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chris harris was underrated

TheJediBrah

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Pretty unique bowler. He was like that 55 year old B-grader in your local league who somehow takes 35 poles a season bowling slow nothing balls but he did it in international cricket.
 

mr_mister

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He has the third most not outs of any ODI batsman ever with 62(behind Dhoni and Bevan, two other finshers) but only produced a career average of 29, well below the level of the other 2 blokes. You'd think with that amount of 'assistance' from not outs he'd at least crack an average of 30.

Also, that famous 130 he got against us in the '96 QF was actually the only time he passed 80 in international cricket. His next best ODI score was 77* and in tests 71


Not criticising, I do like him and of course he took 200+ wickets while keeping things tight, but it's interesting
 

honestbharani

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Finally! About time we finished the CW Underrated XI. Shoutout to Kallis and Walsh for getting selected twice. Bonus points if you can guess who made each thread pre-click:

1. Chris Harris
2. Mahela Jayawardene
3. Jacques Kallis
4. Ross Taylor
5. Javed Miandad
6. Michael Bevan
7. Andrew Flintoff
8. George Lohmann
9. Joel Garner
10. Mitch McCleneghan
11. Courtney Walsh

You have to open with Kallis and move to Javed to 3 and stuck Harris at 7 after Bevan and let Freddie bat 5. You would make a terrible captain. :p
 

TheJediBrah

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He has the third most not outs of any ODI batsman ever with 62(behind Dhoni and Bevan, two other finshers) but only produced a career average of 29, well below the level of the other 2 blokes. You'd think with that amount of 'assistance' from not outs he'd at least crack an average of 30.

Also, that famous 130 he got against us in the '96 QF was actually the only time he passed 80 in international cricket. His next best ODI score was 77* and in tests 71


Not criticising, I do like him and of course he took 200+ wickets while keeping things tight, but it's interesting
It's been a day and we're back on this again
 

trundler

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He's basically the ODI version of Ray Illingworth. Handy in the teams he played in but it's hardly a surprise a guy with those numbers isn't mentioned more often.
 

mr_mister

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It's been a day and we're back on this again
haha i put it in quote marks just because i knew you'd take issue with it

i'm not saying he doesn't deserve his 29 average, you'd just expect someone with his reputation as a 'finisher' and well, the 3rd most not-outs ever to average a little higher right?
 

Lillian Thomson

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Fuller Pilch

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Very tough between Harris, Chris Cairns, and Oram for the position at 6/7 in the all time NZ ODI team. Cairns was the best of the three at ODI batting but the worst bowler, Oram was the best bowler but worst batsman, while Harris was a jack of all trades and a gun fielder.

G Turner
M Guptill/N Astle
K Williamson
R Taylor
M Crowe/R Twose
B McCullum (wk)
Cairns/Harris/Oram
R Hadlee
D Vettori
S Bond
T Boukt
 

mr_mister

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maybe play McMillan down there. Him and Astle could easily combine for 10 overs and of course he's the best batsman of the bunch
 

mr_mister

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it would be very NZ to have bits and pieces cricketers in your ATG XI though

gotta stay true to form
 

Fuller Pilch

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McMillan wasn't a very good ODI player (apart from a great Chappell Hadlee 100 in 2007). Scott Styris or Jeremy Coney would be better options.
 

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