A look back at Sourav Ganguly's all-time Test XI

England v India: 2nd Investec Test - Day Five
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#9 Dale Steyn (South Africa)

Sri Lanka vs South Africa - 1st Test Match: Day 1
Sri Lanka vs South Africa - 1st Test Match: Day 1

A genuine out-swing Fast Bowler who can go through the defence of batsmen and hit the stumps very often is Dale Steyn. A fast bowler who creates excitement and exhilaration not only among his teammates but also the spectators in a cricket match, Steyn has the distinguishing ability to maintain his pace above the 140km/h mark and bowl stringent lines and lengths throughout a Test innings. The kind of enthusiasm he can create while running in and delivering a nerve-racking out-swinger is absolutely unparalleled.

#10 Shane Warne (Australia)

Fifth Test - Australia v England: Day Three

A very obvious choice this, the greatest ever leg-spinner who has scalped more than 700 wickets. Warne has not only been a big spinner of the cricket ball but an extraordinary player of the batsmen's minds. He is known to have set up the batsmen by bowling a particular array of deliveries and making the batsman play a certain style or type of shots and then bowling a completely different delivery to make the batsman continue with the set style of shot and fail to play the delivery, ending up with the wicket. He has been one of the most accurate leg-spinners, and has proven to be extremely useful as a slip fielder and also a tail-ender, who could bat aggressively and rescue his team on several occasions.

#11 Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)

Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralithara

Wrapped in controversies throughout his career, Murali had a phenomenal time with the ball. Most batsman of his era today confess having sleepless nights and being perplexed as to what he had been bowling and was going to bowl. Till date, batsmen say that they could never read the bowling of Muralitharan. The man with 800 wickets has never failed to startle the world's finest of batsmen and has been often termed as the mystery bowler who would leave batsmen baffled, by the batsmen themselves.

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