Battle of Cricketers - CW's Favorite Cricketer

[Pratters]

Ambrose might win the whole thing. He fares very well in polls v Glenn McGrath in who is the better bowler in polls in this site. I am loving the love he is getting in the site. My favorite bowler ever and as Pasag said, greatest ever bowler IMO.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Gilly.

Fast bowlers come and go. Cricketers like Gilly don't. Prefer a guy who'd actually want to spend time with the rest of humanity too anyways.

 

[Riggins]

gilly.

 

[four_or_six]

Ambrose.

Though I would have voted Ganguly if he was in a lot of the other groups.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Going to stand out for Aravinda here, deserves more votes than he's got.

 

[Jono]

Curtly Ambrose.



Really wish Ganguly came up against some other disliked personalities like Harbhajan, Ponting, Symonds, Graeme Smith etc. Would have been interesting to see people's thoughts.

 

[Pothas]

Would usually always go with Curtly (named my first 'pet' well it was a stick insect from a school fair after him) but want to make sure Gilchrist gets the wildcard.

 

[Pratters]

The wild card concept is excellent Hakon. Great idea.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Think this can be called now.

Ambrose 23
Gilchrist 10 (wildcard)
da Silva 1
Ganguly 0

 

[Cevno]

That one was called pretty early.

Never got a chance to vote.Some excellent choices there.

All of them could have won in some of the earlier polls.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

That one was called pretty early.

Yeah, 10-vote lead and more than 15 votes for one player is my criteria. Think that's pretty uncatchable.

Battle Ten - of the bees

Stuart Broad (1986-)

846 runs and 83 wickets in 28 Tests for England; 59 ODIs, 20 T20Is
Went from ridicule (above) to hero in three months
Still working on getting that bowling average below 35

Ravi Bopara (1985-)

502 runs in 10 Tests for England; 50 ODIs
Three Test centuries in his first six Tests
...against the West Indies
ODI average worse than Michael Vaughan

Edgar Schiferli (1976-)

27 ODIs for Netherlands; 7 T20Is
Premier Dutch-born cricketer of the 2000s, with 13 years of international cricket
Hit the winning runs against England at Lord's

Shane Bond (1975-)

87 wickets in 18 Tests; 82 ODIs
Perhaps New Zealand's fastest bowler ever
Injuries and ICL has limited his career to two Tests per year

 

[G.I.Joe]

Bond

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Shane Bond

**** off Broad and Bopara

 

[Cevno]

Shane Bond

 

[BoyBrumby]

Broad.

Can be a penis, but he's our penis. Also has handy habit of bowling matchwinning spells from, if not nowhere then one of its bordering provinces.

 

[Himannv]

Shane Bond

 

[King Pietersen]

Ravi Bopara. I must be one of a handful of Bopara fanboys in the world, probably alongside his parents and close family members. Not only a top lad (came to my clubs Annual Presentation Evening a couple of years back) but a very entertaining, if at times, frustrating batsman to watch. I'm hoping he has a top season for Essex in Div. 1 of the CC and gets himself back into England contention.

 

[nick-o]

Stuart Broad

 

[marc71178]

Broad

 

[Corli]

Bond. Would have voted for Broad last year, but my love for him rapidly declined during the series against us in the summer. So Bond it is.