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As requested by kyear..........

Not so much a selection of 'The 100 greatest cricketers', but 9 great teams, and each capable of beating any of the other teams 'on their day';


First XI
01. Sunil Gavaskar
02. Len Hutton
03. Don Bradman
04. Brian Lara
05. Sachin Tendulkar
06. Garry Sobers
07. Adam Gilchrist
08. Malcolm Marshall
09. Wasim Akram
10. Shane Warne
11. Dennis Lillee


Second XI
01. Jack Hobbs
02. Herbert Sutcliffe
03. Viv Richards
04. Greg Chappell
05. Frank Worrell
06. Jacques Kallis
07. Imran Khan
08. Richard Hadlee
09. Godfrey Evans
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Muttiah Muralitharan


Third XI
01. Barry Richards
02. Arthur Morris
03. Walter Hammond
04. Graeme Pollock
05. Clyde Walcott
06. Keith Miller
07. Alan Knott
08. Alan Davidson
09. Ray Lindwall
10. Bill O’Reillly
11. Clarrie Grimmett


Fourth XI
01. Bob Simpson
02. Bill Lawry
03. George Headley
04. Everton Weekes
05. Allan Border
06. Steve Waugh
07. Les Ames
08. Harold Larwood
09. Jim Laker
10. Fred Trueman
11. Glenn McGrath


Fifth XI
01. Graham Gooch
02. Geoff Boycott
03. Rohan Kanhai
04. Neil Harvey
05. Ken Barrington
06. Frank Woolley
07. Ian Botham
08. Ian Healy
09. Andy Roberts
10. Michael Holding
11. Sydney Barnes


Sixth XI
01. Matthew Hayden
02. Bruce Mitchell
03. Ricky Ponting
04. Denis Compton
05. Peter May
06. Mike Procter
07. Denis Lindsay
08. Shaun Pollock
09. Ritchie Benaud
10. Wilfred Rhodes
11. Alan Donald


Seventh XI
01. Gordon Greenidge
02. Victor Trumper
03. Charlie Macartney
04. Stan McCabe
05. Javed Miandad
06. Clive Lloyd
07. Jeff Dujon
08. Anil Kumble
09. Joel Garner
10. Waqar Younis
11. Courtney Walsh


Eighth XI
01. Virender Sehwag
02. Vijay Merchant
03. Rahul Dravid
04. Ted Dexter
05. Colin Cowdrey
06. Aubrey Faulkner
07. Kapil Dev
08. John Waite
09. Hugh Tayfield
10. John Snow
11. Neil Adcock


Ninth XI
01. Eddie Barlow
02. Trevor Goddard
03. Ian Chappell
04. Martin Crowe
05. Michael Clarke
06. Dudley Nourse
07. Jock Cameron
08. Hedley Verity
09. Wesley Hall
10. Jeff Thomson
11. Arthur Mailey

100th Player: David Gower