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Worst T20 XI of the last 30 years

fredfertang

fredfertang

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While I was bored at work today, and squinting at the tiny display on my new internet phone, I misread the current World T20 thread for Worst T20, which struck me as potentially more entertaining so, without any complicated selection criteria, who would be the worst T20 side amongst International cricketers of the last 30 years, I whiled away half an hour and came up with this lot

Geoff Boycott - need I say more?
Sunil Gavaskar - 36* in 60 overs - has to be a shoe in
Trevor Franklin - did he ever hit the ball off the square?
Darren Ganga - rarely has a man so spectacularly failed to fulfill expectations
Kepler Wessels - tedious in the extreme (though there were mitigating factors)
Chris Read - probably not fair but I met him when he was 16 - he was a ****
Chris Schofield - and England picked him as a specialist!
Daren Powell - how did he ever get a gig at Old Trafford?
Paul Adams - would have been entertaining
Stephen Harmison - great bowler - but at T20 no thanks
Devon Malcolm - far too profligate
 
Hurricane

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fredfertang said:
While I was bored at work today, and squinting at the tiny display on my new internet phone, I misread the current World T20 thread for Worst T20, which struck me as potentially more entertaining so, without any complicated selection criteria, who would be the worst T20 side amongst International cricketers of the last 30 years, I whiled away half an hour and came up with this lot

Geoff Boycott - need I say more?
Sunil Gavaskar - 36* in 60 overs - has to be a shoe in
Trevor Franklin - did he ever hit the ball off the square?
Darren Ganga - rarely has a man so spectacularly failed to fulfill expectations
Kepler Wessels - tedious in the extreme (though there were mitigating factors)
Chris Read - probably not fair but I met him when he was 16 - he was a ****
Chris Schofield - and England picked him as a specialist!
Daren Powell - how did he ever get a gig at Old Trafford?
Paul Adams - would have been entertaining
Stephen Harmison - great bowler - but at T20 no thanks
Devon Malcolm - far too profligate
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Saw Franklin score 17 off 32 overs for Auckland once in a List A affair. Auckland promoted a guy called Steve Brown up the order who then smoked a century in the remaining overs to give the score some respectability.

When Franklin walked back to the team tent after his inning - I spotted Dipak Patel giving him the cold shoulder.

The usual defence for Franklin is that he used to be quite attacking until he broke his leg somehow at Gatwick airport.

Anyway him or Boycott to be team captain.
 
Spark

Spark

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yeah tim southee is a bit of a wtf. remember him single-handedly winning a t20 vs us that we basically had in the bag with perfect yorkers
 
Daemon

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He just got a 6-fer against Glamorgan a few months back too. What was I thinking.
 
ljinko888

ljinko888

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Personally think Arul Suppiah would be a candidate. Never impresses with the bat in T20 considering he is in the team as a batsmen. Decent in County Championship and Pro 40 where he's done fairly well. His bowling is nothing special either so I really don't understand why Somerset continue with him in the T20 format
 
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