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Worst Player to Play 200 ODIs

Burgey

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Don’t think afridi should be in this discussion. Massively over rated batsman and very rocks and diamonds, but he was a very good ODI bowler imo.
 

trundler

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Meh, don't think his bowling was that good. There was that 7 fer against a crap WI lineup and little else of note. Didn't deserve over 300 matches.
 

jimmy101

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Afridi's ODI bowling was top notch. Kept performing better than you expected him to, he bowled much like he batted - at a brisk pace.
 

trundler

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Perhaps my memory of him is marred by him being a massively irresponsible ****.
 

a massive zebra

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It's so odd to think Laxman, Slater and Vaughan were bad in ODIs. Such good strokeplayers should've found a way to succeed in the shorter format but never managed it.
Michael Vaughan was never consistency successful in OD cricket. In addition to his struggles as an ODI batsmen, Vaughan averaged less than 30 with a strike rate under 70 across a career of literally hundreds of domestic OD games.

I think Vaughan’s struggles, particularly early in the innings, were because in OD cricket there were not as many gaps in the field as there were in Tests. The same happened to Slater. In tests, it was easier to hit one or two through cover, work a few through midwicket and get their innings going. However, in ODIs these areas were usually plugged from ball one. Vaughan was a master of the good shot for no run. His placement was pretty poor, especially at the start of his innings. He didn’t seem to have any sort of gentle, non-flashy shots, such as when someone like Graham Thorpe would calmly run it into a gap with minimum fuss and effort he would either block or try a flashy drive/pull.

Vaughan in Test cricket scored a lot of runs in boundaries and with the fields in his day it was much more difficult to do that in one-day cricket. He was a bit too boundary reliant, and really struggled to place the ball for a quick single and turn the strike over. Also, Vaughan was very much a play-from-the-crease player and wasn't especially good at improvising. Once again, this is fine in Test cricket, but not in OD cricket for a player with the limitations outlined above.
 
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