Underrated/Overrated Players

[Satan666]

Simple thread to encourage some discussion. The only rule being is that you have to list an underrated and overrated player for the particular cricket playing nation team you wish to name. Feel free to include any number of nations from the cricketing world and you can list bowlers/batsmen/wicket keepers specifically or in general.

So I’ll have a go with Team India:

Most overrated: Sachin Tendulkar
Most underrated: Rahul Dravid

 

[icyman]

Good thread this one! Might lead to a war of words amongst a few though!

I have to agree with the above assessment of Team India, so not going to add in anything more there. For the rest of the nations, here it goes:

Australia
Overrated: Michael Clarke
Underrated: Nathan Lyon

New Zealand
Overrated: Kane Williamson
Underrated: Mitch Santner

Sri Lanka
Overrated: Lasith Malinga
Underrated: Arjuna Ranatunga

Pakistan
Overrated: Shahid Afridi
Underrated: Younis Khan

West Indies
Overrated: Andre Russell
Underrated: Shivnarine Chanderpaul

England
Overrated: Andrew Flintoff
Underrated: Nasser Hussain

 

[Till Valhalla]

Overrated: Shahid Afridi

Google find location of Icyman.

 

[Aislabie]

Overrated: Andrew Flintoff

In Test cricket, I'd tend to agree. He is remembered mostly for a handful of great performances across an otherwise fairly average career.

In one-day cricket the opposite is true though - even now with the Roots, Buttlers, Bairstows and Stokeses he'd be the first name on my teamsheet for an all-time England ODI XI

 

[ddrap14]

In Test cricket, I'd tend to agree. He is remembered mostly for a handful of great performances across an otherwise fairly average career.

In one-day cricket the opposite is true though - even now with the Roots, Buttlers, Bairstows and Stokeses he'd be the first name on my teamsheet for an all-time England ODI XI

Ian Botham: Test GOAT, ODI average
Freddy: Test average, ODI GOAT

I see a pattern here

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

I would want to go with the present team combinations (from 2018-till date)

Australia
Overrated: Matthew Wade
Underrated: Nathan Lyon

India
Overrated: Shardul Thakur(In ODIs), Mohammed Shami(In Tests), Virat Kohli(In T20Is)
Underrated: Ravindra Jadeja

New Zealand
Overrated: N/A
Underrated: BJ Watling

Sri Lanka
Overrated: Kusal Mendis
Underrated: Suranga Lakmal

Pakistan
Overrated: Azhar Ali
Underrated: Mohammad Abbas

West Indies
Overrated: Andre Russell
Underrated: Shai Hope

England
Overrated: Johnny Bairstow
Underrated: Dom Sibley

Afghanistan
Overrated: Gulbadin Naib
Underrated: Mujeeb ur Rehman

Bangladesh
Overrated: Rubel Hossain
Underrated: Mustafizur Rahman

 

[Satan666]

Good thread this one! Might lead to a war of words amongst a few though!

I have to agree with the above assessment of Team India, so not going to add in anything more there. For the rest of the nations, here it goes:

Australia
Overrated: Michael Clarke
Underrated: Nathan Lyon

New Zealand
Overrated: Kane Williamson
Underrated: Mitch Santner

Sri Lanka
Overrated: Lasith Malinga
Underrated: Arjuna Ranatunga

Pakistan
Overrated: Shahid Afridi
Underrated: Younis Khan

West Indies
Overrated: Andre Russell
Underrated: Shivnarine Chanderpaul

England
Overrated: Andrew Flintoff
Underrated: Nasser Hussain

‘War of words’. We did have some great debates back in the days.

With regards to Younis Khan you are quite correct, personally I never made much of him but as I look back now he should definitely be regarded higher, guess people would always see him below Inzy and Yousuf though. Same argument for Chanderpaul, always underrated due to playing most of his cricket alongside Lara.

