The "Loose" XI

[Red]

On second note I'd get Marsh and Lillee out of that list. They just acted likes dicks, but were not cheats.

Really? The amount that they won on that bet was approximately the price of an average house at the time. Pretty good earn.

I'm an Aussie. If someone from the subcontinent did that, everybody'd scream blue murder here. But because it's "Lillee and Marsh", we all go, "ahhh, the lads".

 

[stumpski]

Azahar over Waugh for me. Always a bit surprised on well Croft is treated by Former players considering how he left the team.

Yes - although he's nearly always in the Sky studio isn't he, and generally doesn't work on the England matches - so not sure how often he bumps into Holding and Richards. But he's certainly landed on his feet compared to some of his rebel tour team-mates who've been seen living as vagrants and junkies back home. Perhaps he was able to make use of his pilot's licence during the lean years?

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Lillee and Marsh both dud calls, given they only put ten quid each on an England win when they were 7-135 in the follow on and still 92 behind.

Rashid Latif more deserving for the keeper spot - sublime resume of racial abuse, libellous blogs, on-field cheating and putting dates before mates.

Lillee's spot would go to either Rodney Hogg for abusing umpires and his own captain, or Roy Gilchrist for bowling beamers for fun.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lillee's spot would go to either Rodney Hogg for abusing umpires and his own captain, or Roy Gilchrist for bowling beamers for fun.

Good call. Nasty bit of work. Got three months probation for holding a red hot iron to his missus's face too.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Found the captain.

 

[r3alist]

A bit harsh to put amir on this list.

 

[Shri]

On second note I'd get Marsh and Lillee out of that list. They just acted likes dicks, but were not cheats.

Enter,

Rashid Latif - Appeals for a catch after dropping it
Manoj Prabhakar - trying to frame others for matchfixing after he was shown the door due to dodgy performances.

Lol what? His reasons might have been dodgy but at least got some people banned for good from the Indian team and lead to the team actually becoming decent.

 

[Shri]

Would also add Murali to the XI for chucking itbt.

 

[kingkallis]

Umpires would be Rauf and Randell

 

[nikkoo]

Salim Malik!

 

[doesitmatter]

Viv..for cheating on his wife....

 

[fredfertang]

Viv..for cheating on his wife....

..... and for that disgraceful (successful) attempt to intimidate Lloyd Barker into triggering Rob Bailey in the 4th Test in 89/90

 

[Expressway76]

Shahid Afridi- biting the ball, spinning on his heel on the pitch when everyone thought a bomb had gone off.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Good call. Nasty bit of work. Got three months probation for holding a red hot iron to his missus's face too.

His wiki has some serious dirt on him.

His predilection for standard chin music:

In the Fourth Test at Nagpur, after Indian batsman AG Kripal Singh had struck three consecutive boundaries and taunted him, Gilchrist deliberately overstepped the bowling mark by six metres and delivered a bouncer which hit the Sikh batsman on the head and dislodged his turban.

Here he appears to have tried to decapitate our SJS:

In the following match, against North Zone, he unleashed a barrage of beamers against Swaranjit Singh, whom Alexander had known at Cambridge. He ignored his captain's instruction to cease this form of attack. During the lunch interval Alexander substituted him, and he was subsequently sent home, while the other players proceeded to Pakistan for the remainder of the tour. Alexander told him: “You will leave by the next flight. Good afternoon.” This marked the end of his Test career. There were suggestions that he had pulled a knife on Alexander.

And the law hands down its WAC ruling:

On June 2, 1967, while embroiled in an argument about going to a party, Gilchrist grabbed her throat with his left hand, pushed her against a wall, and branded her face with a hot iron. Six weeks later, at Manchester Crown Court, he was sentenced to three months' probation. As he delivered his verdict, the judge declared: "I hate to think English sport has sunk so far that brutes will be tolerated because they are good at games."

His Honour clearly copped some hazing from the Eton 1st XI, one feels.

 

[stumpski]

It seems hard to believe that such a lenient sentence would have been passed if Mrs Gilchrist had actually been burned by the iron, it's more likely perhaps to have been in the nature of a threat; but a nasty piece if work certainly. Parkinson's Disease has claimed few more deserving victims.

 

[fredfertang]

A four inch burn that caused a permanent scar apparently - saved from the clanking of the jail doors only by Mrs Gilchrist fronting up at court and saying she'd forgiven him and didn't believe he'd done it deliberately - how times change

 

[Pup Clarke]

Early days Poontang.