Teams of the decade

[Lightning McQueen]

It would be interesting to see peoples teams of the decade in both ODI's and tests (worldwlde). If anyone can post any stats, please do.

[acockfromwayback]

ODI :
in rough batting order

Gilchrist(wk)
Sehwag
Ponting
Tendulkar
Pieterson
Afridi
Flintoff
Pollock(c)
Lee
Muralidarin
McGrath

12th
Gayle/Jayasuria(batting)
Vettori(bowling)

same mad bowling power in this side. all par Ponting and Gilly have good(reasonable) records with the ball

[acockfromwayback]

Test:

Hayden
Sehwag
Ponting
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Gilchrist
Pollock
Warne
Gillespie?(Steyn, but has only dominated last 2 years, Dizzy did well from 99-05 almost 300wk)
McGrath

12th
Murali
Pieterson
Vettori
Ntini
Boucher(spare wk)
Smith
Dravid

any of those guys deserve a gig imo

[bloods08]

Murali for Dizzy and Smith for Sehwag and I agree with your test side. Kallis can be the 3rd seamer to allow 2 spinners to play.

[rod_rooster]

Test Team:

Graeme Smith (c)
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Jaques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Muthiah Muralidaran
Glen McGrath

12th Makhaya Ntini

[Punk Rooster]

we still have 12 months people....

[Lightning McQueen]

we still have 12 months people....

No we don't, 2000-2009, the first decade of the millenium, the end of 2010 will be 11 years.

[Rik E Boy]

Test Team:

Graeme Smith (c)
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Jaques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Muthiah Muralidaran
Glen McGrath

12th Makhaya Ntini

I agree with your personell but I would give the captaincy to Warne even though he didn't get the gig for Australia. We all know why Warne didn't get the gig but I have never heard anyone who knows more about Cricket than Warney. He even puts Richie to shame. The way he discusses his bowling plans and how he is thinking about getting batsmen out makes me think that Australia lost a huge opportunity by not making him captain. Make Warne skipper in 2005 and we win the Ashes IMO.

regards,

REB

[Lightning McQueen]

Top 10 Runs for decade (Tests)
Ponting 9458 @ 58.38
Kallis 8630 @ 58.70
Dravid 8558 @ 54.85
Hayden 8364 @ 52.93
Jayawardene 8187 @ 55.31
Sangakkara 7549 @ 55.10
Tendulkar 7129 @ 53.20
G.Smith 6451 @ 49.62
Yousuf 6439 @ 58.53
Chanderpaul 6453 @ 52.31

Other notable averages
Lara 6380 @ 54.06
Inzamam 5113 @ 55.57
Younis Khan 5260 @ 50.09
Pietersen 4799 @ 49.98

Top 10 wickets for decade (Tests)
Muralitharan 565 @ 20.97
Ntini 380 @ 28.64
Warne 357 @ 25.17
Kumble 355 @ 31.02
Harbhajan 322 @ 30.31
Lee 303 @ 31.27
McGrath 297 @ 20.53
Pollock 260 @ 24.76
Hoggard 248 @ 30.50
Vaas 247 @ 29.69

Other notable averages
Steyn 172 @ 23.97
Akhtar 144 @ 22.21
Walsh 93 @ 19.73

I have a list of the top 50 in all 4 categories if anyone wants to check on any info. I'll post the ODI info later.

[Moe]

ODI :
in rough batting order

Gilchrist(wk)
Sehwag
Ponting
Tendulkar
Pieterson
Afridi
Flintoff
Pollock(c)
Lee
Muralidarin
McGrath

12th
Gayle/Jayasuria(batting)
Vettori(bowling)

same mad bowling power in this side. all par Ponting and Gilly have good(reasonable) records with the ball

Lee out, Kallis in (adds batting & bowling depth). Afridi out Jayasuria in (more reliable with bat).

[rod_rooster]

Test Team:

Graeme Smith (c)
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Jaques Kallis
Adam Gilchrist
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Muthiah Muralidaran
Glen McGrath

12th Makhaya Ntini

I agree with your personell but I would give the captaincy to Warne even though he didn't get the gig for Australia. We all know why Warne didn't get the gig but I have never heard anyone who knows more about Cricket than Warney. He even puts Richie to shame. The way he discusses his bowling plans and how he is thinking about getting batsmen out makes me think that Australia lost a huge opportunity by not making him captain. Make Warne skipper in 2005 and we win the Ashes IMO.

regards,

REB

I agree completely and wanted to make Warne captain but since it's just a novelty side i decided on a bloke who had actually captained his side. Warne is the best captain Australia never had no doubt about it.

