Best test eleven of all time
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Best test eleven of all time
What is the greatest test eleven of all time? This is mine, let me know what you think and/or make your own..
1)Stephen Fleming (C)
2)Jack Hobbs
3)Jacuqes Kallis
4)Sachin Tendulkar
5)Mahela Jaywardene
6)Ricky Ponting
7)Mark Boucher (WK)
8)Shane Warne
9)Allan Donald
10)Anil Kumble
11)Glenn McGrath
1)Stephen Fleming (C)
2)Jack Hobbs
3)Jacuqes Kallis
4)Sachin Tendulkar
5)Mahela Jaywardene
6)Ricky Ponting
7)Mark Boucher (WK)
8)Shane Warne
9)Allan Donald
10)Anil Kumble
11)Glenn McGrath
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
Have you not tried this wind up before?
You call it a "best of all time team" but pick mainly guys from the last 20 years and then defend it by saying you are only 17 or whatever....
You call it a "best of all time team" but pick mainly guys from the last 20 years and then defend it by saying you are only 17 or whatever....
Dorothy_Mantooth- Posts : 1197
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
TBH cf that looks like a "best of what I've seen" with Jack Hobbs thrown in. My all-time XI tends to change every five minutes or so, but essentially looks something like this
Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Ken Barrington
Gary Sobers
Alan Knott
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Joel Garner
Glen McGrath
unlucky to miss out: plenty of fast bowlers (I've gone for balance in the attack), Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskat, Suttcliffe, Brian Lara, and many others...
Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Ken Barrington
Gary Sobers
Alan Knott
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Joel Garner
Glen McGrath
unlucky to miss out: plenty of fast bowlers (I've gone for balance in the attack), Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskat, Suttcliffe, Brian Lara, and many others...
Mad for Chelsea- Posts : 12103
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
Mad for Chelsea wrote:TBH cf that looks like a "best of what I've seen" with Jack Hobbs thrown in. My all-time XI tends to change every five minutes or so, but essentially looks something like this
Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Ken Barrington
Gary Sobers
Alan Knott
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Joel Garner
Glen McGrath
unlucky to miss out: plenty of fast bowlers (I've gone for balance in the attack), Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskat, Suttcliffe, Brian Lara, and many others...
who out of mine shouldnt be in there then?
there cant be many
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
mentioned him in the "unlucky to miss out" bracket FoF. Bradman, Tendulkar and Sobers are always in my world XI, and today I felt the solidity of Barrington would complement them better than the flashier Lara or Richards. This could of course change tomorrow.
CF, wouldn't have Fleming (fine captain, but not that great a batsman), Jayawardene (struggled comparatively outside the sub-continent), Boucher (so many better keepers and keeper-batsmen) or Kumble (pretty ordinary outside the subcontinent TBH, fine bowler though he was) anywhere near a world all-time test XI.
CF, wouldn't have Fleming (fine captain, but not that great a batsman), Jayawardene (struggled comparatively outside the sub-continent), Boucher (so many better keepers and keeper-batsmen) or Kumble (pretty ordinary outside the subcontinent TBH, fine bowler though he was) anywhere near a world all-time test XI.
Mad for Chelsea- Posts : 12103
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
My all-time Test XI to take on any test team in :-
1) Lara
2) Hutton
3) Bradman
4) Tendulkar
5) V Richards
6) Sobers
7) Ames
8) Hadlee
9) Marshall
10)Warne
11)McGrath
1) Lara
2) Hutton
3) Bradman
4) Tendulkar
5) V Richards
6) Sobers
7) Ames
8) Hadlee
9) Marshall
10)Warne
11)McGrath
gboycottnut- Posts : 1919
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
Liam_Main wrote:Brian Lara opening?
