Worst short-lived selections

[S.Kennedy]

Australian Ashes selection 2009-2011 produced a lot of these players who are fairly familiar to English fans, unversed in Shield cricket as we are, because of constant replays of the two DVD highlights packages of these two series released here in the United Kingdom: Graham Manou; the wonderfully named Xavier Doherty and Doug Bollinger. At least fans of County Cricket had a passing acquaintance with Doug.

Hilfenhaus and to a lesser degree Ed Cowan had a bit more of a 'go' at it to fully fall in this category but they are other examples of the Australian selection policy during this period of failure.

 

[Furball]

He got some games in the summer beforehand. him, brett dorey, mitch johnson and stuart clark all got OD games in the summer after the 05 Ashes, i guess as they tried to replace Kasper and Dizzy. Bracken was in the team too but I can't remember if he had already made himself a fixture of the OD team. obviously clark and MJ went further

Bracken must've, I'm certain he was regarded as one of the premier ODI bowlers by the time the 2007 World Cup rolled round.

 

[Burgey]

Cracker Holdsworth for the 93 Ashes was way out there, though he never played a test. Genuinely funny man though.

 

[Flem274*]

That time we accidentally selected Peter Ingram in a Test team against Australia.Somehow he was run out twice in four innings as a number 3.

Wellington v Central Districts at Wellington, Dec 12-15, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Spikey]

Bracken must've, I'm certain he was regarded as one of the premier ODI bowlers by the time the 2007 World Cup rolled round.

He wasn't around the OD set-up (partly due to injury) for the 2003 WC though, and despite his red hot 2004/05 shield summer, he wasn't picked in the Ashes and I'm almost certain he wasn't in the ODers before them. So I'm thinking that 05/06 summer saw Bracken, Johnson, Dorey, Clark and Lewis all get games in their attmpts to re-stock the pace cabinet following Dizzy and Kasper's stock falling (and McGrath having to miss the SA series)

Australian Ashes selection 2009-2011 produced a lot of these players who are fairly familiar to English fans, unversed in Shield cricket as we are, because of constant replays of the two DVD highlights packages of these two series released here in the United Kingdom: Graham Manou; the wonderfully named Xavier Doherty and Doug Bollinger. At least fans of County Cricket had a passing acquaintance with Doug.

Hilfenhaus and to a lesser degree Ed Cowan had a bit more of a 'go' at it to fully fall in this category but they are other examples of the Australian selection policy during this period of failure.

There's a difference between mostly correct selections that didn't work and "Worst short-lived selections" though. Of all those names, only Doherty qualifies for the second imo, and even then in that same series Beer, who I named above, was a far worse one

 

[Burgey]

Gavin Robertson.

The worst part of his selection was he lives off it in order to get paid to give his opinion on a radio sports show in Sydney every arvo.

Was also a ********* Dundas United Premier League soccer player in the early-mid 90s ftr.

 

[mr_mister]

Doug Bollinger averaged 25 with the ball in his 12 tests hardly worthy of this thread at all

 

[OverratedSanity]

Gavin Robertson.

The worst part of his selection was he lives off it in order to get paid to give his opinion on a radio sports show in Sydney every arvo.

Was also a ********* Dundas United Premier League soccer player in the early-mid 90s ftr.

He outbowled Warne that series, though that's not saying much.

 

[Starfighter]

Debasis Mohanty

 

[Daemon]

Debasis Mohanty

Seriously gun bowler in ICC though. D and B Mohanty were top class.

 

[Shri]

Seriously gun bowler in ICC though. D and B Mohanty were top class.

Avishkar Salvi and Gagandeep Singh were better.

 

[vic_orthdox]

David Johnson was decent in the original ICC.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ganguly's dibbly dobblies were incredibly OP. Especially if you pitched it so short that it bounced twice before reaching the batsman.

 

[Daemon]

Ganguly's dibbly dobblies were incredibly OP. Especially if you pitched it so short that it bounced twice before reaching the batsman.

We're talking ICC not EA Sports cricket you noob.

But yes, I used to get teams all out for 0 with Ponting and Hayden opening the bowling using that tactic.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Whoops you're right.

 

[vcs]

We're talking ICC not EA Sports cricket you noob.

But yes, I used to get teams all out for 0 with Ponting and Hayden opening the bowling using that tactic.

Ganguly's straight hits in EA Cricket are awesome. Once he gets going, he hits massive sixes.

 

[cnerd123]

I used to play as Bangladesh in all these games.

Araft and Elias Sunny anyone?

 

[Shri]

I used to play as Bangladesh in all these games.

Araft and Elias Sunny anyone?

Manjural Islam, Ahsanullah Hassan, Abdur Razzak, Mortaza, Rasel are the best bowlers in the 2005 edition.

 

[CapeTown Guy]

Following on from Bryce McGain, I'll add another rubbish leggie to the equation - Rawl Lewis.

Except he doesn't really fit the criteria - somehow they kept on selecting him: 5 Tests in four different series over 11 years, equally **** each time.

 

[SeamUp]

Such a good 1999 CWC for Gavin Hamilton and Scotland.

The consequence. England selection and a pair on debut. Your only two test innings.