The boys at Cricket Australia have just released their Best 100 Test players since 2000.
When they listed Misbah at number 83, only one place ahead of New Zealand’s Chris Martin and 73 places out of the top 10, it was obvious they were just pulling names out of a hat.
Misbah averages 50 with the bat, is playing at 41 years of age, has the world record for the fastest 50 and 100 in a Test, bore the brunt of a nation’s hysteria and simultaneously lead them to number 3 in the rankings with everything against him.
Martin other averages over 33 with the ball and has a highest Test score of 12*.
So, rather than fix it for them, I’ve decided to allow you to Vote for the Worst 100 Test players in the World since the year 2000.
I’ll probably only be able to come up with 20.
I don’t feel great doing this, as to reach the level of Test cricketer you are a special player.
But you are lying to yourself if you aren’t even a little bit interested in the outcome.
To have your say, just add a nomination in the comments section below.
In a week or so, I’ll release the definitive list.
There are no criteria that I can think of at the moment.
You can nominate anyone.
Hell, I’ve just nominated Steve Bucknor.
Votes for James Anderson will not be counted. He’s ranked number 101.
So, what are you waiting for?
Leave your nominations in the comments sections below, you horrible person.
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DennisCricket_ Chris Jordan, seriously poor.
DennisCricket_ Is there criteria? Internationals?
DennisCricket_ Ever if there is no criteria at all…I still vote Chris Jordan.
DennisCricket_ Number 1 is surely Bryce Mcgain
DennisCricket_ Scott Muller
James Tredwell
Ravi Bopara
Owais Shah
Darren Pattinson
Martin Saggers
Samit Patel
I nominate Steve Bucknor, Mick Lewis, Jade Dernbach and probably obviously Scott Muller 🙂
Ricky Ponting.
Take that bitch for nomination Sachin
DennisCricket_ almost every indian fast bowler like vinay , aaron , munaf,praveen,
ishant and the name goes on
Rob Moody
Aakash Chopra
DennisCricket_ MrPakistan786 Phil Tufnell, Asad Shafiq, Mohd Sami, Bilawal Bhatti
DennisCricket_ tahir and dean elgar
DennisCricket_ 1. Watto
DennisCricket_ Mullally
#1 Shane Watson
Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Ishant Sharma, MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir.
DennisCricket_ sohail tanvir **once even bowled off spin against india in a test match**
MS Dhoni is the most successful Indian Captian,
Has been a decent no. 7 batsman, has got a double hundred
Has the most no. of dismissals for an Indian wicketkeeper!
Ashton Agar
Glenn Maxwell
George Bailey
Karn Sharma
Darren Sammy
Specialist bowler (if you call him that) Tapash Baisya Bangladesh 21 tests / 36 wickets @ 59.36
DennisCricket_ harsh list. Test selections are the culmination of great first class careers e.g. Mullally took 700 first class wickets
DennisCricket_ according to ECB_cricket it must be KP24 … nearly written out of history already… #StraussLogic
DennisCricket_ Brilliant Dennis! Great response to the nonsense from CA.
I nominate Mohammed Sami bowling average of 48.
I think I speak for all English and Australian fans, in saying that Darren Pattinson should be on this list.
DennisCricket_ Poor form, Dennis. I would have given my left knacker to play Test cricket.
Shane Watson
Rubel Hossain
Chris Woakes
Varun Aaron
Michael Papps
Imran Farhat
Ryan McLaren
Thisara Perera
Daren Powell
Vusi Sibanda
timsmart10 Its not for everyone.
SydneyThunderGM It is harsh, but either I do it or BigFooty does it.
Probably John Hastings. Why was he even in consideration? I know there were a few injuries around at the time but seriously, the Duke? I’ll never understand that decision.
2# Shahid khan afridi
Usman Afzaal, MS Dhoni (bookmaker advice permitting), Jimmy Ormond, Chris Jordan, Moeen Ali, Boyd Rankin, Scott Borthwick, Pankaj Singh, Xavier Doherty, Michael Beer, Ravi Bopara, Sam Robson, Jonny Bairstow, Ryan McLaren, Mark ramprakash, John Crawley
#3 Jadeja
Haha I first wrote jadeja and edited it to afridi as I thot jadeja as a more tyme to proof how worst he is.
