Which is the greatest team in ODI history?

It's a difficult question, but not because there are too many plausibly "correct" answers. It's difficult because there are, when you boil it down, just two equally compelling ones: Clive Lloyd's West Indies and Ricky Ponting's Australia , both winners of back-to-back World Cup titles, and both of whom won upwards of three times as many ODIs as they lost.

Lloyd and Ponting's respective win-loss ratios of 3.555 and 3.235, in fact, are the best and third-best of all captains to have led ODI teams at least 20 times.

Best and... third-best? Yes, because Rohit Sharma 's India sit right between them at 3.500, with 42 wins and 12 losses in 56 matches.

Rohit's India didn't dominate world cricket for anywhere near as long as the other two tea

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