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We watch them on TV and admire them, how many of you have met your favourites and non-favourite international cricketers in your life?

Lets see what everyone says...

[ajmw89]

Met Chris Tremlett at the Oval a few weeks ago.  Man is a freaking mountain!

[Alvaro]

Jack Russell

[wilkie113]

Marvin Atapattu, at a lashings game a few years ago our Sri Lankan pro played at the same club as him so he came and had a chat with him an us

[thedon]

Had dinner with harbhajan singh and dinesh mongia. met laxmipathy balaji. a really down to earth genuinely nice guy. asked about my cricket and had a long discussion about this

[ajmw89]

Zander de Bruyn and Chris Schofield were "allocated" to our club as pros last year.  Schofield was an absolute numpty.  de Bruyn only played the one game, and was brely seen, but you couldn't meet a nicer guy

[Colesy]

Marcus Trescothick, Alistair Cook, Ian Bell, Andrew Strauss, Stevn Finn, Chris Wright, Wasim Jaffer, Yasir Arafat. That's off the top of my head

[yvk3103]

Have met:
Sunil Gavaskar (first when I was maybe 10-12 and SG was still playing and then last year)
Kapil Dev
Manoj Prabhakar (played a few games with him when I was younger and played for club in Delhi)
Yuvi
Sachin Tendulkar
VVS Laxman
Lou Vincent
Andrew Strauss (just before he was made captain - met him at the BA lounge in Heathrow)
Freddie
Jayasuriya
Kallis
the Pathan bothers
Raina
Mushtaq Ahmed
Raamez Raja
Ravi Shastri
Wasim Akram (lives a couple of minutes from my home)
Jonty Rohdes
Jayawardene
Bhajji
Zaheer Khan
Mike Gatting
Alistar Cook
Bopara
Varun Chopra

[Red Ink Cricket]

Bell, Charlotte Edwards, Goughie, Mohammed asif.

also met jeff thomson in the leederville hotel in perth. hes not an international but also met jim allenby and had a few drinks with him too.

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Here are ones I have met, have missed some too!

2007

- Mohammad Yousuf

2008

- Mohammad Yousuf
- Nasir Jamshed
- Wahab Riaz
- Anwar Ali
- Shoaib Malik
- Shahid Afridi
- Younis Khan
- Salman Butt
- Umar Gul
- Geoff Lawson
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Shoaib Khan
- Fawad Alam
- Sohail Khan
- Mahela Jayawardene
- Ajantha Mendis
- TIlkernate Dilshan
- Nuwan Kuluserkara
....Few others Sri Lanka, complete Zimbabwean and Canadian squad

2010

- Mohammad Irfan
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Taufeeq Umar
- Junaid Khan
- Javed Maindad
- Sohail Tanvir

2011

- Wasim Akram
- Mohammad Talha
- Mohsin Hasan Khan
- Sohail Khan
- Tanvir Ahmed
- Sarfraz Nawaz
- Mothisham Rasheed
- Asad Shafiq
- Babar Azam
- Sohail Tanvir
- Sharjeel Khan
- Umar Amin
- Umar Akmal
- Kamran Akmal
- Azhar Ali
- Aizaz Cheema
- Hammad Azam
- Usman Salahuddin
- Hammad Azam
- Usman Qadir
- Waqar Younis
- Adnan Akmal
- Younis Khan
- Mohammad Hafeez
- Misbah Ul Haq

2012

- Mohammad Sami
- Azhar Ali
- Asad Shafiq
- Misbah Ul Haq
- Taufeeq Umar
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Imran Nazir
- Nasir Jamshed
- Wahab Riaz
- Kamran Akmal
- Umar Akmal
- Mohammad Irfan
- Tanvir Ahmed
- Rahat Ali
- Malang Ali
- Junaid Khan
- Aizaz Cheema
- Intikhab Alam
- Dav Whatmore
- Julien Fountain
- Babar Azam (Played with him)

[Tail Ender]

Kim Hughes a couple of times, Geoff Marsh, Jo Angel, Courtney Walsh, Murray Goodwin and Sean Irvine. Spent about an hour talking to Irvine about Hayden's 380 against Zim. He was so enthusiastic, despite his team coping a pasting, and said it was a privilege to share the field with him. That's one way to look at it! Top bloke, too.

[SaadIjaz]

Met many many and many players over years of watching and following the game.. But probably the one meet I will never forget is Shahid Afridi for brief moments.. Got a photo on FB can't post it here as at work atm..

[Leddster138]

Did bat testing last year with Neil Fairbrother (very busy man), Lou Vincent (lovely guy), Matt Maynard (nice guy, cheeky enough to takea couple of the bats) and Mark Butcher (didn't really have a lot of time for anyone without 5,000 first class runs.....me).

Also last year, lucky enough to win a bowling session with Murli and Graham Swan. They say don't meet your heros....rubbish! these guys were amazing. Swan was funny as hell and you felt like Murli wanted to talk to you for ages. Both top blokes

[GarrettJ]

played for Bermuda v

West Indies x2
Trinidad
Barbados

and travelled to Stanford 20/20 as a goodwill gesture becasue i was selected and then told i wasnt elgible .... so met nearly every WI.

injury froced me out of games v

Canada
England

[golden duck]

I think it was new years eve 04/05, I was in Antigua and the band playing had curtly ambrose & richie Richardson in it! Awesome evening and a good band too.

Ambrose is one of my all time favourites. I think my first test match was windies v eng at old traff - he still looked massive at the gig!