I've been having fun watching a few You tube videos of famous cricketers picking their World XI cricket team, using players of their era they had played with or against or those playing now. So I thought I'd try and pick a Test World XI, made up of players I have watched since I started watching cricket in 1979, so over the last 40 odd years. It was pretty hard and I couldn't fit in an Englishman or New Zealander so I made it a squad of 15:
1) Desmond Haynes
2) Mathew Hayden
3) Ricki Ponting
4) Sachin Tendulka
5) Brian Lara
6) Jacques Kallis
7) Adam Gilchrist
8) Shane Warne
9) Wasim Akram
10) Curtly Ambrose
11) Glen MacGrath
Rest of the squad
12) Ian Botham
13) Steve Smith
14) Richard Hadley
15) Denis Lillee
What would your squad of 15 look like?