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An All-Star Game for Cricket?

BC_fan_abored

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I have always been curious about what cricket would look like if you had the best against the best.

The 11 best bowlers a country has to offer versus the 11 best batsmen.

Unfortunately, the depth is lacking in most countries for this to become a reality, but I believe there would be an opportunity to try this concept with an international All-Star game based on the ICC world rankings.

You take the best 22 batsmen and best 22 bowlers and have them play an ODI. (A test would take too long in this context and a Twenty20 would likely be over too quickly would feature too many specialists who aren't as well known).

The teams could be selected in an alternating fashion giving one side the No.1 batsmen and the other the No.1 bowler.

With that method the current two sides would be:

Team 1
Virat Kohli
David Warner
Rohit Sharma
Joe Root
Hashim Amla
Ross Taylor
Steve Smtih
Martin Guptill
Aaron Finch
Mushfiqur Rahim
Jos Buttler

Imran Tahrir
Trent Boult
Kagiso Rabada
Rashid Khan
Mitchell Santner
Adil Rashid
Chris Woakes
Mohammad Nabi
Morne Morkel
Shakib Al Hasan
Tim Murtagh

Team 2
AB de Villiers
Babar Azam
Quinton de Kock
Faf du Plessis
Kane Williamson
MS Dhoni
Shikhar Dhawan
Tamim Iqbal
Alex Hales
Eoin Morgan
Ben Stokes

Hasan Ali
Jasprit Bumrah
Josh Hazlewood
Mitchell Starc
Liam Plunkett
Akshar Patel
Sunil Narine
Bhuvi Kumar
Matt Henry
Pat Cummins
Jason Holder

Given the difficulty of getting all these players together it would likely have be played just before or just after the World Cup and proably need to have a charity element to make it worthwhile and to get the players onboard.

An alternative idea would be to delete one of the players from each side and add the best wicketkeepers for the year into the fielding side. That way you would have ten bowlers bowling 5 overs each and ten batsmen.

Of course with a one-dayer there's a chance you may not see all ten batsmen play but you could always have all 22 there and just send them in as a wicket fell and have more fluid batting teams.

I think this would be an exciting spectacle if you could get the players to play ball.

(also is there anywhere where they try to rank the best wicketkeepers in all formats using some objetctive stats?)
 

cnerd123

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It would be great for 1 innings while the all star bowlers have a crack at the all star batsmen and then rubbish for the second innings.

It should also be a unlimited overs innings otherwise each all star bowler will be underbowled while the all star batsmen batting down the order won't get a chance to bat
 

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