5 underrated performers at the 2016 World T20 whose contributions don't fade away

Martin Guptill

Martin Guptill

This might be a strange pick, but when Kane Williamson is praised more than him despite Guptill being the highest run getter for New Zealand in the tournament, it all makes sense.

Martin Guptill has, for some unknown reason, been the underrated one in world cricket. Despite having a double hundred to his name in ODIs, he isn’t talked of like the others in his league (Sachin, Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Chris Gayle and so on). It seems as though he has some curse of being in the shadows forever: first of Brendon McCullum and now of Kane Williamson.

In the four games that he got to play in the tournament, he scored a 140 runs at an average of 35 and a strike-rate of a mammoth 157.30. Sadly, however, his exploits aren’t as celebrated as it should have been.