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[Manormanic]

Boring morning at work, just had an interesting chat with a colleague about those players who have been really unlucky with the selectors over the years. 

Obviously, you can all guess that I'll place Adil RAshid at the top of this list - one really wonders what he did to offend Messers Miller, Whitaker et al.

A few other current players also came up - Michael Lumb (averages 55 in ODIs, tops the run charts for the series and...gets dropped?) and James Taylor amongst those who came and went quickly and Jonny Bairstow for how he was messed around by the selectors then dispatched.  As for those who never got a chance, David Sales and Graham NApier were both impressive shouts.

What do you guys think?

[arsenal123]

James Taylor.  Sticks out like a sore thumb in county cricket.

[Jenko]

Brad Hodge for Australia I guess is a big one. Also have to feel for Stuey McGill - for being around when one Shane Warne was playing! There were a number of solid bats around in or golden era - Lehman himself, even Hussey though he eventually got a good run. Guess those guys weren't unlucky due to selectors but more because of the great bats who got in before them.

[Alvaro]

Stuart Law?

[Buzz]

Mal Loye
Alistair Brown
Jon Batty
Martin Bicknell

[smilley792]

kevin pieterson

[Alvaro]

Alistair Brown is a top shout.

I'm also still waiting for the call.

[wasted_talent]

Asim Kamal - the pakistani left hand middle order batsmen.
Azhar Mahmood - never really fully fulfilled his obviously potential due to poor selection policies?

[AverageCricketer]

Phil Hughes.

[procricket]

GLEN CHAPPLE

[AlRidd]

James Hildreth

[Manormanic]

Phil Hughes.

Had loads of chances!

[Sam]

A large amount of Australian players can be listed here from the start of the century .

Graham Napiers near the top of my list, Michael Carberry perhaps when England had such set openers.

[Manormanic]

A large amount of Australian players can be listed here from the start of the century .

True - you wonder in the post-KP era how many of them might have been persuaded to qualify for England!

[bruggers100]

Not unlucky at all, but I wonder what Gilchrist's record would have been like had Healy not been around.

Agree with Alistair Brown.  Born in the wrong era !