Your Team of 2006!

[GPCCC]

Who would you select as the best International XI of 2006.
TEST or ODI.
Who makes your team? :onpc

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Hmm...
EDIT: Just clearing things up a bit:

Test:
Nafees
KP
MoYo
Dravid
Hussey
Dada
Sangakarra (keeper)
Warnie
Sreesanth
Gul
Monty

ODI:
Nafees
Sanath
Aftab
Morton
Moyo
Chanderpaul
Brendan Taylor (keeper)
Mortaza
Utseya
Jerome
Munaf (Poor start, but came back quite well in the CT to establish himself as one of India's finest ODI bowlers)

 

[evertonfan]

Test;

1.Dravid
2.Cook
3.Ponting
4.Pietersen
5.Yousuf
6.Hussey
7.Sangakkara
8.Clark
9.Panesar
10.Hoggard (Really underestimated this year)
11.Ntini

Long tail I know but i'm not picking the bowlers on their batting skills.

ODI;

1.Tharanga
2.Gayle
3.Jayawardene
4.Pietersen
5.Yuvraj Singh
6.Hussey
7.Sangakkara
8.Pollock
9.Taylor
10.Ntini
11.Murali

EDIT: How could I forget Murali?!

 

[Sureshot]

Test:

1. Cook
2. Hayden
3. Ponting
4. Moyo
5. Pietersen
6. Hussey
7. Sangakarra
8. Murali
9. Clark
10. Panesar
11. Ntini
Nice tail!
ODI:

1. Jayasuriya
2. Gayle
3. KP
4. Inzamam
5. Jayawardene
6. Kallis
7. Sangakkara
8. Symonds
9. Murali
10. Ntini
11. Malinga

 

[GPCCC]

Forgot to give myn :|

1) M Hayden
2) R Dravid (c)
3) R Ponting
4) M Yousef
5) K Pietersen
6) M Hussey
7) K Sangakkara
8) S Pollock
9) S Warne
10) M Ntini
11) Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[irottev]

Test:

Hayden
Langer
Ponting
Yousef
Hussey
Clarke
Gilchrist
Warne
Bond
Clark
McGrath

The aussie side with Yousef instead of Symonds, coz he's better and Bond instead of Lee, coz he's better. McGrath could be replaced with Ntini but I'll keep the balance of a champion team.

ODI: Much harder to pick. But Astle should be in you guys teams above. I can't believe no one picked an opener/number 3 with a 58 average for the year who can bowl a bit.

Jaysuriya
Astle
Fleming (c)
Sangakara
Hussey
Symonds
Pollock
Vettori
Bond
Bracken
Ntini

Possibly, still doesn't quite feel right. Some won't agree with Fleming but his average was not much less than Pontings but is a better captain so it was a hard choice, my bias ended up winning. Same with Vettori and Murili, Vettori's an allrounder but his bowling average and economy wern't too much worse than Murili. Hard choice. I felt with Bracken, Bond and Ntini as the tail I needed another all-rounder. There are just too many performers for the ODI game, even some of those ZImbabwe and Bangladeshies and Kanyans had good averages.

 

[plympilgrim]

Test
1. Stephen Fleming
2. Alistar Cook
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Mohammad Yousef
5. Mike Hussey
6. Younis Khan
7. Kumar Sangarkkara
8. Stuart Clark
9. Murali
10. Mahkiya Ntini
11. Mohammed Asif

 

[dtrain]

Dravid
Hussey
Ponting
Yousef
Jayawardene
Lara
Sangakkara
Warne
Muralitharan
Clark
Ntini

 

[Sureshot]

Flemings only had two big scores, the massive double and a 97.

 

[irottev]

He played no where near as many matches as the other sides. I agree though. Perhaps he wanted a proper captain. He is almost worth taking on his captaincy alone.

 

[plympilgrim]

Thats the main reason why, and also i needed a decent(ish) opener

 

[aussie_ben91]

Dravid
Hussey
Ponting
Yousef
Jayawardene
Lara
Sangakkara
Warne
Muralitharan
Clark
Ntini

I'd take the exact same team.

 

[Zaibatsu22]

Hmm...
EDIT: Just clearing things up a bit:

Test:
Nafees
KP
MoYo
Dravid
Hussey
Dada
Sangakarra (keeper)
Warnie
Sreesanth
Gul
Monty

How can you not have ponting?

 

[irottev]

I don't think his team is to be taken seriously considering it contains Nafees, Gul and Sreesanth.

 

[mehkar]

1) M Hayden
2) R Dravid (c)
3) R Ponting
4) M Yousef
5) K Pietersen
6) M Hussey
7) K Sangakkara
8) S Pollock
9) S Warne
10) M Ntini
11) Muttiah Muralitharan

ODI:

1. Jayasuriya
2. Gayle
3. KP
4. Inzamam
5. Jayawardene
6. Kallis
7. Sangakkara
8. Symonds
9. Murali
10. Ntini
11. Malinga

MHC