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Huge talents who have missed the boat

kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
There are plenty but ATM the following came in my mind :

Ajay Sharma, Pankaj Dharmani, Amol Mazumdar...
Marlon Samuels...
Shoaib Akhtar [?], Baseet Ali, Imran Nazir...
Shane Bond...
Greame Hick, Mark Ramprakash, Marcus Trescothick...
Paul Strang, Henry Olonga...
Brett Schultz, Meyrick Pringle, Jacques Rudolph...
 
Uppercut

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Mohammed Asif seems to have blown up the proverbial boat. He's unbelievably talented but has completely ballsed it up already.
 
sanga1337

sanga1337

U19 Captain
Precambrian said:
Pankaj Dharmani of Punjab, India

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/player/28067.html

One of the very few wicketkeepers in the world having 50+ FC batting average. Poor guy missed out mainly because of Mongia being First Choice.
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How the hell did he not play more than one ODI :blink:. He averages around 10 more than Mongia! And even if Mongia was preffered at first why wasn't he even considered as a keeper after Mongia? Sounds pretty Bizzare.
 
Richard

Richard

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He's not the first Kiwi seamer to have his career wrecked by injury TBF, though possibly none were quite so promising as he was.

I don't think he'd ever have been the next Hadlee though, he was, what, 26? by the time he made his international debuts.
 
krkode

krkode

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Precambrian said:
Pankaj Dharmani of Punjab, India

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/player/28067.html

One of the very few wicketkeepers in the world having 50+ FC batting average. Poor guy missed out mainly because of Mongia being First Choice.
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Saba Karim is in a similar boat - http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/30042.html

WK batsman averaging 56...

I remember the game when Kumble bowled a ripper and Karim hurt his eye and had to leave the field for surgery. :-O
 
krkode

krkode

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Richard said:
He's not the first Kiwi seamer to have his career wrecked by injury TBF, though possibly none were quite so promising as he was.

I don't think he'd ever have been the next Hadlee though, he was, what, 26? by the time he made his international debuts.
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Oh yeah, I don't mean in over all wickets taken. Maybe more so in average and match-winning ability. It's not often you have a Kiwi bowler averaging in the low-20s. In fact, not since Hadlee himself.

I guess Doull and Allot were also some promising bowlers who missed out?
 
Precambrian

Precambrian

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Richard said:
Jeesh I never knew Karim was that good a batsman! :blink:

How on Earth did MSK Prasads, Dighes and Dahiyas get preferred to him? Or even Ratras and Patels?
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Karim had more more (34 is a fair number) ODIs to prove his worth, and really never looked extra ordinary as his FC avg suggests. Maybe he could have been a better player in test matches. But his OD records were mediocre. With Dharmani, he had such a fantastic OD and FC record, and bizzarely played just one ODI.
 
Xuhaib

Xuhaib

International Coach
Precambrian said:
Karim had more more (34 is a fair number) ODIs to prove his worth, and really never looked extra ordinary as his FC avg suggests. Maybe he could have been a better player in test matches. But his OD records were mediocre. With Dharmani, he had such a fantastic OD and FC record, and bizzarely played just one ODI.
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Always played over 100 tests for e in ICC2
 
_Ed_

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Haha yeah Dharmani was amazing in ICC2, and ICC2000 as well I think.
 
Richard

Richard

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Precambrian said:
Karim had more more (34 is a fair number) ODIs to prove his worth, and really never looked extra ordinary as his FC avg suggests. Maybe he could have been a better player in test matches. But his OD records were mediocre. With Dharmani, he had such a fantastic OD and FC record, and bizzarely played just one ODI.
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As with the likes of S Sriram, to write such a fantastic long-form player off based on the short form is extremely poor.
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

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Wayne Daniel. Should have been up with all time greats like Roberts, Holding and Marshall, but Clive Lloyds absurd mis-trust of him lead to the likes of Croft playing instead and even worse Eldine Baptiste.
 
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