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General Cricket => Players => Topic started by: jw17 on November 06, 2011, 11:17:49 PM
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Who is your favorite player and why?
I'll start with Shivnarine Chanderpaul just for his pure stubbornness at the crease and he manages to pull off a pink bat whilst the same time looking really hard!
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Ian bell - could watch him bat all day and think he's a top guy.
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kevin pietersen - hero to me met him and he is a top bloke , an amazing player to watch when in form
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Mohammad Yousuf - Met him few times, spoke with him few times etc and a top bloke he is. I remember he parked his car on main road to meet me.
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Marcus Trescothick, do I really need to explain why?
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Mark Cosgrove! Proves that us bigger lads can score bucket loads of runs!
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Shane Watson - steely and determined, also very adaptable
would have been Mohammed Amir if he hadnt let himself down at Lords, used to love watching him bowl, most naturally talented cricketer i had ever seen, still go back and watch him on youtube sometimes
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would have been Mohammed Amir if he hadnt let himself down at Lords, used to love watching him bowl, most naturally talented cricketer i had ever seen, still go back and watch him on youtube sometimes
I totally agree with you, my heart bleeds when I see that bowling talent go down the drain.
Apart from MoYo another person I would say is Shoaib Akhtar, no matter in how many controversies this guy got into but he never sold his country and was very very patriotic.
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Sangakkara.
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Sangakkara.
Man needs no explaination either, I think him and Saeed Anwar are two lefties that I have ever seen with impeccable timing and sheer class
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I couldn't pick between the following 3;
Ian Bell - just pure class with every shot in the book
Eoin Morgan - cool as a cucumber whatever the situation and has the ability to hit the ball wherever he wants whenever he wants
Adam Gilchrist - what is there to say about the man who changed the role of the modern day wicket keeper single handedly
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Still playing it's tresco effortless technique but devastating
All time beefy warne or viv
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Ian bell - could watch him bat all day and think he's a top guy.
I've heard mixed things about him in real life as he is from just by me. Some good some bad. Untill I meet him myself I have no opinion except his cricket greatness lol as i believe that you should never judge people untill you meet them yourself.
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There can be only one: Warne.
Revolutionised the spin game, had a small 'Spirit of Gazza' in him, boderline Cricket genius according to all captains that have played with (and said he was always their top earworm), produced deliveries that single handidly demanded the development of super slo mo action replays to the game - indeed produced deliveries that you could watch over and over and over and over again, and still need to pick your jaw up from the floor to work out how the F he did it, completely changed the conventional wisdom you believed in that spin bowlers were merely a sideshow to give the quickies a break, put the fear of GOD into batsmen for HOURS on end, the sort of tangible "FFS, not again" horror you see in their eyes that they normally save for Curtly or McGrath, and, pretty much, the sole reason me as a 13 year old even bothered to pick up a ball and bat.
And now he engaged to Liz Hurley.
'Bowled Shane!
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Currently its got to be onathan Trott. His game plan is very similar to mine, also bowls a very tidy seam up line and has a rocket arm :)
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Daniel Luca Vettori. Bowler, batsman, (ex)-captain, former selector, man, hero, and probably washes the team kit as well... Like Swanny as well, and of course Trescothick!
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Geraint Jones. One of the earliest I times I ever watched cricket with my dad he scored some runs, not sure how many, but been my favourite player ever since. I was with him through the good times and the bad..
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i dont have one :D how ever i love kieswetter. very agresive opening batsman :D
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Lara and Atherton. Flamboyant class and the complete opposite, both however I could watch all day.
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I would like to chat to the best test batsman ever, the best modern day batsman in all formats, and a decent all rounder you could have a beer with!
So Bradman, Sachin, and Freddie!!
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I'd like to try and outdrink Boony...lol
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Robin Smith
Alec Stewart
Mike Brearley
and Douglas Jardine
also, even though he is an Aussie - Mike Hussey is someone who massively impresses me as a person and a player.
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Alec Stewart is not my fav player!
he is my hero!
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I would like to chat to the best test batsman ever, the best modern day batsman in all formats, and a decent all rounder you could have a beer with!
So Bradman, Sachin, and Freddie!!
In regards to the best modern day batsman in all formats, I think that honour goes to Hussey. I was going to say Trott as well but he doesn't play T-20's
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My favourites are all lefties which is strange as I am a righty
Mike Hussey
Sangakarra
Langer
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Glenn McGrath
Tendulkar
Dravid
Bell
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Through extensive reading F.S Trueman has got to be my favorite player although i've only ever seen minimal footage of him bowling. 307 wickets in 67 Test matches at a time where English cricket was very much favourable to the 'gentlemen' is a top achievement for a miners son. If he'd have kept his mouth shut he'd have played well over 100 tests but it wasn't his style, as anyone who listened to him on TMS will know. Also served for his country in the RAF.
At present i'm a big fan of Jesse Ryder and A.B De Villiers, think they'd be at 4 & 5 in my world XI!
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Jonathan Trott.
Batting machine, love watching him.
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From Players I have seen: Inzamam Ul Haq, Shane Warne and Wasim Akram
All time: Imran Khan
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Jonathan Trott.
Batting machine, love watching him.
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All time, it would have to be Sir IVA Richards - okay, so he managed to peter out a little compared to that amazing first six years in Test cricket, but even seeing him play for Glamorgan in his 40s he was a freak of nature - and Darren "Boof" Lehmann - okay, so I may be a tad biased based on his amazing service to Yorkshire, but the guy could bat *and* set an example to everyon around him of how a player should behave. Oh, and Maco - that guy was frightening, but my biggest memory of him was him standing outside the pavilion at Headingley signing autographs maybe 45 minutes after the rest fo his side were in teh changing rooms - sheer class.
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Oooooh can't pick between Michael Vaughan, Flintoff, Warne, Ponting and Sachin.
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Douglas Jardine aswell for one from the past
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For me it's Jonathan Trott. His antics for winding opposition up entertain me. I also find his batting strangely exciting to watch ???