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What is your ranking of all Country's ATG XIs?

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
Guess this changed in last ~5 years. Pakistan before that was ahead of India. Or may be I did not look at numbers since Pakistan's debut
 

TheJediBrah

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Ok I don't have an opinion either way but surely this is pretty clearly not relevant when comparing to hypothetical ATG sides
 

Gob

International Coach
For SA, personally would go with

Smith
Richards
Amla
Kallis
Pollock
DeVilliers c
Proctor
Pollock
Tayfield
Steyn
Donald

Yeah there are older guys like Nourse, Faulkner but clearly this is the best team
 

bagapath

International Captain
For SA, personally would go with

Smith
Richards
Amla
Kallis
Pollock
DeVilliers c
Proctor
Pollock
Tayfield
Steyn
Donald

Yeah there are older guys like Nourse, Faulkner but clearly this is the best team
Richards played for West Indies. not eligible for SA selection.
 

trundler

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For SA, personally would go with

Smith
Richards
Amla
Kallis
Pollock
DeVilliers c
Proctor
Pollock
Tayfield
Steyn
Donald

Yeah there are older guys like Nourse, Faulkner but clearly this is the best team
4 tests against the worst Australian attack in memory over Mitchell? Nah. Team captained by a quitter too.
 

Gob

International Coach
Hard to decide between India and Pakistan. Would probably have to select and see

India

Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Kohli
Dev
Pant
Aswin
Kumble/Jedeja/Shami
Bumrah
Zaheer

Pakistan

Anwar
Younis
Miandad
Yousef
Inzimam
Safraz (too early?)
Imran
Wasim
Waqar
Saqlain
Quadir/Shoaib/Asif

Hmmm not sure hmm
 

subshakerz

International Coach
Hard to decide between India and Pakistan. Would probably have to select and see

India

Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Kohli
Dev
Pant
Aswin
Kumble/Jedeja/Shami
Bumrah
Zaheer

Pakistan

Anwar
Younis
Miandad
Yousef
Inzimam
Safraz (too early?)
Imran
Wasim
Waqar
Saqlain
Quadir/Shoaib/Asif

Hmmm not sure hmm
In a neutral territory, Pakistan win easily. In SC, its closer, since India have better spin bowlers but Pakistan are great players of spin.
 

srbhkshk

International Captain
1. Australia - Easily the best.
2. WI - Super pacers, ridiculous batting
3. SA - Might be equal in quality to WI but less tested.
4. Pak - Batting quite a bit poorer compared to the top teams.
5. India - No bowlers.
6. NZ - Poor batting, second best bowler can't bowl 3 balls without injuring himself.
7. SL - No pacers, batting is also suspect.
8. ZIM - Andy Flower to cancel out Shakib, pace bowling quite a bit better than Ban.
9. Ban - Just trash in general, would be #15 if not for Shakib.
10. Eng - Every single decent player of note has been dead for 200 years. Probably believe 105 kph is beyond express pace.
 

Bolo.

International Vice-Captain
For SA, personally would go with

Smith
Richards
Amla
Kallis
Pollock
DeVilliers c
Proctor
Pollock
Tayfield
Steyn
Donald

Yeah there are older guys like Nourse, Faulkner but clearly this is the best team
Amla has no business being near an ATG team, unless its Zim or something.

Nourse is a much better bat. Faulkner probably comparable, and adds variety even if not that good a bowler... 2 spinners are enough, but 2 offspinners are likely to fail at the same time, so adding a leggie would help.
 

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
1. Australia - Easily the best.
2. WI - Super pacers, ridiculous batting
3. SA - Might be equal in quality to WI but less tested.
4. Pak - Batting quite a bit poorer compared to the top teams.
5. India - No bowlers.
6. NZ - Poor batting, second best bowler can't bowl 3 balls without injuring himself.
7. SL - No pacers, batting is also suspect.
8. ZIM - Andy Flower to cancel out Shakib, pace bowling quite a bit better than Ban.
9. Ban - Just trash in general, would be #15 if not for Shakib.
10. Eng - Every single decent player of note has been dead for 200 years. Probably believe 105 kph is beyond express pace.
The current Indian attack is good enough. Bumrah Shami Ashwin and Jadeja with Kapil being added is a good attack.
 

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
Ok I don't have an opinion either way but surely this is pretty clearly not relevant when comparing to hypothetical ATG sides
Not relevant for sure, but I took the initiative to drive the thread in a different direction, before someone else invariably does.
 

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