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[RF]

Who is the best player you've played against?

[WalkingWicket37]

Danny Briggs 

[ppccopener]

Carlos Remy, Sussex and Leics. so quick it was scary..then got home and googled him and it said on Cricinfo 'medium pace'.He now bowls offies in the Middlesex Championship.
Grant Flower and Alistair Campbell(Zimbabwe) both got tons against us,both retired when they got bored of batting,neither gave a chance or took any risks at all.

When some of us asked to speak to either in the bar just to get some advice on batting their Tour Manager said they were both in bed as they had a game the next day.

It was 8pm.
 

[Stuey]

Carlos played for our club about 10 years ago and played against him a few times since, a lovely guy and quality cricketer.

[TBONTB]

When I was a kid, my friend Sam who is not in AUS playing cricket. And in LMS recently, there is a posh team who are just silly. Walk in smash us about like they are in the nets easy peasy. One guy hit a 17 ball 50 and 3 of them hit 50 in under 25 balls. They hit 298 of 20 overs!

[ppccopener]

Carlos played for our club about 10 years ago and played against him a few times since, a lovely guy and quality cricketer.

indeed a nice bloke, there is a west indian team in our league New Calypsonians, he plays for them now..in fact all of them are great fun,try to blast you out on the field but there is always a red stripe in the showers.

Back when Carlos was in his early twenties-when I faced him-he was real quick. I opened back then and he was miles away waiting to bowl,looked back and the keeper was even further back....
medium pace in a club match and a County game mean two very different things

[rich041187]

James Taylor for Loughborough Town. Scored an brilliant 50 odd against us at the age of about 14. Also Saqlain Mustaq, who played for Syston. Put 6 balls on the same spot and they all moved different ways when landing, unbelievable. My dad always talks about playing against Vaughn Walsh who loved to quote "stick it up your snot box"

[pacman75cricket]

Played against Jack Brooks when he was in his teens very different now.  Otherwise  would be John Emburey a couple of years ago.

[Beachcricket]

James Taylor for Loughborough Town. Scored an brilliant 50 odd against us at the age of about 14. Also Saqlain Mustaq, who played for Syston. Put 6 balls on the same spot and they all moved different ways when landing, unbelievable. My dad always talks about playing against Vaughn Walsh who loved to quote "stick it up your snot box"

Do you play in the NW Leics leagues?

[TangoWhiskey]

I played against Broad at school once when I was about 13. A mate hooked him for a four and Broad walked over to him and said if he did it again he'd kill him.

[TangoWhiskey]

indeed a nice bloke, there is a west indian team in our league New Calypsonians, he plays for them now..in fact all of them are great fun,try to blast you out on the field but there is always a red stripe in the showers.

Back when Carlos was in his early twenties-when I faced him-he was real quick. I opened back then and he was miles away waiting to bowl,looked back and the keeper was even further back....
medium pace in a club match and a County game mean two very different things

We play a couple of friendly games with the New Calypsonian boys, they are great fun. Their deck is horrible though, not a lot of fun facing some of their guys on it!

[RF]

I played against Keiron Pollard a few years, he was 17 or 18 and hit it miles.

I also played against a young Indian lad called Prithvi Shaw last year when he playing for Cleethorpes, he was only 14 and hit our 2 first team opening bowlers all round the park, scored 54 in abut 5 overs before being caught out on the boundary.  Prithvi scored 546 in an innings once, a world record apparently, he gets coached by Tendulkar.  He was amazing, I was a little disapointed when he got out, if he'd batted all innings he would have got 200+.

[Stuey]

indeed a nice bloke, there is a west indian team in our league New Calypsonians, he plays for them now..in fact all of them are great fun,try to blast you out on the field but there is always a red stripe in the showers.

Back when Carlos was in his early twenties-when I faced him-he was real quick. I opened back then and he was miles away waiting to bowl,looked back and the keeper was even further back....
medium pace in a club match and a County game mean two very different things

haha yeah he bowled quicker than medium for us and batted like a god.

[WalkingWicket37]

Other notable ones I've played against

Raj Maru he scored 92* (dropped on 0  ) then bowled 10 overs, 8 maidens, 4 Wickets, 8 runs. I scored half those runs with a slog sweep for a 1 bounce 4 

Last season played against an Australia U19 opener, he batted all day ending 70odd not out chasing 160 ish if I remmber rightly (it was an overseas fixture on the Isle of Wight and I got sloshed on the ferry coming back so don't quote me on that lol!)

[Stuey]

I played against Gus Logie once (about 20 years ago), he was class. However unfortunately for him our leggie got him out and at tea our leggie shot off to get a t-shirt made up with 'Gus Logie is my bunny' which he wore all night in the bar...luckily Gus saw the funny side.