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Cook and Kohli named captains respectively

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced its Test and ODI Teams of the Year. Former Test stalwarts Rahul Dravid, Gary Kirsten and Kumar Sangakkara selected the sides based on players’ performances in the period from 14 September 2015 to 20 September 2016.

England’s Alastair Cook has been named as captain of the ICC Test Team of the Year, which includes four Englishmen, three Australians, and a player each from New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

This is the third time Cook has been appointed captain of the Test side, while it the eighth time in nine years that Dale Steyn has been selected. Joe Root, David Warner and Kane Williamson have been chosen for the third successive year.

ICC Test Team of the Year 2016 (in batting order) is:
1. David Warner (Australia)
2. Alastair Cook (England) (captain)
3. Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
4. Joe Root (England)
5. Adam Voges (Australia)
6. Jonny Bairstow (England) (wicketkeeper)
7. Ben Stokes (England)
8. R. Ashwin (India)
9. Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka)
10. Mitchell Starc (Australia)
11. Dale Steyn (South Africa)
12. Steve Smith (Australia)

It has been a case of third time lucky for Virat Kohli who has been named as captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Year, which includes three Australians, Indians, South Africans each, and one each from England and West Indies. De Villiers has been selected for the sixth time since 2010, while Starc has been picked up for the third time in four years.

Starc and his team-mate Warner are the only two players to have been selected in both the Test and ODI sides in 2016.

ICC ODI Team of the Year 2016 (in batting order) is:
1. David Warner (Australia)
2. Quinton de Kock (South Africa) (wicketkeeper)
3. Rohit Sharma (India)
4. Virat Kohli (India) (captain)
5. AB de Villiers (South Africa)
6. Jos Buttler (England)
7. Mitchell Marsh (Australia)
8. Ravindra Jadeja (India)
9. Mitchell Starc (Australia)
10. Kagiso Rabada (South Africa)
11. Sunil Narine (West Indies)
12. Imran Tahir (South Africa)
 
:)) quite a joke if you ask me.

The English fans and pundit are talking of dropping Cook after an average summer and a terrible winter - and here he is being named captain of the Test team.

Meanwhile the captain of the two most recent number 1 test teams in the world - Misbah & Kohli - can't even make it into the Test team.

Meanwhile the supposed No.1 Test batsmen in the world is 12th man.

4 of the Top 6 ranked Test batsmen can't make it into the team.

It kind of shows how even the ICC do not take their ranking system seriously.
 
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TalhaSyed said:
:)) quite a joke if you ask me.

The English fans and pundit are talking of dropping Cook after an average summer and a terrible winter - and here he is being named captain of the Test team.

Meanwhile the captain of the two most recent number 1 test teams in the world - Misbah & Kohli - can't even make it into the Test team.

Meanwhile the sipposid No.1 Test batsmen in the world is 12th man.

4 of the Top 6 ranked Test batsmen can't make it into the team.

It kind of shows how even the ICC do not take their ranking system seriously.
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awards period is from 2015 Sep to 2016 Sep.. neither Misbah not Kohli have particularly impressive record during this time.. maybe you can argue Voges's place but there isn't anyone else with good record and > 8 matches
 
jaguarjack said:
awards period is from 2015 Sep to 2016 Sep.. neither Misbah not Kohli have particularly impressive record during this time.. maybe you can argue Voges's place but there isn't anyone else with good record and > 8 matches
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As captains I feel Kohli and Misbah have been way more successful than Cook. If nothing - Smith is ranked number 1 Test batsmen and his team are ranked higher than Englands, so it would have made more sense to have him as captain of the Test team.

Just shows how seriously the ICC takes their own ranking system.
 
What.... no Pakistani in the test team ???
Ex Number 1 & currently number 3 ranked team.... and you didn't choose the single player ??
Height of biased-ness....
 
jaguarjack said:
awards period is from 2015 Sep to 2016 Sep.. neither Misbah not Kohli have particularly impressive record during this time.. maybe you can argue Voges's place but there isn't anyone else with good record and > 8 matches
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Also - during that period Cook averaged 55, Misbah averaged 49 & Kohli averaged 45. None of the 3 performed poorly and there is nothing much in it as batsmen.

