A current World XI that could take on 2007 World Cup champions Australia

Middle-Order

#3 Virat Kohli

One of the most significant limited-overs batsmen

One of the most significant limited-overs batsmen, Virat Kohli, walks into this team at No.3.

With 35 hundred in 200 innings, Kohli is head and shoulders ahead of his contemporaries. He made his debut as an opener in 2008 against Sri Lanka, but it was only in the December of 2009 that he gave a glimpse of his greatness, when he scored his debut hundred in a run chase against Sri Lanka.

Apart from his immaculate stroke-play, one of the greatest assets of Virat Kohli is his game sense and playing risk-free conventional cricket by running ones and twos, a testimony to his supreme fitness. Kohli scores a hundred every 5.79 innings.

Kohli at No.3 will serve as an anchor for the side alongside the power hitters in AB De Villiers and Shakib Al Hasan.

#4 AB De Villers

De Villers remains one of the greatest batsmen to have ever graced a cricket field

It's unfathomable as to what De Villers can achieve on a cricket field. Blessed with an innate ability to hit a cricket ball 360 degrees, De Villers remains one of the greatest batsmen to have ever graced a cricket field.

In 228 ODIs the former Proteas skipper has accumulated 9577 runs at an average of 53.5 and a swashbuckling strike-rate of 150.36.

On his day, the South African can take the game away from the opposition and take on the likes of Bracken, Tait, and Hogg.

#5 Shakib Al Hasan

One of the best all-rounders going around in World Cricket

One of the best all-rounders going around in World Cricket, Al Hasan makes our playing XI at No.5.

With incisive as well as potent left-arm spin bowling coupled with swashbuckling batting, Hasan remains a prime asset to any team. In 185 ODIs, Al Hasan has amassed 5243 runs at an average of 34.95 to go along with 235 wickets at an average of 29.46 including a fifer.

He is a wonderful player of spin and can up the ante in the middle overs.