Cricketers you have probably never heard of

[JBMAC]

When i think hard about it There is a few coming to mind...Eddie Gilbert, Sam Trimble, Bob Cowper( scored a 300 odd at the MCG i think) , Paul Sheehan, John Mackay(brother of "slasher"), John Reid(the aussie) ( very quick leftie broke my thumb at practice).John Benaud(brother of Ritchie). Dirk Wellham. I know they are all aussies but will think on others

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

When i think hard about it There is a few coming to mind...Eddie Gilbert, Sam Trimble, Bob Cowper( scored a 300 odd at the MCG i think) , Paul Sheehan, John Mackay(brother of "slasher"), John Reid(the aussie) ( very quick leftie broke my thumb at practice).John Benaud(brother of Ritchie). Dirk Wellham. I know they are all aussies but will think on others

Moooo ?

 

[Himannv]

Not sure if many people know of Dick Barlow. I once picked him in a draft winning side. Left arm bowler and right handed bat who was a decent all rounder. I’d never have stumbled across him if I didn’t participate in drafts. He was supposedly one of the first players who used the forward defense.

 

[sunilz]

Chris Drum. Kiwi pacer who kept Tendulkar quiet for 3 consecutive overs and then dismissed him in 99 ODI series in IND after Sachin scored 186 in previous ODI.

 

[AndrewB]

Not sure if many people know of Dick Barlow. I once picked him in a draft winning side. Left arm bowler and right handed bat who was a decent all rounder. I’d never have stumbled across him if I didn’t participate in drafts. He was supposedly one of the first players who used the forward defense.

Was a famously slow scorer (once carried his bat scoring 5 out of 60 iirc), and was mentioned in the poem “At Lord’s” in the line “O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago”.

 

[ankitj]

Surendra Nath

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One of the many cricketers who did not get their due from the selectors, Surendra Nath was a tireless medium pacer who could swing the ball prodigously. His bowling was ideally suited to English conditions and he was a success on the 1959 tour when he took 79 wickets in first-class games, next only to Subash Gupte's 95. He played in all five Tests, heading the Test averages with 16 wickets (26.62) and taking five wickets in an innings at both Old Trafford and the Oval. He did well at home too. Against Australia in 1959-60 he bowled both the openers McDonald and Favell. Against Pakistan in 1960-61, he was outstanding in the third Test at Calcutta, when he used the conditions very effectively. He picked up 4 for 93 from 46 overs in the first innings. In the next Test at Madras, however, he was less successful and was promptly discarded for good. He certainly deserved better.

Surendra Nath however continued to play in the Ranji Trophy until 1969. He took 178 wickets (20.67) in the national competition. In a first-class career that started in 1955, he took 284 wickets (24.95).

 

[morgieb]

Few guns from early editions of International Cricket Captain never made more than a fleeting impression in real life:

Michael May - Opener who always ended up with England in ICC 98
Matt Bulbeck - World class left arm bowling allrounder from Somerset in the early editions
Arshad Khan - Played 7 tests for Pakistan in real life but often became the new Saqlain in ICC

I'm still convinced 90% of my "random 90's/00's domestic cricketer" knowledge (other than the Aussies) is linked to ICC somehow, lol.

 

[tony p]

The majority of Tasmania's First ever Sheffield Shield team in 1977/78 v W.A. We lost by an innings & 14 runs at the WACA.

Batting Order.

Bruce Doolan (WK)
Bruce Neill,
Michael Norman,
John Hampshire,
Stephen Howard,
Trevor Docking,
Tony Benneworth,
Jack Simmons,(c)
Dennis Baker,
Gary Cowmeadow,
Rowan Sherriff

Other than the two English Pro's, only Dennis Baker who played for WA before playing for Tas are likely never been heard of by many.

 

[Burgey]

Bruce Doolan went on to have a decent career on ABC radio in Tassie didn't he?

 

[JBMAC]

Moooo ?

DISRESPECTFUL!!

 

[Gob]

DISRESPECTFUL!!

Agree

 

[Migara]

Kabir Khan, left arm fast bowler from pakistan in the 90s who could bowl real loopy swing but didn't make it into the team because 2Ws were so good

Played in SL. Knocked out Ruwan Kalapage who was on rampage against Waqar and Mushtaq

 

[thierry henry]

Chris Drum. Kiwi pacer who kept Tendulkar quiet for 3 consecutive overs and then dismissed him in 99 ODI series in IND after Sachin scored 186 in previous ODI.

Retired at the age of just 27 with an extraordinary FC record. I believe he retired because he thought he would make more money doing other things - not even really a case that he had a particularly lucrative career lined up, just that it would probably be better than being a test cricketer for NZ, which is pretty telling.

 

[Immenso]

Retired at the age of just 27 with an extraordinary FC record. I believe he retired because he thought he would make more money doing other things - not even really a case that he had a particularly lucrative career lined up, just that it would probably be better than being a test cricketer for NZ, which is pretty telling.

That would have been 6 months before the almost players strike in late 2002. And the ushering in of the International contracted players squad.

But, still about 5 or so years before domestic contracts.

 

[SteveNZ]

Retired at the age of just 27 with an extraordinary FC record. I believe he retired because he thought he would make more money doing other things - not even really a case that he had a particularly lucrative career lined up, just that it would probably be better than being a test cricketer for NZ, which is pretty telling.

He became a cop/detective, did he not?

Andrew Mathieson would be my answer to this. Played for NZ in 2015, dismissed Jason Roy with his first ball in international cricket, got humped for 40 off 4 or so (ODI) and I'm not even sure he played much even FC cricket after that.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

IIRC the selection of Mathieson was a bit of a throwback to a bygone era in that it was the arse end of the series and NZ had some injury woes, so for reinforcement they have to pluck whoever they could find out of local club cricket and into the team

Pretty much a modern day Tony Pigott in effect

 

[thierry henry]

IIRC the selection of Mathieson was a bit of a throwback to a bygone era in that it was the arse end of the series and NZ had some injury woes, so for reinforcement they have to pluck whoever they could find out of local club cricket and into the team

Pretty much a modern day Tony Pigott in effect

Yep...in a similar vein, the same happened to Chris Pringle in England in 1990 (different in that while it was his debut. he went on to have a decent international career) and James Franklin in England in 2004 (he was in the midst of a lengthy international career but definitely wasn't in the reckoning for a test spot at the time otherwise).

 

[thierry henry]

Pringle is another interesting case....also played his last international at just 27, but it's hard to understand why when he had such an outstanding ODI record. Was also rather inexplicably left out of the 1992 World Cup squad.

 

[Immenso]

He liked to party on tour did Chris, according to an auto-biography I read. Wasn't a fan of fitness.

Not selected again after the 94/95 season, I hear there were a few big parties in 94/95, one of which caused quite a kerfuffle.

 

[Immenso]

Pringle is another interesting case....also played his last international at just 27, but it's hard to understand why when he had such an outstanding ODI record.

This was the state of his fitness by age 30