Richie Benaud's Fantasy XI... All Rounders & Wicketkeeper - Part 3 

Still miss Richie B. Great convo.

I think that if you were looking for a bowling all-rounder, you'd go for imran, and if you were looking for a batting all-rounder, you'd be hard-pressed to choose between kallis and sobers. I personally would choose sobers for his left-handedness and ability to bowl both spin and pace, but you would be equally justified in choosing kallis considering that he played in a more professional, competitive era. As for the wicket-keepers, the traditionalist in me might consider knott or bob taylor, but the truth is that gilchrist was a fine keeper and his batting at no. 7 is invaluable.

Mark should have mentioned a certain courageous 1950s/60s Australian leg spinner who averaged 27 with the ball, 24 with the bat, fielded brilliantly and invented modern captaincy...

Great vid, thanks for the upload, love listening to Richie, legend of a man.

Sobers & Khan....

As a character and as an allrounder Imran is one of a million. He is the greatest crickter Pakistan ever produced. Best bowler ofcourse Wasim.

Jacques Kallis deserved a mentioned. A great batsmen and somebody who could bowl 10 overs in one day and a full spell in Test cricket.

my greatest ever eleven for all time across formats 1 Barry Richards 2 Gordon Grenidge 3 Sir Don Bradman (captain) 4 Sir Viv Richards 5 Sachin Tendulkar 6 Gary Sobers 7 Imran Khan 8 Adam Gilchrist 9 Sir Richard Hadlee 10 Shane Warne 11 Wasim Akram Logic for selection: All of the 11 can bat, so you are never out of the contest if you lose a couple of wickets, all players bat aggressively. 5 world class bowlers Akram, Warne, Hadlee, Khan and Sobers. Sobers doubles up as an extra seamer or spinner depending on the type of wicket. Excellent wicket keeper batsman.

Bradman Richards and Tendulkar...surely the greatest batsmen to ever play the game

For the all-rounders, I'd have picked Jacques Kallis over Kapil Dev, but the rest of them were fine. As for the all-rounder, if I picked Botham, Hadlee, Imran or Sober's as my second all-rounder, I'd pick Marsh as my keeper, and have him bat after both all-rounders. If I picked Keith Miller as my second all-rounder, I'd pick Gilchrist as keeper and have him bat ahead of Miller. On picking 3 Australian keepers, I do agree that both Marsh and Healey were great keepers, but I don't think that of Gilchrist. I'd have considered Dujon, Dhoni and Knott instead

Gary sobers and kepil dev. Superb. Healy is he best keeper of that group and era by a long way.

Sobers, Botham, Miller, Imran, Hadlee, Kapil Gilchrist, Healy, Marsh

Sobers & Miller Gilchrist

Surprising Richie did not mention Jeff Dujon or Farrokh Engineer, and straight out excluded Alan Knott from his list of wicket-keepers. I thought Dujon deserved a mention for keeping to the battery of WI fast bowlers for a decade.

There would never be any debate in picking three players in any world eleven,chosen in any era - Bradman, Viv Richards and Tendulkar.

Bradman, Richards and Lara for me. Not only was Lara as entertaining as Richards, he was also incredibly elegant, brilliant against spin, could rake up huge scores...and as a top order filled with right handers, a variation as a left-hand batsman.

Sunil gavaskar, don bradman, sachin tandulkar, vivian richards, garry sobers, imran khan, adam gilchrist, malcolm marshall, wasim akram, sydney barnes, shane warne...

The Textbook Classical Test XI of All Time with Deservingly + Suitable Criteria and also making Realistic and Balanced Side with taking all the Possible Factors and Parameters into Account along with Context , Toughness of a Particular Era and Overall Statistical Achievements as well as Beauty , Strong Record , X-Factor and Completness of a Players. 1 Jack Hobbs 2 Len Hutton 3 Don Bradman (C.) 4 Sachin Tendulkar 5 Viv Richards 6 Garfield Sobers 7 Alan Knott (W.) 8 Shane Warne 9 Wasim Akram 10 Malcolm Marshall 11 Dennis Lillee 12th: Imran Khan. Substitutes: ( WG Grace , Brian Lara , Adam Gilchrist , Muttiah Muralitharan , Sydney Barnes ) Manager :- Sir Frank Worrell .

