Who is the worst player to have a Cricket World Cup Winner's Medal?

[harsh.ag]

I agree. That's why I didn't nominate him. Was just pointing him out as perhaps the weakest link of that great side.

 

[smash84]

In that Pakistan side of 92 Aqib certainly wasn't the worst.

There were people like Iqbal Sikander and Zahid Fazal in the squad who were and are nobodies. Never did anything of note

 

[smash84]

In that world cup both Salim Malik and Ijaz Ahmed played much worse than Aqib. Aqib probably bowled the ball of the tournament in 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK383dg9tKc

 

[harsh.ag]

In that Pakistan side of 92 Aqib certainly wasn't the worst.

There were people like Iqbal Sikander and Zahid Fazal in the squad who were and are nobodies. Never did anything of note

I have been referring to just those players who played in the Final tbh.

 

[weldone]

Rubbish performances in world cups they won:

Viv Richards went through the 1979 cup with a high score of 15*. He averaged 12.

Sunil Gavaskar averaged a spectacular 9 during the 1983 campaign, while also striking at less than 50.

Tom Moody's 1987 featured 8 runs and 0 wickets from his three matches. His economy rate was 7.5

It went mostly unnoticed at the time, but Harbhajan seemed to get through the 2011 cup while averaging 4 with the bat and 43 with the ball.

Harbhajan played a decent role as a containing spinner in a high-scoring World Cup to be fair.

 

[BeeGee]

The aptly named Dyer is my pick.

 

[Esperance]

All World Cup Medal Winners are equally good because they all have same medal IMO.

 

[Flametree]

Despite the perception of two dashers at the top of the order, didn't Kaluwitherane have a dire world cup when Sri Lanka won it?

 

[harsh.ag]

Despite the perception of two dashers at the top of the order, didn't Kaluwitherane have a dire world cup when Sri Lanka won it?

Yeah, he did. Horrible. Top score of 33. Avg of 12. That World Cup was won by Aravinda, Gurusinha and Ranatunga's batting, and Jayasuriya's all-round prowess.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Ian Harvey was 12th man in the 2003 final IIRC. Does that count?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Someone must have inherited the medals that were presented to Keith Boyce and Roy Fredericks. It could be argued that they're the people with the least cricket talent to have a medal.

 

[fredfertang]

Someone must have inherited the medals that were presented to Keith Boyce and Roy Fredericks. It could be argued that they're the people with the least cricket talent to have a medal.

About as strong an argument as the one I'm usually instructed to put forward on behalf of drivers who blow over 100

 

[harsh.ag]

Hooker cabbies?

 

[Migara]

Yeah, he did. Horrible. Top score of 33. Avg of 12. That World Cup was won by Aravinda, Gurusinha and Ranatunga's batting, and Jayasuriya's all-round prowess.

however he was electric behind the stumps. his stumping of Tendulkar in semis turned the game. Hardly fluffed a chance, and easily was the best keeper of the tournament. That is with Healy in an equally good side.

 

[fredfertang]

Hooker cabbies?

Not that complicated mate - it usually amounts to "I hadn't had anything to eat all day, had a couple of pints and felt fine so I thought I was ok to drive - utter drivel of course

 

[OverratedSanity]

however he was electric behind the stumps. his stumping of Tendulkar in semis turned the game. Hardly fluffed a chance, and easily was the best keeper of the tournament. That is with Healy in an equally good side.

Maybe, but when people say one of the biggest reasons SL won the WC was because of the amazing opening partnerships between him and Jayasuriya, I always laugh. Such a myth.

 

[Migara]

The biggest reason SL won in 96 was that almost all players were in form at least at the top of their game at the point. No team ever had less passengers than the team of 96.

 

[grecian]

however he was electric behind the stumps. his stumping of Tendulkar in semis turned the game. Hardly fluffed a chance, and easily was the best keeper of the tournament. That is with Healy in an equally good side.

Yes, on my first thread, which you may know was the original and best, I did ask how Dyer was as a 'keeper amongst the Oz contingent on this forum. As he seems an obvious choice. I guess it's the modern age that people kind of ignore the Wicket-keeping of a keeper-batsmen.

It can be rather important.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

We're getting a bit desperate for fresh bait here, so I'll throw in Gordon Greenidge who opened the batting in three finals and managed only 23 runs.

 

[fredfertang]

We're getting a bit desperate for fresh bait here, so I'll throw in Gordon Greenidge who opened the batting in three finals and managed only 23 runs.

You're only saying that because he was born and bred in Reading