Battle of the Cricketers

[archie mac]

Nominate= O'Reilly

2nd Hammond and Trumper

 

[Somerset]

DK Lillee (New Zealand) (RHB, RF)

 

[Blaze]

I second Crowe.

Haha did a second check on Hadlee then?

 

[Somerset]

Haha did a second check on Hadlee then?

Thanks for pointing that out - should really have double checked before I nominated him!

 

[Jamee999]

NOMINATIONS OVER

MD Crowe (New Zealand) (RHB, RM)
WR Hammond (England) (RHB, RMF)
VT Trumper (Australia) (RHB, RM)

Next Up: I make the draw (not publicly) and the first matchup.

THE FINAL 64

AR Border(Australia) (LHB,SLA)
SR Waugh(Australia) (RHB,RM)
BC Lara(West Indies) (LHB,LBG)
SR Tendulkar(India) (RHB,LBG)
SM Gavaskar(India) (RHB,RM)
DG Bradman(Australia) (RHB,LB)
RG Pollock (South Africa) (LHB,LB)
GA Headley (West Indies) (RHB,LB)
H Sutcliffe (England) (RHB,RM)
E Paynter (England) (LHB,RM)
ML Hayden (Australia) (LHB,RM)
GS Sobers (West Indies) (LHB,LFM/SLA/SLC)
ST Jayasuria (Sri Lanka) (LHB,SLA)
MG Bevan (Australia) (LHB, SLA)
Zaheer Abbas (Pakistan) (RHB,OB)
IVA Richards (West Indies) (RHB,RAS)
Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) (LHB,SLA)
GS Chappell (Australia) (RHB,RM)
GA Gooch (England) (RHB, RM)
AJ Stewart (England) (RHB, WK)
DI Gower (England) (LHB, OB)
L Hutton (England) (RHB, LB)
IT Botham (England) (RHB, RFM)
R Benaud (Australia) (RHB, LB)
AK Davidson (Australia) (LHB, LFM)
JH Kallis (South Africa) (RHB, RFM)
AW Greig (England) (RHB, RFM)
WJ Cronje (South Africa) (RHB, RM)
PA de Silva (Sri Lanka) (RHB, OB)
CL Cairns (New Zealand) (RHB, RFM)
AC Gilchrist (Australia) (LHB, WK)
A Flower (Zimbabwe) (LHB, WK)
LEG Ames (England) (RHB, WK)
SK Warne (Australia) (RHB, LS)
M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) (RHB, OB)
CA Walsh (West Indies) (RHB, RF)
GD McGrath (Australia) (RHB, RFM)
A Kumble (India) (RHB, LB)
N Kapil Dev (India) (RHB, RFM)
RJ Hadlee (New Zealand) (LHB, RF)
Wasim Akram (Pakistan) (LHB, LF)
CEL Ambrose (West Indies) (LHB, RF)
SM Pollock (South Africa) (RHB, RFM)
MD Marshall (West Indies) (RHB, RFM)
Waqar Younis (Pakistan) (RHB, RF)
Imran Khan (Pakistan) (RHB, RF)
DK Lillee (New Zealand) (RHB, RF)
AA Donald (South Africa) (RHB, RF)
RGD Willis (England) (RHB, RF)
LR Gibbs (West Indies) (RHB, OB)
FS Trueman (England) (RHB, RF)
KR Miller (Australia) (RHB, RF)
WPUJC Vaas (Sri Lanka) (LHB, LFM)
J Garner (West Indies) (RHB, RF)
S Chanderpaul (West Indies) (LHB, LB)
R Dravid (India) (RHB, OS)
BS Bedi (India) (RHB, SLA)
MA Holding (West Indies) (RHB, RF)
JB Hobbs (England) (RHB, RM)
ED Weekes (West Indies) (RHB, LB)
BS Chandrasekhar (India) (RHB, LB)
MD Crowe (New Zealand) (RHB, RM)
WR Hammond (England) (RHB, RMF)
VT Trumper (Australia) (RHB, RM)

Here we go!

 

[Jamee999]

ROUND ONE ----- ----- MATCH UP ONE

CL Cairns (New Zealand) (RHB, RFM)

DI Gower (England) (LHB, OB)

The England (and Leicestershire) batsman faces off against the New Zealand All-rounder.

First to 10 or leader after 24 hours.

Vote!

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Gower for me. Inconsistent, but a lovely batsman to watch. Cairns was an excellent ODI player, but never all that effective in test cricket on a consistent basis.

 

[archie mac]

David Gower, would love to see him bat again.

 

[King_Ponting]

nver saw gower play so it has to be cairns

 

[The Baconator]

Just a thought, if you want this thread to stay open, you might want to avoid a Warne vs Murali match up.

 

[Jamee999]

They're in the same half but not the same quarter, having a look, it's unlikely but possible.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Cairns gets my vote. Never saw much of Gower, but Cairns' consistent all-round excellence over a long period, in a team that has been fairly poor at times, gets the vote for me.

 

[steds]

Gower

 

[BoyBrumby]

Gower here. Frustratingly inconsistent at times, but glorious to watch when in full flow. Cairns was (and is) a very effective ODI player, but his awful trot with injuries meant he was never quite the test player he might have been.

 

[luckyeddie]

Would STILL cross the road to watch Gower - simply wonderful to watch, batting and fielding of the highest order.

 

[Jamee999]

Gower 5-2 Cairns thus far.

 

[honestbharani]

Cairns for me... I never saw much of Gower except from clips of old matches... But Cairns is a real match winner, perhaps the only one New Zealand have had for over a decade.. And if it weren't for his physical problems, I think he would have been the best all rounder in the world for quite a while.

 

[Knopfler]

Like a lot of people here I have seen more of Cairns than of Gower. But the clips I have seen of Gower have been very impressive. I also just checked his nice stats on cricinfo.....

Batting and fielding averages
class mat inns no runs hs ave sr 100 50 4s 6s ct st
Tests 117 204 18 8231 215 44.25 50.59 18 39 979 10 74 0
ODIs 114 111 8 3170 158 30.77 75.15 7 12 290 22 44 0


so Gower for me.

 

[Somerset]

Chris Cairns gets my vote, for obvious reasons.

 

[luckyeddie]

Chris Cairns gets my vote, for obvious reasons.

You both like sheep?