Top 10 Flop cricketers of the year 2015

The year of 2015 was a great one for the game of cricket and the cricket fans all around the world. The year kicked off with teams gearing up for the World Cup and then playing the mega-event down under. It was studded with two double centuries, by Martin Guptill and Chris Gayle, and we saw some remarkable spells of bowling by Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Wahab Riaz, Mitchell Starc and many others.

The emergence of young guns like Kagiso Rabada and Mustafizur Rahman was a treat to watch. While there is a list of positives for the year, there are a few negatives or flops as they call it, too. Some of the big names failed to deliver and live up to the expectations and had a poor run this year. Here are the top 10 flop cricketers of the year 2015:

1. Luke Ronchi (New Zealand):

The Kiwi wicketkeeper started the year with a high as he hit a brilliant 170 off 99 balls in an ODI against Sri Lanka in January. But that remained to be his only fruitful ODI innings of this year. In the other 28 ODIs that he played this year, he could score just 247 runs. Kudos to his 170, that makes his stats look respectable with 417 runs in 29 ODIs at an average of 21.94 in 2015. T20Is wasn’t great either for the former Australian player, as he could manage 45 runs in 4 matches. The saving grace, perhaps, was his only Test that he played this year and scored 88 against England.