Favorite all time cricketers

[tedebear]

Dennis Lillee
Allan Border
Ricky Ponting
Shane Warne
Brian Lara
Merv Hughes

 

[vegster]

Sussex, John Snow, Paul Parker,Tony Grieg,Chris Adams and Mustaq Ahmed

England, Geoffrey Boycott, David Gower,Ian Botham,Alan Knott and Darren Gough ( despite losing cred for Talksport)

ROW, Virinda Sehwag, Imran Khan, Adam Gilchrist, Murali and Malcolm Marshall.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Graham Alan Gooch
John Kenneth Lever
Derek Raymond Pringle
Keith William Robert Fletcher
Kenneth Scott McEwan

My heroes watching at Chelmsford c 1980

 

[PHCgull]

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards - swaggersaurus rex.

 

[Sompting_Seagull]

England - Botham / Fraser / Flintoff

ROW - Warne / Ambrose / Lara

 

[Albion_Dave]

Chris Tavare.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

sussex: mushtaq ahmed, dwayne smith, bas zuiderent, chris adams, rana naved ul-hasan

england: simon jones, graeme swann, kevin pietersen, graham thorpe, alec stewart

row: lasith malinga, curtley ambrose, shane warne, muttiah muralitharan, shahid afridi

FLAIR

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

Ted Dexter, Jim Parks, John Snow, Tony Greig, Mushtaq Ahmed

 

[armchairclubber]

Any one, especially anyone English, old enough to have seem him play in his prime, particularly Headingly 1981 would probably agree. One of the most memorable sporting days of my life and I wasn't even there.

Absolutely me too, as a 10 year old my street friends really could not understand why I wouldn't come out to play 44 save all or something that weekend, but couldn't leave the tv. Don't think I was THAT strange. Still love Botham's forthright views as a commentator (and Boycott's too).

Always thought Graeme Smith and Glenn McGrath decent blokes and players with strong characters.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

John Snow, Imran Khan, Garth Le Roux, Paul Parker and Mushtaq Ahmed. Murray Goodwin at first reserve.

Would have been good to see some players of yesteryear such as CB Fry and Ranjitsinghi.

My favourite visiting player was Merv Hughes. Remember him from a tourist game at Hove when he snarled at the Sussex batsmen but also sledged a few of his own team mates too. Real character.

 

[tedebear]

Should have added this pair to mine...

Viv and Joel had been out on the town and while wandering back to their team hotel they found themselves in need of a leak so the stopped and had one off the Sydney harbour bridge.

"Ah, shivered Viv, that's better mon but f*** me the waters cold!"
"Yeah mon, answered Joel , and it's deep too..."

 

[Weststander]

Boycott, Knott, Randall, Gower, Botham, Flintoff, S.Jones, for England.

Richie Richardson overseas.

Sussex - that team of Grieg, Le Roux, Parker & Co.

 

[Glawstergull]

Chose 5, but i'll chose 7. Mine are:

1) Sanath Jayasuriya
2) Lasith Malinga
3) Ian Botham
4) Sachin Tenulkar
5) Shahid Afridi
6) Muttiah Muralitheran
7) Kumar Sangakkara
YOU?

All time?

 

[Glawstergull]

Gower:Lamb:Bothamarker:Randall:Mushtaq:Walsh:Imran:Kirtley:RCRussell:Thorpe
IVA Richards

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards - swaggersaurus rex.

Bingo! The man was THE batting Behemoth.

 

[Ringmer Seagull]

Batsman : Viv Richards
Bowler : Dennis Lillee
All rounder : Gary Sobers / Ian Botham

Wish I had the privilege of watching Bradman in his prime (my Dad did and never stops banging on about it !).

 

[dje shoreham]

Batsman : Viv Richards
Bowler : Dennis Lillee
All rounder : Gary Sobers / Ian Botham

Wish I had the privilege of watching Bradman in his prime (my Dad did and never stops banging on about it !).

ditto - would maybe add Clive Lloyd who i saw in 1975 WC Final - Denis Lillee played as well ( i think?)

 

[Razzoo]

I always admired Paul Collingwood, Not flash but a great team player

 

[Barrel of Fun]

[MENTION=25]Gwylan[/MENTION] needs notifying of this thread.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Good thread! This is based on players I have seen live, unfortunately too young to see Botham and some of the others named.

Sussex: 1. Mushy 2. Chris Adams 3. Matt Prior 4. Kirtley 5. Luke Wright/RMJ

England: 1. Flintoff 2. Atherton 3. James Anderson 4. Gough 5. Thorpe/Alec Stewart

ROW: 1. Glenn Mcgrath 2. Shane Warne 3. Adam Gilchrist 4. Curtley Ambrose 5. Courtney Walsh/Wasim Akram