What is the best T20 XI in world cricket at the moment?

Pacers

Mohammad Amir is one of the most destructive swing bowlers in world cricket.

For the pacers we ideally wanted two very good swing and death bowlers, preferably a right hander and left hander. For the third option, we wanted a quick pacer who bowls in the middle overs. For the opening bowlers we chose Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Amir. This opening bowling combination is the stuff of dreams. Bhuvi and Amir are the two best swing bowlers in the world at the moment, hands down. While Bhuvneshwar is very consistent, with an average of 22.07 and a best of 5/24 in T20Is while having a good economy rate of 6.74, Amir is a match winner on his day. When Amir fires he obliterates any top order in the world while keeping an impressive economy rate. Amir has picked up 125 wickets in 108 matches at an average of 20.90 with an economy of 6.64 and a best of 4/13. The discarded options were Jasprit Bumrah, who was very unlucky to miss out, Trent Boult, who is just not consistent enough at the moment and Mitchell Starc, who is yet to get back to his best since his injury.

The middle order pace option was quite easy. While Kagiso Rabada, Andrew Tye and Andre Rus have been very impressive recently, for wicket-taking ability and economy rate, we picked Hasan Ali. Hasan warrants his place in the team after a mind-blowing Champions Trophy and brilliant overall form in recent times, especially recently in T20, where he picked up 5-20 in the BPL while he also got 1-0 from his one over against West Indies in the second Pakistan v West Indies T20I match. Hasan has 84 T20 wickets to his name at an average of 20.78 with an economy rate of 7.41, making him the perfect middle overs pacer and has also hit two fifties, meaning he could also hit some sixes at the end of a T20 match.

Our T20 World XI: Rohit Sharma, Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Sarfraz Ahmed (WK) (C), Hardik Pandya, Sunil Narine, Hasan Ali, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Amir.