These three batsmen are all in their thirties - for age, if not batting average - and they have been failing for a long time now. Players who are not quite luminaries like Vusi Sibanda, Gary Wilson, Collins Obuya and Hamilton Masakadza are ranked above them. Farhat is equal in 77th place with Darren Sammy, the West Indian who is primarily a bowler, and that was before his fine 50 against India on Tuesday.