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[Manormanic]

Okay, with The World Cup around the corner, we've all been picking our best XIs and the like.  Here's a slightly different problem - pick your best One Day International XI with the stipulation that you can only select ONE player per country!

[400notout]

Current players only?

[Rob580]

If current players only:

Warner
B Taylor
Williamson
Kohli
AB
Mathews
Shakib
Afridi
J Holder
Anderson
Hamid Hassan

[parthnayak]

B Mccullum (NZ)
E Joyce (IRE)
Sangakkara (SL)
AB De villiers (SA)
Eoin Morgan (ENG)
Dhoni (IND)
Shakib Al Hasan (BAN)
Starc/Johnson (AUS)
Ajmal (PAK)
Holder (WI)
Hamid Hassan (Afghanistan)

[Manormanic]

Current players only?

NAturally.  If it takes off we can do Test and All time teams.

Interesting concept this - makes you think about some tricky dilemmas...

[edge]

1 Pietersen FREE AGENT (bit cheeky, Joyce or TD if not)
2 Taylor ZIM
3 Williamson NZ
4 Sangakarra SL
5 De Villiers SA
6 Dhoni IND
7 Shakib BAN
8 Starc AUS
9 Roach WI
10 Anderson ENG
11 Zadran AFG

Squad players: Ten Doescate HOL, Joyce IRE, some bowler from somewhere.

[parthnayak]

No one has morgan in his/her team  ? he is a match winner and very very good fielder .

[Manormanic]

No one has morgan in his/her team  ? he is a match winner and very very good fielder .

Suspect most people are thinking about their four front line bowlers first up...

[smilley792]

Sangakarra(sri lanka)
Joyce(ireland)
williamson (new zealand)
Taylor (zim)
Bravo (dwayne)(windies)
Ten dascarte(hol)
Al hasan(ban)
Afridi (pak)
Woakes (eng)
Starc(aus)
steyn(sa)


To many allrounder.  Light on actual batsmen

[Rob580]

Sangakarra(sri lanka)
Joyce(ireland)
williamson (new zealand)
Taylor (zim)
Bravo (dwayne)(windies)
Ten dascarte(hol)
Al hasan(ban)
Afridi (pak)
Woakes (eng)
Starc(aus)
steyn(sa)


To many allrounder.  Light on actual batsmen

No Indians? Not even Kohli?

[Manormanic]

Some interesting selections here.

Musing on the balance between bat and ball - do people go for AB or Steyn as their Yarpie of choice, for Mitch 1 or 2 or DAvey WArner of the Aussies and is it SAnga or Malinga to represent the Sirils?

[qasim_aziz99]

No Indians? Not even Kohli?

He's been in bad form for quite a while now

[Rob580]

He's been in bad form for quite a while now

Yeah but, lets be honest, even in terrible form he's still better than most associate batsmen. Thats from an England fan who despises him!

Or even could have had Rohit, or Rahane!

[smilley792]

No Indians? Not even Kohli?

I forgot about the Indians....... Whoops.

On that case I'd swap out taylor for rahane, and stick sanga behind the stumps.

[Buzz]

Some interesting selections here.

Musing on the balance between bat and ball - do people go for AB or Steyn as their Yarpie of choice, for Mitch 1 or 2 or DAvey WArner of the Aussies and is it SAnga or Malinga to represent the Sirils?

This is a tough call not least because Amla is also a quality performer - really good thread.

Gayle   WI
Warner   Aus
Williamson   NZ
Kohli   Ind
Ten Dascarte   Hol
Taylor (wk)   Zim
Shakib Al Hasan   Bang
Afridi   Pak
Malinga   SL
Steyn   SA
Anderson   Eng local club side in Lancashire

next problem is who to captain... Afridi has done it once or twice, but may retire before the tournament. Gayle, no he will fall asleep during the team talk, Kholi? humm - I will go with Anderson because we need something unexpected. Batting looks a little soft, but I deliberately picked the bowlers first (with an eye on Warner opening the batting)