{"id":526581,"date":"2025-10-25T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526581\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:04:17","slug":"ravi-shastri-names-indias-five-greatest-odi-cricketers-virat-kohli-tops-list-jasprit-bumrah-misses-out-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526581\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravi Shastri names India&#8217;s five greatest ODI cricketers: Virat Kohli tops list, Jasprit Bumrah misses out | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761379457_160_virat-kohli-and-rohit-sharma.jpg\" alt=\"Ravi Shastri names India's five greatest ODI cricketers: Virat Kohli tops list, Jasprit Bumrah misses out\" title=\"Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (Getty Images) NEW DELHi: Former India coach and 1983 World Cup winner <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ravi-shastri\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravi Shastri<\/a> has revealed his list of India\u2019s five greatest ODI cricketers of all time, a star-studded lineup that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virat Kohli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sachin-tendulkar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sachin Tendulkar<\/a>, MS Dhoni, Kapil Dev and Rohit Sharma.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Speaking on FOX Cricket, Shastri placed Virat Kohli at the top, acknowledging his remarkable consistency and match-winning ability over more than a decade. Alongside Kohli, Shastri included three World Cup-winning players \u2013 Dhoni, Tendulkar and Kapil \u2013 forming the backbone of India\u2019s golden era in one-day cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit Sharma&#8217;s record-breaking knock vs Virat Kohli\u2019s duck | India vs Australia 2nd ODI<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll go with Kohli, Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni, and Rohit Sharma,\u201d Shastri said. \u201cAnd the only reason I\u2019ve not put Bumrah there is because Bumrah has got another three or four years of cricket left. You know, these players, they\u2019re more or less coming to the fag end of their careers. They\u2019ve played over a decade, some over a decade and a half, so I would put\u2026 And it\u2019s tough to pick. There are so many other good players when you look back. But these stand out for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Is Rohit Sharma deserving of a place in the top five greatest ODI cricketers?<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his picks, Shastri highlighted the rare legacy of leadership and impact among the five icons. \u201cThey\u2019ve been outstanding contributors. Two World Cup captains there, who won the World Cup as well. And barring Rohit Sharma, everyone in that list are World Cup winners. But you can\u2019t take Rohit out of the mix with three double hundreds and over 11,000 runs. He\u2019s number three in the list of run-getters. And all these on the given day are genuine match winners,\u201d he added.Shastri\u2019s chosen five collectively embody India\u2019s ODI excellence across generations \u2014 Kapil Dev, the architect of the 1983 triumph; Tendulkar, the heartbeat of the 1990s and 2000s; Dhoni, the 2011 World Cup-winning captain; Kohli, the modern-era run machine; and Rohit Sharma, the record-breaking opener who led India to the 2023 World Cup final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (Getty Images) NEW DELHi: Former India coach and 1983 World Cup winner Ravi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,170777,84211,8054,10791,16384,15616,79,16,15,4221,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-526581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-indias-greatest-odi-cricketers","10":"tag-kapil-dev","11":"tag-ms-dhoni","12":"tag-ravi-shastri","13":"tag-rohit-sharma","14":"tag-sachin-tendulkar","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-virat-kohli","19":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115433771546446421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}