Greatest World Test Cricket XI (1978 to 2020)

[darlowolf64]

Kumar Sangakkara
Sachin Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Steve Smith

 

[Sniffer]

I'll keep this open until 4pm today as a couple more entries could make the difference.

 

[Nando]

Kumar Sangakkara

Ricky Ponting

Brian Lara

Sachin Tendulkar

Rahul Dravid

 

[Tony Towner]

Viv Richards
Alan Border
Javed Miandad
Brian Lara
Kumar Sangakkara

 

[Tredman]

Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Kumar Sangakkara
Kevin Pietersen

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The propaganda campaign might end up working

 

[Sniffer]

Positions 3 to 5 Results

Brian Lara 42
Viv Richards 32
Sachin Tendulkar 32
Kumar Sangakkara 24
Ricky Ponting 21
Alan Border 10
Steve Smith 9
Javed Miandad 3
Keving Pietersen 3
Zaheer Abbas 1
Virat Kohli 1
David Gower 1
Rahul Dravd 1

 

[Sniffer]

All Rounder Next.....

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Booooooo, fell short.

Can't really argue with the winners though.

Averages at 3:

Viv: 3508 runs @ 61.54
Lara: 3749 runs @ 62.36
Tendulkar: Never batted at three

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

All rounder:

Jacques Kallis
Chris Cairns
Shakib Al Hasan

 

[Johnny75]

J. Kallis
S Waugh
B. Stokes

Never saw the best of Dev, Khan or Botham sadly.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Likewise on the latter three.

Steve Waugh was brilliant, again though his bowling days were largely done by my time.

 

[Sniffer]

Booooooo, fell short.

Can't really argue with the winners though.

Averages at 3:

Viv: 3508 runs @ 61.54
Lara: 3749 runs @ 62.36
Tendulkar: Never batted at three

You are quoting Brian Lara's strike rate at 3 rather than average of 60.47.

Viv has the best average at 3 (61.54) Sachin at 4 (54.40) and 5 (59.69). Lara's average at 5 was just 41.23 as opposed to 51.26 at 4. Line up so far is below.

 

[Sniffer]

World XI so far....

1. M Hayden
2. G. Smith
3. V. Richards
4. B Lara
5. S.Tendulkar

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You are quoting BC Lara's strike rate at 3 rather than average of 60.47.

Hey look, I never said I could read.

 

[Nando]

Jacques Kallis

Shaun Pollock

Shakib Al-Hasan

 

[Sniffer]

Hey look, I never said I could read.

If you could remember those numbers I would be worried.

 

[Deleted Cyber]

Hadlee
Kallis
Botham

Hadlee, whilst first and foremost a bowling all rounder took 431 wickets at 22! 22! 6 however is too high to bat him. So the keeper would get the six spot if Sir Richard wins. He won't.

 

[Sniffer]

Do we really need Kallis's ridiculous batting stats at 6 or do we need more of a front line bowler and pick Warne and Murali?

 

[Tony Towner]

Khan
Kallis
Botham

If you want an all rounder with the best balanced stats it's Khan. 38 with the bat, 23 with the ball.

Hadlee was a tremendous bowler, but that's what he was really despite being a dangerous lower order batsman. Can't get in this side with an average of 27.