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All-Time World Twenty20 XI

Howe_zat

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It depends which way you look at it. Being successful as a hired goon for cashed up franchises has always been as big a part of top-level T20 cricket as being successful internationally has been, if not more. It's not quite like picking a modern Test XI where the focus is almost completely on Tests.
You're not getting my point. He's not even been that great at domestic level. Good, fine, but among the world's best?

He occupies the same spaces the like of Darren Maddy did when T20 first popped up. There's just more cash and TV involved now.
 

weeman27bob

International Regular
You're not getting my point. He's not even been that great at domestic level. Good, fine, but among the world's best?

He occupies the same spaces the like of Darren Maddy did when T20 first popped up. There's just more cash and TV involved now.
Irrespective of whether he's a good player or not, he must be doing something right because everyone wants a piece of him.
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
You're not getting my point. He's not even been that great at domestic level. Good, fine, but among the world's best?

He occupies the same spaces the like of Darren Maddy did when T20 first popped up. There's just more cash and TV involved now.
Oh, I wouldn't pick him either; I just don't think failing at international level is quite the point. The IPL is probably still the pinnacle of T20 cricket - even if other competitions are of a higher standard as such, that's the competition the players and fans care about most in the format IMO, and he's been pretty good there. Probably not good enough to include in a World XI but it's not a disgraceful pick AFAIC.
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
How Vettori is not in the majority of the sides with an average of 16.57 and RPO of 5.37 with the ball is completely baffling.
 

Arjun

Cricketer Of The Year
The T20I side I assembled was based largely on T20I caps, and when I looked up most capped T20I players, I found our much-loved LRPL Taylor among them. He has a fantastic T20 strike rate, lots of big scores and big hits, but in the NZ uniform, his strike rate drops under 120. Would you consider him in your World T20I XI?

Moreover, we find that South Africans, Pakistanis, Kiwis and English play a lot more T20Is than the rest- notably Indians and Caribbeans. Some Indian players, for instance, have a phenomenal T20I record, but haven't even crossed thirty T20I caps. Would you expect these players to get levelled once they come so far? Yuvraj and Raina, for instance? Not Gayle, he'd level everything else!
 

dhillon28

U19 Debutant
Chris Gayle
Brendan McCullum (wk)
Kevin Pietersen
Yuvraj Singh
Rohit Sharma
Albie Morkel
Shahid Afridi
Daniel Vettori
Umar Gul
Lasith Malinga
Shaun Tait
 

a massive zebra

International Captain
I'd go for...


Contemporary
Chris Gayle
Brendan McCullum+
Kevin Pietersen
Mahela Jayawardene
Eoin Morgan
Mike Hussey
Shahid Afridi
Daniel Vettori*
Umar Gul
Ajantha Mendis
Lasith Malinga

12th Man: Yuvraj Singh

Historical
Victor Trumper
Sanath Jayasuriya
Don Bradman*
Gilbert Jessop
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist+
Learie Constantine
Waqar Younis
Joel Garner
Sydney Barnes

12th Man: Charlie Thornton
 

cnerd123

likes this
Hmm

Gayle
Tendulkar
Bradman
Sir Viv
Botham
MSD (+) (*)
Afridi
Vettori
Malinga
Gul
Garner

Kind-of an alltime XI.
 

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