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Martin Guptill vs Rohit Sharma vs David Warner - Who is the best opener in ODIs?

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Martin Guptill, Rohit Sharma and David Warner are arguably the best ODI openers in the world right now. Guptill, can play blitzkrieg innings with utmost ease. Rohit Sharma, when set, is capable of playing beastly knocks on a consistent basis. David Warner, as we all know, is capable of hitting the bowlers out of the park, be it at any stage of the game, from first ball till the 50th over.

Statswise, Guptill leads the three having scored the highest runs in the world last year in ODIs at an average of 60. Rohit closely follows him with an average of 58. Warner played fewer innings than both but still scored at an average of 55.

So, out of these three prolific run scorers, who do you think is the best ODI opener in the world? Whose name will be the first one in your team, were you to pick one among these three openers? Please give out your objective opinions..
 
Rohit in ODIs is an absolute beast and better than the other 2. I know OP only asked for ODIs but overall id choose Warner.
 
I'll rate them out of 100.

Rohit - 90
Guptil - 65
Warner - 70
 
Rohit can play the complete game - get the team off to a flyer, consolidate in the middle and go bang bang in the end and he does it more regularly than the other 2. It's Rohit for me.
 
Maybe not now, but Sarker is going to trump all three of them in ODIs. I rate Rohit the best of the three. Guptill needs to do it away. Warner may be a beast in tests, but in ODIs, it's not the case. Dhawan is also a very good opener. I rate them in order with minimum of 30 ODIs played:

1. Rohit
2. Amla
3. Dilshan
4. Guptill
5. Dhawan
6. Finch
7. Warner
8. Tamim
 
Energetic said:
Maybe not now, but Sarker is going to trump all three of them in ODIs. I rate Rohit the best of the three. Guptill needs to do it away. Warner may be a beast in tests, but in ODIs, it's not the case. Dhawan is also a very good opener. I rate them in order with minimum of 30 ODIs played:

1. Rohit
2. Amla
3. Dilshan
4. Guptill
5. Dhawan
6. Finch
7. Warner
8. Tamim
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Who's sarkar?
 
If this is on current form, then Rohit Sharma. If you're talking about performances over the past several years, then no one comes close to Hashim Amla, who is arguably the second best opener of all time.
 
^ Actually, I am unsure about where Sharma has scored all his runs. When I checked his stats last year, he averaged a mediocre 30 at a SR of 70 outside Asia. I'll have to further examine the numbers of these three batsmen before giving an opinion.
 
All are flat track bullies. Shehzad is best, he just needs a regular time to be groomed.

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Rohit sharma for me.
Warner's average in ODI is a shocker. He is going sehwag's way and will underachieve in ODIs and by the looks of it will pale in comparison to sehwag in test too.
 
Guptill and Rohit are going through an amazing phase. Rohit has had longer period of consistency as opener so far though.

I'd pick Warner over these 2. As he can be explosive and also play a long innings at the same time.

Guptill imo maybe a suspect in SC conditions that are spin conducive.

While Rohit has shown good ability to handle seaming and bouncy conditions - he needs to sort his record in SA though.
 
Amla is the most overrated ODI opener of all time. All the stats but zero substance and impact.

Second best of all time? Lol, he will have to go through Saeed Anwar, Mark Waugh, Jayasuriya and Ganguly before making such a claim. Will take all of them over this choker.
 
Hawkeye said:
[MENTION=129948]Bilal7[/MENTION] is being neutral, you just acting like a blind jingo.

Miandad, Zaheer, Inzi, Yousuf, Saeed Anwar, etc. all had ATG wrists.



:))) :))) :))) :))) :))

Can't stop ahaha. But this is only limited to Energetic. In bowlers, Mustafiz isn't far behind.
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Isn't Amla of Indian origin?
 
Bilal7 said:
^ Actually, I am unsure about where Sharma has scored all his runs. When I checked his stats last year, he averaged a mediocre 30 at a SR of 70 outside Asia. I'll have to further examine the numbers of these three batsmen before giving an opinion.
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Rohit averages 44 outside Asia now in ODIs.
 
aniket1911 said:
Rohit sharma for me.
Warner's average in ODI is a shocker. He is going sehwag's way and will underachieve in ODIs and by the looks of it will pale in comparison to sehwag in test too.
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ODI average of 37 is a shocker?
 
Genuine answer:-

Sharma
Daylight
Warner
Guptil


Alternative answer to keep some happy:-

1. Warner
2. Guptil
3. None, Sharma is an FTB hack.
 
lol Whats up with Pakistanis going 'overall' ? The OP clearly suggested this was ODIs and in ODIs Sharma is the top dawg right now, no need to be an 'overall' sour grape.
 
Even amla is no match for rohit sharma in the past 2 years :amla
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Mamoon said:
Amla is the most overrated ODI opener of all time. All the stats but zero substance and impact.

Second best of all time? Lol, he will have to go through Saeed Anwar, Mark Waugh, Jayasuriya and Ganguly before making such a claim. Will take all of them over this choker.
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An average of 50+ and SR of ~90 has zero substance and impact. :14:
 
Seriously speaking, don't think this is the appropriate time for this question since Rohit is on another level compared to other ODI openers atm.

