Battle of the ****e

[a massive zebra]

Ruwan Kalpage? Similarly abysmal.

 

[a massive zebra]

Chandu Sarwate!!!!!
Syed Abid Ali
Ashok Mankad
Datta Gaekwad
Jeff Crowe

 

[a massive zebra]

Haseeb Ahsan

 

[tooextracool]

6. Daren Ganga

Tad harsh on Ganga who has 2 test centuries against Australia at their peak, and his most recent record(last 8 tests is actually quite good).

 

[chaminda_00]

Has Mick Lewis made the list yet, should be the first guy on behind Jehan Muburak

 

[a massive zebra]

Ian Smith
David Pithey
Lindsay Tuckett
Percy Mansell
Ossie Dawson

 

[a massive zebra]

Inshan Ali
Omari Banks

 

[TT Boy]

Has Mick Lewis made the list yet, should be the first guy on behind Jehan Muburak

Hasn't played enough games for Aus, sorry.

 

[TT Boy]

Cheers Zebra, some real choice selections we add the best (I.e. the worst) of them to the remaining slots.

First battle will commence probably tomorrow if not Monday night.

If there is anymore that come to mind, just post them down and remember the guidelines, five test or ten ODI’s.

 

[tooextracool]

ok so here are my suggestions, i havent considered b'desh and zimbabwe players(as well as SL players before they were actually any good):

Anthony Mcgrath
Chris Silverwood
Tim Bresnan
Liam Plunkett
Alistair Brown
Nathan Hauritz
Brendan Julian(turned out just as bad as every other Australian 'all rounder')
Sujith Somasundar
Harvinder Singh
Rob Peterson
Justin Ontong
Peter Strydom
Wavell Hinds
Adam Sanford
Ricardo Powell
Clayton Lambert(Yea he scored a century against us but we were ****e as well back then)
Eric Upashanta

On a side note while i was compiling this list, i thought for a second about Laurie Williams, the WI all rounder and was surprised to see that he actually died in 2002! Certainly dont remember reading that in the news.

Edit: ok i just saw the guidelines, so we can get rid of Bresnan, Hauritz and somasundar

 

[superkingdave]

Bresnan, Hauritz don't qualify

 

[Neil Pickup]

Rawl Lewis

 

[tooextracool]

Bresnan, Hauritz don't qualify

yea just noticed, its a pity, the 2 of them with Somasundar are real 'value for your money' selections.

 

[aussie tragic]

I consider that for a "worst cricketer" list, they should have actually been given every opportunity to succeed and didn't (i.e. playing 5-6 tests & failing doen't make you a worst cricketer IMO). Anyway, heres my list for the six worst specialist test batsmen:

1. Ken Rutherford (NZ): 56 tests, 2465 runs @ 27.09
2. Alistair Cambell (Zim): 60 tests, 2858 runs @ 27.22
3. Mark Ramprakash (Eng): 52 tests, 2350 @ 27.33
4. Roshan Mahanama (SL): 52 tests, 2576 @ 29.27
5. Grant Flower (Zim): 67 tests, 3457 @ 29.55
6. Kris Srikkanth (Ind): 72 tests, 2062 runs @ 29.88

Haven't looked at the bowlers, but I'm sure Ashley Giles should be there

 

[tooextracool]

I consider that for a "worst cricketer" list, they should have actually been given every opportunity to succeed and didn't (i.e. playing 5-6 tests & failing doen't make you a worst cricketer IMO).

i think if you really were one of the worst cricketers, you wouldnt get more than a handful of tests or ODIs. Certainly players that were made captains of their sides(on your list) cant be considered too bad.

 

[aussie tragic]

i think if you really were one of the worst cricketers, you wouldnt get more than a handful of tests or ODIs. Certainly players that were made captains of their sides(on your list) cant be considered too bad.

Except they were all specialist batsmen averaging less than you'd expect from a good keeper or allrounder.

Edit: Their batting averages compare to Hadlee, and he was a "bowling" allrounder

 

[Poker Boy]

Couple that haven't been mentioned yet - Gerhardus Liebenberg the South African opener who toured England in 1998. aka "the walking wicket" . So crap Bangaldesh's Javed Omar looked far better than him last year! And good old Chris Cowdrey - who had the sirname of a Test cricketer but not the talent.

 

[aussie tragic]

How about Trevor Chappell or Dirk Whellam?

 

[tooextracool]

Except they were all specialist batsmen averaging less than you'd expect from a good keeper or allrounder.

Edit: Their batting averages compare to Hadlee, and he was a "bowling" allrounder

Yes but averages arent the be all and end all, especialy overall overages.Rutherford for example had a shocking start to his career, between 92-95 his averages are actually quite respectable. Its the same thing with the rest of your players to be honest. they were not brilliant by any means, but all of them had phases when they deserved to be in the side, certainly cant be the worst ever in my book.

 

[tooextracool]

Id also like to nominate Xavier Marshall from the WI. I had an extremely hard time wondering how anyone as disgraceful as he was could ever come close to making the side. Batted like he had never faced a left arm bowler before in SL. i believe his test average from 2 tests is 4.25 while his ODI average from 10 innings is 9.80 and the worst part is those averages make him look better than he actually played.