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Brendon McCullum to be skipper in ICC announced team of 2015 WC

Following the conclusion of the World Cup, which ended with Australia winning the coveted trophy for the fifth time, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the team of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 on Monday with Brendon McCullum as its captain.

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Following the conclusion of the World Cup, which ended with Australia winning the coveted trophy for the fifth time, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the team of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 on Monday with Brendon McCullum as its captain.

McCullum was chosen as the captain following his aggressive, innovative and inspirational leadership during the 44-day tournament that was the cornerstone of his New Zealand squad's progression to the final where they lost to Australia by seven wickets.

In doing so, McCullum also scored 328 runs in nine matches with four half-centuries at a strike-rate of 188.50.

The team was chosen by a select group of experts who were given the task of picking a balanced side on the basis of performances in the tournament. Statistics were used but were not the sole basis for selections.

In addition to McCullum, the side includes four New Zealanders –Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Martin Guptill, Daniel Vettori– three Australians in Glenn Maxwell, Steven Smith and Mitchell Starc, two South Africans, AB de Villiers and Morne Morkel, with Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara as wicketkeeper-batsman.

Zimbabwe's Brendan Taylor, who finished with 433 runs in six matches, was named as the 12th man.

The team of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in batting order:

1. Martin Guptill (New Zealand)
2. Brendon McCullum (New Zealand, captain)
3. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka, wicketkeeper)
4. Steven Smith (Australia)
5. AB de Villiers (South Africa)
6. Glenn Maxwell (Australia)
7. Corey Anderson (New Zealand)
8. Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
9. Mitchell Starc (Australia)
10. Trent Boult (New Zealand)
11. Morne Morkel (South Africa)
12. Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe, 12th man)

ICC General Manager – Cricket, Geoff Allardice, chairman of the panel, said that the panel had an extremely difficult choice of selecting a 12-member squad at the back of an outstanding tournament, highlighted by some eye-catching individual performances including two double-centuries, 38 centuries, two hat-tricks and 28 four-wicket hauls.

Allardice added that there were a number of other players that were discussed as possible selections in the team, which included batsmen Mahmudullah (Bangladesh) and Shaiman Anwar (UAE), fast bowlers Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Shami (both India), Wahab Riaz (Pakistan) and spinners Imran Tahir (South Africa) and Ravichandran Ashwin (India).

But, Allardice said that there were so many brilliant individual performances during the tournament that it was not possible to fit them into the team, adding that the panel eventually came up with this side, which, in their view, was the most balanced outfit that is capable of beating any side on any given day. 

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