Decent side… The only obvious omission is the greatest bowler of all time, one of only three “must picks” in any all-time XI.
ESPNcricinfo all-time World XI
- Sir Jack Hobbs
- Sir Leonard Hutton
- Sir Donald Bradman
- Sir Viv Richards
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Sir Garry Sobers
- Adam Gilchrist
- Wasim Akram
- Shane Warne
- Malcolm Marshall
- Dennis Lillee
The Second XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Barry Richards, George Headley, Brian Lara, Wally Hammond, Imran Khan, Alan Knott, Bill O’Reilly, Fred Trueman, Muttiah Muralitharan, SF Barnes
Readers’ XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag, Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Wasim Akram, Muttiah Muralitharan, Glenn McGrath
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