kingkallis
International Coach
Introduction
There are different ways of picking an All-Time ODI XI. You could go for team balance, with a regulation five best batsmen, a keeper, an allrounder, three quicks and a spinner. You could take advantage of the greatness of the players under consideration and choose three quicks who were also handy with the bat, such as Akram, Hadlee and Dev. You could fill your lower order with sloggers to put the score out of sight in the death overs, and have Zulu Klusener batting alongside Shahid Afridi.
This article looks at another way of selecting such a team. What we will do is make a table of the players who have the highest ratio of Man-of-the-Match awards to games played. Then, for each batting position, we will simply choose the player who has the best ratio.
Some guidelines must be put in place before teams can be selected in this manner. The player must have won at least ten Man-of-the-Match awards. For simplicity's sake, the player can only represent a team in the position in which they have played most of their matches. If a slot is taken then the player in question drops down to the next XI. The exception is that each team must have at least one specialist wicketkeeper.
Man-of-the-Match 1st XI
1. G. Greenidge - 6.4
2. S. Tendulkar - 7.31
3. J. Kallis - 9.97
4. V. Richards - 6.03
5. A. Symonds - 9.43
6. MS Dhoni (wk) - 13.07
7. R. Hadlee - 11.5
8. L. Klusener - 9.00
9. B. Lee - 13.67
10. W. Younis - 15.41
11. G. McGrath - 16.67
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There are different ways of picking an All-Time ODI XI. You could go for team balance, with a regulation five best batsmen, a keeper, an allrounder, three quicks and a spinner. You could take advantage of the greatness of the players under consideration and choose three quicks who were also handy with the bat, such as Akram, Hadlee and Dev. You could fill your lower order with sloggers to put the score out of sight in the death overs, and have Zulu Klusener batting alongside Shahid Afridi.
This article looks at another way of selecting such a team. What we will do is make a table of the players who have the highest ratio of Man-of-the-Match awards to games played. Then, for each batting position, we will simply choose the player who has the best ratio.
Some guidelines must be put in place before teams can be selected in this manner. The player must have won at least ten Man-of-the-Match awards. For simplicity's sake, the player can only represent a team in the position in which they have played most of their matches. If a slot is taken then the player in question drops down to the next XI. The exception is that each team must have at least one specialist wicketkeeper.
Man-of-the-Match 1st XI
1. G. Greenidge - 6.4
2. S. Tendulkar - 7.31
3. J. Kallis - 9.97
4. V. Richards - 6.03
5. A. Symonds - 9.43
6. MS Dhoni (wk) - 13.07
7. R. Hadlee - 11.5
8. L. Klusener - 9.00
9. B. Lee - 13.67
10. W. Younis - 15.41
11. G. McGrath - 16.67
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