Curtly Ambrose - one of the coolest cricketers

[Howe_zat]

Curtly has his bass higher than the lead singer's head. This amuses me.

 

[Howe_zat]

Here's my effort

1. Desmond Haynes
2. Mark Richardson
3. Rahul Dravid (wk)
4. Brian Lara
5. Jesse Ryder
6. Viv Richards (c)
7. Steve Waugh
8. Shane Warne
9. Shaoib Akhtar
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Courtney Walsh

Gotta have Sanga. Would leave out Jesse, he doesn't so much strike me as "cool" so much as "inattentive".

Shoaib is many things, cool is not one of them.

Sanath Jayasuria if there's room. Also, Colin McCool.

 

[weldone]

Cool XI among players I've seen live:

Chris Gayle
Virender Sehwag
Vivian Richards*
Brian Lara
Kumar Sangakkara
Chris Cairns
Mahendra Dhoni+
Graeme Swann
Curtly Ambrose
Brett Lee
Courtney Walsh

 

[vcs]

Cool XI among players I've seen live:

Chris Gayle
Virender Sehwag
Vivian Richards*
Inzamam-ul Haq
Kumar Sangakkara
Chris Cairns
Mahendra Dhoni+
Graeme Swann
Curtly Ambrose
Brett Lee
Courtney Walsh

That would be pretty close to mine as well, though Inzy seems a bit incongruous there.

EDIT : I see you've replaced him with Lara, that's pretty fair.

 

[TumTum]

Sanga cool?

 

[weldone]

That would be pretty close to mine as well, though Inzy seems a bit incongruous there.

EDIT : I see you've replaced him with Lara, that's pretty fair.

Ha ha yeah.

Inzy's batting style is what I find very cool - that lazy elegance is only matched by Laxman perhaps. Outside of that, he's as uncool as one can get, I agree

 

[Uppercut]

Off the top of my head:

Gayle
Sehwag
Richards
Lara
Laxman
Symonds
McCullum
Ambrose
Roberts
Holding
Garner

 

[Howe_zat]

Isn't Roberts the bowler who once shoulder-barged an umpire because he was getting pissed off with the decisions?

Edit: I'm thinking of Colin Croft.

 

[weldone]

Having Symonds in a Cool XI is like having Venkatapathy Raju in a Charismatic XI.

Very good team otherwise..

 

[Uppercut]

Isn't Roberts the bowler who once shoulder-barged an umpire because he was getting pissed off with the decisions?

Probably. Here's Martin Crowe on facing him at Taunton:

Oh yeah, it did frighten the death out of me. Roberts was bowling outswingers off 14 paces and he was just snicking guys out at the other end. When I got on strike, I treated him like I was playing [Richard] Hadlee in the nets. I would leave everything outside off stump, wait till he bowled at me before I clipped him for one or two, and not look to upset him. Once I was in for an hour and a half, he started to use his bouncers - he had two differently paced ones - and he also used the crease amazingly well. If he wanted to hit you, he could, at will. And he did. He hit me four or five times in the ribs.

He bowled me two bouncers in a row at one point, so I charged him and hit him back over his head for a six. That was it. It was game on. I remember Peter Willey at gully going "Oh dear ... that was very silly of you." Roberts warned me about what was coming. "You've got to watch now, be careful." And he hurled two beamers at my head! I could see the whites of his eyes and I remembered what I had read about his anger. He taught me a big lesson about facing West Indies. I never faced anyone so intimidating.

 

[Uppercut]

Having Symonds in a Cool XI is like having Venkatapathy Raju in a Charismatic XI.

Very good team otherwise..

YouTube - ‪Andrews Symonds decks a streaker‬‏

 

[BoyBrumby]

Off the top of my head:

Gayle
Sehwag
Richards
Lara
Laxman
Symonds
McCullum
Ambrose
Roberts
Holding
Garner

Think Symonds & McCullum are too try-hard to be cool.

Katich is a shoo-in for any cool XI & DR Jardine is the epitome of old-school English sang froid.

 

[vcs]

Holding should be in every one of these teams... the Sultan of Cool!

 

[Uppercut]

Katich is a shoo-in for any cool XI & DR Jardine is the epitome of old-school English sang froid.

Katich is awesome, but it's a competitive spot at the top. He doesn't play cool enough cricket to displace Sehwag or Gayle.

 

[weldone]

Now let me try having a go at the Uncool XI among the players I've seen live:

Gautam Gambhir
Aamir Sohail
Ricky Ponting*
Javed Miandad
Vinod Kambli
Andrew Symonds
Kamran Akmal+
Harbhajan Singh
Shoaib Akhtar
Santhakumaran Sreesanth
Andre Nel

 

[BoyBrumby]

Katich is awesome, but it's a competitive spot at the top. He doesn't play cool enough cricket to displace Sehwag or Gayle.

Far cooler chap tho. If it was all about cool cricket Gilly would be nailed on for the XI but, god love him, he might be the world's soundest man, but cool he ain't.

Sehwag too short and too bald to be properly cool. There, I've said it.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

I see many people disagree with me on Akhtar, but I feel that he is so awkwardly uncool that he comes back out the other side. He's cool like the ironic comment that you don't appreciate until you think about it days later.

Re: Sreesanth, this says everything: YouTube - ‪shrisanth celebration vs south africa test‬‏

Can't believe I left out Gayle, though.

 

[Daemon]

Time for a douchebags XI

EDIT: beaten

Now let me try having a go at the Uncool XI among the players I've seen live:

Gautam Gambhir
Aamir Sohail
Ricky Ponting*
Javed Miandad
Vinod Kambli
Andrew Symonds
Kamran Akmal+
Harbhajan Singh
Shoaib Akhtar
Santhakumaran Sreesanth
Andre Nel

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Surely a douchebags/uncool XI could find room for Graeme Smith.

 

[weldone]

Surely a douchebags/uncool XI could find room for Graeme Smith.

Certainly not ahead of Sohail, and probably not ahead of Gambhir too. But yeah, fair shout.