Battle of Cricketers II - CW's Favorite Cricketer (now underway)

[ankitj]

Sangakkara
Bruce Lee

Big Bird

and the King of Cricket

Shocked that you voted Imran Khan

 

[Cevno]

Shocked Howe_Zat voted for Bresnan too.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Battle 1

Lee and Bresnan

Battle 2

Khan and Gillespie


Disappointed at having to leave out Garner, btw. Tough draw for the Big Bird.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Let me do a vote appeal for Dhoni

Ladies and Gentleman, ....

.... How can you not love this guy!

Dhoni is the man

If that appeal doesn't work, Ankit, ballot snatching is always a winning strategy.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Going with Sanga & Bres in the first. Kumar both a batsman and a man of substance and Bresnan arguably the most improved cricketer in the world currently.

Garner and Dizzy in the second.

 

[Furball]

Let me do a vote appeal for Dhoni

Ladies and Gentleman, Dhoni represents what the average, passionate, dreamy eyed, 8 year olds in nondescript, small towns and villages of India dream to become one day. An attacking batsman who demolishes the bowling attacks at will in India's favourite format of cricket. A captain who has this magic touch that allows his team to win big tournaments for fun.

Imagine an average Indian kid playing cricket on roads, in rain, barefooted, with a bat cut out of log. He draws inspiration not from Tendulkar or Dravid who grew in towns that were centers of cricketing excellence, but from Dhoni who comes from a state that has consistently been in the bottom quartile in domestic tournaments. He rose from such background to lead the team of this cricket crazy nation without anyone noticing the swiftness at which it happened.

Add to that the fact that he is the nice guy who has done nothing on field to ever bring the game to disrepute. He also has that rare quality of forgetting it all once it's over and go back to what he loves doing in life, like riding bikes. How can you not love this guy!

Dhoni is the man

Some of his batting in the recent Test series came damn close to doing that...

 

[four_or_six]

Bresnan, Lee

Olonga, Imran

 

[FBU]

Sangakkara
Lee

Garner
Gillespie

 

[Tom Halsey]

Lee, Sanga

Garner, Olonga

 

[Teja.]

Sanga, Dhoni

Garner, Imran

 

[marc71178]

I presume Dhoni doing nothing wrong is ignoring his numerous over-rate fines?

 

[The Sean]

Sanga, Lee

Imran, Dizzy

 

[Cruxdude]

Dhoni and Lee

Imran and Gillespie

 

[Jono]

Battle 1:

Sanga
Dhoni

Battle 2:

Gillespie
Imran

 

[ankitj]

If that appeal doesn't work, Ankit, ballot snatching is always a winning strategy.

of course, next thing I am going to do is hack people's account

Some of his batting in the recent Test series came damn close to doing that...

I almost wanted to say - "how can you not love this guy, except for his unorthodox batting" but that would have been an apology for him rather than a vote appeal.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Battle 1

Lee
Sangakarra

Battle 2

Gillespie
Imran

 

[smash84]

Shocked that you voted Imran Khan

Shocked Howe_Zat voted for Bresnan too.

haha.....I didn't know Jake was such a big Bresnan fan

of course, next thing I am going to do is hack people's account



I almost wanted to say - "how can you not love this guy, except for his unorthodox batting" but that would have been an apology for him rather than a vote appeal.

dude you better stay put since I think your last rave did hurt Dhoni

 

[Spark]

Sangakkara, Lee
Imran, Gillespie

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

1. Sangakkara, Bresnan
2. Imran, Olonga

 

[centurymaker]

1
Bresnan
Lee

2
Imran
Gillespie