My ODI Batting Rankings

[Goughy]

This type of stuff has been done many times before but I threw all the data into a formula I liked that incorporated everything apart from the result of games.

Here are the results for careers of players that have played in 2008 (min 20 ODIs).

Im sure people will argue but it cant be too far wrong when Tendulkar tops the list and Chris Martin is bottom

ODI Career Batting Ranking (must have played in 2008 and min 20 ODIs)

1 SR Tendulkar
2 Pietersen
3 GC Smith
4 RT Ponting
5 ML Hayden
6 CH Gayle
7 Salman Butt
8 JH Kallis
9 Mohammad Yousuf
10 G Gambhir
11 AC Gilchrist
12 MS Dhoni
13 HH Gibbs
14 RR Sarwan
15 JM How
16 MEK Hussey
17 S Chanderpaul
18 AB de Villiers
19 V Sehwag
20 ST Jayasuriya
21 MJ Clarke
22 Yuvraj Singh
23 LRPL Taylor
24 Younis Khan
25 WU Tharanga
26 A Symonds
27 KC Sangakkara
28 Shoaib Malik
29 Bell
30 Misbah-ul-Haq
31 Cook
32 PG Fulton
33 RS Morton
34 DPMD Jayawardene
35 SK Raina
36 Flintoff
37 LPC Silva
38 SB Styris
39 Collingwood
40 MN Samuels
41 Shah
42 RV Uthappa
43 JP Duminy
44 BJ Haddin
45 Shahid Afridi
46 SR Watson
47 Bopara
48 BB McCullum
49 RG Sharma
50 TM Dilshan
51 Kamran Akmal
52 CK Kapugedera
53 JDP Oram
54 MV Boucher
55 DS Smith
56 J Mubarak
57 XM Marshall
58 Prior
59 JR Hopes
60 DJ Bravo
61 JA Morkel
62 CL White
63 IK Pathan
64 SM Pollock
65 D Ramdin
66 Sohail Tanvir
67 MF Maharoof
68 RN Lewis
69 Broad
70 CS Baugh
71 GB Hogg
72 J Botha
73 JL Ontong
74 MR Gillespie
75 DL Vettori
76 B Lee
77 KMDN Kulasekara
78 Iftikhar Anjum
79 R Rampaul
80 SR Clark
81 KD Mills
82 JE Taylor
83 WPUJC Vaas
84 JS Patel
85 MG Johnson
86 Harbhajan Singh
87 Z Khan
88 PP Chawla
89 MM Patel
90 A Nel
91 DBL Powell
92 Umar Gul
93 NW Bracken
94 FH Edwards
95 MJ Mason
96 SL Malinga
97 Harmison
98 Mohammad Asif
99 RP Singh
100 CRD Fernando
101 M Ntini
102 S Sreesanth
103 Anderson
104 M Muralitharan
105 CK Langeveldt
106 CS Martin

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Watto 40-odd places too low imo.

 

[Athlai]

What do our immediate senses tell us about this list. Yellow is yuck and there is a lot at the top.
Decent enough but some of these positions are a bit iffy.


1 SR Tendulkar
2 Pietersen
3 GC Smith
4 RT Ponting
5 ML Hayden
6 CH Gayle
7 Salman Butt
8 JH Kallis
9 Mohammad Yousuf
10 G Gambhir
11 AC Gilchrist
12 MS Dhoni
13 HH Gibbs
14 RR Sarwan
15 JM How
16 MEK Hussey
17 S Chanderpaul
18 AB de Villiers
19 V Sehwag
20 ST Jayasuriya
21 MJ Clarke
22 Yuvraj Singh
23 LRPL Taylor
24 Younis Khan
25 WU Tharanga
26 A Symonds
27 KC Sangakkara
28 Shoaib Malik
29 Bell
30 Misbah-ul-Haq
31 Cook
32 PG Fulton
33 RS Morton
34 DPMD Jayawardene
35 SK Raina
36 Flintoff
37 LPC Silva
38 SB Styris
39 Collingwood
40 MN Samuels
41 Shah
42 RV Uthappa
43 JP Duminy
44 BJ Haddin
45 Shahid Afridi
46 SR Watson
47 Bopara
48 BB McCullum
49 RG Sharma
50 TM Dilshan
51 Kamran Akmal
52 CK Kapugedera
53 JDP Oram
54 MV Boucher
55 DS Smith
56 J Mubarak
57 XM Marshall
58 Prior
59 JR Hopes
60 DJ Bravo
61 JA Morkel
62 CL White
63 IK Pathan
64 SM Pollock
65 D Ramdin
66 Sohail Tanvir
67 MF Maharoof
68 RN Lewis
69 Broad
70 CS Baugh
71 GB Hogg
72 J Botha
73 JL Ontong
74 MR Gillespie
75 DL Vettori
76 B Lee
77 KMDN Kulasekara
78 Iftikhar Anjum
79 R Rampaul
80 SR Clark
81 KD Mills
82 JE Taylor
83 WPUJC Vaas
84 JS Patel
85 MG Johnson
86 Harbhajan Singh
87 Z Khan
88 PP Chawla
89 MM Patel
90 A Nel
91 DBL Powell
92 Umar Gul
93 NW Bracken
94 FH Edwards
95 MJ Mason
96 SL Malinga
97 Harmison
98 Mohammad Asif
99 RP Singh
100 CRD Fernando
101 M Ntini
102 S Sreesanth
103 Anderson
104 M Muralitharan
105 CK Langeveldt
106 CS Martin

 

[Goughy]

Nice colour coding. Makes interesting reading.

