World ODI XI 1. Adam Gilchrist+ 2. Sachin Tendulkar 3. Viv Richards* 4. Virat Kohli 5. AB De Villiers 6. Michael Bevan 7. Kapil Dev 8. Wasim Akram 9. Joel Garner 10. Glenn McGrath 11. M Muralitharan | World ODI 2nd XI 1. Mark Waugh 2. S Jayasuriya 3. Ricky Ponting 4. Zaheer Abbas 5. Andrew Symonds 6. MS Dhoni+ 7. Lance Klusener 8. Imran Khan* 9. Shaun Pollock 10. Curtly Ambrose 11. Saqlain Mushtaq | World ODI 3rd XI 1. Shane Watson 2. Brian Lara 3. Kumar Sangakkara+ 4. Dean Jones 5. Javed Miandad 6. Michael Hussey 7. Aravinda de Silva 8. Richard Hadlee 9. Shane Warne* 10. Waqar Younis 11. Alan Donald | World ODI 4th XI 1. Saeed Anwar 2. Gordon Greenidge 3. Greg Chappell 4. Inzamam-ul Haq 5. Clive Lloyd* 6. Brendon McCullum+ 7. Andrew Flintoff 8. Daniel Vettori 9. Brett Lee 10. Michael Holding 11. Dennis Lillee | World ODI 5th XI 1. Mathew Hayden 2. Hashim Amla 3. Jacques Kallis 4. Kevin Pietersen 5. Michael Clarke* 6. Yuvraj Singh 7. Mark Boucher+ 8. Mitchell Starc 9. Nathan Bracken 10. Shane Bond 11. Saeed Ajmal |
World ODI 6th XI 1. Q. De Kock+ 2. S. Ganguly* 3. Joe Root 4. Ross Taylor 5. Jonty Rhodes 6. Hansie Cronje 7. Chris Cairns 8. Shahid Afridi 9. M. Marshall 10. C. Vaas 11. Andy Roberts | World ODI 7th XI 1. Rohit Sharma 2. Desmond Haynes 3. Virender Sehwag 4. Mohd. Yousuf 5. A. Ranatunga* 6. Jos Buttler+ 7. Shakib Al Hasan 8. Brad Hogg 9. Courtney Walsh 10. Shoaib Akhtar 11. Lasith Malinga | World ODI 8th XI 1. Chris Gayle 2. T. Dilshan 3. Kane Williamson 4. Martin Crowe* 5. Andy Flower+ 6. Richie Richardson 7. Ian Botham 8. Darren Gough 9. Trent Boult 10. Craig McDermott 11. Imran Tahir | World ODI 9th XI 1. Gary Kirsten 2. Herschelle Gibbs 3. Allan Lamb 4. Damien Martyn 5. Carl Hooper 6. Mohd. Azharuddin 7. Moin Khan+ 8. Anil Kumble 9. Morne Morkel 10. Damien Fleming 11. Dale Steyn | World ODI 10th XI 1. Shikhar Dhawan 2. - 3. Rahul Dravid 4. M. Jayawardene 5. Neil Fairbrother 6. Jonny Bairstow+ 7. Abdul Razzaq 8. - 9. Abdul Qadir 10. - 11. - |
changed the question in my post nowBairstow to open
+1Patterson
Chatfield
Maxwell at 6
Exactly what I observed too. Guess with a bunch of make shift openers succeeding in ODIs (as many as 4 of Indian great openers are makeshift), middle order stock of great ODI players is relatively depleted.Chatfield
Johnson
Guptill
The thing that has surprised me most in this exercise is just how many really good ODI openers there've been. Guptill and Graeme Smith not making it into the first 9 teams is pretty crazy considering how good they are.