England XI vs Pakistan XI (since 1970)

[Howe_zat]

Date is obviously cherry picked to include Pakistan's best players in Imran and Miandad while ruling out most of the best England players they played against like Knott, Boycott and Underwood.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Point was just to compare England to India/Pakistan in the modern era. I’ll change the starting date to be later for the next comparison if that helps.

 

[sayon basak]

Date is obviously cherry picked to include Pakistan's best players in Imran and Miandad while ruling out most of the best England players they played against like Knott, Boycott and Underwood.

Any date would be cherry picking imo. Even if he included knott, boycs or Underwood, then some would say he intentionally left Hutton, Hammond, Sutcliffe or Hobbs out.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Any date would be cherry picking imo. Even if he included knott, boycs or Underwood, then some would say he intentionally left Hutton, Hammond, Sutcliffe or Hobbs out.

Start from 1880 to include Grace.

 

[sayon basak]

Start from 1880 to include Grace.

Or maybe go even further to include the real Goat - "Alfred Mynn".

 

[PlayerComparisons]

What does Englands best team of players that debuted since 1980 look like?

 

[BazBall21]

What does Englands best team of players that debuted since 1980 look like?

Cook
Stewart
Root
Pietersen
Thorpe
Stokes
Prior/Bairstow
Swann
Broad/Flintoff at 8.
Gough
Anderson

 

[Howe_zat]

Point was just to compare England to India/Pakistan in the modern era. I’ll change the starting date to be later for the next comparison if that helps.

Change it to 2003.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

We should do best XIs since 18 April 1992 (SA's 1st test back with readmission), but it would rob India of Sachin, Pakistan of 2 Ws, the Windies of their entire ATG XI (but at least Chanderpaul could still be picked), and Australia (who'd obviously be the strongest team) would miss out on Warne by 3 months. SL could still pick Murali though.

 

[sayon basak]

Date is obviously cherry picked to include Pakistan's best players in Imran and Miandad while ruling out most of the best England players they played against like Knott, Boycott and Underwood.

Change it to 2003.

 

[trundler]

Prior over Rizwan can't be a serious opinion. Rizwan is vastly superior with the gloves and at worst equal with the bat.

 

[peterhrt]

England v Pakistan Test averages since 1970.

Batting averages: Qualification 800 runs

England: Brook 84, Root 53, Stewart 52, Gower 49, Cook 49, Bell 42, Gatting 34.

Pakistan: Yousuf 62, Salim Malik 60, Inzamam 54, Zaheer 51, Miandad 51, Younis Khan 46, Misbah 45, Asad Shafiq 35, Mudassar 34, Sadiq 34, Azhar Ali 33.

Bowling averages: 30 wickets

England: Swann 35@17, Anderson 82@19, Woakes 38@20, Broad 67@22, Willis 34@24, Panesar 31@26, Harmison 32@29, Botham 40@31, Leach 31@37.

Pakistan: Ajmal 36@19, Imran 47@24, Qadir 82@24, Amir 38@26, Waqar 50@27, Sarfraz 37@28, Umar Gul 33@29, Wasim 57@30, Yasir Shah 45@32, Mushtaq Ahmed 33@32, Intikhab 31@33.