Most under-rated players

[ramkumar_gr]

There are many players who are really under-rated, some of them are big match players, which i would say is better when compared to highly rated players who consistently chokes.

Neil Fairbrother
Navjot Sidhu
Ijaz Ahmed
Salim Malik
Carl Hooper

But who would be most under-rated player? Someone who has played vital knocks in crunch times, when their team is in dire straits. He might have a very modest statistics to show.

 

[NUFAN]

some of them are big match players, which i would say is better when compared to highly rated players who consistently chokes

.

How obvious..

 

[gettingbetter]

Stephen Fleming: not only as a batsman, but as a captain

Andy Bichel: he could of had a career similar to that of Dizzy's, oh how I remember how he was dumped - Brett Lee, Perth Test, sickens me (if you remember the context, you may agree with me, if not, Bichel's bowled to me8 -) , so some slight bias there, but nonetheless, underrated

Adam Parore

Daryl Cullinan

I agree with Fairbrother, from England I would have to add Solanki.

 

[Ash_A55]

Hoggard: is a very reliable test match bowler. Often under-rated.

 

[Langeveldt]

Yeah Darryl Cullinan.. Seems to be most well remembered for being unable to play the greatest bowler in the history of the game.. He was pretty good against some of the rest though

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Carl Hooper was not under-rated. He underachieved. In many ways he was over-rated.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is still one of the most under-rated players in world cricket, especially in ODI cricket.

 

[Hoppy1987]

paul collingwood and ashwell prince??

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Paul Collingwood is rated about right by many people these days. Ashwell Prince is still pretty much under-rated though.

 

[StumpMic]

Farveez Maharoof, Chaminda Vaas, Mark Boucher

 

[gunner]

one of the forgotten legends now is saeed anwar
in his day he was certainly under rated

 

[Neil Pickup]

Farveez Maharoof, Chaminda Vaas, Mark Boucher

Maharoof? What exactly does he have about him to rate?

 

[Prince EWS]

Maharoof? What exactly does he have about him to rate?

His name invites dire puns. That's a desirable quality in a cricketer for StumpMic I'd imagine, because he has nothing else to him.

 

[simmy]

one of the forgotten legends now is saeed anwar
in his day he was certainly under rated

Agreed. Many think he was the one that transformed one day and not Jayasuriya and Kaluwitharana

 

[simmy]

My choice lies with Simon Jones. Pace, swing, bounce and always injured. He is England's Shane Bond!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

My choice lies with Simon Jones. Pace, swing, bounce and always injured. He is England's Shane Bond!

Except Shane Bond had more than one outstanding series amidst his injuries. Simon Jones is over-rated, as much as I like him.

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

I reckon Mark Ealham was always pretty underrated in international circles.

 

[Perm]

Scott Styris as an ODI cricketer, he's had a great tournament but he is still very much under-rated.

 

[NUFAN]

Underrated threads are tough, because obviously I rate the players meaning I think everyone should rate them too..

Anyways for what it's worth here are my underrated players

Andrew Hall
Mushrafe Mortaza
Jerome Taylor
Michael Clarke
Umar Gul

 

[Francis]

My choice lies with Simon Jones. Pace, swing, bounce and always injured. He is England's Shane Bond!

I agree. Except Shane Bond never had a series as great as Simon Jones' Ashes. He was a better bowler in that series than Freddie (Freddie was the better player because he was an all-rounder who made crucial runs). I haven't seen Shane Bond read batsmen as well as Jones did that series, or even swing the ball as intelligently as Jones. Such a pity he only had one great series because if bowled like that we'd be talking about him in the highest of terms.

One cannot underestimate how vital and brilliant he was in that Ashes.

 

[pup11]

Michael Clarke= Underrated, no way NUFAN.


I think he is rated pretty highly by the Aussie selectors and players and he is the golden boy of Australian cricket and tipped to be the next Aussie captain.



How many other blokes have made as swift as Clarke did to comeback into the Aussie test side after being dropped?