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I looked in the search, and couldn't find a thread like this. If there is one, I'm sorry for missing it.

I have a few ideas for my Asia XI, but before I put them down, I'd like to know you Asia XI for Tests and ODIs.
 
Tests

Kumar Sangakara
Verender Sehwag
Younis Khan
Rahul Dravid
Inzamam ul-Haq
Mahela Jayawardena
Mohammed Yousuf
Chaminda Vaas
Shoaib Akthar
Mohammed Asif/Anil kumble
Muttiah Murlitharan

ODI

Kumar Sangakarra
Verender Sehwag/Sanath Jayasuriya
Rahul Dravid
Younis Khan
Inzamam Ul-Haq
Mahela Jayawardena
Yuraj Singh
Chaminda Vaas
Shoaib Akthar
Mohammed Asif
Muttiah Murlitharan
 
Whoops, I forgot to specify;

All time Asia XI.


Tests:

*Sunil Gavaskar
Aravinda De Silva
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Javed Miandad or Mahela Jayawardene
T Hanif Mohammad
Kapil Dev
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram or Anil Kumble depending on pitch
Muttiah Muralitaran
BS Chandrashkar

ODI:

Jayasuriya
Sachin Tendulkar
Dravid
Jaywardene
T Kumar Sangakkara
*Inzamam-ul-Haq
Kapil Dev
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis or Harbhajan Singh depending on the situation
Muralitharan


both are, of course, extremely tentative.
 
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Im guessing this is for the current players and not all time greats?

Test's:

Virender Sehwag
Kumar Sangakarra(wk)
Rahul Dravid (capt)
Sachin Tendulkar
Mohammed Yousuf
Mahela Jawardene
Irfan Pathan
Anil Kumble
Shoaib Akhtar
Muralitharan
Mohammed Asif

ODI's:

Virender Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
Yuvraj Singh
Mahela Jawardene
Mohammed Yousuf
M.S Dhoni (wk)
Shoaib Akhtar
Rana Naved Ul Hassan
Muralitharan
Mohammed Asif
 
Sachin
Dravid
Irfan Pathan (12'th man)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Inzamam Ul-Haq
Shoaib Akhtar
Mohammed Yousuf
Muttiah Muralitharan
Chaminda Vaas
Mahela Jayawardene
Kumar Sangakarra
Virender Sehwag

Not in any particular order
 
Pak_cricketer said:
Tests

Kumar Sangakara
Verender Sehwag
Younis Khan
Rahul Dravid
Inzamam ul-Haq
Mahela Jayawardena
Mohammed Yousuf
Chaminda Vaas
Shoaib Akthar
Mohammed Asif/Anil kumble
Muttiah Murlitharan

ODI

Kumar Sangakarra
Verender Sehwag/Sanath Jayasuriya
Rahul Dravid
Younis Khan
Inzamam Ul-Haq
Mahela Jayawardena
Yuraj Singh
Chaminda Vaas
Shoaib Akthar
Mohammed Asif
Muttiah Murlitharan


There exists a soul by the name SACHIN TENDULKAR
 
Current Players only... You may think there are more Indians due to bias, but there are too many class Indian player to leave out...

Asia Test XI:

1. Virender Sehwag
2. Rahul Dravid (c)
3. Mahela Jayawardene
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Mohd. Yousuf
6. Inzamam Ul-Haq
7. Kumar Sangakarra (wk)
8. Irfan Pathan
9. Anil Kumble
10. Muttiah Muralitharan (already 2 spinners, sorry Harbhajan)
11. Mohd. Asif

Asia ODI XI:

1. Virender Sehwag
2. Sanath Jaysuriya
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Inzamam Ul-Haq (c)
5. Yuvraj Singh
6. Mahendra Dhoni (wk)
7. Irfan Pathan
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Harbhajan Singh
10. Shoiab Akhtar
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
 
Here's mine..

Tests:
Sehwag, Jayasurya (couldn't find any better than these two), Dravid, Tendulkar, Yousuf, Jayawardane, Sangakarra, M.Asif/Rana, S.Akthar, Kumble, Muralitharan.

ODI's:
Sehwag/Jayasurya, Tendulkar, Dravid, Yousuf, Inzi, Yuvraj, Afridi, Dhoni, Akthar, Muralitharan and Pathan.
 
Tests: Tendulkar, Sunny Gavaskar, Dravid, PA De Silva, Javed Miandad, Imran Kahn, Kiran More, Anil Kumble, Muttiah Muralithuran, Wasim n Waqar.

Sorry it will probably have a lot of errors, i have limited knowledge of the history of these teams.
 
Asia- Tests X1
1. Salman Butt
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Mohammad Yousaf
4. Inzamam-ul-Haq
5. Rahul Dravid(C)
6. Marven Atapattu
7. Kumar Sangakkara(WC)
8. Muttiah Muralitharan
9. Mohammad Asif
10. ANil Kumble
11. Zaheer Khan

Asia- ODI X1
1. Virender Sehwag
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Sanath Jayasuriya
4. Yuvraj Singh
5. Inzamam-ul-Haq
6. Abdul Razzaq
7. Mohammad Yousaf
8. Irfan Pathan
9. Muttiah Muralitharan
10. MS Dhoni
11. Chaminda Vaas
here you go....the best team you can ever find in Asia..
 
Asia Test XI (All Time):

Saeed Anwar
Sunil Gavaskar
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Javed Miandad
Zaheer Abbas
Kumar Sangakkara (WK)
Imran Khan (C)
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Muttiah Muralitharan

Asia Test XI (Current):

Sanath Jayasuriya
Verinder Sehwag
Younis Khan
Sachin Tendulkar
Inzamam-Ul-Haq (C)
Rahul Dravid
Kumar Sangakkara (WK)
Chaminda Vaas
Shoaib Akhtar
Muttiah Muralitharan
Mohammad Asif

Asia ODI XI (All Time):
Saeed Anwar
Sachin Tendulkar
Zaheer Abbas
Inzamam-Ul-Haq
Ajay Jadeja
Kumar Sangakkara (WK)
Imran Khan (C)
Wasim Akram
Anil Kumble
Waqar Younis
Muralitharan

Asia ODI XI (Current):

Verinder Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid (C)
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Mohammad Yousuf
Shoaib Malik
MS Dhoni (WK)
Abdul Razzaq
Irfan Pathan
Shoaib Akhtar
Muttiah Muralitharan
 
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Oh this is gonna be a toughie, obviously a little biased :p :

Tests:

Sunil Gavaskar
Saeed Anwar
Rahul Dravid
Javed Miandad
Sachin Tendulkar
Inzamam-Ul-Haq
Kumar Sangakarra+
Imran Khan*
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Muttiah Muralitharan

12th man: Anil Kumble

ODIs:

Saeed Anwar
Sachin Tendulkar
Saurav Ganguly
Kumar Sangakarra+
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-Ul-Haq
Imran Khan*
Kapil Dev
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Muttiah Muralitharan

12th man: Mushtaq Ahmed

I know my test XI is batting heavy, but its hard to take out any of those middle order batmen. Its bad enough I left out Zaheer Abbas and many others.
 
I think subcontinent sides will always be batting heavy because we did have many of the top batsmen in the world!
 

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