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Top 10 ODI batsmen since the 90s

Migara

Migara

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venkyrenga said:
Disagree. It is more like the other way around.

Jayasuriya and De Silva are way ahead of Dilshan. Even Sanga is better.
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Jayasuriya is light years ahead of Shewag as a player. Dilshan s equal in batting. On the field, you take your guess. Rougly equal as a bowler, and Dilshan keeps too.

I don't rate Sanga in ODIs much. De Silva's stats are crap, but he played on crap tracks all his life, and did not play much when his reflexes were at best due to civil war. If it is a knockout, Aravinda will be in my ODI XI against anyone. He just delivered in big matches better than anybody. That is why we remember him much more than his stats would suggest.
 
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Jack1

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Migara said:
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.
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He has multiple dimensions as a player and all good ones. But in this thread I ignored everything about players apart from their batting.
 
OverratedSanity

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Migara said:
Jayasuriya is light years ahead of Shewag as a player. Dilshan s equal in batting. On the field, you take your guess. Rougly equal as a bowler, and Dilshan keeps too.

I don't rate Sanga in ODIs much. De Silva's stats are crap, but he played on crap tracks all his life, and did not play much when his reflexes were at best due to civil war. If it is a knockout, Aravinda will be in my ODI XI against anyone. He just delivered in big matches better than anybody. That is why we remember him much more than his stats would suggest.
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De Silva's odi stats aren't that crap tbh. His SR is pretty incredible considering the era.
 
ankitj

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Daemon said:
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?
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Similar average, largest sample and very few incomplete sub-100 innings.
 
stephen

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Migara said:
Jayasuriya is light years ahead of Shewag as a player. Dilshan s equal in batting. On the field, you take your guess. Rougly equal as a bowler, and Dilshan keeps too.

I don't rate Sanga in ODIs much. De Silva's stats are crap, but he played on crap tracks all his life, and did not play much when his reflexes were at best due to civil war. If it is a knockout, Aravinda will be in my ODI XI against anyone. He just delivered in big matches better than anybody. That is why we remember him much more than his stats would suggest.
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Not many all rounders can compete with Jaya as an opening all rounder. Maybe Watson. Gilchrist if you're thinking outside the box. But that's about it. Most decent all rounders batted down the order.
 
TheJediBrah

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stephen said:
Not many all rounders can compete with Jaya as an opening all rounder. Maybe Watson. Gilchrist if you're thinking outside the box. But that's about it. Most decent all rounders batted down the order.
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Unpopular opinion I know but Jayasuriya is overrated af as a bowler.
 
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venkyrenga

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Migara said:
Jayasuriya is light years ahead of Shewag as a player. Dilshan s equal in batting. On the field, you take your guess. Rougly equal as a bowler, and Dilshan keeps too.
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We are only discussing a players batting ability in this thread. If we are discussing the overall ability it would be a different story.
 
Migara

Migara

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ODI openers

Shewag is nowhere there. And only Seven players have played more than 100 innings and average 45+

Sharma 57.4 @ 92.0
Amla 49.9 @ 88.7
Tendulkar 48.3 @ 88.1
Dilshan 46.0 @ 89.1

And Warner, Kock and Greenidge
Haters can suck it.
 
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venkyrenga

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He had a great run in 2002 as well especially in the NZ tour. So that is 5 years of havoc against almost every opponent and everywhere. And he has some gems spread over in the other seasons as well. Remember Umar Gul, Pak's ace bowler, from 2011 WC semi final or the 2003 WC final.

Easily a top 10 from the last 3 decades.
 
Red

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Migara said:
Then some one like Rahane is better than Dhoni because he bats higher . . . .
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You really need to follow the context of the conversation, because you've just quoted me completely out of context.
 
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