Dhoni, who led India to World Cup glory earlier this year as his side became the first team to lift the trophy on home soil, is the first player to be named captain for the fourth successive time.
Gul, who has spearheaded Pakistan’s bowling attack in recent months, is the only player from the country to find his name in the elite side that features four Indians, three Sri Lankans and two South Africans besides a player each from Australia and England.
Team: MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Tilkaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara, AB de Villiers, Dale Steyn, Shane Watson, Graeme Swann, Umar Gul, Lasith Malinga (12th man)
Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2011.
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@tauseef ch... sir i think you didnt see him bat during thw world cup. he scored 4 on every first ball of the nmatch during the group stages. even boom boom afridi didnt click with the bat. Sir i would again emphasize that love cricket not hate Indians for being Indians. i hope you got my point.
dear chaui saab..... what aboout sahwag?????????
one should acknowledge that Indians are the world champions. Yuvraj Singh was player of tournment in the world cup, he deserves the place. Dhoni made india won the world cup, he surely deserves the place. Zaheer Khan took 21 wickets in the wolrd cup (the highest wicket taker in the world cup) so his place is also justified. One should think as a cricket fan and not ave a biased view against the Indians. they acknowledge always that Wasim Akram is the best bowler of all time; we should do the same. We should act like pure cricket lovers.!
Remove Sehwag & Get Afridi..
Having Sehwag and Zaheer Khan in the team shows what a nonsense this thing is.
The selection cut off time was world cup. What happened to these players afterwards and their performance has nothing to do with selection of world XI. Please understand selection criteria before commenting. Imran Khan became a joke at the end of his career, does it mean he should not be selected in all time world XI. However Shahid Afridi should have been in team.
4 Indians :)
What is Zaheer Khan doing in this line up?
And Tendulkar in the Test team? He has played 4 tests this year and flopped in all of them. But I guess it wouldn't sell to Indian fans if he wasn't included.
ROFL! Ridiculous list. 4 players from the team that has failed to win even one match in England this summer--with one as captain. Money buys everything.
And spirit of cricket award? Wasn't Bell called back AFTER the Tea break? Dhoni was forced to do it because of the booing from the crowd. And it was a lost cause anyways. It would not have made ANY difference.
Pathetic. ICC's love affair with money is destroying cricket.
Dhoni gets ICC spirit of cricket award. My favorite award.
This is LAME...VERY LAME .a JOKE infact.. 4 Indians, No Englishman .. How can you justify the selection of Sehwag and Y Singh against A COOK and J Trot. and Yeah H AMLA (SA)
I guess who ever was picking the team had no clue what there were doing... 3 openers, WATO, Dilshan and Sehwag.....
There is no proper number 3 on the list either.
if Yuvraj has been selected as an all rounder then no body has bothered to look at his bowling figures and even batting figures in the recent history.
EVEN HUSSY did not make the LIST .. WHAAAAAAAATTTTTTT.. Justify me a better number 5 batsman than M Hussy.
Who ever came up with this team, They have no sense of cricket..
Congrats to Gul, indeed you are a real gem. Keep working hard.
congrat to gul... i hope he will perform in upcoming sri lanka and england series... i have found some pics of icc awards.. http://www.awamiweb.com/icc-awards-2011-photos-27059.html
congrats to umar gul... i hope he will perform in upcoming sri lanka and england series.. i found some pics of icc award fucntions... i am sharing .. http://www.awamiweb.com/icc-awards-2011-photos-27059.html