IN PROGRESS All-Time Australia ODI XI - Ready for the post-draft tourney..

I was expecting to go WK but there's three options I'm happy with out there. So...

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Graham Yallop had to lead Australia through the 80s Dark Ages and is thusly kind of forgotten, but no Australian in his day was better at scoring runs AND being in the ODI team. Of course, he did them slowly, but with my top 6, an accumulator is fine.

@Aislabie again
 
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:aus: :ar: Cameron Green
Another middle order player? Yes, Darren Lehmann is opening for me now. It's something he did successfully in real life after all. And another all-rounder? Yes, but Green is really just here for his batting.

1. :aus: :ar: Darren Lehmann
2.
3. :aus: :bat: Dean Jones
4. :aus: :ar: Greg Chappell
5. :aus: :ar: Cameron Green
6. :aus: :bat: Callum Ferguson
7. :aus: :wk: Rod Marsh
8. :aus: :ar: Gary Gilmour
9. :aus: :bwl: Brett Lee
10. :aus: :bwl: Ryan Harris
11.

@ahmedleo414
 
Tim David he hasn't played a lot of ODI but he does have a 60+ average in List A.

  1. :wkb: Justin Langer
  2. :bat: Phillip Hughes
  3. :bat: Tim David
  4. :bat: Damien Martyn
  5. ?
  6. ?
  7. :ar: Pat Cummins
  8. :ar: Ian Harvey
  9. :bwl: Jason Gillespie
  10. :bwl: Damien Fleming
  11. :bwl: Shane Warne

@Till Valhalla
 
Marcus Stoinis, power hitter at 6 with odi strike rate of 93 and can contribute with ball.

Travis Head
2.
Ricky Ponting:c:
Ian Chappell
Michael Clarke:bwl:
Marcus Stoinis:bwl:
Luke Ronchi:wk:
Peter Taylor:bwl:
Craig McDermott:bwl:
Clint McKay:bwl:
Len Pascoe:bwl:

@Perfect Square
 
Ben McDermott is my pick. A very talented players who I think should have and should play for Australia more in the format. In the 5 ODIs he played. He averages 40 with a Strike rate of 90. Similar record in List A as well.

1. :aus: :ar: Shane Watson
2. :aus: :bat: Simon Katich
3. :aus: :bat: Ben McDermott
4. :aus: :ar: Allan Border :c:
5.
6. :aus: :ar: David Hussey
7. :aus: :wkb: Brad Haddin
8. :aus: :ar: Simon O'Donnell
9. :aus: :bwl: Adam Zampa
10. :aus: :bwl: Jeff Thomson
11. :aus: :bwl: Terry Alderman

@Paranoid Kendroid next.
 
01. :aus: :bat: David Warner
02. :aus: :bat: Steven Barry Smith
03. :aus: :bat: Shaun Marsh
04. :aus: :ar::down: Marnus Labuschagne
05. :aus: :ar::down: Andrew Symonds
06. :aus: :wk: Alex Carey
07. :aus: :ar::up: James Faulkner
09. :aus: :bwl::up: Mitchell Starc
10. :aus: :bwl::up: Geoff Lawson
11. :aus: :bwl::down: Tom Hogan

Would confuse a lot of people considering his name but he is not the Steve Smith we all know of.

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@Viper.
 
Team needs a fifth bowler desperately and it’s time to bring balance to the side with a man who excelled in both skill sets of the game, ex SRH coach

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Tom Moody comes into the lineup to be the fifth bowler and add some depth to that batting. He averaged 38 with the bat in List A and managed 257 wickets with the ball. Hes the perfect pick to balance out the team.

The Lineup

01. :aus: :bat: Geoff Marsh
02. :aus: :bat: Mark Taylor
03. :aus: :bat: David Boon
04. :aus: :bat: Michael Hussey
05.
06. :aus: :bat: Michael Bevan
07. :aus: :ar: Tom Moody
08. :aus: :bwl: Mitchell Johnson
09: :aus: :bwl: Nathan Hauritz
10. :aus: :bwl: Michael Kasprowicz
11. :aus: :bwl: Josh Hazlewood

@ddrap14
 
mb I never got the tag

My bowling attack still looks a bit light. Fortunately, I'm a man with one plan and two Grahams:
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:bwl: Graham McKenzie sneaks onto this list by virtue of the very first ODI only, but he's insanely underrated all around. Some of this is surely because he was sandwiched between the great 50s teams of Davison and Lindwall, and the 70s teams of Lillee and Thomson. But he took 246 Test wickets, 1200 FC wickets and - playing on for over a decade after its invention both in Australia and in South Africa - 217 limited overs poles at 19. I think he's the best value selection of this draft, full stop.

@Aislabie
 
:aus: :bat: Phil Jaques

I know that Phil Jaques only played six ODIs for Australia, and that his only innings of note in the format was the 94 he made on debut, but he was such a good player: the best batter I've ever seen at Wantage Road, I once watched him reverse-hook a bouncer for four like it was a perfectly normal thing to do. If not for the presence of Hayden, Langer and Gilchrist at the start of his career, and for the constant pain caused by a chronic back injury at the end of it, he would have been a staple of his national team for about a decade. Absolutely a player I've been keeping in my back pocket since the early rounds, because I don't think anyone else here is quite as high on Phil Jaques as I am.

1. :aus: :ar: Darren Lehmann
2. :aus: :bat: Phil Jaques
3. :aus: :bat: Dean Jones
4. :aus: :ar: Greg Chappell
5. :aus: :ar: Cameron Green
6. :aus: :bat: Callum Ferguson
7. :aus: :wk: Rod Marsh
8. :aus: :ar: Gary Gilmour
9. :aus: :bwl: Brett Lee
10. :aus: :bwl: Ryan Harris
11.

@ahmedleo414
 
Dan Christian I think he will fit in great with middle order and provide another bowling option

  1. :wkb: Justin Langer
  2. :bat: Phillip Hughes
  3. :bat: Tim David
  4. :bat: Damien Martyn
  5. ?
  6. :ar: Dan Christian
  7. :ar: Pat Cummins
  8. :ar: Ian Harvey
  9. :bwl: Jason Gillespie
  10. :bwl: Damien Fleming
  11. :bwl: Shane Warne
@Till Valhalla
 
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