All time world test XI selection

[Nikhil99.99]

Mitchell
Hayden

larwood
Waqar

 

[ankitj]

Barry Richards
Arthur Morris

Waqar Younis
Michael Holding

 

[gftw]

B.Richards
Cook

Holding
Davidson

 

[kyear2]

I'm still not voting for Barry Richards. He should either be in the First XI if he qualifies or not at all if he doesn't.

Anyway:
Cook
Turner

Holding
Waqar

Not a bad take at all.

Should really be in one of the first two teams selected, but if not an argument can be made that he just doesn't qualify.

 

[The Sean]

Not a bad take at all.

Should really be in one of the first two teams selected, but if not an argument can be made that he just doesn't qualify.

Yeah, I've kind of led myself to a similar conclusion. If I am judging him on pure quality and how highly I rate him as a batsman then I should already have picked him. If I am judging him based on Test performances, I can't really see how I'm picking him at all!

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

If I am judging him on pure quality and how highly I rate him as a batsman then I should already have picked him. If I am judging him based on Test performances, I can't really see how I'm picking him at all!

A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.

 

[Red]

After the 8 teams are done, I’ll do two extra XIs. One pre WW1, and one for players with less than 20 tests. Players only eligible for one or the other.

 

[Coronis]

After the 8 teams are done, I’ll do two extra XIs. One pre WW1, and one for players with less than 20 tests. Players only eligible for one or the other.

So does that mean players with less than 20 tests aren’t eligible for the main XI’s?

 

[HookShot]

OK cool, revised

Barry Richards
Hanif Mohammad

Alan Davidson
Andy Roberts

 

[HookShot]

Yeah, I've kind of led myself to a similar conclusion. If I am judging him on pure quality and how highly I rate him as a batsman then I should already have picked him. If I am judging him based on Test performances, I can't really see how I'm picking him at all!

Four Tests for Barry Richards is a small sample size, but if you add-on his 10 x unofficial Tests (WSC Super Tests plus Rebel Tours) then you get;

14 Tests and 1359 runs at an average 64.71 (according to ‘Cricket Country’)

https://www.cricketcountry.com/arti...s-of-the-1970s-had-been-official-tests-194978

Still not a load of Test matches I know, but the WSC/Rebel Tests still add weight to the argument that Barry Richards was one of the finest batsman of his era, of all time.



(Incidently, if you factor in WSC Super Tests then the batting average of Viv Richards increases from 50 to 51, and the batting average of Greg Chappell increases from 53 to 55 thus highlighting his skill against the Windies quicks)

 

[Red]

So does that mean players with less than 20 tests aren’t eligible for the main XI’s?

No, I don’t see why they should be. But it gives some scope for others who think players need to play an extended amount of tests to prove themselves.

Anyone who played a post WW1 test is eligible here, but these extra XIs will give the players not voted for in the 8 XIs some credit

 

[Red]

First XI

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Don Bradman (c)
Sachin Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist +
Imran Khan
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath


Second XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Herbert Sutcliffe
Brian Lara
Wally Hammond (c)
Jaques Kallis
Steve Smith
Alan Knott +
Richard Hadlee
Dale Steyn
Curtly Ambrose
Muttiah Muralitharan


Third XI

Geoffrey Boycott
Bob Simpson (c)
George Headley
Kumar Sangakkara
Greg Chappell
Keith Miller
Les Ames +
Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
Bill OReilly
Fred Trueman


Fourth XI

Gordon Greenidge
Graeme Smith
Ricky Ponting
Graeme Pollock
Allan Border (c)
Ian Botham
BJ Watling +
Ray Lindwall
Jim Laker
Joel Garner
Allan Donald


Fifth XI

Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
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Alan Davidson
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Waqar Younis

 

[Red]

Fifth XI

- Select a number 3 batsman

- Select a wicketkeeper

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Compton

Healy

 

[kyear2]

Rahul Dravid

Jock Cameron

 

[Prince EWS]

Dravid
Waite

 

[srbhkshk]

Dravid

Dhoni

 

[trundler]

Dravid
Waite

 

[HookShot]

Rohan Kanhai

Godfrey Evans

 

[The Sean]

Clyde Walcott

Ian Healy