Obscure Players That You Remember

[Muffin_Man]

From Malcolm Marshall I believe. Marshall reporedly picked bone from Gattings nose from the ball

those were the days.

 

[The_Reaper]

Mark Richardson

 

[the_interloper]

Faced him - VFQ - Harwood equally as quick and scarier on a number of levels

Shane Harwood would have been scary as * I reckon. He started FC cricket pretty late too I think, made me chuckle when I thought of all the country bumpkins he must have scared the s**t out of in his early 20s.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Mark Richardson

Wouldn't have thought he would count as obscure - good Test record and world famous due to his beating of Lehmann in the 100m dash.

 

[krisholio14]

hey mate,was it gatting who got hit in the face with the ball?
and the reporter asked him,where the ball hit him?
sure it was gatting.

Kevin Badcock

 

[western royboy]

Shane Harwood would have been scary as **** I reckon. He started FC cricket pretty late too I think, made me chuckle when I thought of all the country bumpkins he must have scared the s**t out of in his early 20s.

Bowled a rep team out for 17 one day at Tatyoon

 

[Damon_3388]

Ah, Troy Corbett gets a mention in this terrific piece on Geoff Foley as soon as someone mentioned the chucking aspect I remembered:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/jul/11/geoff-foley-throwing-forgotten-story-cricket

Lol, Geoff Foley.

 

[krisholio14]

Bowled a rep team out for 17 one day at Tatyoon

Great nickname too

 

[JUBJUB]

Mark Richardson

Rigger isn't really obscure

 

[krisholio14]

Eldine Baptiste

 

[cricketnut14]

Theo is a sports reporter for Channel 7 over here, and does the sports bulletin on weekends.

Theo Doropolous also took a catch in a test match at the WACA 2009/10.

Went on as a sub fielder (12th man may have been released) and caught Suliemann Benn off Mitchell Johnson.

Another obscure one, Luke Pomersbach , only played 1 T20I and came in at the last minute as he was a spectator at the ground. He came in for Hodge and even wore Hodgey's "17 Dodgeball" shirt (back in the days they had their nicknames of their shirts). That particular game saw 5 quicks play at the WACA - Lee, Johnson, Tait, Bracken & Noffke.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Theo Doropolous also took a catch in a test match at the WACA 2009/10.

Went on as a sub fielder (12th man may have been released) and caught Suliemann Benn off Mitchell Johnson.

Only after dropping one haha

Another obscure one, Luke Pomersbach , only played 1 T20I and came in at the last minute as he was a spectator at the ground. He came in for Hodge and even wore Hodgey's "17 Dodgeball" shirt (back in the days they had their nicknames of their shirts). That particular game saw 5 quicks play at the WACA - Lee, Johnson, Tait, Bracken & Noffke.

Pomers was a genuine talent - with the right headspace, he would have played a lot of cricket for Australia.

 

[krisholio14]

Theo Doropolous also took a catch in a test match at the WACA 2009/10.

Went on as a sub fielder (12th man may have been released) and caught Suliemann Benn off Mitchell Johnson.

Another obscure one, Luke Pomersbach , only played 1 T20I and came in at the last minute as he was a spectator at the ground. He came in for Hodge and even wore Hodgey's "17 Dodgeball" shirt (back in the days they had their nicknames of their shirts). That particular game saw 5 quicks play at the WACA - Lee, Johnson, Tait, Bracken & Noffke.

Not really obscure. I think if you did a thread on unfulfilled cricket potential, his name would bob up quite a bit.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Some classic 9 commentary in there too, getting his identity wrong twice.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Michael Dighton.

Don't remember him though apart from his name.

 

[western royboy]

Some classic 9 commentary in there too, getting his identity wrong twice.

Time to re quote Bill Lawry after Slater asked him how to get a gig in the Ch. 9 box

" know something about the game for a start you twit"

 

[the_interloper]

Michael Dimattina had good wraps on him as a keeper early on, maybe it was Darren Berry that pushed him out, i can't remember.

 

[krisholio14]

Michael Dimattina had good wraps on him as a keeper early on, maybe it was Darren Berry that pushed him out, i can't remember.

He was indeed. Berry had a year in SA, and as soon as he came back to Victoria, it was bye bye Dimma.

 

[Van_Dyke]

Only after dropping one haha

Pomers was a genuine talent - with the right headspace, he would have played a lot of cricket for Australia.

If he had everything ok in the head, he'd be in the Australian team now IMO. Pomers just summed up the WA sides of the era well.

 

[t_94]

Craig Howard

 

[Roysforever]

Wouldn't have thought he would count as obscure - good Test record and world famous due to his beating of Lehmann in the 100m dash.

Also known for catching Warne on 99 and the cramp of the century.

 

[western royboy]

Michael Dimattina had good wraps on him as a keeper early on, maybe it was Darren Berry that pushed him out, i can't remember.

Was not a good enough bat.

 

[krisholio14]

Was not a good enough bat.

Berry wasn't much better with the bat, but he's the best pure keeper I've seen in 40 years of watching cricket.

 

[western royboy]

Berry wasn't much better with the bat, but he's the best pure keeper I've seen in 40 years of watching cricket.

Peter Anderson for me.

 

[Cleavy]

Michael Dighton.

Don't remember him though apart from his name.

I recall he took 6 or 7 wickets in a T20, back when it was a state based comp.

EDIT: 6/25 must have been bowling grenades