He did open for the West Indies in a few test matches during the early 1990's.
gboycottnut- Posts : 1919
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
1) Jack Hobbs
2) Sunil Gavaskar
3) Don Bradman
4) Sachin Tendulkar
5) Viv Richards
6) Gary Sobers
7) Adam Gilchrist (WK)
8) Malcolm Marshall
9) Shane Warne
10) Muttiah Muralitharan
11) Glen McGrath
2) Sunil Gavaskar
3) Don Bradman
4) Sachin Tendulkar
5) Viv Richards
6) Gary Sobers
7) Adam Gilchrist (WK)
8) Malcolm Marshall
9) Shane Warne
10) Muttiah Muralitharan
11) Glen McGrath
Re: Best test eleven of all time
Even if its a " from what i have seen" XI then how is Fleming in the side??????????????
Boucher ahead of Gilly and Flower?????????????????????????
Mahela batting above Ponting???????????????
Kumble ahead of Murali?
Donald ahead of Akram?????????????
Boucher ahead of Gilly and Flower?????????????????????????
Mahela batting above Ponting???????????????
Kumble ahead of Murali?
Donald ahead of Akram?????????????
ShankyCricket- Posts : 4546
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
Hobbs
Hutton
Bradman
Kallis
Richards
Sobers
Gilchrist (w)
Warne (c)
Marshall
Ambrose
Muralitharan
unlucky to miss out - Flower, Tendulkar, Lara & McGrath
Hutton
Bradman
Kallis
Richards
Sobers
Gilchrist (w)
Warne (c)
Marshall
Ambrose
Muralitharan
unlucky to miss out - Flower, Tendulkar, Lara & McGrath
GG- Posts : 1878
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
for a bit of fun, if I was picking a test XI from when I started watching (about 96) it would look something like this:
Hayden
Langer
Kallis
Lara
Tendulkar
S. Waugh (capt)
Gilchrist
Akram
Warne
Donald
McGrath
with Murali replacing Donald on subcontinent pitches
Ponting very unlucky to miss out, but wanted the steeliness of Waugh in there. Sehwag's awful record in England, SA and NZ counts against him
Hayden
Langer
Kallis
Lara
Tendulkar
S. Waugh (capt)
Gilchrist
Akram
Warne
Donald
McGrath
with Murali replacing Donald on subcontinent pitches
Ponting very unlucky to miss out, but wanted the steeliness of Waugh in there. Sehwag's awful record in England, SA and NZ counts against him
Mad for Chelsea- Posts : 12103
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
From 2000 XI
Hayden
Cook(similar no. of centuries to Langer in almost half the matches)
Ponting(in Aus/SA)/Dravid(in England/Subcontinent)
Tendulkar
Kallis
KP(Lara was in his peak in the 90s)
Gilly(wk)
Warne
Steyn
Bond/Murali
Mcgrath
Unlucky to miss out-Lara,Langer,Sanga,Gillespie,Pollock,Ntini,Kumble
Hayden
Cook(similar no. of centuries to Langer in almost half the matches)
Ponting(in Aus/SA)/Dravid(in England/Subcontinent)
Tendulkar
Kallis
KP(Lara was in his peak in the 90s)
Gilly(wk)
Warne
Steyn
Bond/Murali
Mcgrath
Unlucky to miss out-Lara,Langer,Sanga,Gillespie,Pollock,Ntini,Kumble
ShankyCricket- Posts : 4546
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
All-time:
Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Sobers
Imran Khan(c)
Knott(wk)
Marshall
Warne
Barnes
From what I've seen (since the mid 1970s):
Boycott
Gavaskar
Richards V.
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Imran Khan(c)
Knott(wk)
Marshall
Warne
Garner
Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Sobers
Imran Khan(c)
Knott(wk)
Marshall
Warne
Barnes
From what I've seen (since the mid 1970s):
Boycott
Gavaskar
Richards V.
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Imran Khan(c)
Knott(wk)
Marshall
Warne
Garner
Hoggy_Bear- Posts : 2202
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
CF is this a wind up?
ShankyCricket- Posts : 4546
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
Hobbs
Gavasker
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Sobers
Gilchrist
Marshall
Ambrose
McGrath
Murali
Gavasker
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Sobers
Gilchrist
Marshall
Ambrose
McGrath
Murali
Stella- Posts : 6671
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Re: Best test eleven of all time
alert a mod thread stella, its at the top of the home page.
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