ICC Teams of the decade

[James]

Given Pakistan were No 1 in Tests for a while in that decade, I'm surprised none of their players could make it into any of the teams.

Feel like Younis Khan should have made the Test team. In place of, I'm not too sure though.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah, Younis Khan is criminally under rated by the cricketing world at large.

 

[James]

My Test A-Team (min 5 years during the decade)

Amla - 49.96 with the bat (6695 runs)
Pujara - 49.48 with the bat (5740 runs)
Root - 48.41 with the bat (7359 runs)
Younis - 54.37 with the bat (4839 runs)
Chanderpaul - 60.33 with the bat (3198 runs)
Shakib - 42.52 with the bat (3147 runs), 31.97 with the ball (162 wickets)
Watling - 42.51 with the bat (3538 runs)
Cummins - 21.92 with the ball (139 wickets)
Herath - 26.41 with the ball (363 wickets)
Philander - 21.99 with the ball (220 wickets)
Rabada - 22.57 with the ball (190 wickets)

 

[Flem274*]

Was interesting to watch McCullum say Boult and Southee should have been in the test team ahead of Anderson and Broad today. Pretty mis-guided one-eyedness I think ... those guys have produced in Australia in at least one test series, unlike our two.

Watling for the test team and Taylor in the ODI side are the two I'm outraged about!

nah good on him, about time a former skipper stopped simping for duke ball heroes and put forward a real bowler or two, and i don't even agree on those two making it. wagner clearly the main kiwi in the running.

 

[Flem274*]

a different take

cook
warner
sangakkara
younis
smith
kane
watling
cummins
harris
herath
bumrah

i like it. also TIL kane and kohli have more tons than ab de villiers from a lot less tests. fmd that **** underdelivered in some ways.

 

[honestbharani]

a different take

cook
warner
sangakkara
younis
smith
kane
watling
cummins
harris
herath
bumrah

i like it. also TIL kane and kohli have more tons than ab de villiers from a lot less tests. fmd that **** underdelivered in some ways.

Yeah but the way he showed up for the big series at home in tough batting conditions against Ind and Aus just shows what he could when he gave a ****. Some of the most pristinely talented batting I have ever seen and I say that as someone who watched almost every knock of Brian Lara, whom I still maintain is the best test batsman I have seen.

 

[Flem274*]

Yeah but the way he showed up for the big series at home in tough batting conditions against Ind and Aus just shows what he could when he gave a ****. Some of the most pristinely talented batting I have ever seen and I say that as someone who watched almost every knock of Brian Lara, whom I still maintain is the best test batsman I have seen.

yea but if we're playing this game then i can throw michael clarke in the yarn, who also scored more tons than all these blokes at half a run less than abdv.

abdv is doing a fleming at the atg level. no doubt a player can produce amazing innings that make you appreciate how special they are, but they kinda actually have to do it.

 

[James]

a different take

cook
warner
sangakkara
younis
smith
kane
watling
cummins
harris
herath
bumrah

i like it. also TIL kane and kohli have more tons than ab de villiers from a lot less tests. fmd that **** underdelivered in some ways.

Can't have Bumrah on the back of only 2 years of the decade IMO.

 

[Line and Length]

Enough of the Duke v Kookaburra nonsense. Both sides' bowlers use the same ball, depending on the venue. True, Anderson and Broad use the ball well in UK conditions, but so have touring players.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

nah good on him, about time a former skipper stopped simping for duke ball heroes and put forward a real bowler or two, and i don't even agree on those two making it. wagner clearly the main kiwi in the running.

Yep, I'd have been advocating Wagner's inclusion of all the NZ bowlers.

 

[honestbharani]

yea but if we're playing this game then i can throw michael clarke in the yarn, who also scored more tons than all these blokes at half a run less than abdv.

