The Ultimate Combined All Time India Pakistan Test XI !

Middle order

Coming to the middle order, both teams have produced a string of world class performers over the decades. Indeed, there is an embarrassment of riches.

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From India we have the likes of Vijay Hazare, Gundappa Viswanath and Dilip Vengsarkar along with the modern stalwarts: Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman. And that is without considering Polly Umrigar, Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly.

Pakistan too have their lot in Zaheer Abbass, Javed Miandad, Inzamam, Mohammad Yousuf and the extremely under rated Younis Khan. While it is definitely an unenviable task, it is also true that there can only be three out of so many.

Rahul Dravid gets the one down slot ahead of his countryman, Vengsarkar, and Pakistanis, Zaheer Abbass and Younis. For number four and five, we go for Tendulkar (obviously) and Miandad.

If one considers the entire career of all these greats and conducts a proper statistical and analytical survey, one will find the performances of these three batsmen to have been superior to the rest. Unfortunately, such an analysis is not possible, in this read, due to space constraints

Middle Order: Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Javed Miandad

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