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World best Right & Left-Hand XI of last ten years or so

allout

Cricket Spectator
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Hi all!
I was just trying to make best teams of Right Handed Players and Left Handed Players of
last ten years or so.
Here I have my teams:
Right-Handed XI:
  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Herschelle Gibbs
  3. Ricky Ponting
  4. Inzamam ul Haq
  5. Kiven Pieterson
  6. Jacques Kallis
  7. Moin Khan
  8. Shaun Pollock
  9. M Muralitharan
  10. Shane Bond
  11. Glenn McGrath
Left-Handed XI
  1. Saeed Anwar
  2. Matthew Hayden
  3. Snath Jayasuriya
  4. Sourav Ganguly
  5. Brain Lara
  6. Mike Hussy
  7. Kumar Sangakkara
  8. Wasim Akram
  9. Daniel Vettori
  10. James Franklin
  11. Chaminda Vaas
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What you say?
 

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
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Hi all!
I was just trying to make best teams of Right Handed Players and Left Handed Players of
last ten years or so.
Here I have my teams:
Right-Handed XI:
  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Herschelle Gibbs
  3. Ricky Ponting
  4. Inzamam ul Haq
  5. Kiven Pieterson
  6. Jacques Kallis
  7. Moin Khan
  8. Shaun Pollock
  9. M Muralitharan
  10. Shane Bond
  11. Glenn McGrath
Left-Handed XI
  1. Saeed Anwar
  2. Matthew Hayden
  3. Snath Jayasuriya
  4. Sourav Ganguly
  5. Brain Lara
  6. Mike Hussy
  7. Kumar Sangakkara
  8. Wasim Akram
  9. Daniel Vettori
  10. James Franklin
  11. Chaminda Vaas
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What you say?
Dravid ahead of Gibbs if its test match cricket I'd say. James Franklin definitely shouldn't be in the left-handed team.
 

Burgey

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Or Gilly in LH XI - arguably Sangakkara in tests, but what about Gilly even as a batter? Surely Gilly > Ganguly even as a batter only?
 

haroon510

International 12th Man
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Hi all!
I was just trying to make best teams of Right Handed Players and Left Handed Players of
last ten years or so.
Here I have my teams:
Right-Handed XI:
  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Herschelle Gibbs
  3. Ricky Ponting
  4. Inzamam ul Haq
  5. Kiven Pieterson
  6. Jacques Kallis
  7. Moin Khan
  8. Shaun Pollock
  9. M Muralitharan
  10. Shane Bond
  11. Glenn McGrath
Left-Handed XI
  1. Saeed Anwar
  2. Matthew Hayden
  3. Snath Jayasuriya
  4. Sourav Ganguly
  5. Brain Lara
  6. Mike Hussy
  7. Kumar Sangakkara
  8. Wasim Akram
  9. Daniel Vettori
  10. James Franklin
  11. Chaminda Vaas
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What you say?
in Right hand i would put Nathan Astle or yousuf for Kallies
left hand i would put Zahir khan or Pathan for James frankline
 

The Big Cheese

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
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Hi all!
I was just trying to make best teams of Right Handed Players and Left Handed Players of
last ten years or so.
Here I have my teams:
Right-Handed XI:
  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Herschelle Gibbs
  3. Ricky Ponting
  4. Inzamam ul Haq
  5. Kiven Pieterson
  6. Jacques Kallis
  7. Moin Khan
  8. Shaun Pollock
  9. M Muralitharan
  10. Shane Bond
  11. Glenn McGrath
Left-Handed XI
  1. Saeed Anwar
  2. Matthew Hayden
  3. Snath Jayasuriya
  4. Sourav Ganguly
  5. Brain Lara
  6. Mike Hussy
  7. Kumar Sangakkara
  8. Wasim Akram
  9. Daniel Vettori
  10. James Franklin
  11. Chaminda Vaas
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What you say?
I say there be no clear indication if this is ODIs or Tests (or Twenty20s :laugh: ) What if a player bowled Right hand and batted left hand (Oram for example)

Its interesting to note there is a massive struggle to have two genuine RH openers for tests. Sachin certainly isnt one and neither is Gibbs IMO. Most great openers these days are leftys: Smith, Hayden, Langer, Cook, Tresco, Strauss, Gayle, Jayasuriya, etc etc
Sehwag but is horribly out of form, but there is no indication that this is a current form thread, so my openers would be Sehwag and Michael Vaughn who i believe was a great opener particularly in the '02, '03 time period.

Franklin out, Bracken in? or Pathan?

Pollock out Warney in.

My RH:
Vaughn (c)
Sehwag
Ponting
Dravid
Kallis
Pieterson
(Moin Khan!?) Boucher, or Alec Stewart (I hope he was right handed)
Warne
Bond
McGrath
Murali

LH:
Hayden
Smith
Sangakkara (wk)
Hussey
Lara
Ganguly
Vettori
Pathan
Akram (c)
Vaas
Bracken

LH has 5 bowlers because it is a weak point of their Xi, and also most of their bowlers can bat fairly good so that evens it up.
 

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Franklin out, Bracken in? or Pathan?


LH:
Hayden
Smith
Sangakkara (wk)
Hussey
Lara
Ganguly
Vettori
Pathan
Akram (c)
Vaas
Bracken

LH has 5 bowlers because it is a weak point of their Xi, and also most of their bowlers can bat fairly good so that evens it up.
Is that a ODI side?
 

