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Steve Waugh named captain of Australia's greatest ODI team

February 27, 2007 22:09 IST
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Steve Waugh was on Tuesday named captain of Australia's greatest ODI team of the past 36 years, announced at the Celebration of Australian One Day International cricket, presented by Emirates Airline.

Current Australian captain Ricky Ponting was named as Waugh's deputy of the ODI side which boasts a combined 2370 matches, 55,831 runs and 1532 wickets.

Australia's 163 ODI representatives since 1971 were invited to vote for their best team of 12, with eighty per cent of the group casting their votes.

The greatest Australian ODI team, as voted by Australia's ODI representatives, is (in batting order):

Player Votes Matches Runs HS Average Wickets Average BB
Adam Gilchrist 110 256 8561 172 35.67 - - 376/37 (c/st)
Mark Waugh 101 244 8500 173 39.35 85 34.56 5-24
Ricky Ponting (v-cpt) 107 268 9741 154 42.17 3 34.66 1-12
Dean Jones 80 164 6068 145 44.61 3 27.00 2-34
Steve Waugh (c) 72 325 7569 120* 32.90 195 34.67 4-33
Michael Bevan 83 232 6912 108* 53.58 36 45.97 3-36
Andrews Symonds 74 161 4037 156 38.81 121 37.38 5-18
Shane Warne 109 194 1018 55 13.05 293 25.73 5-33
Brett Lee 57 150 739 57 18.02 267 22.65 5-22
Dennis Lillee 89 63 240 42* 9.23 103 20.82 5-34
Glenn McGrath 109 239 115 11 3.97 354 22.58 7-15
Greg Chappell (12th) 40 74 2331 138* 40.18 72 29.12 5-15

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