Your Best 11...

[Squids]

Pakistan would go alright

Anwar
Y.Khan
Miandad
I. Khan
Inzimam
Malik
W.Akram
M. Khan
W. Younis
Shoaib
Mushtaq

unlucky M.Yousuf, Afridi and probably more

[westozfalcon]

For Australia; going back to 1980:

M Hayden
M Slater
R Ponting
G Chappell
A Border (capt)
A Gilchrist (wk)
S Warne (vice capt)
D Lillee
C McDermott
G McGrath
B Reid

12th - S MacGill

Too many bowlers. Where is Steve Waugh? And while Slater is one of my favourite players he wasn't as consistent as Langer.

regards,

REB

Fair call about the number of bowlers. I'd perhaps take Reid out for Steve Waugh.

I thought Langer was too stodgy and batted like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. He got a lot of favourable umpiring decisions which boosted his average too. Slater was a better strokeplayer and looked much more confident and freer at the crease.

Although I'm a West Aussie I won't let parochialism cloud my judgement !

[Rik E Boy]

It was unfortunate we didn't get to see the best of Reid. Had a couple of absolute blinders but I still haven't forgiven him for breaking down at the Oval in 1987 I think was and subjecting me to a day of watching Kiwi Andrew Jones batting all day. Got pretty pissed that day I can tell you.

regards,

REB

[Media Park]

England:

Michael Vaughan
Alistair Cook
Graham Thorpe
Kevin Pietersen
Nasser Hussain
Paul Collingwood
Alec Stewart
Andrew Flintoff
Graham Swann
Matthew Hoggard
Steven Harmison

[Media Park]

Pakistan:

1. Salman Butt
2. Imran Farhat
3. Younis Khan
4. Mohammad Yousuf
5. Inzamam-ul-Haq
6. Abdur Razzaq
7. Kamran Akmal
8. Wasim Akram
9. Danish Kaneria
10. Shoaib Akhtar
11. Waqar Younis

[Media Park]

New Zealand:

1. Nathan Astle
2. Martin Guptill
3. Stephen Fleming
4. Ross Taylor
5. Scott Styris
6. Brendan McCullum
7. Jacob Oram
8. Daniel Vettori
9. Daryl Tuffey
10. Chris Martin
11. Shane Bond

[Media Park]

Sri Lanka:

1. Sanath Jayasuriya
2. Tillakaratne Dilshan
3. Aravinda De Silva
4. Maheyla Jayawardene
5. Kumar Sangakkara
6. Thilan Samaraweera
7. Romesh Kaluwitharana
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Nuwan Zoysa
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

[catchisthecry]

Since 1975

1. M Hayden: Selects himself - Haydos just imposes himself in the minds of opening bowlers who were trying to do the reverse.
2. J Langer: At one stage I believe he was the best bat in the world. Well ahead of Tubby and Boonie for the openers gig.
3. R Ponting: Probably still the second best bat we've ever had but if he's still getting selected then he'll be back behind Greg.
4. G Chappell: Simply brilliant during an age of West Indian giants and good English teams as well.
5. A Border: More guts than I have ever seen in any Cricketer. Australian Cricket owes him so much. Stood up to the Windies in 1984. Enough said!
6. S Waugh: Waugh learnt from the master and I admire the way he always sought (and attained) improvement. A giant in Australian Cricket.
7. A Gilchrist: A batting freak who could demolish the attack and was handy with the gloves too. Australia's best ever allrounder.
8. S Warne (c): Simply the best spinner I have ever seen.
9. D Lillee: The best fast bowler I have ever seen. Nothing can compare to the mighty DK with the roar of a packed MCG behind him.
10. J Thomson: With Lillee, Warnie and McGrath in the line up you could just turn Thommo loose on the poor batsmen. Anyone who can bowl at 166 is a potent weapon.
11. G McGrath: Competitive, Consistent and Brilliant. We knew we had a gun in Glen and we are now lost without him and Warnie.
12th M Waugh: Poetry in motion is M Waugh. Not the guy I'd pick to bat for my life but certainly a guy I'd pay to watch bat..and did!

These players are selected at their peak, not Chappel during that run of outs or Thomson after his shoulder injury or the Punter we have now. There is brilliance and grit in equal measure. I made Warne captain as I believe he is one of the premier minds in Cricket and the best captain we never had. I think he would have been a brilliant captain. Players unlucky to miss out are M Waugh, I Chappell, J Gillespie and R Marsh.

If you reckon that's hard try doing a World XI..here's mine

1. G Greenidge
2. D Haynes
3. V Richards
4. S Tendulkar
5. B Lara
6. I Botham
7. R Hadlee
8. A Knott
9. W Akram
10. M Marshall
11. C Ambrose
12th I Khan

Cripes there's some absolute guns missing out in J Garner, M Holding, A Roberts, C Lloyd, A Donald, D Gower, R Dravid, K Dev, S Jayasuria, A De Silva, M Crowe and many more. I wonder who would make the safooty World XI of all time if we voted on it. I reckon some of the older guys I have in there would miss out due to the average age of our posters...which would be younger than me.

regards,

REB

How can you possibly have S Warne captain when he never captained a test?

