Players who over performed internationally

Cricket is full of people like, to varying degrees, Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash - people who entered the international stage with great things expected of them, but fell short. You hear about these people all the time. But what of the opposite - those whose selections seemed far-fetched, maybe even a little desperate (due to them being firmly established as perhaps a bit average, rather than being unknown) but turned out alright and the player in question had, not necessarily a spectacular or even very good international career, at least a decent to good one.