21st Century one-per-team XI

[MrPrez]

Basically, what is the best team that can be made with one player from each Test nation (and two from one)?

Caveat is that the have to have played in the 21st century.

My best attempt was:

1. Hayden (AUS)
2. Cook (ENG)
3. Lara (WI)
4. Tendulkar (IND)
5. Williamson (NZ)
6. Al Hasan (BAN)
7. A. Flower (ZIM)
8. Akram (PAK)
9. Steyn (SA)
10. McGrath (AUS)
11. Murali (SL)

I wanted to go 1. Smith and 9. Warne but the bowling had too much spin in that case.

 

[Red]

Batting Lara out of position.


Cook
Smith
Sangakkara
Tendulkar
Williamson
Flower +
Shakib
Wasim
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath

 

[SuperMurali]

Batting Lara out of position.


Cook
Smith
Sangakkara
Tendulkar
Williamson
Flower +
Shakib
Wasim
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath

swap warne for Murali and the team would be unbeatable

 

[weldone]

Batting Lara out of position.


Cook
Smith
Sangakkara
Tendulkar
Williamson
Flower +
Shakib
Wasim
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath

Ambrose retired in 2000.... so, not technically 21st century....

 

[Dan]

1. Cook (ENG)
2. Sehwag (IND)
3. Williamson (NZ)
4. Tendulkar (IND)
5. Lara (WI)
6. Flower + (ZIM)
7. Shakib (BAN)
8. Wasim (PAK)
9. Steyn (RSA)
10. Muralitharan (SL)
11. McGrath (AUS)

 

[Grumpy]

Big of a cop out to include the likes of Wasim and Flower because you wouldn't necessarily think of them as 21st Century cricketers.

1) Matthew Hayden
2) Virendar Sehwag
3) Ricky Ponting
4) Kumar Sangakarra
5) Brian Lara
6) Shakib Al-Hasan
7) Brendan Taylor (+)
8) Graeme Swann
9) Dale Steyn
10) Mohammad Asif
11) Shane Bond

 

[Howe_zat]

Cowan
Dilshan
Dravid
Chanderpaul
Misbah*
Mushfiqur+
Vettori
Bresnan
Matsikenyeri
Broad
Steyn

 

[Coronis]

Hayden
Cook
Williamson
Tendulkar
Lara
Flower+
Shakib
Wasim
Steyn
Murali
McGrath

 

[Daemon]

Cowan
Dilshan
Dravid
Chanderpaul
Misbah*
Mushfiqur+
Vettori
Bresnan
Matsikenyeri
Broad
Steyn

 

[Athlai]

Stats h4xing it by position

Hayden
Sehwag
Sangakkara
Kallis
Root
Flower (+)
Shakib
Pollock
Bond
Akhtar
Walsh

 

[Tom Flint]

Smith (c)
Sehwag
Williamson
Kallis
Lara
Flower (+)
Shakib
Akhtar
Anderson
Muralitharan
Mcgrath

Gutted not to get Tendulkar in!

 

[Shady Slim]

cricketers i have seen lots of:

Warner
Vijay
KW
KP
Misbah*
Taylor (+)
Shakib
Holder
Philander
Lee
Vaas

my tail is stronger than your tail. i would have included bresnan because he's cool but that appears to be howe's thing

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Tons of batsmen to fit in, but Younis Kahn unlucky not to make a side yet

 

[Zinzan]

I'll have a quick crack at a current test side, (No Zim given they haven't played since late 2014) so two x 2.

Warner
Cook *
KW
Y Khan
D Bravo
Shakib
Chandimal +
Ashwin
Broad
Steyn
Hazlewood