World XII to play against South Africa

[knobby]

Remember in early to mid 2000's Aussies played a "supertest" and some 1 dayers vs a World XI.

Well lets pick a World XII to play against South Africa in South Africa, my quick attempt;

Test XII
Cook
Dilshan
Trott
Tendulkar
Clarke
Jayawardene
Prior
Broad
Swann
Pattinson
Anderson

12th - Pietersen

Who to captain out of Cook & Clarke ??
As mentioned the game is in South Africa, which is why I've discounted Dhoni & Pujara from the Test XII (as well as Ashwin, Ojha !)

ODI XII
Warner
Dilshan
Sangakarra
Kohli
Pietersen
Jayawardene
Dhoni (c)
Starc
Anderson
Herath
Finn

12th - Pollard

Make your own

 

[Blueboiiz]

Pujara has never played an odi and herath is an average odi bowler.
Chanderpaul would be a walk in over jayawardena in the test team on form.

 

[knobby]

Pujara has never played an odi and herath is an average odi bowler.
Chanderpaul would be a walk in over jayawardena in the test team on form.

Yeah come to think of it swap Pujara for Kohli

 

[Belnakor]

doubt I would be picking tendulkar considering he averaged 23 last year...

 

[Blueboiiz]

This would be my test 11

Cook
--------- < cant think of an opener warner/dilshan
Sangakkara
Pieterson
Clarke
Chanderpaul
Prior
Broad
Roach/siddle (more siddle)
Herath
Anderson

 

[Shupe]

doubt I would be picking tendulkar considering he averaged 23 last year...

Baffling selection.

 

[TassieEagle]

Warner would surely not get a gig in ODI's either, would take Watson over him.

 

[demon21]

Warner is lucky to be in the Aus ODI side, he isnt close to being in the ODI world side, Plus Watson is a much better ODI player.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

1. Cook
2. Trott
3. Sangakarra
4. Pietersen
5. Clarke (c)
6. Chanderpaul
7. Prior
8. Pattinson
9. Siddle
10. Anderson
11. Ajmal


Trott can open. I'd rather have him in there than a sub par opener. Spinner was hard to choose, could've easily been Herath or Swann. Siddle and Roach were 50/50. I'm not putting Pujara in until he scores away from India.

 

[DeeWong6996]

1. Cook
2. Gayle
3. Sangakarra
4. Pietersen
5. Clarke (c)
6. Chanderpaul
7. Prior (+)
8. Broad
9. Siddle
10. Anderson
11. Ajmal

 

[DeeWong6996]

For ODI, I would go;

1. Watson
2. Dilshan
3. Kohli
4. Clarke (c)
5. Samuels
6. Pollard
7. Dhoni (+)
8. Swann
9. Starc
10. Anderson
11. Malinga

 

[Torz]

Ew, I can't believe so many people have Broad in their teams.

 

[Natho]

Finn>broad

 

[Tassieboy]

Remember in early to mid 2000's Aussies played a "supertest" and some 1 dayers vs a World XI.

Well lets pick a World XII to play against South Africa in South Africa, my quick attempt;

Test XII
Cook
Dilshan
Trott
Tendulkar
Clarke
Jayawardene
Prior
Broad
Swann
Pattinson
Anderson

12th - Pietersen

Who to captain out of Cook & Clarke ??
As mentioned the game is in South Africa, which is why I've discounted Dhoni & Pujara from the Test XII (as well as Ashwin, Ojha !)

ODI XII
Warner
Dilshan
Sangakarra
Kohli
Pietersen
Jayawardene
Dhoni (c)
Starc
Anderson
Herath
Finn

12th - Pollard

Make your own

Sachin Tendulkar hasn't scored a Test century in years. There would be 25 ahead of him.

 

[TassieEagle]

My test side:

Cook
Dilshan
Sangakkara
Pietersen
Clarke
Chanderpaul
Dhoni
Broad
Siddle
Pattinson
Ajmal

Will do an ODI side later but I imagine Clarke, Dhoni and Ajmal would be the only ones backing up.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

For varieties sakes, a few different names...

