Players who've overcome physical disadvantages

[marc71178]

Hasn't Graham Smith come through some heart trouble?

What, the lack of one?

 

[Deja moo]

AA has had to overcome tremendous wind resistance due to extra large ears. A true legend !

 

[Fiery]

Hafeez Ahmisingh

 

[Deja moo]

?

 

[Fiery]

?

Haven't you heard of him Deja Moo?

 

[Deja moo]

er...no

 

[Fiery]

er...no

He overcame a problem with one of his limbs.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

What, the lack of one?

 

[SpeedKing]

What, the lack of one?

Brilliant LOL

 

[SpeedKing]

AA has had to overcome tremendous wind resistance due to extra large ears. A true legend !

Abit harsh but still brought a smile to my face.

 

[andyc]

ian healy (one of my favourite players) was astigmatic in both eyes, which causes blurred vision

 

[Slow Love™]

Gladstone Small, maybe?

Always had a bit of a problem looking backwards if he was running with the flight of the ball.

 

[Neil Pickup]

uhhh this got me thinking. If its a legspinner, they can be either a finger spinner (giles) or a wrist spinner (warne). But off-spinners are usually always finger spinners. Is Murali the only wrist spinning off-spinner?

Giles isn't a leg-spinner.

 

[jot1]

Jonty Rhodes suffers from epilepsy and not only played cricket for S A, but also captained the national hockey team.

 

[Chubb]

Ray Price suffered from Meningitis when he was a baby, had a one in five chance of survival, and was left deaf. He had an operation to restore his hearing when he was seven but it badly affected his balnce and coordination. He had to learn to walk again, and couldn't catch a ball, among other things. It took him years to recover.

Yet he became arguably the best spinner his country ever produced... What a guy.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Giles isn't a leg-spinner.

I believe technically he would be classed as a left arm leg-spinner, since his stock delivery turns it from leg to off for the right-hander. A left arm off-spinner would be Brad Hogg.

Anyway, the wrist/finger classifications are usually less confusing, except in Murali's case.

 

[twctopcat]

Well technically Giles is a slow left arm, that is his definition, with paul adams/brad hogg being a chinaman, these bloomin lefties do nothing but complicate things.

 

[Kweek]

shhs :P i know and it works that the best

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Well technically Giles is a slow left arm, that is his definition, with paul adams/brad hogg being a chinaman, these bloomin lefties do nothing but complicate things.

Yeah, that's another way of describing it. But, in terms of whether he is a leg or an off-spinner, he would be a leg-spinner because he turns it the same direction as Warne, just using his fingers instead of his wrist and with a different arm. Hogg would be a left arm off-spinner, and Murali is a right-arm off-spinner, regardless of the fact that he turns it with his wrist.

 

[twctopcat]

Yeah, that's another way of describing it. But, in terms of whether he is a leg or an off-spinner, he would be a leg-spinner because he turns it the same direction as Warne, just using his fingers instead of his wrist and with a different arm. Hogg would be a left arm off-spinner, and Murali is a right-arm off-spinner, regardless of the fact that he turns it with his wrist.

But to a leftie Giles bowls off to leg, so what now?? I'm joking .