The Big O’s 15-1: Australia’s greatest one-day cricketers
How do you even get started on a list like this, some of the names and numbers are ridiculous. But The Big O has put his neck on the line to count down our finest ODI stars.
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15. MITCHELL STARC: 175 wickets at 21.77 Player of the 2015 World Cup. His strike rate of a wicket every 25 balls is among the best in history.
14. MICHAEL CLARKE: 7981 runs at 44.58 Swan song couldn’t have been scripted any better, topscoring with 74 when captaining his country to World Cup glory in 2015.
13. MIKE HUSSEY: 5442 runs at 48.15 Took over the role of finishing off an innings done by Michael Bevan but at a quicker scoring rate.
12. DAVID WARNER: 5136 runs at 46.27 Reached 5000 runs faster than any Australian with a phenomenal strike rate of 96 runs per 100 balls.
11. ANDREW SYMONDS: 5088 runs at 39.75 Destructive batsman who bludgeoned six centuries, took 137 wickets and was a brilliant fieldsman.
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10. SHANE WATSON: 5757 runs at 40.54 For all of his critics, he was an outstanding all-rounder who also claimed 168 wickets at 31.
9. MATTHEW HAYDEN: 6133 runs at 43.80 As clean a striker of the ball as there has been, he was the most intimidating opening batsman in ODI history.
8. DEAN JONES: 6068 runs at 44.61 He was our most consistent and one of the best ODI batsmen of his generation, scoring seven hundreds at a decent clip.
7. MARK WAUGH: 8500 runs at 39.35 Made the seamless transition to opening batsman, scoring 18 centuries. One of few players to have posted a higher ODI score (173) than Test score (153).
6. BRETT LEE: 380 wickets at 23.36 Consistently produced the fastest speeds in one-day history, taking as many wickets as Glenn McGrath but in 30 fewer matches.
5. ADAM GILCHRIST 9619 runs at 35.89 Strike rate of 97 runs per 100 balls, second only to Virender Sehwag, highlighted by his 149 in the 2007 World Cup final.
4. MICHAEL BEVAN: 6912 runs at 53.58 No other ODI batsman was able to manipulate the strike to often guide his country to an unlikely win.
3. SHANE WARNE: 293 wickets at 25.73 Matchwinning performances during the semi-final (4-29) and final (4-33) of the 1999 World Cup were the catalyst behind Australia’s title.
2.GLENN McGRATH: 381 wickets at 22.02 Australia’s all-time leading wicket-taker who, at the age of 37, was the player of 2007 World Cup.
1. RICKY PONTING: 13704 runs at 42.03 Captained Australia during their most successful era, winning two World Cups, in 2003 and 2007, and scoring a record 30 centuries.