Pick a test XI of your favourite players

[Cricketman]

Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Rahul Dravid
Sourav Ganguly
VVS Laxman
Andrew Flintoff
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Shane Warne
Zaheer Khan
Anil Kumble
Brett Lee

So biased.

 

[Cricketman]

Why would I make the best #3 India - arguably the world - has every produced and make him open?

 

[afridi118]

world_11_1 World_eleven_2
Saeed anwar Graham Gooch
sachin tendulkar Mark Taylor
rahul dravid Zaheer Abbas
javed miandad Brian Lara
Mohammad Yousuf Shiv Chanderpaul
Inzamam Ul Haq Carl Hopper
Adam Gilchrist Ian Healy
Kapil dev ian botham
Imran Khan shane warne
Wasim Akram paul reiffel
Muttaih Murlidaran shane bond
Glenn Mcgrath daniel vettori
Virender sehwag chris gayle
Shahid Afridi steve waugh
VVs Laxman mark waugh
Arvinda Desilva sourav ganguly
Micheal Atherton dennis lilelle
Micheal Holding waqar younis

ok here is my 18 man squad playing against each other in pakistan

first test karachi
second test lahore
third test pindi
fourth test multan
fifth test faisalabad

and 7 odis
on same grounds but lahore and karachi host 2 odis each

 

[sifter132]

Always cheer for the Aussies the hardest so I've made 2 XIs for more coverage:
An aussie XI:
Michael Slater
Shane Watson
Dean Jones
Mark Waugh
Michael Clarke
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Greg Matthews
Shane Warne
Brett Lee
Merv Hughes
Bruce Reid
12th man: Scott Muller

And an 'other' XI:
Saeed Anwar
Phil Simmons
Jacques Kallis
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Kamran Akmal (wk)
Venkatapathy Raju -I think it was the name Although I liked his runup and action too - very casual.
Paul Adams
Mohammad Asif
Chris Martin

 

[sami ullah khan]

^How can you like Kamran Akmal I know its your squad but Kamran Akmal

 

[Num]

Favourite Australia XI:

1. J.Langer
2. M.Hayden
3. R.Ponting (c)
4. M.Hussey
5. M.Clarke
6. A.Symonds
7. A.Gilchrist (wk)
8. S.Warne
9. B.Lee
10. A.Bichel
11. G.McGrath

Favourite Rest of World XI:

1. V.Sehwag
2. G.Smith
3. R.Dravid
4. S.Tendulkar
5. A.B.DeVilliers
6. K.Sangakarra (wk)
7. C.Cairns
8. D.Vettori
9. D.Steyn
10. S.Bond
11. J.Anderson

 

[carnish]

Best test XI

As long as i have been watching cricket hasnt been long but i have been watching old cricket videos...so i know more than what i seen live...

ma team would be somethng like this:
M.Hayden
V.Sehwag
J.Kallis
S.Tendulkar
M.Jayawardene
A.Flower
A.Gilchrist
S.Warne
S.Pollock
A.Donald
G.McGrath

Bench: Inzamam Ul-Haq, Michael Hussey, M.Muralitharan, W.Akram, I.Khan, A. De Silva

 

[BlueString]

Hmmm. Everybody lists their best teams, but there doesn't seem to be much discussion.

1) Matthew Hayden - Devestating machine

2) Sunil Gavaskar - The true wall

3) Steve Waugh - Gritty, gets the job done,

4) Sachin Tendulkar - Nothing much to say

5) Brian Lara - No intro needed

6) Gary Sobers (Viv Richards on occasion) - Greatest all rounder of all time

7) Adam Gilchrist (Wicket Keeper) - Greatest wkt batsmen of all time

8) Imran Kahn - Greatest Skipper of all time, great allrounder (Captain)

9) Shane Warne - Greatest spinner of all time

10) Bishen Singh Bedi/Glenn McGrath, depending on pitch (best off-spinner and medium pacer of all time)

11) Curtly Ambrose - Greatest pacer of all time

 

[sifter132]

^How can you like Kamran Akmal I know its your squad but Kamran Akmal

Well to put it bluntly - because he doesn't play for my favourite team I don't care if he does well or not.

But I DO like the style with which he bats, and watching him keep is always...interesting. So he's my favourite keeper to watch. Hence the selection.

Hmmm. Everybody lists their best teams, but there doesn't seem to be much discussion.

Well it's not the best team, just a team of your favourites.

And interesting you've got Ambrose as the greatest pace bowler ever. Definitely very good, but I think there are many who wouldn't even pick him as the greatest West Indian fast bowler - although to be fair, it's a damn tough competition.

 

[Dare]

Fav XI

Chris Gayle
Saeed Anwar
Jacques Kallis
Brian Lara
Shiv Chanderpaul
Kumar Sangakkara+
Imran Khan*
Malcolm Marshall
Alan Donald
Mutiah Muarlitharan
Courtney Walsh

 

[sami ullah khan]

^You got a lot of love for left handers

 

[Dare]

^You got a lot of love for left handers

ahhaha never noticed it up until you mentioned it. Just my favorite players, wasn't really paying attention.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Sehwag
Afridi
Dravid
VVS
Collingwood
Shakib
Haider (+)
Swann
Warne (*)
????
????

Hmm. Kinda incomplete.

 

[1iram1]

My favourite Bangladesh XI:
Tamim Iqbal
Shahriar Nafees
Habibul Bashar(c)
Shakib-Al-Hasan
Naeem Islam
Khaled Mashud(wk)
Raqibul Hasan
Alok Kapali
Shafiul Islam
Rubel Hossain
Shahadat Hossain

My favourite World XI:
Graeme Smith
Sanath Jayasuriya
Sourav Ganguly
Stephen Fleming(c)
Inzamam Ul Haq
Mark Boucher(wk)
Andrew Flintoff
Brett Lee
Muralitharan
Shane Bond
Shoaib Akhtar

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

playing right now

Sehwag
Iqbal
Ryder
Jayawardena
Hussey (though I always say, I was glad his average came down in that lean period, it was silly for a while, but I love his approach to the game)
Shakib
no particular favourite wicketkeeper
Morkel
Malinga
Murali (even though he doesn't play tests anymore, techinically still plays, would probably pick another Sri Lankan spinner here)
*left vacant (damn you Asif, I will never get over what you did)