Hard to pick one because I was inspired as a teenager by the 1981 ashes, I can remember well running home to watch botham's innings and then Willis bowl them out.
With no sports fans in my family I was on my own more excited than I can ever remember and no one else really got it.
But if I had only one choice it would be IVA Richards. Despite the fabulous batsmen of recent years I've still not seen anyone better.
There have been some players like Lara who was just pure genius when the mood took him and temperamental which made him far more interesting to watch but Viv for me has been the best I've seen.
Bit of long winded answer to this post but it's hard to choose just one.