Worst tails ever

[mr_mister]

Was watching Funky Miller hit his 43 against the Windies back in '99 and before he got going Hookes described the Australian tail as "4 blokes who should all be at 11"


to his credit he was barely exaggerating (I miss Hooksey, such fun commentary)

Adam Dale
Stuart MacGill
Funky Miller
Glen McGrath


I found this especially funny because around this time you had players like Warne, Reiffel, Dizzy, Bichel and Lee hovering around the team and they were generally solid batsmen with only McGrath being constantly hapless thru the era. Can see why they didn't want to stick with this set up for too long

What are some other terrible tails like this?


I feel if Mullally, Tufnell and Malcolm ever played a test together they'd be a shout

 

[Zinzan]

England's 8,9,10 & jack in this match. (particularly the 9,10 & 11). Close thread

4th Test: England v New Zealand at The Oval, Aug 19-22, 1999 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[mr_mister]

I don't even know who Giddens is but if he's bad enough to push up Mullally and Tuffers he must be crap

 

[Zinzan]

What's even more laughable is comparing it to NZ's no.s 8-10 in that match of Cairns, Nash & Vettori.

 

[_Ed_]

I don't even know who Giddens is

You're in for a treat.

He has been banned for cocaine use, no-balled for throwing, and ultimately kicked-out for five years for placing a bet on his county to lose a match...

 

[Zinzan]

Lol, I didn't know that of him. Talk about the full monty, holy *****.

 

[Slifer]

The current WI X1

 

[Burgey]

Ring tailed possums have ****** tails. Hate those ****ing things.

 

[Julian87]

That's a shocker in the OP. From memory though Adam Dale had a fairly sound technique without being a big hitter. Not good enough to be a #8 at that level but not hopeless.

 

[Daemon]

Worst tail has got to be on that weird neolutionist guy from Orphan Black

 

[fredfertang]

I don't even know who Giddens is but if he's bad enough to push up Mullally and Tuffers he must be crap

Giddins definitely a worthy number eleven, and I see Ronnie Irani there too - that is a truly awful lineup

 

[Howe_zat]

When Pakistan toured here in 2010 they had an 18-year old Amir at 8 followed by Gul, Kaneria/Ajmal and Asif. Essentialy two #10s and two #11s. Amusingly they out-performed the top six in the first two tests

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Another: England's Headingley 2009 tail of Swann, Harmison, Anderson, Onions looks pretty ordinary but with Stuart Broad coming in at 7... yeah

 

[morgieb]

England's bottom six in the last two Ashes Tests back in 2006/07 was Flintoff, Read, Mahmood, Hoggard/Anderson, Harmison, Panesar....that's pretty tripe.

 

[andruid]

Bangladesh from the early 2000s

 

[OverratedSanity]

The current Pakistan team has an absolutely woeful tail.

 

[GirtBySea]

I remember in the 2000s South Australia had a horrible tail.
They had 5 real no.11s in Paul Rofe, Peter McIntyre, Mark Harrity, Shaun Tait and Paul Wilson.

 

[Burgey]

CBF to look up their batting records, but a couple which spring to mind would be Indias with the spin quartet of Bedi, Prasanna, Venkat and Chandra. Also Australia mid 80s if the likes of Dave Gilbert, Merv Hughes (pre '88), Bruce Reid and Dutchy Holland all played together

 

[marc71178]

 

[fredfertang]

England's bottom six in the last two Ashes Tests back in 2006/07 was Flintoff, Read, Mahmood, Hoggard/Anderson, Harmison, Panesar....that's pretty tripe.

**** that is grim - for some reason at the time I wondered why we lost 5-0 - looking back we did well to get nil

 

[AndrewB]

CBF to look up their batting records, but a couple which spring to mind would be Indias with the spin quartet of Bedi, Prasanna, Venkat and Chandra. Also Australia mid 80s if the likes of Dave Gilbert, Merv Hughes (pre '88), Bruce Reid and Dutchy Holland all played together

Worst Oz tail was surely in the 1978-9 Ashes series (during WSC): Maclean, Hogg, Dymock, Hurst, Higgs.