India - England combined XI (Post 2000s)

[Ab Fan]

Recently, Athers and Hussain did an exercise of letting out a combined test team of India-England of players post 2000 on SKY Sports. I am not going into the team they selected but here is my version of the XI that I have selected.

Ind-Eng combined XI :-

Alastair Cook
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Joe Root
Rishabh Pant(wkt)
Stokes/Jadeja( depending on conditions)
Ashwin
Broad
Bumrah
Anderson

Post your team.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Recently, Athers and Hussain did an exercise of letting out a combined test team of India-England of players post 2000 on SKY Sports. I am not going into the team they selected but here is my version of the XI that I have selected.

Ind-Eng combined XI :-

Alastair Cook
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Joe Root
Rishabh Pant(wkt)
Stokes/Jadeja( depending on conditions)
Ashwin
Broad
Bumrah
Anderson

Post your team.

Apart from Pant, I would say that its looks fine.

 

[Hitman]

This is the team Naseer Hussain and Michael Atherton selected.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Apart from Pant, I would say that its looks fine.

But 1 point that comes in my mind here is who will be the keeper if not him, because this is not the whole world. This is just India+England combo..

 

[Bhaijaan]

This is the team Naseer Hussain and Michael Atherton selected.


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So they picked an 80s Sachin Tendulkar in a Post 2000s team but did not pick Joe Root in it.

@DeadlyVenom @Cpt. Rishwat

 

[Devadwal]

Apart from Pant, I would say that its looks fine.

If not pant who will be your Wk ? Can you name it ?

 

[BouncerGuy]

If not pant who will be your Wk ? Can you name it ?

But 1 point that comes in my mind here is who will be the keeper if not him, because this is not the whole world. This is just India+England combo..

Learn to read the whole thread before you ask questions... This is exactly what I said here..

 

[mominsaigol]

This is the team Naseer Hussain and Michael Atherton selected.


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For me

Pretty spot on 11.

So they picked an 80s Sachin Tendulkar in a Post 2000s team but did not pick Joe Root in it.

@DeadlyVenom @Cpt. Rishwat

You cant pick root because atm he isnt > Dravid or Sachin. He has 10 tests to surpass them yes cause he can improve aus avg, improve conversion rate and rise his avg >>> 50 since hes barely hovering at it.

But its an uphill task and would require him to avg 65-70 across both tours.

Until then Dravid and Sachin are superior.

Tough love for root since hes competing with the 2 greatest Asian test batters of all time.

 

[Hitman]

So they picked an 80s Sachin Tendulkar in a Post 2000s team but did not pick Joe Root in it.

@DeadlyVenom @Cpt. Rishwat

Sachin played the last 1.5 months of cricket in 1989.

 

[mominsaigol]

So they picked an 80s Sachin Tendulkar in a Post 2000s team but did not pick Joe Root in it.

@DeadlyVenom @Cpt. Rishwat

Based of what are they picking an 80's Tenda? Their picking Tendulkar across history since birth to retirement of his test career?

 

[Devadwal]

Learn to read the whole thread before you ask questions... This is exactly what I said here..

pant is Only behind Gilly in the all time great WK list already. #Fact

 

[Hitman]

Based of what are they picking an 80's Tenda? Their picking Tendulkar across history since birth to retirement of his test career?

It's a post 2000's India-England combined Test team.

 

[mominsaigol]

It's a post 2000's India-England combined Test team.

Post 2000's Sachin and dravid are still > Root.

Root barely hovering 50 avg, conversion rate and aus avg will always haunt him. He has 10 tests to improve that. Otherwise I dont see how he'll recover as he ages and ages

 

[Ab Fan]

Post 2000's Sachin and dravid are still > Root.

Root barely hovering 50 avg, conversion rate and aus avg will always haunt him. He has 10 tests to improve that. Otherwise I dont see how he'll recover as he ages and ages

Root can still be picked at 5.

 

[mominsaigol]

Root can still be picked at 5.

True but isn't no 5 better of you're a dasher? KP is more aggressive and balances the combination pretty well no?

 

[Bhaijaan]

Just pointing out that this snub doesn’t look good on a player on the verge of breaking world record and he’s being snubbed by Englishmen, that’s gotta hurt his case more.

 

[Ab Fan]

True but isn't no 5 better of you're a dasher? KP is more aggressive and balances the combination pretty well no?

Not necessary in my opinion. Root had great record when batting at 5 back in 2015 when England had Cook and Bell in top 4 and his strike rate is also very good.

This team will have Pant or some may choose Stokes as well at #6 so the dasher requirement is already fulfilled and they don’t necessarily need to pick an inconsistent batter at #5 in my opinion. I will definitely pick Root in this team because he is the best England batsman in last many many years.

 

[mominsaigol]

Not necessary in my opinion. Root had great record when batting at 5 back in 2015 when England had Cook and Bell in top 4 and his strike rate is also very good.

This team will have Pant or some may choose Stokes as well at #6 so the dasher requirement is already fulfilled and they don’t necessarily need to pick an inconsistent batter at #5 in my opinion. I will definitely pick Root in this team because he is the best England batsman in last many many years.

Fair enough, Root at 5 it is.

 

[Hitman]

Can't speak about others but I always saw Kevin Pietersen as more of a threat than Joe Root. Again the same thing applies, KP could take apart attacks.​

 

[Devadwal]

Can't speak about others but I always saw Kevin Pietersen as more of a threat than Joe Root. Again the same thing applies, KP could take apart attacks.​

Yes at 5 is better choice than Root.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

So they picked an 80s Sachin Tendulkar in a Post 2000s team but did not pick Joe Root in it.

@DeadlyVenom @Cpt. Rishwat

It's a fair pick, for that squad Root should get in over KP.

Tendulkar has a massive fan following so it makes sense to pick him for commercial reasons. I would do the same to ensure 1 billion fanatics tune in. Root doesn't have the same fan following.