Obscure Players That You Remember

[western royboy]

Eddo Brandes.

And Harold from Neighbours when he was heckled in a nightclub according to a guy I worked with in England.

McGrath started a lot of fights with the words - on several occasions he got owned, M Waugh had a similar knack

 

[Number37]

McGrath started a lot of fights with the words - on several occasions he got owned, M Waugh had a similar knack

The Sarwan one was the most embarrassing for McGrath.

 

[PhatBoy]

McGrath started a lot of fights with the words - on several occasions he got owned, M Waugh had a similar knack

As witty as Jimmy Ormond’s was to Waugh, parore owns the title.

‘i remember you, you were shit last time we played you and you’re shit now.’

‘I remember you too. Last time I was here you were dating an old, ugly fat ****. Now I’m back and you’ve married her. You dumb c***.’

the last line seals the deal. Best ever

 

[rideclutch]

Aus vs Sri Lanka ODI series a few years back now.

The latter were having their top order ripped out repeatedly during chases by Lee and whoever else was opening at the time, so they brought in a bloke I think called Michael van Dort? Was maybe on debut, tall lefty from memory - anyway he survived the initial onslaught (wickets kept falling other end) but he batted so damn slowly, was like 20 off 70 or something, just wouldn't play any shots lol.

Eventually got a slog sweep away for a boundary against one of the spinners I think, ended up making 40 odd off like 100? Was dropped after that but I didn't get it because he at least managed to stick around for a bit and might've improved.

Anyway I have no idea what his career was like after that but cheers to you and your obscure innings, Michael van Dort if that was even your name. Memory shocking .

 

[CrazyJoeFevola]

Aus vs Sri Lanka ODI series a few years back now.

The latter were having their top order ripped out repeatedly during chases by Lee and whoever else was opening at the time, so they brought in a bloke I think called Michael van Dort? Was maybe on debut, tall lefty from memory - anyway he survived the initial onslaught (wickets kept falling other end) but he batted so damn slowly, was like 20 off 70 or something, just wouldn't play any shots lol.

Eventually got a slog sweep away for a boundary against one of the spinners I think, ended up making 40 odd off like 100? Was dropped after that but I didn't get it because he at least managed to stick around for a bit and might've improved.

Anyway I have no idea what his career was like after that but cheers to you and your obscure innings, Michael van Dort if that was even your name. Memory shocking .

Played for Parkdale last season, didn't do much from memory.

 

[corbies]

Aus vs Sri Lanka ODI series a few years back now.

The latter were having their top order ripped out repeatedly during chases by Lee and whoever else was opening at the time, so they brought in a bloke I think called Michael van Dort? Was maybe on debut, tall lefty from memory - anyway he survived the initial onslaught (wickets kept falling other end) but he batted so damn slowly, was like 20 off 70 or something, just wouldn't play any shots lol.

Eventually got a slog sweep away for a boundary against one of the spinners I think, ended up making 40 odd off like 100? Was dropped after that but I didn't get it because he at least managed to stick around for a bit and might've improved.

Anyway I have no idea what his career was like after that but cheers to you and your obscure innings, Michael van Dort if that was even your name. Memory shocking .

He's been brought up a few times in this thread for that exact match. Had a reasonably successful test career (20 tests, 4 hundreds, averaged 37) but you'll be surprised to learn that was his only ODI.

 

[rideclutch]

He's been brought up a few times in this thread for that exact match. Had a reasonably successful test career (20 tests, 4 hundreds, averaged 37) but you'll be surprised to learn that was his only ODI.

Cheers, figured he might've been but wasn't gonna read 56 pages. Yeah 4 tons at 37 certainly not the worst.

 

[ioppolo]

48 off 117 chasing over 300, in a mid 2000s ODI.

 

[Ok Boomer]

Those Mark Waugh sledges would have been better if they didn't come from a pair of absolute crabs, in Ormonds case, a fat one.

