Country Teams by Batting Positions
Note: In cases of ties I choose and in the case of the same person winning multiple positions I choose which position they get and which other/s get the 2nd place promoted
Australia
Justin Langer
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Mark Waugh (6)
Steve Waugh (5)
Allan Border (*) (7)
Rodney Marsh (+)
Shane Warne (3)
Mitchell Starc (2)
Nathan Lyon (4)
Glenn McGrath (1)
Note: Steve Waugh had the most at both 5 and 6 but I decided the team was better with Border than with Michael Clarke
England
Graham Gooch
Alistair Cook
Mark Butcher
Joe Root (6)
Graham Thorpe
Ben Stokes (*) (5)
Matt Prior (+)
Chris Woakes (3)
Graeme Swann (4)
Stuart Broad (2)
James Anderson (1)
Note: Stuart Broad was 1st in the number 8, 9 and 10 positions but I chose him at number 10 because the runner up there was James Anderson who was also 1st at number 11 with Bob Willis finishing 3rd at number 10 and 2nd at number 11
India
Sunil Gavaskar
Virendar Sehwag (6)
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar (5)
Ajinkya Rahane
VVS Laxman
MS Dhoni (*) (+)
Ravichandran Ashwin (2)
Zaheer Khan (1)
Bishen Bedi (4)
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar (3)
New Zealand
Tom Latham
John Wright
Kane Williamson (*) (7)
Ross Taylor
Nathan Astle (5)
Craig McMillan (6)
BJ Watling (+)
Daniel Vettori (4)
Tim Southee (1)
Neil Wagner (3)
Chris Martin (2)
Pakistan
Mohammad Hafeez (5)
Taufeeq Umar
Azhar Ali
Javed Miandad
Misbah-ul-Haq (*)
Asad Shafiq
Sarfraz Ahmed (+)
Wasim Akram (1)
Waqar Younis (2)
Iqbal Qasim (3)
Danish Kaneria (4)
Note: Waqar Younis had the most at both 9 and 10 but I preferred Iqbal Qasim to Umar Gul
South Africa
Graeme Smith (*)
Herschelle Gibbs
Hashim Amla
Jacques Kallis (5)
AB de Villiers
Jonty Rhodes
Mark Boucher (+)
Shaun Pollock (2)
Kagiso Rabada (3)
Dale Steyn (1)
Makhaya Ntini (4)
Note: AB de Villiers had the most innings at 5 and 6 but I preferred Jonty Rhodes to Ashwell Prince
Sri Lanka
Dimuth Karunaratne
Sanath Jayasuriya
Kumar Sangakkara
Mahela Jayawardene (*)
Thilan Samaraweera
Hashan Tillakaratne
Prasanna Jayawardene (+)
Chaminda Vaas (1)
Rangana Herath (4)
Suranga Lakmal (2)
Muttiah Muralitharan (3)
Note: Murali was 1st at both 10 and 11 but I chose Lakmal over Pradeep
West Indies
Kraigg Brathwaite
Desmond Haynes
Richie Richardson
Brian Lara
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Garfield Sobers (*) (5)
Ridley Jacobs (+)
Malcolm Marshall (1)
Curtly Ambrose (2)
Kemar Roach (4)
Courtney Walsh (3)
Note: Courtney Walsh had the most innings at both 10 and 11 but I preferred Kemar Roach to Shannon Gabriel
World
Sunil Gavaskar
Desmond Haynes
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ben Stokes (3)
Mark Boucher (+)
Shane Warne (*) (4)
Curtly Ambrose (1)
Nathan Lyon (5)
James Anderson (2)
Country Teams by Bowling Positions
Note: For countries that have never had an 11th bowler, I choose based off who didn't bowl in innings where they had the most bowlers bowl. In cases of ties or the same person having the most in 2 positions, I choose.