A. Cook
M. Hafeez
K. Sangakarra
K. Pietersen
M. Clarke
S. Chanderpaul
M. Prior (+)
J. Pattinson
R. Herath
K. Roach
J. Anderson

 

[PTizzle]

For varieties sakes, a few different names...

A. Cook
M. Hafeez
K. Sangakarra
K. Pietersen
M. Clarke
S. Chanderpaul
M. Prior (+)
J. Pattinson
R. Herath
K. Roach
J. Anderson

That looks a lot more like what I was thinking, although I don't really get the love for Roach, I've never found him to be great outside of speed. I like Kulasekara a lot, although I know he's more of an ODI bowler.

 

[Patron]

Test

Cook
Gayle
Sangakarra
Pieterson
Clarke (C)
Chanderpaul
Prior (+)
Pattinson
Swann - Just over ajmal, used batting as the tie breaker
Siddle - Harris if fit
Anderson


If watson was bowling i could think about having him in as the second opener as there is no other top quality opener than cook.

ODI
Watson
Cook
Sangakarra
Kohli
Clarke
Pieterson
Dhoni
Starc
Swann
Malinga
Ajmal

T20
Gayle
Warner
Watson
Mcculum
Kohli
Pollard
Dhoni
Starc
Narine
Ajmal
Malinga

 

[akkaps]

Test

Cook (c)
Jayawardene
Trott
Sangakarra
Clarke
Kohli
Dhoni (+)
Ashwin
Siddle
Swann
Anderson

ODI

Watson
Dilshan
Sangakarra
Clarke (c)
Pieterson
Pollard
Dhoni (+)
Ajmal
Narine
Malinga
Best

T20

Dhawan
Warner
Gayle
Sangakarra
McCullum (c)
Pieterson
Pollard
Dhoni (+)
Herath
Narine
Malinga

 

[Hellgood]

For varieties sakes, a few different names...

A. Cook
M. Hafeez
K. Sangakarra
K. Pietersen
M. Clarke
S. Chanderpaul
M. Prior (+)
J. Pattinson
R. Herath
K. Roach
J. Anderson

Agree with a significant portion of that side, but genuinely lol'ed at Hafeez. Did he even reach double figures in the test series against SA? Steyn utterly embarrased him.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Agree with a significant portion of that side, but genuinely lol'ed at Hafeez. Did he even reach double figures in the test series against SA? Steyn utterly embarrased him.

Honestly, included him as much for his bowling as his batting.

 

[mayhem20202]

Anyone who doesn't have Dhoni as the keeper in the ODI and Test side is kidding themselves. I understand the Test is in South Africa, wouldn't matter. Dhoni would be one of the first guys picked.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Anyone who doesn't have Dhoni as the keeper in the ODI and Test side is kidding themselves. I understand the Test is in South Africa, wouldn't matter. Dhoni would be one of the first guys picked.

Prior is a better player than Dhoni.

 

[eth-dog]

Anyone who doesn't have Dhoni as the keeper in the ODI and Test side is kidding themselves. I understand the Test is in South Africa, wouldn't matter. Dhoni would be one of the first guys picked.

Prior>Dhoni as both a keeper and a bat. I would go:

Cook
Warner
Trott
Jayawardene
Clarke (c)
Pieterson
Prior (+)
Swann
Pattinson
Siddle
Anderson

 

[knobby]

Anyone who doesn't have Dhoni as the keeper in the ODI and Test side is kidding themselves. I understand the Test is in South Africa, wouldn't matter. Dhoni would be one of the first guys picked.

MS Dhoni
T I NO Runs HS Avge 100 50 0
home 39 57 8 2298 224 46.89 5 15 3
away 37 62 6 1875 148 33.48 1 13 5

MJ Prior
home 33 48 7 1817 126* 44.31 4 12 3
away 28 41 7 1487 131* 43.73 2 12 5
neutral 3 6 2 150 70* 37.50 0 1 0

Prior's away record much more impressive, I think Dhoni's only away 100 was in Bangladesh !
Dhoni struggles when the ball bounces above waist height.

Plus Prior a better keeper, certainly to the quicks.