Cricket related stuff that doesn't really deserve a thread

[Chubb]

It really isn't..

Grant used to play with Mark Vermeulen remember.

He's a scrawny looking guy but like a lot of white Zimbos he isn't someone I would want to pick a fight with.

See David Lloyd's anecdote at the end of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFg_wD78Ks

 

[TheJediBrah]

Guess you got to be tough to thrive in Africa. All the pussies move to England where they fit in perfectly.

 

[Starfighter]

Yes, they did this right throughout the match. You'd think someone might have noticed.

 

[Howe_zat]

It would be a stretch to describe it as cricket related, but...

 

[Daemon]

cringe city

works on the target market tho

 

[vcs]

Pretty sure this has been posted before

 

[vcs]

Bet Steve Smith could never make you cringe that hard.

 

[honestbharani]

hahaha... The Pepsi ads featuring Indian cricketers are usually the best. They have some of the best concepts and are the least cringey, I think. Loved the one where Kohli acts the elderly lady what his role should be and she says, you go concentrate on batting, you have been slipping. We will take care of the ads.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Gordon Greenidge
Jonathan Trott
Neil Harvey
Viv Richards
Colin Cowdrey
Doug Walters
Godfrey Evans
Lance Cairns
Brad Hogg
Brian Statham
Patrick Patterson

Spot the common theme?

 

[AndrewB]

Gordon Greenidge
Jonathan Trott
Neil Harvey
Viv Richards
Colin Cowdrey
Doug Walters
Godfrey Evans
Lance Cairns
Brad Hogg
Brian Statham
Patrick Patterson

Spot the common theme?

Cowdrey was more of an opener than Trott; then you can put Graeme Pollock in at 5.
Aubrey Faulkner for Hogg.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Kicking myself that I forgot Pollock tbh, yeah Cowdrey will move up to open in that case.

I couldn't not include Hogg as he was the one who gave me the idea to do this in the first place.

 

[Engle]

Gordon Greenidge
Jonathan Trott
Neil Harvey
Viv Richards
Colin Cowdrey
Doug Walters
Godfrey Evans
Lance Cairns
Brad Hogg
Brian Statham
Patrick Patterson

Spot the common theme?

No place for Zaheer Abbas ?

 

[trundler]

HMRKB Herath too

 

[GoodAreasShane]

No place for Zaheer Abbas ?

Pakistani names are not recorded by their initials in scorecards

 

[vcs]

Gordon Greenidge
Jonathan Trott
Neil Harvey
Viv Richards
Colin Cowdrey
Doug Walters
Godfrey Evans
Lance Cairns
Brad Hogg
Brian Statham
Patrick Patterson

Spot the common theme?

What is the common theme?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Bet Steve Smith could never make you cringe that hard.

Steve Smith's whole life is a cringe

except when he's playing cricket. Actually a lot of the time even when he's playing cricket

 

[Howe_zat]

What is the common theme?

They all don’t use their first name, like Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards.

 

[ataraxia]

Arthur Dudley Nourse over Harvey IMO. (however, remember that both are in the top 5 batsmen of all time...)

 

[_Ed_]

LRPL Taylor might be in contention for the second XI?

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Frankly you lot have put more thought into this than I ever did in the first place. Half tempted to revise the team in light of some of the properly good suggestions here.

If I did it nation by nation Sri Lanka would be far stronger than any other team in all likelihood, South Africa would go alright, and Pakistan and Bangladesh would struggle to get a whole XI