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Re: One test wonders

Postby Dogwatcher » Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:17 am

Exactly - I knew them all, if only by name.

It always amazes me Simon Davis only played one test. Not because he was any good, but because he was around the team so much in the mid to late 80s. Was a good one day bowler.
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Hondo » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:55 am

Dogwatcher wrote:Exactly - I knew them all, if only by name.

It always amazes me Simon Davis only played one test. Not because he was any good, but because he was around the team so much in the mid to late 80s. Was a good one day bowler.


It was the 85-86 one day season he did so well in. I think he played his one test at the end of that season in NZ. In the 86-87 one day season the West Indies and Ian Botham smashed him around more than the opponents in 85-86. Botham famously took to him for 26 runs in one over in Perth.

I think he was finished by 1987-88 but never got back to the heights of 85-86
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Adelaide Hawk » Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:32 am

Media Park wrote:I missed 8 of 61, although names like Bob Massie don't seem obscure to me... :?


Bob Massie was hardly a one Test wonder. Sure, he took 16 wickets in his first Test, but he was a successful member of the 1972 Ashes series. 31 Test wickets in 6 Tests is hardly a One Test wonder.

He also bowled with success against the World XI in 1971-72, taking 7/76 at the SCG. Victims included Garfield Sobers, Graeme Pollock, Sunil Gavaskar, Zaheer Abbas, Hilton Akkerman, Asif Masood and Bishen Bedi. That list reads like a who's who in Test history, and if that's being a One Test wonder then give me more of it.
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Dogwatcher » Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:13 pm

Hondo wrote:
Dogwatcher wrote:Exactly - I knew them all, if only by name.

It always amazes me Simon Davis only played one test. Not because he was any good, but because he was around the team so much in the mid to late 80s. Was a good one day bowler.


It was the 85-86 one day season he did so well in. I think he played his one test at the end of that season in NZ. In the 86-87 one day season the West Indies and Ian Botham smashed him around more than the opponents in 85-86. Botham famously took to him for 26 runs in one over in Perth.

I think he was finished by 1987-88 but never got back to the heights of 85-86


He did play his test in NZ. I think it might have been the test in which Matthews scored a tonne but more importantly, a toilet seat was thrown on to the field, while Mo was pelted with eggs.
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Re: One test wonders

Postby CoverKing » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:09 pm

Khawaja and Beer can be added to the list.

I would think Beer may be on this list for a while
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Jim05 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:25 pm

CoverKing wrote:Khawaja and Beer can be added to the list.

I would think Beer may be on this list for a while

Khawaja is no 1 test wonder. Even if ponting comes back someone else will have to make way.
Agree on beer though. The guy cant buy a wicket at ss level
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Re: One test wonders

Postby CoverKing » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:27 pm

Jim05 wrote:
CoverKing wrote:Khawaja and Beer can be added to the list.

I would think Beer may be on this list for a while

Khawaja is no 1 test wonder. Even if ponting comes back someone else will have to make way.
Agree on beer though. The guy cant buy a wicket at ss level


He is a one test wonder for a while yet. Lots of things can happen until our next test match which is August I believe
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Adelaide Hawk » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:34 pm

Jim05 wrote:
CoverKing wrote:Khawaja and Beer can be added to the list.

I would think Beer may be on this list for a while

Khawaja is no 1 test wonder. Even if ponting comes back someone else will have to make way.
Agree on beer though. The guy cant buy a wicket at ss level


Khawaja should have been on and off this list at least 3 Tests ago.
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Re: One test wonders

Postby CoverKing » Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:21 pm

Adelaide Hawk wrote:
Jim05 wrote:
CoverKing wrote:Khawaja and Beer can be added to the list.

I would think Beer may be on this list for a while

Khawaja is no 1 test wonder. Even if ponting comes back someone else will have to make way.
Agree on beer though. The guy cant buy a wicket at ss level


Khawaja should have been on and off this list at least 3 Tests ago.

Should have but isn't unfortunately
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Re: One test wonders

Postby daysofourlives » Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:48 pm

Can we include one test captains? ;)
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Re: One test wonders

Postby am Bays » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:44 pm

daysofourlives wrote:Can we include one test captains? ;)

Barry Jarman, Neil Harvey....
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Adelaide Hawk » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:50 pm

am Bays wrote:
daysofourlives wrote:Can we include one test captains? ;)

Barry Jarman, Neil Harvey....


Hugh Massie, Bill Brown, Ray Lindwall.
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Jim05 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:58 pm

Michael clarke :D
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Re: One test wonders

Postby GWW » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:55 pm

Jim05 wrote:Michael clarke :D


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Re: One test wonders

Postby Media Park » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:06 pm

Bump.

Trent Copeland
Nathan Lyon.
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Dogwatcher » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:08 pm

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Re: One test wonders

Postby Dogwatcher » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:11 pm

Copeland and Lyons added.
Kwhaja removed.
Asterix removed from Manou's name, given he's retired.
Will we remove the asterix from George and McKay's name?
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Hondo » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:14 pm

Michael Beer now reeks of ending up a one test wonder
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Re: One test wonders

Postby Dogwatcher » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:18 pm

Seems so. Will there be a two spinner deck on this tour? I'm sure Lyons will get more than one shot to prove his worth, otherewise you wouldn't pla him in the first test.
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Re: One test wonders

Postby brod » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:21 pm

Hes got two more chances this tour to get off this list
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