Note: Bowling positions are the position they bowled the most in
Australia
Justin Langer (9)
Steve Smith (8)
Ian Chappell (*) (7)
Mark Waugh (5)
Steve Waugh (6)
Graham Yallop (11)
Rodney Marsh (+) (10)
Shane Warne (3)
Nathan Lyon (4)
Josh Hazlewood (2)
Glenn McGrath (1)
Note 1: Shane Warne and Nathan Lyon had the most and 2nd most innings bowled respectively in both positions 3 and 4 so I chose Warne for position 3 because in an actual team he'd probably bowl before Lyon
Note 2: David Boon, Justin Langer, Usman Khawaja and Julien Wiener all tied for the most innings bowled in position 9 so I chose Langer as the best opening option
Note 3: Rodney Marsh and Mark Taylor tied for 10th but I chose Marsh because a wicketkeeper is needed
England
Len Hutton (*) (10)
Arthur Shrewsbury (11)
David Gower (9)
Joe Root (6)
Denis Compton (7)
Ben Stokes (5)
Ian Botham (3)
Graeme Fowler (+) (8)
Stuart Broad (2)
James Anderson (1)
Derek Underwood (4)
Note 1: Stokes had the most innings bowled in both positions 4 and 5 but I chose him at position 5 as I prefer Derek Underwood to Moeen Ali
Note 2: Root had the most innings bowled in both positions 6 and 7 but I chose Compton because he was 2nd in position 7 and tied for 2nd in position 6 with Kevin Pietersen
Note 3: Graeme Fowler tied for the most innings bowled in position 8 with Mike Smith
Note 4: David Gower tied with Colin Cowdrey, Lord Harris, Nasser Hussain, Jim Parks, Peter Richardson, Mike Smith, David Steele and Cyril Washbrook for the most innings bowled in position 9
Note 5: Len Hutton tied with Ken Barrington, Colin Cowdrey, Mike Gatting and Alfred Lyttelton for the most innings bowled in position 10
India
Virendar Sehwag (6)
SS Das (10)
Rahul Dravid (*) (8)
Sachin Tendulkar (7)
Dilip Sardesai (9)
Ravindra Jadeja (5)
Kapil Dev (1)
Ajay Ratra (+) (11)
Ravichandran Ashwin (3)
Anil Kumble (4)
Ishant Sharma (2)
Note 1: Kumble had the most innings bowled in both positions 3 and 4 but I preferred Ashwin to Harbhajan Singh
Note 2: Tendulkar had the most innings bowled in positions 5, 6 and 7 but I preferred Sehwag and Ravindra Jadeja to Polly Umrigar
New Zealand
Bert Sutcliffe (8)
Ken Wadsworth
Kane Williamson (6)
Nathan Astle (7)
John Beck
Daniel Vettori (5)
Richard Hadlee (1)
Frank Mooney (+)
Lance Cairns (3)
Tim Southee (2)
Neil Wagner (4)
Note 1: Daniel Vettori has the most innings bowled in positions 5 and 4 but as Nathan Astle is already in the team Neil Wagner is chosen. Vettori is also tied for the most innings bowled at position 3 with Lance Cairns.
