Completely Specialist XIs

[Aislabie]

With three different formats all jostling for space on the international calendar, I sometimes find it interesting (and a bit frustrating) trying to pick elevens for all three formats without any players playing more than one format.

It's not just about which players are best at which formats, it's also about which formats you choose to prioritise. For instance, if you were an England selector you might choose to prioritise the format your team is best at (ODIs), but do you do so at the expense of the other formats?

Spoiler: England Test XI

Rory Burns
Keaton Jennings
James Vince
Joe Root
Ollie Pope
Ben Stokes
Ben Foakes
Sam Curran
Stuart Broad
Jack Leach
Jimmy Anderson

Spoiler: England ODI XI

Jonny Bairstow
Jason Roy
Sam Hain
Eoin Morgan
Tom Kohler-Cadmore
Liam Livingstone
Moeen Ali
Chris Woakes
David Willey
Liam Plunkett
Adil Rashid

Spoiler: England Twenty20 XI

Alex Hales
Jos Buttler
Joe Denly
Dawid Malan
Sam Billings
Ross Whiteley
Jordan Clark
Liam Dawson
Chris Jordan
Matt Parkinson
Harry Gurney

So yeah; I'd be interested to see how people make up their sides and in particular how people choose to use their multi-format players.

 

[Master Bates]

Nice. So I will do it for India.

Spoiler: India ODI XI

Rohit Sharma
Shikhar Dhawan
Shubmann Gill
Shreyas Iyer
Ishan Kishan
Kedar Jadhav
Hardik Pandya
Kuldeep Yadav
Jasprit Bumrah
Yuzvendra Chahal
Khaleel Ahmed

Spoiler: India Test XI

Murali Vijay
Prithvi Shaw
Cheteshwar Pujara
Virat Kohli
Ajinkya Rahane
Wriddhiman Saha
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravindra Jadeja
Umesh Yadav
Ishant Sharma
Mohammad Shami

Spoiler: India T20 XI

KL Rahul
Ambati Rayudu
Suryakumar Yadav
Suresh Raina
Rishabh Pant
Krunal Pandya
Krishnappa Gowtham
Deepak Chahar
Siddarth Kaul
Shardul Thakur
Ankit Rajpoot

 

[Aislabie]

That Indian Test side is just... the Indian Test side. Very nicely done.

Spoiler: Australia Test XI

Matt Renshaw
Joe Burns
Usman Khawaja
Steve Smith (Peter Handscomb)
Shaun Marsh
Tim Paine
Jack Wildermuth
James Pattinson
Josh Hazlewood
Peter Siddle
Nathan Lyon
Steve O'Keefe (12th Man)

Probably still a batsman light, but this is the best I can really do. O'Keefe is 12th man for when it spins or when James Pattinson smashes his glass back.

Handscomb as the Smith replacement was a tricky choice but his Test record edged out Jake Lehmann.

Spoiler: Australia ODI XI

David Warner (Jake Weatherald)
Travis Head
Callum Ferguson
George Bailey
Mitchell Marsh
Marcus Stoinis
Alex Carey
Pat Cummins
Mitchell Starc
Adam Zampa
Usman Qadir
James Faukner (12th Man)

A nice, balanced team here; Faulkner as 12th man can essentially cover for any of the bottom six in the order getting injured.

Weatherald is my surrogate Warner; edges out Dan Hughes through sheer aggression.

Spoiler: Australia Twenty20 XI

Aaron Finch
D'Arcy Short
Chris Lynn
Glenn Maxwell
Ashton Turner
Ben McDermott
Ashton Agar
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Andrew Tye
Fawad Ahmed
Billy Stanlake
Jason Behrendorff (12th Man)

In this side, I kinda struggled to justify picking Andrew Tye over Jason Behrendorff, but as the incumbent he just edges it. Also have to hope McDermott stops running himself out.

This is weird - each of these seems stronger than the current Australian team in its respective format. Y'all have awful selectors.

 

[Master Bates]

I could have placed Kohli in the ODI side but felt there is no replacement for him in the Tests. In ODIs, Iyer is there and more!

 

[zwarrior]

India is already done but I felt like doing again

Spoiler: ODI

Rohit Sharma
Shikhar Dhawan
Shreyas Iyer
Manish Pandey
MS Dhoni
Kedar Jadhav
Hardik Pandya
Axar Patel
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Kuldeep Yadav
Khaleel Ahmed

Backup-

Mayank Agarwal
Shubhman Gill
Ishan Kishan
Deepak Chahar
Shardul Thakur

Spoiler: T20I

KL Rahul
Ambati Rayudu
Robin Uthappa
Rishabh Pant
Dinesh Karthik
Krunal Pandya
Washington Sundar
Siddharth Kaul
Sandeep Sharma
Y Chahal
Jasprit Bumrah

Backup-

Sanju Samson
Suryakumar Yadav
Suresh Raina
Krishnappa Gautam
Jaydev Unadkat

Spoiler: Test

Prithvi Shaw
Murali Vijay
Cheteshwar Pujara
Virat Kohli
Ajinkya Rahane
Wriddiman Saha
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravindra Jadeja
Ishant Sharma
Umesh Yadav
Mohammed Shami

Backup-

Karun Nair
Hanuma Vihari
Parthiv Patel
Shabaz Nadeem
Mohammed Siraj

 

[Master Bates]

@zimrahil In T20, how can you have Pant as keeper if you are playing Karthik. He is much better than him! Shahbaz Nadeem in Tests? Deepak Chahar in ODIs? We have already seen that he sucks in one dayers. It is better to have bumrah in one dayers because there are no death bowlers. Lost of problems. I forgot about Manish Pandey. I will change my side.

