World XI by ICC Rankings

[NZTailender]

Current Test Side (top 5 bats, top bat rated WK, top AR, top 4 bowlers)

1. Rohit Sharma
2. Marnus Labuschagne
3. Kane Williamson
4. Joe Root
5. Steve Smith
6. Quinton de Kock+
7. Jason Holder
8. Ravichandran Ashwin
9. Tim Southee
10. Pat Cummins
11. Josh Hazlewood

Steve Smith the only current player who would make a current XI and World All Time XI while Pat Cummins is very close.

Any predictions how the side will look at end of year?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

8 or 9 of the 11 players will stay the same. Only changes will be Jadeja for Holder, Jamieson for Hazlewood (with batting order adjusted), and possibly one of Pant or Rizwan for QDK. Latham and Warner might rise in the batting rankings but I don't think they'll make the top 5.

 

[Tom Flint]

Current Test Side (top 5 bats, top bat rated WK, top AR, top 4 bowlers)

1. Rohit Sharma
2. Marnus Labuschagne
3. Kane Williamson
4. Joe Root
5. Steve Smith
6. Quinton de Kock+
7. Jason Holder
8. Ravichandran Ashwin
9. Tim Southee
10. Pat Cummins
11. Josh Hazlewood

Steve Smith the only current player who would make a current XI and World All Time XI while Pat Cummins is very close.

Any predictions how the side will look at end of year?

Cummins is very close to what?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Current Test Side (top 5 bats, top bat rated WK, top AR, top 4 bowlers)

1. Rohit Sharma
2. Marnus Labuschagne
3. Kane Williamson
4. Joe Root
5. Steve Smith
6. Quinton de Kock+
7. Jason Holder
8. Ravichandran Ashwin
9. Tim Southee
10. Pat Cummins
11. Josh Hazlewood

Steve Smith the only current player who would make a current XI and World All Time XI while Pat Cummins is very close.

Any predictions how the side will look at end of year?

I wouldn't say Cummins is that close. He still wouldn't make an ATG Australian team. Might (big might) be in the top 25 seamers of all time.

 

[The Sean]

Cummins is very close to what?

I wouldn't say Cummins is that close. He still wouldn't make an ATG Australian team. Might (big might) be in the top 25 seamers of all time.

This is being judged by peak ICC ratings, and Cummins has achieved a rating of 914 points - equal with McGrath as the highest ever by an Australian, and the fifth highest ever.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I see.

 

[Immenso]

How much it will change it 29 days time? I'd say, not much.

 

[TheJediBrah]

World champs under-represented. Too bad Watling retired

I wouldn't say Cummins is that close. He still wouldn't make an ATG Australian team. Might (big might) be in the top 25 seamers of all time.

Another couple of years of what he's been doing and he's in the top 10, possibly even top 5 of all time.

 

[Gob]

Cummins is very close to what?

Yo mama

 

[NZTailender]

World champs under-represented. Too bad Watling retired

Needs to be a wicketkeeper ranking, though not sure how that would work. Number of catches and stumpings offset by byes conceded?

 

[Athlai]

I think icc does have a fielding rating. They've either scrapped or hidden it though

 

[TheJediBrah]

I think icc does have a fielding rating. They've either scrapped or hidden it though

Can't imagine it would be worth anything, unless it's somehow analysing difficulty and outcome of every instance a fielder touches the ball . Probably be just counting catches

 

[Athlai]

Can't imagine it would be worth anything, unless it's somehow analysing difficulty and outcome of every instance a fielder touches the ball . Probably be just counting catches

Yeah it was pretty crap

 

[Line and Length]

I tried something similar with the ICC rankings for ODIs and came up with this:

R.Sharma
J.Bairstow +
Babar Azam
V.Kohli
R.Taylor
Shakib Al Hasan
Mohammad Nabi
C.Woakes
J.Hazelwood
T.Boult
Mujeeb Ur Rahman

I was tempted to leave out Mujeeb and have Matt Henry batting at 9.