Cricket Historians and Experts Gideon Haigh , David Frith and Arunabha Sengupta's Combined Likely All Time Test XI Ever. 1 Jack Hobbs 2 Len Hutton 3 Donald Bradman (C.) 4 Sachin Tendulkar 5 Viv Richards 6 Garfield Sobers 7 Alan Knott (W.) 8 Shane Warne 9 Malcolm Marshall 10 Dennis Lillee 11 Sydney Barnes - It's interesting to see how CLR James ( Probably the Greatest Cricket Historian Ever ) Test XI would look like.

He picked Sobers, Imran and Gilchrist. Full XI: Gavaskar, Hobbs, Bradman, Richards, Tendulkar, Sobers, Imran, Gilchrist, Warne, Lillee, Barnes

Mike Procter, sorry if I spelt it wrong. Mike and Imram Khan. There should be 3 all rounders. Add to that Sobers

Rechie Benaud The Greatest Intellectual Mind Ever in Cricket. My All time Greatest Tesr Cricket XI: 1-Don Bradman (Captain) 2- Sunil gavaskar 3- Greg Chappell 4- Sachin Tendulkar 5- Vivian Richards 6- Garry Sobers 7- Adam Gilchrist (WK) 8- Imran Khan (VC) 9- Shanew Warne 10-Malcolm Marshall 11-Glenn McGrath Ricky Ponting (12th Man)

• My Analysis to Measure the Greatness of a Best Batsman and Best Bowlers of All Eras !! The 25 Short List of Best Batsman and Best Bowlers and then ranked them with using different Top Parameters. • 25 Batsman Short-List: ( Bradman , Hobbs , Tendulkar , Richards , Sobers , Headley , Lara , Hammond , Pollock , Grace , Hutton , Barry , G.Chappell , Gavaskar , Trumper , Ranjitsinhji , Barrington , Ponting , S.Smith , Border , Shrewsbury , Fry , Kanhai , De Villiers , Hill ) • 25 Bowlers Short-List: ( Barnes , Warne , Lillee , Marshall , Akram , Muralitharan , Trueman , O'Reilly , Lohmann , McGrath , Lindwall , Hadlee , Gupte , Spofforth , Ambrose , Steyn , Imran , Davidson , Trumble , Richardson , Grimmett , Qadir , Holding , Larwood , Turner ) • Top 5 Parameters: IN ORDER 1 Strong Record: Against the Top Players of their Era (H2H) and against the Top Teams of their Era (Top 3 Best Teams of their Time) 2 X-Factor: As a Match Winning and Dominating Abilities in a Crisis or Pressure Situations. 3 Statistics: Great Overall Statistical Achievements in All Around the World Conditions. 4 Complete: Completness of a Particular Player in his Specific Field. 5 Beauty: Aesthetically Pleasing Abilities. #Batsman Strong Record|X-Factor|Stats|Complete|Beauty 1 Border Bradman Tendulkar Tendulkar Trumpr 2 Gavaskar Lara Hobbs Kanhai Lara 3 Chappell Richards Bradman ABD Barry 4 Lara ABD Gavaskar Barry Kanhai 5 Tendulkar Sobers Smith Chappell Ranji 6 Richards Smith Barrington Sobers ABD 7 Hobbs Barry Hammond Hobbs Chappell 8 Bradman Hobbs Sobers Ranji Tendulkar 9 Hutton Chappell Lara Hutton Pollock 10 Barrington Ponting Border Bradman Headly - After Merging above all Parameters, Here's are Overall 10 Best Batsman. IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: 1 Don Bradman 2 Brian Lara 3 Greg Chappell 4 Sachin Tendulkar 5 Viv Richards 6 Jack Hobbs 7 Sunil Gavaskar 8 Garry Sobers 9 Allan Border 10 AB De Villiers #Bowler Strong Record|X-Factor|Stats|Complete|Beauty McGrath Ambrose Murali Barnes Holding Marshall Akram Hadlee Lillee Warne Lillee Warne Warne Akram Lillee Imran Lillee Marshall Marshall Akram Ambrose Barnes Barnes Warne Lindwall Warne McGrath McGrath Lindwall Trueman Hadlee Marshall Ambrose Trueman Barnes Barnes Spofforth Steyn O'Reilly Imran Murali Murali Lillee McGrath O'Reilly Akram Larwood Imran Gupte Qadir - After Merging above all Parameters, Here's are Overall 10 Best Bowlers. IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: 1 Shane Warne 2 Dennis Lillee 3 Malcolm Marshall 4 Sydney Barnes 5 Glenn McGrath 6 Curtly Ambrose 7 Wasim Akram 8 Muttiah Muralitharan 9 Imran Khan 10 Richard Hadlee -> The Greatest #ATXI Consisting Above 10 Best Batsman and Bowlers After Considering above Parameters !! 1 Jack Hobbs 2 Sunil Gavaskar 3 Don Bradman (C.) 4 Brian Lara 5 Greg Chappell 6 Garfield Sobers 7 Adam Gilchrist (W.) 8 Shane Warne 9 Malcolm Marshall 10 Dennis Lillee 11 Sydney Barnes P.S - Adam Gilchrist Cracked more Top Parameters than Alan Knott or any other Wicket Keepers/Batsman, and that's why I have picked Gilchrist in above Team. And you can also pick Imran khan instead of Garry Sobers but Garry Sobers makes above side more Balanced and that's why I picked him.

