ICC Greatest Test Team

[kyear2]

i can make a better xi than this using players not selected in both cricinfo and icc XIs.

trumper
greenidge
ponting
headley
hammond
miller
imran (c)
hadlee
healy (wk)
murali
oreilly

Gordon Greenidge/Barry Richards
Herbert Sutcliffe
George Headley
Graeme Pollock
Greg Chappell/Walter Hammond
Jacques Kallis
Imran Khan/Keith Miller
Alan Knott
Richard Hadlee
Alan Donald/ Michael Holding
Muttiah Muralitharan/ Bill O'Reilly

Great batsmen, even better slip cordon, great mix of swing, accuratcy and agression from the bowlers and great reserves. Can challenge any other team

 

[Howe_zat]

i can make a better xi than this using players not selected in both cricinfo and icc XIs.

trumper
greenidge
ponting
headley
hammond
miller
imran (c)
hadlee
healy (wk)
murali
oreilly

If it weren't for Bradman, it'd be better than the ICC's. Openers suffer a little compared to cricinfo's though.

 

[ankitj]

i can make a better xi than this using players not selected in both cricinfo and icc XIs.

I will go...

Herbert Suttcliffe
Barry Richards
Greg Chappell
Graeme Pollock
Wally Hammond
Imran Khan (c)
Allan Knott (wk)
Richard Hadlee
Fred Trueman
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sydney Barnes

 

[smash84]

i can make a better xi than this using players not selected in both cricinfo and icc XIs.

trumper
greenidge
ponting
headley
hammond
miller
imran (c)
hadlee
healy (wk)
murali
oreilly

I will go...

Herbert Suttcliffe
Barry Richards
Greg Chappell
Graeme Pollock
Wally Hammond
Imran Khan (c)
Allan Knott (wk)
Richard Hadlee
Fred Trueman
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sydney Barnes

Now Ankit's team is one helluva team. It will probably beat the crap out of the ICC XI as well as Bagapath's

 

[ankitj]

Now Ankit's team is one helluva team. It will probably beat the crap out of the ICC XI as well as Bagapath's

Comparing my and Bagapath's team:

Trueman > Miller and Barnes > O'Reilly by small margins. Other 3 bowlers are common

Bagapath has more batting depth due to Miller's presence

Pollock > Ponting IMO by a small margin

My openers > Bagapath's. Don't think Trumper and Greenidge are ATG level batsmen (though Trumper is highly romanticised)

So overall, my team wins

 

[kyear2]

Gordon Greenidge/Barry Richards
Herbert Sutcliffe
George Headley
Graeme Pollock
Greg Chappell/Walter Hammond
Jacques Kallis
Imran Khan/Keith Miller
Alan Knott
Richard Hadlee
Alan Donald/ Michael Holding
Muttiah Muralitharan/ Bill O'Reilly

Great batsmen, even better slip cordon, great mix of swing, accuratcy and agression from the bowlers and great reserves. Can challenge any other team

So how my effort measure up?

 

[smash84]

So how my effort measure up?

It is pretty good but too many slashes for my taste. You might as well put in 33 players in every position and separate them with /

 

[Days of Grace]

Test team since 1990:
1 Hayden
2 Sehwag
3 Kallis
4 Tendulkar
5 Lara
6 Flintoff
7 Gilchrist (wk)
8 Warne
9 Steyn
10 Muralitharan
11 McGrath

 

[Spikey]

mike atherton tbh

 

[kyear2]

I think Gary Sobers, Imran Khan and Richard hadlee should be allowed to be picked as specialist batsman or bowler as well as allrounder.
An average of 99.94 Bradman performance should be considered equal to two all time great middle order batsman. Bradman in his own eleven only picked 5 batsman.
I will pick Sobers as specialist batsman and Imran Khan as allrounder.

My team will be

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Bradman(C)
Tendulkar
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran Khan(VC)
Marshall
Glen Macgrath
Shane Warne
Muralidaran

I have picked Macgrath over Lillee, because he did everything(Average, Strike rate, Bowling on flat pitches, Succes against great batsman of his time) better to him without wasting too much energy.

,

Aside from my own obviously, this is my fav. team from forum. Great mix. Only weakness is fairly weak 3rd slip/slip depth. Only proven slip catchers are Sobers and Warne

 

[Days of Grace]

They'd get a lot of practice to improve their catching. Lots of nicks coming through, I'd be thinking.

 

[bagapath]

Test team since 1990:
1 Hayden
2 Sehwag
3 Kallis
4 Tendulkar
5 Lara
6 Flintoff
7 Gilchrist (wk)
8 Warne
9 Steyn
10 Muralitharan
11 McGrath

might as a well post a team using players who debuted after tendulkar but have already retired.

best xi of the tendulkar era

hayden
langer
m.waugh
lara
inzamam
gilchrist (wk) (c)
flintoff
warne
murali
mcgrath
donald

 

[hang on]

post 1990

sehwag
hayden
lara
tendulkar
ponting
kallis
gilchrist
warne
akram
ambrose
murali

12th: waugh

 

[ankitj]

McGrath protests against the above post.

 

[smash84]

why two? McGrath does not like to be in Bagapath's team?

 

[Prince EWS]

why two? McGrath does not like to be in Bagapath's team?

Doesn't like batting above eleven.

 

[ankitj]

why two? McGrath does not like to be in Bagapath's team?

Edited

 

[hang on]

McGrath protests against the above post.

akram chosen for variety and ambrose preferred to mcgrath. wouldn't mind if mcgrath took either of the two places. and also seriously considered pollock who is a very underrated player in these kinds of discussions.

 

[Days of Grace]

Don't like the look at Kallis as the 3rd seamer in a World XI.

Hence having Flintoff in my team as the allrounder.

 

[smash84]

Kallis and Flintoff really don't cut it as all rounders for a World XI tbh