Do you remember Australia's Wayne Clark from the late 1970s? He made his his ODI debut against a formidable West Indies side at Antigua under Bob Simpson, who came out of a decade of retirement to lead a depleted Australian side during the Packer years. West Indies clocked 313 in 50 overs at Antigua but Clark had a creditable debut, taking 1 for 22 off ten overs when Desmond Haynes was wreaking havoc. However, the second ODI of the West Indies tour was his last and he played just one more Test against Pakistan at Melbourne.

Stuart Clark is fast cementing his spot in the Australian Test team but in one-dayers his stats are not as impressive - an average of 33 and economy of 5.50. In the second match of the recent DLF Cup in Malaysia, West Indies smacked 87 runs off Clark's seven overs, an economy of 12.42 while West Indies scored at 5.76.

Here's another obscure name from the 1980s: England's Greg Thomas, a genuinely fast bowler dogged by injury, played just five Tests for England, the first four of which were during a 0-5 drubbing in West Indies. In his last Test of the tour, Thomas got hit for 101 off 15 overs out of a total of 312 (run-rate 3.27). He was dropped for the final Test and played just one more against New Zealand at Trent Bridge in 1986.

Travis Basevi is the man who built Statsguru. George Binoy is editorial assistant of Cricinfo

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