Why I dislike All time XIs by cricket experts #euphoriacricket
Have you seen these all-time XIs by retired cricketers or cricket experts? I dislike almost all of them, some of them are good but most of them are bad and I will tell you why. All these experts try to fit legendary players like Sachin, Cook, Lara, Ponting, Viv Richards, Kohli, De Villiers, Kallis and Sangakkara in one XI. You can’t have all these players in one XI they are all top-order batters who rarely batted at no 5 or 6 and to top it off they will say not necessarily by batting order bro what do you mean? Let’s take this XI by Dada this has Ponting at no 7 how is he going to rearrange this XI? How? I am not disrespecting Dada and I am also not questioning these players’ ability but these players won’t perform like they did at their batting positions. Sachin couldn’t have scored 51 centuries if he batted at number 6 or 7. For no 6 or 7 positions, you need to have lower middle-order players or keepers like Stokes, Dhoni, Gilchrist, McCullum, and Lance Klusener. If it were up to me I would have chosen this XI
Rohit Sharma, Matthew Hayden
Virat Kohli
Sachin Tendulkar
Ab de Villiers
MS Dhoni
Wasim Akram
Dale Steyn
Shane Warne
Glenn Mcgrath
Muttiah Muralitharan
All these players are 3 format players they might not be the best in all three but they can at least play 2 well and the 3rd format okayishly. I have also gone with the batting position where they performed the best. So, this is my XI as a fan. Let me know what other choices I could have made and tell me yours as well.
Rohit Sharma, Matthew Hayden
Virat Kohli
Sachin Tendulkar
Ab de Villiers
MS Dhoni
Wasim Akram
Dale Steyn
Shane Warne
Glenn Mcgrath
Muttiah Muralitharan
All these players are 3 format players they might not be the best in all three but they can at least play 2 well and the 3rd format okayishly. I have also gone with the batting position where they performed the best. So, this is my XI as a fan. Let me know what other choices I could have made and tell me yours as well.