Worst Specialist Batsmen currently?

[Athlai]

Yes and in no way do I suggest that my list are the 10 worst batsman. It's just an indication of where you should be looking. All I said was the batsman who have performed the worst in the past two years, and that is what my list shows.

 

[sanga1337]

If Muburak isn't No 1, the world has gone mad. Worst batsmen ever, McGarth was better.

AWTA. Mubarak is the very definition of dire.

 

[Uppercut]

Mubarak>Runako M****n. M****n is the worst batsman i've seen at international level. He's the only one there who:

a) Has been playing for long enough for it to be more than just a bad start.
b) Has never done anything in either FC or international cricket to suggest he might be anything other than ridiculously useless.
c) Appears in the list for both ODIs (despite batting at 3 or 4 where he has no excuse) and tests.

Conclusion- worst batsman ever.

 

[sanga1337]

Morton has done more in ODI's than Mubarak has TBH. At least he averages over 30 and has 2 centuries. Mubarak just plain fails at international level if you look at his stats, and his first class stats aren't too flash either.

 

[Uppercut]

Morton has done more in ODI's than Mubarak has TBH. At least he averages over 30 and has 2 centuries. Mubarak just plain fails at international level if you look at his stats, and his first class stats aren't too flash either.

Maybe yeah but at least the Sri Lanka selectors don't KEEP ON PICKING HIM.

 

[sanga1337]

Despite Morton being a very ordinary batsman I would still pick him over the likes of the Shawn Findlays and Xavier Marshalls. Its not as if he was being picked over much better batsman than him.

 

[Uppercut]

Despite Morton being a very ordinary batsman

Seriously, who was it that determined that "ordinary" should mean "bad"? "Mediocre" and "average" too, for that matter. Runako M****n and Mubarak are not "ordinary". An ordinary batsman is someone like Michael Vaughan or Ross Taylor. Runako and Mubarak are in a whole other league, " ****ing **** " batsmen. They're really, really ****ing bad. Not ordinary or mediocre or average or any of those things. Atrocious. Crap. Useless. They look like old housewives waving their broomsticks at passing flies.

 

[Matt79]

What's with the *** in Morton's name? Some kind of protest at his selection?

Bizarre argument about Inzi's inclusion above as well - no one was suggesting he's a poor batsman overall, merely that he was poor near the end, which is not unusual... Dravid is in the same boat.

 

[Uppercut]

What's with the *** in Morton's name? Some kind of protest at his selection?

Bizarre argument about Inzi's inclusion above as well - no one was suggesting he's a poor batsman overall, merely that he was poor near the end, which is not unusual... Dravid is in the same boat.

Paha, it's hardly a protest. He's just one of those players that's so bad i prefer not to type their name. Sajid M*****d was another.

 

[Matt79]

Paha, it's hardly a protest. He's just one of those players that's so bad i prefer not to type their name. Sajid M*****d was another.

Fair 'nuff, was just trying to work out in what context/language "orto" was offensive, and whom I could next use it on.

 

[Precambrian]

Runako Morton. He had a good game vs Australia, apart from that looked the worst of the lot to play at this level. No, I havent followed Mubarak.

 

[Richard]

Morton and Mubarak are both woeful, both remain in contention for their national teams and are both clearly not going to get much better barring a minor miracle. I'd not be splitting the two myself, but if some feel one one is especially poor, they might want to. It's doubly frustrating in the Mubarak case as there are clearly much better batsmen in the Lankan isle, but Mubarak's father's high ranking keeps him at the front of the queue.

And yes, Inzamam was terrible for his last few games, but isn't playing any more; yes, Dravid has been hugely disappointing since the Caribbean tour in '06; Gibbs, well, has had a cross between being worked-out and declining and is almost certainly now gone for good; Vandort, well, he's a good batsman going through a rough patch of late but I imagine we mostly think he'll be back; and Dinesh Karthik, well, he's lost his way badly but again I hope he'll be back at some point.

Redmond, Imran Farhat, Ganga, Sinclair, Devon Smith and Yasir Hameed are all in my view good players - as far as calibre of stroke available to them and good performance at the domestic level - who either didn't or haven't yet cracked Test cricket temperamentally. Matthew Bell, Faisal Iqbal and Mohammed Hafeez are simply very poor, but not quite as poor as Morton and Mubarak.

I think that's everyone mentioned so far?

 

[Uppercut]

And yes, Inzamam was terrible for his last few games, but isn't playing any more; yes, Dravid has been hugely disappointing since the Caribbean tour in '06; Gibbs, well, has had a cross between being worked-out and declining and is almost certainly now gone for good; Vandort, well, he's a good batsman going through a rough patch of late but I imagine we mostly think he'll be back; and Dinesh Karthik, well, he's lost his way badly but again I hope he'll be back at some point.

Regarding Herschelle Gibbs, this was almost exactly a year ago. Hard to believe.

 

[Richard]

Until less than a year ago, Gibbs was still worth plenty in ODIs. In Tests, though, the last time I remember him playing all that well was 2003/04. Though of course he had the odd game here and there where he was superb (never more than The Wanderers 2004/05) but I don't think he did much from the SL tour of 2004 onwards.

 

[Paddlesmack]

Jehan Mubarak is a joke!

 

[Flem274*]

Fairly disgusted Skippy made that list and James Marshall gets off scott free.

 

[Migara]

If Muburak isn't No 1, the world has gone mad. Worst batsmen ever, McGarth was better.

Mubarak is the second. 1st spot is occupied by Upul Tharanga

 

[sanga1337]

Tharanga has done way more at international level than Mubarak will ever do.

 

[_Ed_]

An ordinary batsman is someone like Michael Vaughan or Ross Taylor.

Don't think that does justice to either of those players.

 

[Uppercut]

Don't think that does justice to either of those players.

The average average for a top six batsman (non-Bangladesh/Zimbabwe) since 2000 is 41.7. So whatever you think of their quality (Taylor has the potential to become better for sure), mediocre, average and ordinary are perfect words to describe their records. They just have negative connotations that makes the description seem harsher than it really is.

EDIT: i think i know what you'll think regarding the pitches they play on, so bear in mind that once you take out the subcontinent teams the average for a top six batsman is 41.0.