CW's 50 Best ODI Cricketers of all time - 2017 Edition

[Red]

Hopefully this will prevent someone putting down a joke choice as their no.1 giving him 25 points and bringing him to the top 50 by virtue of that alone. It has happened before with Douglas Jardine getting a top spot on someone's list and thus becoming a top 50 test cricketer.

Pretty handy cricketer Jardine, but wouldnt be in most pundit's top 50s. That's the problem if only a handful of people vote in these types of things.

 

[Burgey]

I'm simply sttaing, how is it ok to even nominate them beyond national bias? What if they end up with nominations while better ODI players don't? It's a flawed system and something to be looked at. No one is being confrontational.

You can nominate who you like mate. If people think they're decent picks they'll get seconded. As the great Benny Elias would say, it's not rocket surgery.

 

[cnerd123]

If anyone feels there are any better ODI players outside of the 80 odd that have been nominated so far, then please put their names forward

There are a few fine associate cricketers missing (RTD, Tikolo, Asif Karim, Khurram Khan, etc) but it's not like any of them would end up in the top 50, so nbd

 

[srbhkshk]

I'll second -

Chris Cairns
Tilkaratne Dilshan
Lasith Malinga
Javed Miandad
Virender Sehwag
Rohit Sharma
Ross Taylor
Chamida Vaas
Daniel Vettori

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Despite what anyone might think about Geoff Boycott, at a time when the openers job was still to see off the new ball and lay the foundations for an innings he was damn good at it. Obviously the batsman who make the Top 50 will predominantly be the latter day tip and run thrashers and I wouldn't really suggest that Boycott should be a top 50 ODI choice. Many of the modern day openers wouldn't have been able to do what they do now 40 years ago when an ODI innings more or less started out like any other without power plays and fielding restrictions.

 

[jimmy101]

Rice one of the best top 50 ODI cricketers?

Jeez.

Rice may have only played a few ODIs, but if we include LOIs as a whole (officially backed or not) then he can't be ignored.

 

[marc71178]

I'm simply sttaing, how is it ok to even nominate them beyond national bias? What if they end up with nominations while better ODI players don't? It's a flawed system and something to be looked at. No one is being confrontational.

Well if you're not being confrontational you're being a dick then, so which is it?

 

[Howe_zat]

I'd like to see Jos Buttler and Marcus Trescothick make the list.

 

[NUFAN]

With 21 centuries I feel like Herschelle Gibbs deserves my last nomination.

Let me know if you notice any duplicates.

Nominated - need 1 more pick
Ajmal, Saeed
Amarnath, Mohinder
Astle, Nathan
Collingwood, Paul
de Kock, Quinton
Gibbs, Herschelle
Gough, Darren
Haynes, Desmond
Hick, Graeme
Iqbal, Tamin
Jadeja, Ravi
Martyn, Damien
McMillan, Brian
Morgan, Eoin
Ntini, Makhaya
Rabada, Kagiso
Sohail, Aamer
Williamson, Kane


Qualified (91 so far)
Abbas, Zaheer
Afridi, Shahid
Akram, Wasim
Akhtar, Shoaib
Al Hasan, Shakib
Ambrose, Curtly
Amla, Hashim
Anderson, James
Anwar, Saeed
Bevan, Michael
Bond, Shane
Boon, David
Botham, Ian
Boycott, Geoff
Bracken, Nathan
Buttler, Jos
Cairns, Chris
Chappell, Greg
Cronje, Hansie
de Silva, Aravinda
de Villiers, AB
Dev, Kapil
Dhoni, MS
Dilshan, Tillakaratne
Donald, Allan
Fairbrother, Neil
Flintoff, Andrew
Ganguly, Sourav
Garner, Joel
Gayle, Chris
Gilchrist, Adam
Gower, David
Greatbatch, Mark
Greenidge, Gordon
Hadlee, Richard
Harris, Chris
Harvey, Ian
Hayden, Matthew
Holding, Michael
Hooper, Carl
Hussey, Michael
Jayasuriya, Sanath
Jones, Dean
Kallis, Jacques
Khan, Imran
Knight, Nick
Kohli, Virat
Klusener, Lance
Knight, Nick
Lamb, Allan
Lara, Brian
Lee, Brett
Lillee, Dennis
Lloyd, Clive
Malinga, Lasith
Marshall, Malcolm
McCullum, Brendan
McGrath, Glenn
Miandad, Javed
Muralitharan, Muttiah
Mushtaq, Saqlain
Pietersen, Kevin
Pollock, Shaun
Ponting, Ricky
Razzaq, Abdul
Rice, Clive
Richards, Viv
Rhodes, Jonty
Roberts, Andy
Root, Joe
Sangakarra, Kumar
Sehwag, Virender
Sharma, Rohit
Singh, Yuvraj
Starc, Mitchell
Steyn, Dale
Streak, Heath
Symonds, Andrew
Taylor, Ross
Tendulkar, Sachin
Trescothick, Marcus
Twose, Roger
ul-Haq, Inzamam
Vaas, Chaminda
Vettori, Daniel
Warne, Shane
Warner, David
Watson, Shane
Waugh, Mark
Waugh, Steve
Younis, Waqar

 

[akilana]

Well if you're not being confrontational you're being a dick then, so which is it?

says who.

