cricketers that had potential

[slippyslip]

Well, he did have to go overseas to get a commentary gig... :

Wouldnt that be a positive thing rather than a negative? Being rejected by the idiots in the Channel 9 commentary box would be something I'd put on my resume and wear with pride.

 

[Isura]

shahid Afridi, Sourve Ganguly, Kamran akmal, Chamra Silva

Ganguly really?

 	Mat  	Inns  	NO  	Runs  	HS  	Ave  	BF  	SR  	100  	50  	4s  	6s  	Ct  	St
Tests 	113 	188 	17 	7212 	239 	42.17 	14070 	51.25 	16 	35 	900 	57 	71 	0
ODIs 	311 	300 	23 	11363 	183 	41.02 	15416 	73.70 	22 	72 	1122 	190 	100 	0

Not too shabby.

Vinod Kambli - It was said he had more natural talent then his best friend Sachin Tendulkar, too bad he didn't have the work ethic.

Great choice.

Some are mistaking average talent and overhyped (eg Bopara) for actual talent wasted.

 

[GIMH]

Mark Ramprakash

 

[Prince EWS]

Mark Ramprakash

Already been done like 5 times in this thread.

 

[aussie]

Gavin Robertson. Everytime i see Swann bowl these days, i reckon Roberston could have been a servicable test offie for AUS.

 

[Gowza]

zimbabwe had a couple of decent talents in andy blignaut and neil johnson.

 

[Sanz]

Andrew Flintoff

 

[ripper868]

Adam Gilchrist

Should have been in the test team from age 12, all that talent wasted for so many years.

 

[inbox24]

David Hussey
Andy Bichel
Michael Bevan
Stuart MacGill

Neil Fairbrother
Alan Mullaly

 

[Top_Cat]

Wouldnt that be a positive thing rather than a negative? Being rejected by the idiots in the Channel 9 commentary box would be something I'd put on my resume and wear with pride.

Yeah fair point too but there's being a 'difficult' character and there's being an incurable knob-jockey. I was a massive, massive Deano fan as a kid but let's just say it didn't take much prodding from persons I know who played against him to let fly.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Wouldnt that be a positive thing rather than a negative? Being rejected by the idiots in the Channel 9 commentary box would be something I'd put on my resume and wear with pride.

At times they are bloody annoying on TV, but you wouldn't find many who would talk badly about them as people; they were generally very popular amongst teammates when playing.

 

[Top_Cat]

At times they are bloody annoying on TV, but you wouldn't find many who would talk badly about them as people; they were generally very popular amongst teammates when playing.

Bill Lawry.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Bill Lawry.

Never heard too many bad words said about him as a person, just as a batsman and captain. Although, I am living in Victoria...

Thought that the exception might've actually been Tony Greig, who was pretty much given his job for life due to his role in the Packer saga, and is a more abrasive character than a few others. Chuck in Ian Chappell there, who was pretty anti-establishment but most players seem to have gotten on with him (bar Steve Waugh).

 

[SJS]

Players that had potential but never made it to the top.

All of us I suppose

 

[Richard]

For a lot of his chances he was picked as a batting all-rounder, whereas he batted at 3 or 4 in FC cricket...

He did this on about 5 occasions, IIRR. And if you're seriously suggesting playing as a batting-all-rounder is less of a chance than not playing at all, well... then you're making a silly suggestion, TBH.

 

[Richard]

Couldn't agree more - Sylvester Clarke too of a similar type and vintage

He wasted his own talent though by choosing South Africa.

 

[Richard]

Anyway, Mark Lathwell and Dean Headley would come in this category. David Lawrence looked as if he had great potential before that day in Wellington.

Strange how there's so many Poms in this category.

Lathwell never had much potential IMO - he hated the limelight, and with that sort of mindset he had no hope at all of being a good international cricketer. Lawrence was only ever a serious hot-and-cold merchant, and even though he'd undoubtedly have played more but for that horrific injury at Basin Reserve, I can't help but doubt he'd have been that good a Test bowler.

Headley, though, can absolutely be added to the list I posted earler. Really good, solid bowler, just a late developer and had his late development stalled by injury once it'd happened.

 

[Richard]

Amazed you haven't included Hick tbh

Hick at least achieved his considerable potential as a ODI batsman. Though obviously he could've done more in Tests had fortune smiled on him a bit more from 1996 onwards.

 

[Richard]

Neil Fairbrother
Alan Mullaly

It's arguable that Fairbrother and Mullally could've been decent Test players (they certainly couldn't have been much more than that) but again, both did at least achieve the outcome of being outstanding ODI players for a time.

 

[inbox24]

All I remember from the 90s is Alan ripping out Australian top order wickets (Gilchrist, Waugh, Ponting) with his sharp and deadly left arm swingers. Frightening to behold.