The "Players Who Wish They Were Born In Another Era/Country" Thread

[Gilly Fan]

Put up players who you think who would've succeeded more if they were born in another country or another Era.

Here are a couple of examples.

Darren Berry

Mat  	Inns  	NO  	Runs  	HS  	Ave  	100  	50  	Ct  	St
First-class 	153 	231 	33 	4273 	166* 	21.58 	4 	11 	[B]552 	51[/B]
List A 	89 	67 	21 	825 	64* 	17.93 	0 	2 	108 	29

Stuart MacGill

Mat  	Balls  	Runs  	Wkts  	BBI  	BBM  	Ave  	Econ  	SR  	4  	5  	10
Tests 	40 	10211 	5387 	198 	8/108 	12/107 	27.20 	3.16 	51.57 	9 	12 	2
ODIs 	3 	180 	105 	6 	4/19 	4/19 	17.50 	3.50 	30.00 	1 	0 	0
First-class 	174 	39085 	22086 	739 	8/108 		29.88 	3.39 	52.88 		42 	6
List A  	107 	5228 	4347 	193 	5/40 	5/40 	22.52 	4.98 	27.08 	10 	4 	0
Twenty20 	5 	104 	144 	6 	3/42 	3/42 	24.00 	8.30 	17.33 	0 	0 	0

 

[Griffo]

Brad Hodge

 

[King Pietersen]

David Hussey
Phil Jaques
Stuart Clark (although he has gained a place now, it has taken a long time)

What's so great about Berry ?

 

[Gilly Fan]

Check out how many catches he has taken...

 

[Griffo]

He was truly a brilliant gloveman, once again the english mindset of a keeper/batsmen sets in

 

[evertonfan]

The entire Australian team wish they were English.

But in seriousness, Stuart Law.

Berry doesn't seem all that special. Warren Hegg has a better record than that!

 

[Griffo]

Have you seen him play???

 

[evertonfan]

No I haven't. Have you seen Warren Hegg play?

 

[Griffo]

Obviously not.. but your the one who always says stats arent everything and now you think they are...

 

[evertonfan]

Stats aren't everything. But seeing as how i've never seen him play that's all I can judge him on. And given that his stats are no better than plenty of other wicketkeepers, he doesn't seem very unlucky to have never played for Australia.

 

[Griffo]

Berry was never given an oppotuinity due to Ian Healy and Adam Gilchrist in front of him

Hegg would have only had Stewart

I think we forget the difference between the English and Australian competions and the bounce in the wickets

 

[Covvy]

Brad Haddin is the most unfortunate by a mile! He's a fantastic player and keeper but Gilly's in the way.

 

[Hooper]

No doubt,

Martin Love (Great batsman, scored a hundred in his last Test)
Mike Kasprawicz (If there was no McGrath he would have been God)
Stuart MacGill (The Greatest bowler never to have played 50 Tests)

Maybe even Brad Hogg. Or umm...Phil Jaques.

 

[Almost_Austwick]

You're going to see a lot of Australians named in this thread but I'm sure that if you apply the same logic and look at the dominant team of any era you'll find players that maybe would have had longer careers if born 10 years earlier\later.

I suppose the stand out names are Stuart Law and Stuart McGill. West Indians could include the likes of David Murray, Wayne Daniel or even Len Baichan.

 

[Hooper]

Yeah, but most of us have grown up watching cricket in the nineties and 2000's. We havent seen many of the great players who never played the game during the 70s/80s/90s.

Oh and another is Andy Bichel.