Your greatest Cricket XI?

[Tee]

Mine is:

Tendulkar
Lara
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Botham
Gilchrest (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall

Twelth man would be Saaaaaaaaaj Mahmood!!!!!!!!!

... no seriously, twelth man would be Ponting.

[Joe King]

Saj Mahmood

[captainfog]

Bradman
Ponting
Lara
Richards (c)
Mohammad Yousuf
Alec Stewart (wk)
Botham
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Michael Holding
Malcolm Marshall

12th man - Pratt

[Neil Young]

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[Red Chilli]

I think you need a specialist opening batsman up there, you can't open with a stroke-player.

As far as openers go: WTF has happened to Gavaskar? He should be in there, then there's Boycott, an uninspiring boring cricketer but unless you ran him out he was there for the duration.
More modern day you have Haynes, greenwich, Atherton, Graham Smith, Matt Hayden all good candidates.

I think though I'd have to go with Gavaskar and Jayasuriya, a great pair of openers there.

Middle order: Bradman, no doubt. Others would be Sobers and probably Tendulkar.
W/K: Healey or Knott, think I'd have to go with Knott just because he was a better keeper.
Spinners: Warne and Murali. Honourable mention for Bishan Bedi, Abdul Quadir and Laker.
Quicks: Marshall, Ambrose and Hadlee

So my team would be:

Gavaskar
Jayasuriya
Bradman
Tendulkar
Sobers (capt)
Knott
Hadlee
Warne
Marshall
Ambrose
Muralitharan

[Shaggy]

Mine is:

Tendulkar
Lara
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Botham
Gilchrest (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall


Twelth man would be Saaaaaaaaaj Mahmood!!!!!!!!!

... no seriously, twelth man would be Ponting.

No Warne or Murali? Crazy man. Crazy.

I find it impossible because so many great cricketers pre-date, er......me. The likes of Grace, Hobbs and the rest. It's so difficult. I think re-phrasing the question "What is the greatest modern-era cricket XI" would be more appropriate.

[Joe King]

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I thought you would enjoy cricket whilst listening to Radio 4

[SouthAfricaRed]

Mine

Barry Richards
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Viv Richards (capt)
Gary Sobers
Godfrey Evans (wk)
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Richard Hadlee
Murali

12th man - Warne to swap with Khan, Hadlee or Akram on a spinners wicket

[Tee]

No Warne or Murali? Crazy man. Crazy.

I find it impossible because so many great cricketers pre-date, er......me. The likes of Grace, Hobbs and the rest. It's so difficult. I think re-phrasing the question "What is the greatest modern-era cricket XI" would be more appropriate.

Read it properly!!! No,10 is Warne!!

[Bari]

England

[Joe King]

Mine is:

Tendulkar
Lara
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Botham
Gilchrest (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall

Twelth man would be Saaaaaaaaaj Mahmood!!!!!!!!!

... no seriously, twelth man would be Ponting.

What no Warne? How can this happen?

[Bari]

What no Warne? How can this happen?

Do you and Shaggy Alonso not see his name

[mersey86]

Hutton
Greenidge
Bradman
Richards
Tendulkar
Botham
Marsh
Hadlee
Marshall
Lillee
Laker

That's my first attempt - but then I think - why not Sobers, Lara, Imran, Hobbs etc? Impossible.

[Scratch]

Hayden
Tendulkar
Lara
Bradman
Richards
Pietersen
Gilchrist
Botham
Warne
Marshall
McGrath

[Shaggy]

Read it properly!!! No,10 is Warne!!

Do you and Shaggy Alonso not see his name

Totally bizarre - I can see it now