Which has been the best ODI batting line-up ever?

[Bhaijaan]

Possible contenders :-

Australia of mid-2000s (swept 2007 wc)
India of late 2000s (swept 2011 wc)
South Africa of early 2010s (missed out in 2015)
England of late 2010s (swept 2019 wc)

I noticed late but the best batting line ups have also always swept the World cups as mentioned above.

Wild card entry maybe India if late 2010# post Hitman's peak but many would doubt our middle order-lower middle was consistent enough for that team to be called an ATG batting side. No doubt Hitman-Dhawan-Kohli as a trio rank along side any top 3 ever.

What do you reckon.

 

[Bhaijaan]

2023 WC is in India.

Which country do you think looks set to send the best batting line up to that works cup?

So far it looks like the Big 3 are all going to 2023 with a gun batting side

 

[Ab Fan]

On flat wickets, it's England 2019.

On SC type wickets, it's India 2011.

For rest kind of wickets and all-round balance( ie. Combination of both flat and SC wickets), it's Australia of 2000-07.

SA of early 2010s-15 were excellent also but not at the level of above three as Amla, Steyn are not ATG ODI players and AB runs himself out in big matches.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

Australia 2003
West Indies 1983
England 2019
Pakistan 1999
Sri Lanka 1996
India 2011
South Africa 2015

 

[BoomBoomCricket]

England 2015-2019 by a mile.
So dangerous, attacking, aggressive, brutal, confident, dismissive and deep. Never seen anything like it before. Intimidating to bowl at.

 

[BoomBoomCricket]

Pakistan 1999

Wasti as an opener and Razzaq at 3 who had very low strike rates. Dravid had a strike rate in the 80s in 1999 WC whereas Razzaq had a strike rate in the 40s.

 

[Danyaalr01]

England 2015-2019 by a mile.
So dangerous, attacking, aggressive, brutal, confident, dismissive and deep. Never seen anything like it before. Intimidating to bowl at.

On flat wickets.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

Wasti as an opener and Razzaq at 3 who had very low strike rates. Dravid had a strike rate in the 80s in 1999 WC whereas Razzaq had a strike rate in the 40s.

Anwar-Ijaz-Inzi-Yousuf-Razzak-Afridi (at peak)-Azhar-Wasim

This team would demolish most sides today let alone 1999. Just sheer bad luck that they didn't win the final - not to mention about bowling: Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib, Saqlain, Razzak, Azhar, Afridi. Definitely among top 3 greatest ODI sides ever.

 

[Rajdeep]

Anwar-Ijaz-Inzi-Yousuf-Razzak-Afridi (at peak)-Azhar-Wasim

This team would demolish most sides today let alone 1999. Just sheer bad luck that they didn't win the final - not to mention about bowling: Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib, Saqlain, Razzak, Azhar, Afridi. Definitely among top 3 greatest ODI sides ever.

This team couldnt even beat a line up consists of Ramesh, Tendulkar, Dravid, Azhar, Jadeja & Robin Singh. Also, the same team lost against then BD. So the believe that they would demolish most teams of today is a fantasy more than reality.

India batting line up in 2011 WC was much superior than Pak of 99.

Sachin - Sehwag - Gambhir - Kohli - Yuvraj - Dhoni - Raina

Best batters ever assembled.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Australia 2003
West Indies 1983
England 2019
Pakistan 1999
Sri Lanka 1996
India 2011
South Africa 2015

I think Australia of 2005-2007 period had a much better batting team with the emergence of Hussey and Clarke in the middle order.

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[Bhaijaan]

Anwar-Ijaz-Inzi-Yousuf-Razzak-Afridi (at peak)-Azhar-Wasim

Bhai that team lost 4 matches in the world including one to Bangladesh.

They could barely put together 200 on consistent basis bro

 

[Bhaijaan]

India 2008-2011 batting vs England 2016-2018 batting

Pound to Pound how do they compare?


Tendulkar - Bairstow
Sehwag - Roy
Gambhir - Root
Kohli - Morgan
Yuvraj - Stokes
Raina - Woakes
Dhoni - Butler

 

[Srtfan]

Hayden - sachin
Gilly- sehwag
Ponting - kohli
Martyen - gambhir
Clarke -yuvraj
Symo - raina
Hussey - dhoni

 

[Bhaijaan]

Question to Indian fans:-

Whom would you fear less going against out of Australia 2005 / England 2018 batting

 

[Bhaijaan]

South African batting in the world record chase match vs South African batting during ABD world record century?

 

[Last Monetarist]

For me the following top 7 was unbeatable.

Gilchrist
Hayden
Ponting
Martyn
Lehmann
Bevan
Symonds

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

Bhai that team lost 4 matches in the world including one to Bangladesh.

They could barely put together 200 on consistent basis bro

And still reached final easily.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

I think Australia of 2005-2007 period had a much better batting team with the emergence of Hussey and Clarke in the middle order.

