Who's Your Favourite Player for the Weirdest Reason?

[Deja moo]

Ganguly with the bat .

Cant explain it .

 

[ReallyCrazy]

For me has to be Ajit Agarkar. He's Indian, Fastest to 50 ODI wickets, those infamous 7 ducks, that Lords 100, the fan reaction, the inconsistency, the sheer brilliance, the sheer despair, the dangerousness, the ineptness, pretty much the whole damn roller-coaster ride.

Yep, I think that's what sums it up. Favourite player for the weirdest reason:

Ajit Agarkar

I hate this guy for the same reason.

 

[thirdslip]

Larry Gomes. He was good when it was either absolutely necessary or totally unnecessary, but not otherwise!

- TS

 

[pakster]

The clear winner here is Chris Harris for a number of reasons:

He's been bald since birth
He action is the oddest in the world, half leg spin medium type ish
His middle name is ZinZan
He used to bowl with a cap
When we first watched him in a test match he extravagantly left the first 20 odd balls he faced and eventually fell lbw leaving a straight one.

I was gonna say Inzi for his 'running', but Chris Harris seems to be a better choice!

 

[Langeveldt]

I was gonna say Inzi for his 'running', but Chris Harris seems to be a better choice!

How do you maintain your dignity when you get given a nickname like "Potato"!??

 

[marc71178]

King Edward had a lot of dignity IMO.

 

[Fiery]

Dwayne Bravo is also a cool name 'cos he sounds like a superhero, and he reminds me of a cartoon character called Johnny Bravo.
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I've always considered Dwayne to be a very unfortunate name

 

[Arjun]

Matthew Fleming, since I saw him in action in a C&G final (2002), and Christy Simson, the Sportsline reporter, called him "Former England all-rounder" (I am a fan of all-rounders) and I found he had made his debut late and he had a decent ODI record, but didn't last long.

 

[SJS]

Ajit Agarkar...for being so infuriatingly unpredictable and coming off when all is lost (once in a while)

PS : I feel like killing him for the same reason most of the other times.

 

[nikhil1772]

For me has to be Ajit Agarkar. He's Indian, Fastest to 50 ODI wickets, those infamous 7 ducks, that Lords 100, the fan reaction, the inconsistency, the sheer brilliance, the sheer despair, the dangerousness, the ineptness, pretty much the whole damn roller-coaster ride.

Yep, I think that's what sums it up. Favourite player for the weirdest reason:

Ajit Agarkar

Couldn't have put it better myself

Its just his enigma if you wanted to put in one word...

All hail AA!

 

[nikhil1772]

Ajit Agarkar...for being so infuriatingly unpredictable and coming off when all is lost (once in a while)

PS : I feel like killing him for the same reason most of the other times.

Actually I find it very amusing and satisfactory...

When everything is lost and he's playing well...to me it feels like AA is teasing everyone else in the team maybe saying 'I played well but the others let the team down'

 

[marc71178]

All hail AA!

I couldn't have put it better myself!

 

[tooextracool]

Matthew Fleming, since I saw him in action in a C&G final (2002), and Christy Simson, the Sportsline reporter, called him "Former England all-rounder" (I am a fan of all-rounders) and I found he had made his debut late and he had a decent ODI record, but didn't last long.

fleming, miraculosly managed one good series in sharjah(one that i will never forget) where he had a golden arm and kept picking up wickets despite being expensive. his performance in the final against the WI was fabulous with both bat and ball and his 33 from 26 really took england from nowhere to victory. but really his next 2 series showed him to be the desperately mediocre bowler he really was.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I've always considered Dwayne to be a very unfortunate name

Usually it would be, but loads of names that are nothing out of the ordinary are suddenly really cool when you put them on a West Indian:

Dwayne
Devon
Curtly
Courtney
Brian
Dwight
Xavier (although that's cool anyway, just 'cos it begins with X)
Sylvester
Vasbert
Wesley

etc etc....

 

[Jono]

Mushtaq Ahmed. His action intrigued me. So much to the extent that I mimicked it for a little while until kids at my club laughed at me.

It hurt that I couldn't stay true to Mushie.

 

[Zinzan]

Mushtaq Ahmed. His action intrigued me. So much to the extent that I mimicked it for a little while until kids at my club laughed at me.

It hurt that I couldn't stay true to Mushie.

Mushtaq had a good action, but not as cool as Abdul Qadir's was...

 

[BoyBrumby]

Mushtaq had a good action, but not as cool as Abdul Qadir's was...

I reckon they were pretty similar; Mushie used to be nicknamed "Taiwan" appparently, because early-on he was considered a cheap knock-off version of Qadir!

 

[nikhil1772]

Interestingly,no one in this thread I guess mentioned Paul Adams...the weird reason?Everyone knows.

 

[bryce]

fleming, miraculosly managed one good series in sharjah(one that i will never forget) where he had a golden arm and kept picking up wickets despite being expensive.

i remember dougie hondo had a similar run of bowling, on that note i like all the zimabawean players for a reason not even i can work out - i just always find myself supporting them

 

[bryce]

I reckon they were pretty similar; Mushie used to be nicknamed "Taiwan" appparently, because early-on he was considered a cheap knock-off version of Qadir!

straight from cricket guru haha