Top 10 ODI batsmen since the 90s

[akilana]

Sachin
Kohli
Dhoni
Abdv
Ponting
Lara
Sanga
Rohit
Amla
Sanath


Edit: copied shri’s list and made a few changes

 

[venkyrenga]

In before banned. Dude, if you don't want your cricket theories ridiculed, then don't post them on a cricket forum. A lobotomised sheep would show more sense.

Of course it would show more sense than you. Otherwise you wouldn't be persistently chasing me on this thread just because I said your hero Bevan is not as good as some people think. At this point it seems like you are just obsessed about this.

Again I don't wish to have this sort of discussion. You either stay on topic or don't post here.

 

[venkyrenga]

Shewag cannot even tie Dilshan's laces in ODIs, let it be batsman or the complete package.

Disagree. It is more like the other way around.

Jayasuriya and De Silva are way ahead of Dilshan. Even Sanga is better.

 

[harsh.ag]

Shewag cannot even tie Dilshan's laces in ODIs, let it be batsman or the complete package.

Sure, but Sehwag can.

 

[ankitj]

Bevan was nailed on for ~100 in all the innings he didn't get to complete, bringing his total century count to a cool 73.

You will be surprised to see how accurate the prediction is from assumption that Bevan is likely to score on average 53.6 additional runs every not out innings before getting out. More likely you won't give a rat's arse but I will go ahead anyway.

Bevan would have on average scored 98.xx runs in each incomplete innings, but not in every innings. How many would have been >100 exactly? The simulation that I did in other thread has 153/1000 or 15.3% 100+ scores when the scores are not interrupted. To validate that that is a fair prediction, I compared with Tendulkar's test record. His test average is almost same as Bevan's ODI average but had relatively few not out and sub-100 innings, only 17 out of 329. So we can assume Tendulkar was denied very few hundreds while being not out. Turns out Tendulkar has scored 51 hundreds in 329 innings or 15.5%. How freakish is that!

 

[Jack1]

You will be surprised to see how accurate the prediction is from assumption that Bevan is likely to score on average 53.6 additional runs every not out innings before getting out. More likely you won't give a rat's arse but I will go ahead anyway.

Bevan would have on average scored 98.xx runs in each incomplete innings, but not in every innings. How many would have been >100 exactly? The simulation that I did in other thread has 153/1000 or 15.3% 100+ scores when the scores are not interrupted. To validate that that is a fair prediction, I compared with Tendulkar's test record. His test average is almost same as Bevan's ODI average but had relatively few not out and sub-100 innings, only 17 out of 329. So we can assume Tendulkar was denied very few hundreds while being not out. Turns out Tendulkar has scored 51 hundreds in 329 innings or 15.5%. How freakish is that!

Your picture makes me think Bumrah is actually making these posts, making them even better and more satisfying.

 

[ImpatientLime]

amla is my favourite meme pick of all

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Sachin
ABDV
Kohli
Dhoni
Lara
Ponting
Beven
Rohit
Anwar
Mark Waugh / Jayasurya / De Silva

 

[Red]

Which in practice is probably true these days, but more so just because most teams put their best batsmen in the top 3. It definitely wasn't true for Australia and Bevan.

Waugh (2), Gilchrist, Ponting, Martyn, Hayden, Symonds - all better ODI bats than Bevan. All batted above him.

 

[Red]

Actually I'm pretty sure it's you who is rationalizing your dislike of Bevan over anything else.

I'm pointing out the actual reasons I don't think he is anywhere near as good as people have made him out to be.

I don't dislike him at all. I just think he's been immensely overrated.

 

[stephen]

You didn't have him in your third Australian ODI XI. Maybe it's your way of pushing back against how overrated you think he is but he carried the Australian side for a long time.

 

[Red]

he carried the Australian side for a long time.

When? I didn't think Gilchrist, Waugh, Ponting etc needed carrying.

We participated in every WC final in his time of playing. We won 2/3 of them. I don't think he carried the team. There were plenty of contributors.

He was a good player in an outstanding team, if anything.

 

[stephen]

He was the backbone of Australia's batting in the 90s. Before Ponting and Gilchrist came good. And Gilchrist was a bit like McCullum was to New Zealand in 2015 - if he came off he'd give Australia a huge chance of victory but he didn't come off as listen as you'd think. Particularly in his early years.

 

[Jack1]

Bevan was Australia's best batsman in ODIs but carrying them is too much , they were a great team. Bevan to be fair would have probably been averaging 70+ playing for Zimbabwe in ODIs batting 4, the dude was a monster in ODIs.

 

[stephen]

Carrying might be a bit strong but Australia wouldn't have won the 99 world cup without Bevan, nor would they have won anywhere near as many tri series against South Africa/ West Indies/ Pakistan during the era (back when the tri series were competitive and teams didn't rest their best bowlers).

So he was the difference between Australia being a thoroughly average side and being a top side during the decade. Others did the heavy lifting after the turn of the century though.

 

[Jack1]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/84108/scorecard/84278/asia-xi-vs-rest-of-the-world-xi-

Does anyone remember this knock more vividly than me? I vaguely remember it but 185 off 132 balls vs an attack of Akram, Vass, Rassaq, Kumble, Murali (Tendulkar bowled too) .... Kind of puts into perspective for the OP that Bevan was better than his stats suggested, not worse. Shame he lost by one run. Needed 20 off the last over. Anything but a choke, he almost won the game on his own with a sensational innings..

Ok found highlights (Dhaka - 19 fours 5 sixes) maybe I'll remember a few things about the game - well I will I have no choice robelinda2 seems to have every game ever on tape ..lol. Actually the game is a tie if Caddick ran his back on the penultimate ball..weird decision by him not to

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/84108/scorecard/84278/asia-xi-vs-rest-of-the-world-xi-

 

[Red]

Great knock but he should've hit a six on that last ball

 

[Daemon]

You will be surprised to see how accurate the prediction is from assumption that Bevan is likely to score on average 53.6 additional runs every not out innings before getting out. More likely you won't give a rat's arse but I will go ahead anyway.

Bevan would have on average scored 98.xx runs in each incomplete innings, but not in every innings. How many would have been >100 exactly? The simulation that I did in other thread has 153/1000 or 15.3% 100+ scores when the scores are not interrupted. To validate that that is a fair prediction, I compared with Tendulkar's test record. His test average is almost same as Bevan's ODI average but had relatively few not out and sub-100 innings, only 17 out of 329. So we can assume Tendulkar was denied very few hundreds while being not out. Turns out Tendulkar has scored 51 hundreds in 329 innings or 15.5%. How freakish is that!

I don’t disagree with all this but why are you using Tendulkar’s test record instead of ODI. Is it just because the have the same average?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Ok I see multiple people underrating Bevan and people overrating him on this page alone

 

[Migara]

Jayasuriya is vastly underrated.

Jayasuriya more or less the complete package. You don't find many ODI all rounders to displace him from a team. Batting, bowling, fielding, captaincy everything.