The best all-rounders Test XI in the modern era

Lower Order - Ravichandran Ashwin, Wasim Akram (Captain) and Shane Warne (Vice Captain)

The ability to make the ball talk: Ashwin, Wasim

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Warne

Ashwin has been one of the giants in Indian cricket and one of the best all-rounders in the modern era.

An engineering graduate from Chennai, he is primarily in the team for his off-spin bowling and possesses a deadly record in the sub-continent. Ashwin usually critiques his performances which helped him to shed his tag as a poor traveller with improved returns outside Asia in 2018.

Ashwin is a decent lower-order batsman who has scored four Test centuries and a handful of fifties to bail India out of trouble on numerous occasions. By the time he will retire, he is sure to be in a very elite list of all-rounders.

Career Statistics: Ravichandran Ashwin - Right-hand bat and Right arm off-spin

Matches: 65 Innings: 93 Runs: 2361 HS: 124 Average: 29.1 100's: 4 50's: 11

Innings: 150 Wickets: 92 BB: 7/59 Average: 25.4 4W: 16 5W: 26

Wasim Akram who was also known as the "Sultan of Swing" is arguably the best fast bowler of all time.

Whether it was the old ball or the new ball, this champion knew how to extract swing out of it. Because of the raw pace he possessed, he would take the pitch out of the equation and bowl some deadly spells.

He was the best proponent of reverse swing and used it to good effect on dead tracks to trouble the batsmen.

Wasim would make a flawless batsman of the calibre of Rahul Dravid to doubt their defence. He was a hard-hitting lower order batsman who even scored a double hundred for Pakistan against Zimbabwe.

Career Statistics: Wasim Akram - Left-hand bat and Left Arm Fast

Matches: 104 Innings: 181 Runs: 2898 HS: 257 Average: 22.6 100's: 3 50's: 7

Innings: 147 Wickets: 414 BB: 7/119 Average: 23.6 4W: 20 5W: 25

Shane Warne is one of the most influential and controversial figures in cricket history. The first man to scale the peak of 700 Test wickets, the great man bowled half of his deliveries on the fast and bouncy pitches of Australia which didn't offer him any grip or purchase, still, he consistently troubled his opponents.

When Australia toured the Subcontinent, they seldom required another spinner as the leggie had mastered bowling on all types of pitches and took the art of leg-spin to unprecedented heights. Warne was an equivalent of Sachin Tendulkar when it came to bowling.

He is also the only batsman in the history of test cricket to score 3000 test runs without a hundred.

Career Statistics: Shane Warne - Right hand bat and Right arm leg-spin

Matches: 145 Innings: 199 Runs: 3154 HS: 99 Average: 17.3 50's: 12

Innings: 273 Wickets: 708 BB: 8/71 Average: 25.4 4W: 48 5W: 37