Battle of Cricketers - CW's Favorite Cricketer

[andmark]

I can't stand Akhtar (as good a bowler he was/is). Never even heard of Andrew Hall. But Mushy comes across to me as a funky person. So I'll vote for Mushy.

 

[Corli]

Andrew Hall

 

[Jarquis]

Absolutely devastated I couldn't get my last two nominations in! Should let me have one more so we have 47 battles of 3
Edit :

Yeah sure Sean. Added. If any one else wants to add players and hasn't had a chance to do so, you can in the next 24 hours.

Edit :Mushy, fell in love with him the first time I saw him. Was a big reason why I followed Sussex's results closer than anyother county's when I first started getting into cricket. Played as Sussex in ICC 2007 and on Cricket 07 because of him.

 

[nightprowler10]

Jeez, nominations closed before I even saw the thread so couldn't get Sir Clyde Walcott, Fazal Mahmood and Bart King in.

Mushy for this one.

 

[Prince EWS]

Absolutely devastated I couldn't get my last two nominations in! Should let me have one more so we have 47 battles of 3

You can still have your two.

Yeah sure Sean. Added. If any one else wants to add players and hasn't had a chance to do so, you can in the next 24 hours.

 

[marc71178]

Mushtaq

 

[Prince EWS]

Jeez, nominations closed before I even saw the thread so couldn't get Sir Clyde Walcott, Fazal Mahmood and Bart King in.

Mushy for this one.

Bart King got nominated anyway. And you can still actually nominate your other two.

 

[andmark]

Bart King got nominated anyway. And you can still actually nominate your other two.

Kumar Ranjitsinjhi (s.p?), Malcolm Nash and W.G Grace. Thank you

 

[Goughy]

Kumar Ranjitsinjhi (s.p?), Malcolm Nash and W.G Grace.

Out of interest, why Malcolm Nash?

 

[nightprowler10]

Bart King got nominated anyway. And you can still actually nominate your other two.

cbf reading.

Fazal Mahmood, Sir Clyde Walcott, Hanif Mohammed please.

 

[andmark]

Out of interest, why Malcolm Nash?

Garry Sobers hit six sixes against him. On the fifth ball, instead of bowling a yorker as must would do, he bowled a bouncer, trying to get him edged. Great attitude, to try and get a person out who's on the verge of hitting six sixes against his own bowling.

 

[Goughy]

Garry Sobers hit six sixes against him. On the fifth ball, instead of bowling a yorker as must would do, he bowled a bouncer, trying to get him edged. Great attitude, to try and get a person out who's on the verge of hitting six sixes against his own bowling.

I ask because he is an old friend of mine who Im still in (semi) contact with and wondered if there was anything apart from the Sobers story that made you nominate him. I cant fault the nomination

 

[Shri]

Akhtar - wart a player...

 

[chicane]

Akhtar. The pace race, the numerous incredible spells, the presence on field, the catalyst effect on his team, the run-up, the controversies, the unfulfilled potential. Awesome.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Can't decide what to vote on, tbh. Shoaib seems a **** of quite massive proportions (and a warty one at that), but I always find genuine pace thrilling to watch.

Mushy seems genuinely likeable and Hall a solid, four-square kinda guy, but the cricketer I'd most like to watch of the quartet is Shoaib, so in that sense he's my fav.

 

[Cruxdude]

Mushtaq

 

[GIMH]

Akhtar

 

[fredfertang]

You'd certainly never call him a man of the people - he was single-minded, stubborn and it does sound like he could be a downright see you next Tuesday at times. Though TBF there are plenty of people from both within and outside of cricket who had a genuinely warm regard for him as well and would happily sing his praises. Bradman's conflicts with the O'Reilly/Fingleton set were I think generated as much by coming from such fundamentally different viewpoints as any monumental character flaws on either side - and even the infamous animosity with O'Reilly cooled in later years.

In my experience that's usually the case with driven, singleminded people - the man with the bradmanesque postcount seems to have a similar polarising effect

 

[BoyBrumby]

In my experience that's usually the case with driven, singleminded people - the man with the bradmanesque postcount seems to have a similar polarising effect

Probably very true on the whole, although (to take another polarising, driven, singleminded individual entirely at random) DR Jardine by every account I've read didn't share Sir Donald's fondness for being economical with the actualité and was brave to the point of foolhardiness.

 

[fredfertang]

Probably very true on the whole, although (to take another polarising, driven, singleminded individual entirely at random) DR Jardine by every account I've read didn't share Sir Donald's fondness for being economical with the actualité and was brave to the point of foolhardiness.

.. are you being cryptic there Brumbers?