Just wondering who the worst player ever selected to bat at number 6 would be?
I'm not thinking of players who were picked and then shown not to be good enough for test cricket, so much as those who had demonstrated over a period of time that they weren't very good batsmen, but got put as number 6. Players who might have made respectable number 8's who thanks to some flavour-of-the-month selectorial brilliance ended up at 6.
I'll nominate a few kiwis - James Franklin, Chris Harris, Dipak Patel maybe.
Another category might be the bits n pieces folk with short careers who were probably never going to be good enough, but form in first class cricket got them a couple of caps or so. England seemed to specialise in these players for a time, the likes of Irani and Hollioake...
(I suspect the winner of the title for worst player will be Khaled Mahmud, but I can't be bothered checking to see if he did in fact bat at 6....)
I'm not thinking of players who were picked and then shown not to be good enough for test cricket, so much as those who had demonstrated over a period of time that they weren't very good batsmen, but got put as number 6. Players who might have made respectable number 8's who thanks to some flavour-of-the-month selectorial brilliance ended up at 6.
I'll nominate a few kiwis - James Franklin, Chris Harris, Dipak Patel maybe.
Another category might be the bits n pieces folk with short careers who were probably never going to be good enough, but form in first class cricket got them a couple of caps or so. England seemed to specialise in these players for a time, the likes of Irani and Hollioake...
(I suspect the winner of the title for worst player will be Khaled Mahmud, but I can't be bothered checking to see if he did in fact bat at 6....)