The brainless XI

[Days of Grace]

For those cricketers where thinking and strategising are totally foreign. One wonders if they have a brain at all

1. Sehwag (c)
2. ?
3. ?
4. Mohammad Ashrafel
5. Yuvrag Singh
6. Shahid Afridi
7. B.B. McCullum (wk)
8. D.R. Smith
9. Shoaib Akhtar
10. D. Powell
11. M. Gillespie (can't tell if he is brainless or just plain rubbish)

 

[Athlai]

For those cricketers where thinking and strategising are totally foreign. One wonders if they have a brain at all

1. Sehwag (c)
2. ?
3. ?
4. Mohammad Ashrafel
5. Yuvrag Singh
6. Shahid Afridi
7. B.B. McCullum (wk)
8. D.R. Smith
9. Shoaib Akhtar
10. D. Powell
11. M. Gillespie (can't tell if he is brainless or just plain rubbish)

McCullum, Yuvraj and Ashraful are a bit harsh.

 

[archie mac]

Hilditch from Aust, kept hooking was told he would be dropped if he kept getting out that way.

3 on the fence bowl short and hook, out both innings out of the team

 

[Zinzan]

Hilditch from Aust, kept hooking was told he would be dropped if he kept getting out that way.

3 on the fence bowl short and hook, out both innings out of the team

Against Hadlee?

 

[wpdavid]

Against Hadlee?

He certainly did it in England during the 1985 series

 

[Scaly piscine]

Think there should be some WI batsmen who could fill the gaps.

 

[irfan]

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2.H
3.A
4.H
5.I
6.D
7.A
8.F
9.R
10.I
11.D
12TH MAN I

Na seriously
1. Imran Nazir
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Robin Uthappa
4. Mohammad Ashraful
5. Andrew Symonds
6. Shahid Afridi
7. Dinesh Karthik
8. Ajit Agarkar
9. Darren Powell
10. Mark Gillespie
11. Dilhara Fernando

 

[Goughy]

Have to add Samit Patel. So brainless that he has killed his immediate career and even his County coach has no sympathy.

 

[Noble One]

Andrew Hilditch was a decent opening batsman who was capable of producing at international level. Just had that compulsive hooker tendency, eyes lit up to the short ball. Ruined his test career in the end.

Great video floating around YouTube
YouTube - 1985 Ashes: Eng v Aus Andrew ' Happy Hooker ' Hilditch

 

[archie mac]

Against Hadlee?

He certainly did it in England during the 1985 series

I was thinking the England one tbh, but would not surprise if Hadlee took advantage as well.

The thing was/is he is a pretty smart fellow, just go to show....Not sure how to finish this

 

[Noble One]

It's hard to tell if Hilditch's case is simply brainless more just pure instinct. Kind of similar to the way Damian Martyn was found out by New Zealand by stacking the gully region and bowling short and wide of off-stump. A player can hold temptation back for only so long. Does that make him brainless?

 

[archie mac]

Andrew Hilditch was a decent opening batsman who was capable of producing at international level. Just had that compulsive hooker tendency, eyes lit up to the short ball. Ruined his test career in the end.

Great video floating around YouTube
YouTube - 1985 Ashes: Eng v Aus Andrew ' Happy Hooker ' Hilditch

Brings back memories, even worse than I remember

 

[archie mac]

It's hard to tell if Hilditch's case is simply brainless more just pure instinct. Kind of similar to the way Damian Martyn was found out by New Zealand by stacking the gully region and bowling short and wide of off-stump. A player can hold temptation back for only so long. Does that make him brainless?

In a cricket sense I think it does

Instincts can be controlled otherwise my instinct to say what I want would cause some trouble

 

[Goughy]

Great video floating around YouTube
YouTube - 1985 Ashes: Eng v Aus Andrew ' Happy Hooker ' Hilditch

Interesting that the 2nd dismissal by Botham has him coming in off 3 times the length of runup and it looks considerabely quicker than the other medium pace deliveries.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Not regarded as brainless usually, but Gower deserves a mention for buzzing the Gabba (IIRC) in a Tiger Moth plane, which was never going to be a good idea.

A few of KP's public utterances seem to suggest he's not always wont to engage the brain before speaking too.

 

[fredfertang]

In the early part of his career I remember Mike Gatting getting out LBW to deliveries pitched well outside off two or three times in quick succession whilst shouldering arms and padding up - Jim Laker and Richie Benaud were totally bemused

 

[Goughy]

Not regarded as brainless usually, but Gower deserves a mention for buzzing the Gabba (IIRC) in a Tiger Moth plane, which was never going to be a good idea.

A few of KP's public utterances seem to suggest he's not always wont to engage the brain before speaking too.

What about the leg side trap that was set just before lunch and he obligingly hit (IIRC) Merv Hughes straight down fine legs thoat (Ashes 90/91)?

One of the most brain dead and irresponsible pieces of cricket I have ever seen.

 

[social]

Hilditch from Aust, kept hooking was told he would be dropped if he kept getting out that way.

3 on the fence bowl short and hook, out both innings out of the team

Did make a comeback as a selector

 

[TT Boy]

Not mentioned, Herschelle Gibbs and Tamim Iqbal.

 

[Athlai]

Not mentioned, Herschelle Gibbs and Tamim Iqbal.

In Tamim's defense he is still under 20.