Wasim Akram is the only Pakistani player to have made it to ESPN cricinfo’s all time Test World Eleven list.
The list is dominated by Australians and West Indians reflecting their pre-eminence in Test cricket over the years.
Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Sachin Tendulkar are the other players from the last two decades to make it to the XI.
Four Australians, three West Indians, two Englishmen, an Indian and a Pakistani make up the list. Three players Don Bradman, Garry Sobers and Shane Warne, were unanimous choices figuring in the first elevens of each of the 12 members of the jury.
Each of them got the maximum points possible in the exercise, that is 60. Tendulkar followed with 51 points.
The World XI is picked from the lists of each country’s XIs.
Below follow the complete lists taken from cricinfo.com:
The World XI: Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Viv Richards, Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shane Warne, Wasim Akram, Dennis Lillee
The Second XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Barry Richards, George Headley, Brian Lara, Wally Hammond, Imran Khan, Alan Knott, Bill O’Reilly, Fred Trueman, Muttiah Muralitharan, SF Barnes
Readers’ XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag, Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Wasim Akram, Muttiah Muralitharan, Glenn McGrath
