Picking the GREATEST XI from the last 30 years of cricket! | Battle Of The Eras

Rob Key & Nasser Hussain select a combined XI from the 22 players who featured in last week's virtual Test - which was a clash between players from the first 15 years of cricket on Sky & those from the most recent 15 years.

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[anandm]

Rob Key trying to compare Ben Stores to Kallis is literately the funniest thing I have seen on Youtube lately.

[h.s.manideep]

13289 Test runs, 45 Test centuries, 292 Test Wickets, 200 catches, played against some of the best Test bowlers of all time. Batting average greater than Sachin's, bowling average as good as one time Indian pace spearhead Zaheer Khan and almost as many catches as Rahul Dravid the Test fielder. This in itself elevates Jacques Kallis to the position of the greatest cricketer to ever have played the game. When you also consider his ODI record (11579 runs, 44 batting average, 272 wickets, 130 catches), the only question which remains is how a human being achieved all this. If and not when (because it won't happen) Ben Stokes gets even remotely close to these figures, then compare him to Kallis, but not now. No way. It is offensive to consider Stokes anywhere close to Kallis right now.

[canister]

I can't really describe the physical pain I felt when they compared Kallis with Stokes.

[xAlexHDx]

I'm English and I'd take Kallis over Stokes any day of the week, that hurt. Glad level heads prevailed and Kallis got the spot.

[danyalo]

The Stokes/Kallis debate is so absurd that it almost makes the Cummins/Akram debate reasonable by comparison.

[emphatic]

Please never put Stokes against Kallis again. There is no comparison. Kallis is superior by far!

[damiandavids]

Please don’t ever compare Stokes with Kallis again 😐

[graemestephens]

It physically hurts to hear them compare Stokes to Kallis

[caedencekuepper]

Stokes or Kallis oh please. Similar bowling stats and Kallis averages 20 more with the bat from a way longer period, they're taking the piss.

[tehseenullah]

Wasim Akram fits in in all ex cricketers world 11
What a legend he was

[Driskyle]

This was awesome! Yes, Stokes could be an all-time great, but I think a telling stat is that Kallis has 23 man-of-the-match awards in Test cricket. The most for ANY player in history. In sides that boasted Donald, Pollock, Ntini, Steyn, Smith, Amla, de Villiers etc. That says a lot about his match-winning ability. Stokes currently has 8 man-of-the-match awards, but his career is still young.

[ethanhusein]

Nasser suggesting that Stokes may finish his career with similar stats to Kallis is just insane. He may come close to Kallis the bowler..maybe, but not Kallis the batsman.

[matubaM]

It's blasphemous that they were even trying to make the Stokes/Kallis discussion even debatable. I understand they're English but come on, that is ridiculous. This is just utter bias and prisoner of the moment stuff.

Nasser had the nerve to say Stokes will finish his career with stats close to Kallis??? Maybe bowling yes, but Kallis's batting is in the conversation of the greatest batters in the history of the game - he wasn't just "great for an allrounder".

[faiezahmed]

7:17 cummins or akram? Are you guys serious 😂

[azza]

Kallis is the greatest allrounder period, Stokes for what's he's done could come close but will never beat Kallis

[Rob-nlge]

Sangakkara should be in that side. Seriously good player and a higher average than all of the top six

[garypowell]

Why does Rob Key look fitter and younger then he did when he played for England?

[jonnyn]

I wish Ambrose got more of a mention, an absolutely terrifying fast bowler

[greenidgelewis]

Andy Flower, everyone tends to forget him, i thought Curtley Ambrose would've managed to get into this team.

[vamshiche]

Muralidharan, Dravid & Sangakkara were missed.