• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Shakib Al Hasan vs Ian Botham / Burgey vs *****

Who the better all rounder

  • Shakib Al Hasan

    Votes: 21 42.9%
  • Ian Botham

    Votes: 28 57.1%

  • Total voters
    49

S.Kennedy

International Vice-Captain
There's three different types of Aussie male cricketers though. There's the Australian in Excelsis, like Keith Miller, Andrew Symonds, Shane Watson, Pat Cummins, Dennis Lillee, Garth McKenzie. Highly evolved to our ferocious climate, bronzed, good looking, the most highly evolved humanoids in history.

Then there's the ANZACS. Tough, gritty, in the trenches types who can rely on and will fight to the death. Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Mike Hussey, Adam Gilchrist. Evolved to withstand immense pressure and fight back aggressively when cornered.

Then there's the Vestiges Of British Genes But Still Thoroughly Aussie. You see this occasionally in guys like Steve Smith. The redder hair and the pastier skin. For various reasons they haven't evolved out of the English gene pool (or carry a regressive throwback gene) with regards to looks, but have evolved the Australia toughness that lets them dominate the English consistently. Shane Warne has fought his entire career to try and get out of this category and into the Australian in Excelsis one, with moderate success depending on what your scientific viewpoint is.
I can only laugh.

The only thing I can add is the term ''flinty-eyed'' is virtually mandatory when describing category 2.

Edit, or as an alternative, ''gimlet-eyed''.
 
Last edited:

Adders

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah, I can think of a few categories he's missed though......

Should definateley be a cheating **** one, Bogan ****wit possibly too.
 

trundler

Request Your Custom Title Now!
That's a tautology, though. That information is already revealed to us from the fact that they're Aussies.
 

TheJediBrah

Request Your Custom Title Now!
There's three different types of Aussie male cricketers though. There's the Australian in Excelsis, like Keith Miller, Andrew Symonds, Shane Watson, Pat Cummins, Dennis Lillee, Garth McKenzie. Highly evolved to our ferocious climate, bronzed, good looking, the most highly evolved humanoids in history.

Then there's the ANZACS. Tough, gritty, in the trenches types who can rely on and will fight to the death. Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Mike Hussey, Adam Gilchrist. Evolved to withstand immense pressure and fight back aggressively when cornered.

Then there's the Vestiges Of British Genes But Still Thoroughly Aussie. You see this occasionally in guys like Steve Smith. The redder hair and the pastier skin. For various reasons they haven't evolved out of the English gene pool (or carry a regressive throwback gene) with regards to looks, but have evolved the Australia toughness that lets them dominate the English consistently. Shane Warne has fought his entire career to try and get out of this category and into the Australian in Excelsis one, with moderate success depending on what your scientific viewpoint is.
Seriously impressive. Especially re. Warne. Captured that part of his psychology perfectly.
 

cnerd123

likes this
What's outstanding to me is that how, in a country and culture with such diverse people, all Australians somehow, unanimously, are such gigantic ****s. Across the board.

It's beautiful in a way.
 

Burgey

Request Your Custom Title Now!
It comes from being naturally superior through having to survive and prosper in a harsh land.
 

trundler

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Well what do you expect from a people whose accent evolved from constantly being drunk?
 

trundler

Request Your Custom Title Now!
I cant imagine what it must be like living in Perth. Middle of nowhere, hot as balls, everything trying to kill you, everywhere is too far.
 

Burgey

Request Your Custom Title Now!
That's because we've already proven ourselves in the badlands of the interior. Why, only last weekend I spent an entire weekend at the vineyards in Mudgee in order to reaffirm that I can still cut it in the wild west.
 

trundler

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Hey, we at least don't have spiders the size of your ****ing face and there's almost as many people in Karachi as are in all of Australia.
 

Burgey

Request Your Custom Title Now!
The spiders here aren't all that big ffs. You get Huntsmen which are about the size of a bread and butter plate at best. And they're harmless, except when they run across the dashboard of your car and cause you to swerve off the road into a tree.

You can't just use population as a measure of a place. Otherwise people would like Chennai.
 

trundler

Request Your Custom Title Now!
In a country of 1 billion and countless shitholes, I wonder what you have specifically against Chennai?
Now I'm not even going to attempt to defend my country because come on, that's just unfair on me.
 

Top