The aim of this paper is to apply the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) as a multi-criteria decision making tool to form the all-time best World XI Test cricket team while taking into consideration over 2600 cricketers participated in Test matches for more than 100 years of cricket history. | Selection of the all-time best World XI Test cricket team using the TOPSIS method Decision Science Letters 8 2019 95 108 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Decision Science Letters homepage dsl Selection of the all-time best World XI Test cricket team using the TOPSIS method Shankar Chakraborty Vidyapati Kumar and . Ramakrishnan Department of Production Engineering Jadavpur University Kolkata India CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The aim of this paper is to apply the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal Received January 15 2018 solution TOPSIS as a multi-criteria decision making tool to form the all-time best World XI Received in revised format Test cricket team while taking into consideration over 2600 cricketers participated in Test January 16 2018 matches for more than 100 years of cricket history. From the voluminous database containing Accepted April 18 2018 Available online the performance of numerous Test cricketers separate lists are first prepared for different April 18 2018 positions in the batting and bowling orders consisting of manageable numbers of candidate Keywords alternatives while imposing some constraints with respect to the minimum number of innings Test cricket played for batsmen minimum number of tests played for wicketkeepers and bowlers and World XI Test team minimum numbers of runs scored and wickets taken for all-rounders . The TOPSIS method is MCDM later adopted to rank those shortlisted cricketers and identify the best performers for inclusion TOPSIS in the proposed World XI Test team. The best World Test cricket team is thus formed as Rank Alastair Cook ENG c Sunil Gavaskar IND Rahul Dravid IND vc Sachin Tendulkar IND Shivnarine Chanderpaul WI Jacques Kallis SA Adam Gilchrist AUS wk Glenn McGrath AUS Courtney Walsh WI Muttiah Muralitharan SL and Shane Warne AUS . 2019 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction Cricket is considered as one of the major .
