Australia's greatest elevens

[courtjester]

I am bored at work and my idea was to pretend I'm a club selector with every Australian test player in history to choose from to play cricket this weekend. I picked my first eleven, then the second from players remaining, then the third. What are your thoughts, anyone I've overlooked or anything you'd change?

1st XI
1. Bill Ponsford
2. Bill Lawry
3. Don Bradman
4. Greg Chappell
5. Ricky Ponting
6. Keith Miller
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shane Warne
9. Dennis Lillee
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Glenn McGrath

2nd XI
1. Arthur Morris
2. Matthew Hayden
3.Neil Harvey
4. Stan McCabe
5. Steve Waugh
6. Allan Border
7. Ian Healy
8. Alan Davidson
9. Ray Lindwall
10. Jason Gillespie
11. Clarrie Grimmett

3rd XI
1. Bob Simpson
2. Mark Taylor
3. David Boon
4. Ian Chappell
5. Mark Waugh
6. Doug Walters
7. Rod Marsh
8. Fred Spofforth
9. Charlie Turner
10. Stuart MacGill
11. Jeff Thomson

 

[gandalf]

I see little point in choosing from players I have never seen play as you are relying entirely on statistics and what others claim about them. So from my own experience, I would choose the team under Steve Waugh's captaincy from about 2000 to 2004 - the greatest bowling attack in almost a generation, solid openers and a middle order that Australia would kill for today. Basically the best rounded team you could hope for.