Richie Benaud’s Afro Asian XI : 1) Greenidge 2) Gavaskar 3) Headley 4) Richards 5) Tendulkar 6) Sobers 7) Dujon 8) Imran 9) Marshall 10) Holding 11) Qadir

Jack Kallis not included in all-rounder list.

How did only 30% vote for Bradman. How could anyone leave him out

I wonder if he would consider Kallis and Sangakkara if interviewed now. I would say yes to Sanga but who am I.

The Greatest ODI XI of All Time 1 Sachin Tendulkar 2 Adam Gilchrist (W.) 3 Ricky Ponting (C.) 4 Virat Kohli 5 Viv Richards 6 AB De Villiers 7 Kapil Dev 8 Wasim Akram 9 Muttiah Muralitharan 10 Joel Garner 11 Glenn McGrath 12th: Jacques Kallis. Substitutes: ( Brian Lara , Micheal Bevan , Lance Klusener , Shane Warne , Allan Donald ) Coach :- Gary Kirsten .

Please remember. It's his side. Of course he has bias. As do I. I could never leave Lara out. Bit of fun to argue about

Actually, 2 best teams of all time greats should have been made,to compete with each other.

Richard Hadlee, greatest fast bowler in history

The Most Deserving Candidates to be in All Time Greatest World XI Team whom has On Record Great Overall Statistics Record + Genius Talent + Consistency and Longetivity !! 1 Jack Hobbs 2 Len Hutton 3 Don Bradman (C.) 4 Sachin Tendulkar 5 Viv Richards 6 Garfield Sobers 7 Alan Knott (W.) 8 Shane Warne 9 Wasim Akram 10 Malcolm Marshall 11 Sydney Barnes 12th: Colin Bland.

Martin Crowe and Ian Smith should be there.

