ALPHA CRICKET BLOKES!!!! ff

[BoyBrumby]

Gilchrist is about the least-alpha cricketer I can imagine really. I've seen him give a bit to batsman, but he seemed apologetic at times.

Yeah, too nice a chap to be properly alpha.

Ditto Tremmers. He's like Lenny from Of Mice & Men; body of a demi-god but more likely to kill you from an overenthusiastic hug. During which he'd put his back out.

 

[Dan]

1. Brian Close
2. Wilfred Rhodes (5)
3. Viv Richards
4. Virat Kohli
5. Allan Border *
6. Steve Waugh
7. Brendon McCullum +
8. Keith Miller (3)
9. Andrew Flintoff (4)
10. Dennis Lillee (2)
11. Fred Trueman (1)

12. Brian McMillan


Hard to find a spinner that fits the bill, really. inb4 a Burgey rant about the effeminate art of finger spin on turning decks.

 

[ankitj]

Indian fast bowlers. Who isn't **** cared by mere presence of Unadkat and Balaji?

 

[DriveClub]

Imran khan, ambrose, viv all alphas

 

[DriveClub]

Actually ambrose is the ultimate alpha

 

[ankitj]

Actually ambrose is the ultimate alpha

Exhibit A: my avatar.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Ponting? **** outta here. Any **** who fronted a press conference apologising after he rightly got the **** kicked out of him ain't no alpha.

 

[grecian]

Ponting? **** outta here. Any **** who fronted a press conference apologising after he rightly got the **** kicked out of him ain't no alpha.

Yeah, he's up there with Kim Hughes in the "other" eleven, mind you won't start that thread as ****s will put in people who suffered depression.

Tuffers deserves to be in it though, because his weak-ass batting running away from the ball FFS.

 

[GIMH]

Ian Bell been mentioned yet?

 

[Burgey]

Botham's Wirral born, don't take it away from us

Did they sew them back on before he left?

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Andrew Hall. Seems to get mugged a lot, takes it in his stride.

Though I guess if he was really this "alpha" then the muggers wouldn't even attempt to take him on. A gun alone wouldn't be enough to protect you from the wrath of Hall, or something like that.

 

[Black_Warrior]

This thread could be filled a few times over with just Australian cricketers.

 

[Gnske]

No sub-continental players that's for sure.

As close to football playing weaklings in this once pure sport as we're ever going to get

 

[Zinzan]

No sub-continental players that's for sure.

Huh, what about Laxman Sivaramakrishnan?

 

[Zinzan]

Andrew Hall. Seems to get mugged a lot, takes it in his stride.

Though I guess if he was really this "alpha" then the muggers wouldn't even attempt to take him on. A gun alone wouldn't be enough to protect you from the wrath of Hall, or something like that.

Indeed, that ain't a knife, this is a knife....

 

[S.Kennedy]

Asians don't seem to have the boozy blokish culture which produces this type of player.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Has nobody mentioned Merv Hughes? Mess with him and he'll spit at you, and there's nothing more manly than saliva.

 

[thierry henry]

Chris Gayle has always struck me as a very insecure, try-hard, fake alpha. But is that actually different from an "alpha" anyway?

 

[grecian]

Chris Gayle has always struck me as a very insecure, try-hard, fake alpha. But is that actually different from an "alpha" anyway?

I think I tried to make that point in the opening post, not really into the try-hards, more about just quiet confidence that commands respect.

Gayle, Warne are definitely just pretenders IMHO, their antics probably as much to shore up their own insecurities. Actually think Botham may be a bit in that category, but it's probably hatred of his commentary that makes me think this.

 

[S.Kennedy]

A lot of the Windies are blingy, rappy sort of guys now.