favourite cricket player

[Beausgirl43]

Ooops !!!!

Forgot to mention Walshy.

hehehe



cheers...

 

[WA]

Adam Gilchrest
Steve Waugh
Jason Gillespie
Damian Martyn

Dean Jones
Viv Richards
Brendan Julian

 

[London Dave]

WG Grace!!!!!

 

[Dipper]

Originally posted by GOALden Hawk
Don't know about Viv Richards....I found him a bit too arrogant for my liking. I have this video where the Windies are playing England and some English guy has a ball flick his thigh pad on the way through to the keeper.

Massive appeal, umpire shakes his head and says not out. Viv sprints down the wicket right up to the umpire, screaming the whole way. Umpire, obviously intimidated, changes his mind and raises the finger.

Commentators and batsmen in shock. It's an amazing piece of footage, and it's a shame that things like that (to a lessor extent) still happen in Test Cricket.

My favourite: Merv and Ian Healy.

Current Favourites: Punter, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh and Funky!

GH,
yeah mate this was fu@king OUTRAGEOUS, it was the 89/90 series in Windies, we were coming off two 5-0 'blackwashes' & a 4-0 loss & we sent over a really inexperienced side that everyone thought would get smashed & we won the first Test & would have won the third but they slowed the over rate down so slowly that all we could do was draw.Then in this match, Rob Bailey was the batsman & this decision killed his Test career, afterwards an English commentator said on the radio that Viv's behaviour was shocking, total intimidation of the umpire & so Vivy steamed into the commetary box & threatened to kill him-I actually think that he did this twice.A real hard man ay? threatening some weedy middle aged , bespectacled Englush public school by type.That's why when we beat them in 2000 I was so happy to see them on their knees for once rather than the other way round.

Having said that I still think that he's the best & definitely the most destructive batsman I've ever seen.My two favourite bowlers ever are Lillee & Thommo (we just don't seem to breed them like that over here ) DK is probably the best ever & a real character with it & Thommo must have been the quickest of all time & anyone who bowls with an action like that is only aiming for one thing & that's pace.
One of my favourite batsmen was Richie Richardon, he used to play this back foot drive to pitched up deliveries with both feet together & a FULL swing of the bat when it came off it was unreal, when he got out to it...well it was a bit of ashocker to watch.My hero as a kid was Goochie, I could never work out why he couldn't transform his 1st class form to Test cricket & just when I though it was too late at the age of about 34, for a couple of years he became arguably the best bat in the world.

Briedis,
have you got to Viv's thoughts on Craig McDermott in his biography yet?Not too complimentary!

 

[London Dave]

Hey Briedis, check out Vivs description of a charity match in Qld featuring Jeff Thompson and Geoff Boycott. Classic!

Tend to agree Viv lost the plot a bit towards the end of his career.
I think the commentator Dipper talks of is Henry Blofeld?

Viv did strom up to the press box when he was supposed to be leading his side out onto the ground, apparently to 'sort out' a problem with the press.

 

[The Hippie]

Past

Dougie Walters
Rod Marsh
Dennis Lillee
Jeff Thomson
Joel Garner

Now
Steve Waugh (by a paddock)
Ricky Ponting
Glenn McGrath
Adam Gilchrist
Darren Gough
Chris Cairns

 

[Visro]

Well at the moment it would be Damien Martyn. The guy's a legend! He has an air of "I really couldn't give" and still manages a brilliant average for both tests and one dayers. Looking forward to seeing him play when I can go watch the cricket after my exams.

 

[play on]

My favourite player from the past is Craig McDerrmott. My favourite player now is Mathew Hayden. Both Queenslanders, and that is good enough reason for me for them to be my favourite. I don't have a favourite player from overseas, because as they are trying to beat us, I hate them.

