The ideal 2010s World XI

[Ab Fan]

Having gone through the thread of world XI of 2000s, I decided to make one for 2010s too. A minimum criteria should be 5 years of cricket in that decade. So, here is the ones whom I can think of as the stiffest contenders IMHO:-

Openers:-

Cook
Warner

No.3:-

Amla/Sangakkara/Kane

Middle order:-

Smith/ Kohli/ Root/ABDV

All-rounder:-

Stokes/Shakib

Wicket-keeper:-

De Kock, Bairstow

Fast bowlers:-

Steyn/ Anderson / Boult/ Starc / Broad/ Philander

Spinner:-

Herath/Ashwin/Yasir/Lyon

Pardon if I forgotten someone..!!!

Discuss!

 

[Princejain191]

Considering all the formats:

1) David Warner
2) Hashim Amla
3) Kumar Sangakkara
4) Virat Kohli (Captain)
5) AB de Villiers (Wk)
6) Ben Stokes
7) Vernon Philander
8) Ravi Ashwin
9) Mitchell Starc
10) Dale Steyn
11) Trent Boult

Reserves:
Joe Root
James Anderson
Nathan Lyon
Steve Smith
Khagiso Rabada
Josh Hazlewood
Kane Wiilliamson

 

[barah_admi]

Having gone through the thread of world XI of 2000s, I decided to make one for 2010s too. A minimum criteria should be 5 years of cricket in that decade. So, here is the ones whom I can think of as the stiffest contenders IMHO:-

Openers:-

Cook
Warner

No.3:-

Amla/Sangakkara/Kane

Middle order:-

Smith/ Kohli/ Root/ABDV

All-rounder:-

Stokes/Shakib

Wicket-keeper:-

De Kock, Bairstow

Fast bowlers:-

Steyn/ Anderson / Boult/ Starc / Broad/ Philander

Spinner:-

Herath/Ashwin/Yasir/Lyon

Pardon if I forgotten someone..!!!

Discuss!

That is a good squad but Younis Khan has to be there, the greatest number 3 of the decade. Boult should make way for Morkel or Rabada.

Mine, as a test XI is -

1. Cook
2. Warner
2. Khan
4. Amla
5. de Villiers
6. Smith c
7. Shakib
8. de Kock wk
9. Philander
10. Anderson
11. Steyn

Benched players: Root, Kohli, Rabada, Yasir and Sangakkara

An ODI XI would be -

1. Amla
2. Warner
3. Kohli c
4. de Villiers
5. Root
6. de Kock wk
7. Afridi
8. Starc
9. Ajmal
10. Morkel
11. Malinga

Benched players - Shakib, Guptill, Boult, Dhawan and Southee.