stephen
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
A guy who gets two half centuries and a century in three world cup finals is overrated?Agreed. Gilchrist as an ODI bat is severely over-rated on CW. At least I haven't seen too much of Jaya's name mentioned other than on this thread.
Look over the list of openers asked sort by strike rate. He's the only one in the top 20 or so other than Sehwag to feature who hasn't played in recent years when batting has gotten much easier. His strike rate odd great, his average is good and he's an ATG keeper even without his batting.
If you can't see why Gilchrist is rated highly you didn't watch ODI cricket from 1998-2007.