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This is a list of the top 10 batsmen ever in ODI, as rated by Wisden.

1 IVA RichardsWI
2 SR Tendulkar Ind
3 BC Lara WI
4 DM Jones Aus
5 MG Bevan Aus
6 SC Ganguly Ind
7 ME Waugh Aus
8 Zaheer Abbas Pak
9 JH Kallis SA
10 Saeed Anwar Pak

{ How do Ganguly and Kallis come into the picture!? }

This is a list of the top 10 bowlers ever in ODI, as rated by Wisden.

1 Wasim Akram Pak
2 AA Donald SA
3 Waqar Younis Pak
4 GD McGrath Aus
5 J Garner WI
6 Saqlain Mushtaq Pak
7 M Muralitharan SL
8 SM Pollock SA
9 SK Warne Aus
10 DK Lillee Aus

{ Lillee dint play much of the 1-day game. I dont know about Pollock, I think Ambrose or Walsh would’ve been a better choice }

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Prety fair lists, Walsh's ODI record is average at best and all the names on those lists perform well in the ODI game.
I cant seem to phathom a ODI list without "The Lion of Barbados. "

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Bats: Ganguly should probably have been lower. I was expecting to see Martin Crowe in there too.

Bowlrs: Muralitharan deserves to be higher, and he probably will have climbed by the time he hangs his boots.

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Javed Miandad had a healthy average of 41.70 and played many a gutsy knocks. Same goes for Steve Waugh. So they probably shd have been there. I figure Desmond Haynes will also be somewhere near the top 10.

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atleast wasim at #1 and waqar at #3 get the right positions....

u can always argue on batting though....

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What is Ganguly doing there? Is this a joke? :hehe:

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Ganguly is a decent ODI bat, but I figure this is overwhelmingly picked via stats and not the situation and opposition ect.

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Wisden said that it picked players by their performance, consistency, opposition toughness, and circumstances under which they performed. That makes it all the more surprising to see Ganguly up there. He hasn’t been done nothing since he got the captaincy, & that was quite a long time back! :mocking:

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Ganguly better than Waugh, Abbas, Anwar and Miandad, biggest joke of the century. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I would prefer

ODI Batsman

Richards
Miandad
Tendulkar
Lara
Dean Jones
Abbas
S Waugh
M Waugh
S Anwar
Bevan

ODI Bowler

W Akram
W Younis
A Donald
M Muralitharan
Marshall
McGrath
Saqlain
Garner
Ambrose
S Akhtar

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You forgot Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Zahid. :wink:

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Its ok, we'll put them in the all time Asian XI!

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Dont tell me AQ that you really think Ganguly is better than Javed Miandad and Dean Jones. Do you ? I mean sachee muchee ? :eek:

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Yeah! Thats what he meant. I guess he wanted Ganguly, Kumble and Agarakar to be on those lists! :mudhosh:

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well AQ then just to make u happy we can request wisden to issue a top ten all-rounder list and have Agrakr at No. 1....
and yes we'll also include afridi in the top ten....

now smile.... :)

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Saeed Anwar! YO!
:jhanda: