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Mediocre cricketers who you support

Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
palehorse said:
Australia - Shane Lee
India - Robin Singh, Sanjay Manjrekar
England - Dominic Cork, Ryan Sidebottom
New Zealand - Craig Spearman, Dion Nash, Adam Parore
Pakistan - Shahid Afridi
South Africa - Pat Symcox
Sri Lanka - Roshan Mahanama, Hashan Tilakratne
West Indies - Sherwin Campbell
Zimbabwe - Andy Blignaut, Eddo Brandes, Alastair Campbell
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Sidebottom was better than mediocre wasn't he?

Definitely less deserving of that categorisation than almost everyone else on that list.
 
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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
honestbharani said:
As a kid, was a massive fan of Manoj Prabhakar, Carl Hooper, Graeme Hick, Michael Slater, Adam Parore, Jonty Rhodes.... A veritable who's who of international mediocrity in their main disciplines.
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Adam Parore was a top quality keeper (his main discipline) - footwork and glove work were excellent. Best NZ sledger too. Had a pretty good batting technique, but underperformed with the bat.
 
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Arachnodouche

International Captain
Yeah not sure what more Slater could've done opening in that era. And his approach for its time was near-revolutionary too.
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
palehorse said:
New Zealand - Craig Spearman, Dion Nash, Adam Parore
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It's funny, I want to leap to the defense of Nash and Parore...but when you look back at their records, they are pretty rubbish - Parore's especially. Averaging around 26 in both formats, massive underperformer for his level of talent. If someone scored those sort of runs today, they'd be banished without a second thought - yet Parore played pretty solidly for NZ for 12 years. He was an exceptional gloveman throughout that time but definitely benefitted a) from being an 'alpha male' in a group that valued that over actual performance b) not a lot of competition. Did play some outstanding innings at times (Perth 01, debut century in India I think) but obviously failed miserably around that.

Nash was a bit unluckier with injuries, and to be fair his Test bowling record is good.
 
CodeOfWisden

CodeOfWisden

U19 Cricketer
  • Travis Head.
  • Tim Paine
  • Dom Sibley
  • Bhuvi Kumar
  • Hassan Ali
  • Shardul Thakur
  • Tim Southee
  • Mitchell Santner
  • Andile Phehlukwayo
  • Sarfaraz Ahmed
 
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Jayro

U19 12th Man
Ricardo Powell, Phil Simmons, Justin Vaughan, Grant Flower (as a bowler), Dermott Reeves, Dominic Cork, Craigh white, Chris Lewis, Mayrick Pringle, Upul Chandana, Chandika Harthrusinghe, Ruwan kalpage, Pramodya wikramsinghe, Nikhil Chopra, Sunil Joshi, Ajay Sharma(who was a giant in first class cricket), Dave Kallaghan, many more when I would come to think of it.
 
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