weldone
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which was the last one?
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Your World XI 2001-2010
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weldone
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Tendulkar averages more than Ponting, Sehwag, Hayden and Dravid in this period. However, he averages less than Mohammad Yousuf and Mahela Jayawardene too.
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Very hard to pick 5 or 6 out of so many deserving names there.
It's truly been "the decade of the batsmen".
weldone
Hall of Fame Member
Very good team. The bowling lineup of McGrath, Steyn, Muralitharan, Warne and Kallis looks undisputable.
biased indian
International Coach
Virender Sehwag
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
VVS Laxman
Adam Gilchrist
Andrew Flintoff
Dale Steyn
Shane Bond
Glenn McGrath
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
VVS Laxman
Adam Gilchrist
Andrew Flintoff
Dale Steyn
Shane Bond
Glenn McGrath
kingkallis
International Coach
Sachin and Sehwag are your spinners there, mate?
kingkallis
International Coach
Virender Sehwag
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting ( c )
Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
VVS Laxman ( Find me a better No.6 and I will replace VVS )
Adam Gilchrist ( + )
Shane Warne
Dale Steyn
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath
Bowling attack of Glenn, Steyn, Murali, Warne and Kallis is good enough.
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting ( c )
Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
VVS Laxman ( Find me a better No.6 and I will replace VVS )
Adam Gilchrist ( + )
Shane Warne
Dale Steyn
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath
Bowling attack of Glenn, Steyn, Murali, Warne and Kallis is good enough.
bagapath
International Captain
will go with my instincts and ignore the spreadsheets for a change
for the team from 2001 to 2010, the first player i would choose will be adam gilchrist. in an era of high caliber wk-batters like flower, sangakara, dhoni, stewart, boucher and haddin he stood out big time with his umcomplicated stroke making and supreme wicket keeping skills.
my opening bowler would be mcgrath. he was, again, miles ahead of the rest of the world in his accuracy and work ethic and intelligence.
similarly murali won so many matches on his own and so did warne. it is not necessary to drop either of them. both walk into my team.
the middle order champions are too many. but ponting would be my first pick. because he is a natural no.3, dravid is unlucky to miss out.
at 4 would be jacques kallis. he is only one level below tendulkar but on par with pietersen, mahila and mohammad yousuff. with two spinners in my team i would need him to be my fifth bowler if necessary. he walks in to the team on his all round abilities.
the openers would have to be hayden and sehwag. there were other terrific new ball killers like smith, langer and jayasuriya who played a lot in this decade but these two are the ones the opposition hated to see come out of the dressing room swinging their arms like prize fighters.
that leaves me with two more middle order positions and one opening bowler.
to partner mcgrath i have to choose one between shan pollock, dale steyn and shoab akhthar for they were the most likely bowlers to match pigeon on his legendary match winning quality. i go for steyn for he was faster than pollock and struck more quickly than anyone else. he was also more accurate than akhthar and did not have genital warts.
one of the middle order slots i would want to hand out to brian lara. he will come in at no 5 and kill the opposition with his magic.
no.6 is a specialist position. and laxman takes it despite heavy opposition from chanderpal, hussey and samaraweera.
so here is my team
hayden
sehwag
ponting (c)
kallis
lara
laxman
gilchrist (wk)
warne
steyn
murali
mcgrath
for the team from 2001 to 2010, the first player i would choose will be adam gilchrist. in an era of high caliber wk-batters like flower, sangakara, dhoni, stewart, boucher and haddin he stood out big time with his umcomplicated stroke making and supreme wicket keeping skills.
my opening bowler would be mcgrath. he was, again, miles ahead of the rest of the world in his accuracy and work ethic and intelligence.
similarly murali won so many matches on his own and so did warne. it is not necessary to drop either of them. both walk into my team.
the middle order champions are too many. but ponting would be my first pick. because he is a natural no.3, dravid is unlucky to miss out.
at 4 would be jacques kallis. he is only one level below tendulkar but on par with pietersen, mahila and mohammad yousuff. with two spinners in my team i would need him to be my fifth bowler if necessary. he walks in to the team on his all round abilities.
the openers would have to be hayden and sehwag. there were other terrific new ball killers like smith, langer and jayasuriya who played a lot in this decade but these two are the ones the opposition hated to see come out of the dressing room swinging their arms like prize fighters.
that leaves me with two more middle order positions and one opening bowler.
to partner mcgrath i have to choose one between shan pollock, dale steyn and shoab akhthar for they were the most likely bowlers to match pigeon on his legendary match winning quality. i go for steyn for he was faster than pollock and struck more quickly than anyone else. he was also more accurate than akhthar and did not have genital warts.
one of the middle order slots i would want to hand out to brian lara. he will come in at no 5 and kill the opposition with his magic.
no.6 is a specialist position. and laxman takes it despite heavy opposition from chanderpal, hussey and samaraweera.
so here is my team
hayden
sehwag
ponting (c)
kallis
lara
laxman
gilchrist (wk)
warne
steyn
murali
mcgrath
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Migara
Cricketer Of The Year
Pollock out, Sanga in an at #3. Akthar out and Steyn in. Dravid out and Tendulkar in. That would be my team.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
He averages more because your weird definition of a decade happens to include this year, where he's been awesome.
And I couldn't give a **** whether or not he averages more than Dravid. Dravid has been India's best batsman of the last 10 years, end of story.
kingkallis
International Coach
Well, I tend to agree here that RD > SRT for last decade.
Migara
Cricketer Of The Year
Test match batting 2001-2010 Minimum qualification 2000 runs.
Kallis 9048 @ 62.0
Sanga 8070 @ 58.9
Lara 5883 @ 58.2
Yousuf 5794 @ 57.4
Jayawardane 7854 @ 56.5 are at the top
Kallis 9048 @ 62.0
Sanga 8070 @ 58.9
Lara 5883 @ 58.2
Yousuf 5794 @ 57.4
Jayawardane 7854 @ 56.5 are at the top
kingkallis
International Coach
How many of those Sanga & Jaya runs came out of SL?
kingkallis
International Coach
Sangakkara has maintained the average of at least 47 throughout the decade which is really good.
Migara
Cricketer Of The Year
Runs vs non-minnows
Are the top scorers
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Kallis 8231 @ 58.79
Lara 5488 @ 57.76
Sangakkara 6658 @ 55.94
Chanderpaul 6048 @ 54.98
Jayawardene 6690 @ 54.83
Migara
Cricketer Of The Year
Sanga @ 48.4 away vs non-minnows, Jayawardane 43.7 away vs non minnows.
Then how much Sehwag's runs have come in the sub continent?
