Top 10 bowlers who never got their due because of the greatness of their peers 

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#3 Stuart Macgill

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There is perhaps nothing as unfortunate as having to be the contemporary of the greatest leg-spinner to ever played the game and then finding out that the two would hardly ever be accommodated in the same eleven by Australia.

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Stuart MacGill had everything that one could ask of a quality leg-spinner. He could turn the ball a long way, he had all the possible varieties and also possessed the ability to bowl tireless spells.

However, he was not Shane Warne and hence, his presence in the Australian Test team was limited to those times when the great man was injured.

They played together only a few times and when they did it was a success, as the two spinners picked up 13 wickets against Pakistan in the Sydney Test in 2005.

Despite all that, Macgill was never going to get his due as a leg-spinner and a Test career amounting to only 44 Tests, despite picking up 208 wickets is ample proof that he could never quite get out of Warne's looming presence.

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