Tendulkar only Indian in ICC Test XI

Sachin Tendulkar was the only Indian named in the International Cricket Council's Test team of the year which has five Englishmen in the playing XI.
India's left-arm pacer has been named as the 12th man.
The team was picked on the basis of performance between August 11 2010 and August 03 2011 and Tendulkar scored 973 runs in that period from 10 matches at an average of 64.86 with three hundreds.
In the same period, Zaheer played seven Test claiming 31 wickets at 22.35 including a best of 5-94.
Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann and James Anderson are the England players picked by the panel chaired by former West Indies skipper Clive Lloyd.
South African speedster Dale Steyn has been included in the team for the fourth consecutive year along with teammates Hashim Amlao, AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis.
Steyn played five matches during the designated period taking 27 wickets at a bowling average of 16.00 against India and Pakistan.
Former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara comes in as the wicket-keeper and captain of the side.

Team: Alastair Cook (Eng), Hashim Amla (SA), Jonathan Trott (Eng), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Kumar Sangakkara (SL - wicketkeeper/captain), AB de Villiers (SA), Jacques Kallis (SA), Stuart Broad (Eng)
Graeme Swann (Eng), Dale Steyn (SA), James Anderson (Eng), Zaheer Khan (Ind) (12th man)