I had Bari in my team as the keeper. Perhpas a bit of notalgia tailored into my selection. I think Latif is definately a good enough keeper, and the superior bat. I can be happy with either. Other than that one difference, the rest of the team is exactly how I'd draw it up too.
Eh?
I started watching in the early 80's so i consider Miandad,Imran and all tose after as current players.Depends on your age i guess.4 of them were in the 92 world cup winning side which only seems like yesterday to me and Waqar was out with his back.
IIRC, KP made the cricinfo all time England side.
I forgot that,wouldn't have had him in yet.Maybe if he kept it up for longer.Didn't pay too much attention to ours,more interested in other nations as you know less about some of their players.
I think he replaced Compton. They've played pretty much the same number of tests. Compton obviously with the better FC pedigree, but that probably wasn't a factor in picking the all time test side. I thought it was a fair call.
same here but i had Moin Khan as a keeper.. I thought he was a fighting cricketer..he wasn't as good of Keeper as Latif or Bari but he could fight against the best attack and bring them down to their knees..
No idea. A bowler of the quality of Wes Hall would be a serious contestant for getting into the all-time team for just about any other test nation, but conventional wisdom is that he really has no chance of getting into an all-time Windies line up. It really is remarkable the way a seemingly limitless supply of top quality quicks just kept sprouting in the Caribbean over that 15 year period. Undoubtedly no other side has ever had such a concentration of great players of a certain type over such a period of time.
Thats because Pakistan only started playing test cricket in the 50s..it was created in 47.
I imagine that even for WI they'll go for one spinner TBH - so I'd reckon Marshall, Ambrose and Garner/Holding, with Sobers as the fourth quick (and second spinner).
IMO they shouldn't include a spinner at all (except perhaps Sobers of course). Something like this would work:
Would swap Dujon with Weekes as keeper(Not a very good keeper, but ATG Batsman, and there are no spinners, so the keeping is easier.) and agree with the rest of the team.
My bad.
Always mixed up those two, Weekes himself, wouldn't make a bad choice, was an occasional FC keeper, and by all accounts the better Batsman. Would still choose(and meant) Walcott as I have no statistical or qualitative record of Weekes's keeping(Though he was one of the best fielders ever)
A very good side but I think Younis Khan would've become good enough to replace Zaheer Abbas by the time of his retirement.Both Wasim Bari & Rashid Latif are one of the greatest ever keepers in history of cricket but they've done the right thing here to select Rashid because of his superior batting.Moin's batting was much better than those two & he was a fighting cricketer & known as "Man of Crisis" for some of the innings he played in extreme pressure during the 1990s but then I think his keeping was not good enough to claim a spot in an alltime XI.Overall,a great side.