Shane Warne's top 50 cricketers

[pasag]

Yeah that was pretty easy, no idea what IOW is though.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Yeah fair enough, all Warne Vs Murali posts have been moved to the offical thread found here, starts from post 1932.

Lame. Stop ****ing with people's discussions.

 

[Perm]

Lame. Stop ****ing with people's discussions.

Hardly, I think the calls for those posts to be moved were fair. Once again we have to put up with Murali v Warne invading another thread. Now hopefully we can get back to some discussion on Warne's list.

 

[The Sean]

Well Warney's ability to court controversy and genrate unrivalled levels of discussion and media interest shows no signs of abating.

Laxman is the big surprise for me, it wasn't as though his 281 was a one off - he made his name with that brilliant 167 18 months earlier in Australia, and then two more big hundreds in the 2003/2004 series in Australia as well. Very, very few men have played four such superlative innings against the modern Australians.

Not the least surprised about the omission of Inzy, it's no great secret that he's not rated particularly highly by the Australian dressing room, as much as they respect what he's achieved in his cricket career as a whole.

 

[aussie]

Fair list from Warne, other than the exclusion of Laxman & some players being surprisingly lower & higher than some based on my good knowledge of the great man's career i'll live with this 50.

 

[Langeveldt]

The “keg on legs” was a wonderful player, a rock-solid citizen and outstanding fielder at bat-pad

Hahaha

Nearly as funny as Tim May being ranked ahead of AAD...

 

[Swervy]

Haha, find it easier to decipher that one than most of Richard's.

shhhhh...don't tell anyone...but I don't know what it meant. What was it?

 

[Richard]

CBBJDDIITFP, tbh.

shhhhh...don't tell anyone...but I don't know what it meant. What was it?

Can't be bothered, just don't do it in the first place.

Yeah that was pretty easy, no idea what IOW is though.

In other words. Surprised you haven't heard me (at least) use that-'un before TBH.

 

[Richard]

Lame. Stop ****ing with people's discussions.

Lame. Stop picking faults at people just because of who they are.

 

[SJS]

I respect the above 2 posters (Sanz and Pasag)and their comments. Will not make any more posts on that topic any more.

You will earn yours truly's eternal gratitude for that Jason.

 

[Sanz]

Lame. Stop ****ing with people's discussions.

 

[pasag]

Tendulkar on being named number 1:

“That’s special,” he said. “That’s very special. I will absolutely treasure this. I’ve been around for 18 years and Shane has played against me all that time. It feels wonderful when someone of his stature appreciates your performances.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article2373825.ece

 

[SJS]

Fair list from Warne, other than the exclusion of Laxman & some players being surprisingly lower & higher than some based on my good knowledge of the great man's career i'll live with this 50.

Absolutely. I cant think of another list being made by anyone else (except maybe myself and even that is doubtful) which I would have more defferences with. The two non-international cricketers excepted.

 

[The Sean]

The fall-out continues...

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22349091-5003413,00.html

 

[Craig]

Ah handbags at ten paces then?

 

[Richard]

The fall-out continues...

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22349091-5003413,00.html

Mark Waugh (12) and Sri Lanka's Aravinda de Silva (19) would consider themselves blessed to be higher up the ladder than Gilchrist, a far superior player to both.

Jeeys, what rubbish. Gilchrist may be better than both, but far better? Go to hell was he "far" better than Aravinda.

It sounds easy to do but it has been beyond many fragmented England, West Indian, Indian and Pakistan teams of the same era.

WTF? So his knowledge of the inside works of England in the period is intimate, is it?

When I first saw what he wrote about me I thought there must have been a mistake and someone had accidentally put Shane name's to an article by Ian Chappell

there was little warmth in the relationship between Gilchrist and Warne because they were men of contrasting styles – the wholesome family man and the reckless cavalier whose lives rarely met in the middle.

Beaten to it by Ritchie

 

[silentstriker]

Why doesn't Ian Chappell like Waugh?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Can't remember the exact reasoning at the moment, but they haven't got on for a very long time.

 

[Richard]

Tendulkar on being named number 1:

That’s special. That’s very special. I will absolutely treasure this. I’ve been around for 18 years and Shane has played against me all that time. It feels wonderful when someone of his stature appreciates your performances.

Typical of Tendulkar really - he made Warne look like a novice more than once, but is still hugely respectful towards him.

 

[Richard]

Why doesn't Ian Chappell like Waugh?

Can't remember the exact reasoning at the moment, but they haven't got on for a very long time.

It might have been that I praised the work of Bob Simpson, who was his sworn enemy, or that I didn't spend hours in the bar drinking and regurgitating old cricket stories.

Is Waugh's summary of it, after saying it baffled him why Chappell snr didn't like him. Nothing big, basically - just two totally different people who've had reason to grind axe.