India's Best ODI Team of All Time

[Migara]

Kumble? Would rather have Harbhajan in ODIs..

Was an accomplished death over bowler in his prime. Many batsmen of present will struggle to time his yorkers as it arrived between 90-115ks, and you could never guess the pace due to his high arm action.

 

[mr_mister]

Who do we rate more out of Chahal and Kuldeep? Nearly identical records

 

[h_hurricane]

Who do we rate more out of Chahal and Kuldeep? Nearly identical records

Hard to split at this stage. I would have both in my team above Kumble and Harbhajan. This WC will tell the story. Chahal had the better tournament so far.

 

[cnerd123]

Rohit
Tendulkar
Kohli
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Yuvraj
MSD (+)(*)
Dev
Agarkar
Kumble
Zaheer

Not sure who to pick for the middle order. Azhar and Ajay Jadeja being fixers puts a spanner into the works. Raina and Dravid probably the safest bets - Raina adds 5th bowler support too - but could also push Kohli down to 4 and play one of Sehwag/Ganguly in the Top 3.

Not sure Kuldeep, Chahal, Pandya, Shami and Bumrah have accomplished enough to make the team yet, but they aren't far away. Ashwin, Bhajji and Ravi Jadeja the options for second spinner. Agarkar criminally underrated IMO, I'd always pick him in this XI, but Nehra makes for a good replacement if you don't rate him.

 

[jimmy101]

Rohit
Tendulkar
Kohli
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Yuvraj
MSD (+)(*)
Dev
Agarkar
Kumble
Zaheer

Not sure who to pick for the middle order. Azhar and Ajay Jadeja being fixers puts a spanner into the works. Raina and Dravid probably the safest bets - Raina adds 5th bowler support too - but could also push Kohli down to 4 and play one of Sehwag/Ganguly in the Top 3.

Perhaps play Sachin in the middle order & go with a Viru/Rohit opening combo?

 

[cnerd123]

Perhaps play Sachin in the middle order & go with a Viru/Rohit opening combo?

You crazy

 

[OverratedSanity]

Bumrah absolutely walks into the side even if his shoulder falls off tomorrow and averages 70 for the rest of his career imo. Madness to put in blokes like agarkar ahead of him.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Perhaps play Sachin in the middle order & go with a Viru/Rohit opening combo?

So you want to neuter your best weapon by removing him from his best position to accommodate two inferior ones?

Ok, Greg Chappell.

 

[trundler]

Sehwag was a bit underwhelming in ODIs, no? Had a few good years but outside of those he was just a wildly inconsistent hitter. A moderate upgrade over Afridi. Rather have ICC King Dhawan instead of him. Moot point anyway since Tendulkar and Rohit are locked at the top.

 

[Migara]

Who do we rate more out of Chahal and Kuldeep? Nearly identical records

Chahal and Kuldeep are successful because of the high scoring era. Just think of them bowling to Salim Malik or Javed Miandad or Lara or Arjuna Ranatunga, who used their feet and swept in the arc from mid wicket to fine leg, planting the foot at the same place. Current batsmen hit these bowlers too hard as well. Players of yesteryear placed the ball in the gaps so it travels slow to pick up twos. Having said that boundary sizes have greatly shrunken, not allowing such strokes to be played.

 

[Bijed]

Bumrah absolutely walks into the side even if his shoulder falls off tomorrow and averages 70 for the rest of his career imo. Madness to put in blokes like agarkar ahead of him.

Tbh averaging 70 would be an incredible effort if he's literally lost his shoulder

 

[srbhkshk]

Tbh averaging 70 would be an incredible effort if he's literally lost his shoulder

He doesn't use his second arm in the action - would probably learn to bowl with his left and given India's standards would end up our best ever anyway.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Kapil fits at number 7 comfortably, his avg-SR combo was almost specialist batsmen category for his era.

Azhar >>>> Dravid

Gavaskar was a fine opener and averaged 45 in 2nd half of the career,when he started playing ODis regularly.


Azharudin is the first Indian batsman to make Significant world records in limited overs. Bar Kapil's 175.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I'd pick Ravi Shastri at 7 between Dhoni and Kapil. He was a quality allrounder in the 80s (as well as a dour opener in tests), v good fieldsman, star of the 1985 Championship of cricket, and could hit the ball when required (6 6s in an over).

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Rohit
Sachin
Ganguly (c)
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni (wk)
Shastri
Kapil
Kumble
Zaheer
Bumrah

Pretty decent 5 main bowlers with help from Ganguly, Yuvraj, and Sachin. Strong top 8

 

[ma1978]

Sachin
Rohit
Ganguly
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni (wk)
Dev
Shastri
Kumble (c)
Srinath
Bumrah

People forget how good Srinath was in ODIs. Basically carried the team through the 90s.

Bumrah potential to be an ATG

Kapil highly underrated as a bowler and batsman. Should make an ATG World ODI XI.

No way you can exclude Ganguly. He was an ODI superstar.

 

[Attitude]

Sachin
Sehwag
Kohli
Rohit
Ganguly
MSD
Raina
Kapil
Zaheer
Kumble
Bumrah

Batting order would be an issue given that all the good ones (barring Kohli) were openers. So I would say *these* batsmen and then MSD and co. in that order.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Sachin
Sehwag
Kohli
Rohit
Ganguly
MSD
Raina
Kapil
Zaheer
Kumble
Bumrah

Batting order would be an issue given that all the good ones (barring Kohli) were openers. So I would say *these* batsmen and then MSD and co. in that order.

Azharudin was a good odi batsman if not a great one.

 

[trundler]

Was a cheat tho

 

[mr_mister]

He had cheat mode enabled playing some of those legside swishes