The Most Inexcusable Droppings by Selectors

[subshakerz]

Asim Kamal was the perfect gritty no.6 bat in the 2000s for Pakistan. He had one bad test after returning from injury and was never seen again. Typical.

 

[subshakerz]

Wasn’t Donald dropped for Paul Adams against WI in 1996 WC QF iirc.

Most brainless decision ever I have seen on the cricket field.

 

[honestbharani]

Asim Kamal was definitely someone they should have persisted with. The original Fawad Alam, I guess.

 

[Coronis]

Trueman
This was in an era when you toed the line and acted as the establishment expected.
It was also in the ridiculous "Gentlemen vs Players' (supposedly Amateurs v Professionals) era.
Fred didn't always toe the line and was made a scapegoat in the W.I. to protect a "gentleman".

Yeah the whole Professional and Amateur thing ticks me off so much. Gotta love class divides being brought into sport.

 

[Molehill]

Not just a dropping from a side, but an example of junk player management culminating in a player being dropped.

In late 2010, Doug Bollinger was coming back from a lengthy injury spell. Instead of getting him to do rehab and get miles in his legs in the lead up to the Ashes, the selectors ok'ed him to go with NSW to play in that World T20 final thing in SA. As a result, he had zero stamina, was picked to play the second test in Adelaide, died in the arse on day one, was dropped largely because he "was unfit" and never picked again.

The setting up of players to fail has seemingly been perfected by English selectors over the years, especially with spinners. Simon Kerrigan anyone? And you can add countless others.

But that's probably a different thread, the Most Ridiculous Selections.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Shami getting wickets by getting absolutely smashed while better bowlers operate at the other end

You spelt Neil Wagner wrong

 

[slowfinger]

Kyle Abbott , 9 wickets @14 at the WC. dropped for the WC SF 2015 ..

Also a better bowler than Morne Morkel in tests, took 39 wickets in 11 tests @22 but constantly sidelined.

became a County CHampionship stalwart though, so who really won

 

[The Sean]

Yeah the whole Professional and Amateur thing ticks me off so much. Gotta love class divides being brought into sport.

This is the country where people line the streets to wave flags and cheer at unfathomably rich people in gold carriages whose sole qualification for their position is being born.

That cultural mindset seeping into sport for as long as it did is hardly surprising.

 

[Athlai]

You spelt Neil Wagner wrong

It's a skill in Tests and jammy in limited overs which is why Wagner sucks at limited overs

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Gower because he wouldn't run for days.

Bicknell because he got some tap from a great Aussie team despite being head and shoulders the best bowler in the country for a decade.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Us dropping umesh yadav was brain less from agarkar

 

[kevinw]

The setting up of players to fail has seemingly been perfected by English selectors over the years, especially with spinners. Simon Kerrigan anyone? And you can add countless others.

But that's probably a different thread, the Most Ridiculous Selections.

It was a dead rubber Test, England had already won the series, and Watto just had a great day out and targeted a debutant. As Kerrigan was the best spinner in the CC system at the time, he should've got another Test.

 

[CricAddict]

Im quite unhappy about Robinson being dropped. Watch him go for <20 average in the county championship as well

I am not just unhappy. I am ****ing angry at the England selectors on suddenly dropping him and Hartley and bringing Atkinson and Bashir in their place, a decision that primarily cost me the fantasy draft last year.

 

[Ali TT]

It was a dead rubber Test, England had already won the series, and Watto just had a great day out and targeted a debutant. As Kerrigan was the best spinner in the CC system at the time, he should've got another Test.

Yes this. Kerrigan was performing really well at the time. It may be that selectors could've judged him to be below standard when watching him play before picking him, but not based upon his CC output. That he wasn't picked again immediately probably had a lot to do with his mindset after that mauling. He quite quickly lost his way and not long after was struggling to get any country spot. Another spinner who went the same way was Matt Parkinson - a test match after strong outings in CC and being the best performing spinner in domestic limited overs, then within months was completely discarded by Lancs and struggling to get a gig elsewhere.

On the batting front Hameed had a similar trajectory, although he has at least salvaged a good first class and domestic career at Notts.

In retrospect, easy to blame the selectors for badly treating players who struggled with the mental aspect of the game but also hard for them to foresee these challenges in advance.

The common denominator for these three is Lancashire though.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Andrew Symonds 2005. So he was drunk, big deal. Still would have been better than Simon Katich.

An Australian who likes a pint or two? Perish the thought!

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Jimmy yet!

 

[Coronis]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Jimmy yet!

Why?

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Why?

I wasn't outraged by it, but he was still in fine form when he got the tap on the shoulder

 

[Coronis]

I wasn't outraged by it, but he was still in fine form when he got the tap on the shoulder

Eh not really. The Ashes was sort of his death knell. I reckon if he’d had a decent series he might’ve retired then, especially if they’d won. Then he had a meh series in India and got to go out on a relative high at home. Seemed pretty fitting.

 

[Gob]

Nathan Lyon for the first ashes test in 13 after taking a 7 fer in his last test