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Yes, true that. Australia between 2001-2007 is easily the best ever.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

This team couldnt even beat a line up consists of Ramesh, Tendulkar, Dravid, Azhar, Jadeja & Robin Singh. Also, the same team lost against then BD. So the believe that they would demolish most teams of today is a fantasy more than reality.

India batting line up in 2011 WC was much superior than Pak of 99.

Sachin - Sehwag - Gambhir - Kohli - Yuvraj - Dhoni - Raina

Best batters ever assembled.

Which almost got dismantled by the weakest Pakistan team ever in semi final only to be blown away by useless Misbah's innings. Try again.

 

[Bhaijaan]

And still reached final easily.

Yes. Because carry forward points

 

[Rajdeep]

Which almost got dismantled by the weakest Pakistan team ever in semi final only to be blown away by useless Misbah's innings. Try again.

What dismantled? They scored 260 on that slow track which was pretty decent score. Without Misbah, Pak wouldnt have scored 200 that day. So not sure how that innings is useless?

 

[Dulex9]

Sehwag
Tendulkar
Ganguly
Kaif
Dravid
Yuvraj
D mongia

2003 wc

Gilhrist
Hayden
Ponting
Langer
Symonds
Lehmann
Bevan
Hogg
B Lee
Bichal

Gilchrist
Langer
Ponting
Martyn
Clarke/Hussey/S Waugh
Symonds/Hussey/M Waugh
Gilchirst

Test's

Sehwag
Tendulkar
Gambhir
Kohli
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Raina

 

[Dulex9]

I meant Martyn for Langer in 2003 wc at number 4.

 

[Dulex9]

Bairstow
Roy
Root
Morgan
Stokes
Buttler
Ali
Woakes

2019 cwc

 

[Dulex9]

It's between 2011 Ind vs
2003 Aus vs
2019 Eng
1996 Sri L

Sri Lanka 1996

Jayasuriya
Kaluwitharana
Gurnisha
De Silva
Ranatunga
Mahanama
Tilkeratne

 

[ishtiaq_ctg]

Hayden
Gilchrist
Ponting
Clark
Symonds
Hussey
Watson
Best ever ODI batting lineup i saw

Sachin
Shewag
Gambhir
Kohli
Dhoni
Yuvraj
Raina
One of the best ever. If not for this side, Australia would've won 4 worldcups jn a row.

Sri lanka of 96 also is one of the best ever. they were so ahead of their time.

Kirsten
Gibbs
Kallis
Cullinan
Cronje
Rhodes
Klusner
Best ODI batting lineup to have not won a worldcup

 

[Dulex9]

Kirsten
Gibbs
Kaillis
Cullinan
Cronje
Rhodes
Boucher
Pollock
Klusenar (yes low as number 9)

2019 Eng
2003 Aus
1999 SA
2011 Ind
1996 Sri L

 

[Bhaijaan]

Sri Lanka revolutionized batting during 15 overs in 1996 but I doubt they were the best batting side even then.

West Indies in 1979 wc had a great batting side.

 

[ufcfan]

Aus99 ,SA 99 were better than Pak 99 in batting
Pak 99 overall, was a good team mostly because of their killer attack and that offie in Saqlain

 

[tyron_woodley]

England 2015-2019 by a mile.
So dangerous, attacking, aggressive, brutal, confident, dismissive and deep. Never seen anything like it before. Intimidating to bowl at.

rofl. yea how about no.
Maybe on flat tracks with short boundaries to the leg side.

just no. Overrated team. Fluked a WC win that they never deserved. Possibly bought the trophy.

 

[BoomBoomCricket]

India 2008-2011 batting vs England 2016-2018 batting

Pound to Pound how do they compare?


Tendulkar - Bairstow
Sehwag - Roy
Gambhir - Root
Kohli - Morgan
Yuvraj - Stokes
Raina - Woakes
Dhoni - Butler

Missing Moeen Ali.
England had a more explosive high tempo approach.
And England batted a long way down. Adil Rashid for example has 10 first class centuries.

In terms of batting deep, talented ball strikers, racking up huge scores and putting bowlers under constant pressure England post 2015 are the greatest batting unit seen in the fifty over game.

 

[Dulex9]

rofl. yea how about no.
Maybe on flat tracks with short boundaries to the leg side.

just no. Overrated team. Fluked a WC win that they never deserved. Possibly bought the trophy.

Aggressive and dynamic batting line up.

World cup final, on a difficult wicket, most important and nerve wrecking game of all time, under pressure at 86-4 Stokes and Buttler put on that 110 run partnership and Stokes took them from the brink of defeat needing 22 off 9 balls (at this point I thought they need some 4's here or else they have lost) and 15 off 4, Stokes almost took them to victory. Under incredible pressure. Last ball was full toss which he could have hit it for 4 or a 6.

They won on tie in the end.

