Bad cricketers who played too long

[Nintendo]

Marcus stoinis in ODI cricket. Farmed an 8 year career off of 1 innings and t20I performances.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Marcus stoinis in ODI cricket. Farmed an 8 year career off of 1 innings and t20I performances.

Had Australia dropped him for the Final.....

 

[social]

Forget tests, Xavier Doherty playing 71 fc games is a mystery when he was a very average club bowler

 

[social]

On Gatting, very talented (as most are) but had a strange technique where he picked the bat up after the bowler had delivered the ball

Sitting duck for lbws before he got his eye in as always late on it

 

[subshakerz]

Younis Khan was a dreadful ODI player who somehow managed to get selected 250+ games through sheer clout.

Yeah he was useless.

 

[Nintendo]

Had Australia dropped him for the Final.....

What final?

 

[nightprowler10]

Danish Kaneria was quite mediocre for the volume of cricket he played as well

I was going to disagree with this until I realized he played all the way till 2010. That's about 4 years past his 'peak'.

 

[nightprowler10]

Imran Nazir also.

There are probably quite a few openers that fit the bill between the 90s and now. Yasir Hameed springs to mind as well though I probably had a soft spot for him over the others.

 

[Starfighter]

I was going to disagree with this until I realized he played all the way till 2010. That's about 4 years past his 'peak'.

Who else did they have? Ajmal's actually three years older than Kaneria - seems he didn't develop his "skills" until quite late. Rehman was the other one around at the time, same age as Kaneria. Seems they simply didn't have alternatives.

 

[trundler]

Kaneria was ok. He suffered massively from having Kakmal behind the stumps.

There are probably quite a few openers that fit the bill between the 90s and now. Yasir Hameed springs to mind as well though I probably had a soft spot for him over the others.

I had high hopes for Nasir Jamshed. Imran Farhat was woeful too.

 

[wpdavid]

Norman Gifford's 15 tests may not sound a lot, but it now seems very odd that 13 of those came after the arrival of Underwood's far superior SLA on the test scene.

 

[Migara]

How was he a "bad cricketer"?

He'd make an AT SL ODI XI

Consider it lucky to make 2nd XI

 

[NZTailender]

Vincent was such a golden boy/project of NZC. On a personal level, I like the guy, but as a cricketer he was given the red carpet treatment by the selectors, and **** knows why.

haha what

 

[TheJediBrah]

Forget tests, Xavier Doherty playing 71 fc games is a mystery when he was a very average club bowler

He was about as effective as any of the Aus domestic spinners during his career other than SOK tbf. Wasn't easy being a spinner in the Shield. An average of 40 was decent

 

[jcas0167]

Vincent was such a golden boy/project of NZC. On a personal level, I like the guy, but as a cricketer he was given the red carpet treatment by the selectors, and **** knows why.

Because he was obviously class. McMillan said in his book that Vincent was the most talented shot maker in the side (I'll have to double check this after work).

 

[TheJediBrah]

Did anyone else as a kid think Lou Vincent and Reese Witherspoon were the same person

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Damn were you jerking off to Lou Vincent

 

[NZTailender]

Damn were you jerking off to Lou Vincent

This but deliberately

 

[NZTailender]

Because he was obviously class. McMillan said in his book that Vincent was the most talented shot maker in the side (I'll have to double check this after work).

"All the shots in the book, but often chose the wrong one" was a critique I read once and I don't disagree

 

[Moss]

I see Devon Smith played 43 tests over 15(!) years for the Windies and averaged 24. I don’t recall a lot besides him being in and out out of the side. What’s the story there?

I suppose Ken Rutherford averaging 27 over some 50+ tests is a similar case on paper, even allowing for his horror start in test cricket.