Son of a Preacher Man

[Furball]

You can have Dave Larter too - born in Inverness

Could also add Mike Denness and Gavin Hamilton, but I'd be interested to find out if there are players of a higher calibre than that who have some sort of connection to Scotland.

 

[Furball]

Add Peter and Graeme Pollock to that list.

 

[fredfertang]

Larter was a class act when he was fit and firing - bit temperamental though I believe

 

[BoyBrumby]

Peter Such was a Sweatie by birth, I believe. & Tahnny Greig's old man was a Scot too.

 

[Furball]

Peter Such was a Sweatie by birth, I believe. & Tahnny Greig's old man was a Scot too.

I won't be claiming him because he's a massive ****.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Essex stalwart Brian Hardie was most definitely Scotch.

Who would be the Greatest Scottish Cricketer of all time? Denness?

EDIT: Probably a host of Otago players with Scottish roots.

 

[Furball]

Essex stalwart Brian Hardie was most definitely Scotch.

Who would be the Greatest Scottish Cricketer of all time? Denness?

EDIT: Probably a host of Otago players with Scottish roots.

Jardine

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Jardine

Really? Tenuous at best surely? Okay, different question - who would be the greatest Scottish player who played for Scotland at some point?

 

[Furball]

Really? Tenuous at best surely? Okay, different question - who would be the greatest Scottish player who played for Scotland at some point?

How so?

Parents were Scottish, lived in Scotland as a child when he wasn't at boarding school, his children have Scottish names and his Ashes were scattered in Scotland.

My answer to your question would be Gavin Hamilton, but that's purely on a personal basis because it's Hamilton that got me into supporting England when he was selected for the 1999/00 tour of South Africa. When we were doing the CW50 I really wish I'd selected him as my number 1 instead of Warne (I had Hamilton 2nd) - as such a move would have put him in the top 50. I'd have loved to see the reaction to that.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Well, I say tenuous at best as my first question really was a bit ambiguous. My 2nd attempt was what I meant to ask. Denness and Hardie, for example played for Scotland (Such didn't). I have to confess I really used to only think of Scottish cricket as starting in the late 90s in the run up to the World Cup in the UK, but I think that was more a matter of 'out of sight, out of mind'.

 

[Furball]

Well, I say tenuous at best as my first question really was a bit ambiguous. My 2nd attempt was what I meant to ask. Denness and Hardie, for example played for Scotland (Such didn't). I have to confess I really used to only think of Scottish cricket as starting in the late 90s in the run up to the World Cup in the UK, but I think that was more a matter of 'out of sight, out of mind'.

Got a long history.

West of Scotland Cricket Club in Glasgow have the distinction of hosting the first ever football international.

edit: I reckon there's a few football clubs in Scotland that owe their formation to cricketers wanting something to do in the winter, though I'd need to do some research. I'm pretty sure there were strong links between Rangers and Clydesdale CC. Bon Accord, who suffered a world record 36-0 defeat in the Scottish Cup, were a cricket club from Aberdeen who'd received an invitation to play the competition in error, but decided to give it a go anyway.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Apparently Hearts started as a cricket club (according to the Wikipedia article I just read on Bon Accord, anyway)

 

[wpdavid]

I won't be claiming him (Greig) because he's a massive ****.

Fine player though.

His brother was OK, although he shouldn't have played any test cricket.

 

[fredfertang]

I always liked Tony Greig, not that I'm saying Furball is wrong, but as a teenager I regarded him as a role model - not sure I ever grew out of that actually, which is doubtless why there are some who accuse me of being a ****

 

[wpdavid]

I always liked Tony Greig, not that I'm saying Furball is wrong, but as a teenager I regarded him as a role model - not sure I ever grew out of that actually, which is doubtless why there are some who accuse me of being a ****

You're the same generation as me aren't you - started watching around the early 1970s?

Greig was so far superior to the rest of the England side - especially once Boycs dropped out - that he was definitely something of a hero. I didn't even hold Packer against him too much.

 

[fredfertang]

You're the same generation as me aren't you - started watching around the early 1970s?

Greig was so far superior to the rest of the England side - especially once Boycs dropped out - that he was definitely something of a hero. I didn't even hold Packer against him too much.

I suspect you're probably a couple of years younger than me but yes - personally I thought the way he took on the establishment was fantastic, but then in those days I thought I was a Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist/Whoeverist revolutionary - I wasn't of course, but I liked my Che Guevara poster and my hammer and sickle tee shirt and I knew all the words to the Red Flag

 

[zaremba]

I've only just had the chance to read this - a really wonderful piece, Martin.

 

[bagapath]

martin. only you can do a good job of writing about ravi shastri, my childhood hero. there is scarcely anything written on his cricketing career worth reading. will you have a go at it sometime?

 

[fredfertang]

Be delighted to - I was just about out of ideas after this one so the suggestions made in this thread have been most helpful, particularly as I've been snowed in this weekend, and the Test match has been such torture!