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Folks please pick a better team that the ICC test team of the year.
Warner
Cook
Williamson
Root
Voges
Bairstow
Stokes
Ashwin
Herath
Starc
Steyn
Smith

The only people that I agree with are Bairstow, Ashwin and Starc.
probably include root as well because it been generally a poor year for performances.

my team will be on the following post.

MY team
KC Brathwaite
Azhar Ali ( poor year for most openers and these two impressed me the most in the short sample size)
Pujara ( only because he helped win games and Root hasn't)
Kohli
Bairstow
Q de Kock Keeper
Stokes
Ashwin
Starc
Rabada
Herath

Special mentions to Wagner, broad, looking at it been a poor year for batting only really Kohli got impressive figures to speak about although De kock been having a good year as well.

cant really not have voges in it

for the period the selection was based on he played 11 tests and averaged 91

rich1uk wrote:cant really not have voges in it

for the period the selection was based on he played 11 tests and averaged 91

what period is it based on?
cricinfo doesn't state it either.

14th september 2015 - 20 september 2016 i believe

looking at it now a lot of the players picked did well during the sep-jan period last year.
feel odd picking players based on what happened on late 2015.

bhaveshgor wrote:looking at it now a lot of the players picked did well during the sep-jan period last year.
feel odd picking players based on what happened on late 2015.

why ?

they have always used that rough period for their awards afaik because using just the calendar year usually means it starts or finishes when there are a few series in progress

they could have just announced the results in Sep/nov them making it look like 2016 test team of the year is a bit daft when half the months are not relevant to the title.
just looking at the team and you can see most of the players are picked on what they did in 2015.
Warner, Cook,Williamson,Voges and Steyn haven't really had a top 2016 and all really been picked on what they did in late 2015.

Would make more sense just to use the calendar year.

bhaveshgor wrote:they could have just announced the results in Sep/nov them making it look like 2016 test team of the year is a bit daft when half the months are not relevant to the title.
just looking at the team and you can see most of the players are picked on what they did in 2015.
Warner, Cook,Williamson,Voges and Steyn haven't really had a top 2016 and all really been picked on what they did in late 2015.

and given all the awards are for the same period why is that a problem ?

its quite clear that the awards are for the 2015/16 cricket year

Azhar Ali
David Warner
Virat Kohli *
Kane Williamson
Jonny Bairstow
Ben Stokes
Ravi Ashwin
Moeen Ali
Matt Henry
Nathan Lyon
Kagiso Rabada

Wanted Voges in but didn't know who to drop for him

Clears up the confusion just to announce it in September. Often the simplest message is the best.

The ICC year is from 1st October till 31st September, so I would have thought the team is based on performances during those dates. When playing condition rules are altered they come into effect on October the 1st.

During the ICC period:

Cook
Warner
Williamson
Root
Smith
Bairstow
Ashwin
Woakes
Wagner
Broad
Anderson

A team of the Year for 2016

Cook
Rahul
Root
Kohli
Puraja
de Kock
Ashwin
Starc
Rabada
Wagner
Anderson

Transferred from another thread. A 2016 side/

Azhar/Brathwaite/Root/Kohli/Smith/Dhananjaya/deKock/Ashwin/Starc/Wagner/Herath. Rabada if picking three seamers.

Cricinfo's team. From my team, Stokes, Bairstow and Rabada in for Dhananjaya, Wagner and deKock.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/review2016/ ... 73990.html