Your World Test XI for all conditions as of December 2016

[randycricfreak]

Cook
Warner
Williamson
Root
Younis Khan
Virat Kohli
Quinton
Steyn
Herath
Broad
Starc

Reseves

Steve Smith
Rabada
Ashwin
Angelo Mathews

 

[vic_orthdox]

Smith's disgusting full tosses and Kane's chucks more than fill the void of a 2nd spinner.

Plus Root.

 

[mr_mister]

QDK opened twice in tests and hit a fifty both times

small sample size but w/e I'm pretty sure he'd fit in nicely up there

 

[Zinzan]

Agree, QDK's got the skills to cope, & that test against NZ, there was plenty happening early doors on that wicket, yet he totally took the game away from them in that first session.

 

[Groundking]

Warner
Root
Williamson
Kohli*
Smith
ABDV+
Ashwin
Starc
Steyn
Shah
Anderson

 

[Julian87]

This is really, really hard. Im near 100% on the 8 players that are non front line seamers but I just can't decide on what the frontline seam attack would be.

 

[Zinzan]

Bowlers, especially pace bowlers are the hardest to choose from currently for sure.

It's easy to forget how good Woakes has been with the ball for England in the last 12 months or so.

 

[andruid]

Lets see...

Iqbal, T.
Warner, D.
Root, J.
Kohli, V.
Smith, S.
Williamson, K.
Bairstow, J (+)
Starc, M.
Steyn, D.
Rabada, K
Shah, Y.

A little left field but hey, lots of agrression, grit and wiles. Actually very tempted to throw in Herath

 

[Groundking]

Bowlers, especially pace bowlers are the hardest to choose from currently for sure.

It's easy to forget how good Woakes has been with the ball for England in the last 12 months or so.

Hasn't done anything really on this tour though.

 

[Zinzan]

Hasn't done anything really on this tour though.

Very few overseas pace bowlers do when touring India.

 

[vcs]

Curious that not many people are considering Pakistan players for selection, while they're still up there as a highly-rated side despite the last 3 Test losses. Shah should definitely make most 2nd XIs, even if Ashwin edges him out on batting.

It's hard to know how their batting should be rated. No one's yet convinced by Azhar Ali/Shafiq etc. even though they've been fairly consistent for a few years in the UAE. And Younis and Misbah are nearing 40.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Their batting is excellent as a unit without any one of them being in the middle of an especially golden run atm imo.

And yeah I'd probably pick Yasir over Ashwin if Ashwin couldn't bat

 

[Skinner]

Warner
Root
Williamson
Kohli *
Smith
De Kock+
Stokes
Ashwin
Starc
Broad
Steyn

2nd XI

Cook
Tamim
Amla
Pujara
Rahane
Bairstow +
Bavuma
Woakes
Rabada
Herath
Hazlewood

 

[vcs]

Bavuma over Philander? Woakes? Broad?

 

[Skinner]

I was seriously struggling with the all-rounder slot, so Bavuma being recent came to mind.

Woakes has had a great year.

 

[listento_me]

All this recent discussion in the tour threads, along with the multiple Kohli/The Fab 4/KW average threads etc etc.

Let's see everyone's current Test XI's assuming you're picking for a perfect Test pitch, that's conducive to all types of bowling. i.e. Good for pace, swing & seam & good for spin later on.

Assume you're picking picking 3 pace bowlers, an allrounder & perhaps 2 spinners, but you decide.

that pitch does not sound nice for batsmen

I'll go for:

1. Warner
2. Cook (yes yes I know)
3. Root
4. Kohli
5. Misbah c
6. De Kock wk
7. Ashwin
8. Shah
9. Starc
10. Philander
11. Rabada

 

[listento_me]

Warner
Root
Williamson
Kohli *
Smith
De Kock+
Stokes
Ashwin
Starc
Broad
Steyn

2nd XI

Cook
Tamim
Amla
Pujara
Rahane
Bairstow +
Bavuma
Woakes
Rabada
Herath
Hazlewood

Rabada in the second XI and Root as opener while you have both Cook and Tamim in the 2nd XI? You're also not going to have the highest wicket taker ever after 18 or so tests in either side, including two 10 fors, one away from home.

Very odd choices.

 

[Red]

Two quicks, two spinners and an AR


Azhar Ali
Dave Warner
Joe Root
Steve Smith
Virat Kohli
Quinton de Kock +
Ben Stokes
Ravi Ashwin
Ravi Jadeja
Stuart Broad
Mitchell Starc

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Despite Warner being a magnificent player and having a ridiculous year in ODIs, he's only averaging 37 in tests this year and Alistair Cook hasn't been much better than Stephen.

Braithwaite for opener?

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[Fuller Pilch]

Braithwaite
Root
KW
Kohli (c)
Smith
QDK
Stokes
Ashwin
Starc
Wagner
Herath