Worst beating in a test series?

[DrEvil]

I fail to recall a series where one team is so badly thrashed in every single game. Did the windies tour bangladesh during the 80's?

 

[Borry]

We crushed the Windies here 5-0 in 2000-2001 when the only good player the Windies had was a hot and cold Lara and three has beens and only one century was scored in that series by a Windies batsman. Windies surrendered terribly in three of those tests.

But even then the Windies came closer in two tests then England's closest result this series and gave themselves a chance in those two.

The India 4-0 thrashing two years ago was pretty bad.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Very funny comment from the Guardian OBO -

There appears to be only one award, rather than one per team, which would save England some embarrassment, were they not as embarrassed as any people have ever been in the history of embarrassment.

 

[worbod]

England's 5-0 drubbing in the West Indies in 1986 would also have to be one of the worst series efforts. There were no century makers, only one batsman averaged over 30 and no frontline bowler averaged under 30. At the end of the series even captain David Gower said something like, "I'd like to congratulate Viv and the boys for doing a perfect demolition job on us."

 

[Smeg Head]

Very funny comment from the Guardian OBO -

There appears to be only one award, rather than one per team, which would save England some embarrassment, were they not as embarrassed as any people have ever been in the history of embarrassment.

Stokes would be a very simple man of the series for the ECB but if they awarded one to each side.

 

[little graham]

We carried Bailey all series. Rogers only ever got cheap runs. Watson was useless. We got 37 wickets from a guy who wouldn't of made the Australian A side if it wasn't for injury. Smith and Warner are not test batsmen, Siddle is a net bowler. Years ago Haddin was deemed to old. Lyon is barely first class standard.Harris is overweight.

Its as bad as it gets for England.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

The 1970 tour of South Africa by the Australians was as comprehensive a thrashing as I can recall. Thankfully, it was only a 4 Test series.

Aussie batsmen only made 10 scores of 50 or more and no centuries. South Africa made 6 100s and 12 50s. Ian Chappell couldn't buy a run after being touted as the best batsman in the world by Bill Lawry, only 3 batsmen averaged higher than 30, and Graham McKenzie took only 1 wicket for the series at a cost of 333 runs.

Test 1 South Africa won by 170 runs
Test 2 South Africa won by an Innings & 129 runs
Test 3 South Africa won by 307 runs
Test 4 South Africa won by 323 runs

An absolute mauling

 

[HBF]

As bad a thrashing as I can recall. Poms came here with a pretty good and settled side and were warm favourites to retain the Ashes. Six weeks later, Trott and Swann had left the tour early and a number of players who came with big reputations (Cook, Bell and Anderson) leave with their reputations in tatters.

Only two players, maybe three can leave with any sort of self respect. Stokes of course if the one bright light that came out of this tour. Broad with the ball was what we expected and I reckon you could give Carberry half a tick. Sure he didn't get a heap of runs but he looked good and at least made it hard for us to get him out.

 

[The_Reaper]

I fail to recall a series where one team is so badly thrashed in every single game. Did the windies tour bangladesh during the 80's?

Bangladesh only started playing tests about 12 years ago

 

[Borry]

Just looking at all the results from South Africa's 5-0 demolition job of the Windies in 1998-99, closer results overall to this 5-0 series sweep but not one Windies player got a century. Nor did they post a team innings total beyond 300.

 

[stmookeyj]

We crushed the Windies here 5-0 in 2000-2001 when the only good player the Windies had was a hot and cold Lara and three has beens and only one century was scored in that series by a Windies batsman. Windies surrendered terribly in three of those tests.

You knew that was a mismatch from the time Ramnaresh Sarwan was run out on Morning 1 Day 1 attempting a 2nd Leg Bye. That team was so bad they even failed to chase down 120 against Zimbabwe when the 50 over games came around.

 

[frankrizzo]

If you are taking into account the quality of both teams and the expectations pre series this must rank up there as one of the worst losses ever.

Take that one just over a decade ago when we belted the windies, when you look at those two teams and consider australia had won i think 10 straight heading in then 5-0 really wasn't unexpected.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Stokes would be a very simple man of the series for the ECB but if they awarded one to each side.

Broad.

 

[sherb]

The 1970 tour of South Africa by the Australians was as comprehensive a thrashing as I can recall. Thankfully, it was only a 4 Test series.

Aussie batsmen only made 10 scores of 50 or more and no centuries. South Africa made 6 100s and 12 50s. Ian Chappell couldn't buy a run after being touted as the best batsman in the world by Bill Lawry, only 3 batsmen averaged higher than 30, and Graham McKenzie took only 1 wicket for the series at a cost of 333 runs.

Test 1 South Africa won by 170 runs
Test 2 South Africa won by an Innings & 129 runs
Test 3 South Africa won by 307 runs
Test 4 South Africa won by 323 runs

An absolute mauling

There were mitigating circumstances to that tour, it was straight off the back of a 5 test tour of India.

And I recall Ian Chappell telling the story that the ACB wanted the side to stay on for a fifth test......

 

[worbod]

Also, in relation to that 1970 South African tour, I remember reading, I think in Keith Stackpole's biography, about the poor food standards in India back then. As soon as the Aussies landed in South Africa, one the first things they did was to find a decent food outlet, upon which they duly hogged into burgers and milkshakes.

 

[red+black]

Not every single game, but I think our home loss in the Ashes last time was pretty bad.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/428731.html

Three innings losses at home, pretty convincing.

