16-02-2011, 08:13 AM
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Rubbish cricketers with a WC medal
In 92 Wasim Haider,Iqbal Sikandar and Zahid Fazal were part of the winning squad the ones who missed out were Waqar Younis and Saeed Anwar, which other no hopers have got a WC medal to their name when greats like Lara, Botham, Hadlee never got the opportunity to be called world champions.
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16-02-2011, 08:42 AM
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Not sure why, but my first thought was Ravi Shastri. A touch unfair of me, perhaps.
Mike Veletta. Though, the only performance he ever had was in the final, so I'll let him off.
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16-02-2011, 08:51 AM
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16-02-2011, 09:15 AM
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i wouldn't call them rubbish obviously but a lot of Aussie cricketers (especially bowlers) seem to lift their game to an entirely different level come WC time.. Hogg, Bracken, Bichel, Tait etc. come to mind. Even Tom Moody probably.
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16-02-2011, 09:37 AM
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I decided to check the squads. and see if there were any names I didnt know.
who the heck is Sunil Valson??? Then we have Andrew Zesers??? then the names become more familiar. But from the Aussie victories, the following players were clearly being carried by the rest of the squad: Adam Dale, Brendon Julian, and Jimmy Maher. In 2007 they had a much better squad. |
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16-02-2011, 09:54 AM
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Would call perhaps almost the entire world Cup squad of 83 winning indian squad. Sunil Valson, is perhaps the only one of his kind who has never played an international match but can boast being a world Cup winning squad winner. |
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16-02-2011, 10:39 AM
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Not sure what the rules used to be but it's hard to have 15 good let alone world class players
Reckon there'd be some dodgy players from the '96 SL, '92 Pakistani, '89 (?) Oz and '83 Indian teams because they were bolters I expect the winner of this WC to be the same |
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What's more, the rest were top shelf so I think it comes down to name recognition more than anything |
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16-02-2011, 10:45 AM
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16-02-2011, 11:57 AM
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Personally liked Adam Dale's bowling. He had a slow skippy bouncy sort of runup (which I actually tried out a few times myself) and was a fairly accurate medium pacer on the whole. Dont think he was a world beater or anything but perhaps in a weaker team he might have blossomed into a much more useful resource.
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16-02-2011, 03:54 PM
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Andrew Zesers was definitely not a rubbish cricketer, was 21 when he played in the '87 WC. He was injury-prone and retired at 23 but was considered a very talented bowler.
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