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In this quiz<\/a>, you have to name the top 25 bowlers in the ICC men\u2019s ODI rankings on the day before the 2007 World Cup<\/a> started.<\/p>\n The 2007 ODI World Cup was hosted in the West Indies from March 13 to April 28, featuring 16 teams in 51 matches.<\/p>\n Try more: How well do you know the Sharmas of international cricket?<\/a><\/p>\n You need to name the top 25 bowlers in the ICC ODI rankings on March 12, 2007 \u2013 the day before the World Cup began. Notably, the top six features three players from the eventual champion squad of Australia, including the highest wicket-taker (26) who retired after that edition. The two other Australians are also fast bowlers.<\/p>\n Quiz! Name the top-ranked ODI bowlers in the world the day before the 1992 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n The list is headed by a South African fast bowler, while another South African is at third place. The top-ranked spinner is from New Zealand, at fifth, while a Sri Lankan legend is at seventh place. The list is diverse, and includes a bowler from Zimbabwe \u2013 not among the strongest teams at that point \u2013 and two from Bangladesh, who had become an ICC Full Member less than a decade ago.<\/p>\n Quiz! Top 25 batters in ICC men\u2019s Test rankings the day before 2019-21 WTC<\/a><\/p>\n To work with the names, the rankings (with ratings) and teams of each player on the day before the World Cup are provided as hints. You have five minutes to name all of them. Good luck!<\/p>\n Top-ranked ODI bowlers the day before 2007 World Cup <\/p>\n Please refresh the page if the quiz does not load properly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this quiz, you have to name the top 25 bowlers in the ICC men\u2019s ODI rankings on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-500832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}