Wisden, like their ‘form’ Test XI, showcases an ODI team comprised of top-level players from throughout the globe.
In the course of the last several months, Wisden has focused on players who have been successful in the format on a continuous basis, as opposed to those players who have just been successful in a single series. As a direct result of this, Kusal Mendis, Dawid Malan, and Jos Buttler are all out of the match, as is Jasprit Bumrah, who earlier this month impressed supporters once again by taking 6-19 against England.
The points below represent the performance of players in their most recent matches as of July 26 from news cricket news.
- Imam-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
7 games, 553 runs at a 92.16 average, 2 100-yard home runs, and 5 fifty-yard home runs.
Imam has the greatest batting average among all batters since the beginning of November 2021, having scored fifty runs in seven consecutive outings (99.40). With a 98.61 success percentage, he is the only player in this time period to have scored more than 50 runs. In his previous six one-day internationals at home, Imam scored 103, 106, 89*, 65, 72, and 62 runs.
- South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (wk)
7 matches, 392 runs at 65.33, 1 century, 3 half-centuries, and an average of 65.33
The wicketkeeper announced his retirement from Test cricket a year ago. He continues to dominate the shorter format, though. In Paarl, South Africa, in January, he took six wickets for 78 runs off 66 balls against India, then in the next one-day international, he scored a match-winning hundred. The next instant, against Bangladesh, he scored his third straight fifty-plus score. Then, this month against England, he responded with an unbeaten 92* off 76 balls.
- Babar Azam – Pakistan (c)
6 games, 457 runs at 91.40, 3 100-plus runs, 2 fifty-plus runs
Since November 2021, only Babar has scored more ODI hundreds than any other batsman. The Pakistan skipper is one of just three batters who have averaged above 90 in this format during this time period. Babar is now one of the finest players in the world, and his statistics indicate that he will soon become an all-around great.
- Harry Tector (Ireland)
Six games, 384 runs at a 76.80 batting average, including two 100s and three 50s.
Having impressed India’s stand-in captain Hardik Pandya in the last T20I series, Ireland’s Tector is unstoppable in one-day internationals, failing to hit fifty in just one of six innings this year. Earlier in the year, he struck three consecutive half-centuries against West Indies, and more recently, he scored two centuries in three games against New Zealand.
- Rassie van der Dussen (South Africa)
2 games with 100 runs scored and 2 games with 50 runs scored; 476 runs scored with an average of 79.33 in 9 games
Van der Dussen’s debut ODI score of 134 against England helped him establish the highest batting average in ODI history (69.31 with a minimum of 20 innings). Second century in seven games and the fourth score of fifty or more in that span. Even if he has only scored 0 and 26 since his most recent tonne, his outstanding performance over the last many years and throughout his career still remains.
- Travis Head (Australia)
Six games, 310 runs at 62 miles per hour, 102 fifty-ones.
In our eleven, there is a little gap between Head and Mendis. He has scored runs in both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, scoring 101 and 89 in Lahore and an unbeaten 70 in Colombo. We have the option of deploying Head as an opener or a sixth-order batsman when he is available.
- McBrine (Ireland)
Over the course of six games, an average of 44.20 runs were scored each game, and one game was played over 50 overs:
11 for 22.54 in the first period, and then 4 for 28 in the second.
With a batting career average that is 21.65 runs higher than his bowling average in one-day internationals, McBrine is one of the finest all-rounders in the world in this year’s competition. In the year 2022, he has two four-fours from his off-break bowling and a handful of runs from his batting. This season, he has pitched six innings and has given up at least Thirty runs in five of those innings.
- Michael Bracewell (New Zealand)
Six games, 194 runs scored at 97, 1/100th of a run:
BBI: 3-21 after a seven-wicket haul at 30.71
This year he made his ODI debut against the Netherlands, and since then, he’s been on a fantastic run with both the bat and the ball. While batting badly in his first three matches, he got five wickets. After that, his batting took over, and his 127* helped New Zealand defeat Ireland by one wicket in the inaugural one-day international. With subsequent scores of 42* and 21*, he has established himself as a powerful off-break bowler.
- Alzarri Joseph (West Indies)
BBI: 3-55 in 14 matches and 25 wickets
Joseph, the leading wicket-taker in ODIs in 2022, has gone wicketless in just two of his last fourteen outings. In 19 of his last 21 one-day internationals for the West Indies, he has taken at least one wicket. This year, he had taken two or more wickets in a game nine times, with his best effort coming against Ireland when he took 3-55.
- Reece Topley (England)
13 wickets at 16.38, BBI: 6-24 over seven matches
It was Topley’s dream series against India, during which the illustrious top order was often disrupted. Due to his career-high 6-24 at Lord’s, England was able to maintain their 246-run advantage, and his following performance in Manchester, when he dismissed Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, and Virat Kohli, was similarly outstanding. Topley has averaged 10 and taken two wickets in his last four ODIs, including one against South Africa.
- Yuzvendra Chahal (India)
BBI: 4-47 in eight matches with 15 wickets at the cost of $22.53 apiece
Chahal had only gone wicketless once in his last eight One-Day International matches when he bowled two overs at The Oval in England. Even obtaining the Purple Cap in this year’s Indian Premier League highlights Chahal’s outstanding record in all formats after his exclusion from last year’s T20 World Cup.
These were the players that were in great form in 2022.
