The Cricket Thread 2016

[aev]

It is funny...I don't like Clarke but did like Ponting.

I always liked Punter too. As a cricket fan I've always liked quality players regardless of their nationality. Ponting, Warne, McGrath may play for the enemy but they were wonderful players even when they were hammering us.

I've no thoughts either way about Clarke but do like it that his own people don't like him. The captain of the Aussie cricket team is a huge role in Oz, probably second only to the Prime Minister. They haven't taken to him at all and he's not that popular in his own dressing room.

Ponting was an amazing player to watch, and getting his wicket was really the Holy Grail for a long time. With Clarke he seems so hit an miss. And whilst Smith undoubtedly has an incredible eye, i think there is something comforting about a game that means that the basics are so essential to success. On pitches doing rock all, he is an exciting stroke player, but on a different pitch with lateral movement he looks a walking wicket. It is also all the sweeter, as at the star of the season he said we wouldn't get close to them.

[Villan For Life]

It is funny...I don't like Clarke but did like Ponting.

I always liked Punter too. As a cricket fan I've always liked quality players regardless of their nationality. Ponting, Warne, McGrath may play for the enemy but they were wonderful players even when they were hammering us.

I've no thoughts either way about Clarke but do like it that his own people don't like him. The captain of the Aussie cricket team is a huge role in Oz, probably second only to the Prime Minister. They haven't taken to him at all and he's not that popular in his own dressing room.

Ponting was an amazing player to watch, and getting his wicket was really the Holy Grail for a long time. With Clarke he seems so hit an miss. And whilst Smith undoubtedly has an incredible eye, i think there is something comforting about a game that means that the basics are so essential to success. On pitches doing rock all, he is an exciting stroke player, but on a different pitch with lateral movement he looks a walking wicket. It is also all the sweeter, as at the star of the season he said we wouldn't get close to them.

I've been disappointed with the form of the number one ranked batsman in the world, as you say he's a walking wicket. His innings at Lords aside he's looked very poor.

[Chris Jameson]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

[adrenachrome]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

Saying you have never liked Dermot Reeve on a site where most of the fans who are interested in cricket are Warwickshire supporters is like saying you have never liked Len Hutton or Fred Trueman on a Leeds United site. Fair play to you.

[LeeB]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

I hated Derek Pringle.

[Villan For Life]

I never liked Javid Miandad but I don't think I'm alone in that!

[Risso]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

I hated Derek Pringle.

I was just to post the very same thing.  Not for any reason other than he was crap, and was around when I used to go to Edgbaston a fair bit in the early 90s.

[LeeB]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

I hated Derek Pringle.

I was just to post the very same thing.  Not for any reason other than he was crap, and was around when I used to go to Edgbaston a fair bit in the early 90s.

A fat, average ponce.

[Chris Jameson]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

Saying you have never liked Dermot Reeve on a site where most of the fans who are interested in cricket are Warwickshire supporters is like saying you have never liked Len Hutton or Fred Trueman on a Leeds United site. Fair play to you.

A mate of mine told me he was stood next to a group of Leeds supporters at a London away match and they were giving the Cockneys the usual abuse only they had very strong cockernee accents themselves. Always imagined Reeve as the sort to frequent poncy wine bars with his shirt opened to the waist winking at the ladies and playing the big time *ahem* charlie.

[Villan For Life]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

Saying you have never liked Dermot Reeve on a site where most of the fans who are interested in cricket are Warwickshire supporters is like saying you have never liked Len Hutton or Fred Trueman on a Leeds United site. Fair play to you.

A mate of mine told me he was stood next to a group of Leeds supporters at a London away match and they were giving the Cockneys the usual abuse only they had very strong cockernee accents themselves. Always imagined Reeve as the sort to frequent poncy wine bars with his shirt opened to the waist winking at the ladies and playing the big time *ahem* charlie.

He was well known for frequenting bars around Five Ways/Hagley Road wearing his Bears match shirt with his name on the back.

[Meanwood Villa]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

I hated Derek Pringle.

I was just to post the very same thing.  Not for any reason other than he was crap, and was around when I used to go to Edgbaston a fair bit in the early 90s.

A fat, average ponce.

Agreed, useless bastard who only got in because he was mates with Gooch

[tomd2103]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

Saying you have never liked Dermot Reeve on a site where most of the fans who are interested in cricket are Warwickshire supporters is like saying you have never liked Len Hutton or Fred Trueman on a Leeds United site. Fair play to you.

A mate of mine told me he was stood next to a group of Leeds supporters at a London away match and they were giving the Cockneys the usual abuse only they had very strong cockernee accents themselves. Always imagined Reeve as the sort to frequent poncy wine bars with his shirt opened to the waist winking at the ladies and playing the big time *ahem* charlie.

He was well known for frequenting bars around Five Ways/Hagley Road wearing his Bears match shirt with his name on the back.d a story

Once heard a story that he holds the 'record' for the number of 'conquests' on an England tour (said tour being in New Zealand).

[Chris Jameson]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

Saying you have never liked Dermot Reeve on a site where most of the fans who are interested in cricket are Warwickshire supporters is like saying you have never liked Len Hutton or Fred Trueman on a Leeds United site. Fair play to you.

A mate of mine told me he was stood next to a group of Leeds supporters at a London away match and they were giving the Cockneys the usual abuse only they had very strong cockernee accents themselves. Always imagined Reeve as the sort to frequent poncy wine bars with his shirt opened to the waist winking at the ladies and playing the big time *ahem* charlie.

He was well known for frequenting bars around Five Ways/Hagley Road wearing his Bears match shirt with his name on the back.

That comes as no surprise whatsoever.

[tomd2103]

I never liked Javid Miandad but I don't think I'm alone in that!

I never liked that Brian McMillan geezer that used to play for South Africa.  Had a mullet and came across as a really unpleasant and niggly character.

[adrenachrome]

There aren't many cricketers i've really not liked, I could never hate Ponting as I enjoyed watching him bat, two off the top of my head that I never liked for whatever reason were Dominic Cork and Dermot Reeve.

Saying you have never liked Dermot Reeve on a site where most of the fans who are interested in cricket are Warwickshire supporters is like saying you have never liked Len Hutton or Fred Trueman on a Leeds United site. Fair play to you.

A mate of mine told me he was stood next to a group of Leeds supporters at a London away match and they were giving the Cockneys the usual abuse only they had very strong cockernee accents themselves. Always imagined Reeve as the sort to frequent poncy wine bars with his shirt opened to the waist winking at the ladies and playing the big time *ahem* charlie.

He was well known for frequenting bars around Five Ways/Hagley Road wearing his Bears match shirt with his name on the back.

That comes as no surprise whatsoever.

Around the members' bars at Edgbaston, photographs of him grinning and holding up trophies are all over the gaffe. It is true that he looks like a grinning, lascivious lothario, but I remember similar tales about Fred Trueman, not to mention stories of Not Sir Geoff Boycott knocking five shades of crap out of his girlfriend in France.