Tendulkar figures in Wisden’s World Test XI

[Raghav_12]

http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/tendulkar-figures-in-wisdens-world-test-xi/article5265307.ece?homepage=true

Retiring Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was on Wednesday named in the Wisden all-time World Test XI. Tendulkar, who will retire from Test cricket after playing against the West Indies in his landmark 200th match in Mumbai next month, was named at his number four spot in the team announced to mark 150 years of the Cricketers’ Almanack here. The team captained by legendary Australian batsman Don Bradman has four Englishmen, three West Indians, two Australians, one Indian and one Pakistani. Tendulkar’s contemporaries like Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting and Jaques Kallis could not make it to the team, nor other Indian greats like Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev. Australian spin-legend Shane Warne and Pakistani fast-bowling great Wasim Akram were the only two contemporaries of Tendulkar who made it to the World Test XI. Tendulkar and Akram are the only two Asians named in the team. Jack Hobbs and W.G. Grace were included as openers, followed by Bradman and Tendulkar at number three and four, respectively. Destructive West Indian batsman Vivian Richards comes in at number five followed his countryman and legendary all-rounder Garry Sobers. Englishman Alan Knott got the wicketkeeper’s spot while the four remaining bowling slots went to Warne, Akram, West Indian fast bowling great Malcolm Marshall and Englishman Sydney Barnes. Wisden World XI: Jack Hobbs (England), W.G. Grace (England), Don Bradman (Australia, captain), Sachin Tendulkar (India), Vivian Richards (West Indies), Garry Sobers (West Indies), Alan Knott (England), Wasim Akram (Pakistan), Shane Warne (Australia), Malcolm Marshall (West Indies), Sydney Barnes (England).

Some of the selections are lol-worthy. I could have made a case for Bhuvan as well.

[G_B_]

its an english magzine peddling to an english population......

[Ibes]

Couldn't they find some Saffies to poach into this squad. Sleepin' on the job tsk tsk

[saneindian]

WG Grace, Alan Knott, Sydney Barnes lol perhaps they should have given a spot to Flintoff in place of Sobers

[Asim]

Rubbish... No Sehwag

[Sidhoni]

:facepalm: @ some of the selections

[adi B]

WG Grace' date=' Alan Knott, Sydney Barnes lol perhaps they should have given a spot to Flintoff in place of Sobers[/quote'] terrible picks and they know it,perhaps are laughing their @r$e off

[King Tendulkar]

Alan Knott:hysterical:

[Scarves]

Well Wisden are English and they are all about tradition.

[Bradman99]

Alan Knott:hysterical:

Ahead of someone like Ghilchrist, what a joke.

[Sooda]

^Alan Knott was by all accounts a superior keeper. Gilly was a much better batsman of course. But in a side like that which in theory has a pretty strong batting lineup you do not necessarily need a WKBatsman at 7...

[King Tendulkar]

Gilly had superb glove work as well. All round package Knotts glove work was not better, some of gillys keeping to Warne was different class

[G_B_]

well if keeping is the main criteria, why not Healy?

[G_B_]

I think even somebody like Kirmani who played in the same era as Knott was probably the shade better keeper than batted at 9 and scored some crucial pressure situation runs

[StriKe]

Michael Vaughan ‏@MichaelVaughan 1h Jacque Kallis ... Tests 13,133 runs(44 100s)and 288 Wkts! ODIs.. 11,498 runs (17 100s) and 270 wkts..!!! And not in the Wisden X1 #joke Michael Vaughan ‏@MichaelVaughan 2h How Adam Gilchrist didn't make the all time Wisden team ahead of Alan Knott is beyond me.... !!!!! Also SF Barnes ahead of McGrath!! #joke. https://twitter.com/MichaelVaughan/status/393390916238835712

[King Tendulkar]

Michael Vaughan ‏@MichaelVaughan 1h Jacque Kallis ... Tests 13,133 runs(44 100s)and 288 Wkts! ODIs.. 11,498 runs (17 100s) and 270 wkts..!!! And not in the Wisden X1 #joke Michael Vaughan ‏@MichaelVaughan 2h How Adam Gilchrist didn't make the all time Wisden team ahead of Alan Knott is beyond me.... !!!!! Also SF Barnes ahead of McGrath!! #joke. https://twitter.com/MichaelVaughan/status/393390916238835712

Vaughan spot on

[Crookbond]

^Alan Knott was by all accounts a superior keeper. Gilly was a much better batsman of course. But in a side like that which in theory has a pretty strong batting lineup you do not necessarily need a WKBatsman at 7...

You have YouTube videos? If not, I don't believe ya.

well if keeping is the main criteria' date=' why not Healy?[/quote'] Why not Dennis Lillee? Why not Lara? So many questions. Such decisions can go one way or the other. Knott is as good as a WK you can get in cricketing history.

[SLICKR392]

How did Grace get into the XI? His beard?

[Number]

They are Wisdon, don't have a single English great from modern era so they go to Hobbs, Hutton and Barnes.

[rkt.india]

New Delhi: He might soon become the first cricketer to have played 200 Tests and has 100 international centuries to his name but Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar isn’t a part of former England skipper Michael Vaughan’s all time Test XI. Not only Tendulkar, but surprisingly, none of the Indian cricketers were included in the list tweeted by Vaughan on Thursday. Michael Vaughan ✔ @MichaelVaughan My all time Test X1.. Hutton,Hobbs,Bradman,Kallis,Viv,Sobers,Botham,Gilchrist,Akram,Warne,McGrath.. 12th man .. Murali... #Nobrainer.