If you were to select one Indian player in your team...

[Hitman]

I mean an Indian player in history. Whom would you pick?

I'd love to know the opinion of posters from all corners. Now I know some fans wouldn't pick anyone and say that they would rather play with 10 players.

But this question is to everyone, if they HAVE to pick one Indian player in their team from history, whom will it be?

 

[kingusama92]

Sachin Tendulkar (90s version).

 

[Dr_Bassim]

Sachin.

Might pick Kohli at the end of their careers.

 

[Pollack]

Saurav ganguly

 

[Madplayer]

Looking at the team requirement, I will pick Sehwag the opener for Pakistan team.

 

[Asim2Good]

Most ll pick Yousuf Pathan

 

[Colt]

Sachin in ODI

Dravid in Tests

Yuvraj in T20

All in their respective peaks.

 

[Stallion__]

Tendulkar in Tests
Kohli in Limited Overs

 

[JattMaula]

Manoj Prabhakar.

 

[kingusama92]

Kapil Dev would be incredibly useful too.

 

[Hitman]

Looking at the team requirement, I will pick Sehwag the opener for Pakistan team.

No disrespect towards your choice or Sehwag, but don't you think Sunny Gavaskar would suit better for the openers job?

 

[Pollack]

Saurav or kohli in ODI
Kapil or Dravid in tests
Kohli or kohli or kohli in t20.He is ridiculously good in t20s

 

[Hitman]

Kapil Dev would be incredibly useful too.

Great player, but I don't think Kapil would be required if Imran is in the team. What's your opinion on that?

 

[Protea Fan]

Sehwag......

 

[Madplayer]

No disrespect towards your choice or Sehwag, but don't you think Sunny Gavaskar would suit better for the openers job?

Gavasker is superior to sehwag i agree. But imo Sehwag's inclusion would be much better for a one dimensional Pakistani batting line up in this modern era where scoring at a quick rate is important in tests as well. a player like Sehwag is required to win more games rather than drawing them.

Most Pitches these days are fine for batting too so that would hide the technical issues of sehwag. Gavasker is vastly superior to most openers in that aspect but technical Perfection even a requirement these days? I dont think so. I am speaking purely from the POV of selecting a player FOR current era.

 

[JibranAnsari]

kohli in odis
tendulker in tests
yuvraj in t2os

 

[kingusama92]

Great player, but I don't think Kapil would be required if Imran is in the team. What's your opinion on that?

In an all-time XI? Perhaps not.

In the early 80s team? Kapil could easily replace Sikandar Bakht in the lineup. That's an unstoppable lineup in my opinion with that ATG duo.

7) Kapil Dev
8) Imran Khan (C)
9) Wasim Bari (WK)
10) Sarfraz Nawaz
11) Iqbal Qasim

In the modern team? Kapil Dev would be Pakistan's best bowler easily.

 

[Hawkeye]

Kohli in all 3 formats. No other bat comes close. Maybe srt does BUT only in Tests.

Then Sehwag the opener. Dravid in Tests.

 

[Hamza_]

Virat Kohli.

 

[shaz619]

I mean an Indian player in history. Whom would you pick?

I'd love to know the opinion of posters from all corners. Now I know some fans wouldn't pick anyone and say that they would rather play with 10 players.

But this question is to everyone, if they HAVE to pick one Indian player in their team from history, whom will it be?

Anil Kumble without a doubt

























Maybe Sachin to

 

[Ab Fan]

VVS in tests...

Stylish and a tragic player to have..

 

[proud_pakistani]

Kohli easily. If he was in the Pakistani team he would single handedly win games for us. Sachin is a good option too but not as much a match winner as Kohli.

 

[imranraf]

Give me Kohli and Dhoni and Pakistan team will win a lot more games. Dhoni as a captain as well.

 

[moghul]

Test: Gavaskar

ODI: Kapil Dev

T20: Kohli

Missed out closely, Sachin, Dravid, Dhoni.

 

[Hawkeye]

You can take all our bats.. except Miandad, Zaheer, Saeed Anwar, and Inzi.

But give us Kohli.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Would probably choose Sachin opener to partner Saeed in LOI's.In Tests,Kapil Dev.

 

[super hitter]

kapil Sharma

 

[Hasan123]

Virat Kohli

 

[vicky11]

pak definitely requires a dravid or kumble so that they would have been coaches for the team even after their gun career s

 

[Bilal7]

You can take all our bats.. except Miandad, Zaheer, Saeed Anwar, and Inzi.

But give us Kohli.

Don't even think about giving them Younis or Yousuf for a guy who has done nothing in test matches yet. A fair trade for Kohli would be Saeed Anwar.

I would pick Sachin definitely. However, that would probably mean that India never rises above minnow status which would be bad for the game.

 

[LegSideHack]

Virat Kohli. Would win so many of these games with a batsman like him leading the chase.

 

[Varun]

Pakistan would be best served with somebody like Vijay/Ashwin at this stage.

Historically there are more names to choose from of course.

 

[Aman]

Sachin or Kohli.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Kohli

 

[Officer Barbrady]

Kohli

 

[aukhan]

Dhoni as Captain.

2nd choice will be Kohli.