Who are the most unluckiest cricketers in your eyes?

Padmarkar Shivalkar, a good quality spinner. He played for Bombay. But he belonged to the time when the Spin Quartet, viz, Venkat, Bedi, Prasanna and Chandra were ruling the roost that he did not get sufficient opportunity.

Of the modern players, Badrinath is one and he could not get much opportunity as Sachin was his competitor for that spot and Sachin was doing really well. Whenever he got opportunity, Badrinath did farily well.

Back in 2003 when Martin Love scored a single to reach his maiden Test century he probably thought it was the greatest moment of his life, but his big moment was short, Steve Waugh immediately declared and Love's career ended right there, with a first class average near 50 and high score of 300 he was unable to regain a spot in Australia's strong batting lineup.

Going back a few years before that to 1995 Stuart Law made his debut in the same match as Ricky Ponting, at the time both had about the same amount of success in domestic cricket, you could have flipped a coin to decide which was better, Ponting made 96 and Law who came in further down the batting order was stranded on 54 not out when the declaration came, since only one spot was available due to Steve Waugh returning from injury it was Ponting who got the nod, maybe if the batting order had been different Law may have got 100 and kept his spot ahead of Ponting.

Stuart MacGill - He would have played over 100 test matches had he played for any other side but Australia when Warne was there. He also would have taken 600+ test wickets.

Brad Hodge - he would have scored 10,000+ test runs at an average of over 50 had he played for any other side but Australia when they had Ponting and numerous other greats at the same time. He would have also had 100+ tests.

David Hussey - He is probably the best ever player not to have even been given the chance to play test cricket. His first class average is better than most and for whatever reason even when the side lost a lot of great batsman, he was not given a chance. For years he has been one of the best performing players at first class level in Australia and also has a great record in English first class cricket.

Barry Richards - great player who played at the wrong time.

Graeme Pollock - again great player who played at the wrong time.

Ryan ten Doeschate. England should've let him have a ODI debut. He plays a lot of Domestic English cricket. The poor man only played 33 ODIs for an associate country. There is no question in his talent and ability.

Adam Voges. A reasonably good player. Plays very well in the ODI format for Australia. Hasn't got his Test debut yet.

Gautam Gambhir. He played very well for India. A big match player. He is back in form now. Experienced also. But now he is not getting a chance to play for India.

Regards.

I don't know who the most unlucky cricketer of all time is but I've heard of a couple of cricketers who scored centuries on debut and were never picked again. Andy Ganteaume (WI) scored 112 on his debut match in 1948. Rodney Redmond (NZ) scored 107 and 56 in his debut Test in 1973. Niether of them played another Test. Connor Wiliams played only one Test for India in the 2001-02 South Africa tour. But that ICC cancelled its Test status and the match was considered unofficial. The records say that he played 0 Tests.

But the unluckiest cricketer of the last decade has to be Shane Bond. He was the best bowler of his country, and probably the best in the world in the early 2000's. He was someone you could trust when you had 150 to defend. He could single handedly rip through the best batting line-ups and Australia in particular never liked facing him.

Unfortunately he only had a Test career of 8 years in which he played only 18 Tests due to recurring injuries and finished with 87 wickets. He finally retired at the age of 32. He's definitely the best bowler to play for New Zealand since Hadlee. But he's just 15th on the list of highest wicket takers for New Zealand. Tim Southee is ahead of him. In a couple of months Trent Boult might be as well. What a shame...

Stuart MacGill...I'm not a fan of Shane Warne's personality, but he is without a doubt the greatest spinner in the world for me. It's tough for Stuart who had an amazing strike-rate, to ply his trade in an era where Warne was at his peak. With Australia's fast bowling line-up consisting of Mcgrath, Lee and Gillespie, and Shane Watson and Mark Waugh bowling out the odd overs back then, they're wasn't really anything the poor guy could do about his selection.

With Australia struggling to find any half decent spinner in their side at the moment, you can't help but think what MacGill would give to be just a few years younger :)

Connor Williams

Brad Hodge was pretty unlucky. Very talented, but tried to break into a test team that was arguably the best of all time. His spats with a few of Punters boy's club didn't help his cause on the political front either.

Stuart McGill always lived under the shadows of Shane Warne. Talented spinner. Would have been chosen in any team an any time of the day.

To add to Barry, Mick Proctor is another who missed out because of SA's political system. Sympathy as well for some of the Aussies of Packer years who supported Australian cricket but were dropped once the others decided to come back.

There are many in my list..

Ian Bishop (injury issue)

Dion Nash (consider better allrounder than Cains but injury ruin his career)

B Hodge

someone talk here about G Pollock

S Mcgill