Worst batsman ever to score a Test match 100

[Richard]

The worst batsmen I have seen (as opposed to bowlers/keepers who can bat a bit) who have recorded test centuries are Adrian Griffith and Trevor Franklin

Great call for Franklin. The least watchable batsman it has ever been my misfortune to watch. I saw him get 100 v England in either 1990 or the following tour and it was truly miserable viewing. I began placing heated needles into my eyes purely to distract myself from the sight of his dreadful innings

Griffith was bad but I was always disappointed he was - thought he had some good basic fundamentals, much superior to Chris Gayle who replaced him. He just, well, didn't have a good grip.

As for Trevor Franklin, I know only one thing about him and that's that he dropped Atherton during his maiden Test century and that he was very popular. Both the Atherton drop and his century indeed came in 1990.

The worst Test century I've ever seen from a poor-quality specialist batsman though was indeed Devon Smith at Newlands in 2003/04. Truly diabolical and like my namesake I questioned why anyone could like cricket if someone could get away with playing like that and scoring a chanceless century.

There's obviously loads of poor tailend-standard types though.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Purely amongst specialist batsman Faoud Bacchus is worth a mention. He played 19 Tests and made about a third of his runs in one innings of 250. He had more ducks than Daffy's wife.

 

[masterblaster]

Saqlain Mushtaq would have to be up there.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Saqlain Mushtaq would have to be up there.

That's probably why he was mentioned in the opening post in the thread.

 

[masterblaster]

That's probably why he was mentioned in the opening post in the thread.

I don't know how I missed that. Merry Christmas to you as well mate.

 

[Stapel]

This shows me how out of touch I am with their current side.
Last time I saw them play Chattergoon and Marshall were good up and comers and smith and bravo were on the way out.

I don't think Bravo was ever on the way out. He just turned 25 and I think he is improving! Bravo wouldn't look bad in most test sides as a #6.

 

[Durham_CCC]

Timothy Ambrose ?

Geriant Jones ?

 

[Harry Harrison]

Saqlain Mushtaq would have to be up there.

Saqlain was a pretty decent batsman. Look at his first class record.

 

[Richard]

Timothy Ambrose ?

Geriant Jones ?

Ambrose is a far better batsman than Geraint Jones has ever been or will ever be.

Ambrose is a pretty decent batsman who (so far?) hasn't produced at Test level. Geraint Jones is a very poor batsman who had 1 good season in 2003 and as a result of that stayed in the Test team for almost all of the next 3 years 2004 to 2006.

 

[sohummisra]

Ajit "Bombay Duck" Agarkar

 

[Richard]

He's back!

Hope you elect to stick around this time.

 

[sohummisra]

He's back!

Hope you elect to stick around this time.

Hopefully my form is better than the man who the Michael Hussey award I won was named after.

 

[Prince EWS]

The worst Test century I've ever seen from a poor-quality specialist batsman though was indeed Devon Smith at Newlands in 2003/04. Truly diabolical and like my namesake I questioned why anyone could like cricket if someone could get away with playing like that and scoring a chanceless century.

*Dwayne Smith

 

[chaminda_00]

One day the selectors will truelly piss off every Sri Lankan fan and play Muburak in a Test v Bangladesh and we will have a new leader. Though hopefully Mortaza and co show him up for hack he, as they have done in ODIs.

 

[Richard]

*Dwayne Smith

Dammit, I write Devon when I mean Dwayne so damn often with those WI Smiths. Guess it's the fact that Devon is pretty comprehensible but Dwayne is such a diabolical batsman I often subconsciously prefer to forget he exists.

As it's now too late for me to do so, I'd appreciate it if you'd edit that post for me, removing my signature from it if possible.

 

[Langeveldt]

Dammit, I write Devon when I mean Dwayne so damn often with those WI Smiths. Guess it's the fact that Devon is pretty comprehensible but Dwayne is such a diabolical batsman I often subconsciously prefer to forget he exists.

As it's now too late for me to do so, I'd appreciate it if you'd edit that post for me, removing my signature from it if possible.

yeah agreed. Like a bad dream that never goes away, Smith's 100 against SA will be forever etched in my mind.. It was almost as horrible as the WC'99.. We probably could have shot the guy and he still wouldn't have got out, somehow

 

[deira]

common guys we all know Don Bradman was the worst batsmen ever to score a century

 

[Barney Rubble]

Surprised it took four pages to get a mention of Agarkar in, TBH. He was awful.

Was also somewhat of a hero around these parts once upon a time. How things change.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

If one goes by averages then Saqlain is the top (bottom?) boy of the ton-up brigade with a test tally of only 14.48 runs per innings.

Running him a close second tho with an average of 14.50 was an SA pre-war leggie who rejoiced in the quite wonderful name of Xenophon Constantine Balaskas

Chap even looks Greek.

 

[haroon510]

surprise not many people are mentioning Agarkar.. he is the one on the top of the list.. infact number on in mine lol