Dwayne Smith

[Jono]

ODI batting average of 18.71 before his ****house innings today.

Where does he rank in the history of spuds to play in a major 8 World Cup team? Gotta be up there.

 

[Niall]

ODI batting average of 18.71 before his ****house innings today.

Where does he rank in the history of spuds to play in a major 8 World Cup team? Gotta be up there.

Love the IPL myself, but the fact he is such a gun in it, really doesn't help its street cred.

 

[Dan]

Given he has WI's best bat -- Lendl Simmons -- stuck down at #6 and he doesn't bowl any more, he seems completely useless.

 

[Prince EWS]

Between his recall and when they named the WC squad he'd actually done okay (averaged low-mid 30s with a gun strike rate) and he'd done really well in T20s too, so I can see why they picked him. It wasn't as stupid as his numbers suggest given he spent so much of his career playing as a bowling allrounder batting 6-8 to rack up those overall bad numbers. He's completely sucked again since they named the squad though so he really should've been dropped a while ago now tbh.

 

[Jono]

His average flatters him

Dinesh Mongia was another incredibly mediocre WC player from India's team in 2003.

Name some others.

 

[Dan]

Is this a World Cup Spud XI? If so, I'm drafting Wayne Parnell into the XI.

1. Dwayne Smith (6)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. Dinesh Mongia (5)
7.
8. Wayne Parnell (4)
9.
10.
11.

 

[Pratters]

Keith Arthurton should never be forgotten as far as WC spuds go.

 

[hendrix]

Wayne Parnell is the opposite of Sammy. Sounds terrible, looks decent. But same results, probably worse in ODIs.

 

[SkyBlue]

I'd add Devon Smith to the list too.

 

[Dan]

Is this a World Cup Spud XI? If so, I'm drafting Wayne Parnell into the XI.

1. Dwayne Smith (2015) [7]
2. Wajahatullah Wasti (1999)
3. Jehan Mubarak (2003)
4. Vincent Wells (1999)
5. Dinesh Mongia (2003) [6]
6. Ronnie Irani (2003) [4]
7. Jamie Dalrymple (2007) [5]
8. Lee Germon (1996) * +
9. Wayne Parnell (2015) [2]
10. Jason Krejza (2011) [3]
11. Sajid Mahmood (2007) [1]

Additional nominees included, with World Cups bracketed. There's undoubtedly more from the earlier World Cups but I cbf after getting a functioning XI.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sreesanth (2011)

 

[Spikey]

Additional nominees included, with World Cups bracketed. There's undoubtedly more from the earlier World Cups but I cbf after getting a functioning XI.

Bowling records | One-Day Internationals | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Atherton

 

[SkyBlue]

His average flatters him

Dinesh Mongia was another incredibly mediocre WC player from India's team in 2003.

Name some others.

And to think that Ravi Shastri was his fanboy once upon a time.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Additional nominees included, with World Cups bracketed. There's undoubtedly more from the earlier World Cups but I cbf after getting a functioning XI.

For his ability and overall performance vs WC performance Nathan Astle sadly has to be considered.

Also Lee Germon (for all his faults played a pretty special innings in combination with Vhris Harris ih 96

 

[Dan]

Ok, sub in Courtney Browne or Steve Palframan then, imo.

 

[SkyBlue]

Debashish Mohanty(1999)
Devon Smith(2007)
Eric Upashantha(1999)

Maybe there are some more especially from the 99 edition of the WC,cant remember.

 

[Athlai]

God damn it stop quoting his career batting average.

 

[Jono]

no. You can't say batting lower affected his batting when its used as to reasons why Dhoni has a great average.

He. Is. ****.

 

[Athlai]

no. You can't say batting lower affected his batting when its used as to reasons why Dhoni has a great average.

He. Is. ****.

It isn't batting position it's career progression. Before 2008 he was a James Franklin esque bowling all rounder. Since 2010 he reinvented his entire game to be a James Franklin esque batting all rounder.