Highest debut score to not be selected.

[Gobbledigook49]

the Scotland ODI squad has just been announced and the glaring omission is a lad called Michael English. The last time Scotland played, English made his debut scoring 107 at a rate of about 90. It is the 11th best debut in ODI history. He is fit and available but not selected.

Surely even if you don’t rate him you have to play him. If he does badly you can drop him and bring in a youngster if he does well you get the credit for finding him.

Does anyone know of any other situations in world cricket where this has happened?

 

[Coronis]

the Scotland ODI squad has just been announced and the glaring omission is a lad called Michael English. The last time Scotland played, English made his debut scoring 107 at a rate of about 90. It is the 11th best debut in ODI history. He is fit and available but not selected.

Surely even if you don’t rate him you have to play him. If he does badly you can drop him and bring in a youngster if he does well you get the credit for finding him.

Does anyone know of any other situations in world cricket where this has happened?

Andy Ganteaume scored 112 in his only test match at age 27. Apparently he was dropped for scoring too slowly. 112 off 296 balls.

From Wikipedia -

It is also possible that Ganteaume's career was affected by his attitude to authority. The cricket journalist Martin Williamson suggests: "Ganteaume probably paid as much for his anti-establishment attitude as for slow scoring. He was certainly not someone who was going to bow and scrape to the white players who still dominated the region's cricket."

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Andy Ganteaume scored 112 in his only test match at age 27. Apparently he was dropped for scoring too slowly. 112 off 296 balls.

From Wikipedia -

It is also possible that Ganteaume's career was affected by his attitude to authority. The cricket journalist Martin Williamson suggests: "Ganteaume probably paid as much for his anti-establishment attitude as for slow scoring. He was certainly not someone who was going to bow and scrape to the white players who still dominated the region's cricket."

For a long time he held the highest Test batting average of all time!

 

[govinda indian fan]

Not debut but think karun nair 304 counts

 

[AndrewB]

Andy Ganteaume scored 112 in his only test match at age 27. Apparently he was dropped for scoring too slowly. 112 off 296 balls.

Coincidentally, Billy Griffith made his debut for England in the same match, also opened the batting and scored a hundred (140), and also didn't play in the rest of the series (but unlike Ganteaume he did play a couple more Tests, as a wicket-keeper).

 

[Ali TT]

Quite a few in the depths of cricketing history but in more recent times, Wikipedia tells me about

- Rodney Redmond, who scored a century and fifty on debut for NZ against Pakistan but struggled on a tour to England and failed to make the test side again.
- Aussie Nick Malone who finishes with a batting average of 46 and took 5fer, with an average of 12.83. Not recalled after heading for WSC.
- Stuart Law scored a not out 50 in his one test at the start of that dominant Australian era.

 

[AndrewB]

There's a Cricinfo article about Redmond.
All three of them did play some ODIs after their only Test.

 

[Qlder]

- Aussie Nick Malone who finishes with a batting average of 46 and took 5fer, with an average of 12.83. Not recalled after heading for WSC.

Just to be factual it's "Mick" Malone and his stamina seems incredible looking back. He bowled 47 overs to take 5-63, then made 46 batting #10 and then bowled another 10 overs for 1-14. So 57 overs for the match with 24 maidens (Thommo bowled 28 overs and Max Walker 36 in comparison)

 

[Gobbledigook49]

most of that is test cricket. Any ODi?

 

[Burgey]

Not debut but think karun nair 304 counts

Well not really, when the thread is about dayboos and all

 

[TheJediBrah]

the Scotland ODI squad has just been announced and the glaring omission is a lad called Michael English. The last time Scotland played, English made his debut scoring 107 at a rate of about 90. It is the 11th best debut in ODI history. He is fit and available but not selected.

Surely even if you don’t rate him you have to play him. If he does badly you can drop him and bring in a youngster if he does well you get the credit for finding him.

Does anyone know of any other situations in world cricket where this has happened?

England probably trying to do a Jofra and poach him and convinced him to make himself unavailable for Scotland. It's the only way they stay somewhat competitive tbf

 

[CricAddict]

the Scotland ODI squad has just been announced and the glaring omission is a lad called Michael English. The last time Scotland played, English made his debut scoring 107 at a rate of about 90. It is the 11th best debut in ODI history. He is fit and available but not selected.

Surely even if you don’t rate him you have to play him. If he does badly you can drop him and bring in a youngster if he does well you get the credit for finding him.

Does anyone know of any other situations in world cricket where this has happened?

May be the Scots didn't want to take because he is more English than a Scot.

 

[AndrewB]

Desmond Haynes scored 148 on his ODI debut and didn't play in the next one... but that's because West Indies stopped picking WSC players between matches.