 

[cricfreak12]

Good thread this one! Might lead to a war of words amongst a few though!

I have to agree with the above assessment of Team India, so not going to add in anything more there. For the rest of the nations, here it goes:

Australia
Overrated: Michael Clarke
Underrated: Nathan Lyon

New Zealand
Overrated: Kane Williamson
Underrated: Mitch Santner

Sri Lanka
Overrated: Lasith Malinga
Underrated: Arjuna Ranatunga

Pakistan
Overrated: Shahid Afridi
Underrated: Younis Khan

West Indies
Overrated: Andre Russell
Underrated: Shivnarine Chanderpaul

England
Overrated: Andrew Flintoff
Underrated: Nasser Hussain

I dont think you quite understand the meaning of the two terms like the OP of this thread, but then again he's a troll and has an agenda behind his posts whatever it may be.

The only correct assessment is of shahid afridi being overrated and unnecessarily being given a legend tag although he was the ultimate entertainer.

 

[Deleted member 193590]

Underrated - Tillakaratne Dilshan
Overrated - Ravi Bopara

 

[Satan666]

I dont think you quite understand the meaning of the two terms like the OP of this thread, but then again he's a troll and has an agenda behind his posts whatever it may be.

The only correct assessment is of shahid afridi being overrated and unnecessarily being given a legend tag although he was the ultimate entertainer.

Haha! Glad to see youre still around.

 

[qpeedore]

Always thought Stuart MacGill was underrated, simply because of some guy named Warne. He was a good leggie in his own right, but because his playing days overlapped with Warne, he always found himself compared to the latter.

I agree with Flintoff and Botham. They both pretty much only had one Ashes series of note, and suddenly they're hotter than lava.

Chanderpaul wasn't underrated as much as generally glossed over for much of his career. That's what happens when you're reliable without being flamboyant. It's not that we didn't rate him highly, but to us it was like, "Oh, there's a top order collapse, no problem, Chanderpaul to bat until forever." But that's just it, he was just THE guy that we relied on so often that it became something of a given for us. We rated him very highly, we just didn't appreciate it enough.

VVS Laxman is underrated for India, I think. I loved watching him bat, especially against spinners.

 

[cricfreak12]

Haha! Glad to see youre still around.

Nice of you to take this in good spirit.

 

[Jack7]

Underrated: Rashid Khan.

 

[Viper.]

In India

Overrated: gill for t20, Rishabh pant , Mukesh kumar
Underrated: Arshdeep, Axar , Rinku (by the selectors)

Australia:

Overrated: Wade, Tim David , cam green in white ball, stoinis in odi
Underrated: Ellis, Jason behrendorff, Bancroft for tests, Aaron hardie

England:

Overrated: Livingstone , Moeen Ali , Chris Jordan , Bairstow in tests
Underrated: topley, Chris woakes, Will jacks, Sam billings, Ben foakes

South Africa

Overrated: Reeza Hendricks, andile phehlukwayo, Marco Jansen in lois
Underrated: Kyle Verreynne, Ryan rickelton (all formats), wiaan Mulder, temba bavuma in tests

NZ

Overrated: Southee, Rachin Ravindra , Williamson in t20, Henry nicholls
Underrated: Will young, mark chapman, Michael bracewell, ferguson (sometimes) , Adam milne

Pakistan

Overrated: Babar (sorry not sorry), Fakhar, imam ul haq, Khushdil, Azam khan , Mohammad Amir , Shadab
Underrated: Shafique, Mohammad Haris , Shan Masood, imad wasim , Usama Mir

Windies

Overrated: Powell, Kyle mayers, roston chase , shepherd, Odean smith, Jason holder in loi, charles
Underrated: Brandon king, obed McCoy, motie, Jayden seales, evin Lewis

That’s just about all I can think off the back of my head

 

[pillowprocter]

Khushdil

this man cannot be rated any lower atm, can't even make his psl team. how is he overrated?