'Bazbulls--t': Cricket bible slammed as Test team of the year features zero Aussies, FIVE Poms

Cricket bible Wisden has named their Test team of the year for 2025 – and Australia have copped a serious snub.

Despite being the world’s No.1-ranked Test team and having secured qualification for the World Test Championship final, not a single Aussie made it into the XI selected, according to the Wisden website, by ‘a panel of 41 cricket writers’.

Australia won seven and lost just two of nine Tests for the year, including a 2-0 whitewash of New Zealand on foreign soil, as well as defeating India in the summer’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade.

Among the snubs were captain Pat Cummins (37 wickets in 2024 at 24.02), Josh Hazlewood (35 wickets at 13.6) and Nathan Lyon (33 wickets at 22.69), while wicketkeeper Alex Carey (440 runs at 33.84 and 49 dismissals) was also unlucky to miss out.

Fellow WTC finalist South Africa, who lost just two of ten Tests for 2024, were similarly snubbed, with not a single Protea named in the team, despite three bowlers – quicks Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen and spinner Keshav Maharaj – averaging under 20 in 2024 and captain Temba Bavuma averaging over 55 with the bat.

However, there was room for a whopping five Englishmen, despite a mixed year in which they won nine and lost eight of 17 Tests, including a 2-1 series loss in Pakistan and a 4-1 defeat in India.

Batters Ben Duckett, Joe Root and Harry Brook were all named in the XI, as were fast bowler Gus Atkinson and wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.