Awesome purple patches from players through history that don't get much recognition

[Gnske]

Damian Martyn is your example of someone who doesn't get much recognition?

This forum is a hotbed of millenial Australians who will bang on about him until the cows come home.

To any new members, this is how you reply if you don't read the original post.

 

[a massive zebra]

Geez, strike rate of over 100 in the second half. Cricket was very slow paced back then wasn't it?

Yeah, Gibbs was a very accurate bowler but he played through the slowest scoring era in cricket history.

 

[a massive zebra]

Those get the attention they deserve 'round here I'd say.

Lawrence Rowe had a similarly remarkable start to his career I think.

They may get the attention they deserve as overall players but I am not sure many were aware of Harvey's Bradmanesque start to his career.

 

[mr_mister]

You can see why Limited overs cricket was invented around the end of Gibb's career

 

[a massive zebra]

Yeh, an average of 34 looks so bizarre with a SR of 102

True but John Emburey played in a different era and his entire career record is similar.

 

[h_hurricane]

You can see why Limited overs cricket was invented around the end of Gibb's career

That Sobers hit six sixes an over (admittedly in a FC match) in such a slow scoring era is part of the reason he is revered as so ahead of the time. Not many cricketers would have dreamed of it let alone coming close to executing.

 

[mr_mister]

I really regret putting the recognition part of the sentence in my thread title lol

 

[aussie tragic]

Kim Hughes seems to always get underrated on here, however if you take out his first 11 Tests that he only played because of the WSC exodus, and his final 9 Tests vs WI whereby Garner, Marshall and Holding were at their peak and totally destroyed him, his record is not too bad.

50T, 86Inn, 6no, 3597 runs @ 44.96, HS 213, 21 fifties, 8 centuries.

This means he made 50+ every 3rd innings, which were also scored very quickly.