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[Tom]

This bat is unrelated to the Champs League player.

[Alvaro]

harmison?

[Buzz]

samit patel
demi mascranas (sp??!!)

[Alvaro]

Paul Nixon?

[essexarsenal]

Michael Vaughan ?

[Colesy]

No pink bat for Strauss

[Ayrtek Cricket]

i wouldnt classify any of the players just mentioned as ex-england legends!!!!! Vaughan maybe but Samit patel!!!

[Buzz]

i wouldnt classify any of the players just mentioned as ex-england legends!!!!! Vaughan maybe but Samit patel!!!

Samit Patel is, in fact, a legend. This is a man who decided that eating curry was more important than playing for England and getting loads of money. He sits alongside Jimmy (at least I'm the best player in my family) Ormond who also got dropped for being to fat and prefering food (or beer) to cash and glory.

Just because Michael Vaughan was England captian, the best player in the world, glorious redeemer of the Ashes in 2005, doesn't make him any more of a legend than Samit Patel.

oh. I see your point.

[Ayrtek Cricket]

lol good argument in defence of all rotund men out there...Ian Austin springs to mind!!!

[Buzz]

Ian Austin - he was a player "With a waistline somewhere between Billy Bunter and Friar Tuck, Austin was an unlikely sporting figure. His approach to the wicket wasn't exactly threatening either - he trundled in with short, rhythmic strides - but he was accurate and could move the ball off the seam"

I always thought it was a shame he wasn't part of Adam Hollioake's squad of legends which (dubiously) lifted the Akai Singer Champions Trophy in Sharjah... Dougie Brown, Matthew Flemming, Ali Brown, Mark Ealham, Nick Knight, Graham Thorpe, Graham Hick, Alec Stewart, Dean Headley, Berty Croft... our finest one day team... erhem.

[Ayrtek Cricket]

id like to think i modelled myself on him figure wise.... with pie in hand rather than the ball !

[eaowbear]

Arjuna Ranatunga was another who looked like he didn't miss too many meals...or Merv Hughes, John Morris, David Boon, Tubby Taylor etc...

[peplow]

Imzamam was a unit! As is cosgrove, leverock and matt walker looks like a burger would go down well!

[Ayrtek Cricket]

leverock...what a catch in the world cup that time..bet he thought it was a burger flying past him then!!!! got down well for a fat-lad as is often heard on a saturday

[peplow]

:L yeah and the lap of honour to celbrate him catching it was also hilarious!