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Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

Nas and Ath pick their best ever England and India combined XI!

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Cricket, News, Sports News

4.4598 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the first Test between England and India, a bonus episode of the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast, as Nas and Ath pick their best England and India combined XI. But who makes the cut? And do you agree? Join in the debate @SkyCricket.
 
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Transcript

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0:34.3

Okay, ahead of the England and India series,

0:58.5

myself and NASA have been given the absolutely thankless task of having to come up with the best 11 between the years of 2000 and 2025, i.e. this year, the last quarter century of England and India test matches, we've got to come up with the best 11. And the rules are, these are not our rules, these are rules that have been given to us.

1:06.3

Pick five Englishmen, five Indian players and one that we agree on.

1:08.1

Has to play for India or England.

1:13.2

It has to come from either side to make up the also. I mean, this is a thankless task.

1:16.2

There'll be thousands of Indian supporters.

1:19.7

We're going to be throwing darts at us for somebody we forget. They've done that.

1:20.5

They've done that before, by the way.

1:22.2

So there's always someone will forget.

1:23.9

Just to clarify, given that it's 2000 onwards, Sunil Gavaska can't be selected.

1:31.0

And that's not us, not selecting Sunil Gavaska.

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