To mark the 40th anniversary of One-Day International (ODI) cricket, the ICC's official website had called on supporters from across the globe to select their choice of the greatest ODI team of all-time.
Supporters had a chance to select the dream team from a shortlist of 48 players in different categories. The fans had between 22 December 2010 and 2 January 2011 to to make their selections on ICC's official website or via Facebook or Twitter.
In total, fans from 97 countries cast almost 600,000 votes on www.icc-cricket.com between 22 December and 2 January to make their views known as to who have been the best ODI players of the past 40 years in the key categories of opening batsmen, middle-order batsmen, wicketkeeper, spin bowlers and fast bowlers.
Three players from Australia and India, two from the West Indies and one each from South Africa, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have made the final dream XI with another Aussie named as 12th man.
The All-Time ODI Dream Team (as voted for by visitors to www.icc-cricket.com) is:
Opening batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag (both Ind)
Middle order: Brian Lara, Viv Richards (both WI) and Ricky Ponting (Aus)
All-rounder: Kapil Dev (Ind)
Wicketkeeper: Adam Gilchrist (Aus)
Spinner: Muttiah Muralidaran (SL)
Fast bowlers: Wasim Akram (Pak), Glenn McGrath (Aus) and Allan Donald (SA)
12th man: Michael Bevan (Aus, the player who received the most number of votes without being enough to make the would-be starting XI).
GREATEST TEST TEAM OF ALL TIMEFans select their Greatest Test Team of all time
Cricket lovers from across the world cast more than a quarter of million votes in June/July 2011 to choose their Greatest Test team of all time.
Fans voted on the ICC's official website, www.icc-cricket.com, using a short list provided by the game's governing body, to pick their leading eleven, as part of the activities to commemorate the 2000th Test Match.
Four Australians, four Indians, two West Indians and one Pakistani have been named in the Dream XI. The final selection is as follows:
Virender Sehwag Sunil Gavaskar Donald Bradman Sachin Tendulkar Brian Lara Kapil Dev Adam Gilchrist (wk) Shane Warne Wasim Akram Curtly Ambrose Glenn McGrath
Reliance ICC Test Ranking
TEAM
MATCHES
POINTS
RATING
1
England
37
4634
125
2
India
37
4336
117
3
South Africa
24
2781
116
4
Australia
34
3578
105
5
Sri Lanka
31
3062
99
6
Pakistan
28
2757
98
7
West Indies
26
2286
88
8
New Zealand
20
1588
79
9
Bangladesh
15
138
9
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Zimbabwe is currently unranked, as it has played insufficient matches. It has 134 points and a rating of 45.
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Reliance ICC ODI Ranking
TEAM
MATCHES
POINTS
RATING
1
Australia
33
4291
130
2
India
39
4603
118
3
South Africa
22
2537
115
4
Sri Lanka
33
3693
112
5
Pakistan
34
3664
108
6
England
35
3706
106
7
New Zealand
25
2174
87
8
West Indies
22
1711
78
9
Bangladesh
29
1836
63
10
Zimbabwe
30
1402
47
11
Ireland
12
492
41
12
Netherlands
9
137
15
13
Kenya
7
0
0
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Reliance ICC T20 Ranking
TEAM
MATCHES
QFY MATCHES
POINTS
RATING
1
England
11
19
1435
130
2
Sri Lanka
8
17
1009
126
3
New Zealand
9
19
1056
117
4
South Africa
8
16
900
113
5
Australia
11
21
1223
111
6
India
6
13
635
106
7
Pakistan
12
24
1164
97
8
West Indies
8
16
711
89
9
Afghanistan
3
8
224
75
10
Zimbabwe
7
11
376
54
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Last Updated: Wed, Nov 9, 2011
Note: Only teams who have completed at least eight T20 international matches since 1st August between two and three years ago will have their rating above converted into a ranking on the main table. The * symbol after matches denotes the number of weighted matches, rather than qualification matches.
Teams currently not on the table have played the following amount of qualification games - Bangladesh (5), Canada (4), Ireland (7), Kenya (4), Netherlands (4), Scotland (4).
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