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Your country's 'One Caps Wonders' XI

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
The man who score 124 against Surrey in 1946 from number 11 - Sarwate at number 10 got a century as well - It was certainly the first time that 10 and 11 had both scored centuries and I don't think it's been done since
Great fact.

BTW why do you always have to bring up Old Father Tate, fred? Bit of a sore point. Earlier on today I briefly thought of trying to stitch together a Sussex One-Cap Wonder team - with Fred Tate as skipper and Tony Pigott vice-captain - but gave up after about 6 or 7.
 

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Sorry Mr Z - can't recall mentioning him before - shouldn't be a sore point though - as a fellow Fred I have a great deal of respect for Fred Tate who quite wrongly got the blame for Englands sorry defeat at Old Trafford
 

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
It was a freak occurrence, of course, that the game was not abandoned without a ball being bowled
 

Smith

Banned
The man who score 124 against Surrey in 1946 from number 11 - Sarwate at number 10 got a century as well - It was certainly the first time that 10 and 11 had both scored centuries and I don't think it's been done since
Excellent spot. Thank you.

BTW could you both, ie, Zaremba and fredfertang please tell me who are the gentlemen on their avatars?
 

shivfan

Banned
A couple spring to mind for the WI, and both are from Trinidad....

Andy Ganteaume and Victor Stollmeyer.

the former scored a century, and the latter 96, and neither played for the WI again.
:unsure:
 

Smudge

Hall of Fame Member
Happy to let other NZers fill the rest of the gaps. I got bored:

1) Peter Truscott - never heard of him
2) Rodney Redmond - certainly the most famous of NZ's one-cap wonders. Scored a famous century for NZ v Pakistan in 1972/3 but eye problems meant he lost all form on the tour of England, never to be selected again.
3) Richard Jones - a journeyman on the NZ domestic circuit who lacked the technique or mental willpower to succeed at international level.




8) Andre Adams - a remarkably successful solo test, but a failure to see eye to eye with coach John Bracewell meant the death warrant for his test career was signed pretty early.
9) Greg Loveridge - the leg-spinner who never bowled a ball in test cricket thanks to a broken finger while he was batting. Got the yips a year or two later and went on to study at Cambridge University. He now runs one of Sir Bob Jones' main companies.
10) Gary Robertson - a bowling average of 91 speaks wonders...

11) David Sewell - Sewelly is one of NZ domestic cricket's nice guys and oozed potential early in his career, but only got one crack at a test career when called in as a late replacement for a Zimbabwe tour.
 

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Sorry Mr Z - can't recall mentioning him before - shouldn't be a sore point though - as a fellow Fred I have a great deal of respect for Fred Tate who quite wrongly got the blame for Englands sorry defeat at Old Trafford
5-3-7-2

Fred Tate's bowling figures in the second innings at Old Trafford - sadly forever overlooked when discussing his contribution to that game.

From an Australian point of view, Roy Park could possibly claim to be Australia's equivalent of poor Fred, though for slightly different reasons. He was picked for the Test in Melbourne in 1920/21, was bowled first ball in his only innings and never played for Australia again. Legend has it that his wife, in the crowd, dropped her knitting and bent down to pick it up at that very moment - and so missed her husband's entire Test career.
 

stumpski

International Captain
Surely there should be an honourable mention too for another doctor, Otto Nothling, the Man Who Replaced Bradman? Or at least took his place at number 7 for the 2nd Test of the 1928-29 series. Did rather better than the Don did first time out, but was never tried again.

Hans Ebeling made a debut in the final Test of the 1934 series and didn't do too badly at all - five for 130 in a high-scoring match - but years later became better known as the original organiser of the 1977 Centenary Test.

And if it's too early to call time on McGain's career, I'd like to see John Watkins in the Australian spinner's spot - had a pretty similar time of it (but bowled mercifully fewer overs). His main contribution came with the bat as he added 83 with Bob Massie.
 

Michaelf7777777

International Debutant
Nothling was also a good rugby player. I don't remember much about his career at all but I remember seeing him in a book on the 100 greatest Wallabies
 

Chubb

International Regular
A couple spring to mind for the WI, and both are from Trinidad....

Andy Ganteaume and Victor Stollmeyer.

the former scored a century, and the latter 96, and neither played for the WI again.
:unsure:
As I understand it, Ganteaume didn't play again because he wasn't the type to kow-tow to the whites and he had irritated them by ignoring their instructions. Stollmeyer didn't because he gave up cricket during the war, unlike his brother. Lots of people thought Victor was better than Jeff, or at least had more mental discipline.

It is impossible- literally impossible- to do a one-cap wonder team for Zimbabwe.
 
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