 

[akilana]

I believe we're merely making nominations to form a list from which we'll be picking the top fifty. Try not being so confrontational, it's not the be all and end all.

Boycott shouldn't even be nominated.

 

[akilana]

Gary Kirsten should be there somewhere.

 

[ankitj]

Nufan, you have missed Gordon Greenidge who has been nominated once. Here's my second nomination for him. Will keep rest of the noms for later.

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Quinton dekock
3. Desmond Haynes
4. Rahul Dravid

Adding 3 more nominations

 

[Red]

Well if you're not being confrontational you're being a dick then, so which is it?

How's he being either confrontational or a dick by asking whether it'd be better to just nominate your best players rather than some from each nation?

Seems pretty logical and neither confrontational nor dick-y to me.

 

[cnerd123]

How's he being either confrontational or a dick by asking whether it'd be better to just nominate your best players rather than some from each nation?

Seems pretty logical and neither confrontational nor dick-y to me.

accusing people of national bias

that's either being confrontational or a dick

 

[Burgey]

Could never accuse you of holding a bias towards one country over 15 others you support, *****.

 

[GirtBySea]

Gary Kirsten
Martin Guptill
Herschelle Gibbs
Kane Williamson
Quinton de Kock (+)
Angelo Mathews
Simon O'Donnell
Ravi Jadeja
Darren Gough
Sunil Narine
Mustafizur Rahman

 

[Black_Warrior]

accusing people of national bias

that's either being confrontational or a dick

Is this post confrontation or being a dick?

 

[NUFAN]

Nominated - need 1 more pick
Ajmal, Saeed
Amarnath, Mohinder
Astle, Nathan
Collingwood, Paul
Dravid, Rahul
Hick, Graeme
Iqbal, Tamin
Martyn, Damien
Mathews, Angelo
McMillan, Brian
Morgan, Eoin
Narine, Sunil
Ntini, Makhaya
O'Donnell, Simon
Rabada, Kagiso
Rahman, Mustafizar
Sohail, Aamir


Qualified (98 so far)
Abbas, Zaheer
Afridi, Shahid
Akram, Wasim
Akhtar, Shoaib
Al Hasan, Shakib
Ambrose, Curtly
Amla, Hashim
Anderson, James
Anwar, Saeed
Bevan, Michael
Bond, Shane
Boon, David
Botham, Ian
Boycott, Geoff
Bracken, Nathan
Buttler, Jos
Cairns, Chris
Chappell, Greg
Cronje, Hansie
de Kock, Quenton
de Silva, Aravinda
de Villiers, AB
Dev, Kapil
Dhoni, MS
Dilshan, Tillakaratne
Donald, Allan
Fairbrother, Neil
Flintoff, Andrew
Ganguly, Sourav
Garner, Joel
Gayle, Chris
Gibbs, Herschelle
Gilchrist, Adam
Gough, Darren
Gower, David
Greatbatch, Mark
Greenidge, Gordon
Hadlee, Richard
Harris, Chris
Harvey, Ian
Hayden, Matthew
Haynes, Desmond
Holding, Michael
Hooper, Carl
Hussey, Michael
Jadeja, Ravi
Jayasuriya, Sanath
Jones, Dean
Kallis, Jacques
Khan, Imran
Kirsten, Gary
Knight, Nick
Kohli, Virat
Klusener, Lance
Knight, Nick
Lamb, Allan
Lara, Brian
Lee, Brett
Lillee, Dennis
Lloyd, Clive
Malinga, Lasith
Marshall, Malcolm
McCullum, Brendan
McGrath, Glenn
Miandad, Javed
Muralitharan, Muttiah
Mushtaq, Saqlain
Pietersen, Kevin
Pollock, Shaun
Ponting, Ricky
Razzaq, Abdul
Rice, Clive
Richards, Viv
Rhodes, Jonty
Roberts, Andy
Root, Joe
Sangakarra, Kumar
Sehwag, Virender
Sharma, Rohit
Singh, Yuvraj
Starc, Mitchell
Steyn, Dale
Streak, Heath
Symonds, Andrew
Taylor, Ross
Tendulkar, Sachin
Trescothick, Marcus
Twose, Roger
ul-Haq, Inzamam
Vaas, Chaminda
Vettori, Daniel
Warne, Shane
Warner, David
Watson, Shane
Waugh, Mark
Waugh, Steve
Williamson, Kane
Younis, Waqar

 

[bagapath]

start the polling process when you touch 100 nominations mate