Our special team of selectors make their pick for the best international Test team of the past 12 months … with one caveat
The Guardian’s men’s Test team of the year is back, for its eighth edition. This year’s selectors were Ali Martin, Jonathan Liew, Rob Smyth, Emma John, Adam Collins, Tim de Lisle and myself. Eagle-eyed readers may spot that there’s not a single
Australian in it. That has everything to do with the fact that when we picked our XI (before the
boxing Day Tests) the team had played only four Tests this year, all at home, and nothing to do with the Australian selector being outnumbered six to one. Promise.