Note 2: The most bowlers ever to bowl in an innings for New Zealand is 8 which has happened in 11 innings. The non-bowlers in more than 1 of those innings were Frank Mooney with 3 meaning he's selected and then Ken Wadsworth, Ian Smith and John Beck with 2 and I choe Ian Smith as the one to miss out from those 3
Pakistan
Majid Khan (9)
Hanif Mohammad(8)
Zaheer Abbas (10)
Javed Miandad (*) (7)
Wasim Raja (5)
Mushtaq Mohammad (6)
Wasim Akram (1)
Wasim Bari (+)
Abdul Qadir (3)
Waqar Younis (2)
Danish Kaneria (4)
Note 1: Wasim Raja was tied with Aamer Sohail for the most innings bowled at position 5
Note 2: Majid Khan had the most innings bowled in both positions 8 and 9 but Hanif Mohammad (who was picked as Miandad had the most innings bowled at position 7) and Javed Miandad who were tied in 2nd for position 8 were both better than the 7 players tied in 2nd for position 9 (Haroon Rasheed, Imitaz Ahmed, Javed Burki, Saeed Ahmed, Shafqat Rana, Talat Ali and Zaheer Abbas
Note 3: Zaheer Abbas tied with Mohsin Khan and Taslim Arif for the most innings bowled at position 10
Note 4: Pakistan used 10 bowlers in tests 3 times. The players who didn't bowl in those innings were Wasim Raja, Azmat Rana and Wasim Bari
South Africa
Boeta Dippenaar (9)
Herschelle Gibbs (11)
Herbie Taylor (8)
Jacques Kallis (5)
Hansie Cronje (6)
Dave Nourse (7)
Mark Boucher (+) (10)
Keshav Maharaj (4)
Dale Steyn (1)
Morne Morkel (3)
Makhaya Ntini (2)
Note 1: Kallis has the most innings bowled in both positions 4 and 5 but I preferred Maharaj to Paul Adams
Note 2: Cronje had the most innings in both position v6 and 7 but I preferred Dave Nourse to both JP Duminy (2nd in position 6) and Louis Stricker (tied with Dave Nourse in 2nd at position 7)
Note 3: Herbie Taylor tied with Aubrey Faulkner, Ashwell Prince and Billy Zulch for the most innings bowled at position 8 but I thought with the 8th bowling position restriction that Taylor fit the team slightly better than Faulkner
Note 4: Boeta Dippenaar tied with Tip Snooke for the most innings bowled in position 9
Sri Lanka
Sanath Jayasuriya (5)
Tillakaratne Dilshan (6)
Roshan Mahanama (9)
Aravinda de Silva (7)
Thilan Samaraweera
Arjuna Ranatunga (*) (8)
Prasanna Jayawardene (+)
Chaminda Vaas (1)
Rangana Haerath (4)
Nuwan Zoysa (2)
Muttiah Muralitharan (3)
Note 1: Murali and Herath are in 1st and 2nd at both positions 3 and 4. Murali has position 3 as in a real team he'd probably bowl before Herath
Note 2: Sanath Jayasuriya has the most innings bowled in both positions 5 and 6 but Dilshan was chosen as a better fit than Dhananjaya de Silva
Note 3: Roshan Mahanama tied with Malinda Waranapura for the most innings bowled at position 9
Note 4: The most bowlers used in a test innings by Sri Lanka is 9. Thilan Samaraweera and Prasanna Jayawardene were chosen as a better fit for the team than Hashan Tillakaratne as Aravinda de Silva has the most innings bowled at Position 7
West Indies
Rory Fredericks (9)
Kraigg Braithwaite (6)
Joey Carew (8)
Everton Weekes (10)
Ramnaresh Sarwan (7)
Carl Hooper (5)
Deryck Murray (+)
Michael Holding (*) (2)
Curtly Ambrose (1)
Lance Gibbs (4)
Courtney Walsh (3)
Note 1: Walsh had the most innings at both positions 2 and 3 but I preferred Holding to Jason Holder
Note 2: Sarwan had the most innings bowled at both positions 7 and 8 but Kraigg Braithwaite (2nd in position 7) had the most at position 6
Note 3: Everton Weekes tied with Rohan Kanhai and Alvin Kallicharran for the most innings bowled at position 10
Note 4: The West Indies have used at most 10 bowlers in a test innings which happened 3 times. Deryck Murray has been chosen as the best fit for team from the non-bowlers in those innings with the others being Allan Rae and Desmond Lewis
World
Roy Fredericks (9)
SS Das (10)
Ramnaresh Sarwan (7)
Joe Root (6)
Arjuna Ranatunga (*) (8)
Carl Hooper (5)
Ajay Ratra (+) (11)
Stuart Broad (2)
Anil Kumble (3)
Shane Warne (4)
James Anderson (1)
Note 1: Sarwan had the most innings bowled in both positions 7 and 8 and as Root (2nd in position 7) was already in the team, Ranatunga was chosen as tied for 2nd in position 8 over Joey Carew due to his captaincy skills
