Unlucky batsmen

[Ali TT]

1. I interpreted the question as batsmen who were unlucky to miss out on Test Cricket. Barry Richards only played 4 test matches and no more for non cricketing reasons that to me is an unlucky batsman in the context of test cricket .

2.It was the right thing to do to ban South Africa, that comes with a sacrifice though and players like Barry Richards , Mike Procter, Clive Rice etc their international careers were compromised for factors out of their control which is a fact. I can include Basil D'Oliveira aswell, Only made his debut in tests at 35 , Richards should have followed his example and moved to England to play test cricket

3.There is no need to lecture a South African who grew up in Apartheid, I've forgotten more than you know about the subject . There was white people against Apartheid aswell , who boycotted , emigrated , protested, even died for the Apartheid regime to end ..People suffering during Apartheid and Barry Richards being denied a test career are two completely different topics .. besides cricket has some skeletons in its closet bigger than any cricketer , a sport built on elitism so there isn't any cricketing nation that can take the moral high ground if you really want to go there , either way Barry Richards the cricketer was a victim not a perpetrator of a vile regime much more powerful than him .

Well, the original question asked about batters missed out because of other batters keeping them out.

I'm still not going to weep about the shortened careers of that generation and the ones that followed.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Well, the original question asked about batters missed out because of other batters keeping them out.

I'm still not going to weep about the shortened careers of that generation and the ones that followed.

I didn't agree with that question from OP , because often if you're on the outside of selection it's never just about the batsmen in the team , there's also team politics like the coach not liking you , cliques , preference for a certain style of batsmen , maybe even state bias selectors having a preference picking from certain regions and ignoring players from the other there's almost always a combination of two factors involved or more .