Most dire player to play international cricket?

[Richard]

I'll be very red-faced if I'm wrong about it being Croft. I'm quite prepared to concede it might not have been Lee - I think it was, but I'm not sure. I'll have a look and be prepared to come back and say I was wrong if I can't find it (although its not the kind of thing that's immediately apparent from a score card).

You can tell pretty conclusively TBH. It would surely have been a Test against Australia (he played 7 of them, 5 in the 1997 series), and just 1 after 1999\2000 when Lee made his debut (and I checked the BBB of that to be absolutely certain, because I was pretty sure Lee never bowled at the tail that Test). So it wasn't Lee, beyond a doubt, and as I say - there was only 1 occasion when Croft EVER batted with a number-eleven against Australia (you can work that out from the FOW chart, available on every scorecard [where such things were recorded] on CricketArchive and CricInfo) and it was the occasion I named, Headingley. And it'd only be Gillespie that struck fear into the heart I'd guess - Reiffel and McGrath were quick, but they were never types to strike fear.

 

[Richard]

Note on an earlier post, Croft was not a bad batsman at all. In fact he was useful. A fact shown in that he has more List A 100s than Vaughan (4 to 3).

I cannot believe that, even though Croft can be a decent one-day opener and Vaughan, well... can't.

 

[gettingbetter]

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