Less talked about excellent players

[BoyBrumby]

Brian?

That was his given first name, yes, but he was known as George or Gentleman George to his friends.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Bill O’Reilly.Best bowler of all time and doesn’t get as much appreciation as he deserves except in this forum.
Guys like Grimmett,Laker generally tend to be rated higher.And as good as those two were they don’t deserve to be mentioned in same breath as Tiger.

 

[subshakerz]

Herbert Sutcliffe. For his talent and record he gets mentioned a ridiculously small amount. Hell I see Barry Richards being mentioned and rated higher in test threads.

Yeah I never understood that.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Mark Waugh - much better than his stats suggest. Absolute dreadful commentator though.

Fantastic commentator. One of the only ones now who just says what he thinks instead of a standardised inoffensive "opinion"

 

[Bahnz]

Bruce Taylor, averaged 26 with the ball and scored 2 test hundreds

 

[subshakerz]

Bruce Reid, Ryan Harris, for similar reasons.

 

[Starfighter]

Yeah I never understood that.

Seems to be associated with the attitude that Richards would have continued to average 73 if he played more tests.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Bruce Reid, Ryan Harris, for similar reasons.

Definitely

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Seems to be associated with the attitude that Richards would have continued to average 73 if he played more tests.

Well he averaged 79 in World Series Cricket. G Chappell and Viv were next in the mid 50s.

 

[Line and Length]

Bob Willis doesn't seem to rate as high as he should on CW.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Fantastic commentator. One of the only ones now who just says what he thinks instead of a standardised inoffensive "opinion"

He's better than Howie, but he knows nothing about non Aussies.

 

[ZK$]

Virat Kohli

 

[ZK$]

Younis Khan is very underrated outside of CW.

 

[TheJediBrah]

He's better than Howie, but he knows nothing about non Aussies.

Yes

 

[BoyBrumby]

Bob Willis doesn't seem to rate as high as he should on CW.

Dunno, think he's usually regarded as our best post-FST quick, isn't he?

My take is his only serious rival for that accolade, with all due respect to Jimmeh, who's really a fast-medium swing bowler, JA Snow is maybe more unsung on here, as someone observed earlier in the thread.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Fanie de Villiers was one of my 90s favs.

 

[Jayro]

Fanie de Villiers was one of my 90s favs.

Mine too the way he used to put reins on the run rate in ODIs was incredible, in fact he looked to be the only bowler to dominate Tendulkar in mid 90's and that too on subcontinent wickets, can safely say he was second to none in his ability to check run-rate.

 

[Midwinter]

Ian Redpath

Backbone of the Australian team in the late 60's, early 70's.

Ross Edwards, member of Chappell's all conquering team in the mid 70's

 

[Coronis]

Ross Edwards, member of Chappell's all conquering team in the mid 70's

First time I’ve heard of the bloke.

 

[ankitj]

A shout out to Anil Kumble