Some leading names in the sport missed out on a spot – apologies, but we hope you understand. Here are six players who just missed the cut.

The full Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast Decade in Review Special below (you can also listen to the episode on the Podcast App and Spotify):

Hashim Amla

159 ODIs, 7265 runs, average 49.76, HS: 159 (since 2010)

Adam Collins: Hashim Amla for the first half of the decade was far and away the most important opener.

Phil Walker: He was breaking records left right and centre.

AC: His percentage of hundreds per innings is preposterous.

Dan Norcross: I understand he’s been crucial and influential in one-day cricket, but I think at the end of the decade, we’re looking forward to the new ODI – and Amla to me feels like the very best of the old ODIs.

AC: How do you weight World Cup performances compared to bilaterals? On that measure, it does help Warner’s case.

PW: It was a hair’s breadth between Amla and [David] Warner with me, so I’m comfortable with that.

Imran Tahir

103 ODIs, 173 wickets, average 24.83, BBI: 7-45

AC: Wrist-spin has been such an important factor, and it’s hard to look past Imran Tahir, as someone who’s been around for such a long time. We need an entertainer.

DN: He is South Africa’s leading World Cup wicket-taker.

DN: I want to raise a problem here. If we are going with only five bowlers, and two of them are spinners, we’re going to have some serious over-wrangling to do both at the front end of the innings, and at the back end. I wouldn’t be comfortable going out with three seamers and two spinners myself. Those spinners would basically have to bowl 20 overs right after the first 10.

PW: That is an irrefutable point. We can’t play five bowlers and two spinners.

AC: I’m frustrated by the lack of wrist-spinners, but I realise that it is a necessity.