What will be your all time ODI playing XI?

[Chakdephatte]

Sachin 

Gilchrist 

Viv 

Kohli 

ABD 

Klusener 

Pollock/Flintoff 

Akram 

Warne 

Bumrah 

McGrath 

 

Bench: 

Malinga, Dean Jones, Shakib 

[putrevus]

Adam Gilchrist
Sachin Tendulkar

Virat Kohli
Viv Richards

Clive Lloyd (Captain)

Kapil Dev

Michael Holding

Shane Warne

Joel Garner

Glen Mcgrath

Wasim Akram

 

12th Man Jasprit Bumrah, 

[Majestic]

3 hours ago, Chakdephatte said:

Sachin 

Gilchrist 

Viv 

Kohli 

ABD 

Klusener 

Pollock/Flintoff 

Akram 

Warne 

Bumrah 

McGrath 

 

Bench: 

Malinga, Dean Jones, Shakib 

Where is Jonathan Botha?

[zen]

5 hours ago, Chakdephatte said:

Trends:

Jayasuriya is a popular pick here.

Rightly so! At his peak, Jayasuriya was unstoppable against almost any type of bowling attack. Revolutionized power play batting in the 90s. A handy spin bowler as well. As an all-round package, he is irresistible. When he is on song, he can win a team a tournament. 
 

Even in tests, when India was struggling overseas, he helped SL win a test series in Eng in 1998. He hit a 200 in the one off test at the Oval.

 

An AT 11 is packed with great players so many folks prefer batsmen who can score a quick 50 versus someone who looks to bat deep to get a relatively slow 100 - who would want to keep Viv Richards, ABDV, Klusener, etc., waiting? 
 

Can’t rely too much on Statsguru!

Edited Thursday at 07:44 PM by zen

[zen]

Man of the Tournament ODI World Cup

 

1992 M Crowe

1996 S Jayasuriya 

1999 L Klusener 

2003 S Tendulkar

2007 G McGrath 

2011 Y Singh 

2015 M Starc

2019 K Williamson 

2023 V Kohli 

Edited Saturday at 01:00 PM by zen

[putrevus]

Gilchrist is 100% upgrade over guy like Jayasurya. He could do anything which Jayasurya could do and do it better.

 

Jayasurya is very overrrated .

 

When you have Sachin and Gilchirst as openers you have all bases covered.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 08:25 PM by putrevus

[cricspirit]

I want both Gilchrist and Jayasuriya. Since Gilchrist is literally SMASH no matter where he bats, I will push him down the order. With Gilchrist and ABDV no issues with middle order striking either.

 

Rohit Sharma and Sehwag are missing out. Was tempted to include one of them too.

 

Including Akram as he is probably the best left hand fast bowler available but was tempted to play Lee or Donald. Akram could hold a bat too. Probably can swap either Akram or McGrath with Lee or Donald and wont make a difference. 

 

Using Flintoff as the fast bowling all rounder instead of Kapil, Imran or Botham.  

 

Do not need a second spinner When you have Jayasuriya, Richards and Sachin. Murali with his controversies also misses out of the entire  squad. 

 

9 backups for top order, middle order, wk, spin and fast bowling options. 

 

Playing 11

Sanath Jayasuriya
Sachin Tendulkar

Virat Kohli
Viv Richards (Captain)

AB De Villiers

Adam Gilchrist (WK)

Andrew Flintoff

Shane Warne

Wasim Akram

Jasprit Bumrah

Glen Mcgrath

 

Backups -

Rohit Sharma

Viru Sehwag

MS Dhoni 

Andrew Symonds

Yuvraj Singh 

Kapil Dev

Saqlain Mushtaq

A Donald

Brett Lee

 

 

[cricspirit]

11 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Gilchrist is 100% upgrade over guy like Jayasurya. He could do anything which Jayasurya could do and do it better.

 

Jayasurya is very overrrated .

 

When you have Sachin and Gilchirst as openers you have all bases covered.

 

 

 

Overrated ..lol. Not too many rate him because he is from SL. Has gone into quite retirement and no fanfare remains. 

 

Jayasuriya help win a world cup. Started the trend of high tempo cricket upfront. Plus he bowled a lot and probably qualifies as an all rounder with his 300 wickets tally. He was a very good fielder as well. 

 

Guy with 10K runs, high strike rate, 300 wickets and WC win is overrated. I do not know what else someone needs to do.  Definitely a great ODI player by any standards. 

 

[putrevus]

20 minutes ago, cricspirit said:

 

Overrated ..lol. Not too many rate him because he is from SL. Has gone into quite retirement and no fanfare remains. 

 

Jayasuriya help win a world cup. Started the trend of high tempo cricket upfront. Plus he bowled a lot and probably qualifies as an all rounder with his 300 wickets tally. He was a very good fielder as well. 

 

Guy with 10K runs, high strike rate, 300 wickets and WC win is overrated. I do not know what else someone needs to do.  Definitely a great ODI player by any standards. 

 

He is odi great but it does not mean he is a starter in ATG playing XI.  When you have Gilchrist you don't need Jayasurya. It is that simple.

 

Gilchrist has better SR and better avg than Jayasurya plus he is the wicket keeper.

Edited Thursday at 09:03 PM by putrevus

[zen]

Talking about Jayasuriya, who can forget  knocks (he liked Pakistani bowling attack too) such as below, playing T20s in ODIs in 1990s:

 

^ that is playing the red ball in ODIs.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 09:34 PM by zen

[cricspirit]

4 hours ago, putrevus said:

He is odi great but it does not mean he is a starter in ATG playing XI.  When you have Gilchrist you don't need Jayasurya. It is that simple.

 

Gilchrist has better SR and better avg than Jayasurya plus he is the wicket keeper.

 

They both get into my team. Why do I take just one of these greats.  Gilchrist is a WK and Jayasuriya is a bowler. they have their extra utility. 

[zen]

Talking about Gilchrist, one of the issues is that he fails to get going in big tournaments. Based on law of averages, he fires at the end of the tournament to somewhat redeem himself, so credit for that. 
 

[putrevus]

7 hours ago, cricspirit said:

 

They both get into my team. Why do I take just one of these greats.  Gilchrist is a WK and Jayasuriya is a bowler. they have their extra utility. 

Both of them lose their value once they are not openers.So only one fits into the team.

[zen]

For ref, Man of the Tournament T20 World Cup

 

2007 S Afridi

2009 T Dilshan 

2010 K Pietersen 

2012 S Watson

2014 V Kohli

2016 V Kohli

2021 D Warner

2022 S Curran 

2024 J Bumrah

 

 

Edited Saturday at 01:06 PM by zen

[express bowling]

1. Gilchrist

2. Tendulkar 

3. Ponting

4. Richards

5. ABDV

6. Jayasuriya 

7.  Klusener 

8. Akram 

9. Warne 

10. Bumrah 

11. McGrath