Don't get me wrong, Guptill is still destructive these days, still remember his epic 189 vs England, but Rohit is 1 step further given his excellent strike rotation when he is "in the zone" and range of strokes compared to Guptill being a little bit more sedate in terms of rotating the strike and relying more on boundaries. A bit of Shehzad syndrome, but nowhere near as bad.

Warner is alright, but he is 3rd easily atm. I personally think Alex Hales can surpass him, long shot, but it is a possibility.

Alex Hales and Quinton de Kock for me are the future of the format, and will go past Warner in ODIs as far as opening is concerned. Really happy for QdK, the way he started off his career first in IPL then internationals, he looked way too timid, and destined to be a nobody who would return to domestics. But he has been decent since getting that breakthrough 100 vs us and then creaming India back-to-back thereafter. I hope Asad Shafiq can go through a transformation like this, even if it's after 50+ ODIs. Der aaye durust aaye.
 
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street cricketer said:
Then who do you think is the best opener in ODIs?
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TBH no one it just feels everyone is step down,incase the bowl spins or swings or bounces each of they would be out but i think its my personal bias as well because i totally dislike Sharma,Warner and Guptill is good only Nz and England.
 
Some rubbish in there which I had to delete - everyone should stick to the topic of the thread.
 
Forget stats , with openers its very misleading . Its only David Warner who I rate , overall as a ODI player . The rest have just inflated their averages with meaning less runs .
 
jusarrived said:
what conditions ? This is the most ridiculous thing I keep hearing from ppers . 330 is par score on every ground these days . Warner is the best , I agree on that though .
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talking about subcontinent conditions (spinning, low, slow) and overseas conditions (swinging/seaming/bouncy).

You are right that most ODI pitches even overseas are extremely flat these days, however I wasn't only talking about ODIs and t20s, I was also talking about tests.
 
How can anyone say anything except Sharma? On current form - and that form has lasted for a significant time - in ODIs he's far and away the best right now.
 
Bilal7 said:
There was no need to fix my comment. Pakistani and Sri Lankan batsmen have the same elastic wrists that Amla does.
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How's Moeen Ali as opener?

Should be 3rd best in last 2 years after Amla.
 
Mamoon said:
Amla is the most overrated ODI opener of all time. All the stats but zero substance and impact.

Second best of all time? Lol, he will have to go through Saeed Anwar, Mark Waugh, Jayasuriya and Ganguly before making such a claim. Will take all of them over this choker.
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That's not even half of the entire list. Gilchrist, Hayden, Smith, Gibbs, Greenidge, Haynes, Sehwag were all great!
 
ChachaCricket said:
You said 330 is par score on every ground when that's not actually the case.
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off course I exaggerated a little on the par score , the point was it really does not matter where you play in ODIs . Batsmen score heavily and bowlers struggle , thats the trend .
 
Sandeep said:
That's not even half of the entire list. Gilchrist, Hayden, Smith, Gibbs, Greenidge, Haynes, Sehwag were all great!
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Sehwag wasn't great in odis, he underachieved big time in odis, although he was still very very good
 
Sandeep said:
Agreed. Amla is slightly better than Sehwag, Gibbs and Haynes.
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Also remove Gilchrist (av <36 so similar to sehwag and less SR), Smith (av 38 and SR 80) and Hayden (av 43.8 and SR 78). Amla is slightly better than them as well as the 3 you mentioned.
 
Adijazz1706 said:
Also remove Gilchrist (av <36 so similar to sehwag and less SR), Smith (av 38 and SR 80) and Hayden (av 43.8 and SR 78). Amla is slightly better than them as well as the 3 you mentioned.
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No. They played some memorable innings that Amla can not even dream of.

Do you really think Amla > Gilchrist, Hayden :facepalm:
 
I feel so proud and happy that an Indian player overseas, Hashim 'bhai' amla is doing well and is the 2nd greatest opener of all time :)
 
Adijazz1706 said:
Also remove Gilchrist (av <36 so similar to sehwag and less SR), Smith (av 38 and SR 80) and Hayden (av 43.8 and SR 78). Amla is slightly better than them as well as the 3 you mentioned.
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Gilly was one of the clutch player and a very good chaser. Moreover,he could score runs in all conditions.The SR difference doesn't really matter as he was one of the most aggressive batsmen in the world.
 
Adijazz1706 said:
Also remove Gilchrist (av <36 so similar to sehwag and less SR), Smith (av 38 and SR 80) and Hayden (av 43.8 and SR 78). Amla is slightly better than them as well as the 3 you mentioned.
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The eras they played in, didnt have as flat pitches as this. Amla is no way better than Haydos and Gilly.
 
street cricketer said:
Amla is far from being the best opener in the world right now.

In the last year excluding the minnows (I've excluded Zim and WI as well because the windies are practically minnows nowadays), Amla averages just 28 with a SR of 84. That is a very poor return for an opener.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...5;spanval1=span;template=results;type=batting
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Why take out the Windies?

They are bad, but not that bad.

Amla is up there in the top 3 with AB and Kohli, don't think a small blip will change that either.

Still the best around, unless he fails for another year or so.
 
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