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3 format players and a 3 format XI
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theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
yes wasn't intentionally directed at you, rather the whole thread
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I think if it was a cross-platform team I would tend towards the Test players who I would trust more in the shorter game than I would some of the 20/20 specialists in a Test Match.
cricmahanty
School Boy/Girl Captain
Hashim Amla
Kumar Sangakkara
Jacques Kallis
Kevin Pietersen
Virat Kohli
Shakib al-Hasan
AB de Villiers
Saeed Ajmal/ Graeme Swann
Dale Steyn
Morne Morkel
Steven Finn
The batting order is to be read flexibly and can be changed across formats. Even though Amla is on a break from T20I cricket, I could think of no other opener who serves the needs of all three formats fairly equally well, which is also what explains the non-inclusion of a genuine opener to partner Amla.
Kallis, Pietersen, Kohli and ABDV simply walk into a team like this. Despite AB keeping wickets, I wouldn't want to leave Kumar Sangakkara out either. He could open the batting in the LO formats while batting at 3 in the tests with either of Kallis/KP partnering Amla at the top.
Shakib deserves credit for his consistent show across all three formats over a fairly long spread of time now. But that leaves me with a tough choice to make between Swann and Ajmal for the role of the frontline spinner. I'd strictly have Ajmal for the LO formats but it'd be a closer call if I've to field my team in a test match. And in Steyn, Morkel and Finn, I think I have my bases fairly covered w.r.t. the demands of all the three formats.
Kumar Sangakkara
Jacques Kallis
Kevin Pietersen
Virat Kohli
Shakib al-Hasan
AB de Villiers
Saeed Ajmal/ Graeme Swann
Dale Steyn
Morne Morkel
Steven Finn
The batting order is to be read flexibly and can be changed across formats. Even though Amla is on a break from T20I cricket, I could think of no other opener who serves the needs of all three formats fairly equally well, which is also what explains the non-inclusion of a genuine opener to partner Amla.
Kallis, Pietersen, Kohli and ABDV simply walk into a team like this. Despite AB keeping wickets, I wouldn't want to leave Kumar Sangakkara out either. He could open the batting in the LO formats while batting at 3 in the tests with either of Kallis/KP partnering Amla at the top.
Shakib deserves credit for his consistent show across all three formats over a fairly long spread of time now. But that leaves me with a tough choice to make between Swann and Ajmal for the role of the frontline spinner. I'd strictly have Ajmal for the LO formats but it'd be a closer call if I've to field my team in a test match. And in Steyn, Morkel and Finn, I think I have my bases fairly covered w.r.t. the demands of all the three formats.