Tier B ODI XI

[Shri]

Take your Bevans, Sachins and Haydens and throw them out. Who would make your all time ODI B team?

Sehwag
Gayle
Sangakkara
Kallis
Yuvraj
Dilshan
Flintoff
Klusener
Lee
Saqlain
Bond

#Bored

 

[TestMatch]

Kraigg Brathwaite
Gavaskar
Chanderpaul
Dravid
Misbah
Cook
Sunil Narine
Bolt
Gough
Walsh
Gillespie

I call this my "world's slowest ODI batting unit plus a disparate collection of bowlers" team.

 

[Red]

My first team would be:


Gilchrist +
Tendulkar
V.Richards
Kohli
DeVilliers
Symonds 6
Kapil 4
Wasim 2
Garner 3
Murali 5
McGrath 1


Second:

Lara
M.Waugh 6
Ponting
Abbas
Dhoni +
Hussey
Watson 5
Hadlee 2
Ambrose 1
Warne 4
Donald 3


Third

Sanath 6
Dilshan
D.Jones
Sangakkara +
Amla
Miandad
Cairns 4
Vettori 5
Pollock 3
Lee 2
Waqar 1

 

[listento_me]

Kraigg Brathwaite
Gavaskar
Chanderpaul
Dravid
Misbah
Cook
Sunil Narine
Bolt
Gough
Walsh
Gillespie

I call this my "world's slowest ODI batting unit plus a disparate collection of bowlers" team.

Lol dunno what to make of this

Misbah is a better and more active bat then you're giving him credit for and Narine and Bolt both could end up with very good careers. Plus why is cook so low?

I like the idea though.

 

[Adders]

Lol dunno what to make of this

Misbah is a better and more active bat then you're giving him credit for and Narine and Bolt both could end up with very good careers. Plus why is cook so low?

I like the idea though.

He's the icing in this team.

 

[Zinzan]

If it's everyone's AT 2nd XIs, it provides more context if they post both as RH did.

 

[Zinzan]

My first team would be:


Gilchrist +
Tendulkar
V.Richards
Kohli
DeVilliers
Symonds 6
Kapil 4
Wasim 2
Garner 3
Murali 5
McGrath 1


Second:

Lara
M.Waugh 6
Ponting
Abbas
Dhoni +
Hussey
Watson 5
Hadlee 2
Ambrose 1
Warne 4
Donald 3


Third

Sanath 6
Dilshan
D.Jones
Sangakkara +
Amla
Miandad
Cairns 4
Vettori 5
Pollock 3
Lee 2
Waqar 1

Must say I'm stunned neither Flintoff nor Klusener can make even your 3rd XI, yet Symonds makes your 1st. I do rate Symonds btw, but surely he's a tad below those former too.

I think there's a decent case for Flintoff as the best ODI allrounder ever if you really look at him numbers in context. If he did miss out making my 1st XI< he'd definitely make my 2nd.

 

[ImpatientLime]

flintoff was an absolute beast. arguably the best death bowler of all time.

what really counts against him is that he never did it at a world cup.

 

[Dan]

1. Hashim Amla
2. Sanath Jayasuriya (7)
3. Kane Williamson *
4. Zaheer Abbas
5. AB de Villiers +
6. Ryan ten Doeschate (6)
7. Lance Klusener (5)
8. Wasim Akram (1)
9. Saqlain Mushtaq (4)
10. Joel Garner (3)
11. Shane Bond (2)

#NoBigThree

 

[Daemon]

@RH - Amla at 5?

 

[Red]

Must say I'm stunned neither Flintoff nor Klusener can make even your 3rd XI, yet Symonds makes your 1st. I do rate Symonds btw, but surely he's a tad below those former too.

I think there's a decent case for Flintoff as the best ODI allrounder ever if you really look at him numbers in context. If he did miss out making my 1st XI< he'd definitely make my 2nd.

I always forget someone in these exercise, in this one I've forgotten two pretty big names.

Regarding Symonds, he'll always be in my first XI. Incredibly imposing batsman at #6 and his bowling is a bonus really (I have five frontline bowlers in the side already). A lot of what I want is his fielding. Such a force in the inner ring, and fielding is so important in ODIs. In hindsight Flintoff or Klusener could replace either Watto or Cairns in the 2nd or 3rd XI, or they could replace Kapil in the first XI. Guess the thing about these exercises is that a good player (or a few) always misses out.

 

[Red]

@RH - Amla at 5?

Had to have him in. Unfortunately my third XI has heaps of top order bats. Deano, Sanga and Amla. Maybe Amla to open and Dilshan down the order? Not sure.

 

[CapeTown Guy]

I think, considering Amla scored only 20 of his 6,500 runs in ODIs (reaching various milestones along the way as the most prolific opened in ODI history), at an average of 52, I reckon its fair to have him as the opener and shoehorn someone else down the order.

 

[Daemon]

I've also just realised you don't have Bevan, surely an oversight?

 

[listento_me]

He's the icing in this team.

Yes, he'd be great in a chase of 150 off 75

 

[Red]

I've also just realised you don't have Bevan, surely an oversight?

He'd make my 4th or 5th XI.

 

[Athlai]

Martin Guptill (c)

especially if it's raining.

 

[J_C]

A XI

Tendulkar
Lara
Jones
Viv (c)
ABdV
Dhoni +
Flintoff
Akram
Saqlain
Garner
McGrath


B XI

Hayden
Gilchrist +
Ponting (c)
Abbas
Miandad
Bevan
Klusener
Pollock
Hadlee
Warne
Donald


C XI

Greenidge
Jayasuriya
Kohli
Sangakkara +
Lloyd (c)
Symonds
Cairns
Dev
Ambrose
Lillee
Murali

 

[Julian87]

what really counts against him is that he never did it at a world cup.

which is why he very obviously is nowhere near being the best ever

 

[randycricfreak]

Tier A

Gilchrist
Sachin
Viv Richards
Virat Kohli
Symonds
Dhoni (c)
Bevan
Wasim
Garner
McGrath
Muralitharan

Tier B

Sanath Jayasuriya
Hayden
Ricky Ponting (c)
Kumar Sangakkara
Aravinda de Silva
ABD
Klusener
Pollock
Lee
Warne
Waqar