All Time India XI game

[kingkallis]

Agarkar?

Nope. Vinoo Mankad.

 

[CricAddict]

Merchant
Sidhu
Kirmani
Bedi

 

[kingkallis]

Vijay Merchant
Navjot Sidhu
Syed Kirmani
Bishan Bedi

 

[harsh.ag]

Merchant

Engineer (Keeper-Opener)

Chandra

Ashwin might be better as a package, but he is far behind Chandra and Bedi as a spinner.
And I would rate Gambhir as a better opener than Sidhu.

 

[jimmy101]

Yeah I thought long and hard about Sidhu vs Gambhir

 

[CricAddict]

Yeah I thought long and hard about Sidhu vs Gambhir

Same here.

 

[Starfighter]

Merchant
Sidhu
Kirmani
Bedi

 

[J_C]

Merchant
Sidhu
Engineer
Chandrasekhar

 

[Teuton]

Yeah I thought long and hard about Sidhu vs Gambhir

Me too, I think Sidhu played against higher quality attacks in compiling a similar record. Have not actually checked if that is fact however.[SUB][/SUB]

 

[srbhkshk]

Merchant
Gambhir

Engineer

Bedi

 

[the big bambino]

Pick Zak and either Bedi or Chandra and I'm liking the second team's bowling more than the first.

 

[jimmy101]

Sidhu tonking Warney has lived pretty long in my memory. Anyone who can do that is clearly a great player of spin, plus he's a regular opening batsman. Best of both worlds kind of batsman who sent the ball out of sight when he got his big frame behind it.

 

[srbhkshk]

While Sidhu was good, Gambhir had an almost ATG kind of run at some point

 

[OverratedSanity]

Gambhir and even Vijay definitely>Sidhu imo.

 

[sunilz]

Siddhu, Sehwag, Pujara and Azharuddin are the greatest player of spin bowling from India.

 

[srbhkshk]

Siddhu, Sehwag, Pujara and Azharuddin are the greatest player of spin bowling from India.

Anyone else feels Tendulkar gets underrated in such contests just because he was equally good at most things, from what I saw he was not particularly worse than Sehwag in playing Spin or Dravid in playing swing or Kohli in playing bounce.

 

[sunilz]

Anyone else feels Tendulkar gets underrated in such contests just because he was equally good at most things, from what I saw he was not particularly worse than Sehwag in playing Spin or Dravid in playing swing or Kohli in playing bounce.

Tendulkar didn't fare well in 2 most spin friendly series I have seen
1. vs pakistan in 1999
2. vs sri lanka in 2008

 

[OverratedSanity]

He made arguably his best hundred in the 99 series v Pak

 

[sunilz]

Averaged around 30 in 3 test match. Very poor for a player of his caliber

 

[vcs]

He dominated Warne like no other batsman ever did.