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- Updated: April 5, 2017
New Delhi: Despite attack a purple patch, India skipper Virat Kohli unsuccessful to find a mark in England all-rounder Ben Stokes’ “Dream Cricket XI”, which, however, includes Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.
Stokes, who grabbed a headlines for apropos a costliest buy during this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction, on Wednesday suggested his “Dream” team.
In it he has enclosed 3 Australians in former skipper Ricky Ponting, wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist and leg-spin fable Shane Warne, and dual any from England (Alastair Cook and James Anderson), a West Indies (Garfield Sobers and Curtly Ambrose) and South Africa (Hashim Amla and Dale Steyn).
Stokes was bought for a whopping Rs 14.5 crore by a Rising Pune Supergiant, who will open their IPL-10 debate in a home tie opposite Mumbai Indians during Pune on Thursday.
On selecting Sehwag to open with Cook, a appetite splash Red Bull’s code envoy said: “I’d have Sehwag as one of my openers. we reckon he averaged about 50 in his career (49.34), and his strike rate was substantially in a 80s (82.23). To have that as an opening batsman in Test compare cricket if we were an opening bowler would be flattering scary, we reckon.”
On a preference of batting conductor Sachin Tendulkar, Stokes said: “It’s got to be Sachin, got to be. we don’t consider we need to explain why. Ricky and Sachin could barter between 4 and five, and they can have a quarrel to see who goes in — whichever one’s got their pads on.”