Best Test XI from each nation (that you have seen)

[The Sean]

New Zealand

Wright
Richardson
Fleming
Crowe
Taylor
Coney
Cairns
Vettori
Hadlee
Smith
Bond


India

Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Azharuddin
Laxman
Kapil Dev
Kirmani
Kumble
Harbhajan
Zaheer


Pakistan

Saeed Anwar
Mudassar Nazar
Younis Khan
Javed Miandad
Inzamam Ul-Haq
Mohammad Yousuf
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Wasim Bari
Waqar Younis
Abdul Qadir


Sri Lanka

Migara's side - don't think I could improve on that. Though an alternative to Atapattu (never really rated him) at the top of the order would be nice.

 

[Flem274*]

I'm going to guess that rvd never saw Gooch. Ditto Flem. Maybe KingKallis too, or perhaps he only saw a year or so of Gooch and thought it wasn't enough to include him. That's it, isn't it?

Gooch retired when I was like four. If I had seen him, he would have made it.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Haven't seen Amir Sohail play but have seen Ijaz Ahmad and Saleem Malik play. However I won't include them in my team because by the time I saw them they were pretty ****. Remember how terrible Ijaz was in the 99 WC.

 

[Migara]

What's wrong with Dilshan?

Nothing. It's just jaya and Marvan were better

 

[Lostman]

Nothing. It's just jaya and Marvan were better

Liked your SL side, only change I would make to it, is give sanga the gloves and get Ranatguna in it.

 

[Migara]

am I the only one not aware of Rumesh Ratnanayeke?

Last played in 1992. Was bloody awesome when he was free from injury.

[Video] The inswinging Yorker | Rumesh Ratnayake

 

[smash84]

In that video why does SL have a uniform the same color as Australia?

 

[smash84]

have to admit that they are a bunch of very good inswinging yorkers

 

[unam]

Haven't seen Amir Sohail play but have seen Ijaz Ahmad and Saleem Malik play. However I won't include them in my team because by the time I saw them they were pretty ****. Remember how terrible Ijaz was in the 99 WC.

Didn't see much of both (Ijaz Ahmed and Saleem Malik) but for some reason I feel Ijaz Ahmed would be a better choice then Misbah. I started following cricket in late 90s too and got really interested around 99 WC time, mainly because of Shoaib Akhtar

 

[salman85]

Ijaz would never be a better choice over Misbah.Too unpredictable.And his ass got in the way of playing cricket anyway.

 

[salman85]

Saeed Anwar
Aamir Sohail
Younis Khan
Inzamam Ul Haq
Mohammad Yousuf
Misbah Ul Haq
Rashid Latif (wk)
Shahid Afridi
Wasim Akram (c)
Waqar Younis
Shoaib Akhtar

 

[unam]

Ijaz would never be a better choice over Misbah.Too unpredictable.And his ass got in the way of playing cricket anyway.

Didn't follow Ijaz Ahmed's career, from what I saw of him of him I thought he would be better than Misbah. I guess my team would also have Misbah instead of Ijaz Ahmed

 

[Jacknife]

England

Gooch
Cook
Thorpe
Pietersen
Gower
Stewart
Botham
Flintoff
Swann
Anderson
Willis

You must be of a similar age because that's pretty much what I would go with. The difference I have is I've got Gower at 3, he averages 50 there with 8 tons and then KP then Thorpe. Was thinking about Trott but I'll give him a a bit more time before he gets picked before Gower.

I was thinking of maybe having Tres open with Gooch but like you eventually went with Cook. Tempted to pick Robin Smith but couldn't find a place for him
even though he was a boss.

Bowlers pick themselves just about, thought about Gus Fraser and Gough but really like the attack we've got.

 

[smash84]

Ijaz would never be a better choice over Misbah.Too unpredictable.And his ass got in the way of playing cricket anyway.

 

[The Sean]

You must be of a similar age because that's pretty much what I would go with. The difference I have is I've got Gower at 3, he averages 50 there with 8 tons and then KP then Thorpe. Was thinking about Trott but I'll give him a a bit more time before he gets picked before Gower.

I was thinking of maybe having Tres open with Gooch but like you eventually went with Cook. Tempted to pick Robin Smith but couldn't find a place for him
even though he was a boss.

Bowlers pick themselves just about, thought about Gus Fraser and Gough but really like the attack we've got.

Wow, didn't realise Gower's record at first drop was so good. Will change my order around to match yours.

 

[Satguru]

Ijaz would never be a better choice over Misbah.Too unpredictable.And his ass got in the way of playing cricket anyway.

It quite literally did.
His batting stance was ridiculous....*searches unsuccessfully for pics of ijaz's stance*

 

[grecian]

Interested to read back through and see a callow Flippity told off by Richard, rating Tres a mortal sin.

England

Boycott
Gooch
Smith
Thorpe
Gower
Stewart
Botham
Flintoff
Fraser
Underwood
Willis

West Indies

Greenidge
Haynes
Lara
Richards
Lloyd
Richardson
Dujon
Marshall
Holding
Ambrose
Garner

Australia

Hayden
Langer
Ponting
M. Waugh
Border
S. Waugh
Gilchrist
Warne
Lillee
Gillespie
Mcgrath

New Zealand

Wright
Richardson
Fleming
M. Crowe
Turner
Taylor
C. Cairns
Parore
Hadlee
Vettori
Bond

Pakistan

Saeed Anwar
Zaheer Abaas
Younis Khan
Mo-yo
Miandad
Inzy
Moin Khan
Imran
Wasim
Waqar
Abdul Qadir

India

Sehwag
Gavaskar
Dravid
Tendulkar
Vengsarkar
Laxman
Kapil
Dhoni
Kumble
Harbajhan
Zaheer

I wouldn't change Swann for Deadly, his unerring accuracy would have done very well out of DRS.

Only change since then Taylor for Astle in the Kiwi team.

 

[GIMH]

England

Atherton
Strauss
Hussain
Vaughan
Thorpe
Pietersen
Stewart
Flintoff
Swann
Hoggard
S. Jones

Put approximately zero thought into this so there we go. Strauss over Tresco a controversial one hey.

Quite a bit of change here I think

Cook
Trescothick
Hussain
Trott
Pietersen
Thorpe
Prior+
Flintoff
Swann
Broad
Anderson

Batting order not important.

Cook the best opener of my time watching England, no-brainier that he comes in for Athers. He might have to skipper this lot as well
Tresco comes in for Strauss because I think it's fair to say he had a better Test career, unless Strauss has a final flourish I guess
Trott can't be ignored and I think that is an awesome middle order; Nasser statistically the weak link but worth his place
Prior for Stewart as he as accomplished more when performing the dual role
Broad in for S. Jones because his performance V India is the best I've ever seen by an England bowler, a title he potentially took from mr Jones (not sold on that mind you)
Anderson for Hoggard because he's better

 

[Burgey]

Jeez, you're a whelp Corrin. All very modern names there.

The best combined England side I've seen is:

Martin Moxon
Kim Barnett
Ravi Bopara
Mathew Maynard
Graeme Hick
Mark Ealham (I mean, come on)
Geraint Jones
Paul Jarvis
Neil Foster
Mark Ilott
Nick Cook

Bringing the lols since the late 80s

 

[GIMH]

Got into cricket in my teens. Would say our best sides, in order, in my time have been:

2010-present
2004-06
2000-01

All represented accordingly I guess