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Title: All-time Cricket XIs
Post by: Yertle the Turtle on February 26, 2018, 04:56:30 pm

I know there has been some discussion about this on the Cricket thread, but I am seriously interested in discussing this, so here goes:

My All-time XI:
Gavaskar
Hobbs
Bradman*
SPD Smith
IVA Richards
Sobers
Gilchrist+
Warne
Akram
Lillee
McGrath

12th Man: Tendulkar

Some will quibble about Smith over Tendulkar, but the numbers don't lie. Smith has the second highest ranking points of all time for goodness sake peoples, and he's scored 1000+ runs a year at 70.00+ for the past three years!!! One of the all time greatest Test batsmen.

Title: Re: All-time Cricket XIs
Post by: Sine on February 27, 2018, 12:49:39 pm

reposting from the cricket thread ;) although only did this off the top of my head rather than indepth thinking and comparisons.

1.Hobbs (Eng)
2.Hutton (Eng)
3.Bradman (Aus)
4.Sangakarra (SL)
5.Richards (WI) (c)
6.Sobers (WI)
7.Gilchrist (Aus) (wk)
8.Warne/Muralitharan (Aus/SL)
9.Marshall (WI)
10.Lillee (Aus)
11.Barnes (Eng)

12th man: Wasim Akram

Title: Re: All-time Cricket XIs
Post by: Joseph41 on February 27, 2018, 12:53:08 pm

I think best teams of those you've actually seen play are more pertinent. How would that affect those teams above?