International Cricket Council (ICC) revealed their Team of the Decade forall three formats of the game and the cricketing fraternity has beendisappointed at the selection of the teams. Many top performers have beenignored and despite great performances by Pakistani players, none of themwere included in any of the teams.——————————
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Pakistan were ranked number one in T20I cricket for over two years, won theICC Champions Trophy in 2017, and were ranked as the number one Test teamin this decade, but none of the players were able to make the cut. Pakistancaptain, Babar Azam, was ranked as the number one T20I batsman for over twoyears but was ignored in favor of other international stars.
Veteran Pakistani all-rounder, Mohammad Hafeez, failed to make the cutdespite brilliant performances with the bat and the ball. Hafeez scored1,726 runs and picked up 47 wickets, but was overlooked in place of GlennMaxwell who performed worse than him in both departments.
Indian pacer, Jasprit Bumrah, was picked in the T20I team despite not beingin the top 20 wicket-takers in the 2010s. Tim Southee, Chris Jordan, NuwanKulusakera, Mustafizur Rahman all picked up more wickets than him thisdecade.——————————
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West Indian opener, Chris Gayle, was chosen in the T20I Team of the Decadedespite not being in the top 20 run-scorers in T20Is in this decade.Meanwhile, the likes of Martin Guptill, who was the third-highestrun-scorer has been ignored.
Similarly, in Test Team of the Decade and ODI Team of the Decade, therewere many questionable selections. Australian spinner, Nathan Lyon, and SriLankan spinner, Rangana Herath, were ignored in place of Indian spinner,Ravichandran Ashwin, despite picking up more wickets in Test cricket.
South African opener, Hashim Amla, missed out on both the Test Team of theDecade and ODI Team of the Decade despite being one of the top scorers inthe world in both formats.
