GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Crawley is a ridiculous shout for this thread
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Bad cricketers who played too long
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Silver Silva
International Debutant
Darren Sammy
Coronis
Cricketer Of The Year
Which criteria doesn’t he fill?
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Did you mean Zak?
Line and Length
Cricketer Of The Year
Ray Bright. Played for almost a decade. Averaged over 40 as a bowler, claimed barely 2 wpm.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Timycen Maruma played 39 internationals for Zimbabwe in a career spanning 14 years.
He started his career as a leggie but got the yips as a young man and basically gave it up entirely - he ultimately only bowled in 11 of his 39 games and picked up 5 wickets - and played almost entirely as a specialist middle order batsman.
With the bat he averaged 10, 12 and 11 in the three formats.
His domestic averages of 32, 26 and 13 didn't suggest a particularly high ceiling either.
He started his career as a leggie but got the yips as a young man and basically gave it up entirely - he ultimately only bowled in 11 of his 39 games and picked up 5 wickets - and played almost entirely as a specialist middle order batsman.
With the bat he averaged 10, 12 and 11 in the three formats.
His domestic averages of 32, 26 and 13 didn't suggest a particularly high ceiling either.
Coronis
Cricketer Of The Year
Of course
Flem274*
123/5
He did. When he first played test cricket he just played shots. Not slogging, but very much looked to score until inevitably playing a big drive to a ball he should have left on 30 or 40.
He later generally tried too hard to play 'properly' which crushed his actual run scoring.
His test career is a good case study of what happens when you pick a guy with a poor FC record because he has great white ball results. Guptill never learned how to build an innings and by the time he started learning the idea of 'playing proper test cricket' was lodged in his head rather than naturally learning to pace an innings for Auckland.
He has technical issues too but most test batsmen do. Easy to exploit those when you remove all your shots.
Blenkinsop
U19 Vice-Captain
See also Jos Buttler.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Then how does he fit? His improvement make him the opposite of what this thread is asking for, no?
Coronis
Cricketer Of The Year
I’ll believe that when I see it for more than 1 series.
BazBall21
International Vice-Captain
He's not got the technique to ever be a consistent run machine but I think he has improved. It's natural when he's heading towards his late 20s. And in terms of opportunity fortunes, England haven't been spoilt for choice with opener options ever since Andrew Strauss' retirement. Sibley and Burns was our post-Cook partnership for a while and neither were good enough.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Had a good series in India too. Agree there’s still a lot more to do to produce evidence, but given recent outputs in the two most important series England play in, it’s surely a case of persistence actually seeming like it may be worthwhile in this case?
trundler
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Imran Nazir also.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Gatting was never the same after the hotel bedroom fiasco at the start of the 1988 summer. Prior to that he'd been very good for about three and a half years.