Currently the best ODI opener
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Topic: Currently the best ODI opener
Posted By: Vipera russelli
Subject: Currently the best ODI opener
Date Posted: 13 January 2007 at 2:46pm
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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.
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Posted By: slogger72N/O
Date Posted: 13 January 2007 at 6:46pm
I reckon Gayle, in brilliant form at the moment
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Posted By: 70_degree_spin
Date Posted: 13 January 2007 at 9:12pm
Went for Jayasuriya because he has been so good for so long
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Posted By: Matthew Hayden9
Date Posted: 13 January 2007 at 9:27pm
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on current form gayle by a long shot
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Posted By: RightHandBat
Date Posted: 14 January 2007 at 2:46am
Gilchrist, easily.
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Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 14 January 2007 at 8:32am
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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Posted By: Vipera russelli
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:07am
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OK here are the statistics for the openers
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Name Mat I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Team
http://www6.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/51880.html - CH Gayle 32 32 3 1217 133* 41.96 83.81 4 4 20 - WI
http://www6.cricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/49209.html - ST Jayasuriya 26 25 1 1153 157 48.04 107.45 5 2 5 - SL
http://www6.cricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/50747.html - WU Tharanga 26 24 0 1062 120 44.25 78.72 5 4 4 - SL
http://www6.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/player/56153.html - Shahriar Nafees 28 28 3 1033 123* 41.32 70.36 3 4 3 - BDESH
http://www6.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/51469.html - S Chanderpaul 27 27 4 948 101 41.21 75.59 1 8 5 - WI
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http://www6.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5390.html - AC Gilchrist 22 21 0 810 122 38.57 103.97 2 4 32 4 AUS
http://www6.cricinfo.com/zimbabwe/content/player/55814.html - BRM Taylor 28 28 5 807 98 35.08 73.43 - 5 25 9 ZIM
http://www6.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/player/56266.html - Aftab Ahmed 27 27 4 784 66 34.08 98.36 - 8 8 - BDESH
http://www6.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6128.html - SM Katich 22 22 2 783 107* 39.15 64.44 1 5 5 - AUS
http://www6.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/35320.html - SR Tendulkar 16 16 2 628 141* 44.85 77.05 2 3 6 - IND
http://www6.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/35263.html - V Sehwag 24 23 0 608 97 26.43 85.87 - 5 11 - IND
http://www6.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/20387.html - AJ Strauss 20 20 1 592 78 31.15 76.48 - 6 11 - ENG
http://www6.cricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36185.html - NJ Astle 12 12 2 586 118* 58.60 81.16 1 4 5 - NZ
http://www6.cricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/47270.html - GC Smith 21 21 1 561 119* 28.05 85.25 1 3 14 - RSA
http://www6.cricinfo.com/zimbabwe/content/player/55787.html - V Sibanda 15 15 1 500 116 35.71 67.75 1 3 8 - ZIM
http://www6.cricinfo.com/zimbabwe/content/player/55354.html - CJ Chibhabha 19 19 0 498 67 26.21 54.01 - 2 7 - ZIM
http://www6.cricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/44936.html - AB de Villiers 12 12 1 466 92* 42.36 84.88 - 3 6 - RSA
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Posted By: Vipera russelli
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:10am
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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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Posted By: dhonifan
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:54am
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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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Posted By: wiseguy
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 7:09am
Where is shane watson in this list, he has an excellent record as an openner!
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so far so good!
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Posted By: LEFTY
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 8:44am
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gilly by a mile coz thats how he bats test or ODI
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Posted By: Vipera russelli
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 9:24am
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 - http://www6.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/BY_CALENDAR/2000S/2006/ODI_BAT_MOST_RUNS_2006.html
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Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 1:56pm
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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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Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 8:21pm
Gayle has matured a bit thanks to Clive Lloyd!
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Posted By: BackFoot Master
Date Posted: 16 January 2007 at 11:59pm
hard one but i will say gayle
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Posted By: TCA123
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 at 9:46pm
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Jaysuriya or Gayle....
Gayle i would say. Both excellent players, destructive when on form.
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Posted By: shan
Date Posted: 18 January 2007 at 11:30am
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You love Times New Roman, don't you?
Gayle is doing a great work with his bat, so I would go for him.
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Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 2:00am
It'sonly 2 man at the moment, Gayle or Jayasuriya!!! I hope Gayle take India to the cleaners on Sunday!
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Posted By: exeed
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 3:37am
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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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Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 1:00pm
You never looked at the fact that Gayle have no bowlers to win him the match eh????
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Posted By: Vipera russelli
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 6:08pm
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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Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:00pm
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?
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or maybe because this isn't his average or his strike rate
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Posted By: Vipera russelli
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 2:48am
Posted By: exeed
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 3:51am
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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The conclusion
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Posted By: SL lion
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 9:01am
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 5:47pm
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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Posted By: Vipera russelli
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 6:54pm
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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Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 6:57pm
You're dead right with once in a blue moon.
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In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage.
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Posted By: BOBBI
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 3:06pm
Gayle by as far as he wants to hit it.
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Posted By: neranja
Date Posted: 26 January 2007 at 10:53am
no contest... sanath is the best...
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here comes Anjelow Mathiws and Dhammika Prsad...
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Posted By: THE CHAMP
Date Posted: 29 January 2007 at 8:53am
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yer sanath is the best and he has been doing it for so long
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Posted By: jbel
Date Posted: 29 January 2007 at 10:09pm
Jayasuriya for me. Very destructive on his day and oftern propels SL to win if he succeeds.
Astle has retired, so no point in rating him.
Strauss is in dreadful form (although knowing my luck he'll get a ton against the Black Caps tonight).
Gayle? well the jury is out for me. If he has a collossal World Cup on his home turf, then maybe I'd have a different view.
Gilchrist is great because he is an all rounder (and very destructive bloke on his day too)
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Posted By: Kerm
Date Posted: 29 January 2007 at 10:11pm
Originally posted by jbel
Strauss is in dreadful form (although knowing my luck he'll get a ton against the Black Caps tonight).
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Oh yeah. He is completly crap, no chance of getting any runs! (trying reverse psycology. =P)
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Kerm
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Posted By: sana_boy
Date Posted: 30 January 2007 at 2:48am
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sana 4 sure he is da best opener in da world then second best is gilly
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Posted By: Roy63
Date Posted: 10 February 2007 at 11:41am
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Gilchrist and Jayasuriya for me,2 of the best to watch at start of innings.
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Posted By: Tom_da_Cat
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 7:18am
Jayasuriya.
he has power,determination,experience and most importanly he is devastating.
And he has done this for a long time..and very much successful.
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Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 9:37am
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This is SOurav Ganguly's record for the last 10 matches :
Mat Runs HS BatAv 100 50 W BB BowlAv 5w Ct St
10 426 98 60.85 0 5 1 1/29 73.00 0 2 0
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Posted By: Miraz
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 10:29am
Aftab is not an opener.
You can think Shahriar Nafees. In last 20 innings he averages 54.31
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