Who is your favourite cricketer?

[Richard]

Others over the years are David Gower and a certain disgraced captain who played 99 Tests

Haven't you completely lost all respect for Azhar after learning of his misdemenours?
I always had a huge amount of time for Cronje (still feel he was one of the best captains of the modern era) but there's just no denying that all that will ever be memorable about his career for most is that he brought cricket to it's knees with bookie-involvement (we'll never come close to knowing the whole truth of the matter, but what little we do know is bad enough).

 

[Richard]

There's a most disliked cricketer thread - I'm curious who's people's favourite player is. To make it somewhat objective, lets say favourite cricketer not in your country's team.

Mine would probably be Dravid - he just seems to be a class act on and off the field.

My favourite cricketer (English or not) has always been Aravinda de Silva.
Could do things no other batsman can... and it's criminal he didn't score far, far more runs in every form of the game than he did.
My favourite English cricketer was, and still is, Dominic Cork. In 1995 and 1995\96, epitomised everything an English bowler should be.

 

[marc71178]

Lara here as well.

 

[Langeveldt]

Fidel Edwards or Daren Ganga

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Lara for me.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

James Anderson
Shane Bond
Graeme Smith

Hard to seperate those fella's for me.

 

[Tony Blade]

Dravid

 

[Jono]

Shoaib or Lara, can't seperate them.

 

[alternative]

I am leaning towards Shaun Pollock.. always at his very best..

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Current players: Warney - Legend, Lee - good attitude (mostly), Nel - absurd chap carry on sir, Inzi - big man, eats pies, scores runs = Legend, Mu Mu (I want to protect him).

From history: Spofforth, Sir Viv.

All-time: HH Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Jam Sahib of Nawanagar.

 

[howardj]

Jacques Kallis -

His technique and concentration are without peer.

Always looks super-cool too.

 

[archie mac]

Haven't you completely lost all respect for Azhar after learning of his misdemenours?

That does not change the way he batted, all grace and wristy ease at the crease.

 

[33/3from3.3]

Jacques Kallis
Andrew Symonds
Brian Lara
Shane Warne
Harbajahn Singh
Shoib Akhtar
Graham Thorpe
Sanith Jayasuria
Ajit Agarkar

 

[age_master]

Brian Lara

Honorable Mentions: Dravid, Flintoff, S Jones, Sehwag, Gibbs, Kumble, Sangakkara and Jayasuria

 

[IndianByHeart]

Veeru,Dhoni, Munaf Patel, Flintoff, Mohd Asif and Smith!

 

[Beleg]

Brian Lara

From the past:

Donald
Rhodes
Symcox
Flower (Andy)
Gavin Larsen
Ambrose

 

[HowsThat]

Flintoff.

From past.

Rhodes
H Cronje
M Marshall
Viv Rich
Rashid Lateef

 

[armchairumpire]

Favourite cricketers

Current -
Shane Bond
Daniel Vettori
Brian Lara

Past -
Alan Knott
Imran Khan
Martin Crowe
Richard Hadlee
Derek Underwood

 

[foe]

Indian: Dravid,Kumble

Non Indian : Graeme Smith,Hussey

 

[benchmark00]

Probably Kallis.