The World ODI XI that can beat 2015 World Cup Champions Australia

#3 Virat Kohli

One of the most significant limited-overs batsmen

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

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 has had a measure of Australia in the past having accumulated five hundred against the 2015 champions, with two of them coming Down Under back in 2016.

Kohli at No.3 will serve as an anchor for the side.

#4 AB de Villiers

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. 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.

On his day, the South African can take the game away from the opposition and take on the likes of Faulkner, Johnson, and Maxwell in the middle-overs.

#5 Eoin Morgan

England's current ODI skipper

The youngest non-subcontinental cricketer to score an ODI hundred, Eoin Morgan features in our list at No.5.

The current English ODI skipper and one of the few players to represent two countries (England and Ireland), Morgan has been one of the most consistent performers in white-ball cricket ever since he made his debut for Ireland in 2006.

With an immaculate game-sense and an ability to take the attack to the opposition, Morgan will be an ideal foil at No.5, in case the team loses early wickets and can serve as an anchor around which the shenanigans of the lower-middle order can take over. Morgan has had a good outing against the Aussies in the past, having accumulated three hundred.

In 200 ODI matches, Morgan has already accumulated 6031 runs at an average of 37.0 and a strike-rate of 88.04.