Your Current World xi

[GIMH]

I'm very settled on the batting lineup:

1. Cook
2. Warner
3. Williamson
4. Smith
5. de Villiers
6. Mathews
7. Watling

Also picking Steyn obviously but pretty undecided on the rest of the attack. I think there are a bunch of bowlers of a very similar standard after that.

You seem to have forgotten Joe Root

 

[Prince EWS]

You seem to have forgotten Joe Root

I did not.

 

[Daemon]

Warner
Cook
Williamson
Smith
Root
ABdV +
Mathews
Ashwin
Broad
Morkel
Anderson

Injuries accounted for

 

[kiwiviktor81]

No love for Hashim Amla any more? Has he fallen out of favour or is he just not that good?

 

[Daemon]

In current form it's fair to say that he only just about makes the top 10

AB
Williamson
Warner
Smith
Root

Cook
Mathews
Younis

I think the above are definitely better than him atm

Misbah
Amla

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Agree with that list. I just thought that odds are someone thinks he's better than Cook.

 

[NZTailender]

This isn't so much a merit XI but more a favourites XI

1. D Warner
2. M Vijay
3. K Williamson
4. Y Khan
5. M ul-Haq
6. A Mathews
7. BJ Watling+
8. M Starc
9. D Steyn
10. Y Shah
11. T Boult

who would take on (I guess)

1. A Cook
2. M Hafeez
3. S Smith
4. V Kohli
5. AB de Villiers
6. J Root
7. S Ahmed+
8. R Ashwin
9. S Broad
10. J Anderson
11. M Morkel

 

[Furball]

Cook
Warner
Williamson
Smith
Root
de Villiers (+)
Mathews (5)
Ashwin (4)
Broad (3)
Steyn (2)
Anderson (1)

Don't particularly care for any of the wicketkeepers at the moment so I'm just stacking my batting to a ridiculous degree. Mathews goes at 7 because of his prowess batting with the tail.

Lyon would come in for Broad on a spinning deck.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Cook
Warner
Williamson
Smith
Root
de Villiers (+)
Mathews (5)
Ashwin (4)
Broad (3)
Steyn (2)
Anderson (1)

Don't particularly care for any of the wicketkeepers at the moment so I'm just stacking my batting to a ridiculous degree. Mathews goes at 7 because of his prowess batting with the tail.

Lyon would come in for Broad on a spinning deck.

Haha GF there's definitely your English love shining through. I don't necessarily disagree with the four of them. But it shows how garbage the other 7 players in the Englush team are.
Also when you've already got a offie in the side maybe Yasir Shah or Herath come in on the spinning decks?

 

[Flem274*]

I was thinking about this earlier and Anderson and Broad's showing in the UAE definitely puts them in contention. The Aussie quicks feel too new to include, Boult is bowling **** right now, Southee hasn't got the weight of wickets this year and I think the pom new ball pair are better bowlers overall than Morkel and Philander.

 

[Howe_zat]

I think my ideal attack has a left arm seamer in it when there's some doubt. Broad and Anderson are much more similar than most seem to think, they don't so much compliment each other as compound. Sometimes it's all out for double figures, sometimes Amla gets 300.

 

[Cabinet96]

Ideally I'd probably want in form Boult over Anderson. That would create a really good, varied attack.

 

[Zinzan]

Current World ODI XI


Since I was just contemplating how great Warner and Guptill would be as an opening combination

Primarily basing it on the last 2 years results, with a bit more of a weighting for the last 12 months

Warner (60 @ 107)
Guptill (55 @ 99)
Kohli* (60 @ 93)
Root 6 (54 @ 92)
AB (65 @ 119)
Maxwell 5(40 @ 133)
Buttler+ (45 @ 130)
Starc 1 (ave 19, ER 4.6)
Tahir 4 (ave 25, ER 4.79)
Hazelwood 3 (ave 25, ER 4.6)
Boult 2 (ave 21, ER 4.94)


Intuitively I was going to select de Kock and Stokes, but de Kock's batting numbers weren't as good as Buttler's or any of those top batsmen and Stokes bowling numbers are just too poor, average over 40 & ER over 6.6.

Only issue here is you're relying on Maxwell & Root with the ball, but Maxwell's bowling numbers are surprisingly good, saying nothing of him being brilliant with the ball in the WC final.

Your current ODI XI?

 

[Daemon]

I'd bat Buttler ahead of Maxwell as I think the latter can tee off immediately and Buttler's the better bat anyways. Can't argue with that too much, though the 5th bowler quality is a bit worrying. Boult's form in ODIs is fine atm? Could swap for Rabada if not.

 

[Zinzan]

I'd bat Buttler ahead of Maxwell as I think the latter can tee off immediately and Buttler's the better bat anyways. Can't argue with that too much, though the 5th bowler quality is a bit worrying.

Yeah if Stokes didn't bowl like Neesham in ODIs, it would have made it much easier, because his batting numbers are good.

 

[Tom Flint]

Why you asking ab to keep when thats part of the reason he started getting the hump with test cricket? Quinton de kock in at no.6 for ab

 

[Tom Flint]

Lol sorry just realised this thread was started in 2015?

 

[kingkallis]

Your current ODI XI?

My ODI XI

David Warner /
Quinnie de Kock + /
Virat Kohli /
Joe Root /
Steven Smith /
AB de Villiers / (c)
Angelo Matthews / o
Mitchell Starc o
Imran Tahir o
Josh Hazlewood o
Jaspreet Bumrah o

 

[Tom Flint]

My ODI XI

David Warner /
Quinnie de Kock + /
Virat Kohli /
Joe Root /
Steven Smith /
AB de Villiers / (c)
Angelo Matthews / o
Mitchell Starc o
Imran Tahir o
Josh Hazlewood o
Jaspreet Bumrah o

That really is the perfect team as long as conditions suit and your 5 bowlers go well. I'd go with this to add depth with the ball
Warner
De kock
Kohli
Root
Ab
Matthews
Shakib
Starc
Tahir
Hazelwood
Bumrah

 

[honestbharani]

Would pick Rabada above Haze but otherwise, great team.