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Which international Cricketers have you met?

ReallyCrazy

Banned
Ok when i was living in Dubai, I think it was in the summer of 1997 when India, Pakistan and West Indies toured for a tri series. The hotel where the players stayed was pretty close to my house! I met and got the autographs of:

Sachin Tendulkar (also got a photo with him hehe)
Ajay Jadeja
Mohammad Azharuddin
Sunil Gavaskar
Ravi Shastri
Brian Lara
Wasim Akram
Rawl Lewis (remember him?)


Of the whole, Jadeja was the most friendly person. He joked around with all the fans. Ravi Shastri behaved like a snob. And so did Azharuddin.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Crikey, this sort of thread really makes you feel small.
Best I can do is bit-part international players like Crofty, Maynard, James, Jones and Watkin. Plus Gavin Larsen, an ODI specialist and long-retired Dermot Reeve, who's at just about every England international.
Larsen seemed a really nice guy, though, and he'd just got 10 overs for 19 (if I remember rightly).
I also met Simon Hughes but as has been said he never made the international scene. The stuff he notices is amazing; he routinely picked-out stuff even I hadn't spotted.
 

Eyes_Only

International Debutant
The entire English cricket team from last season's Ashes series

Shoaib Aktar when he was playing grade in Sydney

Brett Lee (had lunch with him too!!)

The Waughs

Glenn McGrath

Possibly more that I have forgotten...need to have a look at my signed bats to help remember!!
 

Hero_Don

School Boy/Girl Captain
Bevan, harvey, lehmann, martyn, mcgrath, s. waugh, m. waugh, merv hughes, langer, buchanan, warne
 

Tarsh

Cricket Spectator
Australian
Matthew Hayden (spent about 30 mins talking to him about anything & everything)
Andrew Symonds
Jimmy Maher
Nathan Hauritz
Greg Blewett
Jon Davison
Ian Healy
Michael Kasprowicz
Martin Love
Darren Lehmann
Ryan Campbell
Michael Bevan
Stuart Law

South African
Nicky Boje
Andre Nel (complete opposite off field to what he is on it)
Dewald Pretorius
Justin Kemp

Pakistan
Shoaib Akhtar
Wasim Akram
Shahid Afridi

Zimbabwe
Andy Flower
 

wrong hander

Cricket Spectator
the players ive met

clive llyod
junior murray
chanderpaul
walsh
gary sobers
jimmy adams
sherwyn campbell
brian lara
curtly ambrose....i met all these players at jo'burg aiport after they lost 5-0 in the tests n 6-1 in the one dayers to sth africa in 98-99...i talked to ambrose for a good 20 mins in the transit lounge

wasim akram, and all the pakistani players from australian tours of 96-97...99-00...and the 03 world cup squad

met tendulkar..dravid..laxman....pathan...kumble..ganguly and most of the indian team a few days ago at the scg nets...my club coach arranged for me to bowl to them at training

i have been coached at various times in sydney by kerry o keefe...barry knight...bobby simpson a few weeks ago

and i was coached for a month straight at a cricket academy by intikhab alam...and let me tell you..the amount of cricket knowledge and experience this man has....man a long yarn was shared at the dinner table...add to that the lunch and breakky ones aswell

steve + mark waugh- their step mum goes to my mums beauty salon
shane warne
geoff thompson
michael bevan

most of the aussies apart from that aswell
 

mustang

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
I've met :

Allan Donald

Lance Klusener

Hansie Cronje

Jonty Rhodes (one of my favourites)

Jacques Kallis

Brett Lee

Shane Warne

Sachin Tendulkar

Vinod Kambli

Martin Suji

Thomas Odoyo

the Tikolo brothers of Kenya

Mike Atherton

Darren Gough
 

Sudeep

International Captain
India
- VVS Laxman
- Venkatapathy Raju
- Yuvraj Singh
- Anil Kumble
- Virender Sehwag
- Murali Kartik
- Harbhajan Singh
- Zaheer Khan
- Kiran More
- Kirti Azad
- Vinod Kambli

South Africa
- Andrew Hudson
- Allan Donald
- Jonty Rhodes
- Herschelle Gibbs
- Pat Symcox
- Faanie de Villiers
- Hansie Cronje

England
- Alec Stewart
- Allan Mullaly
- Graham Thorpe
- Adam Hollioake

Australia
- Nathan Bracken
- Jimmy Maher
- Adam Gilchrist
- Brad Hogg
- Mike Kasprowicz
- Michael Clarke
 

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