All-time XI of most under achieved cricketers?

[Harsh Thakor]

XI of most underachieved cricketers

 

Mohsin Khan

Krishnamachari Srikanth

Vinod Kambli

Kim Hughes (C)

Sandeep Patil

Carl Hooper/Derek Randall

Dave Richardson (W)

Geoff Lawson

Sylvester Clarke

Narendra Hirwani

Patrick Paterson/Mitchelle Johnson

 

 

Mohsin Khan at one point of his career had blemishes of the very finest batsmen posessing strokes of the very highest class.Who can forget his classic 200 at Lords in 1983 as well as 149 at Adelaide and 152 at Melbourne in 1983-84? His 70 versus West Indies in the 1983 world cup semi-final was also a classsic.Srikanth on his day could blaze away against the likes of a Marshall,Roberts or Imran.Kambli arguably had even more natural talent than Sachin .Hughes at his best played arguably the best innings ever against the great Calypso pace quartet in 1981-82 at Melbourne as well as cored a classic 117 at Lords in 1980 and topped the batting averages in India in 1979.At his best a champion staging pace and spin.Sandeep Patil's 174 at Adelaide facing Lillee and unbeaten 129 at Old Trafford in 1982 rank amongst the finest tst innings of all time.Few batsmen were more swashbuckling or devoured fine bowling more.I can never forget his hook shots of Lillee or drives of Willis.Hooper at his best could master the worst of wickets like at Trinidad against England in 1998 and could turn games like Lara.Derek Randall at his best like in the 1977 centenary test or at Perth in 1982-83 played the likes of Lillee as well as anyone and could also be  class makeshift test opener like against Pakistan in 1982.Richardson could play very crucial knocks to save his team .Lawson at his best was in terms of sheer pace or acccuracy and movement in the Lillee class if you remember his 34 scalps in the 1982-83 Ashes series.Clarke was arguably the quickest of all Calypso pacemen .When Hirwani captured 16 wickets in 1987-88 versus  West Indies it looked as if a new star was born.For sheer agression or lethality Paterson may not have had an equal who reminded you of a bomber strikng an airbase,At his best Mitchelle Johnson looked as complete as any great fast bowler and in a total package was harder to face than even Dale Steyn .

Edited April 17, 2020 by Harsh Thakor

[The Dark Horse]

My 90s+ underachievers XI:

 

Sadagopan Ramesh

Neil Johnson

Stuart Law

Marlon Samuels

Dinesh Karthik

Pravin Amre (W)

Stuart McGill

Shane Bond

Ian Bishop

Shaun Tait

Mohammed Sami

[zen]

2 hours ago, The Dark Horse said:

My 90s+ underachievers XI:

Shane Bond

Bond did not play as many games as he would have liked due to injuries but has a great avg and SR combination. If that is underachievement then wonder what the ideal level of achievement would be  (I hope you have not included him in the list by just looking at number of wickets (like runs) which are usually influenced by games played while overlooking averages and strike rates) 

Edited April 17, 2020 by zen

[The Dark Horse]

36 minutes ago, zen said:

Bond did not play as many games as he would have liked due to injuries but has a great avg and SR combination. If that is underachievement then wonder what the ideal level of achievement would be  (I hope you have not included him in the list by just looking at number of wickets (like runs) which are usually influenced by games played while overlooking averages and strike rates) 

Bond under-achieved due to injury. Look at the number of tests he played. It's just a question of what if..

[nevada]

Wasim Jaffer

Mathew Elliott

Greg Blewett

Robin Smith

Ramnaresh Sarwan

Hemang Badani

Luke Ronchi

Muhammad Zahid

L Siva

Craig McDermott

Bruce Reid

 

 

 

[Prabhdeep Singh]

Indian cricketers Test Cricket

 

Rohit Sharma (In Test Cricket so far)

Wasim Jaffer

Vinod Kambli

Yuvraj Singh

Suresh Raina

Dinesh Karthik

Parthiv Patel

Murali Kartik

Piyush Chawala

Varun Aaron

S Shreesanth