ODI Batting Poll - Discussions

[capt_Luffy]

I'm also a bit surprised there haven't been any for Mark Waugh

And Saeed Anwar and actually David Warner ahead of them all

 

[Line and Length]

And Saeed Anwar and actually David Warner ahead of them all

We shall see.

 

[MasterBlaster24]

Both Jayasuriya and Gilly were fine ODI openers but stats suggest Gilly deserves to be rated higher.

Jayasuriya Ave: 32.36 SR 91.20
Gilly Ave: 35.89 SR 96.95

I expect both to be voted in at some stage.

The following are the ODI batting statistics for both players from March 2, 1996, until Gilchrist's retirement.

Gilly(entire odi career)

Matches-287
Avg-35.89
Sr-96.94
Centuries-16

Jaya

Matches-311
Avg-36.30
Sr-93.84
Centuries-24

Imo, Jaya should have retired from ODIs earlier, but he played too much, and that affected his batting statistics.

 

[Qlder]

All this talk about Jayasuriya should be picked already opening with 32 batting average, there's still Greenidge and Haynes who averaged 45 and 41 opening together back when 250 was considered a good team score

 

[MasterBlaster24]

All this talk about Jayasuriya should be picked already opening with 32 batting average, there's still Greenidge and Haynes who averaged 45 and 41 opening together back when 250 was considered a good team score

Jaya was not, by any means, a superior ODI batter to players such as Greenidge. When I said that, I meant that he was a better batter than his 32 batting average would suggest.

 

[Ali TT]

Well I've gone for Gilly and Jaya in my last vote, sandwiching Buttler.

The voting is clearly being weighted too much in favour of averages, not s/r, IMO. Jaya might average a lot less than eg Haynes, but scored nearly two runs an over quicker. Buttler another 1.5 runs faster again. Appreciate different era etc but still.

Buttler averages 40 at nearly 7 an over so would come way ahead of some of the old timers for me. Ditto Maxwell.

 

[Line and Length]

Gilly's strike rate definitely is impressive - second only to ABdV of those voted in thus far. I agree averages aren't the be all and end all, but there needs to be consideration of the eras. In a lower (but slower) scoring era, Greenidge was most effective.

 

[centurymaker]

People seem to have forgotten about Saeed Anwar. What a player he was in ODIs

 

[Fuller Pilch]

People seem to have forgotten about Saeed Anwar. What a player he was in ODIs

Mark Waugh was better though

 

[Fuller Pilch]

All this talk about Jayasuriya should be picked already opening with 32 batting average, there's still Greenidge and Haynes who averaged 45 and 41 opening together back when 250 was considered a good team score

Glenn Turner averaged 47 when 200 was a good score

 

[Cricket Bliss]

Glenn Turner averaged 47 when 200 was a good score

But only played 41 ODI's... Greenidge played a lot more
Amla also deserved to be in top 20... Once was beating all the records Kohli took...was looking as if he was more of a run machine than Kohli

 

[Cricket Bliss]

Gilly's strike rate definitely is impressive - second only to ABdV of those voted in thus far. I agree averages aren't the be all and end all, but there needs to be consideration of the eras. In a lower (but slower) scoring era, Greenidge was most effective.

Yes Greenidge was better than Gilchrist

 

[ankitj]

When I checked several years ago Greenidge had 2nd highest number of MoM awards per match (after only Viv Richards). Now Kohli may have displaced him at #2. That stat shows how good and impactful Greenidge was.

 

[ankitj]

We got a pretty good top 10 IMO

1. V.Richards
2. S.Tendulkar
3. V.Kohli
4. A.B.de Villiers
5. M.Bevan
6. M.S.Dhoni
7. R.Ponting
8. Zaheer Abbas
9. R. Sharma
10. D.Jones