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CW decides the greatest ODI batsman ever (submit your own top 20 list)
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Fuller Pilch
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Nice effort to add more names, but Stephen Fleming wouldn't even make the top 10 NZ ODI batsmen
Pap Finn Keighl
International Debutant
Sachin - useful bowler.
Viv - useful bowler + ponting category fielder
Abdv - part time WK and great fielder
Bevan - useful bowler
Then there is Dhoni .
Ponting , Lara and Kohli suffers from this argument.
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
Why do you think Ponting is overrated?
TheJediBrah
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I don't see how this is relevant to my comment at all.
Also Bevan was not a useful bowler in ODIs. His use was limited to occasionally buying wickets caught at deep midwicket from long hops and full-tosses.
cnerd123
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Ponting's fielding definitely in the class of Symonds and ABDV, just gets overshadowed by how great a batsman he was.
Lara probably the most 'useless' of all the great batsmen I suppose. Sanga kept, Sachin bowled, Viv was a legit AR at times, Bevan bowled, Dhoni kept, ABDV did everything. Dean Jones and Zaheer Abbas a bit one dimensional too I suppose.
Lara probably the most 'useless' of all the great batsmen I suppose. Sanga kept, Sachin bowled, Viv was a legit AR at times, Bevan bowled, Dhoni kept, ABDV did everything. Dean Jones and Zaheer Abbas a bit one dimensional too I suppose.
TheJediBrah
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I believe Dean Jones was a pretty special fielder, from what I've heard
CricAddict
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Ha ha. So Brian Lara is the most useless great batsman? That's a new one.
Pap Finn Keighl
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Because I haven't seen him consistently dominating over a long period , despite playing in by far the best team in the world.
Viv , Sachin , top order Lara , Bevan , Dhoni , ABdV and Kohli had phenomenal stats. Ponting numbers never been extra ordinary. No way he can be an all-time top 5.
fredfertang
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in no particular order
Saeed Anwar
Adam Gilchrist
Neil Fairbrother
Kumar Sangakarra
Herschelle Gibbs
Viv Richards
Virat Kohli
AB de Villiers
Greg Chappell
Ricky Ponting
Kapil Dev
Michael Bevan
Brian Lara
Marcus Trescothick
Saurav Ganguly
Inzaman Ul Haq
kevin Pietersen
Aravinda de Silva
Rohit Sharma
Sanath Jayasuriya
Saeed Anwar
Adam Gilchrist
Neil Fairbrother
Kumar Sangakarra
Herschelle Gibbs
Viv Richards
Virat Kohli
AB de Villiers
Greg Chappell
Ricky Ponting
Kapil Dev
Michael Bevan
Brian Lara
Marcus Trescothick
Saurav Ganguly
Inzaman Ul Haq
kevin Pietersen
Aravinda de Silva
Rohit Sharma
Sanath Jayasuriya
fredfertang
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I'll order it - didn't want you to think I'd forgotten - Greg Chappell a particular problem - never liked him, but he was bloody good when ODIs started
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Did you copy and paste the wrong Indian? I don’t think even Kapil’s granny would make him a top 20 historical batsman. Sachin’s granny might demand a recount.
fredfertang
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No I meant Kapil, not for consistency, obviously
Pap Finn Keighl
International Debutant
Kapil - India's best odi batsman of 80s
Sachin - India's best odi batsman of 90s
Tie Breaker - Kapil won WC in 80s .
marc71178
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You really are clueless.
Pap Finn Keighl
International Debutant
What's wrong there ?