4. Dhoni…
Ishant Sharma
Ashok Dinda
Bilawal Bhatti
Faisal Iqbal
Muhammad Sami
Dilhara Fernando
Xavier Doherty
Chris Jordan
Jade Dernbach
Asad Shafiq
Rohan Gavaskar
Shane Watson
Ian Bell,
Ian Bell,
Ian Bell,
James Anderson,
Anyone who was previously named something and changed their name to Mohammed.
#Dhoverrated
Brent Arnel
Peter Ingram
Shahadat Hossain
Shane Watson (Please be number 1)
Shaun Tait
Dave Mohammed
Darrin Pattinson
Usman Khawaja
Mark Ramprakash
Ishant Sharma
Mohammad Ashraful
Dhoni.
Jadeja.
Imran tahir
Afridi.
Sachin Tendulkar.
Ishant Sharma.
Chris Gayle
Ishant Sharma
Dennis, hoping you can organise a charity match between your 1st XI and CA’s.
From Eng’s contenders, I’d nominate: Usman Afzaal and, based on his Test career to date, poor Simon Kerrigan.
Chris
Brilliant Dennis ——- my vote for Ishant Sharma
Sajid mahmood by the length of the straight
15 pakis player of current team
you are supposed to vote for 1, if you do not understand text, copy paste on google translate hindi for further clarification my dear doughnut thief–
lolz……plz translate it by google for urself…they asked about 100…i named only 15…:P
Ehsan Muhammad
SydneyThunderGM I’ve updated the post. You can leave a vote now U0001f601U0001f608
DennisCricket_ for whatever reason I can’t leave a comment but I have to nominate Hauritz only separating him & Watto by a flea’s foreskin
DennisCricket_ Usman Khwaja ..
Beau Casson
Cameron White
Michael Beer
Graham Manou
Geraint Jones (Eng)
Brendan Nash (WI)
Johan Botha (SA)
Boyd Rankin (Eng)
Shaun Tait
Blessing Mahwire (Zim)
Bryce McGain
Brad Williams
James Marshall (NZ)
DennisCricket_ did sherwin campbell make it into this century?
LambicPeach He sure did! Researching it now
DennisCricket_ he really helped bridge that incredibly short gap between the windies being awesome and then realising they were shit
DennisCricket_ with help from keith artherton
LambicPeach Neither make the final cut, but Sherwin was my first reserve opener
DennisCricket_ can’t comment on the site, but I would like to nominate Darryl Haire.
Beau Casson. 1 Test 3 wickets for 139.
Dilhara Fernando
DennisCricket_ Far too difficult without a criterion of at least 10 matches played.
DennisCricket_ Can’t work the comment section on #WorstTestPlayers but hope someone has nominated Twatto. And both these Marshes.
HaroldParkHotel They have all been captured.
DennisCricket_ As I would have hoped!
as good as ravi shastri’s commentary
hahahahahahahaha….ab Bolo labari Ehsan Muhammad..oper dekh 100 Mangay hain
abhi tu sirf 15 howey hain….:P
Yousuf,sami aur kafi dhond rha hun
tera maar Muhammad Yousuf choti teams ka bara dushman…:P
phattu
Amay Khurasiya (Ind) http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/30112.html
Wah wah…..Aur koi nhi mila tjy
Amy khurasia is equal to ijaz Ahmed…
Ijaz ahmad = tendulkar
by your logic
Hahahahaha
Beta tery saray analysis biased hoty hain…
Mushraf & orya ki tarah
Lolz
Confused senior analyst
:-p
it is about test cric not ODI cricketers
Khaled Mahmud (BD)
hahhahahahahhaa…jawab nahi deta orya & mush p….
