The ICC's All time ODI dream XI

[Julian87]

The only thing that could put Jayasuriya in contention is his bowling.

 

[stephen]

The only thing that could put Jayasuriya in contention is his bowling.

You do need to bowl 50 overs in an ODI and Jayasuriya is quite an accomplished bowler. He also happens to have an incredible strike rate and more than serviceable average. As a complete package he definitely deserves to be talked about for a spot IMO.

 

[Athlai]

Jayasuriya was such a gun. One of those bats who on his day would absoultely thrash the opposition and win the match on his own, he'd also get out for sweet **** all a lot too but could bowl and field to a high standard. All-time great ODI player for sure.

 

[ankitj]

You do need to bowl 50 overs in an ODI and Jayasuriya is quite an accomplished bowler. He also happens to have an incredible strike rate and more than serviceable average. As a complete package he definitely deserves to be talked about for a spot IMO.

I totally forgot about Jayasuriya's bowling. I think he can as an all-rounder make my XI, thus replacing Jacques Kallis who was somewhat of a misfit playing at #5. Revised XI:

Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Viv Richards (c)
Zaheer Abbas
Dean Jones
Michael Bevan
MS Dhoni (wk)
Wasim Akram
Joel Garner
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

 

[smash84]

I totally forgot about Jayasuriya's bowling. I think he can as an all-rounder make my XI, thus replacing Jacques Kallis who was somewhat of a misfit playing at #5. Revised XI:

Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Viv Richards (c)
Zaheer Abbas
Dean Jones
Michael Bevan
MS Dhoni (wk)
Wasim Akram
Joel Garner
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

This is a good team. At least better than having both Dhoni and Gilchrist in the same side.

 

[smash84]

I totally forgot about Jayasuriya's bowling. I think he can as an all-rounder make my XI, thus replacing Jacques Kallis who was somewhat of a misfit playing at #5. Revised XI:

Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Viv Richards (c)
Zaheer Abbas
Dean Jones
Michael Bevan
MS Dhoni (wk)
Wasim Akram
Joel Garner
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

And dean jones in there??? Wouldn't Lara or Miandad be better options??? And I really don't know why Klusener is rated so highly by some of the posters here (especially PEWS). His bowling was nothing extraordinary and his batting was good for a few years (2-3 years max IIRC). So why Klusener in an all time XI???

 

[Hit Wicket]

As I've said in this thread before, I'm not comfortably with Kapil Dev batting #7 in an all-time world team given his batting record. He wasn't good enough to bat there at this level IMO. I'm more comfortable with Klusener, Richards and maybe Symonds if I pick him sharing the fifth bowling role than I am with Kapil batting seven.

Respect your choice(it's a very good all time ODI XI, IMO), but am not comfortable with the idea of leaving 10/50 overs to part timers in an all XI.

If something goes wrong these guys will still continue to be hit for 70 runs in 10 overs, not to mention the trickle down effect on other bowlers. With a stronger bowling line up you would always have a chance of coming back into the game.

 

[Migara]

And dean jones in there??? Wouldn't Lara or Miandad be better options??? And I really don't know why Klusener is rated so highly by some of the posters here (especially PEWS). His bowling was nothing extraordinary and his batting was good for a few years (2-3 years max IIRC). So why Klusener in an all time XI???

Any one of Jones, Miandada or de Silva are exchangeable. But i'd drop Jones and bring in Klusener at #7 and push the rest up one place.

 

[smash84]

Respect your choice(it's a very good all time ODI XI, IMO), but am not comfortable with the idea of leaving 10/50 overs to part timers in an all XI.

If something goes wrong these guys will still continue to be hit for 70 runs in 10 overs, not to mention the trickle down effect on other bowlers. With a stronger bowling line up you would always have a chance of coming back into the game.

I agree. Kapil brings in so much with the ball and a more than handy bat.

Any one of Jones, Miandada or de Silva are exchangeable. But i'd drop Jones and bring in Klusener at #7 and push the rest up one place.

I am really not convinced about Klusener. Why is he being rated so highly here???? As I said earlier did he have anything significant going for him before or after that 2-3 year golden period. If we just want to take bowling peaks then Waqar as an ODI bowler was just phenomenal.

 

[Mike5181]

I agree. Kapil brings in so much with the ball and a more than handy bat.



I am really not convinced about Klusener. Why is he being rated so highly here???? As I said earlier did he have anything significant going for him before or after that 2-3 year golden period. If we just want to take bowling peaks then Waqar as an ODI bowler was just phenomenal.

His record speaks for itself tbh
Lance Klusener | South Africa Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Hit Wicket]

His record speaks for itself tbh
Lance Klusener | South Africa Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo

Yeah, indeed it does. Has batted only 19 times at number 7 in his career to average 31 at a SR of 86.

 

[Migara]

At #8 averages 58 with SR of 92. Beat that if you can. If Klusener was in a team like SL or IND would have batted at 7. He mostly batted at 8 because SAF had insane number of all rounders.