, Murali and maybe Flintoff as the allrounder will be a great attack.

 

[sunilz]

Is there a good left armer from the 00s? If not, Akhtar will make a great 3rd seamer.

Steyn, McGrath, Akhtar, Murali and maybe Flintoff as the allrounder will be a great attack.

Warne and Murali should be lock in 00 team.

Kallis
McGrath
2nd pace bowler
Warne Murali.

 

[stephen]

And Stephen, you didn't pick Tendulkar in 90s team either right ?

Did you read my reasoning? It was only because Tendulkar was going through that I picked someone else, and I did so to talk about them more than anything else. If it was actually tight I would have voted Tendulkar.

 

[honestbharani]

Warne and Murali should be lock in 00 team.

Kallis
McGrath
2nd pace bowler
Warne Murali.

I love attacks with two spinners but it will impact balance way too much for an ATG side. Plus Warne is in the 90s side. IT will be good to go with 3 seamers + Murali + allrounder.

 

[sunilz]

Did you read my reasoning? It was only because Tendulkar was going through that I picked someone else, and I did so to talk about them more than anything else. If it was actually tight I would have voted Tendulkar.

But somehow you had no problem in picking Steve Waugh and Warne. Should have also picked Kumble by that logic.

 

[morgieb]

Is there a good left armer from the 00s? If not, Akhtar will make a great 3rd seamer.

The best was probably Johnson and he played for like 2 years.

 

[honestbharani]

The best was probably Johnson and he played for like 2 years.

Yeah, even Wasim played for 3 years into the decade though. Can't really consider that.