Most under-rated cricketers

[puddleduck]

I don't think the fact they seemed to retire every 6 months ever helped

 

[barmyarmy]

Or were banned from playing by the PCB.

 

[puddleduck]

That as well

Anyone ever watch Dream Team, that crappy soap about a football team with constant chaos. Well, they've got nothing on the Pakistan cricket board haha

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

But, is that not because they were rated. Very highly in fact, but they had their flaws and as such will sink into the annals of excellent players of their own time, but perhaps not ones that transcend their time?

maybe, but most players have their flaws. if you look a miandad's record for example, it pretty much puts him along side viv, border and gavaskar in the 80s.

I think perhaps because pakistan don't have a very strong authorative voice in the media. their great rivals are the india too, and as we all know india's media is ridiculously partisan. english writers will give plenty of column inches too australians and vice versa because generally there are a lot of good, fair writers in england and australia but indian journalists are really only concerned with writing about tendulkar and bad mouthing everyone else. which other team gets genuinely excited about playing pakistan? I even read in the guardian a columnist saying he wasn't bothered about the upcoming pak v england series as it held no interest for him. from an international stand point too most the coverage pakistan get is either negative based on their awful board and scandal, and the positive stuff is usually about their production line of mercurial fast bowlers.

 

[puddleduck]

Excellent points, well made

An old African proverb, which Achebe used wisely, "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters."

Are Pakistan without a voice in the cricket world? Certainly, India's is louder than theirs. Whilst as you said, England and Australia's journalists seem pretty keen on focussing on their own two teams as well as the Saffers.

 

[westindies2007]

For me it's Chanderpaul and Dravid. The Walls of Cricket

 

[VC the slogger]

No talk of Inzi? I am astonished.

Well,Inzamam was a legend in Pakistan cricket.How can he be an under-rated person?

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For me it's Chanderpaul and Dravid. The Walls of Cricket

Yeah quite true.Especially the way Dravid was removed from ODIs after performing well at a good strike rate in 2007 was terrible.
I read the news a month or so ago in which Chanderpaul was saying that the WICB was pressurizing him to retire.This is terrible.Chanderpaul has been the best batsman of West Indies since the retirement of Brian Lara.

 

[BKB1991]

I just feel sometimes people underrated Inzi when they said Ponting and Tendulkar at that time were better ODI players. It could be biased, but I think Inzamam played more match winning innings than those two, and at the end of the day, I would take that kind of batsman any day over run scoring beasts.

Compared to Yousef he was definitely underrated.

 

[VC the slogger]

Anybody had a thought about Australia's 1987 World Cup winning captain Allan Border.He stood strong and held Australian cricket together when legends like Dennis Lillee,The Chappell brothers,Jeff Thompson etc retired in the early 1980s.It was a time when Australia were struggling but Border helped them through with strong performances and when he retired in 1993 Australia had one again become a formidable side and then the Waughs and other good players took over.Even I think the former wicket-keeper Ian Healy was under-rated too because he couldn't bat like Gilchrist but in crucial matches and close encounters he took Australia home and was a very aggressive batsman.
Allan Border and Ian Healy are clearly one of the most under-rated cricketers even though their contributions were so high to Australian cricket.

 

[JD10]

Ian Bell

 

[puddleduck]

Anybody had a thought about Australia's 1987 World Cup winning captain Allan Border.He stood strong and held Australian cricket together when legends like Dennis Lillee,The Chappell brothers,Jeff Thompson etc retired in the early 1980s.It was a time when Australia were struggling but Border helped them through with strong performances and when he retired in 1993 Australia had one again become a formidable side and then the Waughs and other good players took over.Even I think the former wicket-keeper Ian Healy was under-rated too because he couldn't bat like Gilchrist but in crucial matches and close encounters he took Australia home and was a very aggressive batsman.
Allan Border and Ian Healy are clearly one of the most under-rated cricketers even though their contributions were so high to Australian cricket.

Are they though? I always thought Border was held in that exact regard, as someone who was integral in Australia's resurgence and subsequent dominance? I also thought many people regarded Healy as a fantastic glovemen and handy batsmen? To say Healy was underrated because he wasn't Gilchrist is surely the point? He wasn't Gilchrist, so isn't rated as one of the best in history, merely a very fine player?

 

[Hybrid]

maybe, but most players have their flaws. if you look a miandad's record for example, it pretty much puts him along side viv, border and gavaskar in the 80s.

Not really IMO considering the difference in his home and away records.

 

[sifter132]

I think at the time Border was rated fairly, because everyone rightfully saw him as the only decent player in the side during the 80s. But now I do think he's a bit underappreciated. For starters he made a stack of runs at over 50 during a time when there were some pretty damn good bowlers going around: the WI quartet of doom who Australia seemed to play every 2nd summer..., Willis and Botham for Eng, Hadlee for NZ, Imran and Qadir for Pak eventually Wasim and Waqar too. And then for his influence on rebuilding Australian cricket, first through the World Cup and then the '89 Ashes. He really helped shape those younger guys like Healy, McDermott, Steve Waugh, Mark Taylor etc.

 

[Sedition]

Michael Slater, Mark Waugh, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne etc.

 

[sami ullah khan]

^How are Mcgrath and Warne underrated? Please enlighten.