To get the whole cricket debate on the new ja606 going I propose that we name our current best world Test, ODI and T20 World XIs. Have fun guys! Here are my teams:
Test:
1) Virender Sehwag
2) Alastair Cook
3) Jonathan Trott
4) Jacques Kallis
5) Sachin Tendulkar
6) Michael Hussey
7) MS Dhoni (c) (wk)
8) Graeme Swann
9) Dale Steyn
10) Zaheer Khan
11) James Anderson
ODI:
1) Shane Watson
2) Virender Sehwag
3) Kumar Sangakkara
5) Yuvraj Singh
6) Eoin Morgan
7) MS Dhoni
8) Graeme Swann
9) Lasith Malinga
10) Umar Gul
11) Zaheer Khan
(I dont watch T20 cricket so I haven't got an XI, but you guys knock yourselves out!)
Have fun and please tell your friends about ja606, lets get this place up and running, it seems a bit dead at the minute. Thanks,
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posted on 25/5/11
Surely, to get debate going, we need a thread saying that Don Bradman was better than Tendulkar?
posted on 25/5/11
Borges
so tahir who hasnt played a single test as yet is suddenly better than swann?
posted on 26/5/11
> so tahir who hasnt played a single test as yet is
> suddenly better than swann?
Not suddenly. Against stronger opposition (Australia, India, South Africa - he hasn't played Sri Lanka yet) Swann's record is quite mediocre.
16 tests, 58 wickets @36.87, SR 72.4, 3.6 wickets per test. Not the kind of bowler I would want in a World XI.
Unfortunately, there are no other decent spinners in world cricket today - so I'm just backing my hunch. From what I've seen of Tahir so far (admittedly not a great deal), I think he would do a lot better against similar opposition. I'm hopelessly biased in favour of legbreak/googly bowlers anyway.
At the end of this summer, after Sri Lanka and India have played England, I would have a more definitive picture of how good Swann really is.
posted on 26/5/11
test XI
1. Sehwag
2. Cook
3. Sangakkara
4. Sachin
5. Kallis
6. AB De Villiers
7. Dhoni (c)
8. Vettori
9. Anderson
10. Swann
11. Steyn
One Day
1. Watson
2. Sachin
3. Sangakkara
4. AB De Villiars
5. Kohli
6. Dhoni (cpt) (w)
7. Afridi
8. Vettori
9. Zaheer Kahn
10. Malinga
11. Steyn
posted on 26/5/11
Test
Sehwag
Gambhir (c)
Amla
Kallis
Tendulkar
De Villiers
Haddin (w)
Swann
Steyn
Zaheer
Anderson
ODI's
Tendulkar
Watson
Amla
De Villiers
Hussey
Dhoni (c)(w)
Mathews
Vettori
Malinga
Zaheer
Ajmal
T20
Gayle
Watson
Dilshan
Pietersen
Morgan
Dhoni (c)(w)
A.Morkel
Vettori
Malinga
Zaheer
Ajmal
posted on 5/6/11
Zaheer Khan
Virender Sehwag
posted on 7/6/11
1) Virender Sehwag
2) Alastair Cook
3) Jonathan Trott
4) Jacques Kallis
5) Sachin Tendulkar
6) Jayawardene
7) MS Dhoni (c) (wk)
8) Graeme Swann
9) Dale Steyn
10) Zaheer Khan
11) James Anderson
posted on 13/6/11
I found out the other night. Red from shawshank redemption goes on to be Nelsen Mandela in Invictus
So good
posted on 11/7/11
De Villiers should definately be in there. What are you thinking of OP.
posted on 14/8/11
Sehwag, is that the guy that was brought in to strengthen Indias pathetic cricket team against England this week? and scored GOLDEN DUCK and then GOLDEN DUCK I will stick to Strauss and Cook thanks, who made almost 400 runs between them in 1 innings