Obscure Players That You Remember

[Carbine Chaos]

Wrong about Patel. As a young kid he was a pretty ordinary keeper, but since maturing he's turned into a very worthy international cricketer who's performed well in the obviously sporadic chances he's got with Dhoni there. Adapted into an excellent T20 player too.

I like little Parthiv but you're being a little generous with 'very worthy international' and 'excellent T20 player' I reckon.

I'd draw the line at 'acceptable stopgap years ago' and 'handy T20 player'.

 

[footyman13]

I like little Parthiv but you're being a little generous with 'very worthy international' and 'excellent T20 player' I reckon.

I'd draw the line at 'acceptable stopgap years ago' and 'handy T20 player'.

Don't know if he has been mentioned yet.
Early 70's there was a player called Johnny Watkins. He got called up for a test match, straight from Newcastle, he wasn't even playing for NSW shield team. He was a "spinner".
Anyway, he was really bad. Nerves or whatever, but he couldn't even hit the pitch. There's footage of the captain (could have been Chappelli ?) standing next to him at the top of his mark showing him which pitch to aim for, in a test match!!

 

[Wolfs]

Alex Tudor - had his face caved in by Brett Lee
Adrian Barath - Made a century vs Aus IIRC?
Parthiv Patel - little round wicket keeper from India, debuted at about 17 back in 02, played a series here and was done by 08 at 25 years old.. still going around in the IPL. Is no good.
Ian Blackwell - mug pom
Sajid Mahmood - another mug pom

could be here all day naming mug english players from 2000-2007ish

Ahh Sajid. He was real bad. Tudor does have a test 99 to his name though. Patel couldn't really keep well, Barath what happened to him? Blackwell was their ODI spinner in the early 00's

 

[Oraaaaazio]

Wrong about Patel. As a young kid he was a pretty ordinary keeper, but since maturing he's turned into a very worthy international cricketer who's performed well in the obviously sporadic chances he's got with Dhoni there. Adapted into an excellent T20 player too.

Barath is such a weird one. Looked amazingly calm with a compact technique in that Brisbane test, I know there was injuries but after seeing the debut I find it pretty unbelievable he looked so far off it after that initial success.

Blackwell was a decent enough slugger at domestic level. Not quite international standard, but one of those relatively handy one day specialists before T20 took off. If he had been in his prime for the growth of T20 could have made a lot bigger name for himself.

Geez sorry Parthiv.

He has been an average fill in at best, he was in a s**t position where he couldn't have a run at it even when he did play but batting average of 23 at 76 strike rate from 34 innings is.... poor. Decent enough domestic T20 player but that's it.

 

[corbies]

Don't know if he has been mentioned yet.
Early 70's there was a player called Johnny Watkins. He got called up for a test match, straight from Newcastle, he wasn't even playing for NSW shield team. He was a "spinner".
Anyway, he was really bad. Nerves or whatever, but he couldn't even hit the pitch. There's footage of the captain (could have been Chappelli ?) standing next to him at the top of his mark showing him which pitch to aim for, in a test match!!

He basically kept Australia in that test match with the bat when he and Bob Massie put on 83 for the 9th wicket to give them something to bowl at (helps that Maxy Walker then took 6/15 to win it).

 

[footyman13]

He basically kept Australia in that test match with the bat when he and Bob Massie put on 83 for the 9th wicket to give them something to bowl at (helps that Maxy Walker then took 6/15 to win it).

So that's the same test as Big Maxy' breakout spell, didn't know that.

 

[Wolfs]

Things I didn't realize. It's kind of obscure in terms of players as captains

Ray Bright captained Australia in an ODI Game
Mark Butcher captained England in a test
Norman Gifford played 2 ODIs and captained England in both
Srikkanth captained India in tests
Dion Nash captained NZ in a series
Stuart Carlisle captained Zimbabwe.

Also remember Johan van der Wath?

 

[The_Reaper]

Pretty much everyone who played over 20 tests has captained Zimbabwe

Except Ray Price

 

[sherbrook]

Julian Wiener

Dav Whatmore

Dirk Welham

 

[ioppolo]

Things I didn't realize. It's kind of obscure in terms of players as captains

Ray Bright captained Australia in an ODI Game
Mark Butcher captained England in a test
Norman Gifford played 2 ODIs and captained England in both
Srikkanth captained India in tests
Dion Nash captained NZ in a series
Stuart Carlisle captained Zimbabwe.

Also remember Johan van der Wath?

Van der Wrath, international spud

 

[The_Reaper]

Julian Wiener

Dav Whatmore

Dirk Welham

Hardly obscure.

Pretty prominent as a coach

 

[footyman13]

Hardly obscure.

Pretty prominent as a coach

Yeah, he's obscure as a player though.

 

[big_e]

Matthew Mason - played half a dozen games for WA then went to Worcestershire and took 300 first class wickets.

 

[TheGreatBambino]

Ahh Sajid. He was real bad. Tudor does have a test 99 to his name though. Patel couldn't really keep well, Barath what happened to him? Blackwell was their ODI spinner in the early 00's

Sajid playing a few games for Beaumaris in the Melbourne suburbs this summer.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Muhammed Zahid... Pakistani who bowled quick. Came out here for a tri series once and I remember him cleaning up Brian Lara. Then had heaps of back injuries and never saw him again.

Mark Ealham - England one day player. Slowest "pace" bowler going around.

Seem to recall Ealham getting a top edge six in a one-day game at the MCG, batting at #3. Might have been off Brett Lee, before bat edges became thicker than traditional middles.

edit: Can't have been off Lee, turns out he wasn't playing that game

 

[Registered User]

Was Dennis Hickey as fast as 'they' say?

 

[sherbrook]

Alan Froggy Thomson and Ken Eastwood 1971

Alan Hurst (Vic fast bowler)

 

[ioppolo]

Mark Cleary. South Australian 'batsman', at least I think. Might've even been a better bowler. Bits n pieces like never before.

 

[Hellgood]

I don't remember him ever being considered a batsman.

Decent enough bowler though and from my memory always played as one.

 

[ioppolo]

I don't remember him ever being considered a batsman.

Decent enough bowler though and from my memory always played as one.

He came in at 7 a few times so my memory might've decided he was a batsman.

 

[corbies]

Mark Cleary. South Australian 'batsman', at least I think. Might've even been a better bowler. Bits n pieces like never before.

He and Paul Rofe are always linked in my head for some reason. Both mediocre South Australian bowlers from the mid-00s.

 

[The_Reaper]

Rofe was so bloody slow

Think mediocre is a tad harsh though

 

[Doss]

Has anyone mentioned Patterson Thompson? Fairly chubby West Indian quick who was absolute rubbish.

 

[Phone]

He and Paul Rofe are always linked in my head for some reason. Both mediocre South Australian bowlers from the mid-00s.

from a NSW fan pov, it might be because of this match: http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/78/78432.html

 

[Zach Package]

Isn't Lee Carseldine doing well for himself?