 

[Joe Mama]

Overseas Players
Sachin Tendulkar, Darren Gough, Nasser Hussain, Chris Cairns, Daniel Vettori, Harbajhan Singh Shawn Pollock, Wasim Akram, Chaminda Vaas, and Brian Lara

Australian Players
Andrew Symonds, Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh, Jason Gillespie, Adam Gilchrist, Stuart Macgill

Past Players
Imran Khan, Viv Richards, Allan Border, DEANO, MERV, Michael Holding, Ian Botham, David Gower, Jeffrey Dujon, Joel Garner, Javed Miandad

 

[Santos L Helper]

I think Ponting's a hack.

Present day players I like: Lehmann, Gillespie, Gilchrist, McGrath & Symonds.
Past: Lillee (I bowled with DK at Glenelg oval one day, a definite highlight of my career), I Chappell, Gilmour, Thomson, Walters, Marsh & Murray Bennett.

Overseas: Akram, Tendulkar, Viv Richards, Holding, Roberts, Greenidge, Haynes & Garner.

 

[GOALden Hawk]

I forgot to mention my overseas players:

Andy Flower (very underrated - this bloke is a champion), Chirs Cairns, Daniel Vettori, Sachin.

 

[Briedis]

Originally posted by DIPPER


Briedis,
have you got to Viv's thoughts on Craig McDermott in his biography yet?Not too complimentary!

He has only mentioned McDermott in passing so far, which I must say I found a bit strange considering they were always having a go at each other.

It's a great read.... a very colourful character!

 

[Briedis]

Originally posted by London Dave
Hey Briedis, check out Vivs description of a charity match in Qld featuring Jeff Thompson and Geoff Boycott. Classic!

I was reading that part last night! I was killing myself laughing! Poor old Boycott (not!)

One great thing about reading Viv's book is I have plenty of ammo for the fast bowlers when I open the batting this Saturday (unless we field first of course!)

It also amazes me how full on it gets out there.. I mean who would ever thought AB would agree to a fight with Viv after a match? AB wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds - I think that's why he happened to have the press around him at the time Viv showed ready to go at it

 

[Briedis]

McDonalds Cricket Poster

One thing that this generation has missed out on is the McDonalds cricket poster.

All you had to do was say "TwoAllBeefPattiesSpecialSauceLettuceCheeseOnionsPicklesOnASeasameSeedBun" (or something like that), give 'em 10 cents and you had your poster of the three world series teams.

 

[Rocco Jones]

My cousin Dean.

 

[walshy1993]

Originally posted by Rocco Jones
My cousin Dean.

really, my uncle is courtney

 

[Dipper]

Originally posted by Briedis


It's a great read.... a very colourful character!

LOL!

 

[Briedis]

Dipper,

I read the part about McDermott last night.....WOW...talk about coming out with all guns blazing!! Called him a pussy! I loved the call from Viv at slips about McDermott *****ting his pants! Very funny.

I wonder if that was in that test that they won by 1 run and McDermott was last man out for Oz....came off his forearm or something from memory....

 

[The Hippie]

Breidis, I think those comments were made during a series in the WI late 80's/early 90s?, I remember reading them in another cricket book. From memory, Viv had already retired when the Test you are thinking of was played in Adelaide, the last ball actually grazed McDermotts helmet on the way to the keeper, might have been a bit of arm as well.

 

[Briedis]

Originally posted by The Hippie
Breidis, I think those comments were made during a series in the WI late 80's/early 90s?, I remember reading them in another cricket book. From memory, Viv had already retired when the Test you are thinking of was played in Adelaide, the last ball actually grazed McDermotts helmet on the way to the keeper, might have been a bit of arm as well.

Helmet...that's right! I think your are right about Viv not being in the match where the Windies won by 1 run. I would have loved to have heard what he would have said to Billy if he had of been playing!!

Hey...I'm gettin' old you know!

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

Had - leeee !

 

[TigerTank]

Hadlee's a w@nker! clap, clap ... clap ... clap ... clap
Hadlee's a w@nker! clap, clap ... clap ... clap ... clap

Handy cricketer tho...

 

[Tredders#16]

Steve Waugh...no.1 by a mile!
As tough as they come!
Tredders#16

 

[Stegelator]

Go Warney!!!

 

[bomber0018]

There's nothing wrong with Brett Lee!!!!!!!!

I HATE Pricky Ronting!