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Ganteaume may have the highest batting average of all time, but Stuart Law averages infinity!Oooh, good triva. One-Test Wonders
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Notable examples
As of October 2019, there have been 447 players who have only played one Test match.[7][8] Some of the best performances by these players are:
About one in eight Test cricketers are only picked once.[1] Occasionally, one-Test wonders have been recalled to Test cricket after a gap of several years. One example was Ryan Sidebottom, who was recalled for his second Test in 2007 after his debut in 2001.[19] Coincidentally his father, Arnie Sidebottom, was a one-Test wonder.[20]
- Andy Ganteaume, who scored 112 for the West Indies in his only Test innings in 1948, and so has the highest Test batting average of all time.[9]
- Rodney Redmond is the only other player to have scored a century in his only Test, scoring 107 and 56 while opening the batting for New Zealand in 1973.[10]
- West Indian Vic Stollmeyer, brother of Jeff Stollmeyer, scored 96 in his only Test.[11]
- Stuart Law scored 54 not out in his only Test innings for Australia, leaving him without a Test average.[12]
- Gobo Ashley took 7 for 95 for South Africa in the first innings of his single Test in 1889.[13]
- Charles Marriott recorded match figures of 11 for 96 (5 for 37 and 6 for 59) in his only Test for England in 1933.[14][15] No other bowler has taken more than ten wickets in his only Test.[16]
- Among wicket-keepers, Indian player Rajindernath made four stumpings in his only Test, but was not called on to bat.[17]
- Ed Joyce played in Ireland's first Test match in May 2018, and announced his retirement from all cricket one week later.[18]
- Andy Lloyd scored 10 runs (not out) for England in his only test against the West Indies, in June 1984, before being struck on the head (helmeted), by a short-pitched delivery from Malcolm Marshall. Although subsequently recovering from the injury, he never played for his national team again.
Darren Pattinson is an unusual one-Test wonder in that he played a single Test for England, while his brother James Pattinson had a more successful Test career with Australia.
As of May 2007, fourteen one-Test wonders have also played in a single One Day International for their team.[16]
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Does anyone remember Geoff Marsh as a test great? I barely remember him at all but to be fair to him he did occupy the crease a lot. He just didn't score. Averaged 87 balls at the crease per innings which is 20+ more than Warner or Joe Burns. We would've killed for that in the 2019 Ashes. He was a good one day batsman who averaged 40 from 117 matches but if he was younger he wouldn't have lasted beyond the early 90s anyway given his strike rate. I mostly remember him as being the coach during the 99 World Cup and for fathering sons that are excellent at limited overs cricket that keep getting picked in test sides.
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I remember nearly falling asleep watching Marsh and Boon scratch their way to 0/29 off 10 over in ODIs, hoping they'd get out so Dean Jones and Simon O,Donnell would come in.
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Sounds about right. Used to bore me shitless with the mid 90s opening combos of Taylor/Slater etc. until they landed on Gilly and Mark Waugh and then you could get excited from ball 1 and passing 200 wasn't a big deal.
See, that's not true in the slightest - in fact it is the reverse of what happened.
Marsh may have averaged 33, but he did it at a strike rate of about 35 meaning he faced on average about 94 balls per dismissal. That is immense for an opener - for comparison Alistair Cook averaged 96 balls, whilst Warner averages a mere 67. Assuming roughly equally shared strike that means Marsh averaged about 31 overs in the middle, or more than a full session.
That durability and reliability is precisely why Marsh played so many Tests. Marsh didn't create collapses - he prevented them. His ability to regularly see off the new ball and protect a fragile middle order from fresh opposition bowlers was an absolute godsend.
A few more runs would have been nice, but he was worth far more than his average. He was a genuine old-school Test opener, which was exactly what we needed at the time.
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When in the mood he could bowl rapid , bit of an issue with the radar though.
Then as likely to come on next spell and be very medium . Heard his teamates used to get quite frustrated with him .
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Why didn't Anthony Stuart play more at any level?
3 ODIs, 8 wickets @ 13.6 including a hat trick. Small sample size obviously. 27 List A games, 45 wickets @ 23 with a strike rate of 32. Did OK in the Shield also, 26 matches 70 wickets @ 31.
3 ODIs, 8 wickets @ 13.6 including a hat trick. Small sample size obviously. 27 List A games, 45 wickets @ 23 with a strike rate of 32. Did OK in the Shield also, 26 matches 70 wickets @ 31.
Lost some pace which turned him into a military medium bowler. Played some big bash seasons, got spanked around and that was that.
I looked this up a while ago. It was the last three games of the tri-series, and our next ODIs were three months later and he didn't make the tour. Form dropped away pretty quickly and was done at FC level within two years, I think.
Still playing county cricket. And the Abu Dhabi T10, two months ago.
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Yep , got injured too then was very quickly over taken by all the younger NSW pace bowlers at the time .
Literally got his 15 minutes of fame at the g that
Marsh was no world beater but his record was fine for the time, and we are entering an era where similar sorts of players will prove very valuable.
There were a lot of good attacks around in Marsh’s time and there are now.
England are in the very early stages of it but they seem to be building towards a side where an average of 35 will be very valuable given the roll players in their side and what they hope turns out to be a good bowling attack
There were a lot of good attacks around in Marsh’s time and there are now.
England are in the very early stages of it but they seem to be building towards a side where an average of 35 will be very valuable given the roll players in their side and what they hope turns out to be a good bowling attack
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For a time, the one school first XI had M Marsh-Cartwright-Duffield as well as several prominent current grade cricketers in Perth.
Needless to say we didn't lose the cup for a couple of years.
Faced one ball from Duffield in the nets and it was more than enough. Fast and lifting, and he did pretty well in FC cricket overall.
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anyone remember Derek Crookes playing ODIs for sth africa in like 97 v australia.
mainly because he could field
mainly because he could field
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The Greatest Season that was Podcast is doing a series for the 25th anniversary of the Australia A series - Greg Rowell is interviewed in episode 2, I’m sure his name has popped up in this thread a couple of times
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Fair enough, but they weren't far off:
Haynes - 42.3
Greenidge - 44.7
Richardson - 44.4
Richards - 50.2
Lloyd - 46.7
And then it was guys like Logie (35.8) and Gomes 39.6 who batted at 6.
Our side, circa 2000 looked something like this :
Hayden - 50.7
Langer - 45.3
Ponting - 51.9
M Waugh - 41.8
S Waugh - 51.1
Hussey - 51.5
Gilchrist - 47.6
Two unwordly teams, to be sure but to say that guys like Geoff Marsh and Dirk Wellham were Test standard cricketers is not correct. Geoff Marsh had a first class average of under 40 yet opened the batting in 50 Tests for Australia. I get that he batted time but he couldn't hit the ball off the square, even on a good day. They were dark times indeed.
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Hussey never played with either Waugh. Add Clarke and Martyn
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Ahh, you are quite correct. Both those guys also averaged over 45.
Good pickup though.
Define "test standard". Because I'm sure we all have different definitions of it.
And bear in mind that if your country doesn't have enough "test standard" players, you can't go out there with half a side. My point from a few pages ago about giving some of these guys a leave pass is that while they wouldn't have played in better teams, they were the best we had at the time, and ultimately, that's all you need to be to get a game.
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