Selectors' blind spots

So given that there is a reasonable consensus in cyberspace, publand and on the streets, that the selectors have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the Marshes, which other players over the years have for mysterious reasons also been the recipients of NSP largesse?

I offer you Ray Bright - legend has it that he always had to fill the last seat on the plane.

JP Duminy.

Manoj facking Prabakhar. He played for 11 years. Eleven!
Anyone named Sharma.
Yuvraj Singh. He can't bend down and see his toes these days. Somehow gets into the ODI side.

Duminy has played international cricket for 13 years. He has had 11 knocks on the current tour with a top score of 39. Great credentials for a test no 4.

No argument there. He's shit apart from once every 4 years.

tricycle wrote:Manoj facking Prabakhar. He played for 11 years. Eleven!
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Dunno bow old you are, but if you had seen some of those f*ckers in the 80s and 90s coming in to bowl their 'medium pace' - Prabhakar, Chetan Sharma, Roger Binny, Wassan, Sandhu, Arun, Razdan - I thank god every day for how far we've come.

Zac Dawson

furriner wrote:

tricycle wrote:Manoj facking Prabakhar. He played for 11 years. Eleven!
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Dunno bow old you are, but if you had seen some of those f*ckers in the 80s and 90s coming in to bowl their 'medium pace' - Prabhakar, Chetan Sharma, Roger Binny, Wassan, Sandhu, Arun, Razdan - I thank god every day for how far we've come.

Halcyon days.... Seen most of them. Blacked out that era. Prabhakar unfortunately lingered on in the Tendulkar second half Azhar era. There was also that shower of shit in the middle. The actor fellow. Salil Ankola?

Atul Wassan's a legend. He's equally as good a commentator as bowler, and he'd be a better commentator if he was mute.

Indians should have a formal adjective for shitty fast bowlers. England had wily off spinners till lavda Swann turned up and was actually wily.

tricycle wrote:.........England had wily off spinners till lavda Swann turned up and was actually wily.

yeah that was a major let down, whereas with prior candidates the wiliness lay in their bowling straight and moving sideways sharply.

furriner wrote:

tricycle wrote:Manoj facking Prabakhar. He played for 11 years. Eleven!
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Dunno bow old you are, but if you had seen some of those f*ckers in the 80s and 90s coming in to bowl their 'medium pace' - Prabhakar, Chetan Sharma, Roger Binny, Wassan, Sandhu, Arun, Razdan - I thank god every day for how far we've come.

All I want to remember of our fast bowling until very recently is Srinath, Zak and that Aamer Sohail dismissal in the 96 WC QF. The rest is just darkness and despair.

Thankfully the Indian comrades have not raised the great Aquacker. 

lol at the nomination of the GREAT YUVI. (Capitalised because of his dad's insistence)

Ray Bright mixed a fine drink, and was touted as a useful nightwatchman (although it is doubtful whether this was ever more than a putative talent).

Brett Lee and Shaun Tait were also big blind spots, historically.

tricycle wrote:Indians should have a formal adjective for shitty fast bowlers. England had wily off spinners till lavda Swann turned up and was actually wily.

Maybe even a collective noun to represent the group.

lardbucket wrote:Ray Bright mixed a fine drink, and was touted as a useful nightwatchman (although it is doubtful whether this was ever more than a putative talent).

Brett Lee and Shaun Tait were also big blind spots, historically.

Ray Bright, aged 18, was sent in as nightwatchman at the SCG at the tail end of his first day as a first-class cricketer, which co-incided with Max Walker's first day as a Test player, over New Years 72 into 73. He contributed a very useful and valuable top-score of somewhere around 70.

That remained his highest first-class score for 8 years, and as best I can recall the next time he did the NW thing for any team he played for was about 13 years later in the first innings of the Madras tie.

Nothing in Tests though, as far as I recall (and I thought that's the arena we were discussing).

Bright had a couple of decent innings early on at Shield level, and bowled with aggression early on. By the time he'd played WSC he was a wheelie bin. Paul Jackson, who played for Victoria and Queensland much later, was a very similar but IMO better bowler; he never got so much as a look in at Test level.

If the Madras tie has been downgraded from Test match status, FFS nobody tell Dean Jones!!!!!

Nobby Clark. And Morris/Stan Nichols.

Fred Nerk wrote:If the Madras tie has been downgraded from Test match status, FFS nobody tell Dean Jones!!!!!

Imagine the scores if decent spinners had played.