T20 players I'd like to have seen: Australia

[beatnik]

I was thinking this morning about a few players who would have been brilliant in the T20 format if they'd been born a decade or two later.
I tried to select an Australian team of ODI stars who all but missed the T20 wave (I considered players who had played less than 10 International T20 games as a cut-off point)

• M Hayden - eligible as only played 9 T20Is, averaged 43 in ODIs, could dominate an attack with power or touch, great fielder (and sledger)
• R Campbell (w) - born to play T20, could have become the best T20 player in the world...seriously
• D Jones - like Campbell, Jones would have shone in T20 format, imagine him dancing all over crease with a modern mega-bat and smaller rope boundaries
• S Waugh (c) - one of the best one-day players ever, game-winning death bowler, bankable middle-order bat, mercurial fielder and the hardest skipper to ever lead a team onto the park
• M Bevan - possibly the best one-day batsman ever, could pace an innings like no other with full range of shots and an uncanny ability to find 2s and 3s
• S O'Donnell - big hitter, great seamer who bowled a beautiful slower ball
• I Harvey - like Campbell, The Freak was born a decade too early and missed the format built for him, reliable batmen, outstanding fielder and a canny death bowler with more variations than any other player I can remember
• S Warne - almost excluded Warnie given he played years of T20 cricket after retiring from internationals but seemed unfair, no introductions necessary really
• C McDermott - pioneer of the slower ball who studied baseball pitchers and had a great yorker to boot, handy lower order slogger
• DK Lillee - enough said...
• G McGrath - only played 2 T20Is, master of control who ruthlessly exploited techniques, would have bowled a lot of dot-balls in T20

Special mentions:

• M Waugh - hard to split M Waugh and Haydos for opening position, Waugh was a handy offspinner but didn't him with four all-rounders in side
• P Taylor - intelligent ODI spinner who bowled well at the death and a fiesty lower-order bat to boot
• J Gillespie - played only 1 T20I before abortive ICL venture, just edged out by McDermott
• D Martyn - averaged 40+ in ODIs, fluent and versatile batsmen who would have thrived in T20
• Thommo - fast, full yorkers = fear and carnage, ODI average not flattering though
• D Fleming - great swing bowler with a surprisingly good economy rate, very dependable
• T Moody - great all-rounder, great change of pace, better player than ODI stats show
• I Healy - great keeper and leader, good later order batsman able to chip into outfield for 2s

Excluded due to playing too many T20Is:

• A Gilchrist (13)
• R Ponting (17)
• A Symonds (14)
• N Bracken (19)

Feedback, thoughts or alternative selections welcome...

peace

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I'd have loved to have seen Heat fans booing Bradman with Cutting sitting in the sheds.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Agree with OP on Ryan Campbell, played the Dilscoop before Dilshan made it famous and would have been a sensational T20 player. Played a bit of ICL, if memory serves correctly.

 

[The Passenger]

Michael di Venuto would have been a great T20 player. Not sure how many ODI's he played.

 

[Zeke]

I actually think Border would have been a sensational T20 batsman.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I think Keith Miller owns this thread.

 

[The_Reaper]

Keith Miller
Jack Gregory
Stan McCabe
Victor Trumper

 

[Cleavy]

Agree with OP on Ryan Campbell, played the Dilscoop before Dilshan made it famous and would have been a sensational T20 player.

thought it was the Dougie Marillier scoop?

 

[Rustin Cohle]

I still remember seeing Damien Martyn hitting 90 odd off about 50 balls a few years ago.

 

[The_Reaper]

I still remember seeing Damien Martyn hitting 90 odd off about 50 balls a few years ago.

Scored 98 in one of our first ever international T20s. Pretty sure it was at the Gabba

 

[Kram]

Bevan played for the red ink too much to be a gun in T20

 

[bkozican]

Aus - Andrew Symonds < with his batting and fielding abilities, would of been fun to watch.

World - Anybody from the West Indies in their prime.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Tom Moody, he could smack it around. Oops just saw he was in the OP.

Good call.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Symo's fielding in the IPL the first three years was out of this world.

 

[james brayshaw]

Bradman
Trumper
Miller
Lillee
Lindwall
Benaud
Bevan

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Agree with OP on Ryan Campbell, played the Dilscoop before Dilshan made it famous and would have been a sensational T20 player. Played a bit of ICL, if memory serves correctly.

I heard he invented the shot because he was trying to hit Vic keeper Darren Berry in the face

 

[Showbags]

Chris Tavare

 

[Freo Big Fella]

I heard he invented the shot because he was trying to hit Vic keeper Darren Berry in the face

Given what Hussey said about Berry in his autobiography I reckon that might not be too far of the mark.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I heard he invented the shot because he was trying to hit Vic keeper Darren Berry in the face

He wouldn't be alone there.

 

[Smoooothy]

if we are including internationals, viv richards would have been without peer IMO

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Bryce McGain.

Would've loved to have seen him front up to Gilchrist in a T20.

 

[monty1104]

Lance Klusner and Chris Cairns. I know they aren't Aussie but I couldn't think of anyone not already mentioned.

 

[Torz]

Bradman.

No wait, he played for the scorchers last night.

 

[rickyp]

Given what Hussey said about Berry in his autobiography I reckon that might not be too far of the mark.

cliffs?

 

[Tyberious Funk]

Got to have Bradman. I know he's not regarded as being particularly aggressive or a big hitter. But he scored a century in a session on 6 occasions and once scored a century off 3 (8 ball) overs (admittedly only club cricket, though).

Also Victor Trumper and Dougie Walters.

Oh, and David Hookes.