All-time Test XI

[Aislabie]

These things are always more interesting if you limit yourself to one player per country IMO. I'm phone posting at the moment, I'll try to add mine when I get home

Or some other criteria, like this alphabet eleven (which is really bloody hard):

Justin Langer
Yacoob Omar
Donald Bradman
Vivian Richards
Neil Harvey
Charlie Macartney
George Ulyett
Alan Knott
Shane Warne
Fred Trueman
Erapilli Prasanna

 

[Neo 7]

Yacoob Omar

Who's he ??

 

[Aislabie]

Who's he ??

Arguably South Africa's greatest ever non-white batsman.

 

[AliB]

If it comes to my personal all time XI, I'll take them from the mid 20s(2005).

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Brian Charles Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
Ricky Ponting
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Zaheer Khan
Shane Bond
Glenn McGrath[DOUBLEPOST=1471786017][/DOUBLEPOST]Personally, I feel we should enter the XIs into DBC14 and have some last online games of it.

 

[VC the slogger]

My all-time XIs..

Containing only players that I've watched live on TV

Marcus Trescothick
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Stephen Fleming (hate putting him as low as 5)
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Dale Steyn
Shane Bond
Glenn McGrath

Containing players I've watched and also those I have only read about or seen old clips of

Gordon Greenidge
Matthew Hayden
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath

And a 2nd XI just for fun, containing some of those that missed the cut

Graeme Smith
Jack Hobbs
George Headley
Sachin Tendulkar
Kumar Sangakkara
Imran Khan
Keith Miller
Bart King*
Graeme Swann
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald


*I couldn't care less about the fact that King played zero Tests. He was a simply amazing player that any Test team would dream of having. Blame the then Imperial Cricket Conference for not giving America Test status when they deserved it most.

 

[zwarrior]

McCullum All-Time XI-

Chris Gayle
Sachin Tendulkar
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Sir Viv Richards
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Mitchell Johnson
Shane Warne
Tim Southee
Trent Boult

Gayle, Tendulkar, Gilchrist – Brendon McCullum All-Time XI |

 

[Bluebagger]

I'll throw a few teams out there. I didn't really notice that I had the 1-3 of the great West Indian 1980's team and Australia 2000's team, it wasn't planned that way. Wasim Akram plays in the opposition team pretty much because their tail is way too long while Shane Warne comes in at 11 averaging 17. I'm going to go and play this on DBC14 now.

Text XI of players I've seen live

Gordon Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Sir Vivian Richards
Martin Crowe
Allan Border
Imran Khan
Adam Gilchrist
Sir Richard Hadlee
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath

and their opponent

Justin Langer
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Kumar Sangakarra
Wasim Akram
Abdul Qadir
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald

Picking one from every nation (I'm going to exclude Bangladesh on the basis of not selecting players who still play tests) which leaves 2 nations to have 2 selections

Gordon Greenidge
Kumar Sangakarra
Sir Vivian Richards
Sachin Tendulkar
David Gower
Imran Khan
Andy Flower
Sir Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Allan Donald

and their opponent

Sanath Jayasuriya
Gary Kirsten
Brian Lara
Martin Crowe
Murray Goodwin
Sir Ian Botham
Adam Gilchrist
Anil Kumble
Saqlain Mushtaq
Curtly Ambrose
Glenn McGrath

 

[AbhishekS]

All Time Text XI of the players I have seen play:


1. Alaistar Cook
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Ricky Ponting
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Kumar Sangakkara
8. Wasim Akram
9. Shane Warne
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath

Honorable mentions:
Brian Lara
Matthew Hayden
Dale Steyn

 

[Markkkkk]

Right now in the SA NZ test they're talking about the current Test XI and they chose Amla over Smith who averages 58...

 

[Aislabie]

A slightly different challenge - only one player allowed per Caribbean nation:

Irvine Shillingford

Keith Arthurton

Brian Lara

Vivian Richards

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Sheridan Raynor

Junior Murray

Darren Sammy

Malcolm Marshall

Winston Davis

Courtney Walsh

It's really tough to get a balanced side with this one.

 

[Markkkkk]

The SA-NZ commentary All-time Test XI

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Lara/ Viv Richards
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall
Curtly Ambrose

No Sobers, Hobbs, McGrath etc.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

The SA-NZ All-time Test XI

Huh?

 

[Markkkkk]

Huh?

The commentators from the NZ-SA game made an all-time test XI. Forgot to add 'commentary'

 

[Bluebagger]

I like the idea of one player per decade

Australian XI

Arthur Morris (1950's)
Bob Simpson (1960's)
Don Bradman (1930's)
Victor Trumper (1900's)
Allan Border (1980's)
Keith Miller (1940's)
Adam Gilchrist (2000's)
Hugh Trumble (1890's)
Shane Warne (1990's)
Dennis Lillee (1970's)
Fred Spofforth (1880's)

 

[zwarrior]

Eoin Morgan All-Time XI-

Alastair Cook
Jacques Kallis
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
AB de Villiers
Kumar Sangakkara
MS Dhoni
Anil Kumble
James Anderson
Dale Steyn
Mitchell Johnson

Ponting, De Villiers, Dhoni – Eoin Morgan picks his All-Time XI |