List of World XI ODI cricketers
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. A One Day International, or ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the ICC. An ODI differs from a Test match
Test cricket
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in that the number of overs
Over (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....
per team is limited, and that each team has only one innings
Innings
An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...
. The ICC World XI has played four matches, one for the 2005 World Cricket Tsunami Appeal
World Cricket Tsunami Appeal
The World Cricket Tsunami Appeal was an effort by the International Cricket Council to raise funds to support the humanitarian relief efforts following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004. It was scheduled to be held over two games but was reduced to one due to an over-crowded...
(where the World XI was made up of the best non-Asian players), and three in the 2005 ICC Super Series
ICC Super Series 2005
The ICC Super Series 2005 was a cricket series played in Australia in October 2005 and featuring some of the world's best cricketers. There were two teams playing: Australia, the world's ranked number one side, and an ICC World XI made up of some of the best non-Australian cricketers...
(where the World XI was made up of the best non-Australian players). The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his first ODI cap. In cases in which more than one player won his first ODI cap in the same match, these players are listed alphabetically by surname. All these players have represented their respective national teams too, but only the records of their games for the ICC World XI are given.
The ODI between the World XI and Asian XI ended in a World XI victory by 112 runs. Ricky Ponting
Ricky Ponting
Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...
, captaining the side, scored 115 as the World XI batted first and scored 344/8, with Chris Cairns and Brian Lara
Brian Lara
Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...
both scoring half centuries. The Asian XI was unable to reach 345 for victory but did make 232 from their innings. For every run scored in the match, $1,000 was donated to the tsunami appeal. Over 70,000 people attended the match which was televised in 122 countries. The endeavour raised over A$
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14 million. A second fund-raising match between the two teams was cancelled due to unsuitable playing conditions.
The series between the World XI and Australia was unsuccessful. The sides were unbalanced, with Australia winning all three ODIs – and the only Test match – and the series drew criticism from the media. It had been planned that the series would be held every four years, between World Cups, however the uneven results and poor reception from fans threw the future of the series into doubt. The crowds attending matches were also disappointing, Malcolm Speed
Malcolm Speed
Malcolm Walter Speed is an Australian businessman and the former CEO of the International Cricket Council.Before he entered the world of cricket, he was a barrister in Melbourne. He was originally the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Cricket Board from 1997 until in 2001, he took up the...
– then the chief executive officer of the ICC – said that he had hoped an extra 4,000 people would have attended each day's play. The ICC made a press release stating that "Every four years starting on 1 April 2005 the top team in the ICC Test Championship will qualify to play the Team of Champions in the ICC Super Series Test for a winner-takes-all prize".
Players
- Statistics are correct as of 30 October 2005, since then no matches have been played by the World XI.
Key
General
- ♠ Denotes a player now retired from international cricket as of October 2010
- *: an innings that ended not outNot outIn cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
- Mat: number of matches played
Batting
Batting (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
- Inn: number of inningsInningsAn inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...
- NO: number of times an innings ends not outNot outIn cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
- Runs: number of runsRun (cricket)In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...
scored by batsman/off bowler's bowling - HS: highest score
- Avg: batting averageBatting averageBatting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...
- 100/50: number of centuriesCentury (cricket)In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...
and half-centuries scored
Bowling
Bowling (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder...
- Overs: number of oversOver (cricket)In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....
bowled - Mdn: number of maiden overs (overs off which no runs were scored)
- Wkt: number of wicketWicketIn the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...
s taken - BB: best bowling figures
- Avg: bowling averageBowling averageBowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...
Fielding
Fielding (cricket)
Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out.Cricket fielding position...
- Ca: number of catches taken
- St: number of stumpingsStump (cricket)Stump is a term used in the sport of cricket where it has three different meanings:# part of the wicket# a manner of dismissing a batsman# the end of the day's play .-Part of the wicket:...
made
| Cap | Name | Team | Career | Mat | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | Balls | Runs | Wkt | BB | Avg | Ca | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ♠ | New Zealand New Zealand cricket team The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the... |
2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 69 | 69 | 69.00 | 36 | 37 | 1 | 1/37 | 37.00 | 0 | 0 |
| ♠ | New Zealand New Zealand cricket team The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the... |
2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 30.00 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |
| West Indies | 2005– | 3 | 3 | 0 | 55 | 54 | 18.33 | 47 | 58 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| ♠ | Australia Australian cricket team The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877... |
2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 24.00 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
| ♠ | England English cricket team The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end... |
2005 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 48 | 55 | 1 | 1/55 | 55.00 | 1 | 0 | |
| ♠ | Australia Australian cricket team The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877... |
2005– | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2.00 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |
| ♠ | West Indies | 2005 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 57 | 52 | 14.25 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |
| ♠ | Australia Australian cricket team The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877... |
2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 42 | 37 | 1 | 1/37 | 37.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Australia Australian cricket team The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877... |
2005– | 1 | 1 | 0 | 115 | 115 | 115.00 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| New Zealand New Zealand cricket team The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the... |
2005– | 4 | 4 | 2 | 53 | 27* Not out In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress... |
26.50 | 240 | 179 | 8 | 4/33 | 22.37 | 2 | 0 | ||
| ♠ | Australia Australian cricket team The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877... |
2005 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2* | – | 42 | 27 | 2 | 2/27 | 13.50 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pakistan Pakistani cricket team The Pakistan cricket team is the national cricket team of Pakistan. Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Cricket Board , is a full member of the International Cricket Council, and thus participates in , and cricket matches.... |
2005– | 2 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 16 | 9.00 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| Pakistan Pakistani cricket team The Pakistan cricket team is the national cricket team of Pakistan. Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Cricket Board , is a full member of the International Cricket Council, and thus participates in , and cricket matches.... |
2005– | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 10* | 12.00 | 102 | 110 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| India Indian cricket team The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status.... |
2005– | 3 | 3 | 0 | 46 | 36 | 15.33 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| ♠ | England English cricket team The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end... |
2005– | 3 | 3 | 0 | 101 | 42 | 33.66 | 128 | 153 | 1 | 1/64 | 153.00 | 1 | 0 | |
| South Africa South African cricket team The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status... |
2005– | 3 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 11 | 7.00 | 52 | 70 | 1 | 1/26 | 70.00 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sri Lanka Sri Lankan cricket team The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1926–27, and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation... |
2005– | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 180 | 122 | 5 | 2/38 | 24.40 | 1 | 0 | ||
| England English cricket team The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end... |
2005– | 2 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 16 | 9.00 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| ♠ | South Africa South African cricket team The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status... |
2005 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 9.33 | 150 | 148 | 2 | 1/32 | 74.00 | 1 | 0 | |
| Sri Lanka Sri Lankan cricket team The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1926–27, and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation... |
2005– | 3 | 3 | 0 | 138 | 64 | 46.00 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| India Indian cricket team The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status.... |
2005– | 3 | 3 | 0 | 64 | 37 | 21.33 | 30 | 33 | 1 | 1/20 | 33.00 | 0 | 0 | ||
| South Africa South African cricket team The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status... |
2005- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0* | – | 42 | 58 | 1 | 1/58 | 58.00 | 0 | 0 |