favorite XIs

The Kippax Kid

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not neccesarily the best but players you have enjoyed watching over the years


amiss
gavasker
richards IVA
randall
lloyd CH
botham
imran
knott
warny
murali
ambrose
 
Not a favourates list, but players i enjoy/enjoyed watching.

Gilchrist - pure entertainer.

Sehwag - same as above, here on the merit of sheer entertainment.

Tendulkar - the best.

Steve Waugh - Grit and Determination personified.

Arvinda de silva - fabulous player, as gifted as anyone and was a battler as well.

Lance Klusener(?) - Was fabulous before his form fell away.

Mcgrath - Not a favourate but cant doubt his brilliance. Line and length personified.

Donald - He was one of my favourate cricketers at his peak, real entertainer, 90 miles an hour, could swing the ball, was bloody agressive. Cricket could do with characters like him.

Pathan - Current personal favourate of mine. Like Rooney for manchester united.

Akram - Brilliant.. not only a great bowler, but a humble chap.

Murli - Forget his action, and this guy is something to watch. Batsman are almost never comfortable against him. Close between Warne and him.

Im forgetting some..
 
Gavaskar
Sachin
Richards
Lara
Inzamam
Imran
Flintoff
Wasim
Gilchrist
Warne
Murali

Too many to list...The greats speedsters from WI, D. Lille etc...
 
Greenidge
Gavasker
Richards(Viv)
Hooper
Flintoff
Dujon
Imran
Holding
Marshall
Waqar
Warne

Easily substitute any of those for the likes of Garner, Lara, Tendulkar, De Silva, Miandad, Willis, Qadir, Sehwag, Gower, Gooch, Anwar, Inzamam, Jayasuria, Bedi, Lille, Waugh, Hadlee etc etc
 
Sehwag: gotta love him

Jayasuria: Changed the way teams approach first 15 overs.

Viv Richards: Never seen him live but since tons of taped innings, other than sachin my fav. player

Sachin: D

Lara: Possibly the most entertaining player to watch if in full flow

Chris Cairns: Played some smashing innings, plus always good with ball.

Gilchrist: Well, the best keeper batsman I have seen.

Murali: Overlooking the chucking bit(Blame ICC), can doubt his brilliance.

Ambrose: Loved watching him bowl, always a sense of anticipaton

Waqar: I have always rated him more than Akram, has produced some of the most devastating spells ever.
 
I have to agree about Waqar, during his peak between 89-95, he was probably the most devastating bowler I've seen, along with Marshall and Holding.
 
Spoony said:
Holding
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forgot about him.

the oval test in 76, amiss was recalled and scored 203, holding took 8-92 in one of the finest displays of fast bowling ever apart from devons 9-37 at the oval.

IVA scored his 291 in the 76 match i think.
 
The Kippax Kid said:
forgot about him.

the oval test in 76, amiss was recalled and scored 203, holding took 8-92 in one of the finest displays of fast bowling ever apart from devons 9-37 at the oval.

IVA scored his 291 in the 76 match i think.
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He made Boycott look very silly as well. Very fast and effortless.
 
Spoony said:
I have to agree about Waqar, during his peak between 89-95, he was probably the most devastating bowler I've seen, along with Marshall and Holding.
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We all need a another go...
 
Sultan said:
We all need a another go...
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true.

i loved gower, he was a handsome man and a handsome crickter, probably nobody made batting look more effortless.

and i also loved graham fowler but thats my lancy bias
 
Fairbrother. I forgot. How could I. Didn't get a proper crack at Test cricket. Great player to watch, one of my favs.
 
This is my dream XI in my lifetime:

Sehwag
Gilchrist
Tendulkar
Lara
Dravid
Flintoff
Jayasuriya
Warne
Kumble
Akram
Mcgrath
 
Jayasuriya
Greenidge
Ponting
Dravid
Miandad
Zaheer Abbas
Hadlee
A Stewart (WK)
Marshall
Holding
A Qadir
 
Spoony said:
Fairbrother. I forgot. How could I. Didn't get a proper crack at Test cricket. Great player to watch, one of my favs.
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remember his catch at OT in the semi derbyshire i think?
 
Spoony said:
Which year?
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early 90s

he was on the boundary at the warwick end, he couldnt catch it but palmed it back in fielf and took the catch...brilliant.
 
Spoony said:
Fairbrother. I forgot. How could I. Didn't get a proper crack at Test cricket. Great player to watch, one of my favs.
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Yes, a lanky bias on my part I suppose...

A special mention for Afridi...
 
The Kippax Kid said:
early 90s

he was on the boundary at the warwick end, he couldnt catch it but palmed it back in fielf and took the catch...brilliant.
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Yes, I remember.

Also recall the way he'd open his eyes, when hunting down a target. As if he meant business.
 
How about Boycott ? I hated him as a player... yet as a commentator/ analyst I love his honesty.
 
Sultan said:
Yes, a lanky bias on my part I suppose...

A special mention for Afridi...
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Afridi's good to watch. Out of Pakistan's side though, I'd probably pay to watch Shoaib and Inzi. Both of them anywhere. But Afridi only in the one-dayers.
 
