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Pick 23 - Andrew Symonds (Australia)
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7702.html

Very easy pick here - actually had to triple check that he had not already been taken. Roy is a two time World Cup winner (who can forget his performance in 2003 when he was controversially selected and made that magnificent 143* against Pakistan in the opening match.) Finished his career averaging a tick under 40 with a brilliant strike rate. Was also a more than useful off spinner and medium pacer and one of the greatest fielders of all time.

 

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Round 3
1. thorne89 - Curtly Ambrose
2. courtjester - AB de Villiers
3. Glinn McGraw - Michael Hussey
4. Gak Attack- Waqar Younis
5. saintkildaman - Andrew Flintoff
6. happy_eagle - Kumar Sangakarra
7. Surkin - Andrew Symonds
8. FreoFanMundy - Dennis Lillee

Round 4
1. FreoFanMundy - Lance Klusener
2. Surkin - On the clock
3. happy_eagle
4. saintkildaman
5. Gak Attack
6. Glinn McGraw
7. courtjester
8. thorne89
 

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Pick 26 - Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)
http://www.espncricinfo.com/stats/content/player/49209.html

Jayasuriya is one of the best all rounders to ever play ODI cricket being the only player with more than 13,000 runs and 300 wickets. He was more than just the statistics though. He revolutionised the way ODI cricket was played especially during the opening 10 overs with his phenomenal strike rate. His crowning moment came at the 1996 World Cup where he was named man of the tournament helping Sri Lanka capture the Cup.
 

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#61
Will redo, thought Lillee had snuck through to me, was tossing it up last pick but freo beat me to it.

Anyways, better lock in a spinner. An interesting one considering he got dropped in his 20's(I think) but for anyone who saw him early in his limited overs career the dude was a freak. Was the fastest to 100 ODI wickets.

Saqlain Mushtaq

http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/42628.html
 

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Round 4
1. FreoFanMundy - Lance Klusener
2. Surkin - Sanath Jayasuriya
3. happy_eagle - Shahid Afridi
4. saintkildaman - Mark Boucher
5. Gak Attack - Saqlain Mushtaq
6. Glinn McGraw - On the clock
7. courtjester
8. thorne89

Round 5
1. thorne89
2. courtjester
3. Glinn McGraw
4. Gak Attack
5. saintkildaman
6. happy_eagle
7. Surkin
8. FreoFanMundy
 
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If any bowler could be considered Australia's biggest nightmare over the past ten years in this form, I would suggest it would be this man. Of course, it wasn't just Australia he tore through - he made a habit out of doing it as often as possible to as many countries as possible, which was unfortunately not often enough due not to talent, but a disappointingly fragile body. Thankfully for me, he still managed 82 ODIs.

Shane Bond.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36326.html
 
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My next pick is Matthew Hayden.

He averaged 52 in World Cups at a strike rate of 93, which for an opening batsman is outstanding (overall career 44 at 79).

More muscle was on display at the World Cup as he averaged 73.22 in scoring 659 runs, the most at the tournament, and he later revealed he was carrying a fractured toe and a broken bone in his other foot. A frightening 66-ball century against South Africa earned him honorary St Kitts citizenship and the outdoors man completed a dream trip by scoring another two hundreds, hooking a 136kg marlin and winning the World Cup for a second time.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5616.html

 

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Ok...for my first of the next two picks, I am going to shore up my fast bowling stocks with one of the greatest of all time...Whispering Death. What an absolute bargain at this stage!

Michael Holding



It began intimidatingly far away. He turned, and began the most elegant long-striding run of them all, feet kissing the turf silently, his head turning gently and ever so slightly from side to side, rhythmically, like that of a cobra hypnotising its prey. Good batsmen tended not to watch him all the way lest they became mesmerised. To the umpires he was malevolent stealth personified so they christened him Whispering Death. No-one in the game has bowled faster.
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I'll introduce my next pick by giving his remarkable ODI stats. This man played 1 ODI for a batting average of 0, with a best score of 0 off 6 balls. In some way, you may call this pick speculative. But this couldn't be further from the case. This man is one of the finest to have ever played the game, and almost certainly the greatest all-rounder of all time.

Sir Garfield Sobers



A cricketing genius, Garry Sobers excelled at all aspects of the game, and few would argue his claim as the finest allround player in modern cricket. His exceptional Test batting average tells little about the manner in which he made the runs, his elegant yet powerful style marked by all the shots, but memorably his off-side play. As a batsman he was great, as a bowler, merely superb, but would have made the West Indies side as a bowler alone. He was remarkably versatile with the ball, bowling two styles of spin - left-arm orthodox and wrist spin, but was also a fine fast-medium opening bowler. His catching close to the wicket may have been equalled but never surpassed, and he was a brilliant fielder anywhere.
This was a pick I was keeping secret in the hope that people wouldn't realise he had ever played a ODI. ;) The scoring may count against me with his 'record' but I am prepared to argue about the virtues of common sense in this case!

http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52946.html
 
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