http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article2337428.ece
Tim May better than Allan Donald and Kapil Dev? Mmmm.
Still, it's an interesting read. Atherton should be top 5 though.
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"Do you think I went out to bat when I was only half out of the bed?"
"Of course not"
top 50 that he's played with/against?
if it's ever then there is no way athers is top 5.
it's who he's played with/against
I believe and either way Atherton should be top 5.
shut up
no
make me.
jeez.
why are they only showing 10? thats SO lame. is it cos they're trying to drum up interest in a list?
there's 40-31
on there too.
where?
the navigation on their site is so shit!
here:
http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article2343868.ece
Not top 5
but top 20 definately
well,
I'm being stupid. Atherton is my favourite sportsman ever so I'd put him at number 1, but he should be higher than almost any other English cricketer Warne has played against.
over 7,000 test runs?
no
real ones though.
hey you
hey hey you...
you and your friend
with your jokes
I can't believe
that Athers averaged less than 40. Still an absolute legend though. That 185* in Johannesburg was the best innings I've seen by an English batsman.
never got on the honours board
at Lords either. That board has gone down in my estimation since that.
Wasn't he run out
on 99 at Lords? When he slipped on the grass.
yep
against Australia.
Athers is my hero too
I used to love Chris Cairns
the big hussy
This is getting stupid now.
Darren Lehmann ahead of Steve Waugh?! That's just stupid.
Also, it no longer appears to be a top-50.
http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article2351642.ece
Hmmm...
Harmison above Waqar Younis...
and Brett Lee
about Shaun Pollock.
*above
Brett Lee is searingly average
particularly against England.
Well...
Harmison and Lee's high placing shows that Warne is picking players from certain points in the past rather then looking at their career as a whole.
So we can expect Devon Malcolm to be at 1
because of that 9-36 or whatever then.
Or Otis Gibson. He's my number one right now.
Nah.
Sir Richard Hadlee for that 9-52 at the Gabba.
Warney.... oi oi oi....
It's rather bizarre seeing this here. Lol.
girl alert
why is it bizarre?
Fuck off meths.
And yeah, it is just bizarre... just reminds me of Melbourne, that is all, really..
Ho humm.. I'm going now...
BYE!
Tim May
is the most important person in cricket at the moment.
thanks
for that.
I do agree with you though.
He was a very good spinner but better than Allan Donald? I think Australia's fierce rivalry with SA has affected his decision making there.
Nice area Shane
Some odd choices for sure. Atherton should no way be top 5. Top 30 at best.
*Top 3
I am stupidly biased towards Atherton though.
OK so top 5 cricketers from your time following the game
Use whatever criteria you like. I'm going for how much I loved them rather than actual ability
1. Warnie
2. Mushtaq Ahmed
3. Freddie circa 2003-5
4. Jonty Rhodes
5. Matthew Hoggard
As in favourite players?
1) Robin Smith
2) Wasim Akram
3) Carl Hooper
4) Matthew Hayden
5) Malcolm Marshall
Yeah
I knew there was a form of words that wasn't woeful
I fucking hate Matthew Hayden
so so much.
Oh, the rage.
Hayden is one of the
few Aussies I like. Along with Langer, Warne and Stuart Clark.
I may have posted this on here before
but Hayden's reaction to the Aussie win in Adelaide marks him out as a grade A cunt.
What did he do?
Oh Jesus
Him and Langer wrapped themselves in the flag and galloped around the outfield.
A reporter tried to interview him and he bellowed 'Australia! You bloody beauty' into the camera like a proper fucking imbecilic inbred hick cunt.
Which he is.
God I hate him. Try and find it on youtube and all will be revealed.
Mine are
1. Mike Atherton
2. Flintoff (2003-2005)
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Wasim Akram
5. Warne
Probably.
limited options
being a derbyshire boy but...(in no order)
1. chris adams
2. asif din
3. devon malcolm
4. merv hughes
5. kim barnett
ian bishop once said i had good bowling shoulders. i was young then. and not a bowler.
Mine:
although ability really doesn't come into it, are:
1. Michael Atherton
2. Sachin Tendulkah
3. Robert Key
4. James Anderson
5. Paul Collingwood
purely down to either novelty-based love or hero worship.
I've been the first to slate
Jimmy A in the past - but this summer he's begun to win me around now he's stopped chucking down a couple of half trackers every over.
Jimmy is a God
my six a side team took the field with red stripes in our hair this bank holiday weekend in his honour. I hope he becomes a great bowler, cause I really like him. Is that sad of me?
It would be sadder
if you changed your name to Jimmy Anderson and took a lifesize cardboard cut out of the real Jimmy Anderson to bed with you every night.
and where
would I get one of these cut outs?
Lancs CC
shop.
fantastic
I want one of those.