Your Favorite Rival

[gettingbetter]

As gb though I find Warne-vs-Murali, SRT-vs-BCL, Shoaib-vs-Brett etc. a bit tiresome really. Grew sick of the Warne-vs-Murali question long, long ago, as did most old-time CWers.

Thanks for backing me up.

For me, its not that it is tiresome, but I don't think that they are really rivalries.

How does Warne go about 'defeating' Murali? The whole Lee/Shoaib thing seemed like a testosterone showbaoting contest. The only contest Lee/Shoaib could have is to see who could keep the most of their match payments.

As far as I'm concerned, cricketing rivalries have to be direct and not some dramatized and indirect contest.

 

[Richard]

That's why it gets tiresome. People trying to "manufacture" rivalries. It's the same with captain-vs-captain stuff - there's no time in a game of cricket where the captaincy skills of a captain are directly pitted against one another.

The only real proper rivalry in cricket is batsman-vs-bowler (and occasionally batsman-vs-fielder as in the Warne-Collingwood case but as I said - even those are oft borderline embarrasing).

 

[BoyBrumby]

Donald vs. Atherton, nothing can beat this duo...

That was the first one I thought of as well; two real cricketing archetypes represented. The Oxbridge educated English opener, all restraint and diligence versus the tearaway firebreathing Afrikaner farm-boy operating somewhere near the peak of his powers.

Flintoff versus the bevvy seems to be shaping up into a good one tho & Cosgrove against the pies has potential too.

 

[Craig]

Muttiah Muralitharan v Daryl Hair

 

[Richard]

Flintoff versus the bevvy seems to be shaping up into a good one tho & Cosgrove against the pies has potential too.

Are always the most tragic ones really.

Nonetheless, I still think Flintoff is far more likely to be finished by the ankle than the pint-glass.

 

[CrazY GirL]

in this series there is Tendulkar vs Shoaib going on , evan ppl used to say afridi vs pathan evan theres not evan a comparison between them everyone knows who's the REAL PATHAN

 

[CrazY GirL]

Muttiah Muralitharan v Daryl Hair

I would say Daryl Hair vs Pakistan n there he got a haircut

 

[Athlai]

Ponting-Murali was great in the first innings tbh.