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The best I can think of was that of Sourav Ganguly in his first test at Lords scoring 131 .The worst i have seen was of James Marshall ,getiing runout when the partner was his twin brother Hamish .
Read the thread title and he came straight to my mind.marc71178 said:Gavin Hamilton.
A pair and no wickets, then just when he thought his career couldn't get any worse, he was transferred to Durham.
In test matches, as many as 14 players have bagged a pair in their debut match starting with GF Grace in 1888 and ending (so far) with Fernando of Sri Lanka in 2002. This is not including tail enders. All of them batted between 1-7 in the batting order.Autobahn said:Gooch - I can't think of much stuff worse than bagging a pair on debut.
Gawd, I sure hope not! I mean, what do you have to do to be dropped (assuming he was) after a triple ton? Those are some harsh selectors........RE Foster scored the then highest test match score of 287 in his debut test in December 1903. This stood as a record till nearly 27 years when Andy Sandham scored the first ever triple century in April 1930. By the way, this was Sandham's last test match of 14 and his 325 and 50 in the test remain the best performance by any batsman in his farewell game. Unlikely to be broken, I daresay.
I think he retired since he was 'tired'Top_Cat said:Gawd, I sure hope not! I mean, what do you have to do to be dropped (assuming he was) after a triple ton? Those are some harsh selectors........
I just get images in my mind of Lumberg from Office Space saying "Yeah Andy; what's happening. Yeah, We've been looking at the match report and 325 was good but it wasn't exactly 326 was it?"