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Battle of Cricketers II - CW's Favorite Cricketer (now underway)
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The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
I thought we had an arrangement...
Fusion
Global Moderator
I thought we had an arrangement...
See if you had posted before me, with that eloquent style of yours, I probably would've just copied whatever you wrote as usual.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
The first battle is one of the toughest ones yet IMO - Whispering Death doubles as both a damn-near unplayable fast bowler and a commentator you can't help but want to sound like, while Gilly partners all-time greatness with being a genuinely good bloke like few others in the history of the game. And yet for all that I'm still voting Waqar - running in to bowl at his peak, perfectly balanced and delivering those express-paced inswinging yorkers, was pure cricketing ultraviolence, and his partnership with Wasim Akram the stuff dreams are made of.
The second battle is scarcely easier to call. Tendulkar is of course an absolute ornament to the game, and Shane Bond rates as one of the classic "what might have been" cricketers. But Curtly Ambrose was sheer magnificence as a fast bowler, and combined it with somehow both refusing interview requests and referring to himself in the third person without sounding like a complete tosser. "Curtly talk to no man" is a part of cricketing folklore.
In the third battle - well with all respect to the three men involved, I do feel less strongly about them than the combinations in the other two battles. That being said, I'll let national pride lead me to vote for Mr Cricket - a fine player who has been through a dramatic mid-career slump and come out the other side stronger for it, and by all accounts a top bloke as well.
The second battle is scarcely easier to call. Tendulkar is of course an absolute ornament to the game, and Shane Bond rates as one of the classic "what might have been" cricketers. But Curtly Ambrose was sheer magnificence as a fast bowler, and combined it with somehow both refusing interview requests and referring to himself in the third person without sounding like a complete tosser. "Curtly talk to no man" is a part of cricketing folklore.
In the third battle - well with all respect to the three men involved, I do feel less strongly about them than the combinations in the other two battles. That being said, I'll let national pride lead me to vote for Mr Cricket - a fine player who has been through a dramatic mid-career slump and come out the other side stronger for it, and by all accounts a top bloke as well.
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CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
The gentleman (Gilchrist)
The Master (Sachin)
The Mr (Hussey)
Cricket.
The Master (Sachin)
The Mr (Hussey)
Cricket.
smash84
The Tiger King
I thought we had an arrangement...
Awta. All fast bowlers for me.
I'll never know why I end up agreeing with the choices of this ghastly man called Ankit
ankitj
Hall of Fame Member
Imran Khan is a moron.Awta. All fast bowlers for me.
I'll never know why I end up agreeing with the choices of this ghastly man called Ankit