View Full Version : Toughest cricketer (in a fight) all time
courtjester
25 Aug 2009, 15:36
Who would win a punch on?
There have been some big guys:
Viv Richards
Andrew Flintoff
Matt Hayden
Andrew Symonds
Apparently Bichel was a seriously good fighter as well.
Who doe you reckon?
Retzlaff
25 Aug 2009, 15:43
The Brown Nosed Gnome
holybishop
25 Aug 2009, 15:46
Viv. Flintoff's knee will give way, Symonds will be drunk, and Hayden will burst into tears if you mention his family ;)
OzBomber
25 Aug 2009, 15:54
Mr Justin Langer.
Blue Dimension
25 Aug 2009, 16:00
Mr Justin Langer.
Wouldn't want to mess with Justin Blackbelt Langer. :D
I imagine Johnny Douglas, who captained England and was the 1908 middleweight Olympic boxing champion, would wipe the floor with most of the overpaid pansies of the recent era.
Otherwise, my vote goes to Brian Close.
JimDocker
25 Aug 2009, 16:02
I cannot believe I am going to respond to this macho post but....
A few years back at Headingley, Viv Richards ran to the boundary chasing the ball. Someone in the crowd (to my eternal shame as a proud non bigoted Yokshireman) called him a black bastard.
Viv jumped into the crowd and said. "ok, I may be black, but which one of you is gonna call me a bastard ?"
Funnily enough, nobody offered to say it to his face.
He would be one man to seriously not mess with.
SouthSwans
25 Aug 2009, 16:09
Alfie Langer.
Belnakor
25 Aug 2009, 17:26
JL looks like the kind of guy who wouldn't go down easy. Throwing mud etc, i doubt JL would worry about playing fair.
JimDocker
25 Aug 2009, 17:29
I imagine Johnny Douglas, who captained England and was the 1908 middleweight Olympic boxing champion, would wipe the floor with most of the overpaid pansies of the recent era.
Otherwise, my vote goes to Brian Close.
Close faced the West Idies in 76 pre helmets or by the look of it any protective gear at the age of 46.
Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-f5pfBgpNE
Short leg is a position close to the batsman, and, as cricketers did not use head or body protection in Close's day, he would often get hurt when a batsman struck a ball that hit him. Close was also noted for standing up to intimidatory bowling when he was batting and letting the ball hit his unprotected torso. Indeed, Close was so well known for getting hit a lot that Eric Morecambe, Britain's leading comedian of the time, would joke that "you know the cricket season has arrived when you hear the sound of leather on Brian Close"
I heard of one match for Yorkshire when he was struck on the forehead and the ball was caught at slip. He had blood coming from his head and when one of the players said, "what if it had hit you in the temple?" Close said, "He would have been caught at leg slip".
He was a very hard man.
I cannot believe I am going to respond to this macho post but....
A few years back at Headingley, Viv Richards ran to the boundary chasing the ball. Someone in the crowd (to my eternal shame as a proud non bigoted Yokshireman) called him a black bastard.
Viv jumped into the crowd and said. "ok, I may be black, but which one of you is gonna call me a bastard ?"
Funnily enough, nobody offered to say it to his face.
He would be one man to seriously not mess with.
He also barged into the commentary box to threaten Christopher Martin Jenkins who had said something critical .I went right off him after that .
Brian Close without doubt
Johnson#26
25 Aug 2009, 17:48
Steve Waugh would not keel over at anything. Man of steel.
JimDocker
25 Aug 2009, 18:05
He (Viv Richards) also barged into the commentary box to threaten Christopher Martin Jenkins who had said something critical .I went right off him after that .
Brian Close without doubt
I am not a big fan of Viv the man to be honest, nor am I of Brian Close for that matter.
But I would vote Brian Close in this instance.
Jordan...
25 Aug 2009, 20:16
Symonds out of those lot, easily.
Hayden wouldn't hurt a fly, Richards would be too stoned and Flintoff is a teddy bear.