India's Best ODI Team of All Time

[sumantra]

Rohit Sharma
Virendra Sehwag
Virat Kohli
Sachin Tendulkar
Yuvraj Singh
M. S. Dhoni
Kapil Dev
Anil Kumble
Zaheer Khan
Kuldeep Yadav
Jasprit Bumrah


Looking at the players left out, there should be a second best side as well


Sourav Ganguly
Shikhar Dhawan
Goutam Gambhir
Mohm. Azharuddin
Rahul Dravid
Ajay Jadeja
Dinesh Karthik
Bhubaneswar Kumar
Javagal Srinath
Yuzvendra Chahal
Mohm. Shami

Irfan Pathan, Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja were the other names that came to my mind and are deserving enough to get a place...

Rishav Pant - I would like to wait for a little bit longer.

Any other names? Changes?

 

[harsh.ag]

Sachin Tendulkar
Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli
Sourav Ganguly (c)
Virender Sehwag
Yuvraj Singh
M S Dhoni (w)

Kapil Dev
Ajit Agarkar
Kuldeep Yadav
Jasprit Bumrah

 

[Dan]

If you're gonna put Tendulkar at 4, needs more Justin Ontong.

 

[harsh.ag]

Get around 12-13 overs out of Yuvi, Sehwag, and Sachin combined at least.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sachin
Rohit
Ganguly
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Kapil
Kumble
Zaheer
Kuldeep
Bumrah

Truly woeful tail but that's where we're at. I refuse to pick agarkar. He was rubbish. Yes, even in odis.

 

[harsh.ag]

Sachin
Rohit
Ganguly
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Kapil
Kumble
Zaheer
Kuldeep
Bumrah

Truly woeful tail but that's where we're at. I refuse to pick agarkar. He was rubbish. Yes, even in odis.

Better than Zaheer.

 

[Dan]

In all seriousness, does Raina's 2008-2015 run get him close? 5000 runs at 37, SR of 97. Not the worst option at 6 or 7.

 

[vcs]

Sachin
Rohit
Ganguly
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Kapil
Kumble
Zaheer
Kuldeep
Bumrah

Truly woeful tail but that's where we're at. I refuse to pick agarkar. He was rubbish. Yes, even in odis.

Kumble? Would rather have Harbhajan in ODIs..

 

[harsh.ag]

In all seriousness, does Raina's 2008-2015 run get him close? 5000 runs at 37, SR of 97. Not the worst option at 6 or 7.

Yeah, considered him but he can be pretty dire. Rather have Sehwag there (given that Sehwag doesn't make the top 4 and Yuvi-Dhoni are a lock).

 

[Dan]

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Rohit Sharma
3. Virat Kohli
4. Yuvraj Singh
5. MS Dhoni
6. Kapil Dev
7. Suresh Raina

Yeah ok I'm talking myself out of this one.

 

[ankitj]

Too many great openers. And this is true for all teams for ODIs.

 

[harsh.ag]

Problem, again, being the lack of a proper #7. Dhoni has to fill the role (when he should be at 6) or maybe Sehwag/Raina.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Kumble? Would rather have Harbhajan in ODIs..

They're both pretty meh tbh.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Better than Zaheer.

No. An economy rate of over 5 for his era is ridiculously terrible.

 

[Daemon]

I'd rather have Raina down the order given he's shown he can do it.

Tendulkar
Rohit
Kohli
Yuvraj
MSD
Raina
Kapil
Kumble
Zaheer/Kuldeep
Shami
Bumrah

 

[marc71178]

Rishav Pant - I would like to wait for a little bit longer.

You mean 3 games isn’t enough?!

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sachin
Rohit
Ganguly
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Kapil
Kumble
Zaheer
Kuldeep
Bumrah

Truly woeful tail but that's where we're at. I refuse to pick agarkar. He was rubbish. Yes, even in odis.

You know what, I'd rather just pick Raina instead of going with a tail that awful. Some combo of Yuvraj/Ganguly/Sachin/Raina can troll the remaining overs. Not ideal, but it's better than having a tail that starts at 8.

Sachin
Rohit
Ganguly
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Raina
Kapil
Zaheer
Kuldeep
Bumrah

 

[harsh.ag]

Raina vs Sehwag is an interesting debate. Sehwag has more quality for varied pitches and quality bowling. Raina has more experience in those situations.

 

[cnerd123]

Rohit/Ganguly
Sachin
Kohli
???
Yuvraj
MSD
Raina
Dev
Agarkar
Kumble
Srinath

Really hard to pick a number 4 that isn't Azhar

 

[Dan]

I wouldn't want Sehwag running between the wickets with peak Dhoni in the 49th tbh