World Test Team

[ZoraxDoom]

Cricinfo - Raucous and freakish

Good picks. I'm not the only one who thinks Gambhir at 3 is a good idea

 

[shravi]

It was pretty interesting to see John Emburey's World XI.

Gautam Gambhir
Andrew Strauss
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Thilan Samaraweera
AB De Villiers
Jacques Kallis
*+MS Dhoni
Harbhajan Singh
Mitchell Johnson
Zaheer Khan
Dale Steyn

 

[metallics2006]

Based on current form:

G. Gambhir - Ind
P. Hughes - Aus
K. Pietersen - Eng
S. Tendulkar - Ind
S. Chanderpaul - WI
K. Sangakkara - SL
M. Johnson - Aus
H. Singh - Ind
Z. Khan - Ind
J. Taylor - WI
D. Steyn - RSA

 

[Dare]

Im not sure about Taylor. He didn't impress in NZ at all, he started of amazing against England but unfortunately flat decks and injures prevented him from having a good series.

On current form my team would be

Gambhir
Strauss
Sarwan
Tendulkar
Samaraweera
de Villiers
Sangakkara
Johnson
Harbhajan
Siddle
Khan

 

[metallics2006]

Im not sure about Taylor. He didn't impress in NZ at all, he started of amazing against England but unfortunately flat decks and injures prevented him from having a good series.

On current form my team would be

Gambhir
Strauss
Sarwan
Tendulkar
Samaraweera
de Villiers
Sangakkara
Johnson
Harbhajan
Siddle
Khan

Forgot about Sangakkara when I made my side.

 

[jontyrhodes]

No test team of this era can be complete without Chandrapaul.
My test team would be:

1.Strauss
2. Gambhir
3. Yunus khan
4. Jack Kallis
5. Chandrapaul
6. Brandon McCullum/ M.S Dhoni
7. Andrew Flintoff (More as a bowler than a batsman/all rounder)
8. Mitchell Johnson
9. Zaheer Khan (new ball)
10. Dale Steyn (new ball)
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

Beat that!!

 

[jontyrhodes]

Solely based on current form!!

 

[Dare]

I agree about the Shiv thing but some other guys have played better than Shiv did in the last series.

Also on current form Harbhajan >> Murli.

 

[usy]

Do you guys ever focus on "team chemistry" part before making these XI, or is it solely based upon the current best players in the batting order put togehter?

 

[shravi]

Do you guys ever focus on "team chemistry" part before making these XI, or is it solely based upon the current best players in the batting order put togehter?

Good point on the team chemistry as we saw in the World vs Australia series but these sides are purely hypothetical. We don't know how they'd work with each other as we haven't seen it.

 

[Dare]

so boys we haven't done one of these in a while?

 

[SciD]

Strauss
Samaraweera
will be in.

 

[Dare]

Strauss
Samaraweera
will be in.

yea without a doubt.

Strauss *
Gambhir
Sarwan
Clarke
Samaraweera
Marcus North
Brad Haddin + (not sure how he has performed with the gloves in these Ashes)
Broad
Johnson
Swann
Siddle

Reason for including Haddin is because Sangakkara doesn't keep in tests but I know he could do it better then almost everyone. Prior has had a awful year behind the stumps and the only other one I could include is Prasanna Jayawardene.

 

[King Pietersen]

Prior's out performed Haddin with the gloves, and not been far off with the bat. Prior was excellent with the gloves in The Ashes.

Andrew Strauss
Graeme Smith *
Mahela Jayawardene
Michael Clarke
AB De Villiers
Matt Prior +
Daniel Vettori
Mitchell Johnson
Harbhajan Singh
James Anderson
Dale Steyn

I like that team. Vettori gets in at 7 for team balance, offering batting and bowling, I still don't rate him as a Test bowler though

 

[Dare]

I missed the ashes so I really have no idea how they performed but from Priors previous performances he was disappointing.