Home | Cricket Watching cricket is the biggest thrill. Making up lists -- the best ever, worst ever, players who bat left handed and bowl righthanded, whatever -- ranks just below that, as is evident from the plethora of such lists, starting with Don Bradman's Dream Team, that have inundated us in the recent past. So here is where you stand up and be counted -- by helping to pick the best ever Indian Test XI. Our statistician, Mohandas Menon, juggled the figures and came up with a list of 65 of the best players to have played Tests for the country. The trick now is to judge them on merit, then come up with your own pick of the best Indian XI of all time. Click on the player names to know more about them. Please select 11 players. The rediff dream team will be announced on May 1, 2002. Openers (7) Chauhan, CPS Contractor, NJ Gavaskar, SM Merchant, VM Roy, Pankaj Sidhu, NS Srikkanth, K All-rounders (pace) (11) Abid Ali, S Amarnath, L Amar Singh, L Binny, RMH Ghavri, KD (also spin) Kapil Dev, N Phadkar, DG Prabhakar, M Ramchand, GS Solkar, ED (also spin) Surti, RF (also spin) All-rounders (spin) (5) Borde, CG (right arm leg-break) Durani, SA (left arm slow) 'Vinoo' Mankad, MH (left arm slow) Nadkarni, RG (left arm slow) Shastri, RJ (left arm slow) Middle-order (17) Amarnath, M (also medium pace) Azharuddin, M Dravid, RS Ganguly, SC (also medium pace) Hazare, VS (also medium pace) Laxman, VVS Manjrekar, SV Manjrekar, VL Modi, RS Nayudu, CK (also off-break) Nawab of Pataudi jr Patil, SM Sardesai, DN Tendulkar, SR (also spin) Umrigar, PR (also off-break) Vengsarkar, DB Viswanath, GR Pace bowlers (5) Desai, RB M Nissar Prasad, BKV Sharma, C (can bat) Srinath, J Spinners: Left armers (4) Bedi, BS Doshi, DR Maninder Singh Raju, SLV Leg-breaks (4) Chandrasekhar, BS Gupte, SP Hirwani, ND Kumble, A (can also bat) Off-spinners (6) Ghulam Ahmed Harbhajan Singh Patel, JM Prasanna, EAS Venkataraghavan, S Yadav, NS Engineer, FM Kirmani, SMH Kunderan, BK Mongia, NR More, KS Tamhane, NS Updated: Till India vs Zimbabwe, 2nd Test - Mar 4, 2002. ^^Back to Top                   Tell your friend about this feature
		Statistics: Mohandas Menon Design: Imran Shaikh Technical support: Rishi Maker and Anil Shukla