All time world xi

[courtjester]

Bit of a lull around here at the moment...


1. Jack Hobbs

2. Sunil Gavaskar

3. Don Bradman

4. Wally Hammond

5. Viv Richards

6. Garfield Sobers

7. Adam Gilchrist

8. Shane Warne

9. Wasim Akram

10. Michael Holding

11. Dennis Lillee

Argue with me!

 

[Phone]

Holding a bit of a wildcard. I always like to pair Hobbs with Herbert Sutcliffe. Aside from easily having a good enough record to make it in based on that, Hobbs and Sutcliffe is of course the greatest opening partnership in cricket so it makes sense to use it.

 

[dan warna]

keith miller for sobers, sobers the better batsman, miller the better bowler.
Akram can be replaced by a few, imran, lindwall, mcgrath.

 

[Phone]

Sobers pretty much makes it in as a batsman though. That he can bowl is a handy extra (similar to Hadlee, whose batting is a bonus, he just happens to be a top 5 seamer)

 

[eth-dog]

Would go for:

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Donald Bradman
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Jacques Kallis
6. Garfield Sobers
7. Mark Boucher
8. Michael Holding
9. Dennis Lillee
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Muttiah Muralidaran

I don't give a **** if his action was legal or illegal, Murali is the greatest spin bowler ever. Sachin: 51 Test hundreds, most runs ever, think he might be one of the greatest batsmen ever. Kallis: Great with bat, ball and in the slips. On a side note, this would be my all-time australian XI:

1. Bill Ponsford
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Donald Bradman
4. Allan Border
5. Steve Waugh
6. Ricky Ponting
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Keith Miller
9. Shane Warne
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Glenn Mcgrath

 

[dan warna]

Kallis is a statistical freak isn't he? I like his inclusion.

Gilchrist, healy or dujon are the better keepers i rate above boucher.

Gavaskar, much as he's a **** in the media was one of the great 4 batsman of the 80s with border, miandad and Richards, I can see the attraction there.

probably the reason I would go for Warne is that he's an adequate batsman as well, unlike murali, and again unlike Murali, warne was a great showman.

People came to watch warne, they don't come to see ponting, mcgrath, etc.

probably the same reason I went for Miller as well. Might even try and slip richards in ahead of slashin. Richards was top 2/3 for his era, and same with slashin.

 

[courtjester]

Holding a bit of a wildcard. I always like to pair Hobbs with Herbert Sutcliffe. Aside from easily having a good enough record to make it in based on that, Hobbs and Sutcliffe is of course the greatest opening partnership in cricket so it makes sense to use it.

Holding is a cricketer I love. Super super quick and probably the greatest fast bowling action ever. Could contend with a few guys for this spot admittedly. Malcolm Marshall unlucky, and I know he has better stats, but I think Lillee and Holding were more frightening and intimidating. I like that in quicks.

I agree Sutcliffe was a great. However, Gavaskar was an opening batsman in an era of BRUTAL pace bowlers. The West Indies, Lillee and Thommo, Imran, Hadlee. And he averaged 51. He was a bit of a whiny little prick, but **** he could bat. When you consider he averaged 65 against the WIs in that era as an opener, shit!

 

[courtjester]

Would go for:

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Donald Bradman
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Jacques Kallis
6. Garfield Sobers
7. Mark Boucher
8. Michael Holding
9. Dennis Lillee
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Muttiah Muralidaran

I don't give a **** if his action was legal or illegal, Murali is the greatest spin bowler ever. Sachin: 51 Test hundreds, most runs ever, think he might be one of the greatest batsmen ever. Kallis: Great with bat, ball and in the slips. On a side note, this would be my all-time australian XI:

1. Bill Ponsford
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Donald Bradman
4. Allan Border
5. Steve Waugh
6. Ricky Ponting
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Keith Miller
9. Shane Warne
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Glenn Mcgrath

Murali's action was not legal. I do give a **** about that. He was a good bowler, but only because he was allowed to cheat.

Sachin is no doubt one of the greatest batsmen ever. Just because he has made so many hundreds doesn't make him better than others. It just means modern players have had longer careers.

Not sure how you could have Boucher in an all time XI. Gilchrist, Healy, Knott, Engineer, Kirmani, Blackham, Oldfield, Tallon and Evans would all be ahead of him....

 

[kolchak]

That's the worst 11 I've ever seen. Murali, great cricketer, but behind Warne.

Boucher FFS

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Akram can be replaced by a few, imran, lindwall, mcgrath.

Akram is just as mandatory as Bradman in these discussions IMO. I've never picked any world XI that didn't include him.

Admittedly, I only caught the back end of his career, but the guy just bowled far more genuinely unplayable deliveries than anyone I've seen, and I'd gamble more than anyone else ever except Warne.

 

[PUNTROADHAMMER]

1. Sir Jack Hobbs
2. Sir Len Hutton
3. Sir Don
4. Sachin
5. Sir Viv
6. Sir Garfield
7. Kumar Sangakkara
8. Wasim Akram
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Shane Warne
11. DK Lillee

 

[Natho]

Unsure how Gilly and Warne aren't chosen in every world 11. Warne is the best spinner of all time. Gilly the best batsman/keeper also. Just so clean.

