This paper first proposes a new method for evaluating the reliability of cepstral components and extends the marginalisation technique to cepstral recognizers. Then a noise adaptive multi-stream hybrid sub-band approach is proposed for robust speech recognition by making use of the complemental performances between full-band and sub-band cepstral marginalisation recognizers in different noises. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can turn to the less distorted data stream automatically and improve the robustness of the speech recognizer in various noisy environments effectively.