CW decides the greatest ODI batsman ever (submit your own top 20 list)

[bagapath]

1. Viv Richards
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Virat Kohli
4. Ricky Ponting
5. Adam Gilchrist
6. M.S. Dhoni
7. ABDV
8. Sanath Jayasuriya
9. Michael Bevan
10. Michael Hussey
11. Brian Lara
12. Dean Jones
13. Mark Waugh
14. Rohit Sharma
15. Desmond Haynes
16. Javed Miandad
17. Andrew Symonds
18. Saeed Anwar
19. Aravinda De Silva
20. Saurav Ganguly

 

[trundler]

Viv Richards

Sachin Tendulkar
Virat Kohli
AB De Villiers
Ricky Ponting

MS Dhoni
Michael Bevan
Dean Jones
Javed Miandad
Clive Lloyd
Rohit Sharma
Michael Hussey
Hashim Amla
Gordon Greenidge
Ross Taylor
Martin Crowe
Brian Lara
Saeed Anwar
Adam Gilchrist


Lamb just missed outl

 

[MrPrez]

Kohli
RIchards
Tendulkar
de Villiers
Dhoni
Bevan
Ponting
Jones
Lara
Sharma

Gilchrist
Hussey
Amla
da Silva
Williamson
M.Waugh
Klusener
Haynes
Anwar
Buttler

 

[Burgey]

Richards
Lloyd
Gilchrist
Da Silva
Ponting
Dhoni
Boon
Hussey
Bevan
Tendulkar
Miandad
Williamson
Buttler
de Villiers
Kohli
Sharma
Jones
Lara
Haynes
Inzamam

 

[ankitj]

Richards
Tendulkar
Kohli
De Villiers
Bevan

Dhoni
Jones
Zaheer
Ponting
Greenidge

Sharma
Hussey
Butler
M. Waugh
Root

Chappell
Anwar
Lara
Haq
Miandad

 

[mr_mister]

Richards
Lloyd
Gilchrist
Da Silva
Ponting
Dhoni
Boon
Hussey
Bevan
Tendulkar
Miandad
Williamson
Buttler
de Villiers
Kohli
Sharma
Jones
Lara
Haynes
Inzamam

Seeing a pattern there

 

[trundler]

Haha, at least he's consistent!

 

[trundler]

Think Kohl's going to suffer majorly from that list like Murali did in the spin contest. Richards to be #1 comfortably.

 

[Burgey]

Look, it's a ****ing genuinely held belief. I'll be careful here, because pointing that out to the last empty header who questioned it got me an inexplicable seven day ban. But it is. You don't have to agree with it, but it's a genuinely held opinion I happen to have. If I wanted to base my list around meaningless JAMODIs, it would look different. But I don't, so it doesn't. If you want to put up other people's line ups in a bilateral series for the Coca Cola Cup in Sharjah in 1998, then fine, they'll probably win. But if you want to put them up against another ATG side in a final which actually matters like a WC, then the other outfit will fall around on the floor laughing at them, because they all throw up on themselves.

I mean, imagine Virat "What's-Your-Emergency?" Kohli walking in with a WC final on the line and having to face a Garner or a McGrath. The bowlers would be fighting each other to get the ball ffs. You'd want to invoke the mercy rule.

 

[trundler]

Don't forget to take your blood pressure meds. That's your opinion and it's fine, jeez.

 

[Burgey]

Blood pressure's good actually. Small mercies and all that.

 

[trundler]

Crowe should be in there somewhere, no? Ahead of Kohli, perhaps. Was a great knock and if it weren't for Inzi pulling something magnificent out of his hat they would've won it.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah good point, though I'm rating finals ahead of semi finals generally speaking, but MDC certainly one of the greats. And a great stylist with it too. Would rather walk from here to Perth to watch him play a cover drive than walk across the road and watch someone like Finch or Roy blast a ton.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Viv
Tendulkar
Ponting
ABDV
Kohli
Bevan
M Hussey
Dhoni
D Jones
Rohit
G Chappell
Abbas
Turner
M Waugh
R Taylor
Miandad
Amla
Jayasuriya
Greenidge
Root

 

[Bolo]

I'm just gonna nominate some guys who get less credit than they deserve (not that they get none, but still...)

Zaheer
Lamb
Chappell
Jones
Anwar
Klusener
Hussey

 

[morgieb]

1. Viv Richards
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Virat Kohli
4. AB de Villiers
5. Michael Bevan
6. MS Dhoni
7. Ricky Ponting
8. Dean Jones
9. Michael Hussey
10. Jos Buttler
11. Brian Lara
12. Rohit Sharma
13. Ross Taylor
14. Joe Root
15. Adam Gilchrist
16. Sanath Jayasuriya
17. David Warner
18. Kane Williamson
19. Andrew Symonds
20. Mark Waugh

 

[mr_mister]

No love yet seen for Neil Harvey Fairbrother

 

[harsh.ag]

No love yet seen for Neil Harvey Fairbrother

Well he's probably not making the England ODI XI, so...

 

[weldone]

1. Viv Richards
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. AB de Villiers
4. Virat Kohli
5. Adam Gilchrist
6. Ricky Ponting
7. Sanath Jayasuriya
8. Hashim Amla
9. MS Dhoni
10. Zaheer Abbas
11. Brian Lara
12. Javed Miandad
13. Michael Hussey
14. Michael Bevan
15. Aravinda de Silva
16. Saeed Anwar
17. Chris Gayle
18. Virender Sehwag
19. Mark Waugh
20. Graeme Smith

 

[Flem274*]

ross taylor
sachin flopdulkar or someone i guess