Random Australian Test Cricketers

[Drummond]

Alex Doolan

Great addition, totally forgot about him. He got 4 tests! With a FC average of 34!! That’s nuts.

 

[BronCrow]

Martin Love is an oft forgotten one considering how good he was. And that he scored a test hundred.

He’s definitely not random but I think a lot of people have forgotten about Matthew Elliott’s second incarnation after he moved to SA and got brought back randomly for one of those top end series and failed dismally

Martin Love was a gun. Would have walked in to our side if he was around 10 years later than he was.


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[big_e]

What was the go with Callum Ferguson. I know the one test he played in and the way in which he got out was an absolute disaster, but surely he deserved at least one more chance to redeem himself?

I feel sorry for Callum Ferguson in a lot of ways.

He was OK but nothing special at ODI level, but hadn't played an international for five years when he got his test cap. The team was already struggling but then they had a horrible test and the selectors went bang. Had it have been a different result, he might have got a couple more tests to prove himself.

So he gets his test cap but instead of remembering him as a solid FC player who had a year or two in the ODI side, he is labelled as a one test wonder who failed when given a chance at the highest level.

 

[BronCrow]

Stuart Law...1 test...1 innings 50 odd not out...always thought he should've played more.
Jo Angel & Chris Matthews....getting smashed around by Viv and his mates.

Stuart Law’s only Test was also Ricky Ponting’s test debut in Perth IIRC in 1995. Was not out and the innings was declared when Ponting was given out for 96 in one of the worst LBW decisions you would ever see.

AUS vs SL Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Perth, December 08 - 11, 1995

Get cricket scorecard of 1st Test, AUS vs SL, Sri Lanka tour of Australia 1995/96 at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth dated December 08 - 11, 1995.

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[BronCrow]

Phil Emery played one test in 1994 in place of Ian Healy in Pakistan.

Also, Brad Williams is another nomination.


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[cricketnut14]

Peter who ?

 

[Jamurp]

Feel Trent Copeland is a similar type of player. Also Joe Mennie.

Joe Mennie is a good shout, from memory part of the reason he got picked is because of his lower order batting haha, we got rolled by SA from memory in that test.

Not random, and had a decent FC career, but Marcus North is one of those test players that I think would've been completely forgotten by a lot of the public.

 

[BronCrow]

Joe Mennie is a good shout, from memory part of the reason he got picked is because of his lower order batting haha, we got rolled by SA from memory in that test.

Not random, and had a decent FC career, but Marcus North is one of those test players that I think would've been completely forgotten by a lot of the public.

Thought Marcus was a bit of a scapegoat in the 2010 Ashes series. Was an underrated player I thought. Know plenty of others that didn’t rate him though.


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[CrazyJoeFevola]

Martin Love is an oft forgotten one considering how good he was. And that he scored a test hundred.

He’s definitely not random but I think a lot of people have forgotten about Matthew Elliott’s second incarnation after he moved to SA and got brought back randomly for one of those top end series and failed dismally

Elliott was selected to bat at 3 to fill in for Ponting in a top end game against Bangladesh after making a pile of runs for the Vics in a shield winning year. He did nothing, was dropped and moved to SA. Was horrible in the Shield for South Australia but made piles of one day runs.

 

[PhatBoy]

Elliott was selected to bat at 3 to fill in for Ponting in a top end game against Bangladesh after making a pile of runs for the Vics in a shield winning year. He did nothing, was dropped and moved to SA. Was horrible in the Shield for South Australia but made piles of one day runs.

Geez I thought it was after he’d moved that he got re selected

 

[Messenger]

Beau Casson.

He’s an interesting one. He’s was out of cricket three years after his only test due to a heart condition.

 

[worbod]

Simon Cook. Took five on debut, played one more test then got run over by a steam roller

That's the way Cookie crumbled.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Thought Marcus was a bit of a scapegoat in the 2010 Ashes series. Was an underrated player I thought. Know plenty of others that didn’t rate him though.


