Your best cricket team XI

Who is in your best cricket XI

This is my list

Saeed Anwar
Chris Gayle
Kumar Sangakkara
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Saqlain Mushtaq
Zaheer Khan
Allan Donald

is that a test team or one day?

(04-08-2009 19:40 )samcook89 Wrote:  is that a test team or one day?

You can do either test or one day it dosen't really matter.

The list i posted was a test team as i love test cricket although i don't mind one day cricket overall but no one has posted they best XI surely you can pick your best XI.

I'm still thinking...

Is this of all time, or just the modern era? Because that would make for two very different sides.

Sorry for the double post, but rather than wait for answer I'm having fun thinking of all permutations.

Modern era XI:- (Played a significant amount of test cricket Post 2000)

Sanath Jayasuriya
Michael Vaughan
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Andy Flower
Steve Waugh ©
Andrew Flintoff
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath
Makhaya Ntini
*12th man: Paul Collingwood (for his fielding)

All time XI (Proviso - I actually saw them play during their prime^)

Gordon Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Graham Gooch
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Ian Healy
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
*12th man Jonty Rhodes (Once again, a fielding decision)

N.B. Couldn't pick a captain for this team. At least 4 worthy candidates.

(^Seen on television, not necessarily live at the ground.)

All time test team:

Gordan Greenidge
Matthew Hayden
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Steve Waugh
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Wasim Akram
Curtly Ambrose
Glenn McGrath

My modern(ish) era test XI

G Smith ©
V Sehwaag
R Ponting
S Tendulkar
B Lara
J Kallis
K Sangakkara (WK)
A Flintoff
M Mulralidaran
D Steyn
G Mcgrath

From players currently active...

Chris Gayle
Kumar Sangakkara (however it's spelt)
Sachin Tendulkar
Kevin Pietersen
Mike Hussey
Andrew Flintoff
Daniel Vettori
Graham Swann
James Anderson
Brett Lee
Dale Steyn