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Unlucky Dip Player #45: :wi: :ar: Garry Sobers Nominated by: @Yash. Received by: @icyman I have huge respect for Yash shooting his shot here: it's unfortunate for him that it didn't quite work out because nobody else was brave with the same player. As a result, Icyman is the big winner...

Unlucky Dip Player #44: :pak: :ar:Zafar Gohar Nominated by: @CerealKiller Received by: @mohsin7827 A very good bowling all-rounder in domestic cricket who has been a great signing for Gloucestershire, it's probably fair to say that Test cricket might have been a level too far for Zafar Gohar...

Unlucky Dip Player #43: :wi: :bat: Jeremy Solozano Nominated by: @Aislabie Received by: @Paranoid Kendroid Jeremy Solozano's Test career ended when he suffered a concussion while fielding at short leg. He had been picked as a Roger Harper hunch on the back of a couple of innings where he...

Unlucky Dip Player #42: :aus: :bat: Tom Groube Nominated by: @Paranoid Kendroid Received by: @Perfect Square The first man born in New Zealand to play Test cricket, Tom Groube was a giant of club cricket and a virtual non-factor in state cricket. He would finish his first-class career with a...

Unlucky Dip Player #41: :ind: :bwl: Yograj Singh Nominated by: @mohsin7827 Received by: @Aravind. Yograj Singh is best known now for being Yuvraj's dad, but back in his playing days he was a quality seam bowler in his own right, though he played only one Test match for a spin-obsessed Indian...

Unlucky Dip Player #40: :aus: :bat: Roy Park Nominated by: @ddrap14 Received by: @Aravind. Roy Park's Test career is legendary for the fact that Mrs Park bent down to pick up her knitting and missed the entirety of it: a golden duck in his only innings. His ongoing beef with Victorian Cricket...

Unlucky Dip Player #39: :nzf: :bwl: Brooke Walker Nominated by: @Aislabie Received by: @ahmedleo414 Brooke Walker's forgettable Test career does no justice to how good of a player he was: he captained and spun his beloved Auckland to three straight Plunket Shields before retiring from...

Unlucky Dip Player #38: :zim: :bwl: Blessing Mahwire Nominated by: @ddrap14 Received by: @icyman An energetic fast-medium seam bowler, Blessing Mahwire's Test record probably doesn't quite reflect his ability - especially not with the bat, where he was briefly looked upon as being one of...

Unlucky Dip Player #37: :pak: :bwl: Tabish Khan Nominated by: @icyman Received by: @Neptune I will never understand how Tabish Khan played only one Test match: he dominated domestic cricket for years, only to get his sole call-up in his late 30s when he was probably past his best. Neptune's...

Unlucky Dip Player #36: :eng: :bwl: Simon Kerrigan Nominated by: @Perfect Square Received by: @Paranoid Kendroid A fantastic county player who suffered on his Test debut and was unfortunately never quite as good afterwards. Kendroid's XI so far :ind: :wk: Vijay Rajindernath :eng: :bwl: Simon...

Unlucky Dip Player #35: :nzf: :wk: Lee Germon Nominated by: @icyman Received by: @Supreme General A top-quality wicket-keeper and captain, Lee Germon is a really good addition to a team by Unlucky Dip standards. :wi: :bat: Stuart Williams :eng: :ar: Scott Borthwick :wi: :bat: Dwayne Smith...

Unlucky Dip Player #34: :pak: :bat: Moeez Ghani Nominated by: @Perfect Square (using the Rob Key Selection Bonus) Received by: @mohsin7827 Respect. Mohsin's XI so far :pak: :ar: Asif Mujtaba :zim: :wkb: Charles Coventry :ind: :ar: Baqa Jilani :pak: :bat: Moeez Ghani

Unlucky Dip Player #33: :wi: :bat: Stuart Williams Nominated by: @Aravind. Received by: @Supreme General Another one of those players who ended up averaging about 25, but anyone who's seen them score a hundred probably still swears blind that they're the best player they've ever seen...

Unlucky Dip Player #32: :pak: :ar: Asif Mujtaba Nominated by: @CerealKiller Received by: @mohsin7827 One of the great mysteries of the 1990s is why Asif Mujtaba never cracked international cricket, because he really didn't despite having all the tools a batter could want, and left-arm spin...

Unlucky Dip Player #31: :pak: :ar: Abdul Hafeez Kardar Nominated by: @CerealKiller Received by: @Aravind. A legend of Pakistani cricket and of evidently of men's fashion, Abdul Hafeez Kardar had been a Test cricketer for longer than his country had existed. He was a swashbuckling all-rounder...

Unlucky Dip Player #30: :ind: :bat: Kenia Jayantilal Nominated by: @mohsin7827 Received by: @Till Valhalla A specialist opener who was very good against extreme pace, Jayantilal lost his place in the side to a young player called "Sunil Gavaskar" and never got it back. Till Valhalla's XI so...

Unlucky Dip Player #29: :ind: :wk: Vijay Rajindernath Nominated by: @mohsin7827 Received by: @Paranoid Kendroid Rajindernath's Test career amounted to no runs, no wickets, no catches but four stumpings. And as always, bagging a specialist keeper during the Unlucky Dip is a great result - and...

Unlucky Dip Player #28: :nzf: :wk: Barry Milburn Nominated by: @Neptune Received by: @icyman Barry Milburn was a very specialist wicket-keeper, but he is also the owner of one of the most unlikely nightwatchman centuries of all time: over his 75-match first-class career, his average was 11.51...

Unlucky Dip Player #27: :saf: :bat: William Solomon Nominated by: @Neptune Received by: @ddrap14 William Solomon enjoyed a sporadic 13-year first-class career in which he averaged under 10 as a specialist batter. Heroic. Ddrap's XI so far: :saf: :wkb: AB de Villiers :nzf: :ar: Scott...

Unlucky Dip Player #26: :wi: :bat: Dwayne Smith Nominated by: @Perfect Square Received by: @Supreme General Another player in the Ashraful/Coventry mould for me: on his day, capable of biffing absolutely anybody, but still one to average 25 or less over any sort of decent sample size...