Unlucky batsmen

[Archer6K]

Which batsman were unlucky because their best form coincided with the form of batsmen in their national team.

 

[Burgey]

Marnus

 

[Coronis]

Lehmann.

 

[morgieb]

Marnus

On a serious note, how do you define an unlucky batsman on the field (i.e. unlucky not because of lack of opportunities etc.) Someone who copped a lot of poor decisions? (doesn't really happen now given DRS) Someone who was prone to a lot of freak dismissals? Someone who had an unusually high number of catches taken?

Not quite what the OP was asking, but in some ways a more interesting question.

 

[Howe_zat]

Misbah ul-Haq was stuck behind a middle order of Younis Khan, Mohammed Yousuf and Inzamam ul-Hq when he was actually good in domestic cricket in the early to mid 2000s. Later he got a few gigs after Inzamam retired and he was a bit of a flop. Most people thought he would never play again when he was suddenly mde captain in 2010.

 

[mr_mister]

MacGill?

 

[tony p]

Jamie Cox, particularly in 1996/97.
Scored 1349 runs @67.45, with 5 centuries in the domestic season, next best was 960, by Ponting & Lehmann.
Didn't get picked for the 3rd opening spot for the Ashes in 1997, they took, Taylor, Elliott & Slater (who averaged 19 on tour & didn't play a Test)

That was his big chance to MAYBE play for Australia, it never came.

 

[Coronis]

Sarfaraz Khan.

 

[Ali TT]

There's a whole bunch of Aussie fellas who lost out in the late 90s and early 00s.

In another universe Mike Hussey has 12000 test runs and 40 centuries. And he was the lucky one.

 

[Coronis]

VoGes

 

[andruid]

VoGes

And to a lesser extent Mike Hussey. Hussey's case sticks in my mind because it felt like Sky Sports were campaigning for him to get picked for the entire duration of the 2005 Ashes.

 

[Ali TT]

And to a lesser extent Mike Hussey. Hussey's case sticks in my mind because it felt like Sky Sports were campaigning for him to get picked for the entire duration of the 2005 Ashes.

The Aussies were carrying at least 3 bats and their third seamer position was vacant yet they couldn't bring themselves to call up Mussey and Clark from county cricket, who were both in form and in the country

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Fawad Alam

 

[Brook's side]

Wayne Daniel apparently.

 

[Brook's side]

Neil Fairbrother and Matthew Maynard should probably have got more of a run for England, but that was more to do with the selectors being crap than the other players being good.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Barry Richards ..
It's very cruel , I wished he could have played for England nobody would have begrudged him..
To be born with a once in a lifetime talent and have your international career ruined by something completely out of your control ..Its very sad , maybe 50 years from now he will be forgotten in Test folklore ..He could have been the greatest opener of them all ..Sometimes I get emotional just thinking about it ..

 

[Brook's side]

Lehmann.

Same 1st class average as Tendulkar.

 

[Ali TT]

Barry Richards ..
It's very cruel , I wished he could have played for England nobody would have begrudged him..
To be born with a once in a lifetime talent and have your international career ruined by something completely out of your control ..Its very sad , maybe 50 years from now he will be forgotten in Test folklore ..He could have been the greatest opener of them all ..Sometimes I get emotional just thinking about it ..

While the loss of that South African side is one of cricket's great "what might have beens?" I'm not sure I can share your sadness for the individuals involved, who went on mostly to have long-standing cricket careers around the world. Nothing against Richards, who always comes across as a nice individual, but the real unlucky ones are those wasted talents who were excluded from playing the game professionally in South Africa for so long, and the many millions who were excluded from any chance of a better life.

 

[fredfertang]

Andrew Sandham and Percy Holmes

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

While the loss of that South African side is one of cricket's great "what might have beens?" I'm not sure I can share your sadness for the individuals involved, who went on mostly to have long-standing cricket careers around the world. Nothing against Richards, who always comes across as a nice individual, but the real unlucky ones are those wasted talents who were excluded from playing the game professionally in South Africa for so long, and the many millions who were excluded from any chance of a better life.

1. I interpreted the question as batsmen who were unlucky to miss out on Test Cricket. Barry Richards only played 4 test matches and no more for non cricketing reasons that to me is an unlucky batsman in the context of test cricket .

2.It was the right thing to do to ban South Africa, that comes with a sacrifice though and players like Barry Richards , Mike Procter, Clive Rice etc their international careers were compromised for factors out of their control which is a fact. I can include Basil D'Oliveira aswell, Only made his debut in tests at 35 , Richards should have followed his example and moved to England to play test cricket

3.There is no need to lecture a South African who grew up in Apartheid, I've forgotten more than you know about the subject . There was white people against Apartheid aswell , who boycotted , emigrated , protested, even died for the Apartheid regime to end ..People suffering during Apartheid and Barry Richards being denied a test career are two completely different topics .. besides cricket has some skeletons in its closet bigger than any cricketer , a sport built on elitism so there isn't any cricketing nation that can take the moral high ground if you really want to go there , either way Barry Richards the cricketer was a victim not a perpetrator of a vile regime much more powerful than him .