My Favourite Cricketer
May 4, 2011 5:24 AM Subscribe
Derek Randall, Jeff Thomson, Victor Trumper, Viv Richards, Harold Larwood, Frank Worrell, Gundappa Viswanath, Wes Hall, Tom Graveney, Darren Gough, Mike Procter, Joel Garner, John Snow, Ray Lindwall, Allan Lamb, Zaheer Abbas, Bishan Bedi, Barry Richards, The Nawab of Pataudi Jr, Eric Hollis, Rohan Kanhai, Andy Roberts, Andrew Flintoff, Ian Bothom.
This post was deleted for the following reason: A pile of profile links with zero context is kind of pushing it for a post, but using the thread to take potshots at your fellow users is just totally not an okay way to go. -- cortex
*crickets*
posted by klausness at 5:35 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by klausness at 5:35 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
I suppose this is as good a place as any to point out that Wisden ed. Scyld Berry has pretty much the best name ever.
posted by jack_mo at 5:44 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by jack_mo at 5:44 AM on May 4, 2011
Frank Grimes
posted by Frank Grimes at 5:47 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Frank Grimes at 5:47 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
Worth mentioning that there are more articles in this series. Rob Smyth's take on Martin McCague is great.
posted by Infinite Jest at 5:48 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by Infinite Jest at 5:48 AM on May 4, 2011
Alex Trebek: "Derek Randall, Jeff Thomson, Victor Trumper, Viv Richards, Harold Larwood, Frank Worrell, Gundappa Viswanath, Wes Hall, Tom Graveney, Darren Gough, Mike Procter, Joel Garner, John Snow, Ray Lindwall, Allan Lamb, Zaheer Abbas, Bishan Bedi, Barry Richards, The Nawab of Pataudi Jr, Eric Hollis, Rohan Kanhai, Andy Roberts, Andrew Flintoff, Ian Bothom."
Contestant: "Who are 24 people who have never been in my kitchen?"
posted by flarbuse at 5:50 AM on May 4, 2011 [14 favorites]
Contestant: "Who are 24 people who have never been in my kitchen?"
posted by flarbuse at 5:50 AM on May 4, 2011 [14 favorites]
...Mornington Crescent!
posted by Ian A.T. at 5:51 AM on May 4, 2011 [5 favorites]
posted by Ian A.T. at 5:51 AM on May 4, 2011 [5 favorites]
Oh, they're cricket players! Derp.
Not having taken notice of the title, reading the list made me feel like a contestant on Jeopardy, trying to find the unifying theme for all the names.
Who are several people who have never been in my kitchen?
posted by misha at 5:51 AM on May 4, 2011
Not having taken notice of the title, reading the list made me feel like a contestant on Jeopardy, trying to find the unifying theme for all the names.
Who are several people who have never been in my kitchen?
posted by misha at 5:51 AM on May 4, 2011
Oh, and I like the fact that not all of the favourite players are the obvious superstars (though most of them are). John Wright for the Kiwis, with no mention of Hadlee, Fleming, Cairns, Vettori...(though admittedly I doubt anyone except himself has Hadlee as a favourite player...).
It would also be great if Americans could maybe accept that not all Metafilter threads are about them, and stay out of them rather than threadshitting.
posted by Infinite Jest at 5:55 AM on May 4, 2011
It would also be great if Americans could maybe accept that not all Metafilter threads are about them, and stay out of them rather than threadshitting.
posted by Infinite Jest at 5:55 AM on May 4, 2011
Beaten by flarbuse and misha.
Note to self: get more appealing kitchen/ faster internet.
posted by ShutterBun at 6:04 AM on May 4, 2011
Note to self: get more appealing kitchen/ faster internet.
posted by ShutterBun at 6:04 AM on May 4, 2011
Infinite Jest, I don't seen any threadshitting.
Thanks for posting this. I don't know squat about cricket so I'm pleased to do some looking around.
posted by josher71 at 6:07 AM on May 4, 2011
Thanks for posting this. I don't know squat about cricket so I'm pleased to do some looking around.
posted by josher71 at 6:07 AM on May 4, 2011
Lamb and Botham in a kitchen, so that's a start.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 6:13 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 6:13 AM on May 4, 2011
Cool so i'm gonna post a random list of lacrosse players and expect to get the same response right?
posted by JPD at 6:18 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by JPD at 6:18 AM on May 4, 2011
The bowler's Holding the batsman's Willey
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:21 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:21 AM on May 4, 2011
What's lacrosse?
