let’s remember some guys

[Daemon]

This is a great thread. Remember Vikram Solanki?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This is a great thread. Remember Vikram Solanki?

Didn't he played against us sometime in 2003-04? In odis?

 

[Pup Clarke]

Andrew McDonald
Jamie Dalrymple

Dalrymple yeah he's a good example. Decentish county bat who bowled handy offies and then suddenly catapulted into international cricket against Pakistan with Shoaib bowling serious pace. Remember he took a screamer (backward point?) in that Commonwealth Bank Series 06/07 if memory serves me right.

 

[BoyBrumby]

This thread has run out of cricketers. Michael Parkinson and Julian Assange didn’t play for England but could have bearing in mind that Derek Pringle did.

On Pringle, well Pringles, actually, I wonder if Derek and his old man Donald are the only father and son to have played international cricket for the country the other was born in?

Donald was born in Lancashire and ended up opening the bowling for Kenya (well, East Africa, strictly speaking) in the 1975 world cup and Derek was born in Nairobi and turned out for England.

Dalrymple yeah he's a good example. Decentish county bat who bowled handy offies and then suddenly catapulted into international cricket against Pakistan with Shoaib bowling serious pace. Remember he took a screamer (backward point?) in that Commonwealth Bank Series 06/07 if memory serves me right.

Taking FC batsmen who bowl spin slightly and using them as specialist international bowlers does seem to be a bit of a 21st century English thing.

I guess it reached its apogee with Moeen, but two guys already mentioned in this thread, Dalrymple and Yardy, other examples.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Vijay Bhardwaj:

He played 3 tests and 10 ODIs. Of the 3 ODI series he played, he was man of the series in one of them (his debut series in Nairobi) where he had statisically speaking, one of the greatest all round series of all time, with a batting average of 89 and a bowling average of 12. Note: This series also had other #guy 90s Indian spin bowling all rounders Sunil Joshi and Nikhil Chopra (who were basically really **** versions of Ravi Jadeja and ravi Ashwin respectively). But Bhardwaj's look is what makes him more of what this thread is looking for.

This pic of Vijay Bhardwaj what comes to mind when I think of the typical 90s Indian cricketer. The build of a currently slim-ish but soon to be overweight uncle, the electrical engineering college fresher glasses, the david the thinker pose all make him the image of Indian 90s mediocrity.

 

[Daemon]

He played 3 tests and 10 ODIs. Of the 3 ODI series he played, he was man of the series in one of them (his debut series in Nairobi) where he had statisically speaking, one of the greatest all round series of all time, with a batting average of 89 and a bowling average of 12. Note: This series also had other #guy 90s Indian spin bowling all rounders Sunil Joshi and Nikhil Chopra (who were basically really **** versions of Ravi Jadeja and ravi Ashwin respectively). But Bhardwaj's look is what makes him more of what this thread is looking for.

This pic of Vijay Bhardwaj is the guy I think of when I think of the typical 90s Indian cricketer. The build of a currently slim-ish but soon to be overweight uncle, the electrical engineering college fresher glasses, the david the thinker pose all make him the image of Indian 90s mediocrity.

Like 20 of this exact person would board the bus when it went past the Computing campus. Holy ****.

 

[vcs]

This pic of Vijay Bhardwaj what comes to mind when I think of the typical 90s Indian cricketer. The build of a currently slim-ish but soon to be overweight uncle, the electrical engineering college fresher glasses, the david the thinker pose all make him the image of Indian 90s mediocrity.

The bearded chads we have nowadays aren't that much more reliable with the bat tbh. Bowling has obviously come a long way though.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Just had a browse at Alex Loudon's stats, and bizarrely he was run out without facing a ball in the only ODI he played. Wonder if that's a complete anomaly in international cricket?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Vijay Bhardwaj:

He played 3 tests and 10 ODIs. Of the 3 ODI series he played, he was man of the series in one of them (his debut series in Nairobi) where he had statisically speaking, one of the greatest all round series of all time, with a batting average of 89 and a bowling average of 12. Note: This series also had other #guy 90s Indian spin bowling all rounders Sunil Joshi and Nikhil Chopra (who were basically really **** versions of Ravi Jadeja and ravi Ashwin respectively). But Bhardwaj's look is what makes him more of what this thread is looking for.