 

[PUNTROADHAMMER]

Unsure how Gilly and Warne aren't chosen in every world 11. Warne is the best spinner of all time. Gilly the best batsman/keeper also. Just so clean.

Yep, I hear you Natho, both AG & KS were/are excellent keepers but I'm just slightly more hypnotised by Sangakkara's near flawless batting technique as I was with Gilchrist's brutality. I made my selection based on if I was forced to select one of them to bat 10 hours under extreme pressure to save a Test it would be KS.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Yep, I hear you Natho, both AG & KS were/are excellent keepers but I'm just slightly more hypnotised by Sangakkara's near flawless batting technique as I was with Gilchrist's brutality. I made my selection based on if I was forced to select one of them to bat 10 hours under extreme pressure to save a Test it would be KS.

I suppose a difference is that Gilly might win it for you in five hours.

I'd have Gilly in a world 11 every time. Him, Holding, AB and Imran Khan and you can toss a coin for every one else. I really have no idea who else I'd pick, I never do have apart from those four.

 

[courtjester]

I suppose a difference is that Gilly might win it for you in five hours.

I'd have Gilly in a world 11 every time. Him, Holding, AB and Imran Khan and you can toss a coin for every one else. I really have no idea who else I'd pick, I never do have apart from those four.

Go on mate! Pick an XI!

 

[KiwiRoo]

1. Hobbs
2. Gavaskar
3. Kallis
4. Bradman
5. Tendulkar
6. Sobers
7. Gilchrist
8. Hadlee
9. Marshall
10. Warne
11. Lillee

heres my effort.

Also agree that Murali's action discounts him.
Ive included Hadlee, as 1. I'm bias and 2. He had one of the best strike rates in world cricket for a very long time(better than Lillees & Akrams for instance).First player to 400 test wickets. Very handy batsmen too
Marshall was the best West Indian quick ahead of Holding,and every world team needs Lillee
I wanted Viv Richards in there, but who do you leave out ?

 

[western royboy]

Can't argue with the OP XI.

Perfection. Richards would have made current day players records pale had he played in todays conditions.

The atmosphere when he was going was electric, ever experienced it once since and that was Sehwag cutting loose at the 'G in 2004.

 

[Gough]

Graeme Pollock could tear apart attacks like Viv Richards. Unfortunately for him his government's racial policies saw him banished from international cricket and unlike Barry Richards, Clive Rice and a few others he never played county cricket and wasn't involved in WSC, so he was rarely seen outside of South Africa. In 23 Test's he averaged 60 and when in his late 30's he played against the rebel teams that toured the Republic in the 1980's he dominated.
Another one of Apartheid's casualties.

 

[courtjester]

Can't argue with the OP XI.

Perfection. Richards would have made current day players records pale had he played in todays conditions.

The atmosphere when he was going was electric, ever experienced it once since and that was Sehwag cutting loose at the 'G in 2004.

Cheers man. Imagine that middle order cutting loose after the base built by Gavaskar, Hobbs, Bradman and Hammond.

IVA Richards
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist

It would be ****ing carnage!

 

[western royboy]

Cheers man. Imagine that middle order cutting loose after the base built by Gavaskar, Hobbs, Bradman and Hammond.

IVA Richards
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist

It would be ****ing carnage!

How good are some of the old World Series Highlight packages on Fox. Some of Vivvy's knocks - just brutal!

To understand how good Holding was just google Boycott bowled Holding on youtube.

After getting knocked over Boycott is just out of there walks off while the crowd riots!

 

[courtjester]

How good are some of the old World Series Highlight packages on Fox. Some of Vivvy's knocks - just brutal!

To understand how good Holding was just google Boycott bowled Holding on youtube.

After getting knocked over Boycott is just out of there walks off while the crowd riots!

And his bowling to the Poms after Greig said he'd make the WIs "grovel".

 

[Tex_21]

1. Chris Rogers
2. Phil Hughes
3. Nasser Hussain (c)
4. Peter Roebuck
5. Hansie Cronje
6. Andy Blignaut
7. Wayne Phillips
8. Bryce McGain
9. Scott Muller
10. Mick Lewis
11. Dan Cullen

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

1. Chris Rogers
2. Phil Hughes
3. Nasser Hussain (c)
4. Peter Roebuck
5. Hansie Cronje
6. Andy Blignaut
7. Wayne Phillips
8. Bryce McGain
9. Scott Muller
10. Mick Lewis
11. Dan Cullen

No love for Chris Matthews or the other Wayne Phillips?

 

[Tex_21]

No love for Chris Matthews or the other Wayne Phillips?

Did contemplate having the other Phillips open with Rogers and form an immovable object of an opening pair, capable of tearing the greatest attacks apart, but sadly the ability of Hughes to score freely into the hands of gully won out.

 

[Surkin]

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Len Hutton
3. Don Bradman
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Kumar Sangakarra
6. Viv Richards
7. Garry Sobers
8. Imran Khan
9. Wasim Akram
10. Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath