Kings of Mediocrity

[Sir_Afridi]

Kohli
Pathan brothers
Ishant

 

[SameerP]

Kohli
Pathan brothers
Ishant

You forgot to mention Dravid, Laxman, Dhoni, Sehwag, Zaheer and ofcourse your favorite Teenda

 

[Justcrazy]

Like Imran Khan I am not a fan of bits and pieces player, when you are selecting the team first you pick your best batsmen and then your best bowlers, after that if there is a geniune all rounder who is capable of competing with a geniune batsman/bowler then you put them in.

I agree , but the fact is that there are very few genuine all rounders maybe you can count them on fingers.

 

[W63L35]

Like Imran Khan I am not a fan of bits and pieces player, when you are selecting the team first you pick your best batsmen and then your best bowlers, after that if there is a geniune all rounder who is capable of competing with a geniune batsman/bowler then you put them in.

I wonder how India would have performed in 1983 World Cup without players like..... Shastri, Kirti Azad, Mohinder Amarnath, Madan Lal and Roger Binny? Which one of these are not bits and pieces players?

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/wc198...ng_by_team.html?id=573;team=6;type=tournament


I also wonder how Pakistan would gotten to the final of 1999 World Cup without Razzaq, Afriid and Azhar Mahmood?

http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/WC99/STATS/BY_TEAM/PAK/WC99_AVS_PAK.html

 

[Justcrazy]

any new names added ?

 

[Robert]

How about Stuart Broad?

I think he got most test wickets by any player in 2013.

 

[Square Drive]

Sammy
Tanvir
Neesham

 

[Changa.banda]

Shahid Khan Afridi

/thread

 

[vandokkum]

lol at the trolls mentioning kohli/ flintoff etc.... afridi is the definition of bits and pieces.. turns into a legend against minnows though..

 

[Kianig89]

Has to be Hafeez end of the debate

 

[hadi123]

sarfraz ahmeda

 

[Justcrazy]

I wonder how India would have performed in 1983 World Cup without players like..... Shastri, Kirti Azad, Mohinder Amarnath, Madan Lal and Roger Binny? Which one of these are not bits and pieces players?

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/wc198...ng_by_team.html?id=573;team=6;type=tournament


I also wonder how Pakistan would gotten to the final of 1999 World Cup without Razzaq, Afriid and Azhar Mahmood?

http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/WC99/STATS/BY_TEAM/PAK/WC99_AVS_PAK.html

Razzak and Mahmood were not mediocre players

 

[LongHorn]

Jimmy Adams

Useful left handed batsman coming in at no.6
Slow left arm bowling with a boring run up
Would fill in as wicket keeper sometimes

 

[Madplayer]

Razzak and Mahmood were not mediocre players

at that point of time they certainly were not mediocre

 

[greatest]

Afridi is no doubt the king of bit & pieces cricketers. There are a lot of other players as well, but the fact is they did not lasted much in their careers. Afridi has proved it by playing 350+ games over 17 years.

 

[Kakar]

Mlukeli Nkala

 

[Kakar]

Tony Suji was another one.

 

[Ahson8]

Tanvir Ahmed

 

[saeedhk]

Sohail Tanvir

 

[Ahson8]

Khalid Latif

 

[sam_ahm]

Professor Hafeez is right up there facing stiff competition these days from Sir Jadeja...

 

[Ahson8]

Professor Hafeez is right up there facing stiff competition these days from Sir Jadeja...

Na. Hafeez is useful in LOIs. No 1 allrounder in ODIs / T20Is.
In tests he is mediocre though. And he should bat at 6 in ODIs outside of subcontinent.

 

[ali.rizwan]

shahid afridi.
his stats arent any better than darren sammy and chris harris, infact worse in some cases. still he is regarded as a star in Pakistan which shows level of cricket understanding among Pakistani stars.

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

How can we all forget Imran Farhat....The greatest batsman to ever grace the game

 

[Justcrazy]

Does anyone remember kanitkar

 

[EliteCynic]

Does anyone remember kanitkar

The definition of nepotism. He epitomized that word. Hit one 4 and won a final and was in the team for over a year without doing anything. Hell, he even toured Australia. I can never forget those horror days of him, Vijay bharadwaj and MSK Prasad facing McGrath and Warne.