Cooks team had a very average run whilst Misbah lead his team to No. 1 as captain and Kohli's team was No. 1 shortly after. Meanwhile, England's fans are all talking about when they should replace him with Root, due to England's mediocre performance on the field.

Picking Cook as captain ahead of Misbah, Kohli and even Smith is a joke IMO.
 
TalhaSyed said:
As captains I feel Kohli and Misbah have been way more successful than Cook. If nothing - Smith is ranked number 1 Test batsmen and his team are ranked higher than Englands, so it would have made more sense to have him as captain of the Test team.

Just shows how seriously the ICC takes their own ranking system.
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Rankings reflect the current period and they change with every match.

These awards are for a period between sep 2015- sep 16. It's hard to include a player for captaincy alone. Making one in the XI as captain is the easier way to go.
 
TalhaSyed said:
Also - during that period Cook averaged 55, Misbah averaged 49 & Kohli averaged 45. None of the 3 performed poorly and there is nothing much in it as batsmen.

Cooks team had a very average run whilst Misbah lead his team to No. 1 as captain and Kohli's team was No. 1 shortly after. Meanwhile, England's fans are all talking about when they should replace him with Root, due to England's mediocre performance on the field.

Picking Cook as captain ahead of Misbah, Kohli and even Smith is a joke IMO.
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Misbah or Kohli or even Smith will not compete for Cook's spot as they select openers, middle order batsmen, spin bowlers, pace bowlers and wicket keeper individually. Otherwise no opener had a great year in the last 12 months or so and you would have to create a makeshift opener for the job.
 
TalhaSyed said:
As captains I feel Kohli and Misbah have been way more successful than Cook. If nothing - Smith is ranked number 1 Test batsmen and his team are ranked higher than Englands, so it would have made more sense to have him as captain of the Test team.

Just shows how seriously the ICC takes their own ranking system.
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England were ranked no.2 prior to entering Asia.

So the problem is not rankings but poor timing of the awards, I honestly don't get the purpose of having the Sep to Sep cut off, just have it Jan-Dec cut off, so that at least when you announce the awards it doesn't look ridiculous.

Smith who is no.1 bat as 12th man is a goof up though, his record even in the cut off period is better probably Root's double century vs you guys edged him over Smith.
 
Cricfan4eva said:
England were ranked no.2 prior to entering Asia.

So the problem is not rankings but poor timing of the awards, I honestly don't get the purpose of having the Sep to Sep cut off, just have it Jan-Dec cut off, so that at least when you announce the awards it doesn't look ridiculous.

Smith who is no.1 bat as 12th man is a goof up though, his record even in the cut off period is better probably Root's double century vs you guys edged him over Smith.
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street cricketer said:
Misbah or Kohli or even Smith will not compete for Cook's spot as they select openers, middle order batsmen, spin bowlers, pace bowlers and wicket keeper individually. Otherwise no opener had a great year in the last 12 months or so and you would have to create a makeshift opener for the job.
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More flaws in an ICC system - shocker :13:
 
Azhar should have made the Test team over Warner. Kohli deserved to be in there too.
ODI team is very good. Would probably take out Narine who's form has been dodgy to say the least. Otherwise probably the best team of One Day players.
 
street cricketer said:
Misbah or Kohli or even Smith will not compete for Cook's spot as they select openers, middle order batsmen, spin bowlers, pace bowlers and wicket keeper individually. Otherwise no opener had a great year in the last 12 months or so and you would have to create a makeshift opener for the job.
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When they can select a regular opener Rohit as no.3, I doubt selecting Kohli for Cook or Misbah would've been any different. At least Root has opened he could've been pushed up.
 
Misbah was MOS in England series. So, he can be the captain + batsmen at no.5 ahead of Voges who was poor in Sri Lanka.
 
Wait..What? did i just see Adam Voges in that team? hahaha.. He got kicked out of his team. Didnt he? Alastair Cook.. Everyone wants him to step down as captain of England, and hes the captain of world XI. What a joke! Wonder who were the panelists?
 
There is lot of cricket in Dec-Jan, so it doesnt make sense to have cut off in the middle of the series.

