Best international XI of your time?

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Glacier

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#2
Ok here goes

Greenidge
Jayasuriya
Ponting
Tendulkar
Richards
Lara
Flower wk
Marshall
Akram
Warne
Ambrose

Which leaves no room for Kallis, Murali and AB DeVilliers , so now I'm confused !!!
 
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#10
My cricket viewing started from the early 1970's:

Gavaskar
Hayden
Ponting
Greg Chappell
Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Imran Khan
Gilchrist
Marshall
Warne
Lillee
Ambrose

(with sincere apologies to Greenidge, Lara, Kallis, Border, Sangakarra, Botham, Murali, Garner, Holding, Roberts, Hadlee, McGrath, Pollock, Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn)
 

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#13
My cricket viewing started from the early 1970's:

Gavaskar
Hayden
Ponting
Greg Chappell
Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Imran Khan
Gilchrist
Marshall
Warne
Lillee
Ambrose

(with sincere apologies to Greenidge, Lara, Kallis, Border, Sangakarra, Botham, Murali, Garner, Holding, Roberts, Hadlee, McGrath, Pollock, Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn)
Hard to argue with that 12.

The alternate X12

Greenidge
Sehwag
Lara
Kallis
Border
Miandad
Flower
Akram
Hadlee
Garner
Muralitharan
McGrath
 

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#14
I only really started watching cricket seriously in the 2000s...so something like -

Kumar Sangakarra
Rahul Dravid
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Jaques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist (+)
Shane Warne
Dale Steyn
Shane Bond
Glenn McGrath
12th - Muttiah Muralitharan
 

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#15
I don't remember much cricket before 2004 since I was very young.

Sehwag
Gayle
Ponting
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Gilchrist
Warne
Steyn
McGrath
Murali
 

The Passenger

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#16
starting watching 91 onwards

saeed anwar
hayden
ponting
tendulkar
lara
kallis
gilchrist
warne
akram
ambrose
mcgrath

steyn closing in on akram and mcgrath very fast. rest of the team is pretty much a lock. a bit of debate about the openers. saeed is a lock for mine, and one of the attacking openers - hayden, sehwag or smith takes the other spot.

donald, waqar, pollock, walsh, murali not too far back on the bowling but a clear runing below the four picked and steyn. dravid, sangakarra, sehwag, smith, s waugh likewise.
 

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#17
Also started in the 70's

Grennidge
Gavaska
Greg Chappell
Richards
Kallis
Lara
Gilchrist
Warne
Hadlee
Lillee
Holding

12th man Stephen Waugh
 

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#18
My cricket viewing started from the early 1970's:

1 Gavaskar
2 Hayden
3 Ponting
4 Greg Chappell
5 Tendulkar
6 Viv Richards
7 Imran Khan
8 Gilchrist
9 Marshall
10 Warne
11 Lillee
12 Ambrose

(with sincere apologies to Greenidge, Lara, Kallis, Border, Sangakarra, Botham, Murali, Garner, Holding, Roberts, Hadlee, McGrath, Pollock, Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn)
Close enough for me, I'd take chappelli out and put border in under richards (you know, if they get the top order out for less than 300 :D)

Sorely tempted to Hadlee over Lillee even though its un australian. Also would love to see ambrose, holding or Garner bowling again.

I wouldn't have Botham in my greats list either. Have sort of missed steyn as well ><
 

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#24
Jeez you really don't like Sachin do you?
I don't like slashin' either but I rate him as a great batsman.

That said Chief's team is fair enough IMO.

Those that reckon slashin' is better than bradman are kidding themselves, Its arguable whether slashin' is even the best of his generation. There are about a dozen batsmen in the 50 plus range who are statistically similar to him. THe big difference is his longevity.

Longevity is a mark of ability. However dissect his form, his opposition, the teams he plays against and guys like Richards who never had free innings against the bangers or zimmers like the current crop of batsmen and the different rules for batting. Dear Lordy can you imagine what Richards would do in todays 50 over games with limited access to bouncers and ropes, the guy, throw in todays massive bats and he'd be stringing even more sixes in an innings.

As for Lara, something about him smacks me of him being a selfish twat with little team dynamic. Probably why I don't really rate Boycott despite his stoic batting.
 
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