Obscure Players That You Remember

[SleazySimon]

Most of those are hardly obscure though.

To some 15 year olds they would be

 

[VogonProsthetnic]

Garry Pratt- does he count?

 

[Scotland]

Thread needs more Hendrik Human 'Boeta' Dippenaar. Remarkable name, unremarkable 38 tests.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Thread needs more Hendrik Human 'Boeta' Dippenaar. Remarkable name, unremarkable 38 tests.

I remember his slow starts in the ODIs!

 

[Aussie_boy]

Couldn't find an obscure pieces of equipment you remember thread.

 

[Zach Package]

Thread needs more Hendrik Human 'Boeta' Dippenaar. Remarkable name, unremarkable 38 tests.

the human tortise

 

[Sammo360]

 

[Damon_3388]

Couldn't find an obscure pieces of equipment you remember thread.

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So much hype when Haydos began using that in the IPL. Was meant to be "the future".

 

[Aussie_boy]

So much hype when Haydos began using that in the IPL. Was meant to be "the future".

I guess with bats getting much lighter there was no real need for it.

 

[t_94]

Krueger Van Wyk. Who was the guy before him? Last name was Young

 

[Aussie_boy]

Krueger Van Wyk. Who was the guy before him? Last name was Young

Reece Young, NZ seem to turn over keepers pretty rapidly.

 

[PhatBoy]

Speaking of obscure kiwis, is Reece Young any relation of Bryan Young - who hit 267 against Sri Lanka and pretty much never got double figures again?

 

[Hellgood]

Ravindra Pushpakumara.

Never saw him play but lol at some of the stories, quite a character:

Pushpakumara's antics worked well at times. During the World Cup final, Aravinda de Silva and Asanka Gurusinha put on a crucial 125-run stand for the third wicket. A drinks break was fast approaching. Pushpakumara was one of the reserves and as he was getting ready to carry the drinks. Whatmore called up Pushpakumara and gave some instructions to be passed to the two batsmen. Ranatunga gave few more as well. Manager Duleep Mendis chipped in followed by other senior players. It was a tense dressing room on the 17th of March 1996.



As Pushpakumara ran onto the middle, he wondered why he should upset the momentum by giving too many instructions. So he went up to Aravinda and said, 'Well played aiyya'. Then he turned to Gurusinha and said, 'well-played aiyaa'. All other instructions he kept to himself.

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-new...res-been-never-one-like-him-shehan-madushanka

 

[newblueo]

chopra for India boy oh boy how he played so many test i don't know.

dan cullen poor kid played for oz to soon. nick jewell was a decent player to.

an that off spinner who bowled to steve Waugh when he hit a 4 to get to 100 dawson?

side note to steele Sidebottoms bro who played for vic an alex keath both of whom were ehhh lucky to play state cricket

 

[PhatBoy]

chopra for India boy oh boy how he played so many test i don't know.

dan cullen poor kid played for oz to soon. nick jewell was a decent player to.

an that off spinner who bowled to steve Waugh when he hit a 4 to get to 100 dawson?

Chopra played 10 tests because he was the perfect counterpoint to the carnage at the other end. He and Sehwag put on 3 century stands in their first 7 tests together

 

[Gough]

Harold Joseph. West Indian mystery spinner who was selected to tour here in 1981/82 on the back of baffling the touring Englishmen the previous summer. Barely played a game on tour and was never heard of again.

 

[Wolfs]

Chopra played 10 tests because he was the perfect counterpoint to the carnage at the other end. He and Sehwag put on 3 century stands in their first 7 tests together

Yeah I rated him. Could have made a ton if they stuck with him. Wasim Jaffer could have done well as well.

I remember Ajay Ratna and Balaji. Balaji was okay.

 

[Hollow Sorrow]

A few recent English man
Jade Dernbach
Adam Lyth
Sam Robson
James Tredwell
Zafar Ansari
Scott Borthwick

 

[ioppolo]

Robson and Ansari have time to make a comeback

 

[Wilso24]

Anthony Stuart taking a Hattrick and a 5fa in an ODI popped up the other day

 

[Kram]

Peter Kirsten, made his debut in his late 30s. Brother of Gary Kirsten.

 

[PhatBoy]

Peter Kirsten, made his debut in his late 30s. Brother of Gary Kirsten.

Obscure now, perhaps, but I can remember a time when he was considered one of the better one day players in the world. He was very good at the 92 World Cup. Though more as an anchor than any sort of dasher.

Yet another career absolutely destroyed by apartheid. Averaged over 40 in the rebel test series’ and was still good enough to hit a century in England when he was 40 or so.

 

[Kram]

Pommie batsman Mal Loye.

Had a slog sweep type shot he employed against fast bowlers, tried it against McGrath and only succeeded in getting smashed in the head.

 

[PhatBoy]

Pommie batsman Mal Loye.

Had a slog sweep type shot he employed against fast bowlers, tried it against McGrath and only succeeded in getting smashed in the head.

That shot, and in particular that attempted execution of it, and perhaps the fact that he was old, are all I recollect of him

 

[The Speaker]

Pommie batsman Mal Loye.

Had a slog sweep type shot he employed against fast bowlers, tried it against McGrath and only succeeded in getting smashed in the head.

team-mate of michael hussey at northamptonshire when hussey broke his record for highest score in an innings for the county