20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

[OverratedSanity]

Some world cup games which I think should've made the list

87 Final
92 semifinal Pak vs NZ
96 quarterfinal India vs Pakistan
2003 world cup SA vs SL Duckworth Lewis **** up

All very memorable games imo.

 

[GIMH]

How do you type that out without feeling embarassed

You don't half bleat on like it give you some superiority which is weird when you consider that the team you fanboy for were dispatched in about 14 overs in the semi final a few days prior.

Anyway the droning on about it was old hat by September 2019 but I will never not be triggered by factually incorrect usage of words like 'objectively'. Midwits like you use them to try and make it look like your dumb argument somehow has validity. No different to typing FACT at the end of an opinion, another common tool of the imbeciles on the world wide web.

Have a nice day

 

[GIMH]

The world cup not the final

No, the tiebreak criteria was for the final. It was nonsense criteria but it was based solely on the final and it was to decide the winner of the final. This is not a point of debate.

 

[OverratedSanity]

No, the tiebreak criteria was for the final. It was nonsense criteria but it was based solely on the final and it was to decide the winner of the final. This is not a point of debate.

Why are you arguing something that's so easily disproven.



It was tied as per the record books . The super over decided the winner of the trophy.

I'm not sure but I think this is how it works in football too if it goes to penalties? Match goes in the record books as a draw, but the winner of the shootout wins the trophy.?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Anyway the droning on about it was old hat by September 2019 but I will never not be triggered by factually incorrect usage of words like 'objectively'. Midwits like you use them to try and make it look like your dumb argument somehow has validity. No different to typing FACT at the end of an opinion, another common tool of the imbeciles on the world wide web.

Have a nice day

No it was a very different time. Australia just don’t win in England anymore, even when we were only okay. Now led by the world’s greatest all-rounder (FACT), with runs flowing from the world’s greatest batsman (OBJECTIVELY TRUE) and spearheaded by the two most prolific fast bowlers of all time your nation of sandpaper-clutching neanderthals will not come close.

Yes true

 

[GIMH]

Why are you arguing something that's so easily disproven.

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It was tied as per the record books . The super over decided the winner of the trophy.

I'm not sure but I think this is how it works in football too if it goes to penalties? Match goes in the record books as a draw, but the winner of the shootout wind the trophy.?

I mean this is just semantics. Of course the match was tied. It then had tiebreak criteria to determine the winner. How is that not part of the final?

I'm not disputing it as a tied ODI. I'm saying that as part of the final there were then further steps to break that tie. Which was part of the final much as the Argentina/France shootout was part of that final.

 

[GIMH]

I mean I would have thought the parody in the latter was obvious but I’ll let you have it

 

[Ali TT]

I'll take the tie and world cup victory thanks. Don't give a toss how the world cup was won, it was won. Reading folks bleat about it on here only makes that victory even sweeter

Anyhow, one assumes that the top 3 will be 438, 1999 and 2019, but how they've picked the prior 16 matches doesn't fill me with confidence. I think it's a great shame that the 1992 and 1996 finals missed out. Were they great games? Not so much, but they were iconic and that seems to have been a selection criteria for the Cricinfo journalists. It does feel like that because the journalists probably realised the top 5 would be dominated by WC matches not featuring India they needed to pack the bottom of the list with JAMODIs and India matches most of the world had long forgotten about. The inclusion of the AB, Bevan and Kohli matches look increasingly odd to me now.

Agree with the other point that great individual performances have focused on batters not bowlers.

 

[Molehill]

It's a good job England didn't stroll to victory in 35 overs (like the semi), I'm struggling to think what the haters would've done with their lives.

The inclusion of the AB, Bevan and Kohli matches look increasingly odd to me now.

Agree with the other point that great individual performances have focused on batters not bowlers.

There really only needed to be one game from 1983, fine if you want the Kapil one, but no need for the Final then afterwards. If they wanted another India game, the other semi from 1996 would've made for a decent option (but obviously doesn't exactly show them in a good light).

 

[subshakerz]

It's a good job England didn't stroll to victory in 35 overs (like the semi), I'm struggling to think what the haters would've done with their lives.



There really only needed to be one game from 1983, fine if you want the Kapil one, but no need for the Final then afterwards. If they wanted another India game, the other semi from 1996 would've made for a decent option (but obviously doesn't exactly show them in a good light).

Objectively it was a great game with a memorable ending.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

So neither the 1987 or 1992 World Cups are going to be represented at all. There are several other World Cups which have been excluded in their entirety as well, but those two to me are the most surprising.

Yeah, many see the 92 WC as the greatest one ever.

 

[subshakerz]

This list reminds me of the list of greatest performances of the last 50 years, another poor but hyped list.

India got 11 selections (Pakistan only 3 including nothing from Wasim, Waqar) but their selections included Laxman as no.1, Kumble tenfer for no.11, Dravid's 233 as no.19, Sehwag's 309 and some random unheard performance from Kapil.

Laxman's Kolkata epic voted best Test performance

The famous 2001 Test innings leads the list of 50 greatest performances in the last half-century

www.thecricketmonthly.com

 

[TheJediBrah]

You don't half bleat on like it give you some superiority which is weird when you consider that the team you fanboy for were dispatched in about 14 overs in the semi final a few days prior.

Anyway the droning on about it was old hat by September 2019 but I will never not be triggered by factually incorrect usage of words like 'objectively'. Midwits like you use them to try and make it look like your dumb argument somehow has validity. No different to typing FACT at the end of an opinion, another common tool of the imbeciles on the world wide web.

Have a nice day

You know it's OBJECTIVELY true otherwise you wouldn't get so triggered by it and type out an angry rant


FACT

 

[Molehill]

This list reminds me of the list of greatest performances of the last 50 years, another poor but hyped list.

India got 11 selections (Pakistan only 3 including nothing from Wasim, Waqar) but their selections included Laxman as no.1, Kumble tenfer for no.11, Dravid's 233 as no.19, Sehwag's 309 and some random unheard performance from Kapil.

Laxman's Kolkata epic voted best Test performance

The famous 2001 Test innings leads the list of 50 greatest performances in the last half-century

www.thecricketmonthly.com

Had a quick look at the top 10 of that list, you can shuffle them around a bit but the top 5 seems ok to me.

 

[Molehill]

You know it's OBJECTIVELY true otherwise you wouldn't get so triggered by it and type out an angry rant


FACT

Hmmm, I cast a little line and caught you big style.

2019 is living rent free in your head....

 

[subshakerz]

Had a quick look at the top 10 of that list, you can shuffle them around a bit but the top 5 seems ok to me.

Top 5 is fine, even top 10. But as you go down the selections and omissions get more baffling.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Hmmm, I cast a little line and caught you big style.

2019 is living rent free in your head....

Damn the posting master is here

 

[TheJediBrah]

I recognise that sometimes you just have to admit when you're outclassed

 

[_Ed_]

Yay, I was at the fourth best ODI of all time.

Yeah, pretty stoked about that!

But this seemed unfair to me:

New Zealand are playing with their by-now-familiar intensity, but the fans, not bound by the graciousness that McCullum has asked his team to play with, have been frenzied and rambunctious. They've gloated when South African wickets fell, banged seats when boundaries came off New Zealand bats, jeered scornfully when run-outs were missed, and cackled derisively when those fielders collided and the catch went down.

That makes the crowd out to be much more hostile than I remember, and I don't think we were doing anything different to what literally any other home crowd in the world would be doing in that situation. Also, being Auckland, there was hardly a shortage of vocal South African fans in the ground either.

 

[Molehill]

Damn the posting master is here

It really wasn't mean to be, but it sure turned out that way.