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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 2993170, member: 8423"] 1. Langer (You could argue Warner based on ability but then you factor in Warner’s idiocy and just don’t think he and Warne would have survived on tours together) 2. Hayden (No brainer) 3. Ponting (Khawaja doesn’t even come close) 4. Smith (He’d be close to an all-time Aussie XI already) 5. Clarke (Even the other options from the era would be picked before any of the current options in Hussey, Hussey, Siddons, Lehmann, Bevan, etc) 6. Waugh (That’s a captain you’d get behind and you know he isn’t going to back down to a Kohli type personality) 7. Gilchrist (Greatest keeper-batsman ever, this is no slight on Paine) 8. Cummins (If Johnson was an option, it’d be harder to call but Cummins is better than Lee or Bichel) 9. Warne (This is again no slight on Lyon, he’s up against the best spin bowler of all-time) 10. Gillespie (Starc is good but The Flying Mullet was phenomenal even though arguably in McGrath’s shadow, let’s look back at this after Starc’s career is done) 11. McGrath (Again no slight on Hazlewood, McGrath is an all-time great) So the current bowlers and keeper aren’t horrible in comparison but they are mostly up against legends. The batting on the other hand, well without Smith, you’d pick Australia B or C batting line ups from the early 2000s over this bunch of pretenders. [/QUOTE]

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