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All time Asian-XI

Kenneth Viljoen

International Regular
ODI XI

1.Sachin Tendulkar
2.Saeed Anwar
3.Virat Kohli
4.Zaheer Abbas
5.Aravinda De Silva
6.MS Dhoni (CPT)
7.Shakib AL Hasan
8.Imran Khan
9.Wasim Akram
10.Waqar Younis
11.Muttiah Muralitharan
 

Adorable Asshole

International Regular
Sachin
Rohit
Kohli
Abbas
De Silva
Dhoni (c) +
Shakib
Dev
Akram
Imran/Waqar
Murali

Vs

Gilchrist +
Lara
Richards
Ponting
De Villiers
Symonds/Klusener
Flintoff
Pollock
Warne
Garner
Mcgrath

Who would win?
 

CartyDurham

International Captain
Sachin
Rohit
Kohli
Abbas
De Silva
Dhoni (c) +
Shakib
Dev
Akram
Imran/Waqar
Murali

Vs

Gilchrist +
Lara
Richards
Ponting
De Villiers
Symonds/Klusener
Flintoff
Pollock
Warne
Garner
Mcgrath

Who would win?
Depends where the games played. I feel the first team wins if played in India
 

Coronis

International Coach
Hobbs
Gavaskar
Hutton
Sutcliffe
Smith
Simpson
Boycott
Trumper
Richards/Cook/Greenidge

Depends on how you rate Richards and Cook
Richards shouldn’t be in the discussion if its about tests. Hayden, Lawry definitely deserve mentions if Cook is somehow there. Trumper is always a harder one to judge.

Interestingly he played a large portion of his career not actually opening.

As opener:

52 innings 1650 runs @ 33.00, 3 tons, 9 fifties

Not opening:

37 innings 1513 runs @ 48.80, 5 tons, 4 fifties
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
ODI

Jayasuriya
Tendulkar
Kohli
Sangakkara
Miandad
Dhoni
Shakib
Kapil
Imran
Wasim
Murali
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Test

Gavaskar
Engineer
Sangakkara
Dravid
Tendulkar
Younis
Miandad
Kapil
Imran
Wasim
Murali
 

G. S. Kohli

International Vice-Captain
Dravid away is a better opener than Sehwag away


who's first?
Only once dravid as opener in pakistan were he & shewag put on 410* for 1st wicket

Dravid bats at 3 regularly

Gavaskar
Saeed Anwar
R. Dravid
Tendulakar
Younis khan
Dhoni (wk)
Imran k
Kapil dev
Bumrah
Murludharan
B. Bedi (c)
Asif Iqbal as Concussion player)
====
Reserved
Shewag
Mahela jayawardene
E. Prasana
C vaas
 

Adorable Asshole

International Regular
Only once dravid as opener in pakistan were he & shewag put on 410* for 1st wicket

Dravid bats at 3 regularly

Gavaskar
Saeed Anwar
R. Dravid
Tendulakar
Younis khan
Dhoni (wk)
Imran k
Kapil dev
Bumrah
Murludharan
B. Bedi (c)
Asif Iqbal as Concussion player)
====
Reserved
Shewag
Mahela jayawardene
E. Prasana
C vaas
Howstat says Dravid opened in 23 innings
 

BazBall21

International Captain
Could argue for Ashwin over Kapil with Imran good enough to bat 7. Gets an extra spinner in there and still got three ATG quicks.
 

Kenneth Viljoen

International Regular
Imran and Kapil were similar as ODI bowlers maybe Imran was marginally better but Kapil was a significantly better bat and fielder.
His bowling stats only look close to Dev cause he played a very long time ..Imran Khan in his prime , pace , swing and reverse swing ..his inswinger is the best I've seen

Kapil Dev was 35 when he retired , had Imran Khan retired at 35 he would have had a bowling average of 21 , and a batting average of 29 ..


Kapil Dev was better in terms of Strike Rate but not consistency ..He only averaged 23 in his career which is similar to Shahid Afridi , and Dev's average as low as it is , is boosted a great deal by that 175 not out vs Zimbabwe..


I had Imran Khan at no.8 in my team as a superior bowler , but he also averaged 32 with the bat which is excellent for a no.8 ..

In fact towards the end of his career, Imran Khan was good enough to bat any position ..

His last 4 years of ODI cricket he scored 13 50's in 58 innings, 1743 runs at an average of 40.53 ..

I would pick Imran all day long ..Looked cool aswell 😎
 

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