Crap players you don't want to see playing for your country

[BhupinderSingh]

Pakistan:

Mohammad Sami
Naved-ul-Hasan
Salman Butt
Imran Nazir
Faisal Iqbal
Shahid Afridi
Kamran Akmal
Danish Kaneria
Iftikhar Anjum
Mohammad Hafeez

 

[Beleg]

Half the players on that list are no where near being crap by any reasonable definition.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Geraint Jones
Ashley Giles
Luke Wright
Mike Yardy

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Half the players on that list are no where near being crap by any reasonable definition.

I find all of them to be crap tbh.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Pakistan:

Mohammad Sami
Naved-ul-Hasan
Salman Butt
Imran Nazir
Faisal Iqbal
Shahid Afridi
Kamran Akmal
Danish Kaneria
Iftikhar Anjum
Mohammad Hafeez

The only real crap one there is Imran Nazir IMO.

 

[Richard]

Geraint Jones
Ashley Giles
Luke Wright
Mike Yardy

Agree with all except Giles (and he's retired anyway) and let's add a few...

Tim Bresnan, Liam Plunkett, Sajid Mahmood, Philip Mustard, Chris Schofield, Andrew Strauss (in ODIs), Ian Blackwell, and probably countless hundreds of others who I can't think of right now because I didn't follow domestic cricket as I should last season...

 

[Richard]

The only real crap one there is Imran Nazir IMO.

I'd say only Kaneria approaches not being really crap TBH, and maybe Salman Butt might eventually. How you can say Sami and Rana aren't?

 

[PhoenixFire]

Well Sami and Rana are good players yet they underacheive, so I wouldn't want them in my side, but they aren't crap players as per se.

 

[Richard]

Hmm, you could possibly - and only possibly - argue that about Rana, but no way Sami - he's just terrible. Absolutely terrible.

 

[jammay123]

no they are crap players who overachieve when they play any good which aint often

 

[deira]

kaneria and afridi are not crap. afridi is a allrounder and great feilder.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Daryl Tuffey
Jamie How
Hamish Marshall
James Marshall
(wouldn't mind seeing again Malcolm Marshall though )
Reece Young
Peter McGlashan

 

[Richard]

Heath Davis.

 

[deira]

^^^ hamish marshall is a mystery. he started in odi's as a awsome player averaging over 40 but then later started batting like a tail ender would.

 

[Nishan]

Jehan Mubarak he is a joke. I can handle reasonably average players in the sri lankan side but this guy just gets me up the wrong way, and once more he gets endless opportunites because the selectors can then be up for cash reward.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Heath Davis.

 

[Richard]

Just getting in before Kieran, no need to get so defensive!

 

[PhoenixFire]

Face it, someone was going to say it, so it might as well be someone who you know is joking (>?<).

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Does anyone else find the roll-eyes smiley disarming? He's smiling for crying out loud. You need a grumpy roll-eyes and a smiley roll-eyes - two completely different emoticons methinks. Smiley roll-eyes in a knowing-its-a-joke, but insulting to you sort of way and a Grumpy roll-eyes for ones where you're actually pissed off.

I'd be using the Smiley roll-eyes in this case.

 

[Richard]

I've never understood why the Rolleyes is smiling, but can only assume that it's because were it to be frowning it'd damage the servers beyond repair, and probably start several world-wars to boot.

Anyway - does a smile always = happy\friendly? A smile can be a deeply contemptuous thing.