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Your One-Day World XI!

Pakistan wicket-keeper Rashid Latif chose his first and second World XI's for CricInfo Interactive on 11 April 1997:

WORLD XI(A)

  1. SAEED ANWAR
  2. SACHIN TENDULKAR
  3. BRIAN LARA
  4. ARAVINDA DE SILVA (C)
  5. STEVE WAUGH
  6. MICHAEL BEVAN
  7. MOIN KHAN (WK)
  8. WASIM AKRAM
  9. CHRIS CAIRNS
  10. SHANE WARNE
  11. CURTLY AMBROSE
WORLD XI(B)
  1. SANATH JAYASURIYA
  2. ALEC STEWART (WK)
  3. MARK WAUGH (C)
  4. HANSIE CRONJE
  5. CARL HOOPER
  6. MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN
  7. RAHUL DRAVID
  8. SHAHID AFRIDI
  9. WAQAR YOUNIS
  10. GLENN McGRATH
  11. COURTNEY WALSH
The First Eleven: World One-Day XI:

    Batsmen:

  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Brian Lara
  3. Aravinda De Silva
  4. Mark Waugh
  5. Saeed Anwar

    All-rounder:

  6. Steve Waugh

    Wicket-keeper:

  7. Ian Healy

    Bowlers:

  8. Wasim Akram
  9. Shane Warne
  10. Curtly Ambrose
  11. Allan Donald.

The Second Eleven:

  1. Sanath Jayasuriya
  2. Alec Stewart
  3. Michael Bevan
  4. Hansie Cronje
  5. Carl Hooper
  6. Shahid Afridi
  7. Moin Khan
  8. Waqar Younis
  9. Anil Kumble
  10. Courtney Walsh
  11. Glenn McGrath

The most popular player of all was Sachin Tendulkar with 1098 votes, followed by Brian Lara on 1034, Shane Warne on 981 and Wasim Akram on 894. ICC Trophy players Steve Tikolo and Minzahul Abedin received one vote each. Donald Bradman received one vote despite having retired from the game 22 years before the first one-day international. I trust the person who voted for Sir Garfield Sobers checked his ODI career stats first. Finally, a special thank you to the person who registered a vote for Hulk Hogan, however I could not find his name in the Who's Who of Cricketers anywhere...

Thank you for participating, and keep watching for more CricInfo surveys!

This poll was conducted between 16 and 22 April 1997. You were asked to choose five batsmen, one all-rounder, one wicket-keeper, and four bowlers based on one-day international form. Although this was intended to be restricted to current players, this was not made explicit at the time of the poll (for which we apologise) and votes for past players were received and accepted. We will be conducting a separate poll for your all-time great World XI in the near future. So as not to disadvantage players who received votes in more than one category (eg batsman and all-rounder), the total votes for each player were added up in considering their place in the final eleven. Variations in spelling of players names received during voting have also been added together. This survey is not presented as a means of determining the best players in the game, rather the most popular players among those registered users of CricInfo who participated in the vote.

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Date-stamped : 23 Apr97 - 14:22