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The most underrated and overrated players in CricketWeb

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Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
ma1978 said:
Overrated

Keith Miller
Sunil Gavaskar
Bert Sutcliffe
Ravindra Jadeja
Geoffrey Boycott
Ken Barrington
Garry Sobers
Steve Smith
Jacques Kallis

Underrated:

Ricky Ponting
Ben Stokes
Virat Kohli
Clive Lloyd
Gordon Greenidge
R Ashwin
Ian Botham
Javed Miandad
Don Bradman

Themes

Overrated:

Players from the 60s / Early 70s
All Rounders
Players with strong stats but no discernible match winning track record

Underrated:

Modern players and batsman from the 1980s
Strong specialists
Match winners who transcended stats
Bradman
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Over rated - all rounders
Under rated - Stokes, Botham, Ashwin

reyrey said:
Don't know enough about cricketweb, so just done my own general list.

Most underrated batsman: Mushfiqur Rahim. He never gets any kind of mention on a global stage and even when talking about Bangladeshi players he is behind Shakib and Tamim.

As a keeper with 50+ Tests he averages 37 which is very respectable. As a specialist batsman he averages 43. If you factor in how young he debuted and only look at his batting since his mid 20s (last 12 years) he's been averaging mid 40s

Most underrated bowler: Morne Morkel. Has an incredible peer review. Nearly always in the top 2 or 3 when batsmen from his era are asked who was the most difficult bowler to face. He's a huge reason why Steyn did so well.

Most overrated batsman: Mahela Jayawardene. He might not be as overrated now, but for most of his and Sangas career he was talked up way way more. Still an awesome player, but didn't deserve to get the plaudits he did back in the day over Sanga.

Most overrated bowler: Alzarri Joseph. Just look at his stats. No idea why he still gets picked and is even somewhat considered the spearhead now.
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No one rates Joseph. Probably not even the West Indian selectors
 
sayon basak

sayon basak

International Debutant
ma1978 said:
Overrated

Keith Miller
Sunil Gavaskar
Bert Sutcliffe
Ravindra Jadeja
Geoffrey Boycott
Ken Barrington
Garry Sobers
Steve Smith
Jacques Kallis

Underrated:

Ricky Ponting
Ben Stokes
Virat Kohli
Clive Lloyd
Gordon Greenidge
R Ashwin
Ian Botham
Javed Miandad
Don Bradman

Themes

Overrated:

Players from the 60s / Early 70s
All Rounders
Players with strong stats but no discernible match winning track record

Underrated:

Modern players and batsman from the 1980s
Strong specialists
Match winners who transcended stats
Bradman
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Kallis might be overrated outside cw by those who rate him in their top 5. But in cw is a different scenario (obviously there are exceptions). And who rates bert Sutcliffe?

And Jadeja is not overrated. He is the incarnation of "rating" itself.
 
Red

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Coronis said:
Underrated: Jacques Kallis

Overrated: Viv Richards

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Not sure Viv is overrated.

There’s a bunch of people who for no valid reason think he wasn’t that good. Then there’s all the humans who acknowledge (correctly) he was a batting god, the most fearsome batsman ever to walk the field.
 
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F

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
ma1978 said:
Overrated

Keith Miller
Sunil Gavaskar
Bert Sutcliffe
Ravindra Jadeja
Geoffrey Boycott
Ken Barrington
Garry Sobers
Steve Smith
Jacques Kallis

Underrated:

Ricky Ponting
Ben Stokes
Virat Kohli
Clive Lloyd
Gordon Greenidge
R Ashwin
Ian Botham
Javed Miandad
Don Bradman

Themes

Overrated:

Players from the 60s / Early 70s
All Rounders
Players with strong stats but no discernible match winning track record

Underrated:

Modern players and batsman from the 1980s
Strong specialists
Match winners who transcended stats
Bradman
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Bert Sutcliffe or Herbert Sutcliffe?

Bert Sutcliffe is extremely underrated. If he'd been from any other test country of his era he would've averaged 46+

Getting hit in the head by Adcock probably knocked a few runs off his average
 
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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Definitely agree re M Rahim

Others

Overrated - Jadeja, Greig, Kapil, Imran

Underrated - CDG, Travis Head (big game player), Heath Streak, Amla, Pujara
 
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trundler

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Prince EWS said:
The Viv one is probably even more true outside CW tbf.

The player most overrated here is probably someone who fares disproportionately well on "analysis by checklist." Or Ryan Harris.
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Anwar maybe. He had one good tour everywhere but he really didn't play enough so his average by country table looks great.
 
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