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
My test sides for 1997-2007:

Righties XI
1. Michael Vaughan*
2. Herschelle Gibbs
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Rahul Dravid
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Alec Stewart+
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Shane Warne
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath

12th. Allan Donald

Lefties XI
1. Matthew Hayden
2. Justin Langer
3. Brian Lara
4. Kumar Sangakkara
5. Andy Flower*
6. Graham Thorpe
7. Adam Gilchrist+
8. Daniel Vettori
9. Wasim Akram
10. Chaminda Vaas
11. James Franklin

12th man: Michael Hussey
 
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Nishant

International 12th Man
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Hi all!
I was just trying to make best teams of Right Handed Players and Left Handed Players of
last ten years or so.
Here I have my teams:
Right-Handed XI:
  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Herschelle Gibbs
  3. Ricky Ponting
  4. Inzamam ul Haq
  5. Kiven Pieterson
  6. Jacques Kallis
  7. Moin Khan
  8. Shaun Pollock
  9. M Muralitharan
  10. Shane Bond
  11. Glenn McGrath
Left-Handed XI
  1. Saeed Anwar
  2. Matthew Hayden
  3. Snath Jayasuriya
  4. Sourav Ganguly
  5. Brain Lara
  6. Mike Hussy
  7. Kumar Sangakkara
  8. Wasim Akram
  9. Daniel Vettori
  10. James Franklin
  11. Chaminda Vaas
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What you say?
i would have Zaheer khan in for Franklin and Dravid in for Gibbs TBH.
 

allout

Cricket Spectator
Ok then,
Lets suppose we are selecting Test Teams of last ten years.... and Right Hand XI can have only R.H Batsmen and Bowler and same with L.Hs. No mixing :)
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Right Handers

  1. Sehwag
  2. Alec Stewart (keeper)
  3. Ponting
  4. Tendulkar
  5. Arvinda D'Silva
  6. Steve Waugh (captain)
  7. Flintoff
  8. Warne
  9. Gillespie
  10. Murali
  11. McGrath

I am not too happy with the opening slot but....

Left Handers
  1. Hayden
  2. Langer
  3. Thorpe
  4. Lara
  5. Sangakarra (keeper)
  6. Andy Flower
  7. Jayasuriya
  8. Irfan Pathan
  9. Wasim Akram
  10. Vettori
  11. Vaas

Jayasuriya appears odd at nuber seven but he is in the side to fill the all rounder spot. I have taken Sangakarra as keeper as I think he is a better keeper then Gilchrist and a better test batsman. Andy Flower comes in purely on the strength of his batting.
 
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oz_fan

International Regular
Right-Handed XI
1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Rahul Dravid
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Jacques Kallis
5. Inzamam Ul Haq
6. Steve Waugh
7. Mark Boucher
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Shane Warne
10. Muralitharin
11. Glenn McGrath

Left-Handed XI
1. Justin Langer
2. Matt Hayden
3. Gary Kirsten
4. Brian Lara
5. Andy Flower
6. Mike Hussey
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Wasim Akram
9. Chaminda Vaas
10. Daniel Vettori
11. Nathan Bracken
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Right-Handed XI
1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Rahul Dravid
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Jacques Kallis
5. Inzamam Ul Haq
6. Steve Waugh
7. Mark Boucher
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Shane Warne
10. Muralitharin
11. Glenn McGrath

Left-Handed XI
1. Justin Langer
2. Matt Hayden
3. Gary Kirsten
4. Brian Lara
5. Andy Flower
6. Mike Hussey
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Wasim Akram
9. Chaminda Vaas
10. Daniel Vettori
11. Nathan Bracken
I thought we were selecting test XI. In that case its a bit 'off' to select two non-regular openers. This was my problem too. All the top playrs of the time seemed to be in the middle order :)
 

Tom Halsey

International Coach
My test sides for 1997-2007:

Righties XI
1. Michael Vaughan*
2. Herschelle Gibbs
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Rahul Dravid
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Alec Stewart+
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Shane Warne
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath

12th. Allan Donald

Lefties XI
1. Matthew Hayden
2. Justin Langer
3. Brian Lara
4. Kumar Sangakkara
5. Andy Flower*
6. Graham Thorpe
7. Adam Gilchrist+
8. Daniel Vettori
9. Wasim Akram
10. Chaminda Vaas
11. Waqar Younis

12th man: Michael Hussey
:huh:
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Surprised no one's mentioned Sidebottom for the Lefties tbh.
Too short a career to be considered in a last ten year career.

the real surprise for me is Irfan Pathan. It looks like the curreent form is influencing people which should not be the case when selecting a team for last ten years. He shouyld be a strong contender considering how few left handed bowlers there have been.

Of the 61 bowlers to get 50 or more test wickets over the last ten years, only 7 are left handers.

  1. Akram : 106 wkts at 26.5 each (Str Rate 60)
  2. Franklin 76 wkts at 28.2 each (Str Rate 47.1)
  3. Vaas : 259 wkts at 30.6 each (Str Rate 67.4)
  4. Pathan : 91 wkts at 30.8 each (Str Rate 55.8)
  5. Jayasuriya : 90 wkts at 32 each (Str Rate 81.0)
  6. Vettori : 228 wkts at 33.9 each (Str Rate 76.4)
  7. Adams : 112 wkts at 34.7 (Str Rate 69.1)

Surely he is a contender - 4th in bowling averages and 2nd in strike rate.

Add to that his batting average of 28. Vaas and Akram are both under 24 and Vettori is under 26.
 

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