ICC World Twenty20: When big names failed to click

Most lists regarding major cricket tournaments generally focus on successful performances. Here, in a different light, is a look at players who went through poor tournaments in past editions of the ICC World Twenty20.
Shane Watson (2014) - M 4 I 3 Runs 7 HS 4 Ave 2.33 Wkts 3

Watson’s form in the last edition of the World Twenty20 was in entirely contracting proportions to the 2012 edition in Sri Lanka, where he collected three successive Man-of-the-Match awards and finished with 249 runs and 11 wickets.Three defeats out of four matches in Bangladesh meant that Australia failed to get past the opening round, and in three innings Watson made seven runs. Against India he was bowled for one as George Bailey’s team folded for 86; against West Indies he made two from eight balls, stumped off Sunil Narine; and against Pakistan, Watson was one of two wickets to fall in the first over of Australia’s chase, caught behind off Zulfiqar Babar for four. His form with the ball was only slightly better - just three wickets in four matches.
Suresh Raina (2009) - M 5 I 4 Runs 20 HS 10 Ave 5
Today a valuable asset to India in T20Is, in the 2009 edition Raina was something nearing a wreck. He began with three off seven balls in defeat to South Africa, then was bounced by Ryan Sidebottom for two off five in the loss to England. A leaden-footed, loose prod to Fidel Edwards cut off his stay for five from eight balls in the loss to West Indies, and in his final innings of the competition - down from No 3 to No 5 - Raina managed his best score of 10 off eight balls in a consolation win over Bangladesh.
Harbhajan Singh (2010) - M 5 I 5 Wkts 0 Econ 6.15
Five matches, no wickets. Though Harbhajan kept runs down to six and under three times - including miserly outings of 4-0-16-0 versus West Indies and 4-1-15-0 versus Australia, both matches ending in defeats - his failure to check the most crucial column meant India struggled to bowl sides out cheaply. In the match that knocked India out, Harbhajan’s four overs cost 35 runs.
Sanath Jayasuriya (2010) - M 5 I 5 Runs 12 HS 6 Ave 3

An ageing Jayasuriya endured a terrible run in the third edition of the tournament in the West Indies, managing 12 runs from 33 balls faced. His run of scores read: 6, 5, 0, 1 and 0*. That last score came in Sri Lanka’s first match, in which Jayasuriya batted at No 7 and faced just one ball during the 20th over of the innings. His famed bat-speed having almost deserted him, Jayasuriya cut a meek shadow of the marauding batsman of the 90s and early 2000s, here reduced to feeble slashes and pokes. Failures meant Sri Lanka had early problems to contend with, yet they managed to make it to the semi-finals. His T20I career saw two more matches after that awful run in the 2010 World Twenty20.
Jacques Kallis (2012) - M 4 I 4 Runs 24 HS 12 Ave 8 Wkts 7
His bowling was handy in the tournament, a haul of 4/15 fetching him the match award in a ten-wicket hammering of Zimbabwe, but with the bat Kallis was poor. His scores of six, six and 12 all came at exactly a run-a-ball but each dismissal left South Africa in trouble. South Africa’s one-run loss to India in the last league match turned out to be Kallis’ last in T20Is.
Jacob Oram (2009) - M 5 I 4 Wkts 0 Econ 7.61
The big-hitting allrounder went wicketless in the tournament, starting off with two overs for 21 runs against Scotland at The Oval and ending with four overs for 30 against South Africa at Lord’s. In between were fruitless spells against Sri Lanka and Ireland at Nottingham. In New Zealand’s last match with Pakistan, Oram was not even given the ball as his team exited the tournament with a six-wicket loss after being bowled you for just 99.
Shahid Afridi (2012) - M 6 I 5 Runs 30 HS 14 Ave 5 Wkts 4

The hero from Pakistan’s run to the title in 2009 struggled in 2012. His best knock was the six-ball 12 he scored in Pakistan’s first match with New Zealand, and thereon he added two ducks, four and 14. With the ball, Afridi took four wickets and conceded runs at seven per over.
Lahiru Thirimanne (2012) - M 6 I 4 Runs 27 HS 13 Ave 9
Sri Lanka reached the final in front of their home fans, but Thirimanne was little more than a passenger during their campaign. He started with five not out in a Duckworth/Lewis loss to South Africa, made five more in a Super Over win over New Zealand, a seven-ball 13 in victory over England and then in the final against West Indies was out for four from seven balls amid a Sri Lankan collapse.