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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



Andrew Flintoff, with his Ashes heroics, was the favourite with the voters © Getty Images

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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.



Rahul Dravid, India's wall, expectedly topped the Test poll © Getty Images

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



Muttiah Muralitharan tallied the second highest votes in both teams © Getty Images

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

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