Your top four is the best one we have. #5 is a bit more debateable - Twose lacks hundreds but Styris and Fleming have lower averages. All three are good picks to knock it around in the middle overs, guide a chase or ressurrect an innings.
Pretty much my side as well & I too was tossing up between Chats & Mills. I think Williamson with an average & near on 40 & SR of near enough 80 has already done enough to beat the likes of Fleming & Jones as a no.3.
Hadlee also played half his career in the 80s, which is a bit closer to the modern game. Hadlee is also one of the greatest bowlers of all time. He gets in.
So you've put an arbitrary cut off at 1980? Why?
It isn't though. The ODI game was initially 60 overs and it was only really the 80s that the pajama cricket we know and love began in earnest. In one day cricket strike rate is incredibly important and there isn't enough from Turner to prove without a shadow of doubt he'd have been up to scoring at over a run a ball.
I'm not calling Turner a **** ****, I'm being fairly open with the reason I'm leaving him out. We just don't know how he'd have played in the modern ODI format.
Test cricket has changed considerably over time. From big things like covered wickets and mainstream attacking short pitched bowling to expectations of the keeper and the tail with the bat.
It's not relevant though. We don't know how Nathan Astle would have gone in the 60 over game, or how Ross Taylor would bat on a sticky wicket. Unless you're picking a team to specifically play in 2014 then what Turner would do today means nothing.
Turner was originally one of those tedious opening batsmen who barely hit the ball off the square, then he came to England and modified his game for the limited overs stuff and became very aggressive - a bit like Chris Tavare did, without perhaps being quite so moribund in the first place, so I think its a fair assumption that Turner would have honed his technique to suit the 50 and 20 over formats
