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General Cricket => Players => Topic started by: 19reading87 on November 01, 2010, 09:14:54 PM
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I know that the obvious names always come up of being your All time cricketing hero - Lara, Tendulkar, Ponting etc etc...
But what I'm really interested to know is if anybody has a cricketing hero who isn't known as 1 of the big boys?? It can be for any reason I'm just curious to see...
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Tuffers....funniest bloke iv met i think....went AWOL when he was meant to be giving his speech at one of the dinners and came running into the room after sneeking off for a ciggy! True character of the game and life :D
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Chris Cairns for me absolute legend! Saw him in nets at lancs when i was a teenager, when he hit the ball it sounded like a shotgun going off!! And of course the hair . . . even asked my mother if i could get a perm to look like him!!
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John Lewis, puzzles me to how he still gets wickets!
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Darren Gough, Dominic Cork, Neil Fairbrother, Glen Chappell are only a few who i regard very highly and perhaps wouldn't be on everyone's list and there are many many others.
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Chris Woakes - still a bit young and unknown but from around my neck of the woods ! saw him when he was 15 playing for Walmley CC and showhing men's 1st teamers up !
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Chris Woakes - still a bit young and unknown but from around my neck of the woods ! saw him when he was 15 playing for Walmley CC and showhing men's 1st teamers up !
Where are you from Pal?? Could be local 2 me as I'm a Warks boy....
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Tamworth way but went to school in Walsall
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And what team you at?
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matt prior - no real reason, just love the way he bats
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Twycross cc i know leicester league... i get around :P
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Twycross cc i know leicester league... i get around :P
Cheeky ;)
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Vaughan and Hick.
Loved watching Vaughan bat and he really was a top class captain. Also supporting Worcs, I loved watching Hick bat - a true hero in these parts.
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Grant Flower for me - was my coach at school. Top bloke and a very good coach.
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Billy Bowden !!
Cairns and Hick are good shouts
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Mike Atherton- for the epic duel with Donald and for not walking('i'm not a walker')
Also a top pundit; love his column in The Times
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Bob Willis, the hair was always too long and the trousers too short. Came steaming in off a healthy run up and was quick....but never said much...looked miserable as XXXX
Today his dour demanour and scathing remarks are brilliant and get better when he offers batting tips on Sky. Not my alltime cricketing hero as that would be IVA Richards but Bob is good fun today.
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Monte Lynch
England, Slurry,Gloucestershite and 20 Bensons
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Danny Vettori - Genuinely carries NZ on his shoulders, and still manages to take wickets! Plus, left arm spinner, role model, etc.
Graeme Swann - Spinner, twitter mad, plays a mean guitar, and absolutely hilarious!
Jonty Rhodes + Paul Collingwood - Outstanding fielders. 'Nuff said!
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Anil Kumble - Lion hearted, carried India for years. Never gets the credit he deserves.
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alec stewart my hero!
main reason why im a keeper!
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Stuart Tudball, Player/Coach/Cricket Development Officer/Volunteer- Minehead CC! Nobody on this forum will have heard of him, apart from maybe Bulldog! Nobody loves cricket more than him and he has given up thousands (literally) of unpaid hours getting kids playing cricket. Our club pretty much wouldnt exist without Stu as he has introduced nearly everyone into the game..... and he's also the highest ever run scorer for us :P
Justin Langer- Turned around Somerset CCC for the better in just 2 and a half seasons, went from Division 2 Basement Dwellers to Division One contenders, 2020 runners-up etc...
Freddie Flintoff- Big inspiration for playing cricket, especially the ashes series in 2005 which is when I started getting into cricket more and more....
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For me Afridi and Wasim Akram were my cricketing heroes when I was young.
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Abdul Razzaq, as far my memory goes I have watched him and liked him from very first day. One of the big name I like is Mohammad Yousuf.
Always have desire of meeting Razzaq whereas have met/spoken YOusuf several times a top bloke he is I must say.
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Have met the entire English (2005) team and most of the Pakistani team from mid 90s to early 2000s.
Cricketing heroes aside, the guy who had left one of the greatest impression on me as a young fan was Chris Cairns, an absolute legend. I remember a test match innings between Pak and the black caps where Ijaz and Saeed Anwar both made centuries on a very bad day for NZ.
