-
Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.
Name an overrated and an underrated cricketer
- Thread starter mr_mister
- Start date
Johan
International Debutant
don't do this.
capt_Luffy
Cricketer Of The Year
Love the implication that someone out there actually rates Rutherford.....
Line and Length
Cricketer Of The Year
Overrated: Victor Trumper
Underrated: Brian Statham
Underrated: Brian Statham
wellAlbidarned
International Coach
Underrated: KL Rahul
Overrated: Stokes
Overrated: Stokes
capt_Luffy
Cricketer Of The Year
If we are doing outside CW:
Overrated: Dennis Lillee
Underrated: Richard Hadlee
Overrated: Dennis Lillee
Underrated: Richard Hadlee
sayon basak
International Regular
Overrated:- Don Bradman
Underrated:- Chris Woakes
Underrated:- Chris Woakes
Coronis
International Coach
Stokes' numbers in 2024 don't demand outrage on that viewpoint, although I would maintain he's still a hell of an asset as a guy who is a natural leader and does his best work when it's most needed. I reckon you can carry a guy like that in a sport like cricket if the rest of the team is going reasonably well.
Overrated: The vast majority of NZ cricketers in the 90s, and by extension their children (Rutherford, Latham)
trundler
Request Your Custom Title Now!
Don't think there's a Blair Hartland fan club out there.
Perfect example though. Hartland averaged 26 in FC cricket.
Craig Spearman another one - had a reputation as an ODI force but averaged 18 in 50 matches.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
thierry henry
International Coach
You can carry him in a team sure, but I think the overrated bit is when you get into comparing him favourably with ATG all-rounders, which is where a number of people see him sitting.
I just don't really see how he's in the conversation when you are comparing him almost entirely with guys who were at the very least frontline players, if not elites or ATGs, in their stronger discipline.
thierry henry
International Coach
From an NZ perspective I think the nomination makes sense. Rutherford has/had a reputation as a very talented batsman who suffered from being thrown to the wolves way too young, before eventually coming into his own somewhat (and then prematurely retiring). He was probably seen as one of our leading batsmen of the early 90s alongside Crowe and Jones, and the fact he was made captain attests to him being seen as sort of an "alpha" in NZ cricket back then. In the cold light of day though, his numbers indicate that really he just kinda sucked. So, overrated.
Yeah I'm completely on board with that. Consistency would keep him out of that conversation...but then again, how many of the ATGs have his clutch innings and moments? Not all of them.
I mean he's not even in the same stratosphere as Kallis, but Kallis has nothing to even go near rivalling Headingley. So there's got to be some sort of proviso made for Stokes. Even now, he's not trying to be Sobers, and the role he played from 2022 was perfect for a team at its peak...but they need more now and he probably doesn't have it.