[Lightning McQueen]

ODI Runs
Ponting 9103 @ 44.18 (84.44)
Tendulkar 8823 @ 46.68 (85.04)
Yousuf 8494 @ 42.25 (75.44)
Jayasuria 8305 @ 35.79 (91.61)
Sangakkara 7878 @ 35.97 (74.71)
Kallis 7859 @ 47.05 (73.28)
Jayawardene 7676 @ 33.22 (77.03)
Gayle 7371 @ 41.17 (83.62)
Dravid 7295 @ 40.30 (72.30)
Yuvraj 7249 @ 37.36 (89.04)

Other notable averages or strike rates
Gilchrist 7243 @ 36.58 (100.54)
Sehwag 6933 @ 34.49 (102.95)
Dhoni 5133 @ 50.82 (89.59)
Afridi 3761 @ 22.79 (115.08)
M.Hussey 3623 @ 54.07 (87.15)

ODI wickets & Economy
Muralitharan 335 @ 20.55 (3.74)
Lee 324 @ 23.01 (4.71)
Pollock 275 @ 24.98 (3.62)
Ntini 264 @ 24.72 (4.54)
Vaas 247 @ 26.97 (4.13)
McGrath 234 @ 20.28 (3.78)
Z.Khan 232 @ 29.50 (4.90)
Vettori 223 @ 30.38 (4.05)
Agarkar 215 @ 28.33 (5.00)
Razzaq 215 @ 32.24 (4.74)

Other notable averages or economy rates
Akhtar 180 @ 24.46 (4.76)
Flintoff 162 @ 24.03 (4.34)
J.Gillespie 119 @ 24.24 (4.12)
Akram 106 @ 24.33 (4.13)

[cripple]

ODI Runs
Sangakkara 7878 @ 35.97 (74.71)

Other notable averages or strike rates
Gilchrist 7243 @ 36.58 (100.54)

Was thinking that sangakarra would have been close to gilly and these figures suggest the same. I dont think alot of the sri lankans get the credit they deserve when making these teams. That said gilly obviously deserves to be in the team of the decade

[MAY-Z]

very hard task but here goes

test

g smith
sehwag
ponting
tendulkar
dravid
kallis
gilchrist
pollock
warne
murali
mcgrath

odi

jayasuria
tendulkar
ponting
kallis
symonds
hussey
gilchrist
pollock
lee
mcgrath
murali

[Lightning McQueen]

Test
Hayden
Sehwag
Ponting
Lara
Tendulkar
Kallis
Gilchrist
Pollock
Warne
Muralitharan
McGrath

ODI
Gayle
Gilchrist
Ponting
Tendulkar
Kallis
Hussey
Dhoni
Akram
Pollock
Muralitharan
McGrath

[spell_check]

we still have 12 months people....

No we don't, 2000-2009, the first decade of the millenium, the end of 2010 will be 11 years.

I think from now on, if you (anyone) want to make up a thread about team of decade etc. you should make it the team of the 00s - to save bandwith on topics such as these.

[Lightning McQueen]

we still have 12 months people....

No we don't, 2000-2009, the first decade of the millenium, the end of 2010 will be 11 years.

I think from now on, if you (anyone) want to make up a thread about team of decade etc. you should make it the team of the 00s - to save bandwith on topics such as these.

Well I thought it was straight forward, cricinfo seems to agree with me too. Punky was just being cynical.

[MightyEagles]

we still have 12 months people....

No we don't, 2000-2009, the first decade of the millenium, the end of 2010 will be 11 years.

Not if you start from 2001.

[Lightning McQueen]

we still have 12 months people....

No we don't, 2000-2009, the first decade of the millenium, the end of 2010 will be 11 years.

Not if you start from 2001.

No joke Sherlock.

[Dirk Tazelaar]

we still have 12 months people....

No we don't, 2000-2009, the first decade of the millenium, the end of 2010 will be 11 years.

Not if you start from 2001.

So was 1990 the last year of the 80s?