Slowest batters

[neville cardus]

I'll have what he's drinking.

 

[neville cardus]

Damnation! That's your 57th slug! David Boon, beware!

 

[Richard]

What, the 57th time I've posted the Beer smiley? Really?

Most of them have been asking, not explaining, TBH.

 

[neville cardus]

What, the 57th time I've posted the Beer smiley? Really?

No. What I meant was that I fell into a blank trance, staring dumbly at the computer as your smiley downed 57 glasses (just one short of Boon's 1989 record).

 

[Richard]

If you'd kept watching the little yellow fella'd have broken it too!

 

[neville cardus]

I thought that I'd be doing Boony an injustice, so I didn't.

Besides, it would add fuel to Ian Chappell's pompous claim -- "In my day, 58 beers between London and Sydney would have virtually classified you as a teetotaller" -- were it revealed that a whippersnapper such as yourself were capable of usurping it.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Here is Sir Nev's comprehensive list. It rolleth off the tongue.

Aamer Malik
Jimmy Adams
Aminul Islam
Asif Mujtaba
Marvan Atapatu
Mike Atherton
Trevor Bailey
Alec Bannerman
Dick Barlow
Ian Bishop
Geoffrey Boycott
Mike Brearley
Andy Caddick
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Aakash Chopra
Bevan Congdon
Colin Cowdrey
Jeff Crowe
Tim Curtis
Kumar Dharmasena
Graham Dilley
Tony Dodemaide
Allan Donald
Johnny Won't Hit Today
Paul Downton
Rahul Dravid
John Dyson
Bruce Edgar
Bill Edrich
John Emburey
Jack Fingleton
Grant Flower
James Franklin
Daren Ganga
Sunil Gavaskar
Jason Gillespie
Adrian Griffith
Trevor Gripper
Hanif Mohammad
Chris Harris
Robbie Hart
Lindsay Hassett
Brian Hastings
Chandika Hathurusingha
Matthew Hoggard
Conrad Hunte
Len Hutton
Raymond Illingworth
Imran Farhat
Douglas Jardine
Gilbert Jessop
Jacques Kallis
Charlie Kelleway
Khaled Mashud
Peter Kirsten
Brendon Kuruppu
Bill Lawry
John Lever
Bunny Lucas
Brian Luckhurst
Alfred Lyttelton
Slasher
Geoff Marsh
Chris Martin (whose strike-rate recently climbed above twenty)
Geoff Miller
Mohammad Hafeez
Mudassar Nazar
Billy Murdoch
Mushtaq Mohammad
Danny Morrison
Dion Nash
Bert Oldfield
John Parker
Blair Pocock
Venkatesh Prasana
Ashwell Prince
Derek Pringle
Rajin Saleh
Rameez Raja
Mark Ramprakash
John Reid
Mark Richardson (who had, in his apoplectic prime, a strike-rate [37.7] identical to those [admittedly incomplete] of Len Hutton, Wally Hammond and <gasp> Denis Compton)
Rizwan-uz-Zaman
Graham Roope
Jack Russell
Saqlain Mushtaq
Block-Block
Shoaib Mohammad
Herbert Sutcliffe
Chris Tavare
Hugh Tayfield
Bob Taylor
Tauseef Ahmed
Fred Titmus
Glenn Turner
Roger Twose
Stephen Ulyate
Hedley Verity
Tom Walker
Wasim Bari
Dirk Wellham
Bob Willis
Bill Woodfull
John Wright
Bob Wyatt
Yashpal Sharma

Top that, bitches.

I must admit I never expected to ever see a list of batsman that contained both Conrad Hunte and John Lever.

 

[Days of Grace]

Trevor Franklin, anyone?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Trevor Franklin, anyone?

Saw him make his debut on the 83 tour of England. I don't think he lasted long in either innings. I remember a very slow hundred he made a couple of tours later but I wasn't there and don't recall much about the innings from watching the match on TV.

 

[Olwe]

all i have to say what about frankiln dennis, who in the 79 WC for canada when playing england hit a huge 21 in of 116 which is a run rate of very low in a OD World cup match as a Number three batsman as you know!!!

as canada only got 45 he did quite well i think!

 

[Richard]

Saw him make his debut on the 83 tour of England. I don't think he lasted long in either innings. I remember a very slow hundred he made a couple of tours later but I wasn't there and don't recall much about the innings from watching the match on TV.

It was the Second Test at Lord's, apparently he faced 310 balls for 101.

 

[thierry henry]

Funny thing is, Trevor Franklin is a massive man. 6'6", perhaps 6'7", and extremely broad.

 

[Richard]

Yeah, he's no excuse for not being a massive power-hitter. (Rolleyes not aimed at you BTW)

 

[thierry henry]

Aimed at who, then?

I'm well aware size and speed of scoring are not in any way related, it's more that Trevor Franklin presented awards at a junior prizegiving I once attended, and I was trying to slip that in somehow, lol.

 

[Richard]

There's someone on CW who always seems to expect that someone who is big and imposing has to be a big hitter. Something of a shame, 'cos he's an exemplary poster in every other way.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Mussadar Nazar had the slowest 100 did he not?

 

[Richard]

Mussadar Nazar was had the slowest 100 did he not?

No, Mudasser Nazar has the slowest century.

Well, at least I think he does.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Haha, I think I started a new sentance without erasing the first part of the old one.

 

[neville cardus]

Trevor Bailey once walloped his cavalier way to eight runs in a full session of Test cricket.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Trevor Bailey once walloped his cavalier way to eight runs in a full session of Test cricket.

That's one more than Geoff Miller once managed.