Twenty20 Dream Team

[King Pietersen]

An idea shamelessly stolen from CW, but meh.

If you could pick a Twenty20 Squad that included players from any era of the game, irrespective of whether they've played T20 or not, who would you pick?

1. Matthew Hayden
2. Barry Richards
3. Sir Vivian Richards
4. Andrew Symonds
5. Sir Garfield Sobers
6. MS Dhoni +
7. Imran Khan
8. Kapil Dev
9. Ian Botham
10. Shane Warne *
11. Malcolm Marshall

12. Jonty Rhodes (perfect sub fielder)
13. Keith Miller
14. Sachin Tendulkar
15. Joel Garner

I've gone for a balance of a few Modern players like Hayden, Symonds, Dhoni and Warne, but mixed in with a few greats of the past eras. The team bats decently all the way down to Warne at 10. There are bowling options in Marshall, Imran, Botham, Dev, Warne, Sobers and Symonds and a destructive batting line-up that could take apart any bowling attack put in front of them. I'd love to see Hayden and Richards opening the batting, would have been superb to watch if they'd both got going. Heck of a side that. Let's see yours....

 

[Gilly Fan]

I couldn't really pick a T20 team, but I'd have Gilchrist instead of Dhoni. Both played the same amount of innings and Gilchrist has more runs. Dhoni's average is boosted because he bats down the order and has a lot of not outs.

 

[King Pietersen]

Yeh but if Gilly played he'd have to open, and I wanted Hayden and Richards opening, so there's just no space for Gilly. It's pointless playing him down the order, may as well play Dhoni there in a position he's used to.

 

[Aoun13]

I'll always have Misbah,Abdul Qadir,Wasim Akram instead of Kapil dev,Ian botham and Shane warne.

 

[evertonfan]

Australia.

 

[shubhrayu]

I'll always have Misbah,Abdul Qadir,Wasim Akram instead of Kapil dev,Ian botham and Shane warne.

Have you seen these people play ever??I doubt

 

[Aoun13]

Yes Dear They are all Legends mate.

 

[Leggie]

I couldn't really pick a T20 team, but I'd have Gilchrist instead of Dhoni. Both played the same amount of innings and Gilchrist has more runs. Dhoni's average is boosted because he bats down the order and has a lot of not outs.

It's not his fault he doesn't get out. Besides if you come into bat from the 17th over onwards, every ball has to try and be a boundary ball, therefore you have got more chance of getting out, which Dhoni doesn't.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Have you seen these people play ever??I doubt

I'm pretty sure he's seen Warne play, and thanks to channels like ESPN Classics you can easily watch the likes of Kapil Dev etc play.

 

[Leicester Fox]

I fail to see how the don doesn't make it into a cricket team of any form. He was that good.

 

[King Pietersen]

Yeh, I considered the Don, but in the end decided that I'd go for the more destructive batsmen, in Sir Viv, Andrew Symonds and the all-rounders. Sir Don should probably be in my 15, possibly ahead of Tendulkar or Rhodes, but it was quite difficult trying to get everyone I wanted in the side. I'm happy with my XI though tbh.

 

[Aoun13]

Sir Don would be a difficult choice for any one but may be they can use as an anchor sheet batsman in the team.

 

[Gilly Fan]

It's not his fault he doesn't get out. Besides if you come into bat from the 17th over onwards, every ball has to try and be a boundary ball, therefore you have got more chance of getting out, which Dhoni doesn't.

Gilchrist has more fours and more sixes, higher strike rate, more runs, nore 50s and 100s and has faced less balls. He also has more than double the amount of catches and stumpings.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Juxtaposition. OMG!!!

Richards
Gilly (+)
Don
Lara
Sobers
Botham
Dev
Imran Khan
Hadlee
Warne (*)
Barnes


Rough team for now. 2 pure bowlers, the 5 greatest allrounders of the game, the most destructive keeper in the game, and 3 of the finest batsmen to have ever played. Not to mention the greatest skipper there never was (and the best in T20 by far). And plenty of destructive ability. Should work. Fielding might be an issue though.


Looking at this again...I probably don't even need Barnes. Could fit another batsman instead of him...

 

[jontyrhodes]

Hayden
Gilchrist

Yuvraj
Rohit Sharma
Symonds

Razzaq
Afridi
Akram

vettori
Malinga
Johnson

I think this set of batsmen is more likely to fetch me more runs in 20 overs.
I am not so sure about Afridi/Razzaq/Johnson in my line up though.