All Time Test XI Which Team will Win ?

[CricketFan90s]

haha what? Seems his already poor average is massively skewed by playing 60% of his games at home.

I want to know who was better Ian Botham or Kapil Dev

 

[ataraxia]

Procter

 

[Fuller Pilch]

haha what? Seems his already poor average is massively skewed by playing 60% of his games at home.

61 in Australia, 41 in England, 69 in India, 52 in NZ, 35 in SL, 38 in WI.

26.8 in Pakistan.

 

[CricketFan90s]

Procter

Between Botham and Kapil ?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I want to know who was better Ian Botham or Kapil Dev

Your video is fine. Nice photos and music.
Picking Kapil would give you more views etc on YT.

 

[CricketFan90s]

Your video is fine. Nice photos and music.
Picking Kapil would give you more views etc on YT.

I have gone with Botham due to popular opinion but what to know who was better among these 2 guys as a fifth bowler and a lower order batsmen

 

[CricketFan90s]

Your video is fine. Nice photos and music.
Picking Kapil would give you more views etc on YT.

i get the point you want to say about kapil dev but want to know your genuine opinion.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I think Botham was better.

 

[CricketFan90s]

I think Botham was better.

Most of his career botham batted at No 6 and sometimes no 7 and Kapil mostly at no 7 and no 8 so Botham was a better batsmen and so went for botham as he is the fifth bowler in the Team

 

[AndrewB]

While there's a case for picking Botham (especially if you pretend his career post-1985ish didn't happen), you could pick one of Lillee/Garner/Holding instead: Knott-Hadlee-Marshall-Qadir-Lillee (say) is hardly a weak tail.

Seems odd to leave out Miandad when his average for that period is 57 (it's boosted by a 71 home average, but 46 away is hardly a failure), but it's not obvious who he'd replace. Unless you move Viv up to open - he scored 30, 101, 50 and 98 in Australia in 1976 when doing so.

 

[CricketFan90s]

While there's a case for picking Botham (especially if you pretend his career post-1985ish didn't happen), you could pick one of Lillee/Garner/Holding instead: Knott-Hadlee-Marshall-Qadir-Lillee (say) is hardly a weak tail.

Seems odd to leave out Miandad when his average for that period is 57 (it's boosted by a 71 home average, but 46 away is hardly a failure), but it's not obvious who he'd replace. Unless you move Viv up to open - he scored 30, 101, 50 and 98 in Australia in 1976 when doing so.

I want to stick to the position they played most of their careers like Viv Richards no3, Miandad was good at 4 and 5 position however took Greg Chappell for now. If Chappell or Border is injured Miandad will come or if the matches are played in Subcontinent.

 

[Coronis]

2010 - present
1) Cook 2) Warner 3) Sangakkara 4) Smith 5) Williamson/Younis/Root 6) Watling 7) Shakib 8) Ashwin 9) Philander 10) Cummins 11) Steyn

Well if we’re taking Richards and Procter, Boland surely makes this side no?

 

[CricketFan90s]

While there's a case for picking Botham (especially if you pretend his career post-1985ish didn't happen), you could pick one of Lillee/Garner/Holding instead: Knott-Hadlee-Marshall-Qadir-Lillee (say) is hardly a weak tail.

Seems odd to leave out Miandad when his average for that period is 57 (it's boosted by a 71 home average, but 46 away is hardly a failure), but it's not obvious who he'd replace. Unless you move Viv up to open - he scored 30, 101, 50 and 98 in Australia in 1976 when doing so.

Another reason for Botham’s failure after 1986 is that once he went past Dennis Lillee’s record of 355 Wickets he became complacent that’s what I feel.

 

[shortpitched713]

I'll almost always vote for any Test cricket side with Bradman in it.

 

[CricketFan90s]

I'll almost always vote for any Test cricket side with Bradman in it.

Bradman’s Team has Slow Leg Spinner Grimmett and Fast Leg Spinner Reilly, Fast Bowler Larwood and Medium pace bowler Barnes, 2 part time medium pace bowlers Hammond and McCabe so the bowling is very strong and of course the batting lineup of Hobbs Sutcliffe Headley Hammond Bradman McCabe Ames is Very Strong too.

 

[shortpitched713]

Bradman’s Team has Slow Leg Spinner Grimmett and Fast Leg Spinner Reilly, Fast Bowler Larwood and Medium pace bowler Barnes, 2 part time medium pace bowlers Hammond and McCabe so the bowling is very strong and of course the batting lineup of Hobbs Sutcliffe Headley Hammond Bradman McCabe Ames is Very Strong too.

That's all fine and good, and you can make very good teams from any era. But you ignored my overall point. I hardly glanced at the other players on Bradman's team. They seemed well enough, but they have Bradman on their side, so there was literally no reason to look at the teams they were pitted against to know they would be favored.

 

[CricketFan90s]

That's all fine and good, and you can make very good teams from any era. But you ignored my overall point. I hardly glanced at the other players on Bradman's team. They seemed well enough, but they have Bradman on their side, so there was literally no reason to look at the teams they were pitted against to know they would be favored.

Ok but Bradman is forced to play here the best bowlers of future so just making sure he comes out to play with a Strong Team on his side

 

[CricketFan90s]

Well if we’re taking Richards and Procter, Boland surely makes this side no?

Ok we will replace Richards with Greenidge but who would you choose instead of Procter ?

 

[Burgey]

Absence of Lillee from a team of the 70s and 80s is rank stupidity at best

Hadlee bats eight, Marshall nine, Lillee ten and Underwood or Chandra eleven in that side, surely.

Also, the only way you can have a team of the 90s and 2000s without Brian Lara in it is if you never watched any cricket from that era.

Teams don't need an all rounder just for the sake of picking one. If you've got an attack of McGrath, Ambrose, Akram and Warne or Murali you don't enhance the team by picking Kallis over Lara because the former bowled. Waugh would bowl Kallis' overs in that team to the same effect. Either Warne or Murali (or both on spinning decks) would just get plugged in and bowl all day from one end while the quicks rotated at the other.

 

[Burgey]

2010 - present
1) Cook 2) Warner 3) Sangakkara 4) Smith 5) Williamson/Younis/Root 6) Watling 7) Shakib 8) Ashwin 9) Philander 10) Cummins 11) Steyn

No wonder I feel like this has been a largely junk era. Cook, Warner, the number 5-7 options and Philander are just all woeful by comparison with the other era teams listed, albeit the timeframe is shorter.