One hit wonders

[fredfertang]

Jack Iverson for one series

"Father" Marriott for one test

Frank Hayes for ....... well just a shame he never got it right after his debut century

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm going to start off with Mathew Sinclair - 214 on Test debut: Yeah Phlegm (Flem274*) and PEWS will hate me, but he has to count for mine. Scores a double ton a debut, and whilst he will score another two more Test centuries, that is it for him, he has never reached those heights again. Some of it the fault of the New Zealand selectors for making him a scapegoat, and Sinclair's for not taking the opportunities he go. If your picked, you have to score runs to keep your spot. Insanely good for CD though.

Look, I'll admit that he was terrible for the second half of his Test career, but anyone that scores two Test double hundreds can't be called a one-hit wonder, surely. Neither of those were even his best innings, either. "Three-hit wonder" perhaps.

 

[Richard]

BTW on your sig, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan counts and how - took 5-93 in his 6th Test and 13 wickets at 73.15 in his other 8.

 

[roseboy64]

Jack Noreiga - 9/95 in his second Test.

 

[Richard]

All the more remarkable - and in its own way amusing - as the Indians had tried to get him selected by kidding the WI selectors that he troubled them more than Gibbs (who they regarded as a bigger threat despite the fact his career was in the middle of a serious, serious lull in 1971) in a tour-game.

So despite the Indians trying to get a bowler they perceived as less threatening into the side, that bowler still took a nine-for. Also got 6-172 in the other Test he played at the same ground - his home ground, Queen's Park Oval - that year. In the other couple, at Sabina Park and Bourda, he got 2-190.

And given he was nearly 35 by the time he debuted, and he'd played just 2 Shell Shield games for Trinidad earlier that season (having never played for them before except in a tour match against the Indians almost a decade earlier), it wasn't surprising that that 1971 spring remained the full extent of his Test career. Though he did end-up playing the full season in '72, in what had in the meantime become the Texaco Cup.

 

[roseboy64]

Where do you get this info?

 

[Richard]

It's not all from the same source - just various bits and pieces, small one-paragraph articles, that are written around the 'web scattered in various places. And to some extent word of mouth - for instance, the bit about India deliberately trying to get him picked instead of Gibbs I once heard someone (probably Sunil Gavaskar) mention somewhere.

And, obviously, scorecard cumulations on CricketArchive and CricInfo.

 

[NZTailender]

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

A pair on test debut, actually.

 

[NZTailender]

Mick lewis, for all the wrong reasons

I'd say one hit wonder for his final over heroics versus NZ in the CH trophy.

 

[NUFAN]

Gary Pratt
One direct hit wonder.

 

[NZTailender]

Lou Vincent 104 on debut.

Token fan defence here.

His double hundred versus Sri Lanka needs mentioning as does his century against India in India as well.

Plus his one day knocks when recalled after Astle's retirement were far from just mindless slogging, as a certain poster in these parts believes he can only do.

 

[Richard]

Gary Pratt
One direct hit wonder.

You know, I actually saw Pratt affect another run-out via direct-hit, back in 2003.

 

[Richard]

I'd say one hit wonder for his final over heroics versus NZ in the CH trophy.

The game he lost (for NZ) or the game he won (for NZ)?

 

[NZTailender]

The game he lost (for NZ) or the game he won (for NZ)?

Game he won for Aus, death bowling run out etc.

 

[Craig]

At this stage I wil put down Ian Butler's 6/46 against Pakistan.

 

[NUFAN]

You know, I actually saw Pratt affect another run-out via direct-hit, back in 2003.

Did he? In what International match?

 

[Nishan]

A pair on test debut, actually.

yah was about to say. got 152 in second test as well as 60 something. But hasnt done anything else in test cricket. Played well enough in ODIs though.

 

[Flem274*]

At this stage I wil put down Ian Butler's 6/46 against Pakistan.

Hopefuly now he's learnt line and length he can build on that.

 

[Craig]

I'm going to put David Warner down as a one hit wonder, some how I think that is all he will ever be. Not his fault though, he has fine knock to begin with and now he has bull**** expectations of him (look some n00bs calling for his Test selection when Matt Hayden retired, even though he probably isn't fit to knock in Phillip Hughes's bat).

There I said it.

 

[zaremba]

And another from around Carlisle Best's time: with Holding and Garner basically gone after that '86 Blackwash, Courtney Walsh came into the side and of course started a remarkable run which (apart from when injury occasionally kept him out) lasted nearly 15 years. However, the other pace-bowling replacement is widely little-known. Why? Because he only lasted that one season. Yet Tony Gray's performances were sensational: in the 5 Tests he played that winter out of 6 he took 22 wickets at 17.13, without having so much as a single bad game (FTR, 6-121; 4-48; 4-58; 5-89; 3-61). Why didn't he play again? Well he got injured, then Winston Benjamin and Ian Bishop - and later a fellow called Curtley Ambrose - emerged, and he just never got back in.

Very unfortunate.

Gray's was indeed a wonderful but mystifyingly brief career. My God, the Windies could do with someone like him now.