The XI of the Decade

It’s that time of year and that time of the decade. So, what’s the best XI of the last ten years? In some ways it is a disappointingly easy selection. But here it is anyway:

1. G Smith
2. V Sehwag
3. R Ponting
4. S Tendulkar
5. B Lara
6. A Gilchrist* (Wkt)
7. S Pollock
8. S Warne (Capt)
9. J Gillespie
10. M Muralitharan
11. G McGrath

Criteria: Anyone who retired before 2006 is ineligible. Lara, Tendulkar and Warne etc could also, of course, be in a team of the 1990s.

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