Create an all time best Test XI using only one player from each country...

[Zinzan]

1.Jack Hobbs
2.Kumar Sangakkara
3.Don Bradman
4.Sachin Tendulkar
5.Garry Sobers
6.Andy Flower
7.Kevin O'Brien
8.Mushfiqur Rahim (WK)
9.Wasim Akram
10.Richard Hadlee
11.Dale Steyn

Minor detail, but Hadlee bats ahead of Akram.

 

[Prince EWS]

Minor detail, but Hadlee bats ahead of Akram.

Unlike your posts.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

1.Tamim Iqbal
2.Ibrahim Zadran
3.Don Bradman
4.Graeme Pollock
5.Wally Hammond
6.Garry Sobers
7.Andy Flower (WK)
8.Richard Hadlee
9.Wasim Akram
10.Jasprit Bumrah
11.Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[Qlder]

1. Sunil Gavaskar (India)
2. Jack Hobbs (England)
3. Don Bradman (Australia)
4. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
5. Garry Sobers (West Indies)
6. Andy Flower (Zimbabwe)
7. Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
8. Imran Khan (Pakistan)
9. Richard Hadlee (New Zealand)
10. Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)
11. Dale Steyn (South Africa)

I tried to pick the best player ever from each country.

 

[Prince EWS]

1. Sunil Gavaskar (India)
2. Jack Hobbs (England)
3. Don Bradman (Australia)
4. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
5. Garry Sobers (West Indies)
6. Andy Flower (Zimbabwe)
7. Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
8. Imran Khan (Pakistan)
9. Richard Hadlee (New Zealand)
10. Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)
11. Dale Steyn (South Africa)

I tried to pick the best player ever from each country.

You failed.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Jack Hobbs (England)
Sunil Gavaskar (India)
Don Bradman (Australia)
Andy Flower (Zimbabwe)
Garry Sobers (West Indies)
Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
Lorcan Tucker (Ireland) (wk)
Imran Khan (Pakistan) (c)
Richard Hadlee (New Zealand)
Dale Steyn (South Africa)
Mutthiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)

12th Man- Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)

 

[Coronis]

You failed.

Here I’ll fix it.

Hobbs
Sobers
Bradman
Tendulkar
Kallis
Flower+
Shakib
Imran
Hadlee
Rashid
Murali

 

[Coronis]

1. Graeme Smith (SA)
2. Jack Hobbs (ENG)
3. Sir Donald Bradman (AUS)
4. Sachin Tendulkar (IND)
5. Andy Flower (ZIM)
6. Kumar Sangakkara+ (SL)
7. Shakib Al Hasan (BAN)
8. Imran Khan (PAK)
9. Sir Richard Hadlee (NZ)
10. Malcolm Marshall (WI)
11. Rashid Khan (AFG)

I actually think this might be the best set up balance wise. Though I’d bat Sanga ahead of Flower.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I actually think this might be the best set up balance wise. Though I’d bat Sanga ahead of Flower.

Lacks a great spinner though which is why I think Murali is a must in these teams.

 

[Coronis]

Lacks a great spinner though which is why I think Murali is a must in these teams.

Rashid Khan is a great spinner.

 

[howitzer]

Rashid Khan is a great spinner.

He's only played five Tests, and failed in his one against high quality opposition. I know that compromises need to be made wrt to the 11th player but I'd like those compromises to be made in an area where there's at least one proven practitioner, or else behind the stumps. Rashid would make my ODI XI though.

Johnson (Zim)
Tendulkar (Ind)
Richards (WI)
Taylor (NZ)
Shakib (Ban)
Buttler (Eng)
Pollock (SA)
Wasim (Pak)
Rashid (Afg)
McGrath (Aus)
Murali (SL)

 

[ashley bach]

He's only played five Tests, and failed in his one against high quality opposition. I know that compromises need to be made wrt to the 11th player but I'd like those compromises to be made in an area where there's at least one proven practitioner, or else behind the stumps. Rashid would make my ODI XI though.