 

[zwarrior]

@zimrahil In T20, how can you have Pant as keeper if you are playing Karthik. He is much better than him! Shahbaz Nadeem in Tests? Deepak Chahar in ODIs? We have already seen that he sucks in one dayers. It is better to have bumrah in one dayers because there are no death bowlers. Lost of problems. I forgot about Manish Pandey. I will change my side.

I assume you meant to tag me.

- So what ? DK is there as specialist batsmen, experience in middle order and for his captaincy. If there is a collapse, DK can give stability too.
- Nadeem has very good record and experience in Ranji/ first class. He is there as "backup" for jaddu and Ashwin.
- So, you are judging chahar by only one game ? He needs more chance and again he is there as backup.
- If Bumrah goes to ODI, then there is no one to lead the pacers in T20. Thats why I have included Bumrah in T20. I know he dserves to be in ODI, but need some experience in T20 too. So, Bumrah is in the team for T20I. If I move Bumrah to ODI, T20 will be spineless attack. Bhuvi is good in death too. And I believe that the more exposure Khaleel gets, he can be good too.

I am keeping balance in all 3 formats.

 

[Ashutosh.]

India is already done but I felt like doing again

Spoiler: ODI

Rohit Sharma
Shikhar Dhawan
Shreyas Iyer
Manish Pandey
MS Dhoni
Kedar Jadhav
Hardik Pandya
Axar Patel
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Kuldeep Yadav
Khaleel Ahmed

Backup-

Mayank Agarwal
Shubhman Gill
Ishan Kishan
Deepak Chahar
Shardul Thakur

Spoiler: T20I

KL Rahul
Ambati Rayudu
Robin Uthappa
Rishabh Pant
Dinesh Karthik
Krunal Pandya
Washington Sundar
Siddharth Kaul
Sandeep Sharma
Y Chahal
Jasprit Bumrah

Backup-

Sanju Samson
Suryakumar Yadav
Suresh Raina
Krishnappa Gautam
Jaydev Unadkat

Spoiler: Test

Prithvi Shaw
Murali Vijay
Cheteshwar Pujara
Virat Kohli
Ajinkya Rahane
Wriddiman Saha
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravindra Jadeja
Ishant Sharma
Umesh Yadav
Mohammed Shami

Backup-

Karun Nair
Hanuma Vihari
Parthiv Patel
Shabaz Nadeem
Mohammed Siraj

Dhoni should be in the Test team because he plays Test cricket in ODIs.

 

[Perfect Square]

Pakistan

Spoiler: Test

Imam-ul-Haq
Azhar Ali
Haris Sohail
Fawad Alam
Usman Salahuddin
Asad Shafiq
Sarfraz Ahmed
Bilal Asif
Yasir Shah
Mohammad Abbas
Mir Hamza

Bench: Wahab Riaz, Sohail Khan, Saud Shakeel

Spoiler: ODI

Fakhar Zaman
Shan Masood
Saad Ali
Shoaib Malik
Hussain Talat
Mohammad Rizwan
Kamran Ghulam
Hasan Ali
Junaid Khan
Usman Khan Shinwari
Mohammad Asghar

Bench: Asif Zakir, Aamer Yamin, Waqas Maqsood

Spoiler: T20

Babar Azam
Sahibzada Farhan
Mohammad Hafeez
Kamran Akmal
Umer Akmal
Asif Ali
Faheem Ashraf
Imad Wasim
Shadab Khan
Mohammad Amir
Shaheen Shah Afridi

Bench: Rumman Raees, Umar Amin, Mohammad Nawaz

 

[Master Bates]

I forgot Bhuvi in my teams.

 

[Aislabie]

I've done another:

Spoiler: West Indies Test XI

Kraigg Brathwaite
Kieran Powell
Darren Bravo
Shiv Chanderpaul
Roston Chase
Shamarh Brooks
Jason Holder
Shane Dowrich
Devendra Bishoo
Kemar Roach
Shannon Gabriel
Imran Khan (12th man)

A long-overdue recall for Darren Bravo, and Shiv Chanderpaul is still one of the five best available batsmen even well into his fifth decade. This is actually a better-than-full-strength XI, even without Shai Hope (who would ideally come in for Brooks and bat four).

Spoiler: West Indies ODI XI

Evin Lewis
Jonathan Carter
Shai Hope
Shimron Hetmyer
Sunil Ambris
Marlon Samuels
Rovman Powell
Ashley Nurse
Alzarri Joseph
Jerome Taylor
Sheldon Cottrell
Jason Mohamed (12th man)

It's a slightly awkward side to assemble, but it has lots of batting and bowling options. Jonathan Carter steps up as opener because he's more able than Chandrapaul Hemraj and has a better temperament than Johnson Charles.

Spoiler: West Indies Twenty20 XI

Chris Gayle
Johnson Charles
Sherfane Rutherford
Kieron Pollard
Andre Russell
Denesh Ramdin
Daren Sammy
Carlos Brathwaite
Sunil Narine
Samuel Badree
Oshane Thomas
Andre McCarthy (12th man)

It's the West Indies - T20 specialists are ten-a-penny. I love that this is a side with nine batting and eight bowling options.

 

[zimrahil]

@zimrahil In T20, how can you have Pant as keeper if you are playing Karthik. He is much better than him! Shahbaz Nadeem in Tests? Deepak Chahar in ODIs? We have already seen that he sucks in one dayers. It is better to have bumrah in one dayers because there are no death bowlers. Lost of problems. I forgot about Manish Pandey. I will change my side.

I don’t know I just did it to wind you up ?