One hit wonders

[thierry henry]

And what else has he done since then?

Missing the point of your own thread?

 

[pasag]

Bob Massie.

Pretty hard to beat that.

 

[Edged&Taken]

Narendra Hirwani :; he made it to the record books with 16 for 136 against WI (1988) - the best figures by a bowler on Test debut.

20 wickets in 3 Tests against NZ followed this and then kaput !

 

[jeevan]

Narendra Hirwani :; he made it to the record books with 16 for 136 against WI (1988) - the best figures by a bowler on Test debut.

20 wickets in 3 Tests against NZ followed this and then kaput !

Another Indian leggie from the early 80's who fits better: Laxman Sivaramakrishnan.
Indifferent debut test, then consecutive 6-fors in the next 3 innings vs England. Then never taking more than 2 wickets and dropped after 9 tests, averaging 44.

Hirwani took a couple more 5-fors, several 4-fors and finished with an average of 30. He might have played more, but for the emergence of a certain Anil Kumble.

Surender Amarnath's only century also was in his debut. Scored 3 fifties later on, but after 10 tests averaged 30 with the bat. [ His brother Mohinder, was somewhat the opposite, a late bloomer. First century was 8 years and 15 tests after debut, with a few comebacks in between and became a fixture ~ 10 years into his test career.]

 

[NZTailender]

Zdravko Micevic

 

[honestbharani]

Vinod Kambli might be worth a mention. NOt exactly a one hit wonder but had 2 years of greatness and then nothing..,.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Hrishikesh Kanitkar, literally. His fame is derived off just one hit to the boundary.

 

[IndGunner]

Mick lewis, for all the wrong reasons

 

[Burgey]

Wayne Phillips (the keeper) - his 150 odd on debut was an innings the quality of which he didn't really rise to again.

Mark Butcher for that innings in the 4th Ashes Test in 2001 - he made other scores of course, but the level of his play that day was outstanding.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Heh, I was at that game. Was 11 years old, and had no idea wtf was going on as obviously you couldn't see the nicks from the stands at the MCG.

Haha, was there too. From memory, we didn't make the finals of the tri-series, and so Mark Taylor got the chop as ODI captain.

 

[MendisNuffSaid]

Chamara Silva, 100s on debut against India and NZ in test cricket but showed nothing. Gunawardene is another one hit wonder.

 

[The Sean]

Wayne Phillips (the keeper) - his 150 odd on debut was an innings the quality of which he didn't really rise to again.

He got 120 in Caribbean in 1984 which was considered an innings of true genius, and probably better than his debut 159.

Aside from that though, you're right - all the talent in the world and there were good judges who considered him to be arguably the second best batsman in the country in the mid-80s, but he never consistently revealed it at Test level.

 

[The Sean]

Jack Moroney

Seen as the long-term successor to Sid Barnes as Arthur Morris' opening partner, he scored twin centuries of 118 and 101* in the fourth Test against South Africa in 1949/50. However his other six Tests yielded just 164 runs at 16.40 and his international career fizzled out rather unfulfilled.

 

[Richard]

Dwayne Smith - Test Cricket.

When he was picked for the Windies, I didn't expect much, I was very surprised when he made that excellent 105*, good batting track and all, but still an impressive innings on debut. Since that innings, his highest score has been 42.

Yeah, ditto 100%. It was almost unacceptable that such a bad batsman played so well in his 2nd Test innings, but since then we've seen his true colours.

 

[Richard]

He got 120 in Caribbean in 1984 which was considered an innings of true genius, and probably better than his debut 159.

Aside from that though, you're right - all the talent in the world and there were good judges who considered him to be arguably the second best batsman in the country in the mid-80s, but he never consistently revealed it at Test level.

Always imagined he wasn't exactly helped (and nor were the bowlers) by his having the wicketkeeping gloves. Might've done so much better to just be left to concentrate on batting and have Woolley or Rixon (before he elected for Rebel tours) take the gloves.

 

[Kweek]

Jacques Rudolph?? although he only played Bangladesh, scoring a double century isn't easy!

 

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[Richard]

Jacques Rudolph?? although he only played Bangladesh, scoring a double century isn't easy!

Rudolph played plenty of other good knocks in his Test career though, even if he never really suggested at being a Test-class batsman.

 

[pup11]

Matt Elliot, he could have so easily had a much better career then he did, but really wasn't able to do any sort of justice to his potential.

 

[The Sean]

A couple of golden oldies:

Andrew Sandham - famous as the man who scored Test cricket's first triple, 325 against WI in 1930. Earlier in the same series he'd made 152. Aside from those two knocks, his other 21 Test innings yielded 402 runs at 19.14.

RE "Tip" Foster - Another one-time holder of the world Test record score. He made 287 runs in his very first Test innings in Sydney in 1903, then 13 more innings yielded just 315 runs.