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Another hypothetical game..this time a test match on a green seamer...

Team A

1.Sunil Gavaskar
2.Matthew Hayden
3.Brian Lara
4.Jacques Kallis
5.AB De Villiers
6.Shakib Al-Hasan
7.Moin Khan (wk)
8.Shane Warne
9.Dale Steyn
10.Zaheer Khan
11.Mashrafe Mortaza

Team B

1.Graeme Smith
2.Alistair Cook
3.Clive Lloyd
4.Shiv Chanderpaul
5.Younus Khan
6.Jacob Oram
7.Mark Boucher (wk)
8.Chaminda Vaas
9.Muttiah Muralithairan
10.Courtney Walsh
11.James Anderson

I suppose it all depends on whether these players are in their 20s or in their 30s....

A 20s Lloyd played very differently from a 30s Lloyd.

Nice to hear the name of Jacob Oram after a long time.

Moin Khan would drop Graeme Smith 7 times before he made 20, and then he would go on to make a match winning 250 of edges through vacant 3rd slip, or airy drives that just miss gully on the way to the boundary.

this in despite of the fact that Smiths team would be set 200 to win, and at 99/5 Smith would edge a clear catch to Moin, only for the umpire to say he hadnt heard it, and after 5 minutes waiting for the third umpire to wake up, would give him not out.

Smith would then guide his team home to win by 2 wickets.

Team A would walk that when the gloves are given to AB