Who beats this SC ODI team?

[Thala_0710]

I would select Iyer before selecting Mathews tbh

 

[Migara]

I would select Iyer before selecting Mathews tbh

I would wait till they retire. Mathews for all purposes is finished.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

You could pick Miandad or Babar instead of any of them

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

The venue is classic Sharjah for a five match ODI series. No ball change.

Is there a ROW XI that can beat them in these conditions?

Please keep to the below team formation.

Jayasuria/Sehwag/Ganguly/Rohit
Tendulkar
Zaheer Abbas/Rohit
Kohli
DeSilva/Zaheer Abbas
Dhoni (c)
Imran
Kapil
Wasim
Bumrah/Waqar
Murali

For Sharjah , Shoaib Akthar is a must ..


39 wickets in 20 ODI matches at 16.92 , not even Wasim Akram averaged better in Sharjah

 

[capt_Luffy]

I would select Iyer before selecting Mathews tbh

Raina as well feel has a decent shout

 

[Victor Ian]

That team is beaten by most Aussie teams. It's not about the skill at this level, but about the fragility of the mind.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

That team is beaten by most Aussie teams. It's not about the skill at this level, but about the fragility of the mind.

Agree top 2 inches but also

fielding skill and ability to turn 1s into 2s, 2s into 3.

There are no great fielders named in that Asian XI, whereas the likes of Viv, Punter, ABDV, and Symonds are amongst the greatest fielders of all time

 

[Coronis]

Mathews vs Yuvraj - Batting - Once again nothing much

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Bowling - they are a gulf apart.

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There is absolutely no reason to select Yuvraj over Mathews.

Oh goodie, when Migara has no actual argument he resorts to icc ratings

 

[Migara]

Oh goodie, when Migara has no actual argument he resorts to icc ratings

ICC rating is the argument. You can only come out with very flimsy ones ones that is presented.

 

[Coronis]

ICC rating is the argument. You can only come out with very flimsy ones ones that is presented.

First off, I have no horse in this race, as I care little for limited overs, and have made no other posts arguing anything in this thread.

Secondly ICC rankings and ratings of players are very flawed, as any non-casual fan besides you knows. Using them in an argument like this means you have no actual way of arguing your point, so you’re grabbing relatively meaningless numbers.

 

[Migara]

First off, I have no horse in this race, as I care little for limited overs, and have made no other posts arguing anything in this thread.

Secondly ICC rankings and ratings of players are very flawed, as any non-casual fan besides you knows. Using them in an argument like this means you have no actual way of arguing your point, so you’re grabbing relatively meaningless numbers.

I would like to see some evidence that ICC ratings are inferior to opinions of non-casual fans.

 

[Victor Ian]

You mean like icc ranking ponting over sangakara?

 

[Migara]

You mean like icc ranking ponting over sangakara?

They have very similar ratings throughout career, and they played in a similar era. I won't readily compare two players from different eras using even ICC ratings. Sanga as a pure bat has way better ratings than Ponting. Once the ratings are pretty similar or close, then we can go for other sub topics or semantics because we know we are comparing similar players.

And FYI, this is Ponting vs Sangakkara and even eye balling shows who had more time topping 800 points.

 

[Victor Ian]

But google says ponting was above 800 for 111 matches and sangakara was 109. Is that true?

 

[Coronis]

But google says ponting was above 800 for 111 matches and sangakara was 109. Is that true?

Almost like eye test doesn’t work

 

[Coronis]

I won't readily compare two players from different eras using even ICC ratings.

Ranatunga vs Yuvraj - Absolutely nothing different with the bat.

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Comical

 

[Migara]

But google says ponting was above 800 for 111 matches and sangakara was 109. Is that true?

Out o how many total matches?

 

[ankitj]

But google says ponting was above 800 for 111 matches and sangakara was 109. Is that true?

The horizontal axis is of different lengths in the two charts because of difference in their career lengths. I don't know how can one eye ball that.