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

[smash84]

Imran Khan is a moron.

awta

 

[G.I.Joe]

Gilchrist
Tendulkar
Hussey

 

[jan]

gilchrist
tendulkar
hussey

 

[BoyBrumby]

Waqar
Ambrose
Walsh


Fast bowlers: hoorah!

Seriously, Holding and Gilly both very unlucky to come up against one of my personal favs in Waqar. &, if he's my favourite seamer, big Curtly's a close second.

Third one harder, but I admire the force of will that kept Courtney bowling quick for the better part of two decades and I always found the way he bowled the ball in from the boundary rather than threw it in endearing.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

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.

Same as The Sean Cevno.

 

[bagapath]

gilly
tendulkar
walsh

 

[Teja.]

WAQAR

z

 

[Daemon]

WAQAR

z

Vote for Sachin ****

 

[Teja.]

Walsh

 

[Daemon]

Walsh

I will destroy you if he doesn't make it through because of one vote

 

[The Sean]

Ha ha I think you're fine. Looks to be Bond on his way out from that trio.

 

[smash84]

WAQAR

z

Vote for Sachin ****

Walsh

I will destroy you if he doesn't make it through because of one vote

Teja WAG

 

[sachin200]

Adam Gilchrist
Sachin Tendulkar

 

[uvelocity]

Easiest battles ever.
Shall give reasons for the hell of it.

Adam Gilchurch for being about the cleanest striker of a cricket ball, able to hit the second tier, 100 metres away with a sublime timed pull then walk to the faintest of edges next ball.

Curtly Ambrose for the ****iest spell of fast bowling on the WACA since Jesus, and 78 other fast bowling related reasons left unmentioned.

Michael Hussey for being the best thing since Bevan.

 

[bagapath]

Easiest battles ever.
Shall give reasons for the hell of it.

Adam Gilchurch for being about the cleanest striker of a cricket ball, able to hit the second tier, 100 metres away with a sublime timed pull then walk to the faintest of edges next ball..

and for housing the best looking jesus statue in the whole world

 

[Himannv]

Holding
Ambrose
Pataudi

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Now we are talking!

Waqar, Bond and Walsh

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Curtly Ambrose for the ****iest spell of fast bowling on the WACA since Jesus,

Chronologically between Jesus and Ambrose stands Dennis Keith Lillee. That 8-29 against the world's best batsmen must have been insane. Even though, I believe, the match wasn't accorded test status. Ambrose's 7-1 was more like skillful and clinical decimation of a batting lineup and Lillee's effort was one of greased lightning pace and physical menace on a very lively deck. Needless to say, both were exceptional spells.

 

[grecian]

Holding
Bond
Pataudi

 

[shankar]

Holding
Sachin
Walsh