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Battle of the Worst Cricketer

nick-o

State 12th Man
Inspired by a thread in Off Topic, I was wondering who was the worst test cricketer?

But it would be too easy to name people who were called up for a match or two and then sank without trace, or people who played for minnow teams in their early years when they weren't yet test class; and surely there are people from the ancient days whose records are truly atrocious -- trawling StatsGuru for random names would be too easy.

So, out of the cricketers who established themselves in a competitive team and who enough of us have actually watched, who was the worst?

So, some parameters:

Played since 1970 -- that should mean that we aren't going purely by StatsGuru, there will be people here who saw them play

Played a minimum of 10 test matches, (20 for Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, who were all minnows at some stage during this timeframe)

Usual Battle rules: nominations, seconded (nominate as many as you like: seconded names go into the battle)

Deadline for nominations: three days from this post? First battle start Tuesday

Anyone in?
 

Daemon

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Postpone this till after the other battle imo so we have something else to do when that one is over :p
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Can we change the criteria to 10 international matches played? That opens the field up to all sorts of completely arse cricketers like Albie Morkel who play the specialist number 8/5th bowler position with such distinction in limited overs cricket.
 

Burgey

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If GF's broadened parameters are accepted:

Tony Dodemaide
Simon Davis
Chris Matthews.
 

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
Just look at the West Indies over the past 10 years. Gotta be some fine candidates there
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah Devon Smith for a start, the fact he qualifies three times over is the worst thing.
 

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