Prodigies who came good and the waste men

[Starfighter]

Lance and Chris Cairns
Chris and Stuart Broad
David and Johnny Bairstow
Geoff, Shaun and Mitch Marsh....oh wait

Three generations of Headleys? Granted Ron wasn't very good but George was great and Dean good enough till he did his back in.

 

[trundler]

Speaking of waste men, I think clean strikers of the ball who happen to be thick as **** are granted too much sympathy. Don't think Bopara and Maxwell are 'unlucky' players. The idea that such players simply need another chance to be a bit more cautious is flawed imo.

 

[mr_mister]

Pollocks anyone?

 

[vcs]

Thought it was a lack of sufficient technical/defensive ability in Test cricket that did Bopara in, not a cavalier approach.

 

[Burgey]

Pollocks anyone?

Yeah for sure. Probably a better father-son combo than the Hadlees, nws Richard being the best cricketer of all of them by a large margin (imo anyway)

 

[Starfighter]

Pollocks anyone?

Just because we got through a decent list without remembering the indisputable best...

 

[social]

Atul Sharma story is very strange

 

[trundler]

The Pollocks clearly have some OP genes. No contest really.

 

[trundler]

How could you guys forget KL Rahul and Dravid

 

[Burgey]

Atul Sharma story is very strange

Were you active on here when ian pont came on and was explaining the regime he was putting him through? Bloke copped a fair bit of ridicule but he fronted up and answered a few questions which was good of him.

 

[Burgey]

How could you guys forget KL Rahul and Dravid

Steve Smith and Steve Smith as well.

Tendulkar and Sachin Baby.

 

[morgieb]

I remember Unmukt Chand was hyped up quite a bit after the Under 19 world cup but never lived up to the expectations.

Was a fair bit of hype around Vijay Zol and Harmeet Singh (IIRC) too, and neither really made the grade.

 

[Howe_zat]

The Hadlees are the only competent father son duo I can think of.

Lance and Chris Cairns
Chris and Stuart Broad
David and Johnny Bairstow
Geoff, Shaun and Mitch Marsh....oh wait

Aside from the Marsh lads, the younger generation in all those pairings is comfortably better imo

True though since Trundler gave 'competent' as a measure I'd say Broad and Bairstow senior qualify at least.

A stonger example could be IAK and MAK Pataudi.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Robbie Frylinck
Imrul Kayes
Jaydev Unadkat

 

[Bahnz]

haha, i don't remember it but you were on your own with this one.

my loss of faith was probably right before he arrived - that 2012 sri lankan series where after 3 seasons in the team he averaged below 30.

sometimes i forget just how grim the 2008-2012 test side was, and then just as boult/southee announced themselves as a duo we decided to have an internal captaincy war.

Yeah, that was the point when I started the doom and gloom thread. By that point I kinda assumed that KW would - at best - evolve into a Fleming-class player and at worst fade away as so many other promising young bats had done.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Ajantha Mendis was amazing until everyone figured him out.

 

[social]

Were you active on here when ian pont came on and was explaining the regime he was putting him through? Bloke copped a fair bit of ridicule but he fronted up and answered a few questions which was good of him.

Was around but didn’t take much notice

Read up on it last night and it’s a mystery

Played no formal cricket since school and that still seems to be the case

Very hard trainer who spared no expense getting top advice

Had promotional video made by GQ guy

Offered an IPL contract after undergoing testing at AIS

Didn’t sign contract or turn up to training

And a heap of other stuff

Whole thing seems pointless unless he got some endorsements out of it

 

[TheJediBrah]

Is it too early to mention Austin Waugh as an underachieving prodigy...being Steve Waugh's son he should already be playing for NSW as he'll be 20 in November

From what I've heard he isn't really all that great, and never really has been. Just his name that's garnered a lot of attention.

 

[Daemon]

I suspect Mavi/Nagarkoti will feature on the wastemen list eventually.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Steve Austin Waugh