 

[sherb]

Also, in relation to that 1970 South African tour, I remember reading, I think in Keith Stackpole's biography, about the poor food standards in India back then. As soon as the Aussies landed in South Africa, one the first things they did was to find a decent food outlet, upon which they duly hogged into burgers and milkshakes.

Yes, that was my point I guess.

Back then, a tour of India really took its toll on the players through poor hygiene, food, accommodation, sanitation, etc.

And the ACB sent our players on a full tour there, expecting them to front up to South Africa immediately afterwards.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

But going into the Melbourne test the series was still 1 all. Melbourne was very painful in my memory but it doesn't touch on this pile of crap from England. They knew they were cooked by end of their first innings Adelaide.

 

[mianfei]

The 1958 New Zealanders were thrashed four times by England, and made a draw in the fifth Test due to the fact that about two days’ play was all that rain permitted. What’s shocking to me and would be even more shocking to you is how badly the New Zealand batsmen did:

1. At Edgbaston – 94 and 137 to England’s 221 and 215 for six wickets declared
2. At Lord’s – 47 and 74 replying to England’s 269 all out
3. At Headingley – 67 and 129 against England’s 267 for two wickets declared
4. At Old Trafford – 267 and 85 against England’s 365 for nine wickets declared
5. At the Oval – 161 and 91 for three wickets against England’s 219 for nine wickets declared
6. Sum total – 1,152 runs for 93 wickets or an average of 12.39 runs per wicket!

• Tony Lock took 34 wickets for 7.47 apiece and Jim Laker 17 at 10.17 apiece!
• The Kiwis made only three individual fifties in the five Tests
  • 50 by inexperienced off-spinner Sparling and 66 by pace bowler MacGibbon at Old Trafford
  • 51 not out by John Reid at the Oval on the last day when England gave batsman Milton a bowl
• In contrast, England:
  • scored 1,556 runs for 46 wickets at an average of 33.82
    • which would be equivalent to an average of 70 or 80 per wicket on today’s covered pitches
  • scored four centuries, viz.
    • 100 by Peter Richardson at Edgbaston
    • 113 not out by Peter May and 104 not out by Colin Milton on a sticky wicket at Old Trafford
    • 101 by Peter May at Old Trafford
    • for the 1958 summer May averaged 63 in all first-class matches, which would probably be equivalent to an average of 150 on today’s covered pitches.
  • England also scored eight other fifties
  • Only Anthony MacGibbon of the New Zealand bowlers took as many as seven wickets in the five Tests – he took 43.47 percent of the England wickets that fell, but at a worse average than any of England’s recognised bowlers

It is impossible for me to think of a team so badly thrashed, yet when one considers the conditions and weather, those 1958 New Zealanders were probably no worse a team that the 1985 Australians or 1959 Indians. Both of those – one with fully covered pitches, the other with an exceptionally dry summer – had quite easy conditions to play upon, and the 1985 Australians had a very poor England team that was to win only one more home Test until 1990.

They had to cope with an extremely wet English summer, and unfortunately for the future of the game New Zealand had focused too much on the short-term and began covering pitches at home, which meant they had little experience of balls spinning at a pace never seen today (I can testify that from limited footage of the famous Old Trafford Test of 1956) nor bowlers suitable for such conditions (and the largest crowds and biggest independent profits from first-class cricket coincide in almost every country with greatest reliance upon spin). It must be said that even Richards’ and Lloyd’s supposedly great West Indian teams of the 1980s would (at all events in wet weather) have had no chance against Jim Laker and Tony Lock on the uncovered pitches of the 1950s. The standard of spin was so far ahead and the pitches so much less unfavourable that it would have taken any 1980s batsman years and years to learn the techniques required. During the 1990s, Ashley Mallett pointed out that the 1980s West Indian teams had no experience of genuine tweakers like Laker, Lock or many other bowlers of previous eras and that they failed against much less accomplished bowlers on turning pitches several times.

 

[worbod]

Yes, that was my point I guess.

Back then, a tour of India really took its toll on the players through poor hygiene, food, accommodation, sanitation, etc.

And the ACB sent our players on a full tour there, expecting them to front up to South Africa immediately afterwards.

Apparently even when the Aussies had time off and went to play on the Indian golf courses, they had to be wary of snakes darting out of the bushes at random moments.

 

[mianfei]

Apparently even when the Aussies had time off and went to play on the Indian golf courses, they had to be wary of snakes darting out of the bushes at random moments.

That does not actually seem so incredible, given that golf courses in Australia and the American South looked so well-wooded that snakes would seem by no means an impossibility.

It’s certainly more probable that poor hygiene and food, or more accurately the change to much better and richer food as Australia would have experienced in South Africa, had a major effect on the ability of the players to perform. I don’t doubt that it is possible to perform on poor food, but changing suddenly to richer food is very difficult indeed. The 1948 Wisden says that

“the change from English rations to the excellent Australian food, coupled with the benefit gained from a sea trip and glorious Australian sunshine, caused all the party to put on weight and none more so than (Bill) Voce and (Dick) Pollard”

and it is very likely such was the problem Australia faced in South Africa in 1970.

 

[damochandler]

south africa v west indies 98/99

 

[Shatterpoint]

India always cop a pounding.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

India always cop a pounding.

Like the one they gave us in India not long ago?

The hatred is strong in this one.

 

[Shatterpoint]

Like the one they gave us in India not long ago?

The hatred is strong in this one.

lol in India?