Most XIs, real or fantasy, consist mostly of specialist batsmen and bowlers with one or two all-rounders and a wicketkeeper-batsman if they are available.
To qualify, every member has to have been the official wicketkeeper in at least one Test. The cricketers will also be picked based on their overall careers, not matches as official wicketkeeper.
This lists comprises of men who bowl with their right hand and batted left-handed.
Here is a list of those who batted right-handed hand and bowled left-arm.
This is an XI based on the men who batted *and* bowled left-handed and had played Test cricket.
These are the 11 most accomplished cricketers with hyphens in their names, not the 11 most spectacular names.
CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta has now formed a XI out of the men who were dropped from Alphabetical XI because they did not play too many Test matches.
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with the unusual letters Q, U, X and Z, CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta finds a side with an unusually strong spin attack.
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with Y, CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta finds some extraordinary cricketers from a very small pool.
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with W, CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta wades knee deep in a pool of extraordinary talent.