The Greatest XI of All Time 1 Jack Hobbs 2 Len Hutton 3 Don Bradman (C.) 4 Sachin Tendulkar 5 Viv Richards 6 Garry Sobers 7 Alan Knott (W.) 8 Shane Warne 9 Wasim Akram 10 Malcolm Marshall 11 Dennis Lillee 12th: Imran Khan. Substitutes: ( Barry Richards , Brian Lara , Adam Gilchrist , Muttiah Muralitharan , Sydney Barnes ) Coach: Bob Simpson. Manager: Sir Frank Worrell. GGBOC :- ICC . Above Team is Probably the Closest to Perfect and Most Credible All Time World Test XI List in Cricket History which is Co-incidentally the Mixer of WISDEN and ESPN Cricinfo All Time XI Lists. It's a Full 16 Man Squad and I have Deservingly put Two Proper Openers Hobbs and Hutton as they have a Great Records everywhere and seemingly Great Chemistry and Connection within them as they played mostly after post WW1 Era from 1920 onwards with much better Competitiveness and in a Developing Test Cricket era compared to 19th Century Cricket. And I have Top 6 Strong Batting Line up with Diversity so I went with a Specialist Wicket Keeper Alan Knott ahead of Wicket Keeper Batsman Adam Gilchrist who unfortunately Missed out due to I have a Strong top 6 Batting order as well as Strong tail enders too like Warne , Akram and Marshall who all can Bat also. So I went with a Specialist Wicket Keeper with a descent batting record, so I went with Alan Knott who was also a Man of Crisis Batsman. And But Gilchrist definitely has make into Second Test XI or Alternate XI of above All Time XI List. Then I have a 1 Great All Rounder Sir Garfield Sobers who is the Great Left Handed Batsman and can bowl three different variations of Bowling and 1 Great Spinner Shane Warne who would have a Great Right hand - Left Hand and Leg Spin / Off Spin Combinations with Gary Sobers. And at Last I have deservingly Put 3 Genuine and Complete Fast Bowlers Akram , Marshall and Lillee as 3 Pace Bowlers with Great Statistic Records among them and along with Warne and Sobers they brings Versatility and Varieties as well and also All of them played in The Most Golden , Toughest and Competitive Era of Test Cricket From 1960 to 2010 Era. And Imran Khan as the 12th Man and W.G Grace as Honourable Mentions as Grace was a Father Figure Cultural Icon of Cricket and Sir Frank Worrell is The Best Manager the Game has ever seen who can Guide your Team and Bring out the best from above players. P.S - Steven Smith , Virat Kohli and Pat Cummins are Active Players. So I will Judge them after they will retire, so we can get the clear picture of their Overall career. And Frank Chester , Dickie Bird and Simon Taufel are Umpires of above team as well as Richie Benaud , Harsha Bhogle and John Arlott are into the Commentary Box along with Historian CLR James , David Frith and Arunabha Sengupta who Judge and Write about all of these Cricketers.

i reckon kallis was unlucky to be considered

Braian Lara instead of Haniff Md as opner ,Wally Hammond in place of Rahul Dravid ,Larwood instead of Botham,Millar instead of Kapil Deb.

no ian botham?

Benaud's fantantacy world best team : 1) Hobbs 2) Gavaskar 3) Bradman ,4) Richards, 5) Tendulkar 6) Sobers, 7) Imran, 8) Gilchrist 9) Warne, 10) Lillee, 11) Barnes.. The suggested opposition team as is thought suitable to face Benaud's XI is: 1) Len Hutton 2) Greenidge ,3) Hammond 4) Lara 5) Worrel 6) Botham 7) Sangakara( wk. keeper), 8) Washim Akram ,9) Larwood , 10) Marshall, 11) Murlidharan..

