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Search results for query: namesake

  1. ataraxia

    Stumped!

    Snared international New Zealander Nick Smith (the unfortunate namesake of a politician) for $1.5 million. 23yo 13-12-19 bat - on paper, the best player I've ever had by far. He'll debut against ZCC in a few hours, where his 17 touch might be more than handy! It's an age of change for AXI after...
  2. Chrish

    Viv Richards vs Sachin Tendulkar

    Any opinion on Pollock? I am assuming you didn’t see much of him since he didn’t play county cricket.
  3. Lillian Thomson

    Viv Richards vs Sachin Tendulkar

    Viv is still the best batsman I've ever seen, followed by his namesake Barry. I’m prepared to accept Lara, Tendulkar and Smith. The rest are gobblers.
  4. Himannv

    Statues are never appropriate. The perfect statue doesn't exis....

    Completely agree! Sangakkara isn't even fit to lace up AB's namesake's boots let alone the great man himself.
  5. Migara

    Players who would suck now

    Larsen is way more skillful than people realize or give him the credit. This is a bowler who cut his pace down and changed the pace to provide no pace for the batsmen, and he was way ahead of his peers. He bowled in one or two tests and was proper fast medium hitting high 130s. Today's world he'...
  6. Chubb

    Players who would suck now

    I think Underwood would still have been an effective spinner but averaging in the low 30s rather than mid 20s. He was famously deadly on wet wickets but not exactly cannon fodder when it wasn't wet, he was a fine bowler in all conditions and the DRS would help him, as it did for Swann. He would...
  7. S

    Players who would suck now

    This is true. Gavin Larsen would go for 12 an over in both the 50 over and T20 formats, and his middle namesake Rolf Harris would be closer to the national side than him. I don't have an answer to this, given I didn't see these sort of guys back in the day. But would someone like Derek...
  8. ataraxia

    Most Underrated Cricketers in Cricket Chat

    Fuller Pilch: I see the source of the confusion as your namesake was born in 1803, but you aren't Burgey I'm afraid.
  9. ataraxia

    2021/22 New Zealand First-Class Season Draft

    I hope you're meaning to pick Dane and not his reporting namesake. :)
  10. J

    Famous Batsmen You Didn't Like to Watch

    OK man.
  11. BoyBrumby

    Famous Batsmen You Didn't Like to Watch

    ...of the names checked in the thread so far, but Dom Sibley is terrible to watch. Nigh on shotless, really. Of those with higher test averages I never much cared for Graeme Smith's bottom handed shoveling technique or his Australian namesake Steve's "android that skipped a couple of upgrades" MO.
  12. honestbharani

    Round of 16: England v Germany (in London, UK)

    If he is anything like his namesake Batty, you should sub him in at a critical moment, have your coach smile from the balcony and watch the opposition captain lose it and implode.
  13. Starfighter

    *Official* South Africa in West Indies 2021

    Yeah...
  14. honestbharani

    *Official* South Africa in West Indies 2021

    his namesake?
  15. wpdavid

    England players and selection discussion thread

    ...claim to know much at all about this player, but I do like the idea of both Ollie Robinsons playing for the side at some stage, especially when the keeper takes a catch off his namesake. Not something that can have happened very often, and far more exciting than the Stokes, Foakes, Woakes thing.
  16. Gob

    What is your ALL TIME WORLD XI TEAM for tests?

    Really? Ian never came across as a guy who'd hold a grudge. Just ask his namesake from England :laugh:
  17. P

    Wastemen etc

    Yes absolutely, Clarke took some time to break into the Australian middle-order. Just that my perception in Pakistani cricket is that the biggest talents will always debut in their teens. Thinking back to the years before Babar debuted, Pakistan would have had a very solid middle order -...
  18. TheJediBrah

    Wastemen etc

    22 is still pretty young to debut Your namesake who was the biggest young talent in Australia since Ponting debuted when he was 23, which was much younger than most of his generation
  19. D

    *Official* 2nd Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, 13 - 17 Feb 2021

    Pant is like flowing water behind the stumps, a perfect whirlwind of athletic movement! KL "strike rate doesn't matter" Rahul and WP "DROPPED CATCH" Saha are like the diarehha that comes onto pant's namesake after a nightly intake of bajil behind the stumps!
  20. E

    Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics

    Tendulkar would never have retired on a number like 6,996 Test runs. He would've made damn sure he got those 4 runs, not out no less. For that matter, 29 Test centuries wouldn't have sat well with him either. They have to be in 10's as per his namesake.

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