most boring batsman in history to watch

[adharcric]

You guys need to get a life.

Hopefully you did enough to drive away our newest troll though. Hopefully.

 

[GIMH]

OK so I'm sure we all agree that it pretty much comes down to five obvious choices.

1. Matthew Hoggard.
2. Boycott
3. Atherton
4. Paul Collingwood
5. Ian Bell


Pick one.

Don't you ever get tired of trying the same act? Go play on the motorway

 

[Zinzan]

can't believe noone has mentioned Chris Tavare I'll never forget his 18 off about 122 balls with 12 runs coming from edges through the slips

 

[honestbharani]

Atherton, for me.

 

[The Sean]

Gilbert Jessop was by all accounts an absolute stonewaller...

 

[Ikki]

Alistair Cook.

 

[Jono]

Boycott batting a whole day at the WACA and not scoring a boundary mustn't have been the most exciting batting ever.

 

[Dravid]

Sreesanth

 

[mohammad16]

currently, treschothick

 

[JF.]

can't believe noone has mentioned Chris Tavare I'll never forget his 18 off about 122 balls with 12 runs coming from edges through the slips

I was going to mention him!!! Beat me

And yes, I'm old enough to remember him

 

[archie mac]

Gilbert Jessop was by all accounts an absolute stonewaller...

If you read his bio, you would not know one way or the other, a very modest man

 

[archie mac]

can't believe noone has mentioned Chris Tavare I'll never forget his 18 off about 122 balls with 12 runs coming from edges through the slips

Haven't seen you around for awhile mate, welcome back

And yes he was slow.

I watched a lot of Boycott, I quite enjoyed him tbh had a great technique, a pleasure to watch, if a little too cautious

 

[Alysum]

Kallis by a mile...! He wasted my ticket at the SCG test day 1 early this year, boooring...

 

[James90]

Greatbatch was pretty bad. First page of this thread must be one of the worst in CW history.

 

[The Sean]

If you read his bio, you would not know one way or the other, a very modest man

I've never even seen his bio tbh - would be an interesting read I reckon. Worth finding?

 

[Slow Love™]

Greatbatch was pretty bad.

You're probably thinking of one or two uber-defensive innings he played (the most notable being in 89-90 in Perth) out of necessity, but Greatbatch was actually quite a hitter when he wanted to be, particularly in ODIs. He was one of the first (if not the first) exponents of regularly hitting out in the first ten overs of a one-day innings, and he was pretty exciting in the World Cup out here in '92.

 

[Choc]

Anyone who thinks Lara, Dravid, Pietersen, Tendulka Ponting and even Kallis at times is boring then I need to ask what planet are you watching cricket from?

Boring test players would go to:
Boeta Dippenaar
Aswell Prince which fair enough did a good job the other day but it wasn't facinating.
Jaques Rudolf
Tresthcotic big time
Ian Bell

 

[andmark]

Hoggy by a country mile.

 

[archie mac]

I've never even seen his bio tbh - would be an interesting read I reckon. Worth finding?

Not the worst tbh, but nah give it a miss. If you are going to read an old cricket book go for Googlies by 'Ranji' Hordern

 

[PhoenixFire]

What makes Trescothick boring?