Mr Miyagi
Banned
This is a chance to post your nominees for players who had less than auspicious starts to their careers. Those that looked like total bludgers, but then get much much better.
The obvious is SK Warne being flogged around Australia by the touring BCCI team. But he was already having some early success in Sri Lanka before destroying the West Indies at Melbourne in 1992, and by 1993 was a superstar before even heading to England. So I am sure the bright minds at CW can come up with much better suggestions.
I'll kick things off with Neil Wagner, long awaited by NZC fans as he qualified from South Africa and terrorised first-class batsmen, even taking 4 wickets in a single over, and expected to be the best thing since Bond or Hadlee, Neil failed to deliver in his first two years of international cricket. 8 tests and he was dropped, with a bowling average well over 40.
NZC fans had given up on the "Wagner will be great" dream.
But since his recall as #3 bowler instead of the new ball spearhead, hasn't he turned his career around?
Bowling records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo
As a side note, feel free to discuss teams, such as the mid 80's Australian battlers of Border, Marsh, Boon, Jones, SWaugh who at some point went from a low ebb, to much loftier heights.
The obvious is SK Warne being flogged around Australia by the touring BCCI team. But he was already having some early success in Sri Lanka before destroying the West Indies at Melbourne in 1992, and by 1993 was a superstar before even heading to England. So I am sure the bright minds at CW can come up with much better suggestions.
I'll kick things off with Neil Wagner, long awaited by NZC fans as he qualified from South Africa and terrorised first-class batsmen, even taking 4 wickets in a single over, and expected to be the best thing since Bond or Hadlee, Neil failed to deliver in his first two years of international cricket. 8 tests and he was dropped, with a bowling average well over 40.
NZC fans had given up on the "Wagner will be great" dream.
But since his recall as #3 bowler instead of the new ball spearhead, hasn't he turned his career around?
Bowling records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo
As a side note, feel free to discuss teams, such as the mid 80's Australian battlers of Border, Marsh, Boon, Jones, SWaugh who at some point went from a low ebb, to much loftier heights.
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