AB did do it though. Clarke played equal great innings and equal cashing in innings but its the stuff where he went missing which makes it worst. Either way, I rate Clarke at that level below Lara-Sachin too tbh.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

My Test A-Team (min 5 years during the decade)

Amla - 49.96 with the bat (6695 runs)
Pujara - 49.48 with the bat (5740 runs)
Root - 48.41 with the bat (7359 runs)
Younis - 54.37 with the bat (4839 runs)
Chanderpaul - 60.33 with the bat (3198 runs)
Shakib - 42.52 with the bat (3147 runs), 31.97 with the ball (162 wickets)
Watling - 42.51 with the bat (3538 runs)
Cummins - 21.92 with the ball (139 wickets)
Herath - 26.41 with the ball (363 wickets)
Philander - 21.99 with the ball (220 wickets)
Rabada - 22.57 with the ball (190 wickets)

Best yet by far. Chanderpaul is criminally underrated around here

 

[harsh.ag]

Good call

My Test A-Team (min 5 years during the decade)

Amla - 49.96 with the bat (6695 runs)
Pujara - 49.48 with the bat (5740 runs)
Root - 48.41 with the bat (7359 runs)
Younis - 54.37 with the bat (4839 runs)
Chanderpaul - 60.33 with the bat (3198 runs)
Shakib - 42.52 with the bat (3147 runs), 31.97 with the ball (162 wickets)
Watling - 42.51 with the bat (3538 runs)
Cummins - 21.92 with the ball (139 wickets)
Herath - 26.41 with the ball (363 wickets)
Philander - 21.99 with the ball (220 wickets)
Rabada - 22.57 with the ball (190 wickets)

This can be improved by having ABdV (who is not in the "official" first XI) in it ahead of Pujara.

 

[GIMH]

The case for leaving Anderson out is thin imo. Broad I can take or leave

 

[Spark]

AB did do it though. Clarke played equal great innings and equal cashing in innings but its the stuff where he went missing which makes it worst. Either way, I rate Clarke at that level below Lara-Sachin too tbh.

Clarke's career in hindsight looks kind of strange. A solid, mostly dependable Test batsman, especially at home, who for two years became basically every single great post-war batsman combined in terms of how he batted for those two years. I don't know of any other batsman except maybe Mohammed Yousuf whose otherwise solidly unremarkable career has one such glaring, transcendent peak in the middle of it which abruptly came and went.

 

[Shri]

the t20 team is dog****

only 3 bowlers ffs

 

[Fuller Pilch]

My Test A-Team (min 5 years during the decade)

Amla - 49.96 with the bat (6695 runs)
Pujara - 49.48 with the bat (5740 runs)
Root - 48.41 with the bat (7359 runs)
Younis - 54.37 with the bat (4839 runs)
Chanderpaul - 60.33 with the bat (3198 runs)
Shakib - 42.52 with the bat (3147 runs), 31.97 with the ball (162 wickets)
Watling - 42.51 with the bat (3538 runs)
Cummins - 21.92 with the ball (139 wickets)
Herath - 26.41 with the ball (363 wickets)
Philander - 21.99 with the ball (220 wickets)
Rabada - 22.57 with the ball (190 wickets)

So AB De Villiers doesn't even make the B team???!!!

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Clarke's career in hindsight looks kind of strange. A solid, mostly dependable Test batsman, especially at home, who for two years became basically every single great post-war batsman combined in terms of how he batted for those two years. I don't know of any other batsman except maybe Mohammed Yousuf whose otherwise solidly unremarkable career has one such glaring, transcendent peak in the middle of it which abruptly came and went.

Brendon McCullum was a decent keeper batsman, who then was an underperforming specialist batsman before having couple of years scoring an epic defensive triple hundred and lightning fast daddy 100s.

 

[James]

So AB De Villiers doesn't even make the B team???!!!

Very true - totally over-looked. A toss-up between Pujara and Root in who to replace him with. Went with Pujara as he had a better average and more hundreds during the period with fewer matches compared to Root, but could easily have Root instead.

Reckon the team would do well in all conditions with the variety in the attack.

Amla - 49.96 with the bat (6695 runs)
Pujara - 49.48 with the bat (5740 runs)
AB De Villers- 57.48 with the bat (5059 runs)
Younis - 54.37 with the bat (4839 runs)
Chanderpaul - 60.33 with the bat (3198 runs)
Shakib - 42.52 with the bat (3147 runs), 31.97 with the ball (162 wickets)
Watling - 42.51 with the bat (3538 runs)
Cummins - 21.92 with the ball (139 wickets)
Herath - 26.41 with the ball (363 wickets)
Philander - 21.99 with the ball (220 wickets)
Rabada - 22.57 with the ball (190 wickets)

 

[thierry henry]

btw why are the ICC taking the hipster ‘tHe dECade dOesn’T stARt unTil 2011’ approach?