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

harsh.ag said:

Run it again after CT ends, Nuf.

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Good idea harsh as it has been 6 1/2 years since the last edition.

The nomination period can start straight away and I'll ask for everyone's list of their 25 best ODI players when the Champions Trophy has completed. I've just checked that my sheepdraft@gmail.com address is still active so it would be great if you could email me your list there. That way the countdown will be more of a surprise.

The rules for this is that first place will get 25 points, second 24 points all the way down to your 25th selection who will get 1 point.

I'll give everyone 11 nominations and for anyone to be included they'll need to be nominated just twice. You will only be able to make your picks from the nominated players so nominate wisely and only include cricketers who have played an ODI.

Once everything has been done, I'll do a countdown of the 50 best players. For anyone tied on points, the person who has had the most voters will be placed ahead. If that is equal, the player with the highest nomination will be ahead. If that's equal, well they can share that spot.

Graeme Hick
Neil Fairbrother
Nick Knight
Roger Twose
Chris Harris
Heath Streak
Lance Klusener

Why is Kimber not posting here regularly now that we are posting threads for him.

Lara
Sachin
Viv
Bevan
MSD
Kohli
M Hussey
Murali
Warne
Wasim
Ambrose

1 Nice post.
2 Going the underrated player tactic, nice.
3 How do you know he hasn't been a regular contributor of this site since April 2007?
4 That's 12 mate, only allowing 11 at this stage.
5 You're a ****

Changed it Nufers.. And just reading the list again, I realize I can have a pretty kickass ODI XI with that group..


Sachin
Lara
Viv
Kohli
Bevan
MSD (wk)
Hussey
Warne
Wasim
Ambrose
Murali


The 5th bowler is a worry but that batting line up should beat around literally any other bowling line up.

Curtly Ambrose
Andrew Symonds
Shane Warne
Kumara Sangakarra
Sourav Ganguly
Lance Klusener
Brian McMillan
Allan Donald
Brian Lara
Kapil Dev
Mohinder Amarnath

honestbharani said:

Changed it Nufers.. And just reading the list again, I realize I can have a pretty kickass ODI XI with that group..


Sachin
Lara
Viv
Kohli
Bevan
MSD (wk)
Hussey
Warne
Wasim
Ambrose
Murali


The 5th bowler is a worry but that batting line up should beat around literally any other bowling line up.

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Bevan and Viv could bowl a bit. Sachin too to an extent.

Mark Waugh
Tamin Iqbal
Ian Botham
Saurav Ganguly
Martin Crowe
Saeed Anwar
Shaun Pollock
Aravinda de Silva
Clive Lloyd

Andrew Flintoff
Joe Root
Eoin Morgan
Quinton de Kock
Kagiso Rabada
Rohit Sharma
Virat Kohli
Ravi Jadeja
Kane Williamson
Shakib Al Hasan

Tendulkar
Gilchrist
V.Richards
Ponting
Kohli
DeVilliers
Symonds
Wasim
Garner
McGrath
Murali

Just made a list of the greatest ODI players country-wise and the total comes out to almost 50 by itself.

So, no need to include fancy names as far as I'm concerned.

I'll suggest disallowing people from nominating a guy who has already been nominated twice, this allows a more varied pool, there's no point of people nominating Akram 37 times right now.

Country-wise list

1. ABdV
2. Amla
3. Donald
4. Pollock
5. Klusener
6. Kallis
7. QdK

8. Garner
9. Ambrose
10. Viv
11. Lloyd
12. Lara
13. Holding

14. Hayden
15. Gilly
16. Ponting
17. Bevan
18. Hussey
19. Warne
20. McGrath
21. Symonds
22. Watson
23. Warner
24. Smith
25. Lee
26. Starc
27. Lillee

28. Flintoff
29. Root

30. Tendulkar
31. Kohli
32. Dhoni
33. Dev
34. Yuvraj
35. Ganguly

36. Sanga
37. Jayasuriya
38. Murali

39. Hadlee
40. KW
41. Cairns

42. Miandad
43. Imran
44. Wasim
45. Waqar
46. Saqlain

Four spots left for other players imo.

Way to cull the debate bro.

srbhkshk said:

I'll suggest disallowing people from nominating a guy who has already been nominated twice, this allows a more varied pool, there's no point of people nominating Akram 37 times right now.

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That's the idea actually. Once someone has been nominated twice, you are wasting your nominations if you include someone already in the game.

So the players with a 'x 2' are through

Akram, Wasim x 2
Al Hasan, Shakib
Amarnath, Mohinder
Ambrose, Curtly x 2
Anwar, Saeed
Botham, Ian
Crowe, Martin
de Kock, Quinton
de Silva, Aravinda
de Villiers, AB
Dev, Kapil
Dhoni, MS
Donald, Allan
Fairbrother, Neil
Flintoff, Andrew
Ganguly, Sourav x 2
Garner, Joel
Gilchrist, Adam
Harris, Chris
Hick, Graeme
Hussey, Michael
Iqbal, Tamin
Jadeja, Ravi
Kohli, Virat x 2
Klusener, Lance x 2
Lara, Brian x 2
Lloyd, Clive
McGrath, Glenn
McMillan, Brian
Morgan, Eoin
Muralitharan, Muttiah x 2
Pollock, Shaun
Ponting, Ricky
Rabada, Kagiso
Richards, Viv x 2
Root, Joe
Sangakarra, Kumar
Sharma, Rohit
Symonds, Andrew x 2
Streak, Heath
Tendulkar, Sachin x 2
Twose, Roger
Warne, Shane x 2
Waugh, Mark
Williamson, Kane

harsh.ag said:

Country-wise list

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Please remove 35 players from your list.

Can we not do joke nominations like Tamim? Just prolongs the voting process.

1. Holding
2. Lee
3. Lloyd
4. Kallis
5. Warner
6. Ganguly
7. Watson
8. Cairns
9. Imran
10. Waqar
11. Saqlain

Daemon said:

Can we not do joke nominations like Tamim? Just prolongs the voting process.

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The 25 picks wont start until the CT is completed so that's not true.