Was more of a one-trick bully in his bowling as he would go on bowling back of the hand slower balls whole day, much like Unadkat, who just bowls off-cutter slower balls.James Faulkner?
India and England always struggled to have good bowling attacks in that time in white ball Cricket. So I am not surprised why Faulkner always did well against them. But, honestly he always had that batting gear in him. He just faded off both with his batting and bowling unlike Stokes who improved himself every time he went down.Had a particular liking for the Indian bowlers
Only player with >100 strike rates in all three international formatsJames Faulkner
I guess it will stay that way for a long, long time.Only player with >100 strike rates in all three international formats
I too was going to post this. He never got a permanent place in the playing XI due to Ashwin and Jadeja.Amit Mishra is a player everyone forgot in the ODI scenario
That guy had a five wicket haul in his last ODI and never played again
He should have been the first choice spinner for a long time in the T20s at least.I too was going to post this. He never got a permanent place in the playing XI due to Ashwin and Jadeja.
James Faulkner? MoM in WC 2015 Final and then spoof!
Vanished into thin air after that. Had a particular liking for the Indian bowlers
Mendis was one hell of a player early on in his career. Not the first mystery spinner, but certainly he led the way for a lot more of those types of bowlers, especially in the shorter formats. He was such a good bowler that Sri Lanka bowled him as early as something like 12 overs in. Not exactly a Mohammed Hafeez, who could probably call Devon Smith and inform him that he's got his wicket, but Mendis was one amazing player who really is forgotten in the modern age. Mendis was part of a classic subcontinental bowling attack, where you just had quicks there to bowl the first few overs before handing it off to a spinner. That being said, the attack did feature Vaas, who is one of my top 10 fast bowlers ever.
What about Prasanna Jayawardene? I always thought he was a great wicketkeeper who didn't quite get the chance to shine due to the (arguably slightly better) Sangakarra.. It's very tough for a reserve keeper to get a game (search Da Silva, J and Hope, S...although the latter is in horrible form). I always had a high hope for Prasanna...do not by any means ask me his full name, my keyboard will explode with typing it.
In Tests, I’d say that a team should always have a pure keeper and not a makeshift one who could bat...Yes, he played quite a lot of Tests, but I keep thinking he felt like he was always compared to Sangas. I am not Sri Lankan, but I do definitely rate him up there as a pure keeper. Wicketkeepers are a hard thing to really come by, and for me I prefer a pure keeper than a wicketkeeper-batsman. I think Jeff Dujon was probably the last proper keeper I've known about. And hell, the guy had to stand behind the wicket for the original awesome foursome.
I mean, India had the Great Wall of Dravid keeping for quite a long time before MS Dhoni came onto the scene. And as a keeper, he wasn't bad. But why put a top order batsman behind the wicket?