Your national side 2015

[indian_legend]

India:

Virender Sehwag - He wont retire after exactly 100 tests. his 100th test will be sometime in 2012. That comment was made after Sehwag had 70-something tests & he said that he wants to play 100 tests
Gautam Gambhir
Ajinkya Rahane
Virat Kohli
Cheteshwar Pujara
MS Dhoni(w)
Yusuf Pathan
Ravichandran Ashwin
Any 3 out of: Shantakumaran Sreesanth/Pravin Kumar/Deepak Chahar/Pankaj Singh/RP Singh/Munaf Patel/Umesh Yadav/Jaydev Unadkat

 

[Burgey]

Only injury will stop Pat Cummins from having played LOI cricket for Australia by 2015, and I reckon he will have played tests by then too if he stays fit.

 

[morgieb]

Only injury will stop Pat Cummins from having played LOI cricket for Australia by 2015, and I reckon he will have played tests by then too if he stays fit.

Big call. Probably looks pretty good atm, probably worth waiting until he plays FC cricket when we can see whether he isn't a fluke on the horizon.

 

[Burgey]

Gotta put it out there mate. Like these fence sitters pre-Ashes saying it would be close or England might win. FFS, don't sit on the fence. Get in.

Barring injury he will be there in ODIs (assuming, in fact ODIs are there).

 

[salman85]

Mohammad Hafeez (34)
Azhar Ali (30) (captain)
Asad Shafiq (29)
Khurram Manzoor (28)
Umar Amin (23)
Umar Akmal (24)
Kamran Akmal (33) (wk)
Mohammad Amir (23)
Wahab Riaz (29)
Umar Gul (30)
Abdul Rehman (36)

I'm not sure who will be captain by then,since you can never be sure about Pakistan.Kamran Akmal would have been the most logical choice since he's been the vice captain for a while now,but with all the controversies in Pakistani cricket,i don't think he'll get the job.Hopefully by 2015,there will be a much more sane man than Ijaz Butt incharge,so the captaincy would go to someone else.Azhar Ali would be my choice.Nice composed fellow,and seems to have a good cricketing brain.

 

[Jacknife]

England in ODi's:

Rory Hamilton-Brown *
Steven Davies +
Kevin Pietersen
Ian Bell
Eoin Morgan
Jos Buttler
Adil Rashid
Stuart Broad
Chris Woakes
Ajmal Shahzad
Danny Briggs

Really like that side. I definitely see Hamilton-Brown in the England side at some point (give it another big season or so and he could be fast-tracked in), and once he's in the side I see the England management doing a Tim Paine-esque move and bumping him towards captaincy. He's already getting heaps of experience captaining at Surrey, is a natural leader of men, an explosive batsman that scores quickly and offers a spin option with his offies. Rest of the batting line-up picked itself. I tried to fit James Taylor in, but in the end went with Buttler's explosiveness and then Rashid at 7. Liking the depth in the batting too, with 8, 9 and 10 all being more than handy bats.

If I was making up a 15 man squad, for the 2015 WC (or whenever it is) I'd add Alex Hales, James Taylor, David Wainwright and Tim Bresnan to the squad.

Rory Hamilton-Brown as Captain of England's one day side, I just can't see it. Big hitter, but far to inconsistent, I know Surrey have been impressed with him, but he'd have to improve out of sight to get in the England team, then again you never know, when you have guys like Wright and Yardy already involved.
Like the look of Butler, who has a crazy SR in list A, of 152 at 49 which is better than his Twenty20 SR, he's one of the more exciting young players around. I defo see Taylor in the next couple of years becoming a mainstay of both Test and one day side, he's a good player as it is now , so with a bit more experience he could have a long international career.That other youngster from Surrey Jason Roy, looks like he could be something special. I know he's been touted as the next big thing, especially when he hit that 101 off 57 against Kent in the 20/20.

