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cricketers that had potential

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slippy

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Players that had potential but never made it to the top.

Heath Davis
Geoff Allott
 
Richard

Richard

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Mark Butcher
Michael Atherton
Nasser Hussain
Mark Ramprakash
Dominic Cork
Andy Caddick
Darren Gough

Half of a team, all players who played alongside each of the others many times, who all for one reason or another did much less than was at one point reasonably hoped of them. All differing reasons - Butcher being a late developer; Atherton suffering from an inherant spinal inflammatory condition; Hussain and his fear of failure; Ramprakash and his, well, any number of temperamental issues, probably including fear of failure; Cork and his injury and personal turmoils, and bad selection; Caddick's inability to be properly understood by various managements; Gough's constant injury woes.

Thank God we had Alec Stewart and Graham Thorpe of the same sort of timeframe to be the pretty-much-entirely-fulfilled talents none of the above were.
 
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Flem274*

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Er, Fleming? You can argue he underachieved (he did) but he made it as a player, and as a captain-batsman combo he left his mark on NZ cricket with our second best test side in our history.
 
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Still the second best opener in NZ:ph34r:

I honestly thought after the six tests against England that How was someone we could persist with. Then he went bye bye...
 
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DIRK-NANNES said:
Who is the first? :laugh:
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Martin Guptill. And thats going on ability rather than Mathew Bell-esque domestic bashing. Others are better on paper, but they mostly suck and Guptill at least has technique, ability and er...ODI runs behind him. Would be nice for some test runs though. :p
 
Richard

Richard

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Flem274* said:
Er, Fleming? You can argue he underachieved (he did) but he made it as a player, and as a captain-batsman combo he left his mark on NZ cricket with our second best test side in our history.
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Similar could be said about each of those I posted. Yet all failed to achieve what they might have done, in some cases by a long way.
 
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