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[Howzat]

Played against former West Indies captain Alvin Kallacharan and Nayan Doshi (Rajasthan Royals/Surrey) has got me out a couple of times.

[ProCricketer1982]

The bola is far better than any bowler I've seen so far.

[Kez]

Have faced... Mark Footitt, Mark Turner (he broke my thumb), Tony Palladino, Tim Groenewald, Iain O'Brien.
Others I have played against- Grayson, Andy Flower and Will Jefferson.
And I taught Grant Flower how to score. 

[nickjhh]

In my last year at school (1994 I guess) we played against an MCC touring team that brought along Andy Flower, Kenny Benjamin and Mudassar Nazar. I kept wicket and caught Kenny Benjamin down the legside - big mistake as I also opened the batting! Thankfully he was coming back from an injury so was only bowling off a 'short' run. I closed my eyes and lunged forward to his first ball which I edged. Before I turned around to see if I had been caught, I heard the ball hitting the boards running behind the boundary! Having survived that, Mudassar Nazar got me out the over before tea with a ball which cut back by about a yard! It was a fun day though with all 3 being happy to sign autographs after the game, etc.

[InternalTraining]

Bola. Gave me many bruises.

[Over Gully]

Played against Graeme Hick in a Wattlesprigs (Australian touring team) v The Barmy Army at St.Fagans which is in Wales on the eve of the First Test in 2009. Barmy Army had Hick and Nick Knight, we had Dizzy Gillespie and Ian Harvey. We ended up winning but not before Hick made a breezy 50. I've never seen such clean ball-striking in my life. He is a tall guy but his feet were so quick, hit some massive sixes straight and some cover drives that beat me sweeping on the off-side. Great day, I opened up with the bat and faced first ball of the day, fair crowd there too. Great days!

PS: Knight got bowled by a ball that bounced twice!

[aussie.kooky]

Mike Hussey in grade cricket in Perth. He is not called Mr Cricket for nothing. Great competitor.

[Northern monkey]

Played against quite a few pros in the lancs and the ribblesdale league ,,
Steve Waugh ,Shane Warne ,Carl Hooper ,joe Scuderi,Ian Clarkson,etc
But the best I played against was in my junior days, a lad called Paul Crabtree
He was offered a contract for both Lancashire cc and Burnley fc on the same day!
He made batting look effortless , and is the reason I hate left handers to this day!ha

I'm only glad I didn't have to play football against him

He chose to play football and as far as I remember(30 yrs ago)he emigrated to Australia to coach

Played against a lot of Asian lads in the Craven league over the years, who take their cricket very seriously and in a different world, would have made very good county players if given a chance

Also played against a young Asian lad ,think he was about 14,,who scored the most effortless fifty against us, turned out his batting average for Lancashire was over a hundred. He was just sheer class to watch bat

[bruggers100]

I've had the privilege to play with and against some very good players over the years.  There are a couple that stick in my mind, Saqlain Mushtaq, and Jimmy Adams (West Indies).

Saqlain was simply outstanding, and took 8 wickets in our league home leg against him. In the return match, Mark Butcher played for us and scored 120 odd.

In the game against Jimmy Adams, he just went about his business and scored a class 74.  He played everyone with respect, and just put the bad ball away.  It was a real show of class.  My claim to fame (and the only false shot he played) that day was that I hit him in the chest with a 'Bouncer' (that should read 'a very slow long hop that he played through it about five minutes before it hit him!').  Also, no churp from him, just a humble man going about his business.

[cricketbadger]

Played against a lot of Asian lads in the Craven league over the years, who take their cricket very seriously and in a different world, would have made very good county players if given a chance

Also played against a young Asian lad ,think he was about 14,,who scored the most effortless fifty against us, turned out his batting average for Lancashire was over a hundred. He was just sheer class to watch bat

Hi mate, where did/do you play in the Craven league?
And which asian players in particular stood out? Any still playing now that you're aware of

[Gelds]

Played against Tim Bresnan when I was about 15. He was quite brisk to say the least and made his Yorkshire debut later that summer.

[wasted_talent]

Played against the Sri Lankan national team as a pre warm up game for them before the ICC Champions Trophy started in the UK during the 2003? season... They were a handy bunch. 

In club cricket, have played against Jimmy Neesham, Chris Drum (x Kiwi test/odi player).. those the ones that come to mind immediately!

[RF]

@wasted_talent you're winning seen as you've played against an international team

[wasted_talent]

lol... pretty sure there is a scorecard of the game somewhere..

we bowled well, restricted them to under 250 in a rain reduced game of 45/per side.

but then were blown away when batting, all out for under a 100 albeit we managed to bat for almost 40 overs!

[Over Gully]

Hi mate, where did/do you play in the Craven league?
And which asian players in particular stood out? Any still playing now that you're aware of

I played for Cullingworth as an overseas player in 2004. Had a great time, wish I could go back but won't happen now with work commitments...