Your country's all time ODI and test teams?

[SJS]

The inclusion of Aamer Sohail in alltime ODI XIs of many Pakistanis is based on the fact that Saeed Anwar-Aamer Sohail is the best opening pair Pakistan has ever got.

I heard a similar argument in the opening batsmen for 1877-1914 era debate. Hobbs and Sutcliffe being the most successful opening pair.

Its a bit out of place to use that argument when chosing players over 130 years. Otherwise we would have to discard some great players purely because they did not have a great partner.

Someone may also stretch the argument to opening bowlers, spin twins, bowler keeper combinations and so on. It may sound like I am stretching the argument to an extreme but seriously, that cant be the criteria. If there was another Jack Hobbs in Australia would we discard him because the two of them never shared a partnership.

Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan formed the most successful opening partnership in test cricket for India ever but no one in his right frame of mind would include Chetan in an all time Indian test side.

[SJS]

i heared hanif mohmmad was a good opener at least in test matches. i am supprised that people complatly miss that.

And yes Hanif was a tremendous opener. I had the great fortune to watch him open in a test match. I was too young to appreciate his greatness as I would have done even five years later but he was still a REAL superstar. It was a privilege.

[Shaggy Alfresco]

I'll have a go.

Tests

Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Hammond (C)
Hutton
Compton
Botham
Knott (wk)
Laker
Underwood
Barnes
Trueman

ODIs

Knight
Gooch (C)
Lamb
Pietersen
Fairbrother
Flintoff
Botham
Stewart (wk)
Willis
Gough
Underwood

Pretty good lineups IMO

[pasag]

Ummm... is it just me or does Beleg's ODI team NOT include Imran?

http://forum.cricketweb.net/showpost...5&postcount=20