Which is the strongest XI?

[aussie_ben91]

Team 1
1. Gautam Gambhir
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Mahela Jayawardene
5. Michael Clarke
6. Damien Martyn
7. AB de Villiers (wk)
8. Wasim Akram
9. Shane Warne (c)
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Ian Bishop

Team 2
1. Mark Taylor
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Jacques Kallis
4. Inzamam-ul-Haq
5. Steve Waugh (c)
6. Mark Waugh
7. Alec Stewart (wk)
8. Anil Kumble
9. Jason Gillespie
10. Shane Bond
11. Allan Donald

Team 3
1. Greame Smith
2. Andrew Strauss
3. Michael Hussey
4. Mohammad Yousuf
5. Brian Lara
6. Andy Flower (wk)
7. Daniel Vettori
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Makhaya Ntini
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Courtney Walsh

Team 4
1. Justin Langer
2. Herschelle Gibbs
3. Younis Khan
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Shiv Chanderpaul
6. Kumar Sangakkara (wk)
7. Chris Cairns
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Waqar Younis
10. Stuart MacGill
11. Shoaib Akhtar

Team 5
1. Gary Kirsten
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Ricky Ponting (c)
4. Kevin Pietersen
5. VVS Laxman
6. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
7. Andrew Flintoff
8. Harbhajan Singh
9. Fanie de Villiers
10. Dale Steyn
11. Glenn Mcgrath

 

[Aoun13]

My vote is for team 3 BUT WHO IS THEIR CAPTAIN I think Abrose should be

 

[Cricketman]

Team 1 or team 4 i think. Those are the closest at least.

 

[jordox]

Jeez! That is incredibly tough. It's almost too hard to choose.

 

[aussie_ben91]

Make sure that you cast your vote on the poll above the thread otherwise your vote won't count towards anything.

 

[AbBh]

With a bowling lineup consisting of three of the greatest bowlers ever, the first team wins it for me. They are all pretty close though.

 

[jordox]

Team 1 is over stacked with batsman. Having De Villiers at 7 is proof of that. It also has only 2 pacemen and I'm never a fan of teams like that.

Team 2 is very very good.

Team 3 also brilliant, but Hussey doesn't really fit in there. He isn't a number 3 and Strauss is arguably the weakest opener out of the lot, as much as I love the guy. I'm not really a fan of Vettori in the test arena either.

Team 4 is pretty good, but once again it is unbalanced with Sanga at 7.

Team 5 is very good, but I don't like the look of Gilchrist at 6 and Flintoff at 7. Ponting, Pietersen and Laxman would have to work their bottoms off.

Most of those teams' downfall was their unbalance. I'm going for team 2. Whilst it may not have the all star line up, it has the best balance and I think it would perform the best.

 

[piriyanth]

Team 3 because Michael Hussey is in there

Other Reasons are-

*Apart from Strauss their batting line up is pretty good.

*Andy flower is a decent keeper and batsman, I'll rather put him as an opener than Strauss.

*Excellent bowling up

 

[deerkick]

Damn difficult choices. I narrowed mine down to team 1 and 5. 5 looks way more balanced but team 1 in spinning conditions = death.

 

[ali_ed2001]

very difficult to pick..! 2 and 4 look good contenders.

 

[irottev]

Team 2 all-round. Batting is incredibly strong and the bowling attack has a lot of attacking bowlers who can extract movement.

 

[Arunava]

i admired fanie de villiers, great great bowler, don't hear him nowadays.. .i've seen lot of him. he would just rip thru teams. actually he was better than allan donald and shaun pollock. very well remember the last wicket he took, perfect yorker to shoaib akhtar in pakistan, it was too good of a bowl

i voted for team 5, it is tooo good a team. very balanced.

 

[McLOVIN]

team 1 and 5 are good, voted for 5

 

[Gunner786]

team 4

just look at their bowling attack

 

[Mercules]

Very tight for me between Teams 2 & 3 with edge just about going to the former.


lol I thought Team 1 were the weakest but they're leading atm.