 

[tyron_woodley]

Aggressive and dynamic batting line up.

World cup final, on a difficult wicket, most important and nerve wrecking game of all time, under pressure at 86-4 Stokes and Buttler put on that 110 run partnership and Stokes took them from the brink of defeat needing 22 off 9 balls (at this point I thought they need some 4's here or else they have lost) and 15 off 4, Stokes almost took them to victory. Under incredible pressure. Last ball was full toss which he could have hit it for 4 or a 6.

They won on tie in the end.

Like I said, They got incredibly lucky. Incredibly. Not deserved winners by any means. That rubbish rule was a farce.

Even on float tracks, there are several.teams that can beat them. They aren't some dominant force.

They had to rig the pitch boundaries to just qualify for semis lol.

 

[TeymurBlake]

For me, it has to be the 2001-2007 Australia. The were such a solid combo set of batsman. With Gilly and Hayden opening followed by run machine Ponting, Martyn who transition out for Clarke, Lehmann who transition out for Mike Hussey, Bevan who was transition out for White, Symonds.

 

[tyron_woodley]

For me, it has to be the 2001-2007 Australia. The were such a solid combo set of batsman. With Gilly and Hayden opening followed by run machine Ponting, Martyn who transition out for Clarke, Lehmann who transition out for Mike Hussey, Bevan who was transition out for White, Symonds.

absolutely. For most conditons I would say australia of 2001-2007, paritularly 2003 which was the strongest version. Aussies of the 2001-2007 was the overall best ever odi team

india 2009-2013 for SC conditons and flat tracks.

south africa 2014-2017 for bouncy conditions.

Best on swing friendly conditons I would actually say new zeland of 2015-2019.

 

[Dulex9]

New Zealand 2015 cwc?

Guptill
McCullum
Williamson
Taylor
G Elloit
Anderson
Ronchi

Power hitting, stable middle order and dynamic.

It's got to be:

2015 NZ
2003 Aus
2019 Eng
2011 Ind
1999 SA
1996 Sri L

 

[KP From India]

If we leave Anwar, none of the batsmen has half decent overall WC record leave alone a record for 1999 WC.

 

[ahmadharis1]

Mid 2000s and 2015 Australia were incredible

 

[HitWicket]

They had to rig the pitch boundaries to just qualify for semis lol.

Any basis at all for this conspiracy theory?

 

[tyron_woodley]

Any basis at all for this conspiracy theory?

look at the pitch and boundaries vs india. Pakistan would have qualified over the Brits. Pakistan also beat the Brits lmao.

 

[Executioner]

New Zealand 2015 cwc?

Guptill
McCullum
Williamson
Taylor
G Elloit
Anderson
Ronchi

Power hitting, stable middle order and dynamic.

It's got to be:

2015 NZ
2003 Aus
2019 Eng
2011 Ind
1999 SA
1996 Sri L

Anderson and ronchi weren't world class when you compare with Symonds-bevan combo and such

 

[Bhaijaan]

Too many sloggers and power hitters don't nake for a stable batting line up.

Mid 2000s Australia and late 2000s India were class apart in the sense that they were posting good totals and taking on best bowling line ups of their time without by playing proper cricket.

NZ and England have both often fallen like pack of cards under pressure against good bowling times.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Australia in Symonds, Hussey and India is Yuvraj, Raina, Dhoni had an iron middle-lower middle order which could perform.world class rescue operations against anyone and anywhere

 

[AFM]

Ahmad Shahzad
Mohammaed Hafeez
Younis Khan
Misbah Ul Haq
Shoaib Maqsood
Umar Akmal

What a beastly line up

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

Australia 2000s
West indies 1980s(viv,lloyd,haynes,grrenidge)
England 2019
India 2011

 

[HitWicket]

look at the pitch and boundaries vs india. Pakistan would have qualified over the Brits. Pakistan also beat the Brits lmao.

All the group games at Edgbaston were played on similar boundaries.

 

[Dulex9]

I'll go for Australia 2003 world cup and their test team in that period too. Too strong and consistent, stable with power when needed.

 

[HappyWarsFan]

India 2003 WC.

 

[sweep_shot]

I think Aussie lineup during 2003 WC was a beast of a lineup. That's the most threatening batting lineup I have seen in my lifetime.

 

[big_gamer007]

1. Australia (2000's)
2. WI (late 70s early 80s)
3. India (2000s)
4. England (2016+)
5. SA (Early 2010s)
6. India (2014-2017)

That's the 6 best batting line ups in ODI's ever assembled. One can interchange ranks but more or less these 6 teams will always be in top 6.

 

[Thomaskutty]

It definitely has to be one of these 3 squads. All have won WCs.


Tendulkar Bairstow Gilchrist
Sehwag Roy Hayden
Gambhir Root Ponting
Kohli Morgan Clarke
Yuvraj Stokes Watson
Dhoni Buttler Symonds
Raina Woakes Hussey