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Battle of the Infamous
- Thread starter LongHopCassidy
- Start date
Agent Nationaux
International Coach
Haddin
centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
Miandad
Cabinet96
Hall of Fame Member
LongHopCassidy
International Captain
Round 1, Battle 11 Results:
Javed Miandad - 12
Brad Haddin - 5
John Snow - 0
Javed Miandad - 12
Brad Haddin - 5
John Snow - 0
LongHopCassidy
International Captain
Round 1, Battle 12
Solid cadre of reprobates today.
Roy Gilchrist (West Indies)
Crimes:
- Used freakish fast bowling talents mostly to sate a freakish irritability
- Profligate and deliberate use of beamers
- Picked up a stump and hurled it at a Lancashire league batsman's head, hitting him
- High-profile sending home by Gerry Alexander
- A few violent tendencies
- ...culminating in branding his wife's face with an iron
"A tragedy born of the interaction between a flawed individual and a malformed society, an almost Greek inevitability as man and system proceeded to their inevitable and final collision." - Former Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley
"I hate to think English sport has sunk so far that brutes will be tolerated because they are good at games." - The judge at his domestic violence hearing
"In a tour match against North Zone, he responded to some taunting from Swaranjit Singh, a Cambridge schoolmate of Alexander, by trying to remove his head with a few beamers." - Did SJS face Roy Gilchrist?
Mohammad Azharuddin (India)
Crimes:
- Match-fixer (banned after 99 Tests)
- Duly honored by BCCI
- Getting elected to Indian parliament in a search for like minds
- Allegedly the corrupting influence on Cronje
- Abandoning his family for a badminton player
- Lecturing Ojha on how to lose games more emphatically
“What do you mean who invited me! Of course the board invited me.” - Azhar after crashing the BCCI Awards Night
"He was seen to have betrayed the fans, whose faith sustains the game as much as any heroics on the field. He should be allowed to get on with his life, and live with his mistakes, but Any attempt to gloss over them will only set an appalling precedent for the future of a game whose beauty has been marred by one scandal too many in recent times." - Dileep Premachadran
"I remember only his simplicity; that will never change." - Ex-classmate of Azhar
"All of a sudden, the 'educated' Indian follower loses all cricketing judgement and lets his imagination rule his head. The most impossible allegations surface immediately. Matches are pronounced as 'fixed' and discussions are full of 'evidence' of how certain players had accepted money from certain brokers if a match went a particular way." - Harsha Bhogle (in Azhar: The Authorized Biography of Mohammad Azharuddin) on how Azhar changed India's perspective forever
Suresh Raina (India)
Crimes:
- Awkward combo of constantly-in-selection-frame and not-very-good
- The-nephew-did-it-gate: a chronology
Just before Pakistan were tossed out of the 2011 World Cup by Sri Lanka:
(For those watching at home: translation is: "Went home a day or two late!! But dishonourably … Bye Bye Pakistan")
Luckily, our Suresh was saved by a written confession (read: troll account) from said nephew:
"Gandhi: Father of the nation. Nargis: Mother of the nation. Sonia Gandhi: Daughter-in-Law of the nation. Suresh Raina: Nephew of the nation." - @uudaspriest (tweet)
"I'm tired of being asked of who I am dating." - Raina #humblebrags
"Nobody became quite as confused as India's Suresh Raina, who at Edgbaston earlier this year asked that an lbw be reviewed when his own board had denied him that facility." - Gideon Haigh #whataputz
"The senior members of the Indian team know my worth and that is what is important for me.” - On playing 17 Tests over a seven-year international career
Solid cadre of reprobates today.
Roy Gilchrist (West Indies)
Crimes:
- Used freakish fast bowling talents mostly to sate a freakish irritability
- Profligate and deliberate use of beamers
- Picked up a stump and hurled it at a Lancashire league batsman's head, hitting him
- High-profile sending home by Gerry Alexander
- A few violent tendencies
- ...culminating in branding his wife's face with an iron
"A tragedy born of the interaction between a flawed individual and a malformed society, an almost Greek inevitability as man and system proceeded to their inevitable and final collision." - Former Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley
"I hate to think English sport has sunk so far that brutes will be tolerated because they are good at games." - The judge at his domestic violence hearing
"In a tour match against North Zone, he responded to some taunting from Swaranjit Singh, a Cambridge schoolmate of Alexander, by trying to remove his head with a few beamers." - Did SJS face Roy Gilchrist?
Mohammad Azharuddin (India)
Crimes:
- Match-fixer (banned after 99 Tests)
- Duly honored by BCCI
- Getting elected to Indian parliament in a search for like minds
- Allegedly the corrupting influence on Cronje
- Abandoning his family for a badminton player
- Lecturing Ojha on how to lose games more emphatically
“What do you mean who invited me! Of course the board invited me.” - Azhar after crashing the BCCI Awards Night
"He was seen to have betrayed the fans, whose faith sustains the game as much as any heroics on the field. He should be allowed to get on with his life, and live with his mistakes, but Any attempt to gloss over them will only set an appalling precedent for the future of a game whose beauty has been marred by one scandal too many in recent times." - Dileep Premachadran
"I remember only his simplicity; that will never change." - Ex-classmate of Azhar
"All of a sudden, the 'educated' Indian follower loses all cricketing judgement and lets his imagination rule his head. The most impossible allegations surface immediately. Matches are pronounced as 'fixed' and discussions are full of 'evidence' of how certain players had accepted money from certain brokers if a match went a particular way." - Harsha Bhogle (in Azhar: The Authorized Biography of Mohammad Azharuddin) on how Azhar changed India's perspective forever
- Cricinfo commenter praveen-sansi
Suresh Raina (India)
Crimes:
- Awkward combo of constantly-in-selection-frame and not-very-good
- The-nephew-did-it-gate: a chronology
Just before Pakistan were tossed out of the 2011 World Cup by Sri Lanka:
(For those watching at home: translation is: "Went home a day or two late!! But dishonourably … Bye Bye Pakistan")
Luckily, our Suresh was saved by a written confession (read: troll account) from said nephew:
"Gandhi: Father of the nation. Nargis: Mother of the nation. Sonia Gandhi: Daughter-in-Law of the nation. Suresh Raina: Nephew of the nation." - @uudaspriest (tweet)
"I'm tired of being asked of who I am dating." - Raina #humblebrags
"Nobody became quite as confused as India's Suresh Raina, who at Edgbaston earlier this year asked that an lbw be reviewed when his own board had denied him that facility." - Gideon Haigh #whataputz
"The senior members of the Indian team know my worth and that is what is important for me.” - On playing 17 Tests over a seven-year international career
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BoyBrumby
Englishman
Raina's cast in the role of Bermuda facing The Invincibles of '48 & The Windies of '84 here.
Gilchrist was a thug whose whole deal seemed to be inflicting physical pain on others both on and off the pitch. A genuinely nasty piece of work. Happily his nephew Adam has rescued the family reputation somewhat.
Azharuddin gets my vote because he did know better. The white collar betrayal always seems worse somehow.
Gilchrist was a thug whose whole deal seemed to be inflicting physical pain on others both on and off the pitch. A genuinely nasty piece of work. Happily his nephew Adam has rescued the family reputation somewhat.
Azharuddin gets my vote because he did know better. The white collar betrayal always seems worse somehow.
Satyanash89
Banned
Azharuddin
****ing hate that ****
****ing hate that ****
LongHopCassidy
International Captain
Only a Jono endorsement could get Raina out of this, one feels.
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fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Gilchrist clearly a deeply unpleasant human being but not really too close to Azhar in the Hall of Shame