Most appearances by Indian in ICC Men’s Test team of the year Pant , Ashwin and Rohit three Indian in this year XI
5 : Ravichandran Ashwin including 2 as 12th man
3 : Sachin Tendulkar
3 : Virender Sehwag
3 : MS Dhoni
3 : Virat Kohli
Overall Most Appearances
8 : Dale Steyn
7 : Kumar Sangakkara
6 : Jacques Kallis
| Year | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| No. 1 | Matthew Hayden | Virender Sehwag | Matthew Hayden | Matthew Hayden | Graeme Smith (c) | Gautam Gambhir | Virender Sehwag | Alastair Cook |
| No. 2 | Herschelle Gibbs | Graeme Smith | Michael Hussey | Michael Vaughan | Virender Sehwag | Andrew Strauss | Simon Katich | Hashim Amla |
| No. 3 | Ricky Ponting (c) | Ricky Ponting (c) | Ricky Ponting | Ricky Ponting (c) | Mahela Jayawardene | AB de Villiers | Sachin Tendulkar | Jonathan Trott |
| No. 4 | Rahul Dravid | Jacques Kallis | Rahul Dravid (c) | Mohammad Yousuf | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Sachin Tendulkar | Hashim Amla | Sachin Tendulkar |
| No. 5 | Brian Lara | Brian Lara | Mohammad Yousuf | Kevin Pietersen | Kevin Pietersen | Thilan Samaraweera | Kumar Sangakkara | Kumar Sangakkara (c/wk) |
| No. 6 | Jacques Kallis | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Michael Hussey | Jacques Kallis | Michael Clarke | Jacques Kallis | AB de Villiers |
| No. 7 | Adam Gilchrist (wk) | Andrew Flintoff | Andrew Flintoff | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | MS Dhoni (c/wk) | MS Dhoni (c/wk) | Jacques Kallis |
| No. 8 | Chaminda Vaas | Adam Gilchrist (wk) | Shane Warne | Stuart Clark | Brett Lee | Shakib Al Hasan | Graeme Swann | Stuart Broad |
| No. 9 | Shane Warne | Shane Warne | Makhaya Ntini | Makhaya Ntini | Ryan Sidebottom | Mitchell Johnson | James Anderson | Graeme Swann |
| No. 10 | Jason Gillespie | Chaminda Vaas | Muttiah Muralitharan | Mohammad Asif | Dale Steyn | Stuart Broad | Dale Steyn | Dale Steyn |
| No. 11 | Steve Harmison | Glenn McGrath | Glenn McGrath | Muttiah Muralitharan | Muttiah Muralitharan | Dale Steyn | Doug Bollinger | James Anderson |
| 12th man | Anil Kumble | Brett Lee | Zaheer Khan | Stuart Clark | Harbhajan Singh | Zaheer Khan |
| Year | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 |
| No. 1 | Alastair Cook | Alastair Cook (c) | David Warner | David Warner | David Warner | Dean Elgar | Tom Latham | Mayank Agarwal | Dimuth Karunaratne |
| No. 2 | Hashim Amla | Cheteshwar Pujara | Kane Williamson | Alastair Cook (c) | Alastair Cook (c) | David Warner | Dimuth Karunaratne | Tom Latham | Rohit Sharma |
| No. 3 | Kumar Sangakkara | Hashim Amla | Kumar Sangakkara | Kane Williamson | Kane Williamson | Virat Kohli (c) | Kane Williamson | Marnus Labuschagne | Marnus Labuschagne |
| No. 4 | Jacques Kallis | Michael Clarke | AB de Villiers (wk) | Younis Khan | Joe Root | Steve Smith | Virat Kohli (c) | Virat Kohli (c) | Joe Root) |
| No. 5 | Michael Clarke (c) | Michael Hussey | Joe Root | Steve Smith | Adam Voges | Cheteshwar Pujara | Henry Nicholls | Steve Smith | Kane Williamson(c) |
| No. 6 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | AB de Villiers | Angelo Mathews (c) | Joe Root | Jonny Bairstow (wk) | Ben Stokes | Rishabh Pant (wk) | Ben Stokes | Fawad Alam |
| No. 7 | Matt Prior (wk) | MS Dhoni (wk) | Mitchell Johnson | Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk) | Ben Stokes | Quinton de Kock (wk) | Jason Holder | BJ Watling (wk) | Rishabh Pant (wk) |
| No. 8 | Stuart Broad | Graeme Swann | Stuart Broad | Stuart Broad | Ravichandran Ashwin | Ravichandran Ashwin | Kagiso Rabada | Pat Cummins | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| No. 9 | Saeed Ajmal | Dale Steyn | Dale Steyn | Trent Boult | Rangana Herath | Mitchell Starc | Nathan Lyon | Mitchell Starc | Kyle Jamieson |
| No. 10 | Vernon Philander | James Anderson | Rangana Herath | Yasir Shah | Mitchell Starc | Kagiso Rabada | Jasprit Bumrah | Neil Wagner | Hasan Ali (cricketer) |
| No. 11 | Dale Steyn | Vernon Philander | Tim Southee | Josh Hazlewood | Dale Steyn | James Anderson | Mohammad Abbas | Nathan Lyon | Shaheen Afridi |
| 12th man | AB de Villiers | Ravichandran Ashwin | Ross Taylor | Ravichandran Ashwin | Steve Smith |
Year wise Frequency Distribution of each country
| Team/Year | Australia | England | South Africa | India | Sri Lanka | New Zealand | Pakistan | West Indies | Bangladesh |
| 2004 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2005 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2006 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 2011 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 2012 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2013 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2017 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2019 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Total | 47 | 35 | 34 | 31 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 |