da casino： More than 16,000 people voted in our Super Series Poll, and here are the results of Test and one-day Super Series teams
Cricinfo staff22-Aug-2005
Andrew Flintoff, with his Ashes heroics, was the favourite with the voters © Getty Images
More than 16,000 people voted in our Super Series Poll, and here are the results of Test and one-day Super Series teams. The 11 players with the highest votes haven’t actually made it to each side, as we had to take the balance of the team into account. A team with nine batsmen is hardly going to beat the Australians, so we let go of a batsman to bring in a bowler wherever necessary. None of the batsmen who polled the highest votes for the Test side were openers, so we had to include Virender Sehwag and Graeme Smith (openers with the highest votes) in the side. Inzamam-ul-Haq, who aggregated the seventh highest votes, lost out.Rahul Dravid topped the Test votes and Andrew Flintoff topped the one-day votes, with Muttiah Muralitharan coming second in both, followed by a bevy of batsmen. Ironically, the two men who topped the captaincy votes in the Test XI actually failed to make it to the side:Michael Vaughan and Inzamam. Smith had the third-highest votes, and is your notional captain.In the one-day side, Inzamam won the captaincy by a massive margin, and found a place in the side as well. Shahid Afridi suffered: he won more votes than Shoaib Akhtar but he missed the final cut because the only available slot by the time his name was reached was of a specialist bowler. He could still, if Inzamam so desires, be a super sub.
Rahul Dravid, India’s wall, expectedly topped the Test poll © Getty Images
So here they are, the Super Series sides that you have picked. Do you think the ICC can match this?Rest of the World Test team
1Virender Sehwag
Last 12 months65512
Graeme Smith(c)
Last 12 months57463Rahul Dravid
Last 12 months82994
Brian Lara
Last 12 months81735Sachin Tendulkar
Last 12 months71546
Jacques Kallis
Last 12 months77847Andrew Flintoff
Last 12 months82688
Kumar Sangakkara(wk)
Last 12 months50699Shaun Pollock
Last 12 months623510
Steve Harmison
Last 12 months633711Muttiah Muralitharan
Last 12 months828612
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Last 12 months6821
Muttiah Muralitharan tallied the second highest votes in both teams © Getty Images
Rest of the World ODI team
1Virender Sehwag
Last 12 months70582
Sachin Tendulkar
Last 12 months65483Brian Lara
Last 12 months67394
Jacques Kallis
Last 12 months69525Inzamam-ul-Haq(c)
Last 12 months62686
Kevin Pietersen
Last 12 months63417Kumar Sangakkara(wk)
Last 12 months63568
Andrew Flintoff
Last 12 months80129Shaun Pollock
Last 12 months618310
Shoaib Akhtar
Last 12 months497911Muttiah Muralitharan
Last 12 months758612
Shahid Afridi
Last 12 months6026