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Poll Question: Who is the best opener in ODIs on current form
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    Posted: 13 January 2007 at 2:46pm
Since there was a thread about the best test opener I thought of adding a poll for current best ODI opener. Current form is taken in to account.

Edited by Vipera russelli - 13 January 2007 at 2:47pm
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I reckon Gayle, in brilliant form at the moment
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Went for Jayasuriya because he has been so good for so long
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on current form gayle by a long shot
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Yes got to be Gilly .SOurav ganguly is making a comeback as well lets see how well does he do if he does open the batting .
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OK here are the statistics for the openers
 
 
 

Name                Mat    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100 50   Ct St Team

CH Gayle             32   32   3  1217  133*  41.96  83.81   4  4   20  - WI
ST Jayasuriya        26   25   1  1153  157   48.04 107.45   5  2    5  - SL
WU Tharanga          26   24   0  1062  120   44.25  78.72   5  4    4  - SL
Shahriar Nafees      28   28   3  1033  123*  41.32  70.36   3  4    3  - BDESH
S Chanderpaul        27   27   4   948  101   41.21  75.59   1  8    5  - WI
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AC Gilchrist         22   21   0   810  122   38.57 103.97   2  4   32  4 AUS
BRM Taylor           28   28   5   807   98   35.08  73.43   -  5   25  9 ZIM
Aftab Ahmed          27   27   4   784   66   34.08  98.36   -  8    8  - BDESH
SM Katich            22   22   2   783  107*  39.15  64.44   1  5    5  - AUS
SR Tendulkar         16   16   2   628  141*  44.85  77.05   2  3    6  - IND
V Sehwag             24   23   0   608   97   26.43  85.87   -  5   11  - IND
AJ Strauss           20   20   1   592   78   31.15  76.48   -  6   11  - ENG
NJ Astle             12   12   2   586  118*  58.60  81.16   1  4    5  - NZ
GC Smith             21   21   1   561  119*  28.05  85.25   1  3   14  - RSA
V Sibanda            15   15   1   500  116   35.71  67.75   1  3    8  - ZIM
CJ Chibhabha         19   19   0   498   67   26.21  54.01   -  2    7  - ZIM
AB de Villiers       12   12   1   466   92*  42.36  84.88   -  3    6  - RSA



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Looking at this Jayasuriya, Tharanga, Asle and Gayle looks very impressive. Nafees also has a good record, but that was mainly against associate countries
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Hmm i have to say Jayasuriya but Gayle is not far behind. I hope Jaya doesn't retire after the world cup. He should play until 2009.
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Where is shane watson in this list, he has an excellent record as an openner!
so far so good!
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gilly by a mile coz thats how he bats test or ODI
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SR Watson M-12 I-12   N/O-2   Runs-280   HS-79   Avg-28.00 SR-75.67   100s- 50s-3

Whole list is at: http://www6.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/BY_CALENDAR/2000S/2006/ODI_BAT_MOST_RUNS_2006.html

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Gilly is good but no where near Jayasuriya or Gayle these guys are in career best form in the one day format. Also Aftab Ahmed dosen't open he bat's at 3 or lower. It's usally Nafees and either Saleh/Omar/Mehrab Hossain jnr or Ashraful being the other partner. Also Tharanga has been in amazing form he has 6 ODI centuries I think in only less then 40 ODI's thats quite amazing!
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Gayle has matured a bit thanks to Clive Lloyd!
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hard one but i will say gayle
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Jaysuriya or Gayle....
 
Gayle i would say. Both excellent players, destructive when on form.
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Gayle is doing a great work with his bat, so I would go for him.
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It'sonly 2 man at the moment, Gayle or Jayasuriya!!! I hope Gayle take India to the cleaners on Sunday!
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Gale is good but he is not a mach winner like Jayasooriya. When Jaya scores Sri Lanka always take the win.  
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You never looked at the fact that Gayle have no bowlers to win him the match eh????
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Why no one is commenting about Astle? SR of 81 and Avg of 58. Pretty dismal by your standards? eh?

The main difference is Gayle made his runs against certain oppostions. For an example he is utterly useless against SL (Vaas factor I think). But Hayasuriya has scored more or less sgainst every attack.
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Originally posted by Vipera russelli

Why no one is commenting about Astle? SR of 81 and Avg of 58. Pretty dismal by your standards? eh?



or maybe because this isn't his average or his strike rate


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Limited over cricket is always been a batsmen's game, top class  opener can chaing full complextion of the game within one houre, Jaua's starts always enable Sri Lanka to score 300+ so you dont need top quality bowlers to defend that.
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Originally posted by exced

Limited over cricket is always been a batsmen's game, top class  opener can chaing full complextion of the game within one houre, Jaua's starts always enable Sri Lanka to score 300+ so you dont need top quality bowlers to defend that.
 
You're showing little knowledge of the game here! Even Aussie had the greatest of attack and couldn't stop SA breaking the world record. It just show, a poor attack with a great total is useless.
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Originally posted by spin wizard

Originally posted by exced

Limited over cricket is always been a batsmen's game, top class  opener can chaing full complextion of the game within one houre, Jaua's starts always enable Sri Lanka to score 300+ so you dont need top quality bowlers to defend that.

 

You're showing little knowledge of the game here! Even Aussie had the greatest of attack and couldn't stop SA breaking the world record. It just show, a poor attack with a great total is useless.


That is once in a blue moon SW, a total over 300 on a fair pitch (not ugly belters where any strong bully can send it over the boundry with a half hit) is 75% time will win the match.
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You're dead right with once in a blue moon.
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no contest... sanath is the best...
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