Player closest to being selected in both ATXI ( Test and ODI)

[Pap Finn Keighl]

I've been thinking a bit more about my test XI and I'm leaning towards the following:

Hobbs
Hutton
Bradman*
Lara
Smith
Sobers
Gilchrist+
Wasim
Marshall
Warne
McGrath

Lara - Smith - Sobers gives a very nice left/ right/ left combination. The side bats down to 10 and has the most potent attack in history.

My ODI XI changes based on where the match is being played.

Weak Number 8 for an alltime 11

 

[Victor Ian]

You know what? The answer is Bradman. The fact he didn't get to play a single ODI means nothing. He would have averaged about the same and had a strike rate among the best. There would be no way to control his runs having to bowl within the ODI corridor.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

You know what? The answer is Bradman. The fact he didn't get to play a single ODI means nothing. He would have averaged about the same and had a strike rate among the best. There would be no way to control his runs having to bowl within the ODI corridor.

Sobers = sachin + zaheer

 

[BoyBrumby]

Sobers = sachin + zaheer

With a little bit of Brad Hogg for good measure. The great man was some cricketer.

I reflexively voted Gilly, for the record, but was actually surprised how high Dhoni's ODI average was, so not altogether sure I stand by my call now.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Only Kohli and ABDV are ATG in all 3 formats.

ABdV a T20 ATG?

not even close

 

[stephen]

A non obvious pick who is definitely worth consideration in both t20 and ODI AT sides is Symonds. He has a claim to the ODI side and I fully believe that he was pretty much the archetypal t20 player. His record for Australia was pretty great too and that was after his ODI decline mostly.

 

[ankitj]

He's a good captain but an average batsman in T20s, I am gonna say no. I do place a fair bit of premium on International T20s instead of leagues for that assessment though.

Kohli easily has the best case by that metric, ABDV wasn't much chop in international T20s.

Dhoni has a very healthy T20 average. So just as reliable in T20 as in ODIs (but with similar failings too towards the end of his career)

 

[The Sean]

Sobers = sachin + zaheer

With a little bit of Brad Hogg for good measure. The great man was some cricketer.

And something approaching Ricky Ponting in the field.

If only he could judge declarations, he would have been a handy player.

 

[srbhkshk]

Dhoni has a very healthy T20 average. So just as reliable in T20 as in ODIs (but with similar failings too towards the end of his career)

Nah, in ODIs he had a healthy average and a respectable SR, in T20s his average was fine but his SR was always below average, part of the reason why he got his first 50 so late.

 

[ankitj]

Well there's also less time to get 50 lower down the order in t20s