Rest of World XI to contest Steve Waugh led Australian XI in Tests? Who would win?

[Harsh Thakor]

The Australian xi led by Steve Waugh was arguably the best team ever in the history of test cricket with an unbroken run of win sin 16 tests.I have pitted a World xi to challenge it.

Rest of the World xi

Virendra Sehwag
Saed Anwar
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
V.V.S.Laxman
Jacques Kallis
Moin Khan
Wasim Akram
Curtly Ambrose
Alan Donald
Murlitharan



Australian xi

Matthew Hayden
Justin Langer
Ricky Ponting
Mark Waugh
Steve Waugh
Damyn Martyn
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Bret Lee
Michael Kasporwich
Glen Mcgrath


Chosen Laxman instead of Dravid because he was more mercurial and talented.On pure figures Dravid would make it .Tendulkar and Lara were more flamboyant than Rahul.Neverthless Dravid missed out by not more than a whisker.


Back the World xi to win with better batting and superior fire power to win by a margin or around 50 runs or 3 wickets.World xi has the Sobers and Bradman of it's age in Kallis and Tendulkar.Still Australia could well reverse the result with their great professionalism .

 

[asifp]

Australia. They would crush the other team. This Australian team was a mentally strong group of winners.

Also you would have Gillispie instead of Kasporwich

 

[Harsh Thakor]

Australia. They would crush the other team. This Australian team was a mentally strong group of winners.

Also you would have Gillispie instead of Kasporwich

Does not WORLD XI have a more powerful and diverse attack?Most accurate, complete and speedy paceman and arguably the best ever spinner?Also arguably the best Batman and all-rounder ever?Do explain.

 

[Ab Fan]

Australian XI will win. That rest of world XI have players from different countries and they will struggle to gel with each other very well.

Also, Aussies XI were mentally very strong team.

 

[BunnyRabbit]

Include Gillespie instead of Kasprowicz and pup or Hussey instead of Mark Waugh. That would totally be unbeatable.
Even though will still back the Aussie team to win cause they WERE a Team.
World XI's usually are a joke as there is no real goal or team spirit within them, and players are just looking to have fun.

I would have Sangakkara instead of Laxman and Vettori/Jayasuria instead of Moin.

 

[Robert]

RoW because they have more fast bowling firepower. Even if you bring in Dizzy for Kaspa. Bung will get hit all over by the RoW batters.

Bring in Stewart for Moin behind the sticks.