cook
trescothick
trott
pietersen
bell
flintoff
stewart
broad
swann
anderson
s. jones


world XI

hayden
dravid
lara
tendulkar
kallis
laxman(most elegant player of his generation, effortless)
gilchrist
wasim akram
warne
donald
mcgrath

actually swap simon jones for darren gough

England team looks good, might be tempted to stick Caddick in there, Broad probably misses out in that case. Darren Gough is a good shout.

Wouldn't make any changes to the world team.

i know laxman only averaged mid 40's but i could watch him bat for hours and he played the greatest innings ive ever seen vs australia 281

i'd put steve waugh in as my first pick of any player in the last 25 years.

England

Gooch
Vaughan
Smith
Gower
Thorpe
Prior/Stewart
Flintoff
Swann
Fraser
Jones
Harmison



World

Hayden
Gavaskar
Lara
Richards
Azharrudin
S Waugh (c)
Gilchrist
Hadlee
Warne
Marshall
Ambrose


so many great players though, and i like my world team a fair bit better than my england team !


One of my favourite england cricketers towards the end of his career was craig white. for a brief period when england had a lower middle order of stewart, flintoff, white they were very strong. cant justify putting him in though. botham also just misses out due to me catching him right at the end of the first half of his career from which point he went from being the best player in the world to very mediocre.

No batting attack could really be expected to withstand marshall ambrose hadlee and warne, but i think robin smith would be england's best hope at 3 against the pace attack. gower is included more in hope than expectation. i have picked england's bowlers based on their peak form, and on the assmuption that they are young and injury free.

tendulkar, muralitheran, wasim and mcgrath can obviously consider themselves unlucky to miss out on the world x1, and miandad, de silva, healy and various others would have been more than capable deputies as well. i have included azhurrudin more for the spectator than anything else, as i think he was a beautiful player to watch.

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you watched donald and wasim, and you include stuart broad ??????

hussey and kallis were worthy of passing mentions as near misses too.

where's Chest with his teams ??

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England 11 from 90's onwards

Cook
Vaughan
Trott
Pieterson
Thorpe
Bell
Stewart wk
Flintoff
Swann
Gough
Anderson

who is this Khan ?

Amla's a very good shout btw. Yousef Yohana/Mohammed Yousef would also be a very strong contender for the world side.

World 11 from 90's onwards:

Dravid
Ponting
Lara
Tendulkar
S Waugh
Kallis
Gilchrist wk
Warne
Akram
Ambrose
McGrath

I know I don't have any actual openers but I couldn't leave any of the batsmen out.

Late 80s Pak great 11:
1)Anwar
2) Y Khan (there was no other good opener)
3) Minadad
4) Yousuf
5) Inzi
6) Imran Khan
7) Moin Khab
8) Akram
9) Waqar
10) Shoaib
11) Ajmal

World 11 from late 80s:

1) Hayden
2) Gooch
3) Lara
4) Tendulkar
5) Viv Richards
6) Imran Khan
7) Gilchrist
8) Akram
9) Warne
10) Marshall
11) Murali.....

my world 2ND X1 (im promoting yousef to the 1st team):

gayle
tendulkar
ponting
hooper
amla
azzarhudin
imran
healy
wasim
mcgrath
murali


now that's a middle order worth watching !


3rd X1

jayasuriya
sehwag
ul-haq
miandad
de silva
kallis
kapil
flower
waqar
donald
mcgill

still a mighty team !

cant believe i mentioned craig white

Steady Brayn - Craigy White was a brilliant player.

:o)

sorry, i forgot greenidge and haynes.

my revised teams :

england 1st team

gooch
vaughan (c)
r smith
gower/pietersen
thorpe
stewart/prior
flintoff
swann
fraser
harmison
s jones

england 2nd team

trescothick
broad
hick
gower/pieterson
ramprakash (under new management)
botham (1986/7)
stewart/prior
giles/emburey/tufnell
gough
caddick
malcolm


world 1st team

greenidge
haynes
lara
richards
tendulkar
s waugh (c)
gilchrist
hadlee
warne
marshall
ambrose


world 2nd team

gavaskar
haydn
ponting
miandad
yousef
amla
imran
wasim
healy
mcgrath
murali


world 3rd team

gayle
anwar
kallis
hussey
yousef yahana
martyn
flower
waqar
pollock
donald
mushtaq ahmed


world 4th team

sehwag
carl hooper
inzamam
azharrudin
m waugh
aruvinda de silva
kapil dev
boucher
walsh
p patterson
mcgill


out of the england players, i'd say that thorpe, flintoff, harmison and jones would be 2nd/3rd team for the world side.

vaughan, gooch, gower, pietersen, stewart, prior and (1986/7) botham would be 3rd/4th team.

an early vintage botham would of course be in the world 1st x1.

as a final comment, i'd say that the world 4th team above, is getting close to something that the england 1st team might be able to give a game.

ive got yousef in twice. i forgot alan border, so he can replace him in the 3rd team.

Brayns can you let me know what time you will publish your World 18th team?

So Dravid, arguably one of the top 3 players of this generation doesn't make it into your top 4 teams?

1. Cook
2. Dravid
3. Fleming
4. Tendulkar
5. Kallis
6. Sangakkara
7. Chanderpaul
8. Pollock
9. Akram
10. Warne
11. McGrath

I seem to be a bit older than many on this thread, having started watching cricket in the early to mid 1970s.
My England team from that period would be:

Gooch
Boycott
Gower
Pietersen
Thorpe
Greig T. (c)
Botham
Knott (wk)
Gough
Underwood
Willis

My world XI for the same time period would be:

Richards B.
Gavaskar
Richards V.
Tendulkar
Chappell G.
Kallis
Imran Khan (c)
Gilchrist (wk)
Hadlee
Marshall
Warne

gayle??????? in a test 11? this is not t20 11 mate. gayle cannot even make in 5th 11, forget 2nd.