While Gavaskar is picked by the celebrated Christopher Martin-Jenkins for being "pure technical close-to-perfection," Alan Lee and John Woodcock second him, the latter describing Sunny as a "wonderful player".

"He was a wonderful, wonderful player. How could I leave him out?" says Woodcock.

Meanwhile, Mike Artherton picked Sehwag in his squad.

The writers seem to be confused regarding the inclusion of Sachin Tendulkar [Images] in their list.

However, in the most of the lists there is a certain similarity.

Sir Don Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Barry Richards, Sir Viv Richards [Images], Gordon Greenidge, Graham Gooch, Saeed Anwar, Adam Gilchrist [Images], Ray Lindwall, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, Dennis Lillee and Richard Hadlee are few of the more likely entries in the list.

There's also a certain unanimity regarding the captain -- most zero down to Shane Warne [Images], describing him as the best captain Australia never had.