Current World team

Hayden
Smith
Kallis
Tendulkar Ponting)
Pietersen
Sangakkara
Boucher
Lee
Clark
Steyn
MuMu

Sehwag
Hayden
Ponting
Sangakkara
Pietersen
Chanderpaul
Dhoni
Lee
Steyn
Clark
Muralitharan

Augustus wrote:Sehwag
Hayden
Ponting
Sangakkara
Pietersen
Chanderpaul
Dhoni
Lee
Steyn
Clark
Muralitharan

Yep. Much more like it.

Much more.

Bush
Medvedev
Putin
Hu Jintao
Manmohan Singh
Koizumi
Merkel
Lula
Sarkozy
Berlusconi
Brown

subs:
Mbutterfingers Mbeki
K Rudd
Yousaf Raza Gillani
S Harper

Brass Monkey wrote:

Augustus wrote:Sehwag
Hayden
Ponting
Sangakkara
Pietersen
Chanderpaul
Dhoni
Lee
Steyn
Clark
Muralitharan

Yep. Much more like it.

Much more.

Nah, can't leave out Kallis

Current top 20 batsmen on the ICC rankings:



Name

Country

Rating

Career Best

1 K.C. Sangakkara SL 893 938 v England, 01/12/2007
2 S. Chanderpaul WI 890 890 v Australia, 12/06/2008
3 M.E.K. Hussey AUS 882 921 v West Indies, 23/05/2008
4 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 880 933 v West Indies, 27/11/2006
4 R.T. Ponting AUS 880 942 v England, 01/12/2006
6 J.H. Kallis SA 844 935 v New Zealand, 18/11/2007
7 K.P. Pietersen ENG 837 909 v West Indies, 28/05/2007
8 M.L. Hayden AUS 834 935 v England, 07/11/2002
9 D.P.M.D. Jayawardena SL 810 844 v West Indies, 22/03/2008
10 Younis Khan PAK 799 856 v England, 04/08/2006
11 M.J. Clarke AUS 723 761 v India, 26/12/2007
12 G.C. Smith SA 714 756 v New Zealand, 26/03/2004
13 I.R. Bell ENG 704 704 v South Africa, 10/07/2008
13 S.R. Tendulkar IND 704 898 v Zimbabwe, 21/02/2002
15 R. Dravid IND 701 892 v Pakistan, 16/03/2005
16 A. Symonds AUS 700 718 v West Indies, 30/05/2008
17 A.J. Strauss ENG 685 769 v South Africa, 13/01/2005
18 V. Sehwag IND 681 854 v South Africa, 28/11/2004
19 S.C. Ganguly IND 674 713 v Australia, 10/12/1999
20 V.V.S. Laxman IND 672 753 v Australia, 02/01/2004

And the bowlers:


Name

Country

Rating

Career Best

1 M. Muralidaran SL 897 920 v Bangladesh, 11/07/2007
2 D.W. Steyn SA 867 897 v India, 03/04/2008
3 S.R. Clark AUS 863 863 v West Indies, 12/06/2008
4 B. Lee AUS 794 811 v West Indies, 30/05/2008
5 R.J. Sidebottom ENG 769 769 v South Africa, 10/07/2008
6 M. Ntini SA 743 863 v India, 26/12/2006
7 W.P.U.J.C. Vaas SL 709 800 v India, 02/12/2005
8 A. Kumble IND 708 859 v Sri Lanka, 26/01/1994
9 Shoaib Akhtar PAK 684 855 v New Zealand, 26/12/2003
10 S.E. Bond NZ 668 778 v West Indies, 09/03/2006
11 M.S. Panesar ENG 640 721 v West Indies, 15/06/2007
12 J.E. Taylor WI 628 628 v Australia, 12/06/2008
13 C.D. Collymore WI 621 700 v India, 02/07/2006
14 Mohammad Asif PAK 619 710 v South Africa, 26/01/2007
14 Zaheer Khan IND 619 689 v Pakistan, 26/11/2007
16 Danish Kaneria PAK 614 723 v England, 12/11/2005
17 M.J. Hoggard ENG 612 795 v Sri Lanka, 28/05/2006
18 Harbhajan Singh IND 608 765 v New Zealand, 12/12/2002
19 A. Flintoff ENG 597 810 v Pakistan, 12/11/2005
20 D.L. Vettori NZ 591 681 v Australia, 11/03/2000

Hussey, Clarke, Bell and Sehwag are in decline.

It's a joke that Bond and Shoaib are still in the top 10.

Well judging by the rankings there is no place for SRT

Well judging by the rankings there is no place for GC Smith. No need to weep. It's peep's opinions.

Brass Monkey wrote:Well judging by the rankings there is no place for GC Smith. No need to weep. It's peep's opinions.

Well if you had read them properly Hayden and Smith are the 2 top ranked openers.

taipan wrote:Well if you had read them properly Hayden and Smith are the 2 top ranked openers.

Like Sanga or Hussey have never opened. I'd just go for one of them.

Hayden
Smith
Ponting*
KayPee
Sanga+
Shiv
Kallis
Lee
Clark
Steyn
Chuck

Mars
Pluto
Jupiter
Earth
Mercury*
Saturn
Uranus+
Neptune
Venus
Zog
Naboo

Pluto has been downgraded.

The mind boggles at "c Uranus, b Venus"