Talk:One-Test wonder

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Surely Mick Malone qualifies mention as an allrounder example of a One-Test wonder "taking five for 63 in England’s first innings with his medium-fast high action and then scoring 46 as a tailender" in his only test in 1977. Djw3355 (talk) 02:58, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Flawed article

If the phrase One-Test Wonder derives from One-Hit Wonder, then surely it should refer to those who achieved the pinnacle of playing test cricket - but only once. So, it should not include anyone who played more than one test. Equally, it should not include anyone with solitary ODI appearances. WillE (talk) 16:18, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go further and say this article should be deleted. No evidence is presented that the term is in widespread use. (The only references appear to be a single cricinfo article, and a reader's letter to the BBC). Adpete (talk) 05:43, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have added some citations to show notability. – Fayenatic London 16:37, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List suggestions

See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 30#Category:One-Test wonders for suggestions on making a useful list.

I also suggest making separate lists for these meanings:

Only one Test
Only one ODI, which (despite WillE's comment above) is clearly a closely-related idea
More than one Test but only performed well once

Here is the list of pages that were removed from the deleted category. – Fayenatic London 21:07, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Highest score puzzle

I might be missing something, but I can't reconcile the first two statements with the third:

"Andy Ganteaume, who scored 112 for the West Indies in his only Test innings in 1948, and so has the highest test batting average of all time.[5] Rodney Redmond is the only other player to have scored a century in his only Test, scoring 107 and 56 while opening the batting for New Zealand in 1973;[6] West Indian Vic Stollmeyer, brother of Jeff Stollmeyer, is the only player to have recorded a score in the 90s in his only Test; no other one-Test wonder has scored more than 80.[7]" Alanobrien (talk) 09:26, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Some original research methinks. Fixed. AIRcorn (talk) 09:15, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]