Battle Between Two Generations

I have seen many old timers complain that modern cricket doesn't have many legends. They cite many reasons for this: emergence of one-day cricket,flat pitches etc. They cite the example of West Indies cricket. Once full of legends like the Three Ws, Sobers and the like, they are facing a serious dearth of talent. It is in this context that I attempt to make four world XIs. Two each from this generation and the last generation. This generation means players who played international cricket mainly in the 1990s and / or 2000s though they may have started in late 1980s. Similarly, players in the last generation might have started in the 1960s but their main playing days were in the 1970s and 1990s. Some players in the Elders' teams played in the 1990s but they played predominantly in the 1980s and 1990s.

Please have a look at the teams and say if the critics are right in saying modern cricketers are way behind their previous generation. Note all the XIs are for tests not ODIs.

70s and 80s First XI

Gavaskar

Barry Richards

Viv Richards (Vice-Captain)

Greg Chappel

G R Viswanath

Imran Khan (Captain)

Rod Marsh (Wicket Keeper)

Chandrashekhar

Andy Roerts

Dennis Lilley

Michael Holding

70s and 80s Second XI

Gordon Greenidge

Desmond Heynes

Allan Border (Vice-Captain)

Javed Miandad

Clive Lloyd (Captain)

Ian Botham

Richard Hadley

Jeff Dujon (Wicket Keeper)

Underwood

Malcom Marshall

Andy Roberts

1990-2000s First XI

Mathew Heydon

Justin Langer

Rahul Dravid

Sachin Tendulkar (Vice-Captain)

Inzamam Ul Haq

Jaques Kallis

Adam Gilchrist (Wicket Keeper)

Shane Warne (Captain)

Curtley Ambrose

Waqar Yunus

Glen McGrath

1990s and 2000s Second XI

Greame Smith

Sehwag

Lara (Wicket Keeper)

Ponting

Steve Waugh (Captain)

Kumar Sangakkara (Wicket Keeper)

Wasim Akram

Shaun Pollock

Bret Lee

Muralidharan

Anil Kumble

Which team is the best and which generation is better? Have I made any wrongful omission or selection? In one of the teams, Dujon is the wicket-keeper. I don't know if he deserves to be in a World XI. I included him because I don't know much about other keepers of the time.