Quickly shows why certain teams do well.

 

[Craig]

So how long did you spend working it out?

 

[S.P. Fleming]

Seems to be a pretty good system you have developed as most postions seem reasonably accurate. I was suprised but pleased to see Jamie How as high as 15th!

 

[bagapath]

what do you get if you remove the condition of having played in 2008 and if you increase the minimum matches to 50?

 

[Athlai]

I'd work it personally out since the start of 2007 as any form since then is irrelevant to current playing standard. Against the top 8 only and I'll let this list go till I hit a guy from Bangers or something.

1 RT Ponting
2 S Chanderpaul
3 ML Hayden
4 Mohammad Yousuf
5 SB Styris
6 Younis Khan
7 Shoaib Malik
8 JDP Oram
9 SR Tendulkar
10 A Symonds
11 MS Dhoni
12 Yuvraj Singh
13 JH Kallis
14 AB de Villiers
15 KP Pietersen
16 GC Smith
17 MJ Clarke
18 MEK Hussey
19 V Sehwag
20 HH Gibbs
21 SC Ganguly
22 CH Gayle
23 R Dravid
24 BB McCullum
25 OA Shah
26 IR Bell
27 PD Collingwood
28 MV Boucher
29 DPMD Jayawardene
30 PG Fulton
31 AC Gilchrist
32 G Gambhir
33 RS Bopara
34 CK Kapugedara
35 TM Dilshan
36 A Flintoff
37 KC Sangakkara
38 LPC Silva
39 SM Pollock
40 AN Cook
41 ST Jayasuriya
42 RV Uthappa
43 LPRL Taylor
44 Tamim Iqbal

 

[Goughy]

what do you get if you remove the condition of having played in 2008 and if you increase the minimum matches to 50?

I only have the data from 2007 onwards included in the formula.

 

[Perm]

How and Butt a bit high I reckon, neither have done that much at ODI level on the whole.

 

[Uppercut]

Not bad again, but the bowling was more accurate IMO. Something doesn't look right at all about

25 WU Tharanga
26 A Symonds

 

[SJS]

I dont know how this works but Robin Uthappa (at 42) above some pretty useful players here.

Same with Misbah Ul Haq (7 career 50's and a highest score of 79 not out) being five places above Flintoff who has 24 50's and 5 centuries.

I suspect averages have a high weightage here.

 

[Goughy]

I suspect averages have a high weightage here.

Not really. Though a difference in average of 8 will make a difference. As will the more prominent role Misbah plays in the line up than Flintoff

 

[Uppercut]

I dont know how this works but Robin Uthappa (at 42) above some pretty useful players here.

Same with Misbah Ul Haq (7 career 50's and a highest score of 79 not out) being five places above Flintoff who has 24 50's and 5 centuries.

I suspect averages have a high weightage here.

He only used matches from '07 onwards, when Flintoff's been injured a lot and Misbah's hit form.

 

[Manee]

Shocked to see Dhoni down at 12th, would myself have him up in the top five, although evidently stats may not be kind to him.

 

[Precambrian]

Shocked to see Dhoni down at 12th, would myself have him up in the top five, although evidently stats may not be kind to him.

Struggled in England and World Cup. The resurgence started post him taking over captaincy. Also hundreds against minnows dont count I guess.

 

[Goughy]

Struggled in England and World Cup. The resurgence started post him taking over captaincy. Also hundreds against minnows dont count I guess.

You are right with the first part, but I have included all innings.

The rankings are not an assessment of their form right now but an assessment of their ability to produce across their career and consistently score runs.

More about their career body of work (though obviously some careers have been longer than others but that isnt taken into consideration which makes Tendulkars reign even more impressive) than their current form.

EDIT- Can a mod use Athlai's colour coded list in the original post. Its a great addition

 

[Goughy]

So how long did you spend working it out?

Maybe 20 mins on each the batting and the bowling.

There was no tweaking. This was the straight result from blindly inputting the data.

 

[Craig]

Maybe 20 mins on each the batting and the bowling.

There was no tweaking. This was the straight result from blindly inputting the data.

Fair enough. Good work though.

 

[SJS]

Shocked to see Dhoni down at 12th, would myself have him up in the top five, although evidently stats may not be kind to him.

Dhoni hasn't performed as well as the hype would make you feel.