Five cricketers who were a “one-test wonder”

#4 Gobo Ashley

Gobo Ashley was another player who did exceedingly well on test debut but never played for the national team again

Left-arm South African quick, William Hare Ashley, better known as Gobo Ashley was another player who did exceedingly well on test debut but never played for the national team again. In the year 1889, in South Africa’s second ever test match in test cricket history, Gobo Ashley made his debut.

England was batting first and had started quite brilliantly. Ashley was the first change bowler and within minutes, he got his maiden test wicket by knocking Ulyett’s stumps.

One wicket brought two and two became three and when the English innings ended on 292, Gobo Ashley’s figures read: 43.1 – 18 – 95 -7.

South Africa was awful with the bat and was dismissed for 47 in the first and 43 in the second as Johnny Briggs wreaked havoc and ended with match figures of 15 for 28 to overshadow Ashley’s performance.

Ashley was the only bright spark for South Africa but to everyone’s surprise, he got dropped and never played for South Africa again.