Jacques kallis

The Greatest Test and ODI XI Ever along with Best Ever World Cup XI as well as World Series Cricket XI !! Best Ever Test XI Best Ever ODI XI 1 Jack Hobbs 1 Sachin Tendulkar 2 Len Hutton 2 Adam Gilchrist 3 Don Bradman 3 Viv Richards 4 Sachin Tendulkar 4 Virat Kohli 5 Viv Richards 5 AB De Villiers 6 Garfield Sobers 6 Michael Bevan 7 Alan Knott 7 Kapil Dev 8 Shane Warne 8 Shane Warne 9 Wasim Akram 9 Wasim Akram 10 Malcolm Marshall 10 Joel Garner 11 Sydney Barnes 11 Glenn McGrath Best Ever World Cup XI Best Ever WSC XI 1 Sachin Tendulkar 1 Barry Richards 2 Rohit Sharma 2 Gordon Greenidge 3 Ricky Ponting 3 Ian Chappell 4 Viv Richards 4 Greg Chappell 5 AB De Villiers 5 Viv Richards 6 Lance Klusener 6 Mike Procter 7 Imran Khan 7 Rod Marsh 8 Wasim Akram 8 Ray Bright 9 Shane Warne 9 Andy Roberts 10 Muttiah Muralitharan 10 Dennis Lillee 11 Glenn McGrath 11 Michael Holding

No brian Lara opps

Lion of Lahore ik

Richie where is King Kallis

Sunil Gavaskar Gordon Greenidge Viv Richards Sachin Tendulkar Brian Lara Jaque Kallis Adam Gilchrist Wasim Akram Shane Warne/Glen McGrath Curtis Ambrose Michael Holding

Jaques Kallis

Team I want to be incharge of its a matter of life and death. Mind you it's players who've played most of their cricket from 1992 to 2022. NOTE: Should fit in all 3 formats. Pitch could be of any kind. 1. Matthew Hayden 2. Rahul Dravid 3. Babar Azam 4. Sachin Tendulkar 5. Virat Kohli 6. Jaques Kallis 7. Adam Gilchrist (Limited over opener swapping with Dravid) 8. Andrew Flintoff 9. Wasim Akram 10. Glenn McGrath 11. Muttaiah Muralitharan On the field incharge Virat Kohli 😂

How can you leave out Alan Knott? Ridiculous

Another team should comprise the rest of great players of the world: 1) S. Gavaskar 2) Haniff Mohammed 3) Rohan Kanhai 4) Rahul Dravid 5) Ian Botham 6) Kumar Sangakara ( wk. Keeper) 7) Kapil Dev 8) Imran Khan 9 ) Dennis Lillee / Ray Lindwall 10) Curtly Ambrose 11) Abdul Quadir.

Have bowled long time in India Hadley, Botham or imran, then they couldn't achieve 300 wickets, in 40 degree temperature, spinning track 434 wickets never got Hadley or Botham, only imran could do that but he is not flamboyant battar like kapil dev, so kapil is best alrounder, sobers and kallis mainly battat, part time bowler.

"The lion of Lahore"

The Undisputed World Best Test XI of All Time 1 Jack Hobbs 2 Len Hutton 3 Don Bradman (C.) 4 Sachin Tendulkar 5 Viv Richards 6 Garry Sobers 7 Alan Knott (W.) 8 Shane Warne 9 Malcolm Marshall 10 Dennis Lillee 11 Sydney Barnes 12th: Imran Khan. Substitutes: ( W.G Grace , Brian Lara , Adam Gilchrist , Muttiah Muralitharan , Wasim Akram ) Manager :- Sir Frank Worrell.

Too much Aussie bias, ok with Gilchrist but all 3 wkpt Aussie? What about Walcott, Evans, Dujon. WI had greatest pace bowlers ever but none in his team.

Lion of Lahore Imran khan

sobers kallis and de villiers without a doubt when you consider again today

I'dve gone for Wasim Akram over Imran Khan, personally.

Richie has got it all wrong I would go for Boycott, Sutcliffe, Hutton Sir, Vaughan, Root, Bairstow, Gough, Trueman, Adil Rashid, Illingworth and token Lancashire lad Jimmy Anderson, btw I am from Yorkshire.

Such a blind tendulkar fan and biased aus commentator..