 

[PhatBoy]

Those Mark Waugh sledges would have been better if they didn't come from a pair of absolute crabs, in Ormonds case, a fat one.

parore was fine for a pre-Gilchrist keeper batsman.

the point with both of them was that their sledges didn’t rely on being needed to be backed up with brilliant cricket

 

[Number37]

parore was fine for a pre-Gilchrist keeper batsman.

the point with both of them was that their sledges didn’t rely on being needed to be backed up with brilliant cricket

If you're sledging then the scoreboard does matter.

 

[western royboy]

If you're sledging then the scoreboard does matter.

I reckon the fact that in the M Waugh cases all the Aussies lost their shit was a recognition that he lost those little battles

 

[Number37]

I reckon the fact that in the M Waugh cases all the Aussies lost their sh*t was a recognition that he lost those little battles

That team were a bunch of sooks when they were getting beaten. I blame it on Warney, the king of sooking when he doesn't get his way.

 

[PhatBoy]

If you're sledging then the scoreboard does matter.

if someone says something to you and you’ve got ‘at least I’m the best cricketer in my family’ up your sleeve I doubt you’re going to be verifying that you’re on top in the match

 

[PhatBoy]

That team were a bunch of sooks when they were getting beaten. I blame it on Warney, the king of sooking when he doesn't get his way.

mcgrath was just as bad. Highlighted by his ‘you have to be kidding, I should have scored a century today’ expression whenever he was dismissed

 

[Number37]

if someone says something to you and you’ve got ‘at least I’m the best cricketer in my family’ up your sleeve I doubt you’re going to be verifying that you’re on top in the match

No probs with replies to sledging.
It's the douche bags that have done f all in the game but initiate sledging that need to shut their pie hole.
EG when you go out to bat and the douche standing at first slip who scored 3 starts sledging.

 

[Kapow!!!]

mcgrath was just as bad. Highlighted by his ‘you have to be kidding, I should have scored a century today’ expression whenever he was dismissed

Difference is McGrath dropped the petulance once he left the field, Warne still has it 13 years and a half years since leaving that same field

 

[Gough]

Difference is McGrath dropped the petulance once he left the field, Warne still has it 13 years and a half years since leaving that same field

The petulance for better or worse is about the only thing I find interesting about McGrath, he seems pretty devoid of character otherwise.

 

[Kapow!!!]

The petulance for better or worse is about the only thing I find interesting about McGrath, he seems pretty devoid of character otherwise.

For me it wasn't so much petulance but brute force self-belief: He genuinely believed he had every batsman's measure and wasn't afraid to show it.

But yes he does still sound like he signs documents with an X

 

[Gough]

For me it wasn't so much petulance but brute force self-belief: He genuinely believed he had every batsman's measure and wasn't afraid to show it.

But yes he does still sound like he signs documents with an X

That's because he was really good at what he did but even his bowling was boring, top of off twenty overs a day.

 

[Appin Vet]

He may have been mentioned in the previous mountain of posts... but Simon Dart. Whatever happened to him?
He was the next best thing along with Brad Hodge in Victorian Cricket.

 

[BronCrow]

Tubby cricketers gotta love em.

Who was that tubby cricketer who, when asked, "why are you so fat?", replied, "every time I F your wife she gives me a biscuit"???

That would be former Zimbabwean quick Eddo Brandes who said that to Glenn McGrath whilst batting in a one day game in Perth in the mid nineties.

 

[Pee Tear Griffin]

Owais Shah, Tanvir Ahmed, Justin Ontong and Jacob Martin just to name a few.

 

[Pee Tear Griffin]

Ashley Noffke, Brett Dorey and Shane Harwood

 

[The Passenger]

Shaun Young playing test cricket is one of life's great mysteries.

What's more problematic for our cricketing stocks is if he was born 15 years later he'd have probably played 50ish tests batting at #6.

Pretty good state level cricketer but was never gonna be good enough for test cricket. Would have been one of Australian cricket great stories if he and McGrath managed to knock off those 20 runs.

Ashley Noffke, Brett Dorey and Shane Harwood

There would have been a period in the middle part of the 2000's when that would have made a bloody handy pace trio running out for Australia A. Noffke was especially unlucky not to a run at test cricket.