The ICC names it's team of the year

[Bahnz]

...and it's a bit weird.

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David Warner, Kane Williamson, Kumar Sangakkara, AB de Villiers (wk), Joe Root, Angelo Mathews (capt), Mitchell Johnson, Stuart Broad, Dale Steyn, Rangana Herath, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor (12th man)

5 specialist bowlers, KW opening the batting (obviously Blocky has more influence than we knew), no love for Chanderpaul or Amla, Harris missing out for some unfathomable reason...

 

[OverratedSanity]

Harris is an unforgivable omission. Broad's batting is no better than Harris' now anyway so using the all rounder excuse doesn't stand either.

Would've wanted Amla in just for his great performance at Galle alone, too, but can probably understand why Root is in there.

 

[Athlai]

3 Kiwis. We're still ranked 7th right?

 

[SteveNZ]

This must be based solely on numbers, otherwise a guy of Ryan Harris' stature shouldn't miss out any day of the week.

Stats people - this the case?

 

[GIMH]

Broad averages 26.74 from 12 Tests in the qualifying period, I hadn't realised he came out of the Ashes with an average of 27, incredible that in the circumstances.

 

[Maximas]

3 Kiwis. We're still ranked 7th right?

3 Sri Lankans too, and we're 5th or something now

 

[Daemon]

ODI: Mohammad Hafeez, Quinton de Kock, Virat Kohli, George Bailey, AB de Villiers, MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Dale Steyn, Mohammad Shami, Ajantha Mendis, Rohit Sharma (12th man)

What the **** is this

 

[Bahnz]

My test team of the September-August year:

Warner, Rogers, Amla, Sangakkara, Chanderpaul, de Villiers, Matthews, Johnson, Harris, Steyn, Herath

 

[Howe_zat]

Its not as bad as the time they picked Sangakkara to keep wicket when he didn't once keep wicket in the year

 

[Valer]

This must be based solely on numbers, otherwise a guy of Ryan Harris' stature shouldn't miss out any day of the week.

Stats people - this the case?

If you ignore broad, steyn johnson southee is reasonable from a stats perspective.

Broad was impressive in the aus ashes given the result.

 

[harsh.ag]

Four fast bowlers and Matthews is such overkill.

Mine:

Warner
Williamson
Sanga
Root
Misbah/Chanders
ABdV +
Matthews
Johnson
Steyn
Herath
Southee

 

[YorksLanka]

Surprised that Mathews wasn't in the odi team over Faulkner tbh,especially as he is top of the odi run scorers for the year?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Broad averages 26.74 from 12 Tests in the qualifying period, I hadn't realised he came out of the Ashes with an average of 27, incredible that in the circumstances.

As in the Australian Ashes series, or the two series back to back?

 

[Spark]

Four fast bowlers and Matthews is such overkill.

Mine:

Warner
Williamson
Sanga
Root
Misbah/Chanders
ABdV +
Matthews
Johnson
Steyn
Herath
Southee

Root is too high at 4.

 

[harsh.ag]

Root is too high at 4.

Hmm... I think he's okay, but you can rotate ABdV there. Just that with the keeping duties, it might tire him out, monster athlete that he is,

 

[Valer]

As in the Australian Ashes series, or the two series back to back?

Both
21@27.52 in the Aus version and 22 @27.45 in england

IIRC he has the highest wickets taken over the period, but that has more to do with playing 12 tests rather than an excessive WPM.

 

[GIMH]

As in the Australian Ashes series, or the two series back to back?

Oz.

I'm not going to pretend I've watched enough non-England cricket in the last year to know who had been in the world XI, didn't bother with much outside of Oz-SA (being in a non-cricket place for half the year will do that), but Broad kind of goes under the radar sometimes. Amasses good figures with worldies and poor games I guess, but really he's been bowling well for a good few years on the most part.

I mean, someone (Teja??) said Southee is in another galaxy to Broad but I don't think that's true of many quicks at all.

But I'm biased tbf

 

[sledger]

Oz.

I'm not going to pretend I've watched enough non-England cricket in the last year to know who had been in the world XI, didn't bother with much outside of Oz-SA (being in a non-cricket place for half the year will do that), but Broad kind of goes under the radar sometimes. Amasses good figures with worldies and poor games I guess, but really he's been bowling well for a good few years on the most part.

I mean, someone (Teja??) said Southee is in another galaxy to Broad but I don't think that's true of many quicks at all.

But I'm biased tbf

That's because there is nothing worth watching outside of these countries.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah, Broad's been really good tbh. Still has some poor games in between his godlike stuff, though not as frequently as before. Really though, Harris, Steyn, Johnson, and Southee are the 4 best because they're the 4 most consistent bowlers over the last year. They've been excellent literally every series, which is why they're a step above Broad, Anderson and the rest.

 

[YorksLanka]

I have to say am surprised that Jadeja hasn't made the odi team as has a good year with both bat and ball I think.