Cricketweb decides- England's all time ODI XI

[Starfighter]

Tend not to feel like Botham's batting was good enough. For someone who could be such a destructive hitter in tests an average of 23 with no centuries is poor, even if ODI batting wasn't as easy in the early seventies and eighties.

OTOH Stokes' bowling is rubbish.

 

[harsh.ag]

Stokes got some valuable wickets this WC iirc

 

[jaideep]

Gough,Willis

 

[Tom Flint]

Gough botham

 

[Isura]

Botham and Archer.

 

[sledger]

Caddick and Angus Fraser

 

[NZTailender]

Alex Wharf & James Kirtley

 

[CricAddict]

Archer, Woakes

 

[NUFAN]

Chris Woakes gets nothing even though his new ball spells just won us a world cup?

Four matchwinning spells in four must win games.

Usually CW has a big hang up on winning big world cup games when it comes to ODI records, but it looks like the big hang up on 90s players being inherently better than modern players has won here.

I certainly considered Woakes. He was my third choice ahead of Anderson because of his world cup exploits.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Mike Hendrick and Darren Gough

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The crazy thing is I can think of 7 or 8 Kiwi new ball bowlers who would be better. I hate to imagine how many Australians, Pakistanis, West Indians and South Africans would be ahead of the final English pair chosen.

Tempting to pick one of Botham or Flintoff to take the new ball with Gough and pick all three of Botham, Flintoff, and Stokes.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Actually wouldn't pick all three of them on 2nd thoughts. Perhaps just Flintoff.

 

[CricAddict]

Trescothick
Bairstow
Root
KP
Stokes
Flintoff
Buttler
Botham
Woakes
Swann
Archer

 

[trundler]

Knight
Bairstow
Root
Lamb
Pietersen
Flintoff
Buttler

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Mike Hendrick and Darren Gough

Actually Willis and Gough

 

[harsh.ag]

Gough and Archer

 

[Fuller Pilch]

If people are naming full XIs now:

Bairstow
Knight
Root
KP
Fairbrother
Flintoff
Buttler
Woakes
Marks
Gough
Willis

 

[MrPrez]

Willis, Gough.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Invented the game and just won the World Cup but will only be the 8th best ODI side

 

[Red]

Bob Willis and Darren Gough go thru reasonable comfortably.

Next, select two opening batsmen.