Test Squad: The year 2022 saw a lot of action in the world of cricket. The T20 World Cup dominated the majority of the year, but the second World Test Championship brought attention to the Test format as well. Teams competed in the longest format of the game with the goal of reaching the championship final.
The year 2022 is about to come to a conclusion, therefore cricket gurus are selecting their top squads across all formats. The well-known expert and commentator Harsha Bhogle has now joined the fray to select his Best Test XI of the year 2022. His starting XI includes Usman Khawaja and Kraigg Brathwaite, two batsmen from Australia and the West Indies who have excelled in the whites on the majority of occasions.
Brathwaite was once again tenaciously standing up for West Indies while Khawaja amassed 1080 runs in 11 Test matches at an average of 67.5 with four hundred and five fifty-plus scores. His flawless average of over 62 runs per inning translated into 687 runs in 14 innings.
3 middle-order players from England
Babar Azam, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, and Ben Stokes made up Harsha Bhogle’s XI, as chosen by Cricbuzz. The Pakistani captain, who scored the most runs in the format with 1170 runs in 16 innings, had an outstanding year in Test matches. However, England did remarkably well this year in the whites because of Root, Bairstow, and Stokes. The group has scored the top 10 runs this season.
The sole Indian player in the starting lineup is Rishabh Pant, who played brave cricket to earn his spot. James Anderson, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Lyon, and Marco Jansen make up the formidable bowling assault. The joint-highest wicket-takers of the year, Rabada and Lyon, each took 47 wickets, while Jansen and Anderson each took 36.
Here’s Harsha Bhogle’s Best Test XI of 2022: Usman Khawaja, Kraigg Brathwaite, Joe Root, Babar Azam, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Rishabh Pant (wk), Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Lyon, James Anderson.
