*** Official All Time Test XI Thread *** Pick Your Team

[bunny]

Sutcliffe Gooch/Boon Boycott Saeed Anwar Dravid Chanderpaul Sangakkara Pollock Hadlee Barnes Ian Bishop 12th Man: Allan Donald

[Mr. Wicket]

What makes this XI "official"? If everyone is posting their own "official" All time test XIs, which is the "official" one to take as the gospel World XI? :hmmm: Also, why isn't Toffee Kumar in any of these XIs?

[SachDan]

My X1 from all the players I have watched so far... 1. Gavaskar 2. Sehwag 3. Lara 4. Sachin 5. Richards 6. Waugh 7. Gilchrist 8. Imran 9. Akram 10.Warne 11.Ambrose 12th man: McGrath

[The Outsider]

What makes this XI "official"?

The name of the thread starter - eGOD?

[Jersey #10]

I sleep during Test matches...

[DomainK]

I sleep during Test matches...

You sleep for five days at a stretch?:omg:

[DomainK]

A few names that would make it to a all time world 11 without any questions: 1. Gavaskar: You won't find a better opener than Sunny. He was the best ever. 2. Bradman: The best batsman ever. 3. Gilchrist: There are many great wicketkeepers, but Gilly would make it above them for his batting abilities.

[King Tendulkar]

Anyone not including Marshall/Sobers/Tendulkar in their team are hereby declared offically cricket illetriate!

[yoda]

I sleep during Test matches...

:hysterical:

[SachDan]

Anyone not including Marshall/Sobers/Tendulkar in their team are hereby declared offically cricket illetriate!

Marshall was a great bowler. But he failed to make the X1 chosen by Bradman and Richie Benaud.

[vvvslaxman]

Sunny Gavaskar Hobbs Lara Tendulkar Richards Gilchrist Akram Mcgrath Marshall Warne 12th man Sir Aggy.

[vvvslaxman]

I think it will be very tough to pick XI. I would gladly pick the entire 1980s squad of Windies or 1950s squad of Australia or 2000s squad of Australia. It is the team work that counts.

[Params7]

lol, no list has Laxman yet, one list has Dravid. What the

[Mr. Wicket]

A few names that would make it to a all time world 11 without any questions: 3. Gilchrist: There are many great wicketkeepers, but Gilly would make it above them for his batting abilities.

I can understand Gilchrist being picked over Knott, Marsh or Healy, but saying he is an unquestionable pick is very subjective.

[Sooda]

Wouldnt Knott and Healy have been better keepers? Bob Taylor was supposed to have been a better keep than Knott but Knott was a useful bat Can think of many others going back over the years- Les Ames, Godfrey Evans, Dujon, Jack Russell, Marsh of course, Boucher, Bradmans wk Don Tallon maybe? Sangakarra and Flower could pip Gilly for a WK-batsman spot

[patriot]

Beat this!!! Gavaskar Sehwag ( what more does he have to prove ? Was any opener a better match winner ?) DG Bradman Viv Richards Sobers Brian Lara Gilchrist Imran Khan Warne MArshall GD MCgrath

[Mr. Wicket]

Hobbs or Gavaskar? Why is Lara that far down? I'd personally lean towards Tendulkar over him or Richards; and would in fact have a few others - Allan Border in particular - over IVAR. And why have you left out Inzamam, who is one of the greatest players of pace ever apparently? :winky:

[Sooda]

Surely the question should be Hobbs or Sehwag? Im not sure about Sehwag-hes a legend no doubt but the old 'weak bowling and flat batting pitches era' theory will come into play and effectively youre saying hes the 2nd best opener ever? big statement !

[patriot]

Hobbs or Gavaskar? Why is Lara that far down? I'd personally lean towards Tendulkar over him or Richards; and would in fact have a few others - Allan Border in particular - over IVAR. And why have you left out Inzamam, who is one of the greatest players of pace ever apparently? :winky:

I chose Lara over SRT, because I've seen so many innings of his where he cuts loose like crazy and scores at a scorching pace ...does not matter who is bowling, there is a boundary or two every over and then there is a mammoth 150+ score...same like Sehwag. SRT is a greatt steady player...and this all time great time can "afford" a slightly more inconsistent but damn bloody good Lara. Yeah he's a little bit down in the line up but..too many great players - his position could be swapped with Sobers'.

[patriot]

Surely the question should be Hobbs or Sehwag? Im not sure about Sehwag-hes a legend no doubt but the old 'weak bowling and flat batting pitches era' theory will come into play and effectively youre saying hes the 2nd best opener ever? big statement !

YEs it is. But look at the rate he scores runs ..nearly 80 runs/100 balls. At an avg of 50+ . He has done it everywhere. His 195 on the pacy and bouncy pitch in MElbourne in 2003, 2 triple tons, his toying with Murali and Mendis in Lanka in that super 201 knock, his tons in England , that match saving knock in the 3rd innings in Adelaide, that unbelievable knock ( 65 in some 40 balls) against England last year, chasing an impossible 380 on INdian pitches....10+ 150 knocks in his last 10 tons. HEs done enough in my book. Just the way he immediately puts the opposition on the back foot - like no one else who ever opened. If he ends up with 10K + test runs the rest of the world will also say the same.