Cricket Nerds

[Adders]

Michael Clarke - the tat is icing on the cake of insecure nerd

Man, seriously can't see that at all. I don't have a tat myself (though have been seriously thinking about it of late, but put that down to mid life crises rather than nerdery)

Clarke is your classic pretty boy Gen Y with money.....lots of money, but I can't honestly see anything nerd in him at all.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Only when he got older imo. When he was playing he just looked like a malnourished kid picked up from the streets.

He looks like he's just risen up out of a body of water and flicked his mane of hair back over his head in that photo.

Very un-nerdish. Quite seductive.

 

[Daemon]

He looks like he's just risen up out of a body of water and flicked his mane of hair back over his head in that photo.

Very un-nerdish. Quite seductive.

Looks like someone's blowing him tbh

 

[fredfertang]

Mike Atherton, but the nerdiest looking of all is Charles Palmer, who played once for England in 1954, there's an even nerdier image of him in Wisden, but google hasn't thrown it up

 

[S.Kennedy]

Alf Valentine,

 

[cnerd123]

Clive Lloyd

 

[TheJediBrah]

ITT glasses = nerd

 

[honestbharani]

Only when he got older imo. When he was playing he just looked like a malnourished kid picked up from the streets.

Something about Indian leggies of that generation........

 

[Daemon]

Clive Lloyd

lmao i dare anyone to call him that in his face. he'd smack the living daylights out you with the 3lb fencepost he used to bat with.

 

[cnerd123]

lmao i dare anyone to call him that in his face. he'd smack the living daylights out you with the 3lb fencepost he used to bat with.

No he wouldn't.

He's an intelligent, kind, thoughtful man. He'd sit you down and explain why calling people 'nerds' isn't how you go about making yourself feel better about your own insecurities, and that how a mans real strength doesn't lie in his appearance, but in his words and in his actions.

He'll then wrap his arm around your shoulder and inspire you to rally alongside those you try to differentiate yourself from based on petty differences, and to battle alongside them to fight the real evils in the world. By bowling bloody fast.

 

[mr_mister]

Man, seriously can't see that at all. I don't have a tat myself (though have been seriously thinking about it of late, but put that down to mid life crises rather than nerdery)

Clarke is your classic pretty boy Gen Y with money.....lots of money, but I can't honestly see anything nerd in him at all.

maybe nerd is the wrong word but he comes across as a dweeb. and the sleeve looks stupid on him

 

[TheJediBrah]

maybe nerd is the wrong word but he comes across as a dweeb. and the sleeve looks stupid on him

yeah he doesn't even lift

 

[S.Kennedy]

Steve Smith looks like a bit of a nerd. He doesn't look like an Aussie cricket captain. Aussie cricket captains are meant to be hardened flinty eyed chaps.

 

[Shri]

Ashwin
Srikkanth

 

[mr_mister]

yeah he doesn't even lift

its more his voice than his body

 

[vic_orthdox]

Hmm, dunno about Bryce, more the dapper man who falls from one relationship to the next. I mean...

 

[vic_orthdox]

Bucky Rogers doing that dance on stage which he apparently does at nightclubs was one of the more incongruent things I've ever seen.

His look doesn't match his attitude, that's for sure.

 

[vic_orthdox]

A new entrant for this:

 

[SteveNZ]

Vettori always gets nominated here when he doesn't fit the mould at all. Ok, he wore glasses and was somewhat awkward athletically, but as a physical specimen he was way more hunk/jock than nerd.

This is weird, but I'm going to profess that Dan was a very good looking hombre up close. Had a real presence about him. Absolutely no nerdish tendencies about him. Supremely confident, well spoken, good looking wife, businessman, suave. 1997 debut Daniel Vettori gets in here easily though.

 

[AndrewB]

"There has probably never been a great cricketer who looked less like one than Bowes. Standing 6ft 4in, he was clumsily built and a poor mover. Wearing strong spectacles, he looked far more like a university professor, and indeed batted and fielded like one" - from Bill Bowes's Wisden Obituary. (They then rather unfairly included a photo of him aged 70-odd).