Which current Test cricketers would make into their nations all time XI?

[Vijy]

the Ind all-time XI thread can be revived in this context, since it was started recently.

[vayuu1]

Pant

Shami

Bumrah

Ash

Kohli

To me shami is a more complete bowler than bumrah, Shami when on song is the only fast bowler who can run through teams in our setup,kohli in place of Ganguly.

 

Australia

Smith

Cummins 

 

Both obvious picks

A bowling line-up of McGrath, Cummins,warne,lillie good luck facing that

England

Root

Anderson

Broad 

 

Pakistan

Babar

Rizwan

Ssa 

 

Sa 

Rabada 

Zim sl wi

No one

 

 

[goose]

a more depressing question. will another indian batsman ever in the future make it to the ATG XI?

[Vijy]

13 hours ago, goose said:

a more depressing question. will another indian batsman ever in the future make it to the ATG XI?

probably not. the age of batsmanship is over since pitches everywhere favor bowlers and batters are mostly learning to score quick runs and not grind it out

[AKane]

On 1/14/2022 at 11:22 AM, Lord said:

not sure about Ashwin,Babar,Taylor if we are strictly talking about XI

Pakistan middle order is not easy for Babar to get into. 

 

Zaheer Abbas and Javed Miandad will be there.

 

Then there is Inzamam, Yousef and Younis recently and Mushtaq Mohammad/Asif Iqbal of past years and also Hanif Mohammed of even more past years.

[AKane]

Of course WI does not have any candidates... poor dear team!

 

Imagine any of the current crop dislodging these guys - geez!!

 

Conrad Hunte/Gordon Greenidge

Roy Fredericks/Desmond Haynes

Viv Richards (avg 50.23)

Brian Lara (avg 52.88)

George Headley (Avg 60.xx) /Frank Worrell(avg 49.xx)/Everton Weekes (avg 58.61)

Gary Sobers (Avg 57.78)

Clyde Walcott (avg 56.68) /Jeff Dujon (wk)

Malcolm Marshall

Michael Holding/Andy Roberts

Wes Hall/Charlie Griffith/Roy Gilchrist/Manny Martindale ( one fast bowler from past years )

Curtley Ambrose/Joel Garner

 

Very very good too.... Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd, Shiv Chanderpaul, Courtney Walsh, Ian Bishop, Colin Croft, Lance Gibbs.

 

please note...Clyde Walcott - scored 3798 runs at average of 56.68/15 hundreds.... was a wicket keeper sometimes and took 53 catches and 11 stumpings.... bowled fast medium in tests sometimes and 11 wickets at 37.xx average.

Edited January 16, 2022 by AKane

[Vijy]

1 hour ago, AKane said:

Of course WI does not have any candidates... poor dear team!

 

Imagine any of the current crop dislodging these guys - geez!!

 

Conrad Hunte/Gordon Greenidge

Roy Fredericks/Desmond Haynes

Viv Richards (avg 50.23)

Brian Lara (avg 52.88)

George Headley (Avg 60.xx) /Frank Worrell(avg 49.xx)/Everton Weekes (avg 58.61)

Gary Sobers (Avg 57.78)

Clyde Walcott (avg 56.68) /Jeff Dujon (wk)

Malcolm Marshall

Michael Holding/Andy Roberts

Wes Hall/Charlie Griffith/Roy Gilchrist/Manny Martindale ( one fast bowler from past years )

Curtley Ambrose/Joel Garner

 

Very very good too.... Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd, Shiv Chanderpaul, Courtney Walsh, Ian Bishop, Colin Croft, Lance Gibbs.

 

please note...Clyde Walcott - scored 3798 runs at average of 56.68/15 hundreds.... was a wicket keeper sometimes and took 53 catches and 11 stumpings.... bowled fast medium in tests sometimes and 11 wickets at 37.xx average.

WI can easily field three top tier all-pace bowling attacks.

 

Marshall     Holding      Roberts

Walsh         Ambrose    Garner

Croft          Hall              Bishop

Gilchrist    Griffith         Martindale/Gray

 

And there's also: Roach, Patterson, Daniel, Constantine, two Benjamins, etc.

 

The only one from current squad who comes close is Holder. I would say that he is their second greatest AR, so if Sobers was "injured", he would be their AR