Cricketweb's twenty greatest ODI players of all time

[watson]

Haha, that was such an amazing post. Just imagined watson looking up pure WC stats on howstat with zero context and posting them up being indulgently happy to be proved correct against muppets like us.

The context is the pressure of the World Cup, and Dhoni has only a couple of 50s to show for his efforts. Still a great ODI batsman though (obviously), end of story.

 

[AldoRaine18]

My Rankings :

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Sir Vivian Richards
3. Wasim Akram
4. Ricky Ponting
5. Michael Bevan

6. Joel Garner
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Mark Waugh
9. Sanath Jayasuriya
10. Lance Klusener

11. Muttiah Muralitharan
12. Glenn Mcgrath
13. Shaun Pollock
14. MS Dhoni
15. Jacques Kallis
16. Brian Lara
17. Kapil Dev
18. Andrew Symonds
19. Imran Khan
20. AB De Villiers

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Top 10 by matches per MoM (min 10 MoMs):

Player	Matches	MoMs	Matches per MoM
IVA Richards (WI)	187	31	6.03
CG Greenidge (WI)	128	20	6.40
HM Amla (SA)	114	16	7.13
SR Tendulkar (India)	463	62	7.47
MD Crowe (NZ)	143	19	7.53
V Kohli (India)	157	20	7.85
AB de Villiers (Afr/SA)	186	22	8.45
Saeed Anwar (Pak)	247	28	8.82
NJ Astle (NZ)	223	25	8.92
L Klusener (SA)	171	19	9.00

To put this is context, the average player will get a MoM in 1 out of every 22 matches. This ignores that MoMs are batsman and especially top-order biased.

 

[Spark]

The context is the pressure of the World Cup, and Dhoni has only a couple of 50s to show for his efforts. Still a great ODI batsman though (obviously), end of story.

A couple of slow 50s which happened to be just right to comfortably ease his side home in a chase. SR is not relevant here.

 

[Saint Kopite]

My Top 20:-

1. Sachin Tendulkar.
2. Sir Vivian Richards.
3. Wasim Akram.
4. Adam Gilchrist.
5. Glenn McGrath.
6. Joel Garner.
7. Michael Bevan.
8. Ricky Ponting.
9. Shaun Pollock.
10. AB De Villiers.
11. Lance Klusener.
12. Muttiah Muralitharan.
13. Kapil Dev.
14. Sanath Jayasuriya.
15. Brian Lara.
16. MS Dhoni.
17. Andrew Symonds.
18. Waqar Younis.
19. Imran Khan.
20. Mark Waugh.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Chris Harris was a poor man's Ian Harvey, who in turn was a poor man's Scott Kremerskothen.

Harris was the world's best ODI allrounder at one stage in the 1990s until surpassed by Klusener and Jayasuriya whereas Ian Harvey was a great fieldman who was marginally better than Andrew Ellis with bat and ball in internationals.

 

[NUFAN]

I was expecting someone to point out my Rohit Sharma pick by now.

 

[Dan]

Harris was the world's best ODI allrounder at one stage in the 1990s until surpassed by Klusener and Jayasuriya whereas Ian Harvey was a great fieldman who was marginally better than Andrew Ellis with bat and ball in internationals.

And Scott Kremerskothen was better than them both!

 

[karan316]

Jonty Rhodes is an extremely influential player when it comes to limited overs cricket. Definitely one of the top ODI players.

Jayasuriya is another player who deserves to be rated a bit higher. .

 

[SuperMurali]

Chris Harris got me a signed bat of the '99 Proteas side. Hansie, Pollock, White Lightning, Kallis......

Of course I'll vote for him

 

[ankitj]

I was expecting someone to point out my Rohit Sharma pick by now.

Noticed it. Thought one vote out of so many was about fair recognition for his twin double hundreds.

 

[OverratedSanity]

My list will be a bit a suspect as I will only go with players I am familiar with nonetheless here it is...

1 Joel Garner
2 Viv Richards
3 Dean Jones
4 AB Devilliers
5 Martin Crowe
6 Amla
7 Tendulkar
8 Kapil Dev
9 Wasim Akram
10 Nathan Astle
11 Vettori
12 Nathan Bracken
13 Simon O'Donnell
14 Chris Cairns
15 Inzimam
16 Dhoni
17 Bruce Reid
18 Brett Lee
19 Lance Cairns
20 Richard Reid (even though he only played like 3 times)

Dean Jones over Tendulkar and Kapil Dev above Akram? Come on.

Like the Inzi vote though... underrated ODI great.

 

[NUFAN]

Noticed it. Thought one vote out of so many was about fair recognition for his twin double hundreds.

Yeah I think it's slightly unusual that in a sport which is so stats driven, the highest scorer and best bowling performance (statistically) is not celebrated more. Of course if the performance comes up against a really weak associate and say the guys second highest score is 125 or something I wouldn't consider including the guy but Vaas and Rohit have both achieved something very great.

 

[viriya]

Yeah I think it's slightly unusual that in a sport which is so stats driven, the highest scorer and best bowling performance (statistically) is not celebrated more. Of course if the performance comes up against a really weak associate and say the guys second highest score is 125 or something I wouldn't consider including the guy but Vaas and Rohit have both achieved something very great.

I have Vaas at #11 in my list. ATG ODI bowler while being handy with the bat.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I have Vaas at #11 in my list. ATG ODI bowler while being handy with the bat.

He got 1 fifty. In 322 matches.

 

[viriya]

He got 1 fifty. In 322 matches.

In 220 innings

 

[Athlai]

In 220 innings

One day even robots become self aware. One day.

 

[viriya]

In all seriousness - 14 average at 75 SR in the 90s wasn't useless, it wasn't great but he was decent.

 

[marc71178]

In 220 innings

Oh yes, that makes it so much better. Clearly see that a roll eyes aimed at OS was appropriate there because he made such a **** comment.

 

[viriya]

Oh yes, that makes it so much better. Clearly see that a roll eyes aimed at OS was appropriate there because he made such a **** comment.

One of these days you'll be able to take a joke.