Wisden's Greatest ODI Players of each decade

[honestbharani]

Yes also made 2003 semi (and were looking like winning it early on) and of course 1996. Only WC they botched was 1999. SL were a team that really performed on the big stage.

Makes their current downturn all the sadder. They always had people who stood up under pressure and played the big games well, even if they were individually not as good as some other players around the world. Their fielding and fitness were always the best in the SC from about 1995-2015 as well and they had generational talents coming through. And now, ****ing Thirimanne is opening for them.

 

[_00_deathscar]

He didn’t have the same stats. He didn’t lead his attack to back-to-back undefeated WCs ffs

Glad we can put the "Steve Smith is the best batsman in the world" argument to bed as well. Couldn't even lead his side to a World Test Championship final.

 

[srbhkshk]

Glad we can put the "Steve Smith is the best batsman in the world" argument to bed as well. Couldn't even lead his side to a World Test Championship final.

Don't forget Pat "best in the world but gets outbowled by Shardul Thakur" Cummins.

 

[Migara]

Trash. SL were a very strong ODI side and made nearly every World Cup Final in that time. If you ignore the elephant in the room (chucking) then there's nothing wrong with picking Murali IMO, but McGrath is still objectively better by every metric. Murali's ODI stats are as influenced by how much he played Bangladesh and Zimbabwe as his Tests stats are, which is a lot. Definitely the best spinner of the 90s but not the best bowler.

You mean grand 31 games out of 205?

 

[Migara]

???????????

 

[Shri]

bcci should buy wisden tbh

rewrite some stuff about how seam on the first, bat well on days 2 and 3, then spin etc is a ****ing stupid little concept

 

[Shri]

May be because Murali is married to an Indian.

*tamilian

 

[Shri]

The lengths to which some on here go to hate on Australians is truly remarkable. Bevan as player of the 90s is a no-brainer, only other challenger is Sachin and it's hard to split them, but I'd go for the guy that won matches out of nowhere for his team rather than the guy that collected personal milestones often at the team's expense.

Nothing wrong with picking Sachin but Bevan would be an equally reasonable choice

bevan was a boring mother****er suck it

 

[Shri]

Murali was absolutely a horrible chucker though. Nice bloke, but threw the ball.

dude you scratched your tv screen with a protractor trying to measure the flex while your hard on left a stain on the bottom of the screen shut up

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Makes their current downturn all the sadder. They always had people who stood up under pressure and played the big games well, even if they were individually not as good as some other players around the world. Their fielding and fitness were always the best in the SC from about 1995-2015 as well and they had generational talents coming through. And now, ****ing Thirimanne is opening for them.

Both SL and WI's downward spiral is sad. WI can still come up with a decent side if all their players are available.

SL on the other hand will find it tough to claw their way back. Some serious changes have to be done in their domestic cricket + plenty of SL A tours if they want a near decent side in the next 2-3 years.

 

[honestbharani]

Both SL and WI's downward spiral is sad. WI can still come up with a decent side if all their players are available.

SL on the other hand will find it tough to claw their way back. Some serious changes have to be done in their domestic cricket + plenty of SL A tours if they want a near decent side in the next 2-3 years.

Moody is a good guy to have running their cricket, tbh. I think he can bring them back at least to mid table levels.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

You mean grand 31 games out of 205?

Bangladesh was still a tougher challenge for a spin bowler compared to England or SA of the 90s and early 00s . Mr. "My Mum Gave Me The Pills" played so many games against England(who were walking wickets agains quality spin) but it's never discussed.

 

[cnerd123]

Mcgrath deserves a mention but implying it's a massive injustice that murali was better than him Burgey is standard CW aussie poster junk.

Truth

 

[Migara]

1990s batting

 

[Migara]

Only Tendulkar, Lara, de Silva , Anwar, Azhar, Mark / Steve Waugh, Ranatung and Hooper played through the decade. Jayasuriya also played through it, but was yet to become the monster he was to be.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

1990s batting

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Huge Bevan fan here and rate him as the best finisher ever(Bevan> MSD for me). But his average was bloated because of the number of not outs and Tendulkar was clearly better in the 90s.

 

[Burgey]

Glad we can put the "Steve Smith is the best batsman in the world" argument to bed as well. Couldn't even lead his side to a World Test Championship final.

More annoyed he didn’t score enough runs in the last series than the test championship tbh

 

[Burgey]

SL botched 2015. Sangakkara was scoring 100s for fun, but they got destroyed by South Africa in the 1/4s.

That in itself is a sad indictment on them

 

[Burgey]

Viv probably was a better pick than Kapil in the 1980s too tbh. But they probably didn't want to repeat a player for two decades.

A rare reasonable point here from one of the usual CW Indian suspects.

 

[Migara]

Any one notice that Bevan and Klusener have very similar numbers?

For me the batting icons of that decade are Tendulkar, Jones and Crowe. Extremely traditional but ****ing good players.

It was Azhar, SRt, Bevan and Aravinda took it to the next level that was played in 00s.