If a cricketer's career was a tune...

[Richard]

I wasn't aware of the Genesis number.

Check it out. Not sure at all what you're into, of course, but it's one I rather like - it's the first song I heard upon starting to listen to "oldies" radio and has some sort of special place in my heart.

 

[Smudge]

Trying to do a Neil Young theme.

Steve Waugh - Heart of Gold, for his charity work
Sreesanth - Don't Cry (No Tears)
Justin Langer - Ambulance Blues
Symonds/Hayden/Bhaji - Words
W.G. Grace - Old Man
Jaffar, Harmison any other player not likely to be reselected - Don't Let It Bring You Down
Hansie Cronje - Tell Me Why
Shane Warne - A Man Needs A Maid
Shane Warne - Lookin' For A Lover
Harmison - Why Do I Keep *$#?ing Up?
Adil Rashid - Comes A Time
Marcus Trescothick - Oh Lonesome Me
Ravi Bopra - I Believe In You
Ed Giddens - Powderfinger
Stephen Fleming, Andre Nel and other SA players - Mellow My Mind
Alex Higgins - Hurricane

Dermot Reeve - Needle And The Damage Done?

 

[gettingbetter]

Dermot Reeve - Needle And The Damage Done?

Don't know too much about him: smack addict or diabetic?

Always a song that comes to the forefront when talking about Neil, but I can't too many cricketers with drug problems. Drug usage yes, but drug problems I'm not too sure about.

 

[Richard]

Don't know too much about him: smack addict or diabetic?

The former, sadly.

 

[gettingbetter]

Really? Rather sad, I'll see what cricinfo or Wiki has to say on it.

 

[gettingbetter]

So far of what I've read, Reeve has just tried cocaine, no injecting.

 

[boris_denominat]

Shane Warne - Pattern Against User by at the drive in

 

[Richard]

So far of what I've read, Reeve has just tried cocaine, no injecting.

He was a full-blown addict, not sure whether it was sniffing, swallowing, injecting or whatever (all equally 'orrible) but he had to resign from his C4 commentary job due to it, having turned-up late for shifts and the 'ole kaboodle. He lost quite a bit though it, must be said.

Don't know how much written coverage there has been of it, though.

 

[_Ed_]

But now he's living in a nice house in Queenstown. And charms everyone with occasional stints in the commentary box during NZ home games.

 

[Flem274*]

Not a bad commentator either. Not brilliant but isn't annoying.

Hope Fleming gets into commentary now. He outclasses all bar Smith in the NZ box.

 

[DaRick]

Ricky Ponting - Power and the Passion by Midnight Oil (some would argue that he takes passion for his country a little too far)
Sreesanth - No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne
Harbhajan Singh - ****ing Hostile by Pantera
Doug Bollinger - Movin' On Up by Primal Scream
Javed Miandad - Territory by Sepultura (according to Steve Waugh, he referred to Pakistan as "my turf")

 

[DaRick]

Check it out. Not sure at all what you're into, of course, but it's one I rather like - it's the first song I heard upon starting to listen to "oldies" radio and has some sort of special place in my heart.

Oh, this song. Hmm...I dunno...any song featuring Phil Collins automatically qualifies as a 'guilty pleasure', IMO - at best. At worst, I can't stand him.

 

[DaRick]

What About Me? (Shannon Noll) - Steve Harmison's question to the selectors

Agree with the concept and all, but the original version of 'What About Me?' blows Shannon Noll's version away. I'm amazed that the singer of the original isn't better known today, TBH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zawR7VYNdNg

 

[weldone]

Only Brian Adams-

Please Forgive Me - H. Cronje
The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me is You - S. Tendulkar with his bat
Cloud No. 9 - S. Afridi
Everything I Do - S. Warne
Here I Am - S. Ganguly
Summer of '69 - D. Underwood
Cuts Like A Knife - V. Sehwag

 

[Richard]

Bryan TBH.

Another couple from him:
Run To You - IIRR, it was Andy Flower and Arnoldous Blignaut in the WC2003 game against Kenya (where both ended-up diving for the same crease). Certainly something along those lines.
Heaven - could be any batsman who plays especially attractive strokes really.
Could do two from Cronje actually - both Please Forgive Me and Can't Stop This Thing We Started.

 

[Richard]

Oh, this song. Hmm...I dunno...any song featuring Phil Collins automatically qualifies as a 'guilty pleasure', IMO - at best. At worst, I can't stand him.

Haha, love much of his work ITBT.

Speaking of which...
Something Happened On The Way To Heaven - Vinod Kambli or anyone who started sensationally then crashed.
Another Day In Paradise - Alec Stewart at Old Trafford in 2002 when he confounded those who thought he was finished.
Easy Lover - (yeah, he's been mentioned loads) Shane Warne
One More Night - the 2007 World Cup or 2004 Champions Trophy finals
In The Air Tonight - Shahid Afridi
There's probably more which could be used, but I CBA.

 

[gettingbetter]

BTW, for anyone who has seen my Neil Young post on the previous page, did anyone notice the last player? Thought it would of got a laugh if not a few.

 

[Richard]

I did think "has he just put a snooker player in there? " but as no-one had said anything in the 14 hours between you posting it and me looking at it thought I'd best not mention it.

 

[DaRick]

Haha, love much of his work ITBT.

, indeed.

Hasan Raza - School's Out by Alice Cooper (a referral to his supposed debut age)
Justin Langer - Man in the Box by Alice in Chains (thought of as gritty by many, when, in practice, he was too explosive)
Shane Warne - Smokin' by Boston
Hansie Cronje - Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode
Glenn McGrath - Jane Says by Jane's Addiction (his wife is named Jane)

 

[GIMH]

Oasis - Probably (All in the Mind) - Mark Ramprakash