 

[aukhan]

Afridi is definitely the King of Kings when it comes to mediocrity undoubtedly the longest career for any mediocre cricketer. 19 years of mediocrity :bow

 

[Kianig89]

BUMP

Lets update these classifications

Swinging Mediocrity e.g Afridi

Annoying Mediocrity e.g Farhat, Tanvir, Tanvir

Absolute Mediocrity e.g Adil, Anwar, Bhatti

Perpetual Mediocrity e.g Hafeez

Saint Mediocrity* e.g YK


Feel free to add more
Only found in Pakistan

 

[saeedhk]

Bhatti, Cheema, Asad Ali, Adil and Anwar.Kings of the landfill.

 

[Justcrazy]

ian Blackwell Rikki Clarke Keith Artherton Rohan Gavaskar

 

[pacesensation]

super crazy from

wwe?

 

[Pete Rose]

Hafeez, abbey kuruvilla, debashish mohanty, mark ealham, Gavin Larsen

 

[desi_launda]

Ravi Shashtri.

 

[Justcrazy]

Ravi Shashtri.

He was not that bad [emoji56]

 

[zabalestmsm]

Mark Craig.

 

[IndianWillow]

Ravi Shashtri.

Shastri was a classy test batsman. By no means a bits and pieces player. Made test hundreds against a fiery Imran and against WI quicks in their own backyard.

 

[hussain123]

Umer amin

 

[jusarrived]

Mitch Marsh anyone ?

 

[Abdul]

Afridi.

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[Justcrazy]

This thread needs to be bumped .

will be interesting to see who are latest Mediocrity kings

 

[CadPakFan]

Imad Wasim

 

[pillionrider]

Hardik Pandya

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

1. Professor - C
2. Lendl Simmons
3. Younis Khan - in odis
4. Russel Arnold
5. Jacob Oram
6. Luke Ronchi -wk
7. Afirdi
8. Irfan Pathan
9. Chris Harris
10. Sohail tool kit tanvir
11. Nathan Hawritz

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Hafeez without chucking.
Kedar jadhav
Dinesh Karthik
Behardien
Pehlukwayo

 

[Bhaijaan]

1. Professor - C
2. Lendl Simmons
3. Younis Khan - in odis
4. Russel Arnold
5. Jacob Oram
6. Luke Ronchi -wk
7. Afirdi
8. Irfan Pathan
9. Chris Harris
10. Sohail tool kit tanvir
11. Nathan Hawritz

Oram, Afridi, Pathan were not mediocre.

Mediocre is someone who isnt special even at his best. Like Hafeez. He is the definition of mediocrity. In India Jadhav, Manish Pandey are mediocre we are just wasting out time on them. Pandya and Rahul are NOT because they're devastating at their best.

Ian Harvey was mediocre.

 

[the_outsider]

Harbhajan Singh
Ian Harvey
Chris Harris

Bhajji is hardly a bits and pieces cricketer.

B&P cricketers don't take over 700 wickets.

 

[the_outsider]

Sammy
Stuart Binny
Collin de Grandhomme

These are mediocre B&P players.

Best B&P cricketers currently are:

Ashton Agar
Adil Rashid
Chris Woakes
JP Duminy
Pollard, etc

I'm sure I'm missing out on a few more.

 

[the_outsider]

Oram, Afridi, Pathan were not mediocre.

Mediocre is someone who isnt special even at his best. Like Hafeez. He is the definition of mediocrity. In India Jadhav, Manish Pandey are mediocre we are just wasting out time on them. Pandya and Rahul are NOT because they're devastating at their best.

Ian Harvey was mediocre.

To be fair to Jadhav, at his best i.e. against the 1st ODI vs Eng in 2017 - he outscored Kohli both in terms of runs & SR.

So he doesn't totally fall under your definition.

 

[Bhaijaan]

To be fair to Jadhav, at his best i.e. against the 1st ODI vs Eng in 2017 - he outscored Kohli both in terms of runs & SR.

So he doesn't totally fall under your definition.

Still is mediocre. Those knocks dont come too often. He is an ugly batsman.

 

[the_outsider]

Still is mediocre. Those knocks dont come too often. He is an ugly batsman.

Yeah maybe he doesn't look attractive when batting but he performs a role for the team.

Averaging 40 with a SR of 110 while batting at no 6 is a good record. Compare it with other no 6 batsman and you'll see it's actually a better record than most.

I don't think people here realise how difficult it is to be a no 6/7 batsman in ODIs. You can't compare a top order batsman's record with no 6/7 batsmen. They are performing very different roles. You can't expect a 100 from a number 6 batsman too often. Just look at past records of all of them and you'll see.

His problem is certainly not his batting. But he's a poor fielder and that can cost the team.

 

[Justcrazy]

Who shoud be added to this list ?