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Battle of the Nincompoops

Perry Mason

Cricket Spectator
Zaheer Abbas.

Someone like Inzy might put up a display of "I write the rules around here" once in a career.

A true nincompoop like Zaheer Abbas does it twice in two decades.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Tahny Greig for the infamous "we'll make them grovel" incident & several decades of general windbaggery.

John Emburey for touring apartheid SA twice.
 

Fusion

Global Moderator
Aamir Sohail for taunting Prasad after hitting a boundary in the 1996 WC Quaterfinal in Banglore...then being promptly bowled the very next delivery. Any chance of Pakistan chasing that massive total dissapeared right after that.

And if we have Rana, then I must nominate Gatting as well for being an equally guilty party in that scene.
 

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Fusion said:
Aamir Sohail for taunting Prasad after hitting a boundary in the 1996 WC Quaterfinal in Banglore...then being promptly bowled the very next delivery. Any chance of Pakistan chasing that massive total dissapeared right after that.
LOL, that was fantastically idiotic but Sohail did that quite a few times. Should check out the video of him doing it to the South African Steven Jack. Whose face turned to thunder after Sohail continually smashed him through the covers and then pointed to where he put it.
 

Pedro Delgado

International Debutant
Sanz said:
Kapil or Dhoni ? Sorry it wasn't clear.
Kapil. There is something endearing about a man who cries when told he is potentially not regarded as a gentleman.
 
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Mr Mxyzptlk

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Mark Ramprakash with "that shot" against Warne in the 2001 Ashes.

Tino "mind the windows" Best.

Mark Waugh for saying Lara's past it right before he broke the Test run record with a double hundred on the last tour down under.

Glenn "5-0... okay 4-1" McGrath.

Whoever left out that loose cricket ball that McGrath trod on.

The WICB for, among many many other things, making Chanderpaul captain.
 

archie mac

International Coach
Fred Tate who dropped a critical catch and was bowled out with his side wanting just four runs to win the 4th Test in 1902. Someone said 'don't worry Fred it will all be forgotten in a couple of weeks'.

Poor Fred said 'no they will never forget'

And they never have!
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Afridi for his antics on the pitch when everyone was distracted by that gass explosion
 

Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
Sultan Zarawani: for deciding that the prospect of facing Allan Donald didn't merit the use of appropriate headgear
 

Mister Wright

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bill Lawry for everytime he's said. "Oh, that's a great shot, that'll be six for sure.' Only to have the ball go clean down a fielders throat.

Among other many ridiculous sayings.
 

nightprowler10

Global Moderator
Inzamam again for winning the toss and choosing to bat on a bad pitch in overcast conditions against West Indies in the last Champios Trophy semi-final on Ganguly's advice.
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Jagmohan Dalmiya for voting four times in the same election and in his own favour to manage to win by one vote !!!
 

Steulen

International Regular
Underarm bowling anyone? Let's just hold Greg responsible. Greg Chappell.

Shaun Pollock for captaining SA to a D/L tie in the 2003WC against Sri Lanka. Wave goodbye now.
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
SJS said:
So far we have
1. Vizzy - Hopeless Captain of India 1936
2. Ashoka DeSilva - Internaytional Umpire (entire career I presume)
3. Scott Muller (I am not clear about his claim to fame)
4. Darren Gough (Better dancer or bowler)
5. Shane Warne whose finger was broken 'allegedly' during batting on a cricket field without protection.
6. Shakoor Rana - the Pakistani who brought the Empire on its knees or so he thought with that scrap that ended in scrap paper.
7. Hussain for being too scared (too smart) to bat first in an Ashes test.
8. Ricky Ponting for showing he could be as 'good' a captain as Hussain.
9. Gavaskar who almost beat Inzy for being the first captain to forfeit a match when he walked off the field and asked his batting partner to join him to leave the field.
10 Gavaskar again for showing the world how to chase what was then the highest ever one day international score of 334 - by scoring an unbeaten 36 in 174 deliveries !
We can add..

11. Inzy for his handling of Pakistan's protest at Oval
12. Kapil for breaking down in public ??
13. Dhoni for trying to murder Monty
14. Rikky Clarke for being out of his depth !!
15. Mick Lewis - because Baconator says so (kidding but do need a clarification)
16. Darell Hair for insisting on being true to himself at the Oval.
17. Tony Greig for putting his foot in his mouth when he said they would (Windies) would grovel when he actually meant themselves (England)
18. John Emburey for being confirming he was competely insensitive to apartheid issues by touring South Africa not once but twice during that period.
19. Aamir Sohail for his misplaced arrogance in showing the Venky where he would hit him and being showed his way back to the pavillion the next ball AND losing the match in the process.
20. Hansir Cronje for being so villaneous that some of the softest hearts found it tough to shed tears when he died so young.
21. Salim Malik for exactly the same reasons as Cronje except he was from the subcontinent where brooms are far more efficient and the carpets far bigger.
22. Azhar for the same reasons as Malik and Cronje.
23. Malcolm Speed for being making a terrible case for professional CEO's to head the game's governing body.
24. Ehsan Mani for being as effective as a broom that was all handle and nothing else.
25. West Indian selectors for the 'inspired' choice of Chanderpaul as captain.
26. Glen McGrath for his 'vision' of a 5-0 result in the Ashes
27. Mark Waugh for being off target about Lara's longevity in the game.
28. Afridi for thinking everyone of the millions watching were as dumb as ....well....himself.
29. Tino Best (for I dont know what)
30. Gatting for that 'sweep of the century' in 87 WC finals.
31. Shoaib Akhtar for tempting fate with his cleaning act.
32. Inzy again for choosing to bat on a bad pitch under unfavourable conditions in the Champions Trophy versus Windies (didnt know he was advised thus by Ganguly)
33. Jagmohan Dalmiya for making mincemeat of the election process by voting for himself not once but four times in the same ballot.
34. Greg Chappell for being "underhand within the law"
35. Shaun Pollock for his 'understanding' of D/L method in a world cup match.
36. Inzy for his consistently maintaning his running-between-the-wicket-standards thorough a long and eventful career and his propensity to falling over himself, his bat, his stumps...a blade of grass and so on.

I have added a couple of new ones as can be seen.

Any more ??
 

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