IMHO, the best cricket teams from each test playing nation (except Zimbabwe and Bangladesh);

Australia
1. Bill Ponsford
2. Arthur Morris
3. Donald Bradman(c)
4. Picky Ponting
5. Greg Chappell
6. Keith Miller
7. Adam Gilchrist(wk)
8. Shane Warne
9. Dennis Lillee
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Glen McGrath
12th Ray Lindwall

England
1. Jack Hobbs(c)
2. Herbert Sutcliffe
3. Leonard Hutton
4. Wally Hammond
5. Ken Barrington
6. Ian Botham
7. Alan Knott(wk)
8. Jim Laker
9. Alec Bedser
10. Syd Barnes
11. Fred Trueman
12th Tony Lock

West Indies
1. Vivian Richards (c)
2. Gordon Greenidge
3. Gary Headley
4. Brian Lara
5. Everton Weekes
6. Garfield Sobers
7. Clyde Walcott (wk)
8. Malcolm Marshall
9. Curtly Ambrose
10. Michael Holding
11. Lance Gibbs
12th Frank Worrell

South Africa
1. Barry Richards
2. Dudley Nourse
3. Graeme Smith
4. Graeme Pollock
5. Jacques Kallis
6. Gary Kirsten(c)
7. Mark Boucher(wk)
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Mike Procter
10. Hugh Tayfield
11. Allan Donald
12th Eddie Barlow

New Zealand
1. John Wright
2. Glen Turner
3. Bert Sutcliffe
4. Andrew Jones
5. Martin Crowe
6. Stephan Fleming
7. Chris Cairns
8. Richard Hadlee(c)
9. Daniel Vettori
10. Ian Smith(wk)
11. Jack Cowie
12th John Reid

India
1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Mohammad Azarahuddin
6. Kapil Dev(c)
7. Syed Kirmani (wk)
8. Jawagal Srinath
9. Anil Kumble
10. Bishan Bedi
11. Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
12th Polly Umrigar

Pakistan
1. Saeed Anwar
2. Hanif Mohammed
3. Zaheer Abbas
4. Javed Miandad(c)
5. Mohammad Yousef
6. Inzamam Ul-Haq
7. Imram Khan
8. Wasim Akram
9. Wasim Bari(wk)
10. Waqar Younis
11. Abdul Qadir
12th Mudasser Nazar

Sri Lanka
1. Sanath Jayasuriya
2. Marvan Atapattu
3. Asanka Gurushinha
4. Mehela Jayawardene
5. Kumar Sangakkara(wk)
6. Arivinda De Silva
7. Hashan Tillakaratne
8. Arjuna Ranatunga(c)
9. Chaminda Vaas
10. Rumesh Ratnayke
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
12th Pramodya Wickramasinghe

Good work foreverG, if you put that list together yourself. It's so interesting to note that 5 of the 12 players for Australia are still playing, while none are for England. It just highlights a) how good this team is, b) how much they are at the end of their careers compared to England.
Having said that, probably only Flintoff, Pietersen and Vaughn are really capable of breaking into the England team by the end of their careers. But for Freddie, he's up against Botham.....and Vaughn is near the end of his career anyway.
And how the mighty have fallen.....only BC Lara in the Windies team, while lots in Sri Lanka

You underrate McGrath. At least as good as Lillee, if not better. And i'm a West Australian.

Victor Trumper > Matthew Hayden.

I'd have Ian Smith keeping wicket for NZ.

Ian Smith was
a) wicketkeeper for NZ less then Adam Parore
b) not as strong with the bat as Parore, as he scored less runs, had a lower average and less capability to score reasonably large innings.
c) Parore accummulated more dismissals, both total and per game.

perhaps replace shaun pollock for peter pollock.

Or makhaya Ntini

Flemming as (C) for New Zealand, tactically much better, possibly the best at his thinking prime.

Some changes: Morris for Trumper (Hayden close); Weekes for Haynes; Holding for Garner; G Smith for Cullinan; Astle for Congdon; Bedser for Willis; Lock for Stewart; Sehwag for Shastri.