Draft: Best Indian ODI XI of all Time

[NILAYSHAH60]

Best Indian ODI XI of all time draft

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I was planning to start this draft long back but wasn't getting enough time. You can pick any of the 227 Players that played in ODIs for India and make an XI out of these player and give a brief explanation regarding the players that you would pick in your XI. You would would get opportunity to pick a player with regards to the Draft Order that would be decided later. There is a restrictions on the number of participants which is restricted to 5 on first come first serve basis.

Participants
1. @Nilay_60
2. @Life Warrior
3. @Bigby Wolf
4. @DalePlaysSports
5. @CerealKiller

Draft Order

1. @Nilay_60- Sachin Tendulkar
2. @Life Warrior- Sourav Ganguly
3. @DalePlaysSports- Virat Kohli
4. @CerealKiller- MS Dhoni
5. @Bigby Wolf- Kapil Dev
6. @Nilay_60- Jasprit Bumrah
7. @Bigby Wolf- Yuvraj Singh
8. @Life Warrior- Rahul Dravid
9. @DalePlaysSports- Harbhajan Singh
10. @CerealKiller- Rohit Sharma
11. @Life Warrior- Virender Sehwag
12. @Bigby Wolf- Javagal Srinath
13. @CerealKiller- Zaheer Khan
14. @DalePlaysSports- Gautam Gambhir
15. @Nilay_60- Dinesh Karthik
16. @Nilay_60- Anil Kumble
17. @CerealKiller- Ajit Agarkar
18. @Life Warrior- Ravindra Jadeja
19. @DalePlaysSports- Umesh Yadav
20. @Bigby Wolf- Mohammed Azharuddin
21. @Nilay_60- Ajinkya Rahane
22. @Bigby Wolf- Mohammed Shami
23. @Life Warrior- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
24. @CerealKiller- Shikhar Dhawan
25. @DalePlaysSports- Venkatesh Prasad
26. @DalePlaysSports- Suresh Raina
27. @Nilay_60- Ashish Nehra
28. @CerealKiller- Manoj Prabhakar
29. @Bigby Wolf- Ravi Shastri
30. @Life Warrior- Hardik Pandya
31. @Life Warrior- Ravichandran Ashwin
32. @CerealKiller- Kuldeep Yadav
33. @Nilay_60 - Amit Mishra
34. @DalePlaysSports- Vinod Kambli
35. @Bigby Wolf- Syed Kirmani
36. @Life Warrior- Navjot Singh Sidhu
37. @DalePlaysSports- Ishant Sharma
38. @Bigby Wolf- Kris Srikkanth
39. @Nilay_60- Sandeep Patil
40. @CerealKiller- Ajay Jadeja
41. @Nilay_60- Mohammad Kaif
42. @DalePlaysSports- VVS Laxman
43. @Life Warrior- Sunil Gavaskar
44. @Bigby Wolf- Dilip Vengsarkar
45. @CerealKiller- Ambati Rayudu
46. @CerealKiller- Roger Binny
47. @Bigby Wolf- Yuzvendra Chahal
48. @Nilay_60 - Ajit Wadekar
49. @Life Warrior- Irfan Pathan
50. @DalePlaysSports- KL Rahul
51. @Nilay_60 - Robin Singh
52. @Bigby Wolf- Madan Lal
53. @DalePlaysSports- Nayan Mongia
54. @CerealKiller- Nikhil Chopra
55. @Life Warrior- Yusuf Pathan

Rules:-
1) Every pick must be made within 48 hours since the last pick or the next person gets a chance for their pick.

2) In case a double pick is there you must make your 2nd pick within 24 hours of your last pick or the next person gets chance for their pick.

3) Since it is not easy to have enough time there is no limitation of time in giving a brief about the player. You can give it as and when you have time.

4) You must tag the next person in the draft order after making your pick.

5) A player can be picked by only one member.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Just tagging you guys in case you would be interested then

@abhi_jacko @Bevab @Bigby Wolf @Gokul Raj. @Life Warrior @LiveLoveABD @SaiSrini @Villain @PresidentEvil @Velocity @aditya123

 

[PaceMaker]

In..

