All time world test XI selection

[Teuton]

Ken Barrington
Jeff Dujon

 

[morgieb]

Dravid
Healy

 

[ataraxia]

Walcott
Waite

 

[Coronis]

Useless already I expect but

Barrington
Healy

Can’t think of anyone better than Barrington to hold down the fort behind those two.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Barrington
Healy

 

[Line and Length]

Barrington
Evans

 

[OverratedSanity]

Dravid
Waite

 

[gftw]

Dravid
Healy

 

[Nikhil99.99]

Barrington
Oldfield

 

[Teuton]

Were you thinking of mixing up the order of picking positions? Ie always picking the allrounder last can dictate the type of player picked as it may depend on if your keeper is a strong bat or not. Maybe the first round could be nominating say 3 or 4 players of any role and then building the team around them.

 

[harsh.ag]

Dravid
Bob Taylor

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Barrington

De Villiers

 

[Bitmap]

Rahul Dravid
Ian Healy

 

[TheJediBrah]

Barrington
Healy

 

[Lillian Thomson]

We're you thinking of mixing up the order of picking positions? Ie always picking the allrounder last can dictate the type of player picked as it may depend on if your keeper is a strong bat or not. Maybe the first round could be nominating say 3 or 4 players of any role and then building the team around them.

In the modern way of thinking I doubt a keeper with any less batting prowess than Healy will get in. Genuine high quality specialist keepers like Taylor, Bari, Grout aren’t part of a modern team. We’ll see Dhoni, Dujon and, God help us, Andy Flower instead.
JBMAC always extols the virtues of Farokh Engineer. He would be okay batting at 7.

 

[trundler]

Barrington
Healy

Surprised you're aware of a cricketer who played before '95.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Surprised you're aware of a cricketer who played before '95.

just copying everyone else

 

[h_hurricane]

Rahul Dravid

AB Devilliers

 

[kyear2]

Have you guys never read of the exploits of Jock Cameron?

Wisden Almanac exert.

In no sense could Cameron be described as a mere slogger. He combined fine technique with calculated hitting; when necessary he could adapt his game and discipline himself to the need for more restrained methods. Always a firm believer in making the bat hit the ball, he came down much harder on it than the average batsman. Blessed with power of wrist and forearms, he could drive and pull without appearing to use very much effort. In the Tests last summer he scored 306 runs (average 38) and for all games his aggregate was 1,655 and his average 41.37.

Cameron, for all his fearless hitting, will be chiefly remembered for his high place among wicket-keepers not only of South Africa but in his generation. His stumping of a batsman has been likened to the nonchalant gesture of a smoker flicking the ash from a cigarette--an apt simile of the speed and art of his deeds. Cameron's concentration upon his job was always evident; some of his stumping efforts dazzled the eyesight. To place him second only as a wicket-keeper to Oldfield is not undue praise. He was neither flamboyant nor noisy and he took the ball cleanly; in fact, his style may be described as the perfection of ease and rapidity without unnecessary show. Last season he stumped 21 batsmen and caught 35; in the Final Test when only six England wickets fell he made two catches and stumped Hammond and Leyland beautifully. Cameron was a very fine personality, one who enriched the game and whose manliness and popularity extended far beyond the cricket field. The passing of this charming fellow was a cruel loss not only to the game but to all who knew him.
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

 

[HookShot]

Herbert Strudwick wrote a piece for Wisden in 1959 - ‘From Dr Grace to Peter May’.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152668.html

Strudwick himself was born in 1880, and his career with Surrey began in 1897 which is why he could write;

I have known nearly all the famous cricketers of the twentieth century, from Dr. W. G. Grace to Peter May.

Any way, as far as keepers go he rates Godfrey Evans first, then Oldfield, Cameron and Lilley;

I have never seen a better wicket-keeper than Evans, but I class W. A. Oldfield, the Australian, H. B. Cameron, of South Africa, and Lilley as his equal. These men, who stood close up to the wicket to all bowling, had splendid records and did their work without any fuss.

So yeah, kyear is right, Jock Cameron is right up there with the very best.