All Time Test XI Which Team will Win ?

[The Sean]

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

I reckon you've got to have Anderson over Philander, brilliant as Big Vern was.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

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.

I agree. The openers are mediocre and Philander isn't flash. Perhaps give De Villiers the keeping gloves, pick Cam Green on potential at 7, and Rabada for Philander.
An attack of Steyn, Cummins, Rabada, Green, Ashwin is decent. That's fairly relentless.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I reckon you've got to have Anderson over Philander, brilliant as Big Vern was.

ABA - Anyone but Anderson

 

[shortpitched713]

I reckon you've got to have Anderson over Philander, brilliant as Big Vern was.

Would take Rabada instead of Anderson, for mine.

 

[CricketFan90s]

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.

So you want Imran Hadlee Marshall Lillee Underwood ?

 

[The Sean]

ABA - Anyone but Anderson

Ha, fair enough.

 

[The Sean]

Would take Rabada instead of Anderson, for mine.

Actually that's a fair shout too.

 

[The Sean]

So you want Imran Hadlee Marshall Lillee Underwood ?

I'm sure Imran would be OK working black magic with the old ball, but I really want to see the other three quicks arguing over the new one.

 

[CricketFan90s]

I'm sure Imran would be OK working black magic with the old ball, but I really want to see the other three quicks arguing over the new one.

But the batting will become weak so you not think so as other teams have very strong batting lineups ?

 

[ZK$]

Sangakkara
Williamson
Younis
Smith
Chanderpaul
Kallis
De Villiers
Cummins
Steyn
Rabada
Bumrah

 

[The Sean]

But the batting will become weak so you not think so as other teams have very strong batting lineups ?

Knott-Hadlee-Marshall is an excellent 7-8-9 and Lillee wasn't a bunny. I suppose the one apprehension is that Imran batting at 6 was after he was a force with the ball but that's something you'd hope he could adapt to.

 

[CricketFan90s]

Knott-Hadlee-Marshall is an excellent 7-8-9 and Lillee wasn't a bunny. I suppose the one apprehension is that Imran batting at 6 was after he was a force with the ball but that's something you'd hope he could adapt to.

Yeah but we are judging the player based on their final career numbers and not based on which year they were good or bad. So this team is a bit risky but can be lethal if bowlers are very effective not to let opposition score a high total.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

First Row in the Picture is the Greatest Test XI from 1900-1939 in Cricket : 1) Hobbs 2) Hutton 3) Headley 4) Hammond 5) Bradman(c) 6) McCabe 7) Ames(wk) 8) Larwood 9) Grimmett 10) Reilly 11) Barnes

Second Row is the Greatest Test XI from 1946-1969 : 1) Hutton 2) Morris 3) Barrington 4) Harvey 5) Worrell 6) Sobers 7) Miller 8) Waite(wk) 9) Benaud(c) 10) Davidson 11) Lindwall

Third Row is the Greatest Test XI from 1970-1989 : 1) Barry Richards 2) Gavaskar 3) Viv Richards 4) Greg Chappell 5) Border 6) Imran(c) 7) Knott(wk) 8) Procter 9) Hadlee 10) Marshall 11) Qadir

Fourth Row is the Greatest Test XI from 1990-2009 : 1) Smith 2) Hayden 3) Ponting 4) Kallis 5) Tendulkar 6) Steve Waugh(c) 7) Gilchrist(wk) 8) Wasim 9) Warne 10) Ambrose 11) McGrath

Which Team is the Strongest ?
Suggest any changes to any Team to make them Stronger.

Tate/King in for Grum in 1900-39 team imo.Or any quick Farnes,Cowie Mcdonald,Gregory or Medium pace Voce,Foster and I am with them.Bradman bats #3 surely.

 

[Coronis]

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

Lillee or Garner

 

[CricketFan90s]

Tate in for Grum in 1900-39 team imo.Or any quick Mcdonald,Gregory or Medium pace Voce,Foster and I am with them.Bradman bats #3 surely.

Wow nice one Tate is a very good option as he also can bat little bit but for now i went for Grimmett as he was pivotal along with Reilly , i took Bradman at no5 as george headley scored all his 10 centuries at no3, Hammond was very good at no3 scored 14 centuries but also good at no4 scored 7 centuries at that position, Bradman has very good average at no3, no5 and no7 so went for no5 as he was capable of scoring triple and double centuries with the help of tailenders.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

1900 - 39

First Row in the Picture is the Greatest Test XI from 1900-1939 in Cricket : 1) Hobbs 2) Hutton 3) Headley 4) Hammond 5) Bradman(c) 6) McCabe 7) Ames(wk) 8) Larwood 9) Grimmett 10) Reilly 11) Barnes



Which Team is the Strongest ?
Suggest any changes to any Team to make them Stronger.

Change this to

6) Faulkner 7) Ames 8) Gregory 9) Larwood 10) O'Reilly 11) Barnes

 

[CricketFan90s]

Wow nice one Tate is a very good option as he also can bat little bit but for now i went for Grimmett as he was pivotal along with Reilly , i took Bradman at no5 as george headley scored all his 10 centuries at no3, Hammond was very good at no3 scored 14 centuries but also good at no4 scored 7 centuries at that position, Bradman has very good average at no3, no5 and no7 so went for no5 as he was capable of scoring triple and double centuries with the help of tailenders.

Grimmett and Reilly together took 25 and 28 wickets to win 1934 Ashes in England so i went for their Spin Partnership. But will be interesting to see if you can prove me wrong to take a third pace bowler in this team.

 

[CricketFan90s]

1900 - 39
Change this to

6) Faulkner 7) Ames 8) Gregory 9) Larwood 10) O'Reilly 11) Barnes

your selection was awesome as Faulkner was good both with bat and ball and same goes to jack gregory. but if you observe i took more players from 1930s compared to 1920s and only one from 1910s (Barnes)
As i was a bit skeptical how the game was before World War 1 and immediately after the War.

I choose the team for the following reasons :
1) Hobbs - Named in 6 giants of the wisden century and 5 cricketers of the century
2) Sutcliffe- very successful partner to Hobbs and ICC hall of fame member with great batting average from mid 1920s to 1930s
3) Headley- he was famously called Black Bradman a hall of fame member
4) Hammond- 2nd best batsmen to Bradman and also good medium pace bowler can be used effectively if i take 2 spinners
5) Bradman- Any All Time XI team Bradman is a must no more discussion
6) Les Ames- Wisden called him "Greatest Wicket keeper Batsmen" he averaged 40 so his batting skills are required against Warne, Marshall, Trueman like Legends.
7) Stan McCabe - I thought for many hours should i take him or frank woolley or wilfred rhodes or Aubrey Faulkner but finally i took him as he was the 3rd highest number of runs in 1930s after Hammond and Bradman, He was better batsmen than the other 3 i have mentioned. Only guy to adjust to Bodyline Series among the Australian Team. Most importantly he was the only guy who could bowl medium pace as i don't need the spin bowling contributed by rhodes or woolley or faulkner as i have 2 greatest and different type of leg spinners in reilly and grimmett.
8) Larwood, Barnes, Reilly are mandatory and Grimmett took him as he is a different type of leg spinner to reilly.

2 Spinners, 1 Fast Bowler, 1 Medium pace Bowler, 2 part time medium pace bowlers not a bad combination what do you say ?

 

[CricAddict]

There are people outside who are saying Anderson is the best pace bowler of all-time but here in CW, he struggles to get into a decade team.

 

[CricketFan90s]

Lillee or Garner

i am hesitating a bit not to take atleast 3 allrounders in the era of 4 allrounders in Imran, Kapil, Botham, Hadlee