Six Lankans among top nominees

To mark the 40th anniversary of One-Day International (ODI) cricket, the ICC’s official website is asking supporters from across the globe to select their choice of the greatest ODI match and team of all-time.

Voting on www.icc-cricket.com is now open asking supporters to select a dream team from a shortlist of 48 players and pick their favourite game from a choice of 10 memorable matches.

Supporters will have until midnight Dubai time (GMT+4) on January 02, 2011 to make their selections, with the fans’ choices set to be announced on January 05, 2011 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first-ever ODI match between Australia and England. While fans have the chance to vote using the nominations suggested by the ICC on www.icc-cricket.com, the ICC is also requesting supporters to send in their dream teams and favourite matches via www.facebook.com/cricketicc or www.twitter.com/cricketicc.

The list of players and matches that fans are being asked to vote on at www.icc-cricket.com is listed below.

The nominees

Greatest ODI team of all time:

Opening batsmen (2) Saeed Anwar, Sourav Ganguly, Gordon Greenidge, Matthew Hayden, Sanath Jayasuriya, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Glenn Turner

Middle-order batsmen (3) Michael Bevan, Martin Crowe, Aravinda de Silva, Inzamam-ul Haq, Brian Lara, Javed Miandad, Ricky Ponting, Viv Richards

All-rounder (1) Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Andrew Flintoff, Richard Hadlee, Jacques Kallis, Imran Khan, Lance Klusener, Shaun Pollock Wicket-keeper (1) Mark Boucher, MS Dhoni, Andy Flower Adam Gilchrist, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Moin Khan, Alec Stewart, Kumar Sangakkara,

Fast bowlers (3) Wasim Akram, Allan Donald, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Dennis Lillee, Glenn McGrath, Chaminda Vaas, Waqar Younis

Spinner (1) Shahid Afridi, Carl Hooper, Anil Kumble, Muttiah Muralidaran, Saqlain Mushtaq, Harbhajan Singh, Shane Warne, Daniel Vettori

Greatest ODI match of all-time:

West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs at Lord’s, June 21, 1975

India beat West Indies by 43 runs at Lord’s, June 25, 1983

Pakistan beat India won by one-wicket at Sharjah, April 18, 1986

England won by three wickets against Australia at Sydney, January 22, 1987

Australia won by one-wicket against West Indies at Sydney, January 12, 1996

Australia tied with South Africa at Edgbaston, June 17, 1999

Pakistan tied with Sri Lanka, at Sharjah, October 15, 1999

India beat Pakistan by five runs at Karachi, March 13, 2004

Bangladesh beat Australia by five wickets at Cardiff, June 18, 2005

South Africa beat Australia by one-wicket at Johannesburg, March 12, 2006