Real-life team of Test allrounders: 1. Shane Watson 2. Chris Gayle 3. Jacques Kallis 4. Matt Prior 5. Angelo Mathews 6. Dwayne Bravo 7. Saqibul Hasan 8. Daniel Vettori 9. Mitchell Johnson 10. Graeme Swann 11. Stuart Broad That was really hard because they're aren't really that many around atm. Duminy's starting to bowl pretty regularly for South Africa now so he might be worth a shout I suppose. Sehwag should bowl a lot more, but he doesn't so he's out. Prior makes the team on the basis of batting in the top six and keeping for a period recently. He'd arguably make England's team on batting alone; that can't really be said about any of the other first-choice keepers around at the moment. You could try and make a case for Dhoni or Haddin but they've both had bad runs of form at times that would have seen them axed had they not had the gloves IMO.
Maybe, but he always bats seven so he's not really playing as an allrounder; he's playing as a keeper/batsman... Prior batted six for a fair while and would again if England needed to force a result in a Test in the context of a series. And Prior > McCullum anyway.
England's batting line-up >>> New Zealand's though McCullum averages low 30s so if he would that just shows you how weak NZ are. I would take Haddin, Dhoni and Boucher first.
I think the batting in the spinners team is a lot better; it's basically the Test batting lineup minus Manero. An attack of all quicks would work better than an attack of all spinners though, assuming a neutral surface of course.
He was known as "Saqibul Hasan" for ages before/just after he hit the scene; both are acceptable. I prefer it tbh because it just looks neater as two names amongst a whole heap of other players with two names.
