All time ODI team

tricycle wrote:The only argument I have against Bevan is Dhoni. Bevan clearly was a brilliant odi player, but Dhoni can even slog some aoart from the finishing off.

Dhoni is in at 5. MS Dhoni = Emma Stoney.

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SRT
Viv (c)
ABdV
Emma (wk)
Bevo
Pollock
Wasim
DKL
Big Bird
Chuck

PeterCS wrote:1. Bill Lawry
2. Geoffrey Boycott *
3. Mark Richardson
4. Chris Tavare'
5. Bruce Edgar
6. William Scotton
7. Brendon Kuruppu +
8. Bryce McGain
9. Ravi Rampaul
10. (Shanthakumaran) Sreesanth
11. Jade Dernbach

How could you possibly leave out Trevor Bailey?

Basil wrote:

PeterCS wrote:1. Bill Lawry
2. Geoffrey Boycott *
3. Mark Richardson
4. Chris Tavare'
5. Bruce Edgar
6. William Scotton
7. Brendon Kuruppu +
8. Bryce McGain
9. Ravi Rampaul
10. (Shanthakumaran) Sreesanth
11. Jade Dernbach

How could you possibly leave out Trevor Bailey?

He never played ODIs?

No, not for that reason. After all, I even included a famously stodgy 19th century batsman (who for example carried his bat for 9* on one occasion).

Unless I'm under a false impression, "Barnacle" got his nickname as a result of a couple of up-against-the-wall Test innings - but otherwise was not especially noted for destroying his opponents' or the spectators' will to live at the crease. In fact, he was known to hit bouffant boundaries and the odd carefree six in a different context.

If we stuck any last-ditch hero into this team of teams, it'd be creaking at the seams. Jack Russell would probably be in there, for a start. Monty, Bunny, etc.

I meant to go for those batsmen for whom "digging in grimly" was deep in the blood, anchored in the DNA, almost whatever the format.

The bowlers obviously were the opposite kettle of fish.

But the list wasn't definitive. Just for a larf, like.