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Wisden names All Time World XI
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morgieb
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He won it in 2002.
Agent Nationaux
International Coach
Shame no one ever selects Lara.
kyear2
International Coach
Was genuinely surprised at Akram over Lillee and Grace over Hutton, otherwise fairly predictable. Don't think it's a Test xi, but rather cricket in general encompassing Test, First Class and ODI, but could be very wrong.
Personally though, just don't believe though that Barnes did enough to merit selection, Grace wasn't successful at Test cricket and don't know what Wasim brings to a team that Imran doesn't beside being left handed. Knott was handy with the bat, but Gilly was a match winner with the bat and brilliant vs Warne with the gloves, but no real problem with that selection as it's really a toss up with those two. wicket keeper batsman or batsman wicket keeper.
Personally though, just don't believe though that Barnes did enough to merit selection, Grace wasn't successful at Test cricket and don't know what Wasim brings to a team that Imran doesn't beside being left handed. Knott was handy with the bat, but Gilly was a match winner with the bat and brilliant vs Warne with the gloves, but no real problem with that selection as it's really a toss up with those two. wicket keeper batsman or batsman wicket keeper.
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
Cheers.
Wasim always does well in these type of things. Better than he does whenever CW collectively name ATG teams.
kyear2
International Coach
Why though?
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
I get the feeling that we (CW) generally like to pick more of a bowling all rounder at 8 and figure that Wasim isn't good enough for the other two fast bowling spots.
kyear2
International Coach
No, because he wasn't that great a bowler compared to the competition. Less than 4 WPM, too high a percentage of tail end wickets and his strike rate was a tad high.
Fully agree.
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
How come you asked me why if you already had your own answer.
kyear2
International Coach
You are correct, sorry.
But I didn't mean why we don't pick him (those are the reasons I listed) , but why is he selected by these type of teams.
Phrased the reply poorly.
smash84
The Tiger King
I think these teams are also selected based on how skillful a bowler really was in his playing days. To me there has been no one who was more skillful with the ball than Wasim. He could do pretty much everything off a 10 pace run up without losing any speed. Despite the terrible Pakistan fielding unit his average is 23.5. With a slightly better fielding unit it probably would have been much better. Perhaps ratings like Wisden do take these things into account.
