Famous Cricket Fans?

[PistolPete]

Hi Guys,

I'm doing an article on famous cricket fans and wondered if you could help me by telling me about famous cricket fans in England?

The ones I can think of are...

Mick Jagger
Hugh Grant
John Major

Can anyone add any more?

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Parky is I'm pretty sure. And Stephen Fry. See those two all the time at the games on TV.

 

[GIMH]

er Frank Skinner

and one of the original oasis line-up, can't remember which one though

 

[Goughy]

This BBC article is part of a serious on famous cricket fans. It mentions 9 people but from my remote ex-pat eyes the term 'famous' appears to be a stretch.

Famous fan: Johnny Borrell
Famous Fan: Alan Davies
Famous Fan: Ian Gillan
Famous Fan: Hugh Cornwell
Famous Fan: Bindya Solanki
Famous Fan: Ian Carmichael
Famous Fan: Jeremy Paxman
Famous Fan: David Troughton
Famous Fan: John Kettley

For others, add Piers Morgan and Alex Salmond.

 

[Dick Rockett]

Johnny Borrell of Razorlight is a big fan from what I hear.

 

[PistolPete]

Thanks guys - brilliant!

Any more?

 

[NZTailender]

Pretty sure Ron Howard was having a chat with Stuey MacGill Ashes '05. Could've been there just out of curiosity rather than being a fan, cbf checking.

 

[morgieb]

He's American, so it was probably curiousity.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Is apparently a big fan of cricket. Attended the final Ashes test match between England vs. Australia on 12th September 2005 whilst filming The Da Vinci Code (2006), and was spotted mingling with players in the Australian dressing room.

Apparently so.

Not quite English, is he?

 

[NZTailender]

Apparently so.

Not quite English, is he?

Skimmed the post, one of my great constantly repeated errors in foruming.

 

[four_or_six]

Daniel Radcliffe... aka Harry Potter is someone you see them show on TV at matches.

And also one of Busted... or was it McFly? I remember one of them at a tsunami project in Sri Lanka with various other celebs/ex-cricketers and he was a decent player, I think he'd played to a fairly high junior standard.

 

[zaremba]

Keane - friends of friends of mine and big (Sussex) cricket fans

 

[zaremba]

Parky is I'm pretty sure. And Stephen Fry. See those two all the time at the games on TV.

Stephen Fry once did a guest slot on TMS about 3 years ago. Bloody amazing.

 

[NZTailender]

Stephen Fry once did a guest slot on TMS about 3 years ago. Bloody amazing.

Which reminds me that Clive Swift of Keeping Up Appearences popped up on Australian radio for the Ashes a few series back.

 

[fredfertang]

Ben Travers and Siegfried Sassoon

 

[pasag]

Eric Clapton

 

[zaremba]

Ben Travers and Siegfried Sassoon

Didn't realise that SS was a cricket fan - can you give us some details?

 

[fredfertang]

Didn't realise that SS was a cricket fan - can you give us some details?

http://www.siegfriedsassoon.com/

 

[NZTailender]

Douglas Adams also springs to mind.

 

[Smudge]

Billy Corgan was at the Basin Reserve last year during the NZ v England test series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHtq7rP4se0