Best player most people don't know about?

[ataraxia]

Glenn Turner too imo

Dempster much better shout here IMO.

Turner is probably underrated, but definitely not unknown.

 

[Daemon]

y'all vastly overestimating the knowledge of the average cricket fan

 

[Burgey]

In the broader Australian cricket fan base, I'd say someone like Davo or Norm O'Neil are good shouts for this title.

 

[trundler]

Dempster much better shout here IMO.

Turner is probably underrated, but definitely not unknown.

Any NZ cricketer not Hadlee, Crowe or KW is largely in the dark. People are still sleeping on Taylor's ODI exploits.

 

[anil1405]

How good was Lee Irvine?

 

[trundler]

John Waite may rival Nourse for somebody who should definitely make SA's ATXI but isn't well known. Best 'keeper in the world for quite a while and could also hold a bat.

I like how we're basically ignoring the OP.

 

[h_hurricane]

Rajinder Goel - most wickets taken in Ranji trophy history.

 

[vcs]

Tendulkar

 

[ataraxia]

George Hirst
Les Ames
Ken Barrington
CB Fry
Tony Lock
Johnny Briggs
Nawab of Pataudi Sr.

Billy Murdoch
Bill Brown
Bill Johnston

Denis Lindsay
Trevor Goddard
Jackie McGlew
Eddie Barlow
Vince van der Bijl
Jimmy Cook

Sonny Ramadhin
Rohan Kanhai
Sylvester Clarke
Charlie Griffith

Martin Donnelly
Jack Cowie
Bert Sutcliffe
John F Reid
Bevan Congdon

Amar Singh
Mohammad Nissar
Pankaj Roy
Venkat

Fazal Mahmood

etc., etc.

 

[Dan]

Brian Booth

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Saurav Patel
Craig Shoeberg
McKenzie Schultz
Luneksha de Silva
Darren Digsby

 

[Dan]

There was this bloke called Rahul Neesham playing for some Grade club on the new Ashes Cricket game who averaged like 93. Probably him tbh.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Les Ames

 

[trundler]

Looked up some Ashes scorecards. During Mead's career, at least 2 vastly inferior batsmen played ahead of him. Both Jack Hearne and Percy Chapman played about 25 tests as batsmen averaging under 30. FC averages of 41 and 31 respectively make the decision even more bewildering. Hendren and Wolley aside, there couldn't have been any better middle order batsmen around.

 

[Dan]

Les Ames

Myth.

 

[trundler]

Myth.

Batting wise bit of a minnow basher. Flattered by an average of 40 but still good enough for a keeper.

 

[tony p]

From South Africa,

Hugh Tayfield
Trevor Goddard
Eric Rowan.

From Australia,

Ted McDonald
Ken Meuleman
Bruce Dooland
Ross Edwards

From England

Bobby Abel
Bill Lockwood
George Hirst
Johnny Tyldesley
Jack Russell, ( not the wicket keeper)
Maurice Leyland
Jack Robertson
Keith Andrew
Geoff Pullar
Tom Cartwright'

From New Zealand,

Tom Pritchard
Merv Wallace
Bruce Taylor
Ken Wadsworth

All recent players should be known, many from the past are easily forgotten, so let's put that right.

 

[Line and Length]

Add Colin Bland to any South African list. He was regarded as one of the world's best fieldsman as well as being a fine bat.

 

[trundler]

Tom Richardson was picked as one of 6 Wisden cricketers of the century for Wisden's 100th anniversary

 

[honestbharani]

Personally, had never heard of Aubrey Faulkner before I joined this forum. Now, he is someone I gun for in just about every draft where he is eligible.