 

[CerealKiller]

Not signing up yet, but count me in if you need a 5th signup

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Okay.

 

[Ed Smith]

In

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Sachin Tendulkar
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The Master Blaster played in the One-Day Internationals for India for about 22 years and he scored nearly about 19,000 runs for his team. He was actually a player who was gifted with an array of strokes. In his time he decimated the best bowling attacks in the world for fun. Be it either the pace of Brett Lee or a Shoaib Akhtar or a Shane Bond or the accuracy of Glenn McGrath or Chaminda Vaas or the magical spin of Shane Warne or Muttiah Muralitharan he had no troubles what so ever. A young Tendulkar would step out of his crease and smash those huge sixes, while there would be days where he would hang around and anchor the innings. And it was not as if he had no pressure. The expectations on him from the people back home would be enourmous for he received the title of "God of Cricket" from his own Cricket crazy nation. There came a time when people at home would switch off their televisions when he used to get out. Such was the dependence of the team on him. In 2003 World Cup he lead by examples for his team scoring about 673 runs in 11 matches. He dominated bowlers in such a way that the bowlers fear him. Infact Shane Warne has said it a number of times that he would have nightmares of Tendulkar smashing him while batting. Once Henry Olanga of Zimbabwe tried to mess with the Master by giving him a send off while dismissing him, the next match Tendulkar smashed him like anything. He was the first player in the history of ODI Cricket to score a double hundred.

He was equally a good bowler and infact has more 5 wicket hauls than somebody like Shane Warne. He usually bowled leg-spin like Warne. He also bowled medium pace while at times would bowl off-spin.

 

[PaceMaker]

Obviously
Sourav DADA Ganguly

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

@DalePlaysSports it's your turn now

 

[Ed Smith]

Virat Kohli. Naturally[DOUBLEPOST=1574766029][/DOUBLEPOST]@CerealKiller

 

[CerealKiller]

MS Dhoni, the best captain and wicketkeeper in India's history, and an excellent batsman too.

CerealKiller's XI
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@Bigby Wolf

 

[blockerdave]

I can't believe nobody picked Sunil "Strike rate of 62" Gavaskar.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Kapil Dev - 'The Haryana Hurricane' India's only true fast bowling All-Rounder in the history was the man responsible for changing the face of Indian cricket with the historic 1983 WC Triumph.

@NilayShah60

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Jasprit Bumrah
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Probably a great modern day bowler. Arguably the best of his time. A boy running in by putting in a lot of energy into his run-up slowly but steadily his run-up would gain speed until he jumps with his bowling arm high up and erect while his other arm pointing towards the batsman again in a very errect position perpendicular to his body he would complete his delivery stride in an awkward position and surprise the batsman with his awkward action by a rising delivery at full throttle. The boy soon grabbed the lime-light of the world when he made his ODI debut at the SCG with his team 4-0 down in the 5-match ODI series by taking 2 wickets and conceding just 41 runs, Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah soon became India's number 1 bowler in all formats of the game. He probably did have a difficult time in his career where he over-stepped in the Final against the arch-rivals none other than Pakistan which probably to some extent did stop his team from winning the tournament but Bumrah had a long career ahead. Since the time he made his Test debut he started showing consistency and bowled with accuracy and very soon transformed into a hostile bowler. Bumrah is possibly the best bowler to have ever played for the Indian team and a bowlers like him is actually very hard to find. The injuries does have hampered his progress but he would be back once again to surprise the best batsmen in the world with his hostile bowling.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Yuvraj Singh - One of all my time favorite players and one of the greatest match winner be it his acrobatic fieldings , handy slow left arm spin or explosive batting Yuvi was a complete package.He played a significant role in India winning the WC after 28 years and a pivotal role in the middle order chasing down successive totals in the mid 2000s.

4.Yuvraj Singh
7.Kapil Dev (Possible Captain) batting order will change.

@Life Warrior