Rate the era teams and suggest alterations if/where needed.

[Fuller Pilch]

Debuted pre April 1925 (100 years ago)

Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe (deb 1924)
WG Grace (c)
Victor Trumper
Ranjitsinhji
Aubrey Faulkner
Wilfred Rhodes
Jack Gregory
Jack Blackham (wk)
Fred Spofforth
SF Barnes


Debuted April 1925 - WW2
Len Hutton
Bruce Mitchell
Don Bradman (c)
Wally Hammond
George Headley
Dudley Norse
Les Ames (wk)
Hedley Verity
Harold Larwood
Jack Cowie/Bill Voce (both Tate and Grimmett debuted too early)
Bill O'Reilly

Debuted post WW2 - Dec 1961 Tied Test

Bob Simpson
Frank Worrell (c) (or Bill Lawry if a specialist is wanted)
Ken Barrington
Everton Weekes/Neil Harvey
Garfield Sobers
Clyde Walcott (wk)
Keith Miller
Alan Davidson
Ray Lindwall
Fred Trueman
Jim Laker


Debuted post 1961 tied test - Dec 1977 (start of WSC)

Sunny Gavaskar
Barry Richards (or Greenidge/Boycott)
Viv Richards
Greg Chappell
Graeme Pollock
Javed Miandad/Ian Botham (or another specialist quick with Imran at 6)
Imran Khan
Allan Knott (wk)
Richard Hadlee
Dennis Lillee
Derek Underwood/Bishen Bedi

1978 - prior to SA test readmission 18 April 1992

Saeed Anwar
Desmond Haynes/Mark Taylor/David Boon
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Allan Border (c)
Steve Waugh
Ian Healy (wk)
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose

SA readmission - 31 Dec 1999

Matthew Hayden
Gary Kirsten
Rahul Dravid
Ricky Ponting (c)
Jacques Kallis
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Shaun Pollock
Muttiah Muralitharan
Allan Donald
Glenn McGrath

1 Jan 2000 - present

Graeme Smith (c)
Virender Sehwag
Kumar Sangakkara
Steve Smith
2 from Kane Williamson/Younis Khan/Joe Root (or replace one with Jadeja/Shakib)
AB De Villiers (wk)
Ravi Ashwin
Pat Cummins
Dale Steyn
Jasprit Bumrah

 

[vidiq]

2000-2018 should be considered as a separate era ( start of WTC,)
2019- present is a separate era.

 

[Coronis]

Debuted pre April 1925 (100 years ago)

Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe (deb 1924)
WG Grace (c)
Victor Trumper
Ranjitsinhji
Aubrey Faulkner
Wilfred Rhodes
Jack Gregory
Jack Blackham (wk)
Fred Spofforth
SF Barnes


Debuted April 1925 - WW2
Len Hutton
Bruce Mitchell
Don Bradman (c)
Wally Hammond
George Headley
Dudley Norse
Les Ames (wk)
Hedley Verity
Harold Larwood
Jack Cowie/Bill Voce (both Tate and Grimmett debuted too early)
Bill O'Reilly

Debuted post WW2 - Dec 1961 Tied Test

Bob Simpson
Frank Worrell (c) (or Bill Lawry if a specialist is wanted)
Ken Barrington
Everton Weekes/Neil Harvey
Garfield Sobers
Clyde Walcott (wk)
Keith Miller
Alan Davidson
Ray Lindwall
Fred Trueman
Jim Laker


Debuted post 1961 tied test - Dec 1977 (start of WSC)

Sunny Gavaskar
Barry Richards (or Greenidge/Boycott)
Viv Richards
Greg Chappell
Graeme Pollock
Javed Miandad/Ian Botham (or another specialist quick with Imran at 6)
Imran Khan
Allan Knott (wk)
Richard Hadlee
Dennis Lillee
Derek Underwood/Bishen Bedi

1978 - prior to SA test readmission 18 April 1992

Saeed Anwar
Desmond Haynes/Mark Taylor/David Boon
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Allan Border (c)
Steve Waugh
Ian Healy (wk)
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose

SA readmission - 31 Dec 1999

Matthew Hayden
Gary Kirsten
Rahul Dravid
Ricky Ponting (c)
Jacques Kallis
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Shaun Pollock
Muttiah Muralitharan
Allan Donald
Glenn McGrath

1 Jan 2000 - present

Graeme Smith (c)
Virender Sehwag
Kumar Sangakkara
Steve Smith
Kane Williamson/Younis Khan (or replace with Jadeja/Shakib)
Joe Root
AB De Villiers (wk)
Ravi Ashwin
Pat Cummins
Dale Steyn
Jasprit Bumrah

May I ask how you chose the eras? Specifically Grimmett missing out by a month feels targeted lol

 

[trundler]

Hill for Ranji and Briggs for Rhodes imo. Could pick Billy Murdoch as a keeper too though that's an anachronistic selection. Also Tate > Larwood.

I think Hanif and Lawry were both than Simpson and warrant a place in the XI for that era too.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

May I ask how you chose the eras? Specifically Grimmett missing out by a month feels targeted lol

I wanted to get Herbert Sutcliffe in the 1st team as the 2nd was so stacked with batting. There was no intention to leave Grimmett out, but I thought 100 years was logical.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

2000-2018 should be considered as a separate era ( start of WTC,)
2019- present is a separate era.

True. A team that debuted from 2019 onwards would be the weakest though.

I'll try to pick one today.

 

[Ali TT]

2000-2018 should be considered as a separate era ( start of WTC,)
2019- present is a separate era.

I'd be tempted to have the career span of Tendulkar as an era. Not to big him up particularly but he arrived towards the back end of the Windies dominance, embodied the superstar cricketer that emerged through the 90s into the 00s and departed as T20 became the dominant form of the game.

 

[Coronis]

I'd be tempted to have the career span of Tendulkar as an era. Not to big him up particularly but he arrived towards the back end of the Windies dominance, embodied the superstar cricketer that emerged through the 90s into the 00s and departed as T20 became the dominant form of the game.

I’d go with post 2010 then all them Fab Four and the Fab 3 bowlers are eligible

 

[Fuller Pilch]

1 Jan 2000 - present

Graeme Smith (c)
Virender Sehwag
Kumar Sangakkara
Steve Smith
2 from Kane Williamson/Younis Khan/Joe Root (or replace one with Jadeja/Shakib)
AB De Villiers (wk)
Ravi Ashwin
Pat Cummins
Dale Steyn
Jasprit Bumrah

This era will be split into 3 teams

Debuted 1 Jan 2000 - 31 Jan 2009
Debuted 1 Jan 2010 - just prior to start of WTC in 2019
WTC era - present

 

[Ali TT]

I’d go with post 2010 then all them Fab Four and the Fab 3 bowlers are eligible

Fab 3? Rabada, Bumrah and Woakes?

 

[Coronis]

Fab 3? Rabada, Bumrah and Woakes?

Ashwin, Lyon, Jadeja

 

[Fuller Pilch]

This era will be split into 3 teams

Debuted 1 Jan 2000 - 31 Jan 2009

Graeme Smith (c)
Virender Sehwag
Kumar Sangakkara
Younis Khan
AB De Villiers
Michael Clarke (SENA)/Shakib Al Hasan (Asia) BJ Watling (wk)
Ryan Harris
Graeme Swann
Dale Steyn
Jimmy Anderson


Debuted 1 Jan 2010 - just prior to start of WTC in 2019

Usman Khawaja
Azhar Ali (move from 3) / Warner in Australia
Kane Williamson
Steve Smith
Joe Root
Rishabh Pant (wk)
Ravi Jadeja
Ravi Ashwin
Pat Cummins (c)
Kagiso Rabada
Jasprit Bumrah

WTC era - present

Yashavi Jaiswal
Devon Conway
Saud Shakeel
Harry Brook (c)
Kamindu Mendis
Daryl Mitchell SENA / Washington Sundar Asia
Alex Carey(wk)
Axar Patel
Marco Jansen
Kyle Jamieson
Scott Boland

 

[Ali TT]

This era will be split into 3 teams

Debuted 1 Jan 2000 - 31 Jan 2009

Graeme Smith (c)
Virender Sehwag
Kumar Sangakkara
Younis Khan
AB De Villiers
Michael Clarke (SENA)/Shakib Al Hasan (Asia) BJ Watling (wk)
Ryan Harris
Graeme Swann
Dale Steyn
Jimmy Anderson


Debuted 1 Jan 2010 - just prior to start of WTC in 2019

Usman Khawaja
Azhar Ali (move from 3) / Warner in Australia
Kane Williamson
Steve Smith
Joe Root
Rishabh Pant (wk)
Ravi Jadeja
Ravi Ashwin
Pat Cummins (c)
Kagiso Rabada
Jasprit Bumrah

WTC era - present

Yashavi Jaiswal
Devon Conway
Saud Shakeel
Harry Brook (c)
Kamindu Mendis
Daryl Mitchell SENA / Washington Sundar Asia
Alex Carey(wk)
Axar Patel
Marco Jansen
Kyle Jamieson
Scott Boland

Hasn't even captained a game but your are right to jump on the Brook bandwagon. It is the way