Lets imagine for a moment , watching these players against each other .
Barbados
​ Conrad Hunte, Gordon Greenidge Everton Weekes Symour Nurse Gary Sobers v.captain Frank Worrell captain Clyde Walcott Malcolm Marshall Joel Garner Charlie Griffith Wes Hall
A second string Barbados all time XI will include...Desmond Haynes.Robin Bynoe,Peter Lashley,Seymore Nurse,Rawle Branker,David Holford capt,Collis King,Keith Boyce, David Allan wicket keeper,Clarke and Daniel.
Guyana
Guyanese XI: 1. Roy Fredericks 2. Rohan Kanhai 3. Ramnaresh Sarwan 4. Alvin Kallicharran 5. Clive Lloyd 6. Shivnarine Chanderpaul 7. Carl Hooper 8. Roger Harper 9. Reon King 10. Colin Croft 11. Lance Gibbs ,Robert Christiani,Linden Joseph ,Leonard Baichan,Basil Butcher ,Milton Pydanna (wkr),Garfield Charles
Trinidad
Best Trinidad 11 Jeff Stollmeyer, Clifford Roach, Brian Lara, Charlie Davis, Larry Gomes, Gerry Gomez, Deryck Murray, Bernard Julien, Ian Bishop, Inshan Ali, Sonny Ramadin , Sheldon Gomes or Gus Logie,Tony Gray and Bishop, Rangie Nanan
Not quite the Barbados 11, but stronger in the spin and wicket keeping departments, very good batting with one all time great in Lara. Stollmeyer, Gomes, Bishop and Murray among West Indies best ever.
Thinking about Gray and Bishop opening the bowling is rather scary ... and Lara and Charlie Davis , batting together would be scary as well...
Leewards
A Leewards 11 can it beat this Barbados side ?
1,Richie Richardson 2,Vviv Richards 3,Andy Roberts 4, Curtly ambrose 5,Eelcomido willet 6,Ridley Jacobs 7, Winston Benjamin 8, Kenny Benjamin 9,Eldine baptiste. 10 Derrick parry. 11,Victor eddy .12 Keith aurtherton. 13 Mike harris.
West Indies team
The Rest of West Indies XI might look like this - Rohan Kanhai , Roy Fredricks , George Headley , Viv Richards , Brian Lara ,Clive Lloyd , Jeoffrey Dujon , AndyRoberts , Lance Gibbs, Curtley Ambrose,Stollmeyer,Constantine, Holding, Roberts, Ambrose, Hunte , Ramadin, Marshall
Jamaica
The Jamiacan Team would have Walsh, and George Headly , Holding, Du Jon, Gayle, Lawrence Rowe, Basil Williams, Alfred Valentine , Allen Rae, Gilchrist,Patrick Patterson, and John Holt..... 12th man could have been Adams or Hinds ...an equally scary team
1. Alan Rae 2. Chris Gayle 3. George Headley 4. Lawrence Rowe 5. Collie Smith 6. Jeff Dujon 7. Patterson 8. Michael Holding 9. Alfred Valentine 10.Roy Gilchrist 11.Courtney Walsh
12.Jimmy Adams, John Holt, Gilchrist ,Basil Williams
A Lahore XI:
Amir sohail, Mudassar nazar, Majid Khan, Mohammed Yousuf, Salim Malik, Wasim Raja, Imtiaz Ahmed (wk), Imran Khan(c), Wasim Akram, Abdul Qadir, Fazal Mehmood.
Is the Lahore XI is as good as this Barbados XI ?
They have Sobers we have Imran. Marshall we have Akram. Hall we have Fazal. Walcott and Weekes we have Yousuf and Malik. Lahore spin department Qadir with backup from
A sohail and W Raja. Wasim Raja was amongst very few batsman who showed guts against the WI pace battery of 70s and 80s. Mudassar a all rounder and Majid a terrific
player of fast bowling. A team led by the Great Imran Khan.
Yorkshire XI:
Sutcliffe (av 61), Boycott (48), Hutton (58), Leyland (46), Root (53), Bairstow (42), Rhodes, Trueman, Gough, Sidebottom, Verity, Bill Bowes
Two of the greatest spinners ever - Rhodes and Verity (the best ever English spinner, arguably), three of the greatest opening bats ever,
All time Mumbai XI
Mumbai had some greats also, apart from Gavaskar & Tendulkar. I will name a few:
Vijay Merchant, P.R.Umrigar, S.P.Gupte, V.M.Mankad, F.M.Engineer, B.Kunderan, Dilip Sardesai, D,G.Phadkar, R.B.Desai. Please note that Gary Sobers had declared Gupte as the greatest Leg spinner that he ever faced.
Gupte by the way even controlled the 3 "W"!
Combined X1 would be Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, GR Vishwanath,Farokh Engineer,Polly Umrigar, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan, Erapalli Prasanna 12th Man Subash Gupte.
Mumbai XI
Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, SRT, Polly Umrigar, Vijay Manjrekar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Farokh Engineer,Ghulam Guard, Subhash Gupte, Ramakant Desai, Zaheer Khan , Vinod Kambli (12th man). These 12 can they match up to Barbados XI ?
Australia
Morris, Simpson, Bradman, Archie Jackson, AB, Stan McCabe, Gilly, Alan Davidson, Lindwall, Thommo, McGrath. 12th O'Reilly.
NSW
Morris (53), Simpson (56), Bradman (95), Trumper (44), Border (51), S.Waugh (51), Gilchrist (44), Macartney (45, 20), Lindwall (21), McGrath (20), O'Reilly (16); 12th Man, Bevan (57)
A challenge for Barbados team can be New South Wales
Warner, Taylor, Bradman, Waugh brothers, Trumper, Benaud, Gilchrist, Mcgill, Spofforth, Lindwall, Mcgrath plus Barnes, Clarke, Border, Lee, Starc, Morris, O'Reilly
South Africa
Kwazulu-Natal: Barry Richards, Mike Proctor, Shaun Pollock, Hashim Amla, Kevin Pietersen, Vince van der Byl, Clive Rice, Trevor Goddard, Lee Ervine, Lance Klusener, Tufty Mann, Jackie McGlew, Dudley Nourse, Jonty Rhodes, Robin Smith .
Some great players but on the world stage they choke ?