Ive made a few Dream Team threads lately but i think this one should be interesting as there are a few cricket fanatics on CG. Take a look at Infiltrator's thread for the summer of cricket thread.
www.cybergamer.com.au/forums/thread/326572/Summer-of-Cricket-20112012-Discussion-Thread/

Anyways, be logical with your lineup. Here goes mine.

1. Matthew Hayden (Australia)
2. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
3. Ricky Ponting [C] (Australia)
4. Brian Lara (West Indies)
5. Sachin Tendulkar (India)
6. Jaques Kallis (South Africa)
7. Adam Gilchrist [W] (Australia)
8. Shane Warne (Australia)
9. Andrew Flintoff (England)
10. Dale Steyn (South Africa)
11. Glenn McGrath (Australia)

Vettori > Warne
Vettori is a much better batter and can take big wickets like warne.
Just my opinion

Depends what era you are talking about though. Last 15 years for me though:

1. Matthew Hayden
2. Brian Lara
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Rahul Dravid
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Dan Vettori
9. Shane Warne
10. Dale Steyn
11. Glenn McGrath

Would have 2 spinners as Kallis is a freak and you could count Vettori as a batsmen anyway, just has a knack of scoring runs.

Thats going a bit far.

Forgot about danny. Yeah true, easily one of the worlds best all rounders at the moment. But i still think Warne is the leg spin legend and no one can out spin him, with a batting lineup ive given i think it'd be hard to beat.

1. Viv Richards
2. Donald Bradman
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Brian Lara
5. Ricky Ponting (c)
6. Rahul Dravid
7. Jacque Kallis
8. Mitchell Johnson
9. Dale Steyn
10. Shane Warne
11. Glen Mcgrath

EDIT: I forgot about ol' viv, so I put him in instead of Hayden, and changed taylor for ponting

Edited once, 14/1/12 - 5:05pm.

Sachin Tendulkar
Ricky Ponting (C)
Dave Warner
Shane Warne
Brett Lee
Michael Clarke
Viv Richards
Adam Gilchrist (W)
Glen McGrath
Mitchell Johnson
Don Bradman
Brian Lara

Edited once, 14/1/12 - 5:22pm.

Your going back 60 years and Johnson manages to get in your side? Lol.

Any era, dunno if Johnson should have a place in a dream team lol. I guess you have your opinion though.

And Finn, Warner? Are you on crack

Johnson can smash a decent 50 with the bat, and can also bring home 5+ wickets every game. Him + warne + mcgrath = unstoppable.

i also edited my post you quoted so yeah

My best evert team from stats and what Ive seen

1) Arthur Morris (AUS)
2) Sunil Gavaskar (IND)
3) Sir Donald Bradman (AUS)
4) Sir Vivian Richards (WI)
5) Brian Lara (WI)
6) Sir Garfield Sobers (WI)
7) Adam Gilchrist (AUS)
8) Shane Warne (AUS)
9)Macolm Marshall (WI)
10) Wasim Akrmam (PAK)
11)Dennis Lillee (AUS)


Some ommitted players
Tendulker- very over rated player scored most of his centuries on roads and whilst is a very very good batsman is not worthy of a best ever side. Only won test match comes to mind where he "saved" India.

Jack Hobbs- Never saw him play but he has the most first class centuries so he would be the 3rd best opener in my opinion

Greg Chappell- On pure class one of the greatest. Best straight driver ever.

Murali- If you would choose 2 spinners he would be in.

Imran Khan- If you were after 2 allrounders you would choose him.

Any of the big 4 from the West Indies back in their prime could make this side

you know cricket is only played with 11 people, right?

and you misspelled Michael Clarke

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Gautam Gambhir
4. MS Dhoni
5. Virat Kohli
6. Yuvraj Singh
7. Suresh Raina
8. Yusuf Pathan
9. Harbhajan Singh
10. Praveen Kumar
11. Zaheer Khan
12. Ashish Nehra
13. Munaf Patel
14. Piyush Chawla
15. R Ashwin

O Wait..

Last time Johnson took 5 wickets in a test was 13 months ago.

Any team with chissy..