I don't think many people actually rate him anyway, just a bits and pieces cricketer and I think most people in New Zealand can see that. He regularly dominates domestic cricket though, which is a shame considering he can't do too much that is noteworthy at international level.
Perfect Perm
Did Shane Watson say anything about James ?
Typo?
He has had big wraps on him at various stages. Personally I think he is vastly under-rated now - the fact that he gets belted around in ODIs makes people assume he is useless in general, but he's NZ's second best test bowler as of now quite comfortably IMO.
Totally agree, and that is one reason people shouldn't compare ODI and Test cricket in regards to a player. Not so long ago there were calls for James Franklin to be dropped from international cricket, which is quite frankly ridiculous.
Are we talking Test or ODI cricket? There are a couple bowlers who could be better than Franklin in ODI cricket at least. Bradley Scott, Mark Gillespie are two such names.
Test cricket is more imp...We dont ever had a serious problem in One dayers as we had many bowlers who can finish off the quota
Agree about Tests being more important than ODI cricket. Mark Gillespie is a Test option though, as is Ian O'Brien and Chris Martin. Bond and Franklin are certainties IMO.
Gillespie and O'Brien would be dire test bowlers IMO.
Didnt see a lot of OBrien, but Mark is surely a one day prospect...Franklin is better of Mark in tests IMO
O'Brien has improved a lot lately and was very impressive during the last domestic season, so it wouldn't surprise me if we seen him playing a couple more Tests. Gillespie has been dominant for Wellington for a number of seasons now, and I'm pretty sure he can actually move the ball sideways, which wasn't seen during his ODI career to date. Two possible candidates, but it would take an injury or a slump in form from one of our main seamers for either of them to get a Test IMO.
so I guess now we can add a certain Imran Khan to the under rated list?
Irfan Pathan as well.....
Forgot about him, but definately falls into that same category.
It's called being a batsman
No-one rates White's bowling though. He was pretty much selected as a batsman who could chip in with an over or two - like Hodge's selection while Symonds (then later Watson) was injured in the World Cup. People moaned about him not getting enough overs, then they saw why that was happening when he bowled. He was picked on the back on his batting at domestic level, and how he was pretty much the perfect guy to have comig in at #7 in ODIs.
