cricketers that had potential

[Noble One]

Devon Malcolm

Was given the opportunities, and was shown to be a largely poor bowler. But Malcolm at his best was simply terrifying and you feel a great waste of talent.

 

[fredfertang]

Wayne Daniel. Although the only reason he went unfulfilled was the fact that Clive Lloyd had a grudge against him.

Couldn't agree more - Sylvester Clarke too of a similar type and vintage

 

[morgieb]

Siddons, Law, Bevan (in tests), Lehmann, Love, Cox, MacGill, Blewett, Elliott, Fleming, D Jones.

FMD we had a lot of unfulfilled talents.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Heath Davis

Nice.

Anyway, Mark Lathwell and Dean Headley would come in this category. David Lawrence looked as if he had great potential before that day in Wellington.

Strange how there's so many Poms in this category.

Mark Waugh could fit in here in a way. He did underachieve for his ability. Truly the best batsman I've seen in full flow; so elegant and languid yet he never got the big scores for Australia that his talent deserved. Someone who never fulfilled his potential, despite clearly having a good record overall.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Siddons, Law, Bevan (in tests), Lehmann, Love, Cox, MacGill, Blewett, Elliott, Fleming, D Jones.

FMD we had a lot of unfulfilled talents.

Pretty harsh calling some of them "unfulfilled" I reckon. Dean Jones averaged 45+ from 50 tests. That's very healthy IMHO. & MacGill took over 200 wickets despite his career coinciding with a genuine all-time great who never seemed to like sharing the spinning duties.

 

[Gowza]

i think abdul razzaq has under performed, had good pace early in his career and had all the strokes with the bat, just hasn't been that consistent.

 

[morgieb]

Pretty harsh calling some of them "unfulfilled" I reckon. Dean Jones averaged 45+ from 50 tests. That's very healthy IMHO. & MacGill took over 200 wickets despite his career coinciding with a genuine all-time great who never seemed to like sharing the spinning duties.

Jones could've done more, and MacGill could've taken 500 wickets had he played anywhere but Australia/Sri Lanka.

 

[quytst0rm]

Vinod Kambli - It was said he had more natural talent then his best friend Sachin Tendulkar, too bad he didn't have the work ethic.

 

[Manee]

i think abdul razzaq has under performed, had good pace early in his career and had all the strokes with the bat, just hasn't been that consistent.

He's made a fine return to things though, still time for a successful end to his career.

 

[Langeveldt]

Darryl Cullinan

Yes he achieved a lot, but he had the talent to become as good as Lara or Tendulkar (unless obviously Warne was bowling)

 

[slippyslip]

Jones could've done more, and MacGill could've taken 500 wickets had he played anywhere but Australia/Sri Lanka.

Not Jones' fault the selectors dropped him even though he was Australia's top batsmen during his last tour. I think he and AB had a run in during the Sri Lanka tour and he was dropped. That was probably the worst feature of AB's captaincy. He let personal feelings and his prejudices affect his decisions too much.

Rodney Hogg, Kim Hughes, Bruce Reid, Michael Di Venuto, Shane Bond, Lou Vincent, Franklyn Rose.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Reckon you'd struggle to find many teammates of Jones who would have been disappointed that he got dropped from Australia.

Except the blokes who he had to play with for Victoria...

 

[Zinzan]

Mark Butcher
Michael Atherton
Nasser Hussain
Mark Ramprakash
Dominic Cork
Andy Caddick
Darren Gough

Half of a team, all players who played alongside each of the others many times, who all for one reason or another did much less than was at one point reasonably hoped of them. All differing reasons - Butcher being a late developer; Atherton suffering from an inherant spinal inflammatory condition; Hussain and his fear of failure; Ramprakash and his, well, any number of temperamental issues, probably including fear of failure; Cork and his injury and personal turmoils, and bad selection; Caddick's inability to be properly understood by various managements; Gough's constant injury woes.

Thank God we had Alec Stewart and Graham Thorpe of the same sort of timeframe to be the pretty-much-entirely-fulfilled talents none of the above were.

Amazed you haven't included Hick tbh

 

[BoyBrumby]

Reckon you'd struggle to find many teammates of Jones who would have been disappointed that he got dropped from Australia.

Except the blokes who he had to play with for Victoria...

Bit of a "singular" personality then, Deano?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Bit of a "singular" personality then, Deano?

Well, he did have to go overseas to get a commentary gig... :

 

[GIMH]

Ravi Bopara

 

[sledger]

Ravi Bopara

Haha, is being a bit kind to Ravi imo, I think there are a lot of people who would say he just simply isn't good enough. I'm not saying i'm one of them neccesarily, but I know of many who think along those lines.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Well, he did have to go overseas to get a commentary gig... :

Bang up job he did too, by all accounts. Know Amla's a fan...

 

[zaremba]

Me.

 

[Cruxdude]

Mohammad Asif. He was going to be the best fast bowler in the world. What a bowler he was. Damn stupid guy wasting his life away on drugs.