World Cup XIs from what you have seen

[icyman]

Continuing off from where I left. Honestly, 2007 wasnt one I followed completely. After India crashed out, there was actually nothing much to do. Given that the matches were held late in the night (IST) and the fact that they had a super long and boring Super 8's, it sucked all excitement out. I remember tuning into some specific games (KOs+FinaL0 and the odd ones like Lara's last game and all.

2007
Hayden
AB de Villiers
Ponting
Jayawardene
Pietersen
Kallis
Vettori
Murali
Malinga
Tait
McGrath

The Australians more or less selected themselves here. Hard to look beyond Ponting as captain here. In terms of bowling- going in with 5 pure bowlers backed up by Kallis as the 5th option. I was dilly dallying on having someone like Flintoff, but it would upset the apple cart. The notable omission is Gilchrist- who was pretty savage in the finals- that apart, didn't have a great tournament as he was blowing hot and cold.

 

[noducksallowed]

Continuing off from where I left. Honestly, 2007 wasnt one I followed completely. After India crashed out, there was actually nothing much to do. Given that the matches were held late in the night (IST) and the fact that they had a super long and boring Super 8's, it sucked all excitement out. I remember tuning into some specific games (KOs+FinaL0 and the odd ones like Lara's last game and all.

2007
Hayden
AB de Villiers
Ponting
Jayawardene
Pietersen
Kallis
Vettori
Murali
Malinga
Tait
McGrath

The Australians more or less selected themselves here. Hard to look beyond Ponting as captain here. In terms of bowling- going in with 5 pure bowlers backed up by Kallis as the 5th option. I was dilly dallying on having someone like Flintoff, but it would upset the apple cart. The notable omission is Gilchrist- who was pretty savage in the finals- that apart, didn't have a great tournament as he was blowing hot and cold.

Thats a pretty good team.

I was on the fence about the ABD selection but he is pretty much QDKs predecessor...the king of soft runs and capitulated when SA needed him most.

the bowling pretty much picks itself.

 

[icyman]

Thats a pretty good team.

I was on the fence about the ABD selection but he is pretty much QDKs predecessor...the king of soft runs and capitulated when SA needed him most.

the bowling pretty much picks itself.

True, bowling had to pick itself as they were the main guys therein. ABD vs Sanga was my conundrum, but settled for the former, as Sanga was a quintessential grafter, settles in the middle order by would be out of sorts elsewhere.

 

[Bevab]

True, bowling had to pick itself as they were the main guys therein. ABD vs Sanga was my conundrum, but settled for the former, as Sanga was a quintessential grafter, settles in the middle order by would be out of sorts elsewhere.

I like the team you went with but surely you can't complain about Sanga being incompatible with the hypothetical role after putting Kallis out of all people at six?

 

[icyman]

I like the team you went with but surely you can't complain about Sanga being incompatible with the hypothetical role after putting Kallis out of all people at six?

I honestly had put down Sanga at 6, but felt it upset the balance. Plus, with Kallis you get the additional bowling option- that's the sole reason he's in

 

[icyman]

2011
T Dilshan
S Tendulkar
G Gambhir
K Sangakkara
Yuvraj
AB de Villiers
S Afridi
T Southee
B Lee
Zaheer
Muralitharan

This one was easy seeing as I had watched most of the games. Highly engrossing! I must say the team of the tournament was basically among Ind, Srl, NZ and Pak. The toss-ups for me were the positions of ABD and Lee, as I had though originally about Misbah and Malinga but then figured the team seems weaker that way. Notable exclusions from this list whom I had considered but didnt include- Strauss, Trott, Tahir, Tharanga and Sehwag.

I stick with Sangakkara as my captain- always felt he was one of the finest to have graced the game without much success at World events. Thala fans might jump on me here, but apart from that 91* there was less contribution of MSD- both as a captain and a batter.

 

[noducksallowed]

2011
T Dilshan
S Tendulkar
G Gambhir
K Sangakkara
Yuvraj
AB de Villiers
S Afridi
T Southee
B Lee
Zaheer
Muralitharan

This one was easy seeing as I had watched most of the games. Highly engrossing! I must say the team of the tournament was basically among Ind, Srl, NZ and Pak. The toss-ups for me were the positions of ABD and Lee, as I had though originally about Misbah and Malinga but then figured the team seems weaker that way. Notable exclusions from this list whom I had considered but didnt include- Strauss, Trott, Tahir, Tharanga and Sehwag.

I stick with Sangakkara as my captain- always felt he was one of the finest to have graced the game without much success at World events. Thala fans might jump on me here, but apart from that 91* there was less contribution of MSD- both as a captain and a batter.

I'd edge Dhoni as ODI captain but thats a pretty good team!

 

[andyblignaut]

2003
1. Sehwag
2. Gilchrist wk
3. Dravid
4. Ponting
5. A flower
6. D.Martyn
7. Andrew Symonds
8. S.Afridi
9. B.Lee
10. S.Akhtar
11.g.Mcgrath

2007
1.Hayden
2.Gilly
3.Ponting
4.J.Kallis
5.Sangakarra
6. Andrew Symonds
7. Kevin obrien
8. B.Hogg
9. C.Vaas
10. K.Malinga
11.mcgrath

2011
1.Tendulkar
2. Dilshan
3.sangakarra
4.ab devilliers
5. Ms Dhoni
6. Yuvraj
7. Andrew Symonds
8. Dwayne bravo
9. Daniel Vettori
10.Z.khan
11.L.Malinga

2015
1. Warner
2. Guptill
3.sangakarra
4. Virat kohli
5. Ab devilliers
6. Brendan Taylor
7. James Faulkner
8. Narine
9.Starc
10. T.boult
11. Malinga

 

[ddrap14]

A bit of a spin on this for 2015:

1. Shaiman Anwar
2. Will Porterfield
3. Kumar Sangakkara
4. AB de Villiers
5. Brendan Taylor
6. Misbah-ul-Haq
7. Corey Anderson
8. R Ashwin
9. Mitchell Starc
10. Josh Davey
11. Jerome Taylor

and 2011:
1. Tillakaratne Dilshan
2. Brad Haddin
3. Collins Obuya
4. Jonathan Trott
5. Yuvraj Singh
6. Ryan ten Doeschate
7. Kevin O'Brien
8. Shahid Afridi
9. Kemar Roach
10. Tim Southee
11. Imran Tahir

Can you guess the theme, I wonder

 

[icyman]

A bit of a spin on this for 2015:

1. Shaiman Anwar

I remember that gem of an innings he played back in 2015

Can you guess the theme, I wonder

Top scorers in each position OR was it them being the impact players?

 

[ddrap14]

Top scorers in each position OR was it them being the impact players?

Nope. You should be able to work it out solely from the details typed in that message.

 

[pillowprocter]

one from each country, is it?

 

[ddrap14]

one from each country, is it?

Yep - max one per country if I'm being anal about it, because there were 14 countries.

And now for 2007 as a reward for you guys getting it:

1. Virender Sehwag
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Steve Tikolo
4. Ramnaresh Sarwan
5. Jacques Kallis
6. Scott Styris
7. Paul Nixon
8. Elton Chigumbura
9. Abdur Razzak
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Boyd Rankin