Cricketweb's 5 most unfairly treated players

[Prince EWS]

Ravi Jadeja

 

[sumantra]

Mohinder Amarnath

 

[grecian]

Peter Denning, best opener ever. clearly.

 

[TINJU Jishnu]

1.sobers- 2nd to nobody
2.akram
3.gavaskar
4.kapil
5.allan donald
6.mark waugh(d only under rated aussie palyer?) , azhar , de silva
7.inzamam
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[Agent Nationaux]

Kallis

 

[Himannv]

Chaminda Vaas.

 

[Migara]

Mathew Hayden
Symonds
Harbhajan
Sreesanth
Watson

 

[Cevno]

Gautam Gambhir.

Sachin Tendulkar.

 

[indiaholic]

Sachin Tendulkar
He receives a lot of unfair criticism here. An almost unnatural glee at seeing him fail. Almost seems like he is attacked at every opportunity so as to counter the idiotic worship of some of his fans.

 

[smash84]

lol.......I thiink Cevno was taking the piss in his post above

 

[MW1304]

Sachin Tendulkar
He receives a lot of unfair criticism here. An almost unnatural glee at seeing him fail. Almost seems like he is attacked at every opportunity so as to counter the idiotic worship of some of his fans.

That's more perverse pleasure than criticism.

 

[Pothas]

Kallis

Nah everyone thinks Kallis underated so can't be can he?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

I don't know about others but I don't like Shoaib Malik.

Afridi
Sammy
Kamran Akmal
Harbajan

People used to hate Bresnan, but now they have started to like him for some obscure reason. :

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Chaminda Vaas.

Mohinder Amarnath

Add the sub-continent's best natural player of pace bowling (post 80s), Aravinda de Silva to those names and that's pretty much my list too.

Although unfairly treated ain't an apt description, but I have a feeling that 'Dizzy' Gillespie and Graham Thorpe aren't rated as highly as they ought to be. And that's a shame, coz both were top-notch cricketers and among the more disciplined performers in their sides.


So, that's five from me - Vaasy, Jimmy, Mad Max, Dizzy and Stumpy!

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Loved Gillespe's action.

 

[Burgey]

Add the sub-continent's best natural player of pace bowling (post 80s), Aravinda de Silva to those names and that's pretty much my list too.

Although unfairly treated ain't an apt description, but I have a feeling that 'Dizzy' Gillespie and Graham Thorpe aren't rated as highly as they ought to be. And that's a shame, coz both were top-notch cricketers and among the more disciplined performers in their sides.


So, that's five from me - Vaasy, Jimmy, Mad Max, Dizzy and Stumpy!

Aravinda is very highly regarded here, I thought. Doesn't get spoken of as often as some others, but I have hardly ever read a bad word about him on this site.

Over the next 12-18 months, Trent Copeland will make this list, as people see him for the first time and decry his lack of pace.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Over the next 12-18 months, Trent Copeland will make this list, as people see him for the first time and decry his lack of pace.

Good thing you mention this. I've been meaning to start a thread about Praveen Kumar and Copeland - potentially good medium fast bowlers who were written off rather cruelly because they were/are not pleasing enough to the eye.

I'll gather my thoughts and maybe start one in a day or two. Do chip in there, mate!

 

[Furball]

Aravinda is very highly regarded here, I thought. Doesn't get spoken of as often as some others, but I have hardly ever read a bad word about him on this site.

Over the next 12-18 months, Trent Copeland will make this list, as people see him for the first time and decry his lack of pace.

Already happening. Some absolute rubbish being written about him in the tour thread.

 

[morgieb]

Praveen Kumar
Michael Clarke
Matthew Hayden
Andrew Symonds
Marcus North
Mitchell Johnson
Ed Cowan

More to come when I actually think about it.

 

[Spark]

Explain why Symonds and North make the list?