Wastemen etc

[_Ed_]

Any excuse to dig this up again: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/sporting-life-20051215-ge1fju.html?page=2

 

[fredfertang]

Size six = fat arse!!!!

Bloke clearly has strange taste in women

 

[Gnske]

Any excuse to dig this up again: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/sporting-life-20051215-ge1fju.html?page=2

Cricket Australia public affairs manager Peter Young said no action would be taken against Martyn.

Gets me every time

 

[andmark]

One of my dad's biggest betting travesties was putting a bet on him to top score in the 2006/07 Ashes. He retired after the first test.

 

[howardj]

A very elegant batsman who was uncomfortable in the spotlight, and had his confidence shaken when unfairly dropped after that failed run chase against South Africa at the SCG in 1994

Also, a very slow learner.

 

[Burgey]

Another Australian batsman brought down by a tour of India. Sad.

 

[GotSpin]

I swear he lives in Bondi beach now

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Another Australian batsman brought down by a tour of India. Sad.

Guy was a classy player when he found form out in the middle

 

[cnerd123]

We already have multiple threads about him:

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/19602-damien-martyn.html
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/14876-damien-martyn.html
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/4870-damien-martyn.html

We even have one about that trouble he keeps getting into
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/4625-damien-martyn-trouble.html

Reaching Munaf Patel levels of quality-to-amount-of-conversation ratio.

 

[slippy888]

Suresh Raina

This guy was born to be a batsman he just was never given the correct guidance from senior Indian players and selectors to focus on all formats of cricket.

 

[Starfighter]

No, he was a ****ty batsman who couldn't play anything bouncing above waist height.

His pair at Sydney was ****in hilarious though.

 

[cnerd123]

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/72225-suresh-raina.html
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/20600-suresh-raina.html

 

[trundler]

No No No he could never play the short ball i think he reached his peak as a test match batsman

Oh wow slippy's actually a self aware troll.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This guy was born to be a batsman

 

[slippy888]

Wasim Akram

Where would you guys rank him up there with the all time great bowlers.

 

[trundler]

We argue about this every 2 weeks.

 

[Coronis]

78th. This doesn't need a whole new thread, go discuss him in the ATG thread.

 

[trundler]

In the last few months we've extensively argued over exactly this in the following threads: Progression of Best Fast Bowler in the World, Ranking the Greatest Pace Bowlers, Dog's top 100 Test Match Bowlers, Steyn vs Ambrose vs Akram, ATG thread and several other threads where conversation inevitably veers off into comparing great players.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Thanks for the thread slippy888

 

[Red]

He gets ever so slightly overrated because he is one of only two elite left arm quicks of all time.

That said, he was a master of bowling with the older ball and a genius at cleaning up with tail. Scary when he was in his prime also. Seem to remember him hitting a lot of guys who looked like they weren't expecting it.