RE: 22 Yards Community - Cricket Contest 1 - MY Playing XI

Ah, that's a mix of players from the past with some of those played looong back and few others retired recently.

I was waiting to see someone coming up with Sunil Gavaskar as one of the openers because of his records of the First to score 10K runs in tests.

Mathew Hayden is a good choice to counter the slow scoring by Sunny sir just like Virender Sehwag and Alistair Cook or Virender Sehwag and Graeme Smith combinations the others have selected as Hayden is someone known for fast scoring with those huge sixes and fours.

Vivian Richards probably the first one who showed to others that, we can score quick runs in tests as well with his destructive batting whether it's ODI's or test matches with a fastest century in 54 balls scored in 1986 and the record almsot stood for 30 years in his name!!!

And then comes the run machine and the God of Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, well, whatever the arguments, he still carried the hopes a nation on his shoulders and was successful in making it big. His records speaks a lot than him and we are all proud of him, aren't we?

Don Bradman with almost 100 average in tests would have been more destructive cricketer than all our present cricketer had he played the T20's, oh that's just a thought and no one is near to his average speaks a lot about him.

There are some cricketers who will most probably feature among the XI selected by most of us and the next 2 players mentioned by you will come into that list, yes, Jaques Kallis and Kumar Sangakkara are the legends anyone will love to see in their team because of the all-round abilities although both can fit in as pure batsmen.

Interesting to see 2 spinner and 2 fast bowler units with Jaques Kallis and Viv Richards to share some overs among themselves and Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Mutthiah Muralitharan and Wasim Akram will fit perfectly for the remaining roles with both Shane Warne and Wasim Akram can also contribute with the bat, this looks more balanced side.

Overall, that looks a good side, thanks for sharing, good luck :)