Test Team of 2018
1. Dimuth Karunaratne - 743 runs at 46.43
2. Tom Latham - 658 runs at 59.81
3. Kane Williamson (c) - 651 runs at 59.18 - also captains this team ahead of Kohli and Holder
4. Virat Kohli - Most runs of anyone - 1322 at 55.08
5. Henry Nicholls - Close between Nicholls and Babar Azam. 658 runs at 73.11 - highest average of those playing more than 5 games.
6. Jos Buttler w/k - Not a great field of keeper/batsmen to choose from. Buttler only kept in a handful of games, but 760 runs at 44.70
7. Jason Holder - Won't be a popular choice, but 33 wickets at 12.39 is hard to ignore. Also quietly averaged 37 with the bat.
8. Pat Cummins - 44 wickets at 19.97 and a very handy number 8 batsman
9. Nathan Lyon - Best spinner in all conditions. 49 wickets at 34. Bowled more overs than anyone else - daylight second.
10. Kagiso Rabada - 52 wickets (the most by anyone), avg of 20.07 in a team with plenty of world class quicks
11. Jasprit Bumrah - 48 wickets at 21.02, and looked the best quick in the world by years end