Cricketing namesakes

[PY]

Peter Young - global moderator or mouthpiece of Cricket Australia...

 

[Kweek]

Neil Pickup - most enthusiastic leg spinner ever in any level of cricket and a great world arm wrestling champion.

 

[Jono]

Pratyush

 

[vic_orthdox]

Jack McNamara - Right back for Scotland, and ex-U/19 cricketer.

 

[Burpey]

Richard Dawson - offie who Steve Waugh hit for 4 off the last ball of the day to score a century or that cheeky Corporal Peter Newkirk.

 

[open365]

Jack McNamara - Right back for Scotland, and ex-U/19 cricketer.

Isn't he also a jockey that ran in the national last year?

 

[grecian]

Paul Parker, great fielder. mediocre batsmen for Sussex, or short-arse defender for Manyoo.

Mark Lawson, promising Tyke leggie or bumptous potato-head writer and presenter.

 

[atichon]

Robert Taylor : Derbyshire legend, actor in Hollywood during the off season

 

[Richard]

Paul Parker short-arse defender for Manyoo.

Short-aess maybe, but damn good and (in the pre-Neville world) something of a club hero.

A legend which was only added to when he came on as a substitute for Neville Jnr in 1995\96 against Reading and scored one of the most sensational goals ever by a right-back.

 

[PY]

Hahaha you've got to be joking, that was the biggest mis-hit ever...

 

[Richard]

I'll be honest, I've thought many times that he was aiming for a cross, but, well... Nicky Hammond sure as thought he was crossing it, and it even looked like it was a cross at one point, then the ball swung.

And apart from Cantona's incredible one against Arsenal the same season, I saw no better strike from someone in a Man U shirt between '94 and '98. Better goals resulting from build-up, yes, but none better purely for the strike.

 

[PY]

Mark Hughes vs Sheff Wed in '94 was a thunderbolt. Beckham against Wimbledon in '96 was also OK and quite famous.

Cantona again against Wimbledon, during '93 was OK too. On the chest and volleyed past the keeper.

 

[Richard]

Yeah, Beckham against Wimbledon was a bit special, but didn't have the romanticism of either Cantona or Parker.

Hughes vs Sheff Wed in 1994\95 or 1993\94? If 1993\94 falls outside my scope... and don't know whether I remember the goals from our games vs Sheff Wed in 1994\95 either.

A Cantona goal in 1995\96 also features my favourite piece of commentary on a Man U goal, too...

"Hit the heels of Williams... ... ... ... ... ... ... Cantona! Yes!"

 

[Craig]

Peter Young - global moderator or mouthpiece of Cricket Australia...

Could also be a politican on the Gold Coast who is opposing the construction of a building promoting questionable practices 201m from a Church...

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Mitchell Johnson - Either one of Australia's up-and-coming fast bowlers or one half of the culprits of the Jonesboro school massacre.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Hamish Marshall

A funky haired New-Zealand cricketer, or a radio 5Live sports reporter.

 

[Richard]

There's a Hamish Marshall on 5Live...?

 

[GIMH]

Ian Botham, either a hugely popular English cricketer or a hugely unpopular Cricket commentator

or

Bob Willis, menacing fast bowler, with a slightly odd run-up, also, a boring, lifeless drone who gets all the Sky Sports stuff that noone watches

 

[Richard]

And you could say the opposite for Geoff Boycott.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Just thought I'd dig this up as I notice Jack Hobbs is now turning out for Leicester City.