This pic of Vijay Bhardwaj what comes to mind when I think of the typical 90s Indian cricketer. The build of a currently slim-ish but soon to be overweight uncle, the electrical engineering college fresher glasses, the david the thinker pose all make him the image of Indian 90s mediocrity.

Could have mistaken him for Dhoni.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

These two guys: Franklyn Rose and Reon King...Late 90s Windies pace attak

 

[Lillian Thomson]

On Pringle, well Pringles, actually, I wonder if Derek and his old man Donald are the only father and son to have played international cricket for the country the other was born in?

Donald was born in Lancashire and ended up opening the bowling for Kenya (well, East Africa, strictly speaking) in the 1975 world cup and Derek was born in Nairobi and turned out for England.



Taking FC batsmen who bowl spin slightly and using them as specialist international bowlers does seem to be a bit of a 21st century English thing.

I guess it reached its apogee with Moeen, but two guys already mentioned in this thread, Dalrymple and Yardy, other examples.

I would assume the Pringles are unique in that, but I’m not 100% sure. One thing that is certain is that Pringle senior was the better cricketer.

 

[Beamer]

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These two guys: Franklyn Rose and Reon King...Late 90s Windies pace attak

Interesting! I thought both had a lot of talent and had the advantage of Ambrose, Walsh and Bishop to mentor them. Their failure resulted in a generation of fast bowlers playing without mentors to look up to (Mervyn Dillon was meh).

 

[Shady Slim]

He also played in WI. Was out bowled by Michael Clarke.

His debut Test was Sydney, which of course was supposed to be spin-friendly but he came into an Aus squad that was well and truly beaten already and on a hiding to nothing. It was also Khawaja's debut ftr.

only in this dank and foetid corner of the internet will i be corrected for misremembering details of the test career of michael beer, i love this place lmao. great work and incredible commitment to the ethos of this thread

 

[Starfighter]

only in this dank and foetid corner of the internet will i be corrected for misremembering details of the test career of michael beer, i love this place lmao. great work and incredible commitment to the ethos of this thread

It turns out I'm wrong anyway, in the WI series he played in the 2nd test which was easily drawn while Clarke took his five-for in the third test.

 

[Cabinet96]

Trott was legit one of the best ODI batsmen in the world from 2011 and 2013. Played for a team that got to number 1 in the world and should've won the Champions Trophy. England's truly embarrassing period in ODIs began when he left the team. Though having said that batting in the format evolved so much between the 2013 CT and the 2015 WC that he might have struggled to be very effective even if his health issues didn't come about.

 

[the big bambino]

Zafar Ansari was so terrified of becoming a guy he'd rather be thought of as a lawyer instead.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Noted former ODI hat trick taker Anthony Stuart is long overdue a run in this thread

So too are Shaun Young, Phil Emery, Adam Dale, or of a slightly older vintage, Murray Bennett

 

[Spikey]

What was the name of Gavaskar's son. Was his only feat in international cricket being exposed in the field in that ODI that Brett Lee won with the bat

 

[Kirkut]

Vijay Bhardwaj:

He played 3 tests and 10 ODIs. Of the 3 ODI series he played, he was man of the series in one of them (his debut series in Nairobi) where he had statisically speaking, one of the greatest all round series of all time, with a batting average of 89 and a bowling average of 12. Note: This series also had other #guy 90s Indian spin bowling all rounders Sunil Joshi and Nikhil Chopra (who were basically really **** versions of Ravi Jadeja and ravi Ashwin respectively). But Bhardwaj's look is what makes him more of what this thread is looking for.

This pic of Vijay Bhardwaj what comes to mind when I think of the typical 90s Indian cricketer. The build of a currently slim-ish but soon to be overweight uncle, the electrical engineering college fresher glasses, the david the thinker pose all make him the image of Indian 90s mediocrity.

70s & 80s Indian cricketers would have those thick moustaches like John Oates, and Pakistani cricketers sporting Jim Morrison hair.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Will Pucovski.