Flintoff and Dravid top Super Series polls
More than 16,000 people voted in our Super Series Poll, and here are the results of your Test and one-day Super Series teams
Cricinfo staff
22-Aug-2005
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More than 16,000 people voted in our
Super Series Poll, and here are the results of your Test and one-day Super Series teams. The 11 players with the highest votes haven't actually made it to each side, as we had to take the balance of the team into account. A team with nine batsmen is hardly going to beat the Australians, so we let go of a batsman to bring in a bowler wherever necessary. None of the batsmen who polled the highest votes for the Test side were openers, so we had to include Virender Sehwag and Graeme Smith (openers with the highest votes) in the side. Inzamam-ul-Haq, who aggregated the seventh highest votes, lost out.
Rahul Dravid topped the Test votes and Andrew Flintoff topped the one-day votes, with Muttiah Muralitharan coming second in both, followed by a bevy of batsmen. Ironically, the two men who topped the captaincy votes in the Test XI actually failed to make it to the side:
Michael Vaughan and Inzamam. Smith had the third-highest votes, and is your notional captain.
In the one-day side, Inzamam won the captaincy by a massive margin, and found a place in the side as well. Shahid Afridi suffered: he won more votes than Shoaib Akhtar but he missed the final cut because the only available slot by the time his name was reached was of a specialist bowler. He could still, if Inzamam so desires, be a super sub.
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So here they are, the Super Series sides that you have picked. Do you think the ICC can match this?
Rest of the World Test team
Position | Player | Votes |
1 | Virender Sehwag Last 12 months |
6551 |
2 | Graeme Smith(c) Last 12 months |
5746 |
3 | Rahul Dravid Last 12 months |
8299 |
4 | Brian Lara Last 12 months |
8173 |
5 | Sachin Tendulkar Last 12 months |
7154 |
6 | Jacques Kallis Last 12 months |
7784 |
7 | Andrew Flintoff Last 12 months |
8268 |
8 | Kumar Sangakkara(wk) Last 12 months |
5069 |
9 | Shaun Pollock Last 12 months |
6235 |
10 | Steve Harmison Last 12 months |
6337 |
11 | Muttiah Muralitharan Last 12 months |
8286 |
12 | Inzamam-ul-Haq Last 12 months |
6821 |
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Rest of the World ODI team
Position | Player | Votes |
1 | Virender Sehwag Last 12 months |
7058 |
2 | Sachin Tendulkar Last 12 months |
6548 |
3 | Brian Lara Last 12 months |
6739 |
4 | Jacques Kallis Last 12 months |
6952 |
5 | Inzamam-ul-Haq(c) Last 12 months |
6268 |
6 | Kevin Pietersen Last 12 months |
6341 |
7 | Kumar Sangakkara(wk) Last 12 months |
6356 |
8 | Andrew Flintoff Last 12 months |
8012 |
9 | Shaun Pollock Last 12 months |
6183 |
10 | Shoaib Akhtar Last 12 months |
4979 |
11 | Muttiah Muralitharan Last 12 months |
7586 |
12 | Shahid Afridi Last 12 months |
6026 |