let’s remember some guys

[Prince EWS]

fakhar zaman

I'll always remember him for Mark Waugh's approach to saying his name on commentary.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Sanjay Bangar. Skinny, slow scoring, handy medium pacers. Varied between getting picked as a Test match opening batsmen or an ODI middle-order all rounder.

 

[Prince EWS]

Watch: Mark Waugh slips up on 'Fakhar Zaman' | The West Australian

Cover the kids' ears and listen to Mark Waugh's commentary gaffe in the player above.

watch.thewest.com.au

He was so focused on the first part of it that he ended up calling him Zazam.

 

[Line and Length]

Without reading back through all the previous pages, does Hilton Cartwright qualify? He played 2 Tests and 2 ODIs for Australia in 2017 - in January that year he was voted the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year for 2016.

Cartwright was born in Zimbabwe but, when he was 11, the family farm was seized and the family moved to Australia.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Cartwright probably will qualify at some stage. For local Aussies he's still present in the BBL and occasionally for WA in state cricket and I don't know if you can by a guy if you're still playing relative high-profile cricket.

 

[honestbharani]

Has Handscomb regressed enough to be a guy?

 

[SteveNZ]

Oh Jack, never change! I wasn't aware of his tea-drinking rituals, & actually had to do a quick google to make sure I was remembering his breakfast cereal routine properly. Apparently he insisted on eating weet-bix soaked in milk for exactly eight minutes! WAG.

Russell, the great eccentric, draws stumps

It is difficult to believe that English cricket will ever produce another Jack Russell.

www.independent.co.uk

That misses the story of how Jack Russell used to blindfold and drive anyone coming over to his house (tradies, team mates etc) in case they alerted the press as to where he lived. What a beauty

He also corrected that his Weetbix needed to be soaked for 12 minutes not 8 and that he ordered chicken and celery curry with an order that the celery was removed, not cashew.

 

[andruid]

Has Handscomb regressed enough to be a guy?

Is he good enough to meet the threshold. I still (mis)understand a 'guy' as someone skilled enough to do a job for a while, without ever becoming indispensable.

 

[Dan]

Thilan Thushara apparently debuted in Test cricket in 2003 playing one Test in the West Indies, going 0/59, and being discarded. Just under five years later he played his second Test, also in the West Indies, and went on to play 8 more in his career. One of many, many seamers to join Chaminda Vaas in the Sri Lankan Test attack and not do much, his ODI record is decidedly not-terrible - 50 wickets in 38 matches, sub-30 average and sub-5 economy. From what I can tell, all of them were against India, and they are the only ODIs that Star Sports has the rights to replay.


Vasbert Drakes was a West Indian international who spent most of his career plying his trade in South Africa and England. After 5 relatively unsuccessful ODIs in 1995, it wasn't until the 2002 Champions Trophy that the selectors decided that maybe they should actually pick him after all. He became the focal point of their 2003 World Cup attack, and was famously a member of the Test side during that weird 2003 visit by Australia that involved a 69-ball ton from Shiv, a world record chase of 400+, and Australia picking five specialist bowlers. In a truly fitting finish to his career, he was bowled for a golden duck by noted Scotsman Dougie Brown in his final List A game. Thing is, Brown was playing for Warwickshire. Drakes was playing for Scotland. Both have since coached the UAE.

 

[Dan]

Philo Wallace and Clayton Lambert were both things, and wikipedia says they were "hailed as a possible successor to the legendary Greenidge/Haynes partnership". Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Lambert later returned to international cricket in 2004, aged 42, to represent the USA in the Champions Trophy. They lost their match against Australia in two and a half hours.

 

[jimmy101]

Lambert is too much of a living, breathing GOD to be considered a guy imo.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Vasbert Drakes was a West Indian international who spent most of his career plying his trade in South Africa and England. After 5 relatively unsuccessful ODIs in 1995, it wasn't until the 2002 Champions Trophy that the selectors decided that maybe they should actually pick him after all. He became the focal point of their 2003 World Cup attack, and was famously a member of the Test side during that weird 2003 visit by Australia that involved a 69-ball ton from Shiv, a world record chase of 400+, and Australia picking five specialist bowlers. In a truly fitting finish to his career, he was bowled for a golden duck by noted Scotsman Dougie Brown in his final List A game. Thing is, Brown was playing for Warwickshire. Drakes was playing for Scotland. Both have since coached the UAE.

I love little details like that.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Philo Wallace and Clayton Lambert were both things, and wikipedia says they were "hailed as a possible successor to the legendary Greenidge/Haynes partnership". Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Lambert later returned to international cricket in 2004, aged 42, to represent the USA in the Champions Trophy. They lost their match against Australia in two and a half hours.

They definitely both belong here imo, but I must make a slight clarification, Lambert didn't play in the Australia game. He played against NZ and made a sluggish 39, which was still easily the best score anyone in the team made

 

[Jarquis]

Phil Jacques

 

[quincywagstaff]

Steve Rhodes

An odd (read: Raymond Illingworth inspired) selection as England's test keeper in 1994 whose 11 match tenure was a bit of an interregnum between the Jack Russell and the Alec Stewart eras. Although the noble Gloucestershire eccentric master gloveman was recalled to the colours periodically thereafter, the gaffer was mostly saddled with keeping for the next decade.

Anyhoo, Raymondo had some strongly held ideas about selection (essentially Yorkshire and allrounders: good; Gus Fraser and specialists: bad) and dear old Bumpy (Bumpy Rhodes, you see?) was the beneficiary/victim of this.

Although a Worcestershire stalwart by the time of his selection, Rhodes had started his career with God's Own County and was a native son of France, hailing from Bradford as he did.

Illingworth wanted to use another Frenchman (albeit one with an Ocker accent) in Craig White at #6 to give his test XI a fifth bowling option and let it be known his keeper needed to score runs from #7, tacitly admitting he didn't much fancy Jack's batting by calling up Bumpy for the first time.

Started pretty well against NZ in the first series of the summer, 49 on debut & batting out the final day at Lord's to secure a draw with 8 wickets down, but then looked less at home against RSA's bowlers in the second rubber of 94, despite an average boosting 65* on a uncharacteristically flat Headingley, which was to remain his only test 50, in fact.

It was felt (by Illingworth) that Rhodes had done enough for the winter's Ashes where, with admirably selectorial consistency, he was given all five tests, got into double figures twice, averaged 9 for the series, was generally thoroughly cornholed by McDermott & never played for his country again.

Believe it or not, despite his hopeless Ashes batting he actually batted at 6 in the Adelaide Test because they had so many injuries. Despite this and his inevitable two failures, England won the match.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Phil Jacques

Victim of injury and timing, could've played more international cricket than he did. Remember him destroying Dale Steyn in an ODI in 05/06.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Phil Jacques

Was always intrigued by his stance(especially against pacers, don't know how he managed it), he would stand still like a rock till the bowler released the ball, and once the ball is released(or almost about to be released), he would elegantly lift the bat and still have all the time in the world to play his shots(despite such a late trigger movement).

 

[weldone]

so, this thread is basically the cricket kasoti game without the questions

 

[srbhkshk]

Dirk Nannes did well for himself for a small time.

 

[nightprowler10]

cricket kasoti

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