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Your Best XI for players you have witnessed live.

Bushranger

School Boy/Girl Captain
1. Matthew Hayden
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Brian Lara
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Viv Richards
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shane Warne
9. Richard Hadlee
10. Malcolm Marshall
11. Glenn McGrath
12th Ian Botham
 

Spikey

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1. Phil Jaques
2. Greg Mail
3. Simon Katich
4. Michael Clarke
5. Steve Smith
6. Dominic Thornely
7. Rad Haddin
8. Matt Nicholson
9. Stuart Clark
10. Doug Bollinger
11. Stuart MacGill
 
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Bushranger

School Boy/Girl Captain
1. Phil Jauqes
2. Greg Mail
3. Simon Katich
4. Michael Clarke
5. Steve Smith
6. Dominic Thornely
7. Rad Haddin
8. Matt Nicholson
9. Stuart Clark
10. Doug Bollinger
11. Stuart MacGill
Such a **** roach looking side. Go the Maroons...
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Players that I have actually seen perform live. As the side shows I have seen rather better performances with the ball, never had much luck with the great batsmen.

1. Andrew Strauss
2. Alistair Cook
3. Hashim Amla
4. Jacques Kallis
5. Kevin Pietersen
6. Alec Stewart
7. Andrew Filntoff
8. Shane Warne
9. Dale Steyn
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Glenn McGrath
 
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hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
freaking bored so:

Hayden
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Gilchrist
Steyn
Bond
Asif
Murali
 

flibbertyjibber

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Trescothick
Taylor
Lara
Tendulkar
Thorpe
Waugh S
Botham
Russell
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath
 
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Bushranger

School Boy/Girl Captain
Players that I have actually seen perform live. As the side shows I have seen rather better performances with the ball, never had much luck with the great batsmen.

1. Andrew Strauss
2. Alistair Cook
3. Hashim Amla
4. Jacques Kallis
5. Kevin Pietersen
6. Alec Stewart
7. Andrew Filntoff
8. Shane Warne
9. Dale Steyn
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Glenn McGrath
Nothing wrong with that team mate. I was a lucky kid due to family cricket ties my dad had mcg membership which we went every summer from 1984 it was the best thing and as a kid like living a dream.
 

Pothas

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Nothing wrong with that team mate. I was a lucky kid due to family cricket ties my dad had mcg membership which we went every summer from 1984 it was the best thing and as a kid like living a dream.
Been fairly lucky myself, have been to at least one test almost every year since 1998 but most of the great batsmen have tended to let me down. Saw Lara twice and he did not get into double figures, was there when Tendulkar make that 80 on his last appearance in England but Amit Mishra batted better.
 

Bushranger

School Boy/Girl Captain
Been fairly lucky myself, have been to at least one test almost every year since 1998 but most of the great batsmen have tended to let me down. Saw Lara twice and he did not get into double figures, was there when Tendulkar make that 80 on his last appearance in England but Amit Mishra batted better.
Yeah I have been pretty lucky. First ever ODI Viv scored 100 in 1984. But the best ODI batting display was Gilchrist 154 against Sri Lanka and after Gilly hit this huge 6 straight down the ground at the mcg about 30 rows back Arivinda Da Silva at the drinks break went over to gilly and was looking at his bat for about a good 2 minutes. Best Boxing day test was 2003 for me against india. Sehwag makes 190 odd then Harden gets Ton then Ponting gets 250 something by this stage me and the boys are pissed hot and in awe of what were watching poor kumble Gets 6 wickets for like 200 then Dravid gets out at 90 odd in 2nd innings it was some great great batting.
 

jan

State Vice-Captain
The only proper cricket match I have ever been at is this one. Hard to make an XI of it Im afraid :)
 
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theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
The only proper cricket match I have ever been at is this one. Hard to make an XI of it Im afraid :)
I dunno you can make quite a good team with decent international experience.

For 4 day cricket I'd go something like

Carberry, Katich, Adams, Vince, McKenzie, Dawson, Wheater, Chapple, Tanvir, McClenighan, Kerrigan

There's actually a lot of international experience in the two teams. 11 I think plus Vince who is very likely to play international cricket.
 

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Test XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Kumar Sangakkara
Ricky Ponting*
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Muralidaran
Glenn McGrath

ODI XI

Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Adam Gilchrist
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
MS Dhoni
Lance Klusener
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Muralidaran
Glenn McGrath
 
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Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Here is a 2nd XI for Test

Hashim Amla
Mathew Hayden
Rahul Dravid
Javed Miandad
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Kevin Pietersen
Prasanna Jayawardane
Shane Warne
Dale Steyn
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald


ODI 2nd XI

Virender Sehwag
TM Dilshan
Hashim Amla
Virat Kohli
AB de Villiers
Mike Hussey
Andrew Symonds
Waqar Younus
Allan Donald
Saqlain Mushtaq
Curtley Ambrose
 

OverratedSanity

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Sehwag
Dravid
Ponting
Tendulkar
Steve Waugh
VVS Laxman
Gilchrist
Wasim
Warne
Waqar
McGrath

Almost good enough to be a World XI
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Taylor
Gooch
V.Richards
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Gilchrist
Wasim
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath

Ponting
 

mde203

Cricket Spectator
In terms of actual performances I have witnessed rather than the class of player...

Chris Nash
Michael Carberry
Murray Goodwin
Kevin Pietersen
James Taylor
Jos Buttler
Chris Read
Peter Trego
Luke Fletcher
Steve Harmison
Monty Panesar

Mostly from Somerset games I've seen!
 

mde203

Cricket Spectator
In terms of class of player I've seen:

Marcus Trescothick
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Kevin Pietersen
Jos Buttler
Andrew Flintoff
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Brett Lee
Muttiah Muralitheran
Glenn McGrath
 

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