honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
McKenzie still puzzles me.....
And I thought Balaji would have a pretty decent career, I guess injuries have put paid to that....
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Players you thought would make it
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And I thought Balaji would have a pretty decent career, I guess injuries have put paid to that....
JBMAC
State Captain
Surely You Jest
Big "Garth" played in some 60 Tests while taking 246 wickets at 2.49 a piece..16 times took fivefor and 3 times had 10 wicket match hauls.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
lol..Surely You Jest
Big "Garth" played in some 60 Tests while taking 246 wickets at 2.49 a piece..16 times took fivefor and 3 times had 10 wicket match hauls.
I was talking about Neil McKenzie there.... I thought he would make a really good player and thought he would be the next RSA skipper too, after Pollock.....
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
I knew he was good, but not THAT good...Surely You Jest
Big "Garth" played in some 60 Tests while taking 246 wickets at 2.49 a piece..16 times took fivefor and 3 times had 10 wicket match hauls.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
I'm beginning to think that Haydos might just be Australia's most valuable cricketer since Bradman. Not just for the runs he scores, but for his apparently uncanny ability to automatically make opposition bowling attacks worse just by being in the side...
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
His value is something I've never once disputed, TBF. He's been one of the heaviest scorers and on the rare occasions he's been worked-out Australia have often floundered.
However, that doesn't change for a second the fact that I believe had he played in most other eras in Test cricket he'd not have done very well. Maybe, then, in such an eventuality, Australia would have been less dominant than they have been in his career.
However, that doesn't change for a second the fact that I believe had he played in most other eras in Test cricket he'd not have done very well. Maybe, then, in such an eventuality, Australia would have been less dominant than they have been in his career.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Didn't help himself by deciding to go to South Africa and lop off what might, possibly, have been his best years. Same, of course, as Hughes and Yallop (and Wessels, but he was only going back there).
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
I don't think any of them lost their very best years, though their exit definitely weakened Australian cricket. Yallop was a fine player though and one I liked a lot, definitely an unlucky and underappreciated one. Hoggy could be devastating, but hadn't been consistently for some years prior to his defection.
The two big losses for me, from a bowling point of view, were Alderman and Rackeman. Alderman was a phenomenon in English conditions and we really missed him in 1985, even given the troubles he'd had coming back from that horrendous shoulder injury.
Rackeman was our fore-runner to Bruce Reid - an outstandingly talented paceman who couldn't stay fit for more than about an hour and a half at a time. He went to SA and took 28 wickets in three "Tests", bowling superbly.
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Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Funny, I'd never really thought about Rackemann, TBH, probably because he had such a short Test career. Had never noticed Hogg had dropped-out before he decided on Rebel tours either.
Alderman was obviously a huge loss but unlike almost everyone he came back, and his return heralded the march back to the top of the pile, as his performance in 1989 kickstarted the whole thing, really. So I tend to view him as the one happy-ending story of Rebel tours.
Alderman was obviously a huge loss but unlike almost everyone he came back, and his return heralded the march back to the top of the pile, as his performance in 1989 kickstarted the whole thing, really. So I tend to view him as the one happy-ending story of Rebel tours.
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
After watching Anthony Stuart take a hattrick in a ODI against Pakistan (he took the wickets of batsmen not tailenders) I thought he'd have a better career then he did.
Matthew Nicholson is another guy. When he took 7/79 or something like that in a warmup match against England he was seen as the next big thing. Played a couple of tests and I thought we went well in them. Lost form in Shield Cricket and wasn't given another chance.
Matthew Nicholson is another guy. When he took 7/79 or something like that in a warmup match against England he was seen as the next big thing. Played a couple of tests and I thought we went well in them. Lost form in Shield Cricket and wasn't given another chance.
sideshowtim
Banned
I honestly thought Michael Bevan was destined to be a great Test player.
cover drive man
International Captain
Shaun Udal. I thought we'd have about a year of good bowling from him after watching his first match. But he was too old and rightfully replaced by Monty Panesar.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Richards still looks like that when he bats, too - he just never makes any runs. A shame really.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
I didn't know that - from what I saw of Rod McCurdy in the World Series Cup of 1984-85 I didn't think a lot of him. A great trier and 100% effort for sure, but lacked that real wicket taking penetration.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Don't think his age had anything to do with it TBH, was just the fact that a fingerspinner had no chance on wickets like those (as Giles' failures demonstrated).