International Cricket Council’s Test playing XI has been announced in which three Pakistani players have also made their place in the team along with other great world players after a sensational year in test cricket.
In the Test team of the year, leg spinner Yasir Shah, right hand batsman Younus Khan and wicketkeeper batsman Sarfraz Ahmed will represent Pakistan. But no Pakistani player could make a place in the ODI team of the year.
The players are selected on the basis of their performance during 18th September 2014 to 13th September 2015.
Yasir is now ranked 2nd in the ICC test bowler rankings after taking 61 wickets in 10 matches with average of 24.81.
Younus Khan is the only Pakistani to score 9,000 runs in test cricket and became the leading run scorer in Tests for Pakistan. During this period, he scored 1204 runs with an average of 80.26 which include 1 fifty and 6 hundreds.
In last 12 months were also very productive for Sarfraz Ahmed who scored 669 runs with 83.62 average in 10 matches which include three fifties and 6 hundreds.
Great cricketing figures were there in the selection committee including former England’s batsman Mark Butcher, West Indian bowler Ian Bishop, deputy editor of “The Hindu” Mr. G Viswanath and former Australian women’s captain Belinda Clark.
ICC Test Team of the Year 2015 (in batting order):
David Warner (Aus)
Alastair Cook (Eng) (captain)
Kane Williamson (NZ)
Younus Khan (Pak)
Steven Smith (Aus)
Joe Root (Eng)
Sarfraz Ahmed (Pak) (wicketkeeper)
Stuart Broad (Eng)
Trent Boult (NZ)
Yasir Shah (Pak)
Josh Hazlewood (Aus)
12th: Ravichandran Ashwin (Ind)
ICC ODI Team of the Year 2015 (in batting order):
Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)
Hashim Amla (SA)
Kumar Sangakkara (SL) (wicketkeeper)
AB de Villiers (SA) (captain)
Steven Smith (Aus)
Ross Taylor (NZ)
Trent Boult (NZ)
Mohammed Shami (Ind)
Mitchell Starc (Aus)
Mustafizur Rahman (Bang)
Imran Tahir (SA)
12th: Joe Root (Eng)