Worst playing XI from a Test

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Australia have played some shockers in recent summers

West Indies - Adelaide 2000
SL Campbell
D Ganga
WW Hinds
BC Lara
*JC Adams
MN Samuels
+RD Jacobs
NAM McLean
M Dillon
MI Black
CA Walsh

Near gods ahead of this bunch..

West Indies - Newlands 1999
PA Wallace
JR Murray
S Chanderpaul
*BC Lara
CL Hooper
D Ganga
+RD Jacobs
OD Gibson
NAM McLean
CEL Ambrose
M Dillon

Resorting to playing Junior Murray as a specialist opener, given that Philo Wallace is your number one opener is a very disturbing sign. Then when a 19-year-old and utterly fragile Daren Ganga slots into your middle order and McLean-Dillon-Gibson are your support staff to Ambrose. Yikes.

 

[average2poor]

haha nice work Mr Mx.....classic
at least they still had ambrose i guess

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

AN Cook
AJ Strauss
IR Bell
KP Pietersen
PD Collingwood
A Flintoff
CMW Read
SI Mahmood
SJ Harmison
MS Panesar
JM Anderson

 

[Langeveldt]

1. Sanjay Bangar
2. Wavell Hinds
3. Donavon Pagon
4. Hashim Amla
5. James Marshall
6. Adam Sanford
7. Parthiv Patel (wk)
8. Robbie Peterson
9. Pedro Collins
10. Saj Mahmood (cpt)
11. Saj Mahmood

 

[Perm]

It seems Langeveldt doesn't rate Saj Mahmood very highly.

 

[andmark]

From current first-class players:

1. Sanjay Bangar
2. Akash Chopra
3. Michael Papps
4. Donovan Pagon
5. James Marshall
6. Andrew Symonds
7. Thami Tsolekele
8. Justin Ontong
9. Jeetan Patel
10. Dwight Washington
11. VRV Singh

Notable mentions to Gayan Wijekoon, Parthiv Patel and every one-test fast bowler.

Why Andrew Symonds?