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Worst Selections of All Time
- Thread starter Athlai
- Start date
Athlai
Not Terrible
Right call
CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
Macewell is nowhere near the worst selection. There are 100s selected in the top teams worse than him.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
God I remember that one. It was hilarious.
Kenneth Viljoen
International Regular
Bryce Mcgain for Australia played 1 test match at 36 years old v South Africa , 0-149 in 18 overs , Australia lost by an innings
There was a strike before that as well. Ryan Ramdass, Xavier Marshall, Chadwick Walton, Sylvester Joseph etc.
Rubel Hossain must be the correct answer.
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
No we didn't. 10fer guy was dropped for Ravindra at 7.
Flem274*
123/5
ah correction - his prior game (with 2 overs in between).
even without the technicality, it was an indefensible call. eye test wise and results wise.
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
England tour to Oz for the 2013/14 Ashes was a good one. Chris Tremlett, Steven Finn and Boyd Rankin were all selected on height.
It looked great in the pre tour photographs and there was some tough talk from the England camp about how fearsome our giant bowlers would be if the Aussies dared to produce bouncy pitches.
Except this was after Tremlett's major injuries and he bowled sub 80mph at the time. Finn had the yips and was publicly declared "unselectable" by the coaching staff on tour. Rankin suffered such a major injury prior to his debut at Sydney, that not only could he barely bowl during the match, it ruled him out of the first half of the County Championship, months later.
Meanwhile, Mitch Johnson went ok on those Aussie wickets.
It looked great in the pre tour photographs and there was some tough talk from the England camp about how fearsome our giant bowlers would be if the Aussies dared to produce bouncy pitches.
Except this was after Tremlett's major injuries and he bowled sub 80mph at the time. Finn had the yips and was publicly declared "unselectable" by the coaching staff on tour. Rankin suffered such a major injury prior to his debut at Sydney, that not only could he barely bowl during the match, it ruled him out of the first half of the County Championship, months later.
Meanwhile, Mitch Johnson went ok on those Aussie wickets.
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Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
ImpatientLime
International Regular
ImpatientLime
International Regular
australia at the oval in the 2009 deciding ashes test. getting totally psyched out by the pitch, going with an all pace attack and then bowling marcus north for 44 overs.
Howe_zat
Audio File
Later they would go on to whinge for years about pitch doctoring because they forgot it was the end of the summer and the pitch turns sometimes. Though it didn't turn enough to prevent Graeme Swann from outscoring half their batting order in the second innings.
Blenkinsop
U19 Captain
Mike Smith. Selected against the captain's wishes, had Matthew Elliott badly dropped in his third over, didn't take a wicket, never played for England again.
Niall
International Coach
Wasn't that the case they decided "can't change a winning team" as the attack has ran riot in the previous test?
However yeah it was a shocking call as the deciding test called for spin and Harris a part timer actually did pretty well. Who knows what would have happened if they actually picked a frontline spinner.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
England's handling of Anderson in the last Ashes still defies belief. Don't play him on the greenest Brisbane wicket for years. I know they had concerns about his fitness, but Robinson obviously much less fit. The whole thing seemed to be a gamble on the day/night test, which was on a flat pitch. Then play him on the traditional Sydney highway and not on the floodlit green top at Hobart.