Your Guilty Cricket Player Pleasures. Lay 'em on the Table Guys

[Flem274*]

Q: What do you get when you cross Jeetan Patel with an lbw appeal?

A: Lolz, as if he would ever hit a batsmans pads.

 

[Flem274*]

Another guilty cricketing pleasure of mine is Jesse's bowling.

 

[Spark]

English bowling attack.

 

[vcs]

Always thought Ajay Jadeja was a pretty stylish and attractive batsman. Still have fond memories of the demolition job on Waqar in '96 despite the match-fixing shenanigans he was involved in.

 

[Kylez]

I actually love watching Harbhajan Singh bowl. His action and run up just look so fluent and it's awsome to watch when he is bowling well.

Still a massive **** though.

 

[Jacknife]

I've got a bit of a weird one, I really enjoy watching Abdur Rehman bowl, I really like his bowling action and his bound into the crease,

 

[Flem274*]

Imrul Kayes.

It's funny because everyone hates him yet he keeps scoring enough runs to stay in the side.

 

[Goughy]

I enjoy watching non-bowlers bowl, primarily English. Love watching KP, before that Vaughan and most of all, before that, Gooch. I dont know why. I just do.

 

[Himannv]

How are Warne and Bond guilty pleasures?

Mentioned them mainly because I dont mind seeing them doing well even if they play against the team I support. Well Akram would be in that list as well I suppose.

 

[Himannv]

Always thought Ajay Jadeja was a pretty stylish and attractive batsman. Still have fond memories of the demolition job on Waqar in '96 despite the match-fixing shenanigans he was involved in.

Yep, Jadeja was one of my favourites back then as well. One of the few (only?) Indian players whom I liked back then.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

I always loved watching Dominic Cork, Ryan Sidebottom and Craig White bowl. The third guy was not even a good bowler but his action looked really smooth to me.

Maybe, I have a thing for this classical English seamers' side-on action. Mike Smith was another bowler that I loved to watch.


Loved to watch Daren Ganga bat. I know he's not a great Test batsman, but everything seemed so correct with the way he batted.

 

[hazsa19]

Michael Clarke. He's clearly a massive douche with a beautiful girlfriend, an intensely irritating voice, and ridiculous tattoos.

BUT, boy do I love watching him bat, especially against spinners. In a couple of his innings in the recent Ashes he started to dominate Swann. One was cut short by KP and another by some brilliant swing bowling from Jimmeh.

 

[zaremba]

I enjoy watching non-bowlers bowl, primarily English. Love watching KP, before that Vaughan and most of all, before that, Gooch. I dont know why. I just do.

Me too.

Gooch was good to watch as a bowler because he bowled proper medium pace (ie not fast-medium, not medium-fast) and swung the ball a lot. The sort of guy who might get a bagful of wickets every week in the sort of club cricket that I've played. Along the same lines, I really enjoyed watching Ant Botha bowling his big inswingers in that WC match against Pakistan a few years back.

 

[Spark]

Mitchell Johnson's bowling action (not where he bowls it)
Yuvraj Singh's bowling
Younis Khan's face / facial expressions

Back in 08/9 I adored Mitchell's bowling tbh. The action and the results. This was before he became the cricketing equivalent of a loose fire hose, of course.

I always enjoyed watching Katman bat tbh, even though I know his technique should be the opposite of aesthetic.

 

[fredfertang]

I enjoy watching non-bowlers bowl, primarily English. Love watching KP, before that Vaughan and most of all, before that, Gooch. I dont know why. I just do.

Gooch's repertoire of impersonations, particularly his Bob Willis, were always worth watching

 

[Daemon]

Love watching Sachin bowl, not sure if it counts as 'guilty'.

 

[vcs]

Love watching Sachin bowl, not sure if it counts as 'guilty'.

Same. He's awful nowadays, but there was a time when he was one of our best bowlers in ODIs (mid-to-late '90s). Also, in the early part of the '00s, he used to bowl a mixture of leg-spin, off-spin, googlies, seam-up etc. and it was one of the most entertaining sights to watch. Used to get some serious turn as well.

 

[Daemon]

Same. He's awful nowadays, but there was a time when he was one of our best bowlers in ODIs (mid-to-late '90s). Also, in the early part of the '00s, he used to bowl a mixture of leg-spin, off-spin, googlies, seam-up etc. and it was one of the most entertaining sights to watch. Used to get some serious turn as well.

Yeah his seam ups were the best! And he still gets some turn, he bowled a real warnie in the WC recently. 80% of the rest were full tosses but I'm pretty sure if they landed they would've turned a mile

 

[ankitj]

Always thought Ajit Agarkar had a nice bowling action.

Which is actually true.

 

[nsniks]

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ajit agarkar(both batting and bowling), Mohammad Sami