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Players who played above 50 Odis and yet sucked

 

Dinesh Mongia 

 

Mo Kaif (played 150 plus Odis yet only 7 sixes in total, strikerate of 72, god knows how he played so many matches 

 

Rahane 

 

Rahul Dravid (I know you guys will hate me but the guy was too slow)

 

R Jadeja (played 5 world cups as #7 batsman and yet not even a single match winning performer. Not even once. Zilch Nada Zero)

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Sean Bradley said:

OP mentioned Hemang Badani, infact Badani was an emerging talent back then with great temperament who was unable to do justice to his potential.

 

Worst batsmen who would come on top of mind would be

Dinesh Mongia

Shiv Sunder Das

Deep Dasgupta (also the worst keeper India has ever played)

Now Rayudu

 

Don’t forget to shout out for MSK Prasad 

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4 hours ago, rahulrulezz said:

Players who played above 50 Odis and yet sucked

 

Dinesh Mongia 

 

Mo Kaif (played 150 plus Odis yet only 7 sixes in total, strikerate of 72, god knows how he played so many matches 

 

Rahane 

 

Rahul Dravid (I know you guys will hate me but the guy was too slow)

 

R Jadeja (played 5 world cups as #7 batsman and yet not even a single match winning performer. Not even once. Zilch Nada Zero)

 

 

Bro we had this discussion here, I thought you changed your stance on Dravid the ODI batsman after that. 

 

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5 hours ago, rahulrulezz said:

Players who played above 50 Odis and yet sucked

 

Dinesh Mongia 

 

Mo Kaif (played 150 plus Odis yet only 7 sixes in total, strikerate of 72, god knows how he played so many matches 

 

Rahane 

 

Rahul Dravid (I know you guys will hate me but the guy was too slow)

 

R Jadeja (played 5 world cups as #7 batsman and yet not even a single match winning performer. Not even once. Zilch Nada Zero)

 

 

Ganguly also had an SR of 73, Dravid had an SR of 71.  So, Dravid was slow, Ganguly was slow as well. 

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16 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Ganguly also had an SR of 73, Dravid had an SR of 71.  So, Dravid was slow, Ganguly was slow as well. 

We can at least give dravid some leeway as he had to bat in the middle orders and Often than not that s/r was somewhat acceptable. Ganguly on the other hand was infuriating. He was a dot ball machine. One of the infuriating things in the 90s was to see him play dots for 5 balls of the over and take a single to retain the strike. You would see Sachin at the other end going 22(19) and this guy 5(17).

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24 minutes ago, Laaloo said:

We can at least give dravid some leeway as he had to bat in the middle orders and Often than not that s/r was somewhat acceptable. Ganguly on the other hand was infuriating. He was a dot ball machine. One of the infuriating things in the 90s was to see him play dots for 5 balls of the over and take a single to retain the strike. You would see Sachin at the other end going 22(19) and this guy 5(17).

yeah :laugh:  his release shot was come down the track and throw his bat.  

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6 hours ago, rahulrulezz said:

Players who played above 50 Odis and yet sucked

 

Dinesh Mongia 

 

Mo Kaif (played 150 plus Odis yet only 7 sixes in total, strikerate of 72, god knows how he played so many matches 

 

Rahane 

 

Rahul Dravid (I know you guys will hate me but the guy was too slow)

 

R Jadeja (played 5 world cups as #7 batsman and yet not even a single match winning performer. Not even once. Zilch Nada Zero)

 

 

Kaif play 2 best knock which still remembered .one in  netwest series final vs England & another is when India tour Pak in 2004 and India behind in the odi series 2-1 then in fourth odi play a match winning inning ( Dravid - Kaif partnership ) for  us ,therefore Indian won that series 3-2 and he was a gun feilder .

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There was one batsman that selectors should have given more chances and that Pankaj Dharmani, WK/batsman from Punjab.  He averaged 50 in FC cricket being a wicket keeper and playing at Mohali pitches of 90s was not a mean feat, just got one ODI that too in a situation when we needed quick runs chasing 250 like 55 in 5 overs which was almost impossible in 96. he scored 8 of 8, got out and never played again.  from top batsmen only Azhar looked like playing to win.  Ganguly and SRT were just too slow scoring 54 of 104 SR of 51 and 64 of 93 68, opening partnership of 126 in 197 balls, leaving others to score 124 of 103 balls which was not easy in those days and that against an SA attack of Donald, de villiars and McMillan.

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6 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Ganguly also had an SR of 73, Dravid had an SR of 71.  So, Dravid was slow, Ganguly was slow as well. 

to be honest, I wasn't a fan of Gangulys batting either.. He was indeed a dot ball machine.. he was really bad, but he wasn't the worst... I guess I would Dravid in the same category.. he was really bad, not the worst...

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7 hours ago, Gollum said:

Bro we had this discussion here, I thought you changed your stance on Dravid the ODI batsman after that. 

 

hahaha yeah you remember it.. ok I change my comment.. He was certainly a bad odi player in my opinion, he definitely wasn't the worst... again, I am not doubting his test credentials at all.

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Based on a comprehensive model based on analytics  for SPECIALIST batsmen and minimum 30 innings , it is Eknath Solkar  for tests & Sandeep Patil / Robin Uthappa for ODI's.

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/614599.html (TEST)

 

http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Batting/BattingAverages_ODI.asp?Stat=2 (ODI)

 

Eknath  was a gun close-in fielder though..probably , the best in Indian cricketing history. 

 

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On 1/24/2019 at 12:45 AM, Sean Bradley said:

OP mentioned Hemang Badani, infact Badani was an emerging talent back then with great temperament who was unable to do justice to his potential.

 

Worst batsmen who would come on top of mind would be

Dinesh Mongia

Shiv Sunder Das

Deep Dasgupta (also the worst keeper India has ever played)

Now Rayudu

Ss das was decent. He was pretty consistent in few tests he played.. 

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9 hours ago, Soorma_Bhopali said:

Based on a comprehensive model based on analytics  for SPECIALIST batsmen and minimum 30 innings , it is Eknath Solkar  for tests & Sandeep Patil / Robin Uthappa for ODI's.

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/614599.html (TEST)

 

http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Batting/BattingAverages_ODI.asp?Stat=2 (ODI)

 

Eknath  was a gun close-in fielder though..probably , the best in Indian cricketing history. 

 

Solkar wasn't seen as a specialist batsman more of an all-rounder as he did open the bowling for Bombay . If I remember correctly he batted around 6 or 7 but yes he was picked for his short leg fielding to the spinners . 

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