Seriously, I had no idea lacrosse was so popular in some areas of the USA until I moved to Baltimore. Here it is everywhere and even has the term "Lax Bros" for dudes who play lacrosse and are also assholes.
posted by josher71 at 6:23 AM on May 4, 2011
Seriously, I had no idea lacrosse was so popular in some areas of the USA until I moved to Baltimore. Here it is everywhere and even has the term "Lax Bros" for dudes who play lacrosse and are also assholes.
posted by josher71 at 6:23 AM on May 4, 2011
thanks for proving my point. This is a bad post, and I generally like sports posts. Its a bunch of links to profiles of players. The only reason why the mefite " I hate sports posts" crowd isn't out full bore on this is because none of the US crowd got beaten up by cricket players in high school.
posted by JPD at 6:31 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by JPD at 6:31 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
Nobody has walked to the crease as Richards did. No choreographer, equipped with spotlights and sound effects, could have improved upon his natural entrance.
Heh. There were half a dozen dudes in that team whose body language screamed I OWN YOU.
posted by vanar sena at 6:34 AM on May 4, 2011
Heh. There were half a dozen dudes in that team whose body language screamed I OWN YOU.
posted by vanar sena at 6:34 AM on May 4, 2011
Or, JPD, it's an opportunity for Mefites from obscure little backwaters like Britain, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Zimbabwe and elsewhere to talk about their favourite cricketers. These are all world class sportsmen whether you've heard of them or not. Cricket is a much bigger sport in the world than the domestic American and Canadian sports which are discussed so frequently here, so I thought I'd offer something new. It can't rank with a discussion about the jackets worn by a Canadian ice hockey commentator of course, but what can? Mefites often boast about their interest in the wider world and things they haven't heard about before but in practise they can be as parochial as the usual suspects they're so quick to deride in more political threads. Oh, and you know who the first international cricket match was between? The USA and Canada in September 1844.
posted by joannemullen at 6:44 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by joannemullen at 6:44 AM on May 4, 2011
I'm going to the UK premiere of Fire in Babylon on Monday. There are still a few tickets left on general sale if anyone wants to cross Viv Richards off the list of "people with whom I've been in a room" as he'll be there.
posted by The Ultimate Olympian at 7:03 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by The Ultimate Olympian at 7:03 AM on May 4, 2011
I grew up in a cricket-free zone and was only ever interested in cricket for as long as it took me to read a book by Crusoe that was pressed upon me by a cricket fanatic from another land.
Maybe I was just in the mood for it at the time, but I recall enjoying the book and temporarily vaguely liking the notion of cricket itself despite not previously knowing or caring a damn about the game. I still have never seen a game and probably never will, but I might read more Crusoe.
And because I don't actually watch games, my favorite player can be anyone, living or dead. W. G. Grace is my choice, in part because of the beard.
posted by pracowity at 7:16 AM on May 4, 2011
Maybe I was just in the mood for it at the time, but I recall enjoying the book and temporarily vaguely liking the notion of cricket itself despite not previously knowing or caring a damn about the game. I still have never seen a game and probably never will, but I might read more Crusoe.
And because I don't actually watch games, my favorite player can be anyone, living or dead. W. G. Grace is my choice, in part because of the beard.
posted by pracowity at 7:16 AM on May 4, 2011
Mefites often boast about their interest in the wider world and things they haven't heard about before but in practise they can be as parochial as the usual suspects they're so quick to deride in more political threads.
It's spelled practice.
As a cricket-ignorant American, I found this to be a great article on the subject.
posted by jessssse at 7:25 AM on May 4, 2011
It's spelled practice.
As a cricket-ignorant American, I found this to be a great article on the subject.
posted by jessssse at 7:25 AM on May 4, 2011
We didn't start the fire.
posted by randomkeystrike at 7:29 AM on May 4, 2011
posted by randomkeystrike at 7:29 AM on May 4, 2011
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