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The World Cup Run: can your ODI XI win it?

Spin for a nation and a decade, draft eleven one-day players, then take them through a World Cup: four group games, a semi-final, and the World XI waiting in the final.

Start the World Cup Run

How the ODI game works

How it works

  1. Draft. The same draft as the ODI game: six spins, each drawing a nation and a decade, give you eleven picks for fixed spots (two openers, three middle-order batters, a wicketkeeper, two all-rounders or spinners, and three fast bowlers).
  2. The group. Your XI plays four nations. Three wins take you through, so one slip is allowed. A second defeat and you are out.
  3. The semi-final. One of the two strongest sides in the game, Australia and South Africa. Lose and the run is over.
  4. The final. The World XI, the same side you face in the ODI series. Win it and you are world champions; win every match and you are unbeaten champions, 6–0.

What decides a match

Every XI, yours and each nation’s, gets a team score from the same ratings as the ODI game: batting, bowling and fielding, built from real career numbers. The gap between the two scores decides the match, with a small element of luck, so a weaker side can sometimes win. The luck is fixed for your XI: the same eleven always meet the same nations and get the same results.

Which nations you meet in the group is drawn for your XI. Draft a different eleven and the draw changes. The ratings are never shown, for you or for any nation, so the picks are your own judgement.

The ten nations

Each nation’s XI is the best side its own one-day players can make in the game, picked by the same rule as our best-XI pages: the strongest players in each position, with one all-rounder. The sides are fixed and are the same for everyone. Each side’s career numbers are on every nation’s all-time ODI XI; to judge your own picks, see what a good ODI batting average and a good strike rate look like.

Australia
  1. 1David WarnerOPN
  2. 2Aaron FinchOPN
  3. 3Ricky PontingBAT
  4. 4Steve SmithBAT
  5. 5Michael ClarkeBAT
  6. 6Adam GilchristWK
  7. 7Shane WatsonAR
  8. 8Shane WarneSPIN
  9. 9Brett LeePACE
  10. 10Glenn McGrathPACE
  11. 11Mitchell JohnsonPACE
Bangladesh
  1. 1Tamim IqbalOPN
  2. 2Soumya SarkarOPN
  3. 3MahmudullahBAT
  4. 4Najmul Hossain ShantoBAT
  5. 5Towhid HridoyBAT
  6. 6Mushfiqur RahimWK
  7. 7Shakib Al HasanAR
  8. 8Abdur RazzakSPIN
  9. 9Mustafizur RahmanPACE
  10. 10Mashrafe MortazaPACE
  11. 11Taskin AhmedPACE
England
  1. 1Jason RoyOPN
  2. 2Alex HalesOPN
  3. 3Joe RootBAT
  4. 4Eoin MorganBAT
  5. 5Kevin PietersenBAT
  6. 6Jonny BairstowWK
  7. 7Andrew FlintoffAR
  8. 8Adil RashidSPIN
  9. 9Darren GoughPACE
  10. 10James AndersonPACE
  11. 11Stuart BroadPACE
India
  1. 1Rohit SharmaOPN
  2. 2Sachin TendulkarOPN
  3. 3Virat KohliBAT
  4. 4Yuvraj SinghBAT
  5. 5Rahul DravidBAT
  6. 6M S DhoniWK
  7. 7Ravindra JadejaAR
  8. 8Kuldeep YadavSPIN
  9. 9Jasprit BumrahPACE
  10. 10Javagal SrinathPACE
  11. 11Ajit AgarkarPACE
New Zealand
  1. 1Martin GuptillOPN
  2. 2Stephen FlemingOPN
  3. 3Ross TaylorBAT
  4. 4Kane WilliamsonBAT
  5. 5Daryl MitchellBAT
  6. 6Brendon McCullumWK
  7. 7Chris HarrisAR
  8. 8Daniel VettoriSPIN
  9. 9Shane BondPACE
  10. 10Trent BoultPACE
  11. 11Kyle MillsPACE
Pakistan
  1. 1Fakhar ZamanOPN
  2. 2Saeed AnwarOPN
  3. 3Babar AzamBAT
  4. 4Inzamam-ul-HaqBAT
  5. 5Mohammad YousufBAT
  6. 6Mohammad RizwanWK
  7. 7Shahid AfridiAR
  8. 8Saqlain MushtaqSPIN
  9. 9Wasim AkramPACE
  10. 10Waqar YounisPACE
  11. 11Shoaib AkhtarPACE
South Africa
  1. 1Hashim AmlaOPN
  2. 2Herschelle GibbsOPN
  3. 3Faf du PlessisBAT
  4. 4David MillerBAT
  5. 5Rassie van der DussenBAT
  6. 6AB de VilliersWK
  7. 7Shaun PollockAR
  8. 8Imran TahirSPIN
  9. 9Allan DonaldPACE
  10. 10Makhaya NtiniPACE
  11. 11Morne MorkelPACE
Sri Lanka
  1. 1Tillakaratne DilshanOPN
  2. 2Upul TharangaOPN
  3. 3Mahela JayawardeneBAT
  4. 4Marvan AtapattuBAT
  5. 5Charith AsalankaBAT
  6. 6Kumar SangakkaraWK
  7. 7Sanath JayasuriyaAR
  8. 8Muttiah MuralitharanSPIN
  9. 9Chaminda VaasPACE
  10. 10Lasith MalingaPACE
  11. 11Farveez MaharoofPACE
West Indies
  1. 1Chris GayleOPN
  2. 2Evin LewisOPN
  3. 3Brian LaraBAT
  4. 4Viv RichardsBAT
  5. 5Shivnarine ChanderpaulBAT
  6. 6Shai HopeWK
  7. 7Carl HooperAR
  8. 8Sunil NarineSPIN
  9. 9Ravi RampaulPACE
  10. 10Alzarri JosephPACE
  11. 11Merwyn DillonPACE
Zimbabwe
  1. 1Alistair CampbellOPN
  2. 2Hamilton MasakadzaOPN
  3. 3Craig ErvineBAT
  4. 4Elton ChigumburaBAT
  5. 5Charles CoventryBAT
  6. 6Brendan TaylorWK
  7. 7Sean WilliamsAR
  8. 8Graeme CremerSPIN
  9. 9Tawanda MupariwaPACE
  10. 10Blessing MuzarabaniPACE
  11. 11Edward RainsfordPACE
  • Afghanistan is not in the game: their matches are missing from the match data we use. Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland and other teams are not in it either.
  • Ball-by-ball records of ODIs start around 2003. Older players are included where official career totals were available for them. Viv Richards cannot be drafted, but he plays for the West Indies here and for the World XI.

The World XI, in the final

The side every run has to beat at the end. It does not change from game to game.

  1. 1Sanath JayasuriyaOPN
  2. 2Sachin TendulkarOPN
  3. 3Virat KohliBAT
  4. 4Viv RichardsBAT
  5. 5AB de VilliersBAT
  6. 6M S DhoniWK
  7. 7Saqlain MushtaqSPIN
  8. 8Muttiah MuralitharanSPIN
  9. 9Wasim AkramPACE
  10. 10Glenn McGrathPACE
  11. 11Shaun PollockPACE

Share your run

Every result has a share card with your XI and the road you took, and a link a friend can open to see your eleven and start a run of their own.

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