Would any champion Test team ever have beaten a rest of the world team?

[Harsh Thakor]

Here I am trying to diagnose whether any of the greatest teams in the history of the game would have beaten a rest of the world xi?Very hard to ***** Don Bradman's team as I did not really see it.


Clive Lloyd's 1979-80 West Indians

Gordon greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Viv Richards
Clive Lloyd
Alvin Kalicharan
Faoud Baccchus
Deryk Murray
Andy Roberts
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Colin Croft

Rest of the world 1979-80

Sunil Gavaskar
Geoff Boycott
Greg Chappell
Gundappa Vishwanath
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Ian Botham
Imran Khan
Dennis Lillee
Alan Knott
Derek Underwood

Neck to neck but all-rounders give rest of the world xi a marginal edge.Also marginally better batting and marginally better bowling.One factor to weigh is that Ian Botham was never at his best against the West Indies.



1980-84
Clive Lloyd's West Indies

Gordon greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Viv Richards
Clive Lloyd
Richie Richardson
Faoud Baccchus
Jeff Dujon
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Eldine Baptiste

Rest of the World
Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
Mohinder Amarnath
Greg Chappell
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Ian Botham
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Syed Kirmani
Abdul Qadir

I think rest of the world would win with it's greater diversity and having all-rounders unlike the Calypsos.


1999 Australian team

Matthew Hayden
Justin Langer
Ricky Ponting
Mark Waugh
Steve Waugh
Damny Martyn
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Michael Kasporisw
Damien Fleming
Glen Mcgrath

Rest of the world

Saed Anwar
Steven Fleming
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Inzamam Ul Haq
Moin Khan
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younus
Alan Donald
Murlithran

I think Rest of the world would have convincingly won


Ricky Ponting's Australians

2002-04

Matthew Hayden
Justin Langer
Ricky Ponting
Damny Martyn
Daryl Lehman
Andrew Symonds
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Michael Kasporisw
Bret Lee
Stuart Mcgill
Glen Mcgrath




Res of the world 2002-04

Saed Anwar
Steven Fleming
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Inzamam Ul Haq
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Anil Kumble/Zaheer Khan
Shoaib Akhtar
Alan Donald
Murlithran

Rest of the world would win in my view.

Thus in my time none of the champion teams would probably have beaten a rest of the world xi of it's time.The closest to me was Clive Lloyd's 1979-80 team.

 

[Gilly]

The rest of the world team played Australia in 2005.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Australia 1999 - 2007 would smash any team put together. I remember Aussies clean sweeping ROW, pretty one sided match

 

[Gilly]

Here I am trying to diagnose whether any of the greatest teams in the history of the game would have beaten a rest of the world xi?Very hard to ***** Don Bradman's team as I did not really see it.


Ricky Ponting's Australians

2002-04

Matthew Hayden
Justin Langer
Ricky Ponting
Damny Martyn
Daryl Lehman
Andrew Symonds
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Michael Kasporisw
Bret Lee
Stuart Mcgill
Glen Mcgrath




Res of the world 2002-04

Saed Anwar
Steven Fleming
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Inzamam Ul Haq
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Anil Kumble/Zaheer Khan
Shoaib Akhtar
Alan Donald
Murlithran

Rest of the world would win in my view.

Thus in my time none of the champion teams would probably have beaten a rest of the world xi of it's time.The closest to me was Clive Lloyd's 1979-80 team.

How come Lehman and not S Waugh?.

 

[Harsh Thakor]

Steve Waugh retired in January 2oo4.Otherwise certain inclusion Also sorry for exvluiding Jacques Kallis from 2002-04.but I wanted more match-winners.Probably he deserved a place as he was arguably the best ever all-rounder.

 

[Gilly]

Steve Waugh retired in January 2oo4.Otherwise certain inclusion Also sorry for exvluiding Jacques Kallis from 2002-04.but I wanted more match-winners.Probably he deserved a place as he was arguably the best ever all-rounder.

Alan Donald retired Febuary 2002 nearly two years before Waugh yet you selected him, how does that work?.

 

[Gilly]

Anwar retired in 2001.

 

[Harsh Thakor]

Alan Donald retired Febuary 2002 nearly two years before Waugh yet you selected him, how does that work?.

sorry if error made.OK then accept Steve Waugh.Donald played 2003 world cup.Could make important difference but then maybe Shane Bond could replace.

 

[Harsh Thakor]

The rest of the world team played Australia in 2005.

still I feel rest of the world was better as a team overall One match or series cannot be conclusive.