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I have a piece up on Rediff with my 2007 World Cup XI<\/a>, with reasons and suchlike. To give you just a listing, here’s my XI:<\/p>\n

1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Scott Styris, 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Kevin Pietersen, 7 Brad Hogg, 8 Lasith Malinga, 9 Nathan Bracken, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Glenn McGrath.<\/p>\n

Cricinfo also has a WC XI here<\/a>, and the only difference, besides the batting order, is that they’ve picked Shane Bond instead of Bracken. Well, I picked Bracken over Bond because big-match temperament matters to me: in New Zealand’s most important game of all, Bond failed to deliver.<\/p>\n

Comments are open. What’s your 2007 World Cup XI?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a piece up on Rediff with my 2007 World Cup XI<\/a>, with reasons and suchlike. To give you just a listing, here’s my XI:<\/p>\n

1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Scott Styris, 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Kevin Pietersen, 7 Brad Hogg, 8 Lasith Malinga, 9 Nathan Bracken, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Glenn McGrath.<\/p>\n

Cricinfo also has a WC XI here<\/a>, and the only difference, besides the batting order, is that they’ve picked Shane Bond instead of Bracken. Well, I picked Bracken over Bond because big-match temperament matters to me: in New Zealand’s most important game of all, Bond failed to deliver.<\/p>\n

Comments are open. What’s your 2007 World Cup XI?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nMy 2007 World Cup XI - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/my-2007-world-cup-xi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My 2007 World Cup XI - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a piece up on Rediff with my 2007 World Cup XI, with reasons and suchlike. 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