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honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Ok.. I am gonna post here my all time ODI XI... You guys have to make ONE change... Not one change to the team above you, but one change to my team here and post it. And we will compare how much of a difference the one player makes between the two sides.



Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.



I have refrained from pick some of the all time great PURE fast bowlers and have rather gone for the guys who can also bat.. Imran and Wasim will be my strike bowlers with Shaun Pollock providing the economy and support. And the usual middle overs singles won't be that easy to take with an attacking captain like Imran and attacking spinners like Murali and Warne. And there is always Richards, Sachin, Bevan to bowl few overs in the extremely rare case that one or two of the main guys have an off day.


The batting looks after itself with 4 of the all time greats (IMO among the top 15 of all time in all forms of cricket) in the top 4 to be followed by two of the best ODI batsmen, esp. for the middle and slog overs situation. And the hitting will be taken care by Pollock, Wasim, Warne and Imran himself, should the situation arise. These 3 can also do a rearguard in case of an unlikely collapse of the top 6.
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.
 
four_or_six

four_or_six

Cricketer Of The Year
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Wasim Akram
Brett Lee
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.

Wanted some more pace.
 
Migara

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
so far the guys replaced have been:


MS Dhoni - 2
Lara - 1
Pollock - 1


Interesting.. I do like the idea of having Gilchrist open but with the 4 all time greats in my top 4, I am more inclined to the idea of replacing Pollock with an out and out seamer.. Lee may not be the one, but maybe Malcolm Marshall would come in?
 
four_or_six

four_or_six

Cricketer Of The Year
honestbharani said:
so far the guys replaced have been:


MS Dhoni - 2
Lara - 1
Pollock - 1


Interesting.. I do like the idea of having Gilchrist open but with the 4 all time greats in my top 4, I am more inclined to the idea of replacing Pollock with an out and out seamer.. Lee may not be the one, but maybe Malcolm Marshall would come in?
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The reason for Brett Lee above Malcolm Marshall is his strike rate (29.2 vs 45.7). Brett Lee has one of the best strike rates ever, and when you add in his late order hitting and his excellent outfielding he's a very attractive person to have in a 'best ever' team.
 
four_or_six

four_or_six

Cricketer Of The Year
Obviously I'm going for the oft-disputed 'taking wickets is crucial in ODIs', but here are the strike rates of the original attack:

Kahn 40.9
Pollock 39.9
Akram 36.2
Warne 36.3
Murali 35.1
 
bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
Lillian Thomson said:
Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.
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this is an excellent team. would have been my choice really. but since it is already made i would post this as my (second) choice:

Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Muttiah Muralitharan.

imran, akram, pollock and murali would be my primary bowlers. out of the other 10 overs, sanath would have to bowl at least 6. viv, sachin and ,may be even, bevan can bowl the remaining 4. it probably weakens the 5th bowling option but the batting lineup is scarier to look at. anyone of the top 7 could win the match on his own. and 8,9 and 10 are not going to be push overs by any standards either.
 
Shri

Shri

Mr. Glass
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.
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If a better economy is what you want, Hadlee should play ahead of Pollock, imo. His batting is about as useful as Pollock's too.
 
Edged&Taken

Edged&Taken

U19 Vice-Captain
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Glenn McGrath
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.
 
dontcloseyoureyes

dontcloseyoureyes

BARNES OUT
honestbharani said:
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
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Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Charlie Kelly
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
  3. Brian Lara
  4. Viv Richards
  5. Ricky Ponting
  6. Michael Bevan
  7. Imran Khan (c)
  8. Shaun Pollock
  9. Wasim Akram
  10. Shane Warne
  11. Muttiah Muralitharan.

The change was easy to make not because I did not think some others could be replaced but because Playing with just one opener makes no sense. None of the other batsmen have shown any interest in opening the innings in their careers.

So if an opener had to be brought in without making the batting less imposing it had to be at the expense of Dhoni.

Gilchrist also happens to be the better keeper which is a bonus and not the basic reason for making the change.
 
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honestbharani said:
Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.
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Lara and Tendulkar are both bat-through players. I wanted a bit of a slogger at the top, and it was Jayasuriya or Gilchrist.

I was tempted to do what SJS did and move Lara to 4, but his record there is remarkably mediocre and it would mean leaving out Dhoni, who I think is worth his place considering he actually has the best record in the side. Gilchrist as a specialist bat would be interesting but the sixth bowling option looks a little weak so I decided on Jayasuriya to kill two birds.
 
G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
honestbharani said:
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Ricky Ponting (c)
Michael Bevan
M.S. Dhoni (wk)
Lance Klusener
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan.
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I'd lose Imran Khan and get in Lance Klusener. Pretty much the same wickets/match ratio over 170 odd games for both of them. Bowling average is 3.4 higher, due to mainly the different eras they played in, while Klusener has the higher SR by 2 points.

The team gains a lot in the batting dept with this change. Difference of 7 in the average and 18 in the SR.

Can't have a #7 with a batting SR of 72, really. Kapil with his SR of 90 odd would have been my preference ahead of Imran in an all time ODI side to begin with, and Klusener trumps them both, imo.

The man with 2 WC wins gets the captaincy.
 
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I'd have Ponting as captain anyway. Even allowing for how good a team he played in, his record is almost unanswerable. His mediocre test captaincy makes his ODI captaincy very underrated IMO.
 
G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Uppercut said:
I'd have Ponting as captain anyway. Even allowing for how good a team he played in, his record is almost unanswerable. His mediocre test captaincy makes his ODI captaincy very underrated IMO.
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haha, the thing is that we don't need to allow for how good a team he played in anyway, considering we're talking of a pretty good team in this thread right here. It makes perfect sense to let the guy with the most experience leading champion teams to lead this champion team. Something tells me this team isn't going to require any tigers with their back to the wall speeches read out to them.
 
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