The ICC Crick­et World Cup 2015 be­gins on Feb­ru­ary 14 when New Zealand takes on Sri Lan­ka in the tour­na­ment open­er in Christchurch. With less than two months to go, ICC has launched Your Great­est XI, which will al­low fans a unique chance to pick their Great­est All-Time Crick­et World Cup XI from the pre­vi­ous 10 edi­tions of the event.

The ICC data­base con­sists of over 100 of the great­est World Cup play­ers of all-time. A pho­to and a short Pen Pro­file that de­scribes their World Cup record and their mem­o­rable im­pact at the event is avail­able for each play­er. The ICC al­so lists de­tailed World Cup sta­tis­tics for each of the play­ers.

The play­ers fall un­der four dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories–bats­men, bowlers, all-rounders, and wick­et­keep­ers. Each XI you choose should fea­ture at least two bats­men, one all-rounder, one wick­et­keep­er, and two bowlers.

And if fans share their team on so­cial me­dia, they stand to be in with a chance to win ex­clu­sive World Cup mer­chan­dise with dozens of ex­clu­sive pieces of mem­o­ra­bil­ia be­ing drawn for those who use the hash­tag #CW­C­Great­estXI on Twit­ter, Face­book or Google+.

The fans aren't the on­ly ones who will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in this. Sev­er­al crick­et­ing leg­ends across the world will pick the greats they think should make the Great­est XI, and these will be shared on the ICC Web site.

Matthew Hay­den, the for­mer Aus­tralian open­er, was the first one to do so. His pick in­cludes four Aus­tralians - Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Glenn Mc­Grath and Ricky Ponting, who is al­so the cap­tain of the side.

Apart from Warne, Mut­ti­ah Mu­ral­i­daran, ODI crick­et's lead­ing wick­et-tak­er with 534 scalps, is the oth­er spin­ner in the team, which has Wasim Akram and Waqar You­nis, Pak­istan's famed new-ball duo, to ac­com­pa­ny Mc­Grath in the seam bowl­ing de­part­ment.

Gilchrist is Hay­den's wick­et­keep­er, while Viren­der Se­hwag is Gilchrist's open­ing part­ner. The rest of the bat­ting wears a sol­id look, with Ponting, Sachin Ten­dulkar, Bri­an Lara and Jacques Kallis, four of ten bats­men who be­long to the 10,000-run club in ODI crick­et, mak­ing up the top/mid­dle or­der.

Kallis is the on­ly all-rounder in the team.

Team

Hay­den's All Time Great­est XI

Adam Gilchrist (Aus­tralia) (wick­et­keep­er)

Viren­der Se­hwag (In­dia)

Ricky Ponting (Aus­tralia) (cap­tain)

Sachin Ten­dulkar (In­dia)

Bri­an Lara (West In­dies)

Jacques Kallis (South Africa)

Shane Warne (Aus­tralia)

Wasim Akram (Pak­istan)

Waqar You­nis (Pak­istan)

Mut­ti­ah Mu­ral­i­daran (Sri Lan­ka)

Glenn Mc­Grath (Pak­istan)

You can pick your Great­est XI at: http://www.icc-crick­et.com/crick­et-world-cup/great­est-xi