Most boring cricketer ever

[PAKMAN]

zahid fazal of pakistan

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Christopher James Tavaré 

Career Statistics:
TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   31   56   2  1755  149   32.50  30.60   2  12   20   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling               5      3    11    0    -     -      0   0    -   2.20

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   29   28   2   720   83*  27.69  48.94   0   4    7   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling               2      0     3    0    -     -      0   0    -   1.50

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1974 - 1993)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  431  717  75 24906  219   38.79  48 138  418   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling               813   21   722    5 144.40  1-3     0   0 162.6  5.32

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (career: 1974 - 1993)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  399  390  49 11407  162*  33.45  14  65  168   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling               3      0     9    0    -     -      0   0    -   3.00

 

[Langeveldt]

Gary Kirsten..

You see, legends can be boring

 

[Sudeep]

I found Manoj Prabhakar's batting to be pretty boring, although can't be said about his bowling.

Up until about an year back, I though Ashley Giles was an irksome bowler. However, he has proved me wrong since then.

 

[ReallyCrazy]

in that list you have there, i havent seen most of those guys in action much except jimmy adams and chanderpaul. And i voted for chanderpaul coz i was too young to remember adam's styleof play. And chanders was pretty boring during those days. He might have become more interesting now though,

 

[Langeveldt]

Hell yeah, Jimmy Adams was a box-office nightmare!

Lovely bloke and one of the most knowledgeable cricketers I have heard speak. It's no coincidence in my book that the time he was "phased out" was the start of the West Indies' mammouth decline.. True he was a bit dour at the crease, but he was an excellent cricketer.. How I've left him out of my favourite ever players ramblings, ill never know..
He has been the best guest that Sky Sports cricket have ever had IMO...

 

[superkingdave]

Graeme Smith

 

[Swervy]

Sacrilege.

He was an England batsman from 1981 to 1983. Originally batting at 3, he was promoted to open when Gooch & Boycott got themselves banned for 3 years and Lamb became available. His role was to provide a solid backbone to the side whilst Gower, Lamb, Randall & Botham provided the thrills, but he took it to the nth degree. The Aus fans loved him in 1982/83.

Famously, Statto interrupted one of his more spectacularly boring innings (against India, IIRC), to offer him a seat as he had obviously worn himself out lovingly caressing the ball back to the bowler for hour after hour.

the thing with Tavare was that he was a really good batsman who could attack and devestate bowling attacks quite easily..but when England played him ,he was needed to add stability to a team which had its share of more attacking players ie Gower,Lamb,Botham

as for the term 'boring' I take it it means slow scoring ...I for one can find a session of play where the run rate is one an over more interesting than anything if the slow rate is justified by the quality of the bowling or the situation of the match

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Gary Kirsten..

You see, legends can be boring

I never found him boring actually. Lovely straight bat technique and a pleasure to watch driving.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Lovely bloke and one of the most knowledgeable cricketers I have heard speak. It's no coincidence in my book that the time he was "phased out" was the start of the West Indies' mammouth decline.. True he was a bit dour at the crease, but he was an excellent cricketer.. How I've left him out of my favourite ever players ramblings, ill never know..
He has been the best guest that Sky Sports cricket have ever had IMO...

I definitely agree with you there. I was always a Jimmy Adams fan and I think the captaincy ultimately ruined him (though the blow to the head he took a few years before significantly contributed).

 

[Richard]

Chanderpaul might win ugly tequnique batsman but certainly not boring, hes a flyer these days.

Or rather, throughout his career he has varied between the scarecely believable blaster and the most interminable blocker ever.

 

[Richard]

IMO there is nothing boring about slow-scoring - not in itself, anyway.
Most boring thing in cricket for me is play with nothing at stake - the only time I've ever been totally disinterested in cricket I was watching was the final day of Pakistan-England at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore - Pakistan batted on and on, with nothing at stake, at funeral pace.

 

[Richard]

Chris Tavare - English opener from the 80's. He gets my vote. Mark Rampakash gets a nod too - although he was hardly out at the crease for long enough to get boring.

Except from 1998 onwards.

 

[Richard]

How there can be all this talk of Chris Távare and not a single mention of C Philip Mead, a batsman comparable in so many ways from everything I've read.
Oh, yes, of course - that would be because he played in the 1900s.

 

[Richard]

Graeme Smith

 

[tooextracool]

Except from 1998 onwards.

i think it would be better if you didnt bring up things like this that have been argued against by everyone in the past. you simply provoke another pointless going in circles richard-tooextracool debate.

 

[tooextracool]

and its not possible at all that smith can be boring is it?
what goes around as your opinion doesnt necessarily mean that everyone else shares the samething about how boring a cricketer is.

 

[a massive zebra]

How there can be all this talk of Chris Távare and not a single mention of C Philip Mead, a batsman comparable in so many ways from everything I've read.
Oh, yes, of course - that would be because he played in the 1900s.

Was it not the 10s and 20s?

 

[nookie_lk]

Asanga Gurusinghe....the blind bat

 

[Richard]

i think it would be better if you didnt bring up things like this that have been argued against by everyone in the past. you simply provoke another pointless going in circles richard-tooextracool debate.

T'would indeed - but you are guilty of it of times, too.