I am okay with Sep to Aug time frame for the awards, but why not just announce them in September? Why wait 3 more months? By announcing them at year end, casual fans will assume that they are for the calendar year and create more confusion. Perhaps it is ICC's way to grab some headlines by creating controversy.
 
Never really got the fascination with Kane. He's good but not the second coming of Bradman that you have to put him in every list ever made simply because he is "technically good" or "plays with soft hands". I'd have Steven Smith ahead of him everywhere, conditions be damned.
 
imshally81 said:
What.... no Pakistani in the test team ???
Ex Number 1 & currently number 3 ranked team.... and you didn't choose the single player ??
Height of biased-ness....
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What to expect when sangakkara and dravid are in the panel, even I am better batsman than voges and he is just westindies bully....
 
honeybadger said:
Never really got the fascination with Kane. He's good but not the second coming of Bradman that you have to put him in every list ever made simply because he is "technically good" or "plays with soft hands". I'd have Steven Smith ahead of him everywhere, conditions be damned.
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I am just tired of these three words williamson, smith, root
 
Why Steyn is in Test team of the year?

The guy plays only 3 Test matches and on the stretches for most part of the year, their are dozen of candidates apart from him, E.g Ya-sir shah deserves it more than him as he won us series against England in UAE plus his match winning spells in LORDS AND OVAL. In addition even Jadeja was better than him.
So my question is if past performance is the criteria to gave awards then why not bring tendulkar and Lara into the team, Boy they were very good batsmen or why not bring Wasim akram hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha and their is only one word to describe this situation " HILARIOUS"
" The hate for Pakistan players continue but I not care about those awards as long as my team win remaining two matches in Australia"
What you guys think?????:tahir2:yasir
 
People paying too much attention to some paper team.

Let it go.
 
ali ray said:
Plus what voges did apart from bullying westindies and New zealand at home
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They went with stats and avgs in that period rather than taking conditions and opponents into consideration. I would definitely pick Misbah or maybe even push Smith a little down to 5 rather than having Voges. Smith deserved a place in XI too.
 
Yasir had competition vs Ashwin and Herath who were statistically superior to him and hence made it to the XI..

You cant have three spinners.

Steyn's competition was vs Rabadda and Hazlewood.

Anyways, these rankings aren't everything and one should let it go.
 
Ab Fan said:
Yasir had competition vs Ashwin and Herath who were statistically superior to him and hence made it to the XI..

You cant have three spinners.

Steyn's competition was vs Rabadda and Hazlewood.

Anyways, these rankings aren't everything and one should let it go.
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What Hearth did apart from Australia whitewash, Is he help his side draw the series in NZ and England?
 
ali ray said:
What Hearth did apart from Australia whitewash, Is he help his side draw the series in NZ and England?
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That is why I said statistically. However, Herath did had a good season.Again, rankings mostly take numbers and averages into consideration not the situation. So, really no point in paying enough attention to these things.
 
One aspect I've noticed with Pakistan is that their team is greater than the sum of their parts. England for example has a lot of individual stars with great records, but they are lesser than the sum of their parts. A lot of teams are carried by 2 or 3 stars - Ashwin and Kohli in case of India, Root and Bairstow for England, Smith and Starc for Australia. But Pakistan may not have players who aren't as consistent as say a Kohli, Smith or the previous mentioned players, but most of their players chip in with a performance when needed unlike the other teams. That actually signifies the team work of the team more than anything else.
 
Rabada should be in there ahead of Herath.

How many places are you really going to need 2 spinners?
 
Yes Pakistan don't have the biggest amount of individual brilliance in the team, but surely there is someone to pick out after a year where they were ranked 1st?
 
Why would they pick such a weird evaluation period? It should be from January to December of any given year so people clearly remember what said player did in a specific year. Anyways, these awards mean very little at the ens of the day.
 
Not a terrible team, but like Jadeja in the ODI team, Steyn is a weird pick. Played only 4 Tests in the cut-off period, taking 14 wickets. Same period, Anderson played 12 Tests, picking up 50 wickets.

Starc also played only 6 Tests but his inclusion is fair since he picked for than 6 wickets a match.
 
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