All-time best beards

[Richard]

Time for a beards XI, me thinks.

Think we've already had it at least once.

Why can't threads like this be put in CH...?

 

[zaremba]

nah to Anwar or Grace. Beards are like silicone implants. Bigger isn't necessarily better.

Have you not seen the picture of Anwar posted by Fusion?

The rich dark colour, the luxuriant shine and the slightest cheeky wave. You're right that size isn't everything but it's hard to see