[CoverKing]

No politics in this forum, best man for the job

Since 1975

1. M Hayden: Selects himself - Haydos just imposes himself in the minds of opening bowlers who were trying to do the reverse.
2. J Langer: At one stage I believe he was the best bat in the world. Well ahead of Tubby and Boonie for the openers gig.
3. R Ponting: Probably still the second best bat we've ever had but if he's still getting selected then he'll be back behind Greg.
4. G Chappell: Simply brilliant during an age of West Indian giants and good English teams as well.
5. A Border: More guts than I have ever seen in any Cricketer. Australian Cricket owes him so much. Stood up to the Windies in 1984. Enough said!
6. S Waugh: Waugh learnt from the master and I admire the way he always sought (and attained) improvement. A giant in Australian Cricket.
7. A Gilchrist: A batting freak who could demolish the attack and was handy with the gloves too. Australia's best ever allrounder.
8. S Warne (c): Simply the best spinner I have ever seen.
9. D Lillee: The best fast bowler I have ever seen. Nothing can compare to the mighty DK with the roar of a packed MCG behind him.
10. J Thomson: With Lillee, Warnie and McGrath in the line up you could just turn Thommo loose on the poor batsmen. Anyone who can bowl at 166 is a potent weapon.
11. G McGrath: Competitive, Consistent and Brilliant. We knew we had a gun in Glen and we are now lost without him and Warnie.
12th M Waugh: Poetry in motion is M Waugh. Not the guy I'd pick to bat for my life but certainly a guy I'd pay to watch bat..and did!

These players are selected at their peak, not Chappel during that run of outs or Thomson after his shoulder injury or the Punter we have now. There is brilliance and grit in equal measure. I made Warne captain as I believe he is one of the premier minds in Cricket and the best captain we never had. I think he would have been a brilliant captain. Players unlucky to miss out are M Waugh, I Chappell, J Gillespie and R Marsh.

If you reckon that's hard try doing a World XI..here's mine

1. G Greenidge
2. D Haynes
3. V Richards
4. S Tendulkar
5. B Lara
6. I Botham
7. R Hadlee
8. A Knott
9. W Akram
10. M Marshall
11. C Ambrose
12th I Khan

Cripes there's some absolute guns missing out in J Garner, M Holding, A Roberts, C Lloyd, A Donald, D Gower, R Dravid, K Dev, S Jayasuria, A De Silva, M Crowe and many more. I wonder who would make the safooty World XI of all time if we voted on it. I reckon some of the older guys I have in there would miss out due to the average age of our posters...which would be younger than me.

regards,

REB

How can you possibly have S Warne captain when he never captained a test?

[The Cadet]

Boon
G.Marsh
Ponting
M.Waugh
Border
S.Waugh
Healy
Warne
McDermott
Hughes
McGrath

12th Miller

[Media Park]

Unless I am mistaken, I have just one Test nation still to do- Bangladesh.

1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Javed Omar
3. Habibul Bashar
4. Mohammad Ashraful
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. Rajin Saleh
7. Mushfiqur Rahim
8. Mashrafe Mortaza
9. Mohammad Rafique
10. Shahadat Hossain
11. Enamul ul haq junior

[wristwatcher]

Unless I am mistaken, I have just one Test nation still to do- Bangladesh.

1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Javed Omar
3. Habibul Bashar
4. Mohammad Ashraful
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. Rajin Saleh
7. Mushfiqur Rahim
8. Mashrafe Mortaza
9. Mohammad Rafique
10. Shahadat Hossain
11. Enamul ul haq junior

There is no way you could leave out of the line up Asifi Givashit

[the joker]

Had an essay written on the best World XI of my time, but I hit the wrong button and it's all gone, so no explanations, here it is

Hayden
Sehwag
Lara
Tendulkar
Kallis
Mohammed Yousuf
Boucher
Pollock
Bond
Muralitharan
McGrath

boucher before gilly?
He has got 500 catches but only averaged 30 with 5 centuries through 140 tests. Brad Haddin averages 36 with 3 centuries in 35 tests and people want him dropped

Then gilly takes it to a new level.
17 hundreds at an average of 47 with 379 catches.
Therefore it's gilchrist then morphettville, flemington, sandown, mooney valley and randwick straight put together then Boucher, but in saying that I think that Matt prior has already gone past Boucher

[Pat Malone]

Hayden - self explanatory
Watson - wanted a right hand left hand opening combo and he is a better player than Langer
Punter - self explanatory
G Chappell - in the best 3 Aussie batsmen ever with Bradman and Punter
S Waugh (C) - great fighter and great captain
M Hussey - averages over 50, brilliant batsmen with the tail, great fielder
Healy - logical choice when picking a wicketkeeper, his glovework was the best we've ever seen
Warne - self explanatory
Thompson - self explanatory
Lillee - self explanatory
McGrath - self explanatory

Good luck trying to score a run behind the wicket on the off side with a fielding team like that.