Bhag gya mera yaar
orya aur Mush ne teri Band krdi hai…:P
aur teri khol di hahahahahaha
Orya zinda baad ka naraa lagaye ga ab ya musharaf ka???
soch ly kis ka lagana hai,nahi tu Tafazzul Hussain Khan se poch ly k kis ka lagaon….:P
Lolz…..
abhi time nahi ha
i have to drive see ya
hahahahhahahahahhahah…..jab “wajny” lagi tu Ehsan Muhammad ki bhagnay lagi…:P
Mera Yar Bhagura & Phattu….:P
ye baat nahi ha hamesha teri logic blast karta hoon i have to go back to muzaffargarh
teri bajata hoon tension na le
Ok bhai..Ja ..have a safe journey
DennisCricket_ most of the comments are in another language. That was… Odd.
GregHerbert In their language, English is another language
DennisCricket_ of course. But makes it difficult for the tally-er of votes (ie you) to understand!
GregHerbert You assume 1) I’m tallying anything 2) I can’t read Japanese.
DennisCricket_ guilty on the first charge. On the second, Japanese, hey? I must be more unfamiliar with Japanese than I thought!
GregHerbert Persian?
DennisCricket_ more like it 🙂
DennisCricket_ apart from the time he blew your team away.
DennisCricket_ is there a category fo the worst coach since ’00?, think you should have one
DennisCricket_ Seems a bit harsh. But Craig White…..
DefensiveBlock Just nominate whoever you want in the comments.
DennisCricket_ Carberry & Pattinson (Darren)
DennisCricket_ just make sure jordan makes it 😉
DennisCricket_ is that the double ashes winning Tim Bresnan or a different one?
Shane Watson.
1. MSK Prasad- India.
2 Aakash Chopra- India
3. Shaun TaIT- Australia
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karachikhatmal DennisCricket_ Plughole for the scum of the internet…
DennisCricket_ problem is he helped bowled Aus out for 98 at the Mcg
The sensible thing to do is nominate Shane Watson but that’d be too easy. I’ll go with anyone who’s surname is Marsh
Usman Afzaal. Ian Ward. SS Das. Ashley Giles.
salman butt, m asif, m amir, s sreesanth (all obvious reasons), j trott (for running away), afridi (for brain fart shots),
DennisCricket_ ALL of South Africa’s quotas!!!
DennisCricket_ I think Mohammad Sami will be common to all lists.
Fair to say he is likely to make the final Worst XI
Shane Watson. That is all
dinesh kartik from india.
Unfortunately Bryce McGain must be up there. When your debut is officially the worst bowling performance of all time, and you never play another test to redeem yourself, how can you be anything other than the worst test player ever
@Mick Believe it or not, he is not even close to the worst spinner.
Of all players with a minimum of 10 tests played and 1000 balls bowled, most of the worst batting-minus-bowling averages belong to Bangladeshis and Zimbabweans. However, the 19th-worst figures belong to some quasi-Englishman named Kevin Pietersen at -41.31. I dunno why England keep selecting that guy, but they should consider booting him off the team. Unless he’s a good guy in the locker room. You gotta keep those guys around. They’re the glue that holds the team together.
Of specialist batsmen, which I define as 10+ tests, 1000+ runs, <10 wickets, and not wicketkeepers, Russell Arnold of Sri Lanka fared the worst of all players from major test-playing nations. After 1/1/2000, he averaged a mere 24.20 runs in 32 matches. (He did contribute 5 wickets and 36 catches, but still….)
A couple of my beloved New Zealanders probably deserve consideration. Jeetan Patel averaged 48.5 with the ball and only 12 with the bat in 19 tests across many years (mostly as a fill-in for an injured Danny Vettori). And World Cup Semi-Final hero Grant Elliott has rather, um, less-heroic test returns: in 5 tests, he managed only 86 runs at 10.75 and 4 wickets at 35. (We don’t care about that, Grant: we’ll always have Auckland.)
@Raff Great analysis.
From pak Salman butt m.Asif m.amir k.akmal d.kaneria imran farhat s.malik should feature from India sreesanth dinesh karthik s.raina a.nehra munaf Patel r.jadeja
James from The Full Toss here. My vote goes to Michael Beer and / or Xavier Doherty. Both terrible, terrible club bowlers 😉
JamesMorgan4 Great to see you James. I suggest everyone visit his site http://www.thefulltoss.com for all your English cricket needs