This summer Fox Sports will be selecting a variety of XI’s to whet the nostalgic appetite of cricket lovers all over the country.

We begin with a ‘one Test wonder’ team as a tribute to retiring big-hearted fast bowler John Hastings, who called time on his career this week due to health reasons.

In music parlance, a one-hit wonder is often a derogatory term reserved for bands such as Aha (Take on Me), Chumbawumba (I get knocked down) or Hanson (Think MMMBop). This is not the case with this group of fine cricketers, who share a bond just 455 Australians can truly understand.

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Their international escapades may have been fleeting and somewhat frustrating, but they nevertheless reached the pinnacle and most had distinguished domestic careers to further illustrate their talents. Indeed the captain of this team made more than 27,000 first-class runs and was desperately unlucky not to play more Test cricket.

The qualification guidelines were simple for this team. To be considered, you must be retired from Sheffield Shield cricket. This ruled out a host of players, including Peter George, who boasts Sachin Tendulkar as one of his two Test victims, plus Callum Ferguson, Chadd Sayers, James Faulkner and Joe Mennie,

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Team balance was also important. As tempting as it was to select Beau Casson, Bryce McGain and Dan Cullen in the same XI, more weight was given to what we commonly consider to be a traditional Australian Test XI. In saying that, there are plenty of bowling options for the captain to consider for an imaginary match against maybe England’s one-Test wonder XI?

From 689 players to represent the mother country, 78 have done so once, although this number will drop to 76 when Ben Foakes and Rory Burns take the field against Sri Lanka on Wednesday afternoon Australian time.

Anyway, we digress. Seventy-two men have played one Test for Australia. Here is the cream of the crop.

NED GREGORY

Test: 0 and 11 v England at the MCG, 1877.

First-class career: 470 runs at 17.40

Born in 1839, Gregory was 38 by the time Australia and England butted heads in the first ever recognised Test match. A right-handed bat, he was the first player to make a duck in Test cricket before reaching 11 in the second dig.

He is also the equal-earliest born Test cricketer (alongside Nat Thompson) and was the curator at the SCG and built the scoreboard at the famous ground.

Gregory was the father of Aussie great Syd Gregory and brother of Dave Gregory, who skippered Australia in the first three Tests.

MERV HARVEY

Test: 12 and 31 v England at Adelaide, 1947

First-class career: 1147 runs at 38.32

The older brother of Neil Harvey and grandfather of dual Brownlow-medallist Robert Harvey, Mervyn Harvey would have played more Test cricket had World War II not intervened.

Neil Harvey, who was a teenager in Don Bradman’s Invincibles, said Merv was the most talented of all four brothers who played for Victoria.

Harvey made 12 and 31 in against England in Adelaide in 1946-47 but it was not enough to keep him in the team. He died in 1995, aged 76.

STUART LAW (captain)

Test: 54 not out v Sri Lanka at Perth, 1995

First-class: 27,080 runs at 50.52

Law debuted in the same Test as Ricky Ponting and was unbeaten on 54 when Mark Taylor declared Australia’s only innings.

The Queenslander notched 54 one-day internationals but was dropped before the Aussies won the 1999 World Cup. His first-class record is remarkable for a batsman who played just one Test: 27,080 runs at an average of 50 with 79 centuries. He also skippered the Bulls to the state’s first Sheffield Shield win in 1995.

He is the definition of a player who would have forged a serious career had he been born into any other era.

Stuart Law only played one Test despite scoring more than 27,000 runs. Source: News Corp Australia

ALBERT HARTKOPF

Test: 1-120 and 0-14, 80 and 0 v England at MCG, 1925

First-class: 121 wickets at 30.79, 1758 runs at 34.47

A doctor who was selected as a leg-spinner but made 80 at the MCG in his only outing for Australia, Hartkopf enjoyed an excellent 20-year first-class career.

Despite a half-century on debut the Victorian’s match figures of 1-120 (his only Test wicket being England’s No.11) did not cut it and the selectors felt they had seen enough.

In this team he would provide excellent spin relief for Dan Cullen and would double as the team medical official.

GRAHAM MANOU (WK & VICE-CAPTAIN)

Test: 8 and 13 not out, three catches v England at Birmingham, 2009

First-class: 4003 runs at 25.49, 328 catches and 21 stumpings

A hugely respected state veteran by the time he was flown to England as Brad Haddin’s understudy in 2009, Manou was an extremely late call-up to play at Edgbaston when Haddin broke his finger in the warm-up.

He made 21 runs across two innings and took three catches in a drawn Test.

