CW's greatest ODI team of all time

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Welcome to the forum, Teuton. Good teams there.

 

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Totals

Sachin Tendulkar (76)
Viv Richards (75)
AB DeVilliers (71)
MS Dhoni (63)
Adam Gilchrist (56)
Michael Bevan (54)
Ricky Ponting (49)
Virat Kohli (45)
Andrew Symonds (39)
Lance Klusener (35)
Sanath Jayasuriya (34)
Brian Lara (33)
Mike Hussey (32)
Dean Jones (25)
Shane Watson (22)
Hashim Amla (21)
Kumar Sangakkara (21)
Zaheer Abbas (19)
Mark Waugh (17)
Gordon Greenidge (12)
Matt Hayden (12)
Jaques Kallis (11)
Javed Miandad (7)
Virender Sehwag (7)
Steve Waugh (7)
Greg Chappell (5)
Brendon McCullum (5)
Aravinda DeSilva (3)
Inzamam ul Haq (3)
James Faulkner (3)
Jonty Rhodes (3)
Saeed Anwar (3)
Abdul Razzaq (2)
Jos Buttler (2)
Michael Clarke (2)
Sourav Ganguly (2)
Damien Martyn (2)
Chris Gayle (1)
Shahid Afridi (1)
Quinton deKock (1)
Allan Border (1)
Glenn Maxwell (1)
Yuvraj Singh (1)
Shakib al Hasan (1)
Martin Guptill (1)
Moises Henriques (1)
Darren Lehmann (1)
Angelo Mathews (1)
Clive Lloyd (1)
Kane Williamson (1)

Wasim Akram (77)
Glenn McGrath (64)
Joel Garner (63)
Muttiah Muralitharan (62)
Shane Warne (41)
Shaun Pollock (39)
Saqlain Mushtaq (30)
Andrew Flintoff (28)
Kapil Dev (24)
Richard Hadlee (21)
Brett Lee (21)
Allan Donald (18)
Curtly Ambrose (17)
Shane Bond (16)
Waqar Younis (15)
Dennis Lillee (11)
Imran Khan (8)
Dan Vettori (8)
Michael Holding (8)
Nathan Bracken (6)
Mitch Starc (6)
Brad Hogg (4)
Jeff Thomson (2)
Ravichandran Ashwin(1)
Zaheer Khan (1)
Anil Kumble (1)
Malcolm Marshall (1)
Ajantha Mendis (1)

(I've included all posts, including those which only include one XI (3 points each), although these could distort the figures).

Basing my final teams on the votes with the following criteria-

- Openers batting in the opening position (not jamming players in where they didn’t play)
- Four bowlers in the XI (ideally one is a competent bat)- one a spinner
- One (preferably two bowlers) in the top 7 who can comfortably bowl ten overs
- Not selecting two keepers with one of them not keeping (sorry Dhoni/Gilly)



First XI

Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya (5)
Viv Richards
AB Devilliers
Andrew Symonds (5)
MS Dhoni +
Michael Bevan
Wasim Akram (2)
Joel Garner (3)
Muttiah Muralitharan (4)
Glenn McGrath (1)

Second XI

Adam Gilchrist +
Shane Watson (5)
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Virat Kohli
Mike Hussey
Andrew Flintoff (3)
Lance Klusener (5)
Kapil Dev (2)
Shaun Pollock (1)
Shane Warne (4)

Third XI

Hashim Amla
Mark Waugh (5)
Kumar Sangakkara +
Dean Jones
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Jaques Kallis (5)
Richard Hadlee (2)
Brett Lee (3)
Allan Donald (1)
Saqlain Mushtaq (4)


Actually pretty straightforward based on the votes. The one area for discussion might be whether you'd promote Lee, Donald or Hadlee to the second XI in place of Flintoff, Klusener or Kapil for a bit of team balance.

Happy to hear what people think.

 

[NZTailender]

I'd swap Bevan and Dhoni in that first line up but otherwise I think the teams look pretty good

 

[anil1405]

How much significance is given to performing in big games here?

Considering its pretty crucial while selecting an ATG team, I would be hesitant to pick Hashim Amla in any of the top 3 ODI sides.

 

[hallmitchell]

I'll give a lineup a shot.

Bit of discussion around this on different levels at the moment, so though we could do something along these lines:

Select your 3 greatest ODI XIs of all time. Your 1st XI, 2nd XI and 3rd XI.

Anyone selected in your first XI will receive 3 votes at the end. 2nd XI players will receive 2 and 3rd XI players will receive 1 vote. At the end we'll tally and present a balanced XI, based on the votes plus discussion as required.

* please keep in mind that your XIs need five bowlers, plus a keeper.

GOLD
1. Adam Gilchrist - Wk.
2. Sehwag
3. Dean Jones
4. Viv Richards.
5. A.Symonds.
6. I.Khan. Captain.
7. S.Warne
8. DK.Lillee
9. R.Hadlee
10. J. Garner
11. S.Mushtaq.

SILVER
1. Gordon Greendige
2. Desmond Haynes.
3. Richie Richardson
4. Mark Waugh
5. K.Sangakara. WK.
6. Clive Lloyd - Captain.
7. K.Dev
8. M.Marshall
9. M.Muralitharan.
10. L.Pascoe
11. G.McGrath

BRONZE
1. M.Hayden
2. S.Tendulkar
3. M.Crowe - Captain.
4. R.Ponting.
5. S.Waugh.
6. S.Pollock
7. C.Cairns
8. R.Marsh - Wk
9. M.Holding
10. S.Clarke
11. P.Taylor

 

[TheJediBrah]

Not sure how useful Kallis would be as a no. 7

 

[Red]

Not sure how useful Kallis would be as a no. 7

Yeh, deserved a spot as an AR, but realistically he'd be better batting higher.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Just putting it out there as well that I'd have my money on that 2nd XI to win more often than not against that 1st XI

 

[Adders]

LOL.....picking R Marsh and no MSD??? ATG troll.

 

[harsh.ag]

LOL.....picking R Marsh and no MSD??? ATG troll.

Sachin in 3rd XI the real kicker

 

[honestbharani]

Just putting it out there as well that I'd have my money on that 2nd XI to win more often than not against that 1st XI

The batting depth of that side is pretty ridiculous...