Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
I'd pick Dermot Reeve ahead of Lewis and give the gloves to Craig Kleiswetter who did better in ODIs than Prior. Also Trott was too slow but did average about 50 in ODIs.
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The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread
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Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Just pick Gooch instead of Trescothick and make him 5th bowler with Stokes 6th.
Flintoff is a bit wasted at 8 when he was a no 5.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
NZ ODI XI born outside NZ
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- BJ Watling (wk)
- Devon Conway
- Mathew Sinclair
- Scott Styris
- Roger Twose
- Grant Elliot
- Glenn Phillips
- Colin De Grandhomme
- Dipak Patel
- Tama Canning
- Ish Sodhi
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Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Sorry, but Ben Stokes can't be a 4th bowler. He has 74 wickets at an average of 42.4 and and an economy over 6. He is a poor 6th bowler.
And you forgot Butler who is England's greatest ODI player.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
Gill doesn't belongs there yet..... No way near to displace Kohli from 3. Azhar at 4 is a better choice, or if you have to bat someone at 3, be it Ganguly.
CricAddict
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Sehwag, Dravid, Gambhir, Raina all are ahead of Gill.
bagapath
International Captain
no match fixers pl
2000+ runs at 61 is massive. Gill is turning out to be a phenomenon
capt_Luffy
International Captain
Outside of World Cup doesn't count much, he never impressed me much and was by far India's worst top 5 bat at the WC. He really only had one great year, that too a WC year, and he was India's 5th best bat there..... If to bat at 3, Ganguly is much ahead of Gill till now.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Also Ganguly's medium pacers would be handy.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
I think Ganguly the ODI batsman is getting underrated now for Ganguly the Test batsman. He was genuinely one of the World's leading batsmen in the ODIs in the late 90s early 2000s.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
I would go
Ganguly (9) (vc)
Sachin (he will never take first strike
) (8)Virat
Yuvi (6)
MSD (c) (wk)
Raina (7)
Kapil (1)
Kumble (4)
Kuldeep (5)
Zaheer (2)
Bumrah (3)
Spinners of every variety and 3 brilliant seamers, with one left armer. Enough lefties all through the line up and a 4th backup medium pace option if conditions dictate or seamers are tonked in the PP. Its actually a side I would back to beat most, if not any ODI ATG side, tbh.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
Shami definitely ahead of Zaheer for me. Also, if we are going with Kapil at 7 and Raina at 6 with Yuvi, Ganguly and Sachin; I would think a bit more batting is needed at 8 than Kumble. Probably Jadeja in place of Kumble or Kuldeep. Also, Rohit for either Raina or Ganguly.I would go
Ganguly (9) (vc)
Sachin (he will never take first strike
Virat
Yuvi (6)
MSD (c) (wk)
Raina (7)
Kapil (1)
Kumble (4)
Kuldeep (5)
Zaheer (2)
Bumrah (3)
Spinners of every variety and 3 brilliant seamers, with one left armer. Enough lefties all through the line up and a 4th backup medium pace option if conditions dictate or seamers are tonked in the PP. Its actually a side I would back to beat most, if not any ODI ATG side, tbh.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Yeah but any of those changes will not allow me to have the variety I do right now. And almost all of them are debatable cases at best.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
If the others are debatable, Shami over Zaheer really isn't, especially after the last WC. Sourav already offers some left arm pace, take the much better bowler.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
What???????????
And no Zak had 2 great world cups too. I honestly dont think Shami has been definitively better.
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Blasphemy FP, although I notice many assume the same however he was born in Wellington, New Zealand.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
There is a great WC, then there are Shami in WC 2019 and especially 2023.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Zak had all those maiden overs on a pancake wicket on a hot afternoon in the 2011 WC final, if you are going down that route.