Graham Manou in action in his lone Test. Source: News Limited

SHAUN YOUNG

Test: 4 not out, 0-8 and 0-5 v England, 1997 at the Oval

First-class: 7217 runst at 37.95, 274 wickets at 35.82

The first of three all-rounders in this XI, Young made just four Test runs and bowled 48 deliveries in a short and sweet Test career.

But the Tasmanian’s first-class career was far more impressive: averaging a tick under 38 with the bat and 35 with the ball across a decade of toil and at times unorthodox hitting.

His selection for Australia was a classic Luke Pomersbach-like case of right place, right time. He was playing for Gloucestershire when he replaced the injured Jason Gillespie for the sixth Test of the 1997 Ashes. Ordinarily Paul Reiffel would have come in, but he had just returned home for the birth of his first child.

Australia lost and he was never seen again at international level.

Shaun Young made an unlikely debut in 1997. Source: News Corp Australia

JOHN HASTINGS

Test: 1-51 and 0-102, 32 and 20 v South Africa at Perth, 2012

First-class: 239 wickets at 27.22, 2231 runs at 22.08

Medical tests conducted years ago proved Hastings has an abnormally large heart and that was exactly the way he played his cricket too.

His one Test victim was AB De Villiers and he also had Hashim Amla dropped at the WACA in what was Ricky Ponting’s farewell Test.

If Stuart Law is the cricket captain of this team, then Hastings is the social captain in charge of morale and events.

All up, Hastings played 29 one-dayers and nine T20Is. His first innings 32 ended when Robin Peterson had him caught by Alviro Peterson, but 11 first-class half centuries is enough to slot the Duke into No.7 in this team

John Hastings’ one and only Test wicket was AB de Villiers. Source: News Limited

MICK MALONE

Test: 5-63 and 1-14, 46 v England at the Oval, 1977

First-class: 260 wickets at 24.77

Imagine taking 5-63 and making 46 in your only Test but never playing again? Yep, that’s Mick Malone’s story.

The WAFL full-forward was a periphery figure in World Series Cricket and was around the international team intermittently, but was never afforded the opportunity to wear the Baggy Green again.

His 46 off 81 balls was his highest first-class score, but he did take 270 wickets at domestic level and also played 10 one-day internationals.

Mick Malone in action for Western Australia. Source: News Corp Australia

CLINT MCKAY

Test: 0-45 and 1-56 v West Indies at WACA, 2009

First-class: 281 wickets at 27.71

McKay was on the receiving end of some mighty Chris Gayle blows in his one and only Test, but still managed to claim the wicket of gloveman Denesh Ramdin at the WACA nine years ago.

Although this would be it for the right-armer’s Test career, he peaked at No.4 on the ICC one-day international bowling rankings and was the spearhead of the white ball attack for more than two years.

He could also bat, notching nine first-class half centuries and still plies his trade for Essendon in Victorian Premier Cricket.

Clint McKay celebrates his one Test wicket. Source: News Limited

MATTHEW NICHOLSON

Test: 3-56 and 1-59 v England at the MCG, 1998

First-class: 406 wickets at 29.91

Nicholson fulfilled every Australian kid’s boyhood dream when he debuted on Boxing Day in an Ashes Test, taking four wickets at the cauldron.

A first-class career which yielded more than 400 wickets at a sub-30 average suggested he was unlucky to never play for his country again, but he deserves praise for overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome that saw him miss the entire 1997/98 season.

DAN CULLEN

Test: 1-25 and 0-29 v Bangladesh at Chittagong, 2006

First-class: 130 wickets at 44.28

Ah yes, Dan Cullen!

Bleached blonde hair, sleeves rolled up and the poisoned chalice title of ‘the next Warnie’ – this man was on a hiding to nothing.

Cullen, who had only just turned 22 at the time of his one and only Test, was part of a three-pronged spin duo against Bangladesh that also included Stuart MacGill and Warne himself.

He took one Test wicket and gradually drifted off the scene for a variety of reasons, last playing for South Australia at the age of 25 in 2009.

Dan Cullen’s one Test was against Bangladesh in 2006. Source: AFP

12TH MAN: BRYCE MCGAIN

Test: 0-149 v South Africa at Cape Town, 2009

First-class: 101 wickets at 35.48

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The ultimate team man, McGain was thrust into a debut against a powerful South African line-up at Cape Town.

UNLUCKY OTHERS:

Beau Casson, Roland Pope, John Watkins, Ian Callen, Phil Emery, Jeff Moss, Wayne N.Phillips, Colin Guest, Paul Wilson