Players that had quick declines....

[DocHead]

Hansie Cronje, went from being Captain and a national hero to an international pariah in the space of minutes.

Struggling to find a better 'real' example in SA cricket than Makhaya, most wickets the previous year to absolute dire-ness the next. I wouldn't count JP out yet, he's still young & is at least doing the biz in ODIs. He'll be back.

Stuart McGill? Though it could be argued that his decline was hidden by just not being in the side.

 

[Z-Man]

Saqlain Mushtaq surely.

 

[nightprowler10]

Saqlain Mushtaq surely.

Overbowled his doosra IMO.

 

[subshakerz]

Allan Donald surely fits the bill. Very quick and sad end to his career.

 

[slugger]

New Zealand after Hadlee retired.

 

[thierry henry]

I've never been able to find any evidence of Saqlain Mushtaq actually declining in ODI cricket

 

[Shri]

Ajantha Mendis.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Vettori the bowler. A totally different bowler after the operation.

cbf looking it up, but the stats tend to disagree that he declined from then.

 

[Debris]

Mohammed Yousuf went from scoring thousands of runs a year to struggling really fast.

 

[mono]

If you exclude zaheer khan, just about every indian pace bowler.

 

[mono]

ajantha mendis. Although he was more of a gimmick that people figured out.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Just like Uppercut.

 

[morgieb]

Just like Uppercut.

gun

 

[marc71178]

If you exclude zaheer khan, just about every indian pace bowler.

Decline suggests they were good to start with though.

 

[mono]

Decline suggests they were good to start with though.

****, ****ier, ****iest

 

[Arjun]

Ajantha Mendis, Stuart MacGill and by a long shot, Andy Bichel. Ironically, all of it happened against a team good to debut against- India.

 

[Shri]

Nathan Bracken?

 

[Straight Drive]

Marcus North