MIXED BAG CRICKET 1

I was thinking about one of the test teams of India that would comprise of cricketers from various eras and I have chalked out one as it appears below.I must confess that I was constrained by virtue of having to select the team based on what I have heard of many who fit the bill rather than what I have seen of them.There is also an increased preferential treatment on my part to include players of recent times so it is bound to have a contemporary look in more ways than one.So ,my dream team shapes up this way

Sunil Gavaskar
Farookh Engineer(wk)
Gundappa Viswanath
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
V.V.S.Laxman
Kapil Dev(Captain)
Irfan Pathan
Javagal Srinath
Bishen Singh Bedi
Erapalli Prasanna

If you can look deeply even at the surface level, at the face of it there is a truth that will hit you.There are no left handers, considering the specialist batsmen,so bowlers will be left with one problem less,of adjusting their lines to a left-right combination.To be frank, no southpaw's name struck me while I thought of the batsmen.I was tempted to include three spinners but I was more inclined to give Srinath his due for his unparalled commitment on unresponsive wickets .So he got the better of Chandrasekar or even Anil Kumble for that matter.Spin is a craft and I guess it requires no two better exponents than the couple in the team to reveal that adage.I chose Farookh Engineer to don the gloves behind the wickets because he would open the innings as well.Kapil and Pathan are in my opinion undoubtedly talented cricketers with a big heart as well and they would walk into any world XI .The batsmen should pick themselves.No legends (in the true sense of the word) made into my team ,the reason for which has already been mentioned.