Johnson (Zim)
Tendulkar (Ind)
Richards (WI)
Taylor (NZ)
Shakib (Ban)
Buttler (Eng)
Pollock (SA)
Wasim (Pak)
Rashid (Afg)
McGrath (Aus)
Murali (SL)

@RossTaylorsBox loves this

 

[capt_Luffy]

He's only played five Tests, and failed in his one against high quality opposition. I know that compromises need to be made wrt to the 11th player but I'd like those compromises to be made in an area where there's at least one proven practitioner, or else behind the stumps. Rashid would make my ODI XI though.

Johnson (Zim)
Tendulkar (Ind)
Richards (WI)
Taylor (NZ)
Shakib (Ban)
Buttler (Eng)
Pollock (SA)
Wasim (Pak)
Rashid (Afg)
McGrath (Aus)
Murali (SL)

Klusner ahead of Pollock in this one. Already have 3 ATG and one Great bowler and Shakib, Johnson, Richards and Tendulkar as sixth. Klusner's extra batting feels better here.

 

[howitzer]

Klusner ahead of Pollock in this one. Already have 3 ATG and one Great bowler and Shakib, Johnson, Richards and Tendulkar as sixth. Klusner's extra batting feels better here.

Considered this but decided the full choke with the bowling was my preferred option. Swapping Taylor and McGrath out for Ponting and Hadlee would be another way of improving the lower order but I have McGrath down as the ODI goat bowler and thus really want him to play, same with Richards' batting.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Considered this but decided the full choke with the bowling was my preferred option. Swapping Taylor and McGrath out for Ponting and Hadlee would be another way of improving the lower order but I have McGrath down as the ODI goat bowler and thus really want him to play, same with Richards' batting.

I really liked the rest of the team, just thought 4 ATG/great + a 5th option in Klusner, Shakib, Richards and Sachin would had been very good.

 

[howitzer]

@honestbharani (Trinidad)
@subshakerz (Pakistan)
@Flem274* (New Zealand)
@kyear2 (Barbados)
@Kenneth Viljoen (South Africa)
@Aritro (Bangladesh)
@ankitj (India)
@GIMH (England)
@cnerd123 (Hong Kong)
@TheJediBrah (Australia)
@Migara (Sri Lanka)

Looking forward to HB and Subshakerz opening the batting.

TJB and Migara to try and run each other out.

Ankit to Shardul down the order.

Kyear2 in the cordon.

@Daemon (Singapore) in for @cnerd123 who can be our 12th man/designated umpire. If we need to provide both umpires then @Howe_zat can come in for @GIMH and be in charge of our 'celebrappeals' department. These will no doubt be given by the umpires.

 

[howitzer]

I really liked the rest of the team, just thought 4 ATG/great + a 5th option in Klusner, Shakib, Richards and Sachin would had been very good.

Don't mind that option either tbh. Johnson being able to cover 3rd seamer if Klusener is having a bad day is helpful, but I still like having three world class pace bowling practitioners.

 

[Howe_zat]

@Daemon in for @cnerd123 who can be our 12th man/designated umpire. If we need to provide both umpires then @Howe_zat can come in for @GIMH and be in charge of our 'celebrappeals' department. These will no doubt be given by the umpires.

I qualified as an umpire before GIMH ftr, and am much more likely to give nepotistic decisions in our favour, but as we're from the same nation I think having both of us breaks the rules.

Instead of me we can legally double dip by having @nick-o from the principality, and use the UK's tried and tested mandate to split itself into four countries when the mood arises for sports.

 

[howitzer]

I qualified as an umpire before GIMH ftr, and am much more likely to give nepotistic decisions in our favour, but as we're from the same nation I think having both of us breaks the rules.

Instead of me we can legally double dip by having @nick-o from the principality, and use the UK's tried and tested mandate to split itself into four countries when the mood arises for sports.

I figured that as one of you would be non-playing it would be allowed by match referee @Magrat Garlick

 

[truthteller99]

wow this is incredibly hard

Jack Hobbs (England)
Tendukar (India)
Donald Bradman (Australia)
Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
Gary Sobers (West Indies)
Imran Khan (c) (Pakistan)
Richard Hadlee (New Zealand)
Andy Flower (wk) (Zimbabwe)
shakub al hasan (bangladesh)
Rashid (Afghanistan)
Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)