Test series whose result hurt you most

[sunilz]

If you are beaten by a better team , then it's fair enough.
But when your team didn't put up fight and you expected much better from them , then it hurts most.

Eg . 0-8 by IND in ENG + AUS in 2011-12 was simply embarrassing and I wish those series never occurred.

In recent times 0-2 in NZ was also very bad .

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Our tours to SA in the early 00s. It was tough to watch.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

For Bangladesh, I think it would be that game where Inzi defied them a famous victory...in 2004-5?

 

[OverratedSanity]

0-8
1-2 SA tour 2006
1-1 SA tour 2010-11

 

[ankitj]

0-8

No such thing ever happened

 

[ankitj]

SA 1-2 loss in 2017-18 (selections were brain dead)
AUS 1-2 loss in 2007-08
Pak 1-1 in 2005

 

[GIMH]

13-14 Ashes I think. At least 06-07 we got it handed to us by an ATG side.

Yes Johnson put in one of the great series, but still.

 

[OverratedSanity]

SA 1-2 loss in 2017-18 (selections were brain dead)

This and the sam Curran series were pretty bad. Thorough winnable series and we only ended up winning 2 games some how. Southampton the worst test of the bunch.

 

[SteveNZ]

3-0 in Australia hurt really badly, because we'd been searching for that opportunity for 25 years - not only to play on Boxing Day but to tour with what we believed was a truly competitive outfit. Then we got dicked 3 times in a row. I can't remember a series that sucked more than that one. Yes we were rubbish through the 2000s but there was never any expectation that those battlers would achieve anything

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Most disappointing was the West Indies tour in 1990. We’d been hammered for years but unexpectedly won the First Test. We were robbed by rain in the Second Test. Then it got tight, Viv Richards took over the umpiring and we got within half an hour of saving the Test. We were spent by the Final Test and lost heavily and with it the series 2-1. We deserved to win that series.

 

[BoyBrumby]

13-14 Ashes I think. At least 06-07 we got it handed to us by an ATG side.

Yes Johnson put in one of the great series, but still.

Yeah, probably agree with this.

We'd retained the urn relatively comfortably in the summer of 2013. 3-0 was maybe mildly flattering but it's still the only time since 1990 where we'd retained the Ashes and won the series before the final test, so we travelled with, if not the expectation of a win, then certainly the hope of one.

It all went to **** very quickly though and one kinda got the impression a few of the senior players weren't really putting in, which is the worst thing in sport.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Might be the 2012 series vs South Africa at home where they beat us comprehensively to take the #1 Test ranking from us.

 

[Arachnodouche]

For India fans, every series lost for the next few years is going to sting. On paper at least we should be able to compete everywhere and win more often than not.

 

[Slifer]

For me, the 5-0 white wash to RSA in 1998. For reasons....

 

[trundler]

2-1 NZ in UAE a couple of years ago. The loss in the third test was so incredibly daft.

 

[TheJediBrah]

2000-01 v NZ (0-0)
2012-13 v SA (0-1)

Both because Aus were denied the series win despite being the better team and should have been 2-0 up if not for rain

 

[SteveNZ]

Probably not as straight forward as you say in 2000-01. In Brisbane, no we never deserved to win the game necessarily based on the dominant position Australia were in, but a result wasn't straight forward there. Might have run out of time even with weather. Hobart we were obviously dicked, then Perth we should have won if not for Ian effing Robinson.

Plus it's your climate.

 

[Immenso]

87-88 NZ in Australia. Danny Morrison having plumb LBW turned down in penultimate over. I was gutted, I was young then and truely 'lived' the pain of that.

2004 NZ tour of England. I didn't actually watch any of it. IIRC all winnable but lost all 3. To me it symbolised that the mini good era of Fleming, Cairns, Bond, Nash etc was over already, and never rose above the injury hobbled few good years it was.

2012 England tour of NZ. Matt Prior chopping onto his stumps and the bails not coming off. We have such a poor historical record against England, Australia, South Africa that fluffing winning opportunites really hurts. Made worse by being Stuart Broaded a few months later in another winnable test.

2019/20 tour of Australia. Just pathetic.

 

[morgieb]

Those dual tours of Pakistan/Sri Lanka throughout the Lehmann years was ****ing dire.

On a heartbreaker level, hard to think of any as there just isn't enough underdog style series for us. Probably the 2017 tour of India?

 

[mr_mister]

Most disappointing was the West Indies tour in 1990. We’d been hammered for years but unexpectedly won the First Test. We were robbed by rain in the Second Test. Then it got tight, Viv Richards took over the umpiring and we got within half an hour of saving the Test. We were spent by the Final Test and lost heavily and with it the series 2-1. We deserved to win that series.

This sounds like Aus in India in 2017 which is my answer. Crap in Asia forever, somehow crush the 1st test due to SOK, then despite some Smith magic and Kohli being useless we lose momentum and the series 2-1