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Overrated by CW XI and Underrated by CW XI

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ma1978

International Debutant
Some of these are good, just overrated. Some are real spuds

Overrated XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Geoff Boycott
Younis Khan
Everton Weekes
Ken Barrington
Keith Miller
Shakib al Hasan
BJ Watling
Joel Garner
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly

Underrated XI

Graham Gooch
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Pointing
Javed Miandad
David Gower
Steve Waugh
Alan Knott
Sir Richard Hadlee
Shaun Pollock
Ravichandran Ashwin
Fred Trueman
 
BazBall21

BazBall21

International Vice-Captain
Watling is a good shout for overrated. Averages 22 against Australia and 20 against India.
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
ma1978 said:
Some of these are good, just overrated. Some are real spuds

Overrated XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Geoff Boycott
Younis Khan
Everton Weekes
Ken Barrington
Keith Miller
Shakib al Hasan
BJ Watling
Joel Garner
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly

Underrated XI

Graham Gooch
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Pointing
Javed Miandad
David Gower
Steve Waugh
Alan Knott
Sir Richard Hadlee
Shaun Pollock
Ravichandran Ashwin
Fred Trueman
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Ummmm, Garner is over rated? Perfect foil to Maco and Whispering Death and incredibly accurate.

As much as Lillee is over rated everywhere else, he isn't here. He's almost forgotten here.

O'Reilly is a tough one, I agree he's 3rd all time, but there's a serious gulf in-between.
People say Headley and Pollock didn't play enough, but have no such reservations for him, quite the double standard.

As for the under rated

I agree with Punter and think Kallis should be included there as well.

Is Hadlee underated though? He's a consensus top 3 bowler of all time here, what more is there? And the bat deep guys always include him in the first team XI over Pigeon.

Think Pollock is adequately rated.
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

International Captain
ma1978 said:
Some of these are good, just overrated. Some are real spuds

Overrated XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Geoff Boycott
Younis Khan
Everton Weekes
Ken Barrington
Keith Miller
Shakib al Hasan
BJ Watling
Joel Garner
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly

Underrated XI

Graham Gooch
Virender Sehwag
Ricky Pointing
Javed Miandad
David Gower
Steve Waugh
Alan Knott
Sir Richard Hadlee
Shaun Pollock
Ravichandran Ashwin
Fred Trueman
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Dude....... Anyone but Dennis Lillee is overrated here.....
I would rather say overrated XI:
Bob Simpson
Gordon Greenidge
Jacques Kallis
Younis Khan
Joe Root
Keith Miller
B J Watling
Imran Khan
Ravindra Jadeja
Joel Garner
Waqar Younis


Underrated XI:
W G Grace
Alaistar Cook
Ranjitsinhji
Rohan Kanhai
Neil Harvey
Les Ames
Wilfred Rhodes
Anil Kumble
James Anderson
Courtney Walsh
Dennis Lillee
 
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