If you were born as a cricketer who would you like to be?

[James_W]

Sir Viv, I imagine he must've had quite the life.

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

The checklist:

Rich
Young
Well-liked
Good looks

Brett Lee.

 

[James_W]

Not a bad bowler either.

 

[funnygirl]

Simple old question.

Imran Khan or Shane Warne for me,both had quite an eventful life on and off the field. They also had one thing in common: an unsuccessful marriage.

U prefer that

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Hmmm... Someone very, very fast at the old bowling crease, but with unerring accuracy and a startling ability to smash the stumps out of the ground...

I'm thinking Waqar Younis.

If I had an interest in batting a little better, then probably Keith Miller.

 

[Top_Cat]

Waqar. I can already bowl in-swinging yorkers but doing them at 150km/h+ would just be awesome fun.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Miller. Luck, lustre, wickets, runs.

The total package.

 

[honestbharani]

Lara... I like to think I am reasonably disciplined, so if I had that man's talent, I think I would go places.

 

[slugger]

this is to creepy for me to answer...

however.... there is plenty of jesse ryders in NZ not to many get selected to play international cricket..hahah

 

[Craig]

Sachin Tendulkar, just to experience having every run or ball faced analysed by hundreds of millons of people back in India and around the world both amongst fans and the media.

Otherwise either one of Hansie Cronje, Lance Klusener or Damien Martyn because I think they are/were complex characters and what went or goes through their head would be interesting.

 

[SJS]

I WAS born as a cricketer

I would love to be Jack Hobbs but born in the Modern times.

I would score zillions of runs and not get out even once till I was sixty years old

Or Syd Barnes and get a ten for in every match for a single digit average.

Ideally I would love to be both. !!

 

[FRAZ]

I would like to see myself as a great fast bowler , who is the fastest in the world and every one is just plain jelous of him ............

 

[Ikki]

Miller first, then probably Warne.

Miller had the kind of life that you only read about in fantasy books or in movies. And even though he was kind of a bad-boy, he was loved for it. His character is what attracted both men and women to him. And he was also an all-time great Cricketer.

 

[weldone]

Sachin

 

[Laurrz]

 

[Zinzan]

Alltime - Sir Garfield

In my time of watching - Wasim Akram

 

[masterblaster]

Probably either Adam Gilchrist or Sachin Tendulkar. Gilchrist because I was always so hopeless at wicket keeping, so I stuck to bowling and doing some lower order batting. Tendulkar because he's a genius and just the very best at what he does.

Other than that, I would've also have loved to be Mark Ramprakash. I would have loved to be a prolific domestic batsman and make a better go at playing tests and succeeding than Ramprakash did himself with the amount of god given talent that he had.

 

[wpdavid]

Viv Richards, Keith Miller or Adam Gilchrist

 

[roseboy64]

Miller first, then probably Warne.

Miller had the kind of life that you only read about in fantasy books or in movies. And even though he was kind of a bad-boy, he was loved for it. His character is what attracted both men and women to him. And he was also an all-time great Cricketer.

 

[Richard]

The checklist:

Rich
Young
Well-liked
Good looks

Brett Lee.

Brett Lee is not young any more - but we were all young once, and we'll all be not-young (unless we die young) one day.

Some things can never be held onto.