Current World XI across all three formats of the game

There are very few cricketers who have been able to excel internationally across all three formats of the game. With Test and T20 cricket, in particular, requiring completely different skill-sets and the schedule being such that there is very little time to adjust to the varying demands of each format, players who are equally good irrespective of the format are worth their weight in gold.Here is a contemporary World XI consisting of such players: 

#1 David Warner

Right from David Warner’s international debut against South Africa in T20 cricket in 2009, when he struck 89 off just 43 deliveries with 7 fours and 6 sixes, his ability to completely debilitate the opposition has been evident. But his consistency over the last 12 months or so, particularly in Test cricket, a format he wasn’t deemed suitable for to start off with, has been quite exceptional and has surprised even the staunchest of Warner fans.    

There seemed to be a danger of the left-handed opener falling by the wayside after his brawl with England batsman Joe Root just before the start of the Ashes in England last year, as a result of which he missed most of the Champions Trophy as well as the first two Ashes Tests. However, since then Warner has amassed 1,443 runs from 13 Tests at an average of 57.72, perhaps indicating that the incident, if anything, has only spurred him on to do better.

With his focus having been primarily on Test cricket in recent times, he has played just 6 ODIs and an equal number of T20s in the last one year. But an average of 47 and 36.80 from those ODIs and T20s, respectively, clearly illustrates that he is enjoying the best phase of his cricketing career and deserves his place at the top of the order.