Players who could have played more international cricket

[tweaker]

Brendon Julian: ,The Australian left arm pacer.

Andre Adams : NZ allrounder

Drakes :Windies allrounder

Travis Friend :Zimbabwe fast bowler

M Ngam: SA fast bowler

 

[nevada]

Irfan Pathan. Chapell ruined his career.

[gakgupta]

guyzz...anyone remembers Greg blewett?

 

Just because he was not fielding where his captain (Steve) wanted, he was out of the Australian team and never to play again.

 

But i thought he could have made a good batsmen

[Vijy]

On 11/3/2016 at 6:22 PM, Muloghonto said:

The few that stand out to me:

 

1. Rajinder Goel : a guy who averages 18.58, taking 750 wickets from 157 matches in domestic cricket, in an era when every visiting team played 2-3 FC games in India, players like Gavaskar, Vengsarkar, Amaranth, Vishwanath, etc. were regular participants in domestic cricket, is mind-boggling. His curse ? Bishen Bedi. As the best left arm slow bowler of the 60s & 70s (ahead of Underwood in my opinion), who was also supremely fit and rarely missed a match, Goel was almost never in contention to begin with.

 

2. Sylvester Clarke  & Wayne Daniel : Both these two would've been an automatic in any international XI, except their own. They were both extremely good bowlers, Sylvester a page off of Andy Robert's book : fast, furious, accurate and a brutal bouncer, Wayne Daniel a page off of Malcolm Marshall's - fast, skiddy, movement. But they had the misfortune to be squished into a 10 year period where WI had to pick 4 of Roberts, Holding, Garner, Marshall, Croft & Walsh. They got a few chances here or there, but never the chance to settle. The rebel tours of South Africa put an end to their international careers when they were in their late 20s.

 

3. All the Saffie greats who missed out due to apartheid : Peter Pollock, Barry Richards, Graeme Pollock, Garth Le Roux, Vincent Van Der Bijl, Clive Rice, Mike Proctor, etc.

 

Yes, good choices indeed. Can also add the dashing Irvine to that RSA team.

 

As for others from India, look up Madhav Apte and Deepak Shodhan.