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If you want build India's all time greatest test team, what players will you choose?

Sportsrahi

Cricket Spectator
Mine is:

  1. Sunil Gavaskar
  2. Virender Sehwag
  3. Rahul Dravid
  4. Sachin Tendulkar
  5. Mohinder Amarnath
  6. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (WK)
  7. Kapil Dev (C)
  8. Bishan Singh Bedi
  9. Anil Kumble
  10. Javagal Srinath
  11. Zaheer Khan
 

Flametree

International 12th Man
Assuming they're playing at home... (if they're touring SA, Aus or WI of old, I can understand you picking Amarnath...)

Gavaskar
Merchant
Dravid
Tendulkar
Kohli
Kapil Dev
Mankad
Ashwin
Kirmani *
Kumble
Srinath

Alternatives are :
Sehwag opening,
Hazare in at 6 with just 4x bowlers,
Engineer or Dhoni behind the stumps,
Bumrah or Amar Singh as the second seam bowler,
and any of Jadeja, Bedi, Gupte or Chandrasekhar as the spinners...
 

TheJediBrah

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Gavasker
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Kohli
Laxman
Dhoni
Kapil Dev
Ravi Jadeja
Kumble
Bumrah


disclaimer: I don't know much about 20th century cricket. I've heard there are plenty of great Indian spinners from 70s/80s
 

srbhkshk

International Captain
In SC -

Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Kohli
Mankad
Dhoni +
Kapil
Kumble
Srinath
Bedi

Outside SC -

Gavaskar
Engineer +
Dravid
Tendulkar
Kohli
Amarnath
Mankad
Kapil
Kumble
Srinath
Bedi
 

Slifer

International Captain
Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Sachin
Kohli
Azhar
Dhoni+*
Kapil
Ashwin
Kumble
Srinath

Likely that Srinath to be replaced by one of India's current crop of pacemen. But none there yet
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Vijay Merchant
Sunil Gavaskar
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Virat Kohli
Vijay Hazare
Farohk Engineer +
Kapil Dev
Ravi Jadeja
Anil Kumble
Bhagwath Chandresekhar

Bumrah to replace a spinner in a few years.
 

Starfighter

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1. WV Raman
2. DJ Gandhi
3. DK Gaekwad
4. RG Sharma *
5. KK Nair
6. AGK Singh
7. PA Patel †
8. KV Sharma
9. D Ganesh
10. NM Kulkarni
11. DJ Johnson
 

vcs

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1. WV Raman
2. DJ Gandhi
3. DK Gaekwad
4. RG Sharma *
5. KK Nair
6. AGK Singh
7. PA Patel †
8. KV Sharma
9. D Ganesh
10. NM Kulkarni
11. DJ Johnson
You could improve on that. MSK Prasad for Parthiv, Deep Dasgupta or someone for Rohit Sharma.
 

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
1. WV Raman
2. DJ Gandhi
3. DK Gaekwad
4. RG Sharma *
5. KK Nair
6. AGK Singh
7. PA Patel †
8. KV Sharma
9. D Ganesh
10. NM Kulkarni
11. DJ Johnson
Karun Nair and arguably Rohit Sharma do not belong there. Otherwise a list of players everyone wants to play against.
 

vcs

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Haha I didn't even notice Nair. No one with a Test triple hundred should be anywhere near that team.
 

OverratedSanity

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Maharaja of Porbandar should be the captain of that team. Ok he didnt play any tests but still. His cricinfo profile is pure gold

A keen cricketer, he was handicapped by being almost useless.
He acknowledged his limitations, playing in only four of the tour matches and handing over the captaincy for India's first Test to C.K. Nayudu. He scored two runs on the whole trip, provoking the quite justified comment that he owned more Rolls Royces than he had made runs.
 

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
Isn't Dhoni undersold here ? Many do not have him in Indian ATG XI, but he has to be comfortably the best indian wicket keeper batsman ever. Batting average of 38 is quite good for a WK. Note that his competitors all average early 30s or mid to late 20s which is poor imo.
 

trundler

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Dhoni was occasionally sloppy in tests whereas Kirmani was apparently almost as good as Knott.
 

trundler

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Honestly, who knows? Opinions from memory vary widely on Engineer too. It's all a shot in the dark. May as well just depend on the relayer's mood at the time.
 

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