Pick your Cricket ODI World XI

[DeeGame]

If you could pick a World XI side for a ODI including players those that have retired who would you pick & why:

My XI:

Openers:

Matthew Hayden & Adam Gilchrist

Possibly the greatest opening partnership in the ODI history. A must in the team. Gilchrist would obviously take the wicketkeeper's role in my team.

3rd:

Tendulkar

The greatest Indian batsman of all time & highest scorer in ODI Cricket with over 14,000 runs.

4th:

Kevin Pietersen

Quite frankly the only England player i would ever consider picking.

5th:

Sanath Jayasuria

Sri Lanka's greatest batsman of all time - also picked him coz his useful as a 5th bowler.

6th:

Ponting

Best ODI captain for a long time & had to squeeze him in my team. Would be my team captain.

7th:

Jonty Rhodes

Greatest fielder & revoultionised ODI Cricket with his fielding techniques which have now been copied by all the teams.

8th:

Bret Lee

Sad to see him not at this World Cup but one of the greatest fast bowlers currently playing. Also is useful with the bat.

9th:

Shaun Pollock

Best SA bowler in ODI cricket. Also is useful with the bat.

10th:

Glen Mcgrath

Even at his age he is still a very good wicket taker in ODI cricket.

11th:

Murali

Best spinner in ODI Cricket - was a close call between him & Warne but chose Murali.

[Jayesh87]

forget this retired crap, my dream team for today would be:

Hayden-Best opener in the world atm
Jayasuria-Can destroy any opening bowling partnership just pips gilly for me
Ponting(c)- Best captain in the world
Pieterson- Best batter in the world
Kallis- Best allrounder in the world
Styris- Is in fabulous form has to make my team
Dhoni- Biased opinion i know but i think within a year he will become the best wicky/batsman in the world
Bond- Opening bowler 1, great bowler and can bat abit aswell
Malingia- 1st change bowler- the salinger is a major threat
McGrath- Opening bowler 2, may have lost abit of pace but he has class
Murali- Mite aswell have another chucker in the team ey

[Shaggy]

Yeah what's all that retired stuff about? Here's my team of the World Cup...

Hayden
Jayasuria
Gilchrist
Ponting
Pietersen
Styris
Kallis
Vaas
Malinga
Bond
Muralitharan

[Jayesh87]

Also if you can pick retired players....you seemed to have missed out some of the games greats....how come?

[DeeGame]

Also if you can pick retired players....you seemed to have missed out some of the games greats....how come?

got a short memory

[Jayesh87]

got a short memory

Even then Shane Warne would surely have to be in your team??

Brett Lee and Pollock shouldn't even be close to any greatist team of all time even with a short memory you could have picked Wasim Akram, Courtney Walsh or Curtly Ambrose ?? All great bowler imo.

Rhodes great fielder and a nice lad (met him when he played for Gloucestershire) shouldn't be in there either imo of corse

[DeeGame]

Even then Shane Warne would surely have to be in your team??

Brett Lee and Pollock shouldn't even be close to any greatist team of all time even with a short memory you could have picked Wasim Akram, Courtney Walsh or Darren Ambrose ?? All great bowler imo.

Rhodes great fielder and a nice lad (met him when he played for Gloucestershire) shouldn't be in there either imo of corse

Darren plays for newcastle utd - you thinking of curtly ambrose

[Jayesh87]

Darren plays for newcastle utd - you thinking of curtly ambrose

[Colemere]

Darren plays for newcastle utd - you thinking of curtly ambrose

I thought Darren Ambrose was at Charlton

[DeeGame]

I thought Darren Ambrose was at Charlton

thats right but he was @ the geordies before

[Tee]

My World XI would be:

Hayden

Gilchrist (wk)

Tendulkar

Mohd Yousuf

Ponting (c)

Afridi

Kallis

McGrath

Bond

Akhtar

Murali


Obviously heavily Pakistan biased

[saveferris]

My world cup XI

Hayden
Jayasuriya
Ponting
Clarke
Styris
Kallis
Gilchrist
Bond
McGrath
Vaas
Murali

Vaas and Bond as starting bowlers right and left arm combination with great control, with McGrath and Murali at the changes. Also have Styris, Kallis and Jayasuriya who all provide good bowling support, but had great world cups with the bat.

Pietersen had a cracking world cup, but in terms of consistency and especially when it mattered at the end of the tournament I chose Michael Clarke.

[Ritchi3]

Where's the Brayster?

[DeeGame]

Where's the Brayster?

12th man

[Neil Young]

If you could pick a World XI side for a ODI including players those that have retired who would you pick & why...

Hmm, that's pretty tricky. Is it OK if I get back to you on that?