All time best Test team of India has Gavaskar as captain
Pankaj Rai
Jul. 1, 2007

It was an exercise of turning the clock backward and scanning for the best of the great Indian cricketers in the last 75 years of Indian cricket.

The best of Indian cricketers are: Sunil Gavaskar (Captain), Vinoo Mankad, Vijay Hazare (vice-captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Mohammed Azharuddin, G. R. Vishwanath, Kapil Dev, Syed Kirmani (wk), Javagal Srinath, EAS Prasanna, Subash Gupte, and 12th Man: Vijay Manjrekar.

Reserves: Mohammed Nissar, B S Chandrasekhar, Rahul Dravid.

To mark 75 years since India played its first cricket match against England in 1932, eight former Indian captains --G R Vishwanath, Dilip Vengsarkar, S Venkataraghavan, K Srikkanth, Ajit Wadekar, Nari Contractor, Syed Kirmani and Abbas Ali Baig -- were requested to pick their all-time India best Test XI.

From the selections made by the eight ex-captains, a panel consisting of Prasanna, well-known sports journalist Rajan Bala and PTI Editors came up with the all-time great XI.

All time best Test team of India has Gavaskar as captain
Pankaj Rai
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