Pick your AT Aus WC XI

[stephen]

Who makes your all-time Australia World Cup XI? | ESPNcricinfo.com

No Lillee or G Chappell available.

My XI from those available:

Hayden
Gilchrist
Ponting
M Waugh
Jones
Bevan
Starc
Warne
Bracken
McGrath

 

[trundler]

Hayden
Gilchrist
Ponting
Waugh
Jones
Bevan
O'Donnell
Warne
Starc
McDermott
McGrath

 

[vcs]

Swap Tait and Hogg in the 2007 team for Lee and Warne respectively. Maybe Starc gets in ahead of Bracken, but Bracken was also very good.

 

[stephen]

Swap Tait and Hogg in the 2007 team for Lee and Warne respectively. Maybe Starc gets in ahead of Bracken, but Bracken was also very good.

Lee and Starc in the same side? That could go very wrong. I'd take Starc over Lee and keep Bracken and McGrath myself.

That 07 side was just so brilliant wasn't it? No weaknesses whatsoever. And Tait, who should have been the weakest link turned out to be a beast. Hussey was a passenger, but only because he was never actually needed.

 

[Burgey]

Boon
Gilchrist
Ponting
Jones
Symonds
Bevan
S Waugh
Warne
Starc
Bracken
McGrath

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Any 11 from about 20 and they'd beat any other side in World Cup history. Depressing.

 

[vcs]

Lee and Starc in the same side? That could go very wrong. I'd take Starc over Lee and keep Bracken and McGrath myself.

That 07 side was just so brilliant wasn't it? No weaknesses whatsoever. And Tait, who should have been the weakest link turned out to be a beast. Hussey was a passenger, but only because he was never actually needed.

Lee is still well ahead of Starc for me because of longevity. It feels as if Starc's barely played an ODI since the 2015 WC.

 

[stephen]

Lee is still well ahead of Starc for me because of longevity. It feels as if Starc's barely played an ODI since the 2015 WC.

Fair enough. Starc still doesn't have a huge number of caps, despite being the first choice quick for the Aus ODI XI. In spite of this he's done more than Lee in World Cups.

 

[Red Hill]

MWaugh
Gilchrist +
Ponting
Clarke
Watson
SWaugh
Symonds
Warne
Starc
Lee
McGrath

 

[ankitj]

Who makes your all-time Australia World Cup XI? | ESPNcricinfo.com

No Lillee or G Chappell available.

My XI from those available:

Hayden
Gilchrist
Ponting
M Waugh
Jones
Bevan
Starc
Warne
Bracken
McGrath

That's not an XI that's a X

 

[stephen]

That's not an XI that's a X

That's because I left out Symonds at 7.

 

[Burgey]

Lee is now unavailable for selection, owing to his filming an infomercial for Tony Abbott.

 

[mr_mister]

Almost any combination of players from the 99/03/07 cups. Especially the finalised XIs that played in the finals

 

[Burgey]

Plus Allan Border (c)

 

[James90]

Gilchrist
Hayden
Ponting
Clarke
Bevan
Watson
Symonds
Lee
Warne
Starc
McGrath

 

[stephen]

Gilchrist
Hayden
Ponting
Clarke
Bevan
Watson
Symonds
Lee
Warne
Starc
McGrath

That XI is almost unfair it's that good.

 

[Red Hill]

MWaugh
Gilchrist +
Ponting
Clarke
Watson
SWaugh
Symonds
Warne
Starc
Lee
McGrath

The fielding in these Aust sides. Outstanding. MWaugh, SWaugh, Ponting, Clarke and Symonds were all pure elite, and Lee, McGrath and Starc are all solid on the boundary with great arms. Warne and Watto were adequate enough to take slips while the others patrol the inner ring.

 

[stephen]

The fielding in these Aust sides. Outstanding. MWaugh, SWaugh, Ponting, Clarke and Symonds were all pure elite, and Lee, McGrath and Starc are all solid on the boundary with great arms. Warne and Watto were adequate enough to take slips while the others patrol the inner ring.

And who can forget Watson's run out of de Villiers from the boundary in the 07 WC.

 

[Spikey]

based on WC performances, which I think was the purpose:

Gilchrist
MWaugh
Ponting
Clarke
SWaugh
Bevan
Symonds
Lee
Warne
Starc
McGrath

Waugh/Hayden is basically personal preference. other Waugh is picked over Watson based on bowling - Watson averaged over 60 with the ball in WCs, SWaugh a tick over 30. Bevan is maybe a bit lucky, but he does have 4 quintessential Bevan performances in WCs (vs WI 96, vs SA 99, vs Eng 03 and vs NZ 03, the first two being in semi finals. shout out to Bichel for those last two). Clarke's record is better than I recalled, you could probably swap him and SWaugh around.

 

[mr_mister]

Steve Waugh's WC record is far better than his mere ODI record

From his standout death bowling in '87 to the 120* in '99(in fact his entire '99 campaign he shone with the bat) I feel he's def a better option than Clarke