Was just reading an article about this event coming up:

http://cricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=38543

On the night they will be announcing the ODI Dream Team voted for by the players who have represented Australia in the shortened version of the game. I'm sure it's going to cause a lot of debate and conjecture, but I reckon it will be pretty interesting.

This is what I have come up with so far for my team:

Mark Waugh
Adam Gilchrist (WK)
Dean Jones
Michael Bevan (where he should have batted!)
Steven Waugh (C)
Andrew Symonds
Tom Moody
Simon O'Donnell
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath
Craig McDermott

With Ian Harvey as 12th man. And for a point of comparison, here is the worst ODI side ever.

Michael Di Venuto
Mark Taylor (far too slow batting, although one of the best slips fieldsmen ever)
Jamie Siddons
Brad Young
Phil Emery (WK)
Gavin Robertson
Peter Taylor (not because he was a dud player, he just looked and bowled funny)
Mick Lewis
Jo Angel
Brett Dorey
Paul Wilson

A bit more bowler heavy, but they tend to be the more prominent uncos :)

What would your team look like?

No Boonie.
No Chappel brothers ... as if the underarm ball wasn't the best ever.
No Lillie
No AB ...

Your team sucks

Gilchrist
M Waugh
Ponting
AB (C)
G Chappell
Symonds
Bevan
Warne
Refiel
Lillie
Mcgrath

M Clarke (12th) - purely for fielding.

Where is David Hookes? Darren Lehmann?

Also dare I say it, but for me i'd be putting Brett Lee in for Glenn McGrath, they have similar ODI bowling averages afaik, but Lee can bat 10x better than McGrath.

I like Zak's list, Dean Jones and Simon O'Donnell were awesome 1 day players and could score runs really quickly. Also lol at the Peter Taylor comment, I agree with it :)

I also like Zak's team, except for leaving Ponting out. He's scored nearly 1000 more runs than any other Aussie in ODIs and has 20 100s and 55 50s. That's far too impressive a record to leave out.

He also has played a hell of a lot more.

Sifn't put Bradman in your team .. sure he never played a ODI ... but I am sure he woulda worked it out.

A. Gilchrist
D. Martyn
M. Hussey
S. Waugh (c)
M. Bevan
T. Moody
S. Lee
B. Julian
B. Lee
S. Warne
G. Mcgrath

A. Symonds (12th)

last edited by r_mazing at 17:09:06 10/Jan/07

Mark Waugh
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Ricky Ponting
Steve Waugh (c)
Michael Hussey
Michael Bevan
Andrew Symonds
Shane Warne
Brett Lee
Dennis Lillie
Glen McGrath

12th - AB

All Time team (only players who have played ODIs)

Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Sachin Tendulkar
Viv Richards
Steve Waugh (c)
David Gower
Michael Bevan
Andrew Flintoff
Shane Warne
Malcom Marshall
Michael Holding
Dennis Lillie

12th - Ricky Ponting

Tom Moody is one of the worst players to ever play for Australia and Jamie Siddons never played a match for Australia.

last edited by fpot at 17:10:47 10/Jan/07

He also has played a hell of a lot more.

Ponting 9411 runs from 261 ODIs.
M Waugh 8500 from 244
Gilchrist 8363 from 247
S Waugh 7569 from 325
Bevan 6912 from 232
Border 6524 from 273

If you say so.....

posting from wii to say owned

He a played more then the old school players eg. Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell.

Even players like Dean Jones was only 164-165 matches and he scored some 6000+ runs. Hayden 118 matches for 4000+ runs. And players like Bevan who batted significantly down the order (gawd knows why) have a lot less innings then matches (ie. he scored those 6912 runs in 195 innings). And comparing Ponting to S Waugh and Gilchrist discounts their respective bowling and keeping abilities.

I'd also argue alot of the older players played against some much tuffer competition. eg. Scoring 100 verse Bangladesh today versus 100 verses the Windies in the early 80s ....

Comparing old stats to new stats is such a pointless activity. They do play more opponents (of varying quality) and they simply play more games.

And I still say Bradman would've pwned them all.

Tom Moody is one of the worst players to ever play for Australia and Jamie Siddons never played a match for Australia.

From baggygreen.com (apologies if the formatting stuffs up a bit)

Jamie Siddons

Australia

Player profile

Full name James Darren Siddons
Born April 25, 1964, Robinvale, Victoria
Current age 42 years 260 days
Major teams Australia, South Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Other Coach

Statsguru ODI player

Batting and fielding averages
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct st
ODIs 1 1 0 32 32 32.00 37 86.48 0 0 3 0 0 0

11 batters.

Well he played 1 I don't see how you can whack him in the worst side ever from that :P

It was more of a personal prejudice I have for him :)