Test dream team from each nation. 1970-2020

[grecian]

My team was self acknowledged as being biased to a certain era. I didn’t take the OP very seriously as he had Stewart as captain and wicketkeeper when he was inept at both.

He wasn't really inept as a 'keeper though, wasn't great but would prefer him to either JB' and about similar standing up to spinners as Russell. ie not very good.

Still think it was one of the worst decisions to move him to 'keeper though, not because he was that bad at it, but because he was averaging 45 as an opener, why **** with that?

 

[Shady Slim]

ya know the OP didn't specify that dream team necessarily meant ATG team so i'm disappointed by the lack of mark cosgrove in the australia teams

@Dan to say the same about richard chee-quee

 

[Dan]

*Scott Kremerskothen

 

[GoodAreasShane]

ya know the OP didn't specify that dream team necessarily meant ATG team so i'm disappointed by the lack of mark cosgrove in the australia teams

@Dan to say the same about richard chee-quee

I would have made a team with Cosgrove in it if he didn't get blasted out for a globe by Tim Oakley in grade cricket the other week

Beast

 

[Prince EWS]

I would have made a team with Cosgrove in it if he didn't get blasted out for a globe by Tim Oakley in grade cricket the other week

Beast

Didn't Oakley take nine though? Forgiveable tbh.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Didn't Oakley take nine though? Forgiveable tbh.

Yeah sure did. Phenomenal bowler

 

[Dan]

Using the Shady method, let's do the dream Ashes XIs of the last 50 years:

Australia	England
Greg Mail Nick Larkin Ed Cowan Steve Smith Scott Kremerskothen Steve Waugh Peter Nevill + Pat Cummins Daniel Doran Ryan Le Loux Chanaka Welegedara	Marcus Trescothick Peter Bowler Tom Abell James Hildreth Jos Buttler Andrew Flintoff Graham Rose Greg Lamb Chris Woakes Michael Bates + Jack Leach

Don't @ me

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Not a Trego fan Dan? Lack of Ravi Bopara also noted and judged.

 

[Dan]

Big Trego fan, but felt like at least a tokenistic attempt at era balancing was needed.

 

[Dan]

Using the actual methods

Australia	Bangladesh	England	India
Hayden Langer Ponting Smith Waugh Border Gilchrist Johnson Warne Lillee McGrath	Tamim Kayes Bashar Mominul Shakib Mushfiqur Mahmudullah Rafique Mortaza Taijul Mustafizur	Cook Gooch Gower Pietersen Root Stokes Botham Russell Underwood Broad Anderson	Sehwag Gavaskar Dravid Tendulkar Kohli Laxman Dev Kirmani Kumble Srinath Zaheer

New Zealand	Pakistan	South Africa	Sri Lanka
Richardson Latham Williamson Taylor Crowe McCullum Watling Vettori Hadlee Wagner Boult	Anwar Nazar Yousuf Younis Miandad Inzamam Imran Wasim Bari Saqlain Waqar	Richards Smith Amla Pollock Kallis de Villiers Boucher Pollock Steyn Donald Adams	Jayasuriya Dilshan Sangakkara Jayawardene de Silva Mathews Jayawardene Vaas Herath Malinga Muralitharan

West Indies	Zimbabwe
Greenidge Haynes Richards Lara Lloyd Chanderpaul Dujon Marshall Holding Ambrose Garner	Flower Masakadza Goodwin Flower Taylor Ervine Taibu Streak Price Jarvis Chatara

 

[Flem274*]

50 years a bit too wide of a timeframe imo. may as well post all time elevens for a lot of sides.

 

[honestbharani]

Using the actual methods

Australia	Bangladesh	England	India
Hayden Langer Ponting Chappell Waugh Border Gilchrist Johnson Warne Lillee McGrath	Tamim Kayes Bashar Mominul Shakib Mushfiqur Mahmudullah Rafique Mortaza Taijul Mustafizur	Cook Gooch Gower Pietersen Root Stokes Botham Russell Underwood Broad Anderson	Sehwag Gavaskar Dravid Tendulkar Kohli Laxman Dev Ashwin Kumble Srinath Zaheer

New Zealand	Pakistan	South Africa	Sri Lanka
Richardson Latham Williamson Taylor Crowe McCullum Watling Vettori Hadlee Wagner Boult	Anwar Nazar Yousuf Younis Miandad Inzamam Imran Wasim Bari Saqlain Waqar	Richards Smith Amla Pollock Kallis de Villiers Boucher Pollock Steyn Donald Adams	Jayasuriya Dilshan Sangakkara Jayawardene de Silva Mathews Jayawardene Vaas Herath Malinga Muralitharan

West Indies	Zimbabwe
Greenidge Haynes Richards Lara Lloyd Chanderpaul Dujon Marshall Holding Ambrose Garner	Flower Masakadza Goodwin Flower Taylor Ervine Taibu Streak Price Jarvis Chatara

Did you format the table as you were posting or is there a way to carry over Excel or other spreadsheet formatting into XenForo?

 

[Coronis]

Using the actual methods

Australia	Bangladesh	England	India
Hayden Langer Ponting Chappell Waugh Border Gilchrist Johnson Warne Lillee McGrath	Tamim Kayes Bashar Mominul Shakib Mushfiqur Mahmudullah Rafique Mortaza Taijul Mustafizur	Cook Gooch Gower Pietersen Root Stokes Botham Russell Underwood Broad Anderson	Sehwag Gavaskar Dravid Tendulkar Kohli Laxman Dev Ashwin Kumble Srinath Zaheer

New Zealand	Pakistan	South Africa	Sri Lanka
Richardson Latham Williamson Taylor Crowe McCullum Watling Vettori Hadlee Wagner Boult	Anwar Nazar Yousuf Younis Miandad Inzamam Imran Wasim Bari Saqlain Waqar	Richards Smith Amla Pollock Kallis de Villiers Boucher Pollock Steyn Donald Adams	Jayasuriya Dilshan Sangakkara Jayawardene de Silva Mathews Jayawardene Vaas Herath Malinga Muralitharan

West Indies	Zimbabwe
Greenidge Haynes Richards Lara Lloyd Chanderpaul Dujon Marshall Holding Ambrose Garner	Flower Masakadza Goodwin Flower Taylor Ervine Taibu Streak Price Jarvis Chatara

My favourite part of this is Smith is the only one of the fab four who didn’t make his XI.

 

[trundler]

Also India doesn't have a keeper lol

 

[Dan]

****

Knew I was going to hilariously balls it up somewhere.

Kirmani for Ashwin, Smith for Chappell

 

[Lillian Thomson]

To be fair Dravid was no worse a keeper than some of the rubbish who have kept for England.

 

[trundler]

To be fair Dravid was no worse a keeper than some of the rubbish who have kept for England.

Bari vs Latif, who was better?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Wasim Bari is one of the greats. But too modest with the bat to get in a modern day team.

 

[Flem274*]

if it's purely a fun dream team...

katich
rogers
ponting (c)
smith
gilchrist (wk)
maxwell
macdonald
cummins
hauritz
harris
mcgrath

that team is fun.

 

[Pothas]

Because England love an all rounder and a keeper that is sometimes not a keeper.

Alec Stewart
Moeen Ali
Jonny Bairstow
Ben Stokes
Tony Greig
Jos Buttler
Ian Botham
Andrew Flintoff
Chris Woakes
Tim Bresnan
Ray Illingworth