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Playing Selector: Team of the decade - the 00s

bagapath

International Captain
It is December 2009. The truly pedantic ones will say the first decade of the new millennium will finish only by 2010. But it is time to select the CW dream XI of the 00s.

As always, we will select two openers, two opening bowlers, one wicket keeper, three middle order batsmen, one spinner, the fourth bowler (who will be selected from the top runners up of bowling polls) and the last player - who will usually be an all rounder or additional bowler or additional batsman depending on the team composition.

The stats posted on the thread will always be the numbers against the major test playing nations. The ICC/Aus match stats and all stats against Bang/ Zim will be excluded. But I will be giving separate links to stats for all the matches so that some of you who prefer to look at them can do so. There may be additional names on these lists from the options available in the polls. If anyone wants to vote for them they can write down the names in the thread. As long as they didnt vote in the polls, these votes will be counted separately. We will sleect the skipper in the end.
 
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bagapath

International Captain
Team so far

Openers
Matt Hayden (miles ahead in the polls)
Virender Sehwag (leading Smith by a decent margin)

Fast bowlers

Shaun Pollock/ Dale Steyn/ Shoaib Akhthar (Tight race so far)
Glenn McGrath (Clearly the No.1. choice to take the new ball)
 
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bagapath

International Captain
Team so far.....

Hayden
Sehwag
Ponting
McGrath


Two out of Lara, Dravid and Kallis, one out of Pollock abd Steyn, and Warne are likely to make it to the team soon.
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
It would be great having Dravid come in when Hayden gets out first, and Ponting come in at 3 when Sehwag gets out.
 

bagapath

International Captain
The team so far...

Hayden
Sehwag
Ponting
Dravid/Kallis
Lara

Gilchrist
Warne
Pollock
Mcgrath

Will start the final poll for the last two spots with all rounders and top runners up soon...
 

bagapath

International Captain
Looking forward to what the team looks like. :)
Here it is

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Rahul Dravid
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist +
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Mutthiah Muralitharan
Glenn Mcgrath


Will start the skipper's poll soon
 
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stephen

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Here it is

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Ponting
Rahul Dravid
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist +
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Mutthiah Muralitharan
Glenn Mcgrath


Will start the skipper's poll soon
Slightly different from my 00s banlist, which had Lara and Warne on 90s duty:

Hayden
Smith
Ponting
Dravid
Sangakkara
Kallis
Gilchrist
Pollock
Steyn
Murali
McGrath

Only real point of contention is Sehwag over Smith.
 

Matt79

Global Moderator
Good work - hope you're going to write up an article and submit it to James for inclusion on the front page. "With the end of the decade drawing near for all but the mathematically pedantic, we asked the CW community to nominate their team of the decade via a series of polls..." ;)
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Even though we quite possibly got the 11 best cricketers from this decade, I don't love the team dynamics.
 

stephen

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Even though we quite possibly got the 11 best cricketers from this decade, I don't love the team dynamics.
AWTA. Would rather a more "grinding" opener to open with Hayden and would have loved a more attacking fast bowler in there ahead of Murali. But I agree that these are probably the best players for the decade.
 

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