How? All it proves is that Alleyne, like many other players, didn't make the most of his talent. That's certainly a shame because I always rated him considerably and wished he'd do more than he did, but he was a selfless player and often put others' interests first.
Well yes. But if we come to conclusion that Alleyne was not one of quality doemstic OD players. It still highlights a problem with our domestic game, given the inept standard - we dont produce enough players capable of producing on the international stage.
Shahid Afridi to name but one has played nearly 300 ODIs doing exactly that. Afridi has demonstrated at both domestic and international level the ability to play the odd incredible innings but only once in 30 or so attempts.
Nah. Afridi although he has been a great frustration throughout his career with the bat especially. At least he has looked international quality & capable of actually doing much more.
Brown on the other hand in the few games he did play for ENG, looked a totally different player in ENG colours, than he was while slamming woeful county attacks. So no comparison really.
Vaughan looked woeful every ODI he played and should in fact never have played ODIs at all because he was clearly not up to the task even at Yorkshire. Anyhow Vaughan was not at that point opening - Solanki was. Vaughan only got pushed up to open in ODIs in 2004 - and duly failed dismally suprise surprise.
Haa, Vaughan did not look woeful in every single ODI he played, come on. In his early days around the ODI team between 2001-2003 before he became captain, nobody really knew what was his best role was since he was batting all over the top 6.
After his success in 2002/03 test, he certainly in the C&B series was showing potential that he could become a decent ODI # 3 or opener IMO. Vaughan unlike Atherton & Cook definately had the shots in this game to be decent enough ODI player for ENG.
Remembering how he batted in that CT 04 semi vs AUS & his last ODI innings the 07 WC, he clearly wasted his ability for some reason. So Vaughan's failures in ODIs for me was more an enigma rather than him not possessing any skills to be decent/good player in the ODI format.
It may have told you that - it told me nothing of the sort. The left-armers exposed him technically, extreme pace did not. There is no reason those small glitches could not have been ironed-out had he been picked 7-8 years before he was.
Come on mayn. You cant seriously tell me the extra pace of Lee didn't expose him just as well just as Bracken. Yea he showed "glimpses" with some innovative shots againts Lee of what he was like at Lancashire, but overall he looked a totally different player at international level - which clearly proved the step up in level of bowling showed him up.
His age is irrelevant since he picked off a very solid
2006 season, which i believe he lead the batting in list A cricket that season. If he was good enough like Nixon he would have stepped up.
Plus he couldn't have been selected 7-8 years earlier, since Trescothick/Knight had the role from for most of that time, come on rich. The earliest he could have been picked was the summer of 03 after Knight retired.
Ealham was miles better than both White and Giles as a ODI bowler. And all of the utter nothing picks in between times. That isn't bias towards Ealham - it's ability to acknowledge basic skill at one-day bowling.
No way in 2002/03 should Ealham have played ahead of White in ODI cricket. Plus even though he was a better bowler than Giles - if ENG had indeed taken that team to the 03 WC - the surfaces helped the spinners - so Giles had to play.
Ealham though should have definately made the 03 WC squad, given that Hoggard was picked.