India, Aug. 12 -- When you have close to 7000 runs in five Tests, some of the most lion-hearted bowling performances and a tied series after every match went down to five days, it will always be a difficult task to select a combined XI. Former England cricketers Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan. David Lloyd (Bumble), and Phil Tufnell attempted the near-impossible task and, needless to say, got engaged in a huge debate about multiple cricketers.

There were unanimous choices, make no mistake. Shubman Gill, Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Rishabh Pant, Ben Stokes and Mohammed Siraj were confirmed in the XI without much debate but the likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar and Jasprit Bumrah got the experts thinking.

While Gill'...