Pound per Pound strongest Cricketers.

[luckyeddie]

I am afraid you are way off the mark there. W.G.Grace was a fat ass much later in his career. He played for a long time. If you see he pictures in his early 20s and early 30s, you will notice the well built man. He is known for power hitting as well.

W.W.Armstrong too was a huge and powerful cricketer. If you just take a look at any old picture of W.W.Armstrong, you will see how the likes of Afridi and Powell will look small in his presence. Maybe they can hit harder but these guys were definitely strong as well.

The fact that they were big and strong is indesputable - the supposition that they were strong for their size (this thread is, after all, 'Pound for pound strongest cricketers') and not 'Strongest cricketers' suggests that, perhaps, they do not deserve to be included here.

 

[jpatel1508]

Ricardo Powell.

 

[Pratters]

The fact that they were big and strong is indesputable - the supposition that they were strong for their size (this thread is, after all, 'Pound for pound strongest cricketers') and not 'Strongest cricketers' suggests that, perhaps, they do not deserve to be included here.

Pound for pound doesnt necessarily mean to include cricketers who were strong but not huge. Both Grace and Armstrong were huge as well as strong. They could give people there size (not that there would be many their size) a good contest in strength 'pound for pound'.

 

[luckyeddie]

Pound for pound doesnt necessarily mean to include cricketers who were strong but not huge. Both Grace and Armstrong were huge as well as strong. They could give people there size (not that there would be many their size) a good contest in strength 'pound for pound'.

Undoubtedly, although I have heard that Grace gave certain people a lot more than that (not a very nice person, by all accounts - I'm glad he wasn't MY doctor).

 

[Neil Pickup]

Gilbert Jessop.

Ted Alletson.

 

[Richard]

er, no.

WG was a fatass.

Just like Henry VIII, always remembered solely for his later days!
So many people make that mistake. WG in his 20s was one of the finer athletes you will see.

 

[Richard]

Yep, I sure can. Flipping tall, and a flipping good prospect, too. I think he could easily make it as a test batsman. :P

William Jefferson, a Test batsman!
If the future of spin bowling is worryingly epitomised by Gareth Batty and Richard Dawson, the future of batsmen is equally worryingly done so by Jefferson.
Not even a county standard player for me. How Darren Robinson lost his place to him is totally beyond me.

 

[Richard]

IF strength is taken under consideration then what about Shahid Afridi.

Shahid and Klusener certainly had the heaviest bats in WC99.
Of course things could have changed since then, but it's unlikely they've got any weaker, just possibly other, stronger, players have emerged.

 

[luckyeddie]

Just like Henry VIII, always remembered solely for his later days!
So many people make that mistake. WG in his 20s was one of the finer athletes you will see.

As his record in giving at least one junior cricketer 'a sound thrashing' bears out.

 

[Tom Halsey]

William Jefferson, a Test batsman!
If the future of spin bowling is worryingly epitomised by Gareth Batty and Richard Dawson, the future of batsmen is equally worryingly done so by Jefferson.

Did you seriously expect a straight account on an Essex player from me?

 

[Craig]

One can not leave out Sir Viv Richards.

Lou Vincent once hit one of the strangest sixes of Ntini I have seen a few years back at the SCG.

 

[Damien Martyn]

David Boon and Merv Hughs were pretty bulky but excellent batters. Glen McGrath is pretty tall and the zimbabwe wicket keeper Taibu is real short

 

[iamdavid]

William Jefferson, a Test batsman!
If the future of spin bowling is worryingly epitomised by Gareth Batty and Richard Dawson, the future of batsmen is equally worryingly done so by Jefferson.
Not even a county standard player for me. How Darren Robinson lost his place to him is totally beyond me.

I reckon he's a little better than you give him credit for , his front foot game is very , very strong (not suprising for such a lankey....) & against the quicks (at least when they pitched it up) he looked reasonably solid , when I saw him back in 2001.
He just cant play off the back foot for his life & fast short pitched bowling made him look like an absolute fool , if he could learn to play off the back foot (huge if there) then he could be a prospect.

 

[Craig]

He could of made one helluva fast bowler is he choose bowling then batting.

He would delivered the ball from above the sight screen.

 

[iamdavid]

You need to have at least a little bit of athletesism to succed as a fast bowler , Jefferson has absolutely none , watching him run is really quite funny , coz he cant.

 

[Salamuddin]

Current South Africa and former India fitness trainer Andrew Leipus rates Zaheer Khan as one of the most muscular cricketers he's worked with.

 

[deeps]

andy bichel definately......hayden is pretty strong,as is symonds...these queensland boys.llol

 

[Salamuddin]

sorry, that should be Adrian Le roux not Andrew Leipus.

 

[Tom Halsey]

You need to have at least a little bit of athletesism to succed as a fast bowler , Jefferson has absolutely none , watching him run is really quite funny , coz he cant.

Agreed.

 

[quytst0rm]

Brian McMillian was big and strong his shots were so powerful.