Worst tails ever

[Fuller Pilch]

Do they play together much though?

They did against SL

 

[Prince EWS]

Pakistan's tail in Australia of Yasir Shah and three rank #11s was absolutely putrid on paper, but then Yasir hit the meme ton.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Also Australia mid 80s if the likes of Dave Gilbert, Merv Hughes (pre '88), Bruce Reid and Dutchy Holland all played together

In the Perth Test of 84/85 Hogg infamously completely took his eyes off the ball to be bowled by a full toss... and he was in at 9 ahead of Rackemann & Alderman!

Also around Australia for the mid-80s was Simon Davis for one Test who Steve Waugh once described as the worst batsman he'd ever seen.

 

[Apex Predator]

i think for the wtc finals, if india plays ishant - siraj - shami - bumrah

No way we are going with 4 pacers in Rose bowl but if we do pick 4 in England series They'd be Ishant Bumrah Siraj Thakur

 

[nightprowler10]

Pakistan's tail in Australia of Yasir Shah and three rank #11s was absolutely putrid on paper, but then Yasir hit the meme ton.

A slightly better tail in NZL would have resulted in a draw in the first Test. Only needed to survive another 4 overs I think, but way too much for that tail.

 

[tony p]

The Indian tail in the mid 70s was ordinary, Bedi, Chandra & Prasanna, three walking wickets.

At county level, Gloucestershire had a horrible tail in 1954, Nos8-11, Rochford, the reserve wkt keeper, Wells, Cook & McHugh, fortunately only played 5 matches together, they combined for the riches of 26 inns, 6no, 80 runs, avg 4. That included an innings of 32 by Wells.

 

[AndrewB]

Yes, Rochford (FC av 5.26), Wells (7.47), Cook (5.41) and McHugh (2.63) is hard to beat as a weak tail, even allowing for the 50s being a lower-scoring era.

 

[Prince EWS]

8. Rajitha (4.15)
9. Jayasuriya (3.75)
10. Fernardo (3.60)
11. Kumar (3.29)

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Rajitha taking advantage of his promition so far by flogging Tickner around though.

 

[Ali TT]

8. Rajitha (4.15)
9. Jayasuriya (3.75)
10. Fernardo (3.60)
11. Kumar (3.29)

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Rajitha taking advantage of his promition so far by flogging Tickner around though.

Added 83 for the last 4 wickets, so not a bad result for that group!

Even though the likes of Harmer, Janssen and Maharaj are all adequate tail-enders, when you stick Harmer or Janssen at 7, Maharaj at 8 followed by Rabada, Nortje and Ngidi that becomes a very long, very bad tail.

 

[Prince EWS]

Added 83 for the last 4 wickets, so not a bad result for that group!

Was a new Test HS for every single one of them

 

[subshakerz]

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

You didnt see the WI tail then?

 

[andruid]

Bangladesh from the early 2000s

Came to post this, only to find I had posted it 6 years ago.

 

[nightprowler10]

The current Pakistan team has an absolutely woeful tail.

Still applies.

 

[Brook's side]

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

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This one beats it:

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Fraser (7)
Watkin (5)
Such (6)
Malcolm (6)

Career test batting averages in brackets.

Edit: No, yours does actually beat mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tufnell got into double figures 3 times in 59 innings, and he's 0.5 away from having the 3rd worst average in that team.

 

[Prince EWS]

Still applies.

7 Sajid

 

[Flametree]

I can't find a particular scorecard but I recall the early 2000s West Indies side's 9-11 would be made up of three of Collins, Collymore, Walsh, Reon King, Cuffy, Lawson, Sanford or Stuart... Merv Dillon was a regular number 8 with his average of 8.5.

 

[Brook's side]

I can't find a particular scorecard but I recall the early 2000s West Indies side's 9-11 would be made up of three of Collins, Collymore, Walsh, Reon King, Cuffy, Lawson, Sanford or Stuart... Merv Dillon was a regular number 8 with his average of 8.5.

Wow, that bowling attack had really dropped off by then!