Sultan said:
How about Boycott ? I hated him as a player... yet as a commentator/ analyst I love his honesty.
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Wasn't great to watch. He used to grind out runs. But yeah, he's a good commentator and a United fan to boot.
 
Sultan said:
How about Boycott ? I hated him as a player... yet as a commentator/ analyst I love his honesty.
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Great at what he did. But wasn't great to watch...not that he would care. :lol:
 
Sultan said:
Invite here Vijay...would be a great coup for the pavilion.
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I dunno his RI username but I got the info from a senior poster, another Yorkshire man and a regular at both Cafe and RI. Its an old news I got it way back in 2004. Maybe he would've also registered himself here by now.
 
Players I enjoyed/ enjoy watching

Jayasuriya
Gilchrist
Lara
Tendulkar
De Silva
Flintoff
Ponting
Dravid
Warne
Murali
Akram
 
Warney goes without saying really. As well as being the most entertaining cricketer I've ever seen, he's also a Victorian.

Agree with whoever it was that mentioned Fairbrother, loved watching him play.

Mark Waugh might well be the most elegant Test batsman since David Gower.

Alan Donald and Akram were a pleasure to watch just because they could both generate so much pace with such uncomplicated bowling actions. Made it look easy.

In his prime, Waqar Younis was regularly as quick as Brett Lee is now, but he was twice the bowler. Devestating when he was on song. Funnily enough my abiding memory of him is from an exhibition match in Bangladesh in about 94ish. The Bangladeshi batsmen in those days weren't a patch on the present ones which ought to tell you how crap they were. At the time Younis was regularly bowling at around 95mph and we braced ourselves for one day cricket's first ever 10 wicket haul. Or at least for a couple of our players to end up in hospital. Turned out our bastmen were thinking along similar lines because they adopted the amusingly cowardly tactic of stepping a mile outside leg stump, thereby eliminating any chance of getting hit by the ball, and then prodding at it with an open blade. The pace on the ball gave the fielder no chance and somehow we managed to get 70 runs off his 8 overs with about 60 of them coming in the third man region.

I always supported whoever was playing against the West Indies which ruined my enjoyment of Richards, Greenidge, Haynes and co. but Christ they were a great unit.

Missed countless others but IMO the game's really stagnated in recent years. Hopefully some of the younger blokes in the Indian, England and South African sides can breathe some life back into cricket because it's been pretty dire for a while.

Class game though. The Yanks and Scandis can feck off.
 
XI of technique and Elegance

Gavaskar
Graeme Pollock
Sir Don Bradman
Sir Walter Hammond
Tendulkar
Greg Chappel
Rodney Marsh
Sir Richard Hadlee
Imran Khan
Micheal Holding
Murali

XI of aggressive players

Greenidge
Hayden
Sir Viv Richards
Lara
Mike Proctor
Sir Gary Sobers
Gilchrist
Marshall
Lillie
Ambrose
Shane Warne
 
Even though we was on the recieving end of their bowling my earliest memories as a child watching cricket was of ambrose and walsh two tall athletic great bowlers who scared the life out of batsmen running in at ferocious pace,was a joy to watch and they seemed larger than life to me back then ,great players.might sound wierd too but i enjoyed watching athers bat alot sometimes it looked like he would never get out and his judgment was superb.
 
vijay said:
XI of technique and Elegance

Gavaskar
Graeme Pollock
Sir Don Bradman
Sir Walter Hammond
Tendulkar
Greg Chappel
Rodney Marsh
Sir Richard Hadlee
Imran Khan
Micheal Holding
Murali

XI of aggressive players

Greenidge
Hayden
Sir Viv Richards
Lara
Mike Proctor
Sir Gary Sobers
Gilchrist
Marshall
Lillie
Ambrose
Shane Warne
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an XI of technique and elegance without David Gower????

an XI of aggression without Ian Botham????

bollocks mate
 
golden_blunder said:
an XI of technique and elegance without David Gower????

an XI of aggression without Ian Botham????

bollocks mate
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Many havent watched Sir Walter Hammond so Gower can would do fine- corrected in my next post.

If I am picking an aggressive allrounder its between Sobers, Botham, Kapil and Cairns. Sobers as a batter was better than all the remaining three.
 
golden_blunder said:
an XI of technique and elegance without David Gower????

an XI of aggression without Ian Botham????

bollocks mate
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Hey Geebs...You defo know your cricket.

As for elegance I also have a lot of time of Hooper and M Yousuf (Youhana).
 
GiggsysGirl said:
an englishman...perhaps?
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lol
The english team was always pretty useless(until recently) during my time of watching cricket, and no one was really worth watching. Now i guess.. Harmison , Flintoff and Peterson are good to watch.. but obviously wouldnt make it to my list. :D
 
Wakar
Crofty
S James
M Maynard
S Jones
S Warne
A Flintoff
B Lee
Murali
Gilchrist
Ponting

Not a very balanced team, but had to get the Glamorgan lads in there.
 
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