[Rik E Boy]

Since 1975

1. M Hayden: Selects himself - Haydos just imposes himself in the minds of opening bowlers who were trying to do the reverse.
2. J Langer: At one stage I believe he was the best bat in the world. Well ahead of Tubby and Boonie for the openers gig.
3. R Ponting: Probably still the second best bat we've ever had but if he's still getting selected then he'll be back behind Greg.
4. G Chappell: Simply brilliant during an age of West Indian giants and good English teams as well.
5. A Border: More guts than I have ever seen in any Cricketer. Australian Cricket owes him so much. Stood up to the Windies in 1984. Enough said!
6. S Waugh: Waugh learnt from the master and I admire the way he always sought (and attained) improvement. A giant in Australian Cricket.
7. A Gilchrist: A batting freak who could demolish the attack and was handy with the gloves too. Australia's best ever allrounder.
8. S Warne (c): Simply the best spinner I have ever seen.
9. D Lillee: The best fast bowler I have ever seen. Nothing can compare to the mighty DK with the roar of a packed MCG behind him.
10. J Thomson: With Lillee, Warnie and McGrath in the line up you could just turn Thommo loose on the poor batsmen. Anyone who can bowl at 166 is a potent weapon.
11. G McGrath: Competitive, Consistent and Brilliant. We knew we had a gun in Glen and we are now lost without him and Warnie.
12th M Waugh: Poetry in motion is M Waugh. Not the guy I'd pick to bat for my life but certainly a guy I'd pay to watch bat..and did!

These players are selected at their peak, not Chappel during that run of outs or Thomson after his shoulder injury or the Punter we have now. There is brilliance and grit in equal measure. I made Warne captain as I believe he is one of the premier minds in Cricket and the best captain we never had. I think he would have been a brilliant captain. Players unlucky to miss out are M Waugh, I Chappell, J Gillespie and R Marsh.

If you reckon that's hard try doing a World XI..here's mine

1. G Greenidge
2. D Haynes
3. V Richards
4. S Tendulkar
5. B Lara
6. I Botham
7. R Hadlee
8. A Knott
9. W Akram
10. M Marshall
11. C Ambrose
12th I Khan

Cripes there's some absolute guns missing out in J Garner, M Holding, A Roberts, C Lloyd, A Donald, D Gower, R Dravid, K Dev, S Jayasuria, A De Silva, M Crowe and many more. I wonder who would make the safooty World XI of all time if we voted on it. I reckon some of the older guys I have in there would miss out due to the average age of our posters...which would be younger than me.

regards,

REB

How can you possibly have S Warne captain when he never captained a test?

Cripes another one on here who can't read.

regards,

REB

[woodublieve12]

i totally agree with you REB call for shane warne to be skip... if he didnt have any off field troubles he would have taken over after Steve Waugh instead of Ponting..

[Pup]

New Zealand:

1. Nathan Astle
2. Martin Guptill
3. Stephen Fleming
4. Ross Taylor
5. Scott Styris
6. Brendan McCullum
7. Jacob Oram
8. Daniel Vettori
9. Daryl Tuffey
10. Chris Martin
11. Shane Bond

Even at 24 you should have Martin Crowe in your side.

[hearts on fire]

MY best 11 i have seen and i can only remember cricket from mid 2000s would be:

Justin Langer
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Damien Martyn
Michael Hussey
Andrew Symonds
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Brett Lee
Jason Gillespie
Glenn McGrath

Alot of these guys wouldn't even make the best team of all time, but during my era of being a youngin in the midd 2000s, a lot of people my age would have a very similar team.

[Lightning McQueen]

New Zealand:

1. Nathan Astle
2. Martin Guptill
3. Stephen Fleming
4. Ross Taylor
5. Scott Styris
6. Brendan McCullum
7. Jacob Oram
8. Daniel Vettori
9. Daryl Tuffey
10. Chris Martin
11. Shane Bond

Worst batsmen ever to enter a test arena. Bondy would want to kill you.

[Lightning McQueen]

BROD'S BEST----NEW ZEALAND 1978-current

Turner
Richardson
Jones
M Crowe
Fleming (only just ahead of Taylor)
C Cairns
McCullum
Vettori
Hadlee
Morrison
Martin

Cant put Bond in..hes played only 18 Test matches

John Wright, Martin Snedden, Geoff Howarth, Ken Rutherford? They all spring to mind immediately, they did play during the toughest era.