Arthur Crabtree wrote:Not a great fielding side though.
Thorpey and Fairbro were always in mine, but probably don't make it now.
Defreitas maybe? Lamb?
bhaveshgor wrote:Depends how Australia best 11 plays like if they play like 270 is a winning total they will get hammered since these days the players are so much stronger and can generally score 360 that 300 is a piece of cake and the current Australian Odi teams got a good attack so will probably do well against the all time Australian team from the past.
Bevan tactic of a chase is unlikely to work in the current climate.
Impossible to find out though since Ian said Odi cricket changed so much in the last 10 years but one thing that is guranteed is that batsman have gotten so much better at clearing the boundaries and the biggest myth is the better bats and rob key is spot on that it the batsman getting better and stronger rather than the bats and awful or weak batsman will still struggle to clear the rope in a consistent basis and it takes skill to score a quick hundred consistently.
In reality impossible to compare the era really since Odi cricket totally different to what it was 15 yrs ago and the way the game played is moved on massively.
tbh quite hard to pick a best 11 in Odi for most teams since do you pick a team that defends or scores 270 or do you pick a team most likely to score quick runs/big runs and restrict teams to less than 300.
the way the game played now reckon most teams would beat their best 11 if they played like they did in their own time.
Really can't see the past players Scoring quick hundreds or chasing 300 with ease and it can't be blamed on pitches either since Odi decks haven't really changed just been the tempo and small things like rotating strike better having no areas where the bowlers can get a dot ball and being able to hit sixes at will.
In terms of ability the players might be lesser but the rest outline above outweigh that difference.
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