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

[harsh.ag]

Dravid and Kallis
Murali

 

[stephen]

Dravid
Kallis
Murali

 

[CricAddict]

Sachin
Kallis
Murali

 

[mr_mister]

1870s/80s/90s:

WG Grace* 6
Bobby Abel
Arthur Shrewsbury
KS Ranji
Billy Murdoch
AG Steel 5
Jack Blackham +
Bobby Peel 4
George Lohmann 2
Charlie Turner 3
Fred Spofforth 1

1900s/1910s:

Jack Hobbs
Victor Trumper
Clem Hill
Aubrey Faulkner 5
Stanley Jackson *
Monty Noble 6
Frank Foster 2
Dick Lilley +
Tibby Cotter 3
Sydney Barnes 1
Colin Blythe 4

1920s:

Jack Hobbs
Herb Sutcliffe
Charlie Macartney 7
Wally Hammond 5
Herbie Taylor *
Frank Woolley 6
Jack Gregory 2
Maurice Tate 1
Bert Oldfield +
Clarrie Grimmett 4
Ted Mcdonald 3

1930s:

Len Hutton
Bruce Mitchell
Don Bradman *
George Headley
Wally Hammond 5
Stan McCabe 6
Les Ames +
Harold Larwood 1
Hedley Verity 4
Bill O'Reilly 3
Manny Martindale 2

1940s:

Len Hutton
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman *
Denis Compton 5
Dudley Nourse
Everton Weekes
Keith Miller 2
Don Tallon+
Ray Lindwall 1
Jack Cowie 3
Bill Johnston 4

1950s:

Len Hutton *
Hanif Mohammad
Neil Harvey
Everton Weekes
Clyde Walcott
Gary Sobers 5
John Waite +
Allan Davidson 3
Jim Laker 4
Alec Bedser 2
Fred Trueman 1

1960s:

Bob Simpson * 6
Bill Lawry
Ken Barrington
Graeme Pollock
Rohan Kanhai
Gary Sobers 5
Denis Lindsay +
Allan Davidson 2
Peter Pollock 3
Fred Trueman 1
Lance Gibbs 4

1970s:

Geoff Boycott
Sunil Gavaskar
Viv Richards
Greg Chappell *
Javed Miandad
Ian Botham 5
Allan Knott +
Derek Underwood 4
Dennis Lillee 1
Andy Roberts 2
Jeff Thomson 3


1980s:

Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge
Viv Richards
Javed Miandad
Allan Border
Imran Khan 3 *
Jeff Dujon +
Kapil Dev 5
RichardHadlee 2
Malcolm Marshall 1
Joel Garner 4

1990s:

Graham Gooch *
Saeed Anwar
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendaulker
Steve Waugh 5
Aravinda De Silva 6
Ian Healy +
Wasim Akram 2
Shane Warne 4
Curtley Ambrose 1
Allan Donald 3

 

[honestbharani]

Do you mean Flintoff plus Kallis, or Flintoff instead of Kallis?

I actually reckon Flintoff plus Kallis strengthens the case for Warne. If two spinners meant you're asking Kallis to be the third seamer then I could see why you'd be against it (though I'd still pick Warne!). However, if for example we're playing Kallis and five and Flintoff at six (which I'd be fine with given we'll have Gilly at seven) then you could have McGrath-Steyn-Flintoff-Murali-Warne with Kallis as an incredible sixth bowling option. That's an amazingly strong and balanced attack.

I'm often reticent about two spinners, but when those two spinners are the two GOATs then in my opinion you pick them and worry about the rest later. And by doing so we'd have probably three of the top five bowlers of all time on the same team. That's too good a thing to pass up.

Well, in a nutshell, I think Flintoff should be the #7/6. Now if you wanna bat Kallis at 4/5 and accommodate both Warne and Murali, that sounds great. But if Kallis does not make the top 5, I wont pick him in the side. In which case, I think Warne would miss out.

 

[honestbharani]

Sanga
Sachin
Murali

 

[stephen]

I'd like to see:

Hayden
Smith
Ponting*
Dravid
Kallis
Sangakkara
Gilchrist+
Steyn
Shoaib
Murali
McGrath

Harsh on Sehwag and Tendulkar obviously, but I like that there's no overlap between the 90s and 00s team and I genuinely feel that they're the stand out players of that generation.

 

[trundler]

Kallis
Dravid
Murali

 

[sunilz]

Hayden 15 votes
Smith 14 votes
Sehwag 12 votes

Ponting much more comfortably over Dravid


Steyn 9, Shoaib 6 and Pollock 7 to partner McGrath who got 20+ votes

Please count Sehwag vote again. Morgeib voted for Sehwag + Smith . I counted it to 14

 

[trundler]

After all that fecal flinging we're going with the side that was pretty much expected from the start

 

[sunilz]

Dravid
Kallis
Murali

 

[h_hurricane]

Dravid
Kallis
Murali

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Please count Sehwag vote again. Morgeib voted for Sehwag + Smith . I counted it to 14

I made the actual vote count including morgy voting for Sehwag as:
Smith 16
Hayden 15
Sehwag 13

Perhaps none of us can actually count, which would explain a great deal.

 

[sunilz]

I made the actual vote count including morgy voting for Sehwag as:
Smith 16
Hayden 15
Sehwag 13

Perhaps none of us can actually count, which would explain a great deal.

Did you read full Morgeib post ? It was confusing to count . He started with Smith + Hayden then gave a reason and change it to Smith + Sehwag ?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Hayden, Smith, and Ponting with strike rates of 60, 60, and 62 respectively for the decade (Sehwag a crazy 80) and looking like Kallis and Dravid at 46 and 43. It would be unusual for the 4 and 5 to slow the scoring so much.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Did you read full Morgeib post ? It was confusing to count . He started with Smith + Hayden then gave a reason and change it to Smith + Sehwag ?

Yes. That's probably why Sehwag has 12 in MM's count and 13 in mine. Though I counted 44 votes and he counted 41.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Anyway I'll vote Kallis and Sangakkara (even though he was a 3 I can see him batting 5 more than Dravid).

And Murali of course.

 

[morgieb]

Dravid, Kallis

Murali

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I'd like to see:

Hayden
Smith
Ponting*
Dravid
Kallis
Sangakkara
Gilchrist+
Steyn
Shoaib
Murali
McGrath

Harsh on Sehwag and Tendulkar obviously, but I like that there's no overlap between the 90s and 00s team and I genuinely feel that they're the stand out players of that generation.

You've got a 3 batting 4, a 4 batting 5, and a 3 batting 6. I'd rather have a proper no 6 (Chanderpaul).

 

[OverratedSanity]

Dravid
Kallis
Murali