When the players were leaving (the security did not use to be tight those days) I tried to get hold of the teams as we were parked close to the team buses. I remember Carins with a book in his hand looking very down and tired stopped and had an encouraging word with me and gave me a smile and a thumbs up. I don't remember what he said but as a kid left me with an unforgettable memmory.
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adam hollioake - one of the most innovative captains and united a team of indivuals into the best team in the country - 2020 and championship.
and Martin Bicknell... should have got 60 caps for England, not 6
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Devon Malcolm for his 9 for 57 versus South Africa after being hit on the helmet by de Villiers. Also met him a couple of times, and he's a good laugh.
As a youngster, always wanted to emulate Courtney Walsh/Curtley Ambrose (if you can't guess I'm really a bowler) and having since spent quite a bit of time with Courtney, I'd have to say that he is a great guy.
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Paul Nixon - his professionalism/dedication puts some to shame.
Jack Russell- because he never quite struck me as a cricketer despite being the tidiest keeper I've ever seen.
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When I was growing up and Brian Lara was scoring runs for fun for Warwickshire, Andy Moles was quietly (and slowly) making the very best of his abilities. (Not my hero but someone I admired for their pugnacity in the Tavare mold and definitely not someone you would expect to get a mention!)
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Hick my hero and everybody who has watched and supported worcester for the last 15 years hero. A legend of the game and such a shame he didn't make it test level in the way he should. Still it meant many happy days watching him plunder the ball around new road. Not a flat track bully look at all the times he got 100 when no one else even got a 50. Also such a nice guy, went to his testimonal game got photo with the great man i'm about at his waste as I was only about 11 take pride of place in my hallway.
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Remember watching Hick at Edgbaston when he was quite young and Donald was also in his early 20s and absolutely rapid. None of the other batsmen could handle him but Hick launched him straight out of the ground twice, front and back foot, as if it was the easiest thing imaginable. Awesome and an absolute legend!
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Robert Croft - he came and made an appearance at our club a few weeks back. One of the funniest blokes I have ever listened to but gave an incredible insight into how county cricket used to be. Stories of batting with Viv Richards (don't worry Crofty, I'll take it from here man) and Waqar Younis (ball tampering, kicking off the sight screen to start his run up etc)
Swanny - just for being Swanny really. No real explanations needed here
Jack Russell - for being generally brilliant at everything...apart from batting
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Paul Nixon. Most adept keeper at standing up to the seamers, brilliant one-day batsman and mad as a box of frogs!!
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Paul Nixon. Most adept keeper at standing up to the seamers, brilliant one-day batsman and mad as a box of frogs!!
Top player is Nixon, but I think Fozzie might give him a run for his money when standing up to seamers!
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Geraint Jones. I got in to cricket at the same time we won the 2005 ashes. That Edgbaston catch...
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Not sure if he may or may not be obvious but I'm a big Hussey fan - even when he isn't batting well. I really admire him, great work ethic.
Dedication and all that!
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Steve Waugh. . . . .always up for a challenge.
Mental toughness at its best
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Like Paul Collingwood one of my hero's is Steve Waugh, tough and uncompromising
Darren Gough, such a tough player with a massive heart used to tour Australia with some pretty ordinary English sides and never gave up always steamed in and gave his all regardless.
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chris read, consistant county performer who should have had more chances for england
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Robin Smith has to b up there for those square cuts awesome power + batting with the tail
Harshly treated by england in my view + still average mid 40's (could be wrong)
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Sachin Tendulkar he makes everything look so easy and he is very modest and a top bloke. The innings to get his 200 in ODI was amazing and he has played many similar standard test innings
Mike Hussey purely for he sheer grit and never willing to give up, he always seems to try 110% and he is pure class.
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I'm a big fan of Luke Wright after seeing him play earlier this year... smashed a century then bowled high 80's, top player
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eoin morgan for me, the only reason why I bought a kookabura blade and like all essex fans love fozzy and matty walker for the way they play the game
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Mark Waugh - he made batting look truly easy and was always great to watch...
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Top player is Nixon, but I think Fozzie might give him a run for his money when standing up to seamers!
And you type that with your avatar! the shame! ;)