Year in Review: Flop ODI XI of year 2013

8) Stuart Broad

Stuart Broad

(Matches- 9, Wickets- 12, Average- 35.16, BBI- 3/50)

England’s hero in the last Ashes campaign had an exceptional 2013 in Test cricket but was dreadfully docile in the shorter version of the game. There were other bowlers in 2013 who fared worse than him but Broad gets the nod because he played all the 9 matches in bowler-friendly conditions and also because he happens to be Stuart Broad.

9) Xavier Doherty

Xavier Doherty

(Matches- 14, Wickets- 7, Average- 65.57, BBI- 3-21)

You know as a cricket fan that Xavier Doherty is never going to win a match for any international nation single-handedly, let alone Australia. To put it bluntly, he is just not good enough. You can excuse him by saying that he bowls in Australian conditions which are harsh for finger-spinners but the fact is that out of these 14 matches, he played 7 of them in India. He was expected to play a greater role, he was expected to pick wickets but his performances were staggeringly shoddy. He picked up only 2 wickets in the entire series and both of them came in the same innings. His spinning variations came only through uneven cracks, something which he had no control on and he was easily the worst thing to happen to Australian cricket rivalled only by Michael Beer ‘s Ashes debut back in 2011.