Your favourite cricketers during their playing careers AND afterwards?

Might as well complete this series with the +/+ option (since we've had the three other threads: "+ > -", "- > +" and "-/-").

Derek Randall
Jack Russell
Eddie Barlow
Barry Richards (won't be many people's choice, I know)
VVR Laxman (haven't heard him as a commentator)
Farokh Engineer
Jeremy Coney (oddly enough)
Clive Lloyd
Wes Hall
Basil D'Oliveira
Grahm DIlley
Ken Barrington (what little time there was of him afterwards)
Walter Hammond (as far as I can tell from the evidence! - though he was a hell of a cold fish, for now understood reasons)
Richie (again, as far as I can tell)
Jack Fingleton (same only more so. Can't say I recall much of him playing ~ ~ but acc reports)

Is a starting list. :O

The problem with many others is (like Sanga) they haven't retired yet, or (like Archie Jackson, Brian Statham or Wally Grout) had a very high-profile post-retirement career (or indeed, any) to judge whether they might be as great sources of enthusiasm after their first career as they were whilst playing.

Hansie.

This is easy
Imran Khan

No one comes close

Dizzy. Gilly. Arkle. Bob Massie. Terry Alderman. Gower. Willis. Jack Russell.

Arkle, that's a horse isn't it?

That's Randall, that is!

Why shouldn't you love a horse, anyway? Emperor Caligula did. Allegedly.

I haven't heard much of Gilly once retired, otherwise he'd be in.

Is he retired yet? Or technically playing a form of the game?

Alec Stewart for me.

Derek Randall was a horse??

Caligula, AKA little boots, big hoss lover

Let's not go there, or Dello will have a nervous fit.




Randall was dubbed "Arkle" (part-jestingly) because of his galloping speed and style across the outfield.

PeterCS wrote:That's Randall, that is!

Why shouldn't you love a horse, anyway? Emperor Caligula did. Allegedly.

I thought that was Catherine The Great?

PeterCS wrote:I haven't heard much of Gilly once retired, otherwise he'd be in.

Is he retired yet? Or technically playing a form of the game?

played his last game of cricket a long time ago, and recently played his last game of T20

dismissed Harbajhan with his only delivery; it's on the ewetube

Hmm, I like Nasser quite a lot. I don't mind Thorpe. I've always like Slater - lemon though he is. Gilchrist. Dravid *cough*. Sachin. A lot Kiwis. Jacques Kallis. Ambrose. Rob Bailey. Lara. Matthew Hoggard, if he counts. Wasim. Waqar. Damien Fleming. Andy Flower (for now). Pommie Mbangwa (is that wrong?)

taipan wrote:Hansie.

...taips is such a jerk/meerkat

fleming and lawry...beefy...randall...viv...sobers....hall...holding....stacky...Rackemann....warnie....vvs....bishen bedi...pollocks...gower

You're only allowed two Victorians. Max.

And I don't mean Tangles.

played for the wrong footy team...but yep...a pretty decent person

fleming identifies as a victorian tho born in wa ...stacky was and is a great vix...warnie and lawry...I did fit in 4!

horace wrote:played for the wrong footy team...but yep...a pretty decent person

but not a Victorian

lardbucket wrote:

horace wrote:played for the wrong footy team...but yep...a pretty decent person

but not a Victorian

yep he was born a toxic...but had that successfully flushed out of his system!

Wouldn't argue with anyone on Peter's original list - and would definitely add Bumble to it.

He was brought up in and around the old Empire Hotel*, in North Hobart, one of my old haunts, and not salubrious at all in those days ... you would be pleased to know it is now called The Republic Bar and is the home of The Blues in Tassie, or at least the south end.

* I think his parents may have owned it

Imran Khan - if he hadn't been robbed of 28-30 seats in the recent Pak elections he would have been the Nick Clegg of Pakistan!!! (King-maker).

filosofee wrote:he would have been the Nick Clegg of Pakistan!!!

Ouch.

Sir Rahul of Dravid