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Was all mental. If he got past 30 he'd get a ton but just had the yips when it came to getting started.

 

[Hawksboy72]

Has anybody mentioned Robbie Kerr??
2 tests 30 runs 7 Average.
Averaged 37 for Qld.

 

[worbod]

A player named Steve Smith was selected primarily for his bowling in 2010. He finished with 3 wickets after 5 Tests and was dropped.

 

[Aussie_boy]

I feel sorry for Callum Ferguson in a lot of ways.

He was OK but nothing special at ODI level, but hadn't played an international for five years when he got his test cap. The team was already struggling but then they had a horrible test and the selectors went bang. Had it have been a different result, he might have got a couple more tests to prove himself.

So he gets his test cap but instead of remembering him as a solid FC player who had a year or two in the ODI side, he is labelled as a one test wonder who failed when given a chance at the highest level.

Feel like you're selling Ferguson short regarding his ODI career, he was better than OK he was excellent in that 2009/10 period. Looked like a lock to be batting in the ODI middle order for a long time to come before he did his knee in the champions trophy final.

I never saw him as a test cricketer though, mediocre FC player and record shows this I think it's fair to say.

 

[Mockcockpit]

That's the way Cookie crumbled.

Ironically, he could never bowl flat-out after that.

 

[Interceptor]

I was wondering if excellent one day bowler Simon Davis ever played a Test Match and it turns out he did.
Just one against NZ in Feb 1986 and took no wickets (match was a draw with each side only batting once).

Tim Zoehrer (10 Tests) was the keeper in that match.
He would later lose his place to Greg Dyer.

 

[Altum Volantes]

He’s still a figure around the team these days but remember when Andrew ‘Ronald’ McDonald played a handful of tests one strange summer?

 

[The Passenger]

Best figures of 8/215

Legend

The most bizarre bowling performance of all time. He had like 2/200 or something at one point...

Man he was disliked in the Sydney grade scene before he moved to Tasmania.

 

[The Passenger]

I feel sorry for Callum Ferguson in a lot of ways.

He was OK but nothing special at ODI level, but hadn't played an international for five years when he got his test cap. The team was already struggling but then they had a horrible test and the selectors went bang. Had it have been a different result, he might have got a couple more tests to prove himself.

So he gets his test cap but instead of remembering him as a solid FC player who had a year or two in the ODI side, he is labelled as a one test wonder who failed when given a chance at the highest level.

Ferguson had a great technique. One of the best in the country really. But for whatever reason he never scored the runs required to demand selection. I can only put it down to a lack of hunger. That real desire to get out there and score a ton every time you bat.

Seems like a nice guy but also seems like he lacks a bit of mongrel to gel with the likes of Ponting, Haddin, Smith, Warner (which also ties in with the lack of hunger for runs) for anyone to fight his corner and say "we have to select this guy" (anyone who thinks senior players don't have some sway on team selection are deluding themselves). When he got picked for ODI's I don't think anyone expected him to do particularly well, but then when he did do well I don't think they really knew what do... That's my thoughts as to why post knee injury he was never really given a chance - he got another 5 ODI's or something like that.

The South Australian junior system around his era had so much talent - himself, Cosgrove, D Cullen and Cullen B plus others that no one would remember now. Trent Kelly being one that I remember cause I played a trial game again and he was bloody good. For only Ferguson and Cosgrove to have built decent careers, and even then only at state level, not international level, was a real loss for Australian cricket.

 

[Crankitup]

Graeme Beard
John Benaud (Richie's unheralded younger brother)
and Murray Bennett

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Has anybody mentioned Robbie Kerr??
2 tests 30 runs 7 Average.
Averaged 37 for Qld.

I always thought his record at FC level was better than that.

 

[cricketnut14]

so it's really a thread of 1 test wonders and the like.

only 119 of the 460 test cricketers have played 25+ tests.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Graeme Beard
John Benaud (Richie's unheralded younger brother)
and Murray Bennett

John Benaud smashed a ton in his second Test because he heard he was getting dropped and just got pissed off.