 

[Challis]

Here's what I think Bangladesh's team will be like (or hope) in four years time:

Test Team

Tamim Iqbal
Jahrul Islam
Shahriar Nafees
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mahmadullah Riyad
Shakib Al Hasan (C)
Anamul Haque Bijoy (WK)
Suhrawadi Shuvo
Shafiul Islam
Kamrul Islam Rabbi
Rubel Hossain

Test Squad Reserve Players: Shamsur Rahman Shuvo, Shuvagoto Hom Chowdhury, Naeem Islam, Shahadat Hossain

ODI Team

Tamim Iqbal
Imrul Kayes
Shariar Nafees
Mushfiqur Rahim
Shakib Al Hasan (C)
Mahmadul Hasan
Sabbir Rahman
Anamul Haque Bijoy (WK)
Abdur Razzak
Shafiul Islam
Rubel Hossain

ODI Reserve Squad Players: Mominul Haque, Asif Ahmed Ratul, Nasir Hossain, Kamrul Islam Rabbi

 

[Mike5181]

Pat Cummins for Australia! watched him bowl the other night and he looked mature beyond his years with some serious heat. Bowling at 147.5k at 17 years of age is insane.

 

[_Ed_]

Yeah, looks a terrific prospect.

 

[Flem274*]

Pat Cummins for Australia! watched him bowl the other night and he looked mature beyond his years with some serious heat. Bowling at 147.5k at 17 years of age is insane.

Nothing Milne didn't do.

 

[Blakey]

Nothing Milne didn't do.

@ 17 he was bowling that quick? Really really?

This Aussie kid however will be bowling in a more talented league so his learning will be at a keener level than Milnes.

 

[Flem274*]

@ 17 he was bowling that quick? Really really?

This Aussie kid however will be bowling in a more talented league so his learning will be at a keener level than Milnes.

Champions League.

Yeah Aussie stuff is better, but judging by the quality of Smith etc it's declining a bit, so hopefully Milne won't fall behind.

 

[Julian87]

Watson
Marsh
Khawaja
Clarke
White
Christian
Paine
Siddle
Hazelwood/Starc
Lyon
Copeland

 

[Blakey]

Champions League.

Yeah Aussie stuff is better, but judging by the quality of Smith etc it's declining a bit, so hopefully Milne won't fall behind.

I thought he was 18 at the Champions League.

Smith really is looking pretty rubbish isn't he.

 

[Flem274*]

I thought he was 18 at the Champions League.

Smith really is looking pretty rubbish isn't he.

Pretty sure he was still 17 then, but could be wrong.

 

[Spark]

Gut feel:

Watson
Hughes (Marsh's injury record worries me long-term)
Khawaja
Clarke (c) (Hopefully by then he'll have long learnt how to score runs at #4)
Ferguson
Marsh
Paine
Smith
Siddle
Starc/Hazlewood/Mitch/Doug/others

 

[Bringbackbondy]

West Indies

1. Adrian Barath*
2. Kieran Powell
3. Darren Bravo
4. Kraigg Brathwaite
5. Chesney Hughes
6. Dwayne Bravo
7. Devon Thomas/Jahmar Hamilton/Shane Dowrich (WK)
8. Nkruma Bonner
9. Jerome Taylor
10. Jason Holder
11. Kemar Roach

* I'm expecting Keiron Pollard and Chris Gayle to be 20/20 specialists by then.
* Sarwan to captain the West Indies after Sammy, until he retires from Injury after the 2015 World Cup.
* Fidel Edwards won't make a comeback from injury.
* Dwayne Bravo to average 40+ in tests from 2012 onwards.
* Darren Bravo to go through a form slump in 2013 and be dropped but come back and have an average of 50+ in tests.
* I've always thought the best batsman bats 4 so Brathwaite's there and there's also the added bonus of the left/right handed partnership of Barath/Powell.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Pakistan

Babar Azam
Umar Amin
Azhar Ali (c)
Fawad Alam
Asad Shafiq
Umar Akmal (wk)
Hammad Azam
Usman Qadir
Junaid Khan
Mohammad Talha
Sadaf Hussain

Others to watch out for are:

Batsman - Naved Yasin, Usman Salahuddin

Bowler - Asad Ali, Nasrullah Khan

All-rounder - Anwar Ali, Lal Kumar

 

[Howe_zat]

No Gul or Riaz?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Lol, I forgot Gul and Riaz.