Famous Cricket Fans?

[PistolPete]

Douglas Adams also springs to mind.

In Life, the Universe and Everything, two characters travel in time and land on the pitch at Lord's Cricket Ground. The reaction of the radio commentators to their sudden appearance is very similar to the reactions of commentators in a scene in the eighth episode of the 1965 – 66 story The Daleks' Master Plan, which has the Doctor's TARDIS materialise on the pitch at Lord's.

Great!

 

[NZTailender]

Funnily enough Adams tried to get his Krikkit Men story done in Doctor Who but the head guys kept knocking it back, so he changed it slightly to something slightly more subtle and it was made.

 

[Uppercut]

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

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

Aye, remember seeing that and wondering how he he found the time for cricket with all the guitar-masturbating he does. Doubt he's actually a fan, probably curiosity.

 

[Burgey]

Sir Elton John

 

[Manee]

Sir Elton John

That is Sir El...oh wait.

 

[zaremba]

http://www.siegfriedsassoon.com/

Fred, you're a legend. ps have a go at my Themed XI teams - no-one's even tried so far and I'm feeling ignored

 

[inbox24]

John Howard's a cricket tragic.

 

[gunner]

what about premiership footie players?

 

[Burgey]

John Howard's a cricket tragic.

Famous, not infamous.

 

[zaremba]

what about premiership footie players?

Peter Beardsley (retired from footie, obviously)

 

[Craig]

what about premiership footie players?

Well it is no scret that Phil Neville was a solid cricketer in his day before he choose football, Mike Atherton mentions in his book about playing with (or was against, I'm not sure) him and his brother and their father Neville Neville.

Wasn't there another member (not Mick Jagger) of the Rolling Stones who said he would have thrown the whole lot in to have played Test cricket for England?

 

[cricman]

Only English Personalities? Just to throw a name out there

Worlds Fastest Man is pretty big Haydo fan

 

[morgieb]

I think Andrew Denton is a cricket tragic.

 

[morgieb]

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.

Indeed, the drummer of McFly (Harry Judd) played for Uppingham.

 

[morgieb]

Famous, not infamous.

 

[sanga1337]

Think Usain Bolt likes his cricket

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Neville Neville

 

[Rajeev]

Russell Crowe

In India, almost all celebs

 

[Precambrian]

Russel Crowe, his uncle is Jeff Crowe I believe.

Apart from that, Usain Bolt is a big fan of Hayden, Tendulkar and Chris Gayle.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Russel Crowe, his uncle is Jeff Crowe I believe.

Apart from that, Usain Bolt is a big fan of Hayden, Tendulkar and Chris Gayle.

Cousin of Martin and Jeff.