All Time ODI XI

[Days of Grace]

Astle
Fleming(c)
Taylor
Crowe
Twose
Cairns
Parore(wk)
Hadlee
Vettori
Larson
Bond

Astle
McCullum (wk)
Taylor
Crowe (c)
Twose
Styris
Cairns
Hadlee
Vettori
Bond
Chatfield

 

[abmk]

^^

my bad, I forgot momentarily about brendon

so change my NZ all time ODI XI to

astle
brendon(wk)
taylor
crowe(c)
twose
styris
cairns
hadlee
vettori
larson
bond

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not all these have played ODI's but I couldn't give a toss.

Hobbs
Knight
Dexter
Pietersen
Hammond
Botham
Flintoff
Knott
Snow
Trueman
Underwood

 

[The Sean]

Not all these have played ODI's but I couldn't give a toss.

Hobbs
Knight
Dexter
Pietersen
Hammond
Botham
Flintoff
Knott
Snow
Trueman
Underwood

Ha ha, hell of a side. Though personally I reckon Compton and/or Woolley would be musts in any hypothetical all time England ODI side.

Oh, and Gilbert Jessop.

 

[grecian]

Amazing how Botham get's in all the English sides here, despite his record being average in this form.

Yet we haven't got anyone much better though, I suppose.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Amazing how Botham get's in all the English sides here, despite his record being average in this form.

Yet we haven't got anyone much better though, I suppose.

Botham spent a good 4 years in the England team based on what he might do rather than actual performance, and that's how he gets in here.

 

[Howe_zat]

Not all these have played ODI's but I couldn't give a toss.

Hobbs
Knight
Dexter
Pietersen
Hammond
Botham
Flintoff
Knott
Snow
Trueman
Underwood

And yet Knighty's still there, fabulous.

Thoughts on Rhodes? Verity?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

And yet Knighty's still there, fabulous.

Thoughts on Rhodes? Verity?

When I started it was going to be one legend and one based on ODI performance alternately but when I got passed Pietersen I couldn't be arsed and just made the rest up of quality cricketers instead.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

NZ XI

Turner
Astle
Crowe (c)
Twose
BEVAN CONGDON!!! (Check out his stats - albeit 11 ODIs)
Cairns
McCullum (wk)
Hadlee
Vettori
Bond
Chatfield

 

[Jacknife]

Not all these have played ODI's but I couldn't give a toss.

Hobbs
Knight
Dexter
Pietersen
Hammond
Botham
Flintoff
Knott
Snow
Trueman
Underwood

Love the bowling attack, Trueman, Snow opening, with Freddie and Botham waiting in the wings, Underwood and Hammond for the middle overs.

 

[Migara]

and I called Taylor selection premature.

One year down the line now Mathews averages 35+ with a SR of 85, and bowling average of 31. What would be the judgment now?

 

[bagapath]

a XI made up of australians who never played ODI cricket

trumper
hill
bradman (c)
harvey
mccabe
miller
noble
benaud
lindwall
davidson
oldfield (wk)

similarly for england

hobbs
grace (C)
hammond
compton
ames (wk)
jessop
woolley
rhodes
barnes
larwood
trueman

 

[Flem274*]

Turner
Astle
Crowe
Fleming
Twose
Cairns
McCullum
Hadlee
Mills
Vettori
Bond

So many bowlers unlucky to miss out. Not so many batsmen.

 

[Days of Grace]

Needs a proper lower order biffer, tbh. Pollock just doesn't cut it at #7. Can't fault the rest of the lineup.

It may not be much when we are talking about a World XI, but Pollock did average 29 with a 88 strike-rate batting at no.7 during his ODI career, so he was definitely no mug.

In the end, how many more runs will Pollock save with his bowling compared to how many more runs Klusender will make with the bat?

Pollock had an economy-rate of 3.6 in the fastest run-scoring era in ODI cricket history. That is worthy of a place in an ODI World XI.

 

[Himannv]

How about this??

Zimbabwe

N.Johnson
B.Taylor
M.Goodwin
A.Flower
G.Flower
T.Taibu
G.Whittal
H.Streak
P.Strang
E.Brandes
H.Olonga

I'd probably fit Ray Price in there somewhere.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

AT ODI sides with no eequirement of playing an ODI

Australia

Adam Gilchrist (+)
Keith Miller
Don Bradman
Ricky Ponting
Michael Hussey
Michael Bevan
Steve Waugh (*)
Ray Lindwall
Shane Warne
Clarrie Grimmett
Glenn McGrath

England

Jack Hobbs
Wilfred Rhodes
Dennis Compton
Walter Hammond
Kevin Pieterson (*)
Ian Botham
Gilbert Jessop
Alan Knott (+)
Alec Bedser
Fred Trueman
Brian Statham

India

Virendar Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
Sourav Ganguly
MS Dhoni (*, +)
Kapil Dev
Vinoo Mankad
Harbajhan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Amar Singh
Bishen Bedi

New Zealand

Stephen Fleming (*)
Bert Surcliffe
Nathan Astle
Martin Crowe
John R Reid
Brendon McCullum (+)
Chris Cairns
Richard Hadlee
Daniel Vettori
Jack Cowie
Ewen Chatfield

Pakistan

Saeed Anwar
Shahid Afridi
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Imran Khan (*)
Wasim Akram
Wasim Bari (+)
Waqar Younis
Fazal Mahmood
Shoaib Akthar

South Africa

Graeme Smith
Barry Richards
Jacques Kallis
Graeme Pollock
Aubrey Faulkner
Clive Rice (*)
Dennis Lindsay (+)
Lance Klusner
Shaun Pollock
Alan Donald
Neil Adcock

Sri Lanka

Sanath Jayasuriya
Tilakaratne Dilshan
Kumar Sangakarra (+)
Mahela Jayawardene
Aravinda de Silva
Arjuna Ranatunga (*)
Angelo Matthews
Chaminda Vaas
Ajantha Mendis
Lasith Malinga
Muttiah Muralitharin

West Indies

Gordon Greenidge
Chris Gayle
George Headley
Viv Richards
Garfield Sobers
Clive Lloyd (*)
Clyde Walcott (+)
Malcolm Marshall
Curtley Ambrose
Michael Holding
Joel Garner

 

[smash84]

nice.......the WI, Aus, and Pak ODI sides look pretty damn good

 

[CricAddict]

Sanath Jayasuriya/Shahid Afridi
Sachin Tendulkar
Ricky Ponting
Viv Richards
MS Dhoni*+
Michael Bevan
Ian Botham
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall
Curtly Ambrose
Glenn Mcgrath

 

[smash84]

I think Ian Botham and Malcolm Marshall were not such great ODI players

 

[CricAddict]

I think Ian Botham and Malcolm Marshall were not such great ODI players

I agree to an extent Smalishah. Wrote it off the top of my mind, without checking any stats..Wanted to have an allrounder there, thought of Afridi and Botham, and went with Botham.