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Old 11-03-2007, 12:52 AM
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(WI) Passed Seymour Nurse's 2523 Test runs
 
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My World World cup team

If everyone was fit and uninjured

Sanath Jayasira (Sri Lanka)
Herchelle Gibbs (South Africa)
Ricky Ponting (Australia)
Kevin Peitersen (England)
Andrew Symonds (Australia)
Jacob Oram (New Zealand)
Adam Gilchrist (Australia)
Andrew Flintoff (England)
Shaun Pollock (South Africa)
Makhaya Ntini (South Africa)
Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)

12th Man
Shane Bond (New Zealand)

Notably I considered no current Australian bowlers worthy of a position in the team. Raul Dravid, Chris McMillan, Virender Shewag, Shahid Afridi, Jaques Kallis and Sachin Tendulkar were unlucky.
But I opted for a long high strike rate batting line-up knowing that they only have to bat for 50 overs for maximum runs not 5 days. And a balanced specialist bowling attack (pace/strike Ntini, spin/strike/economy Murali and economy Pollock) aided by 3 allrounders.
Gilchrist only got in by a whisker.
Captain Ricky Ponting (he is a world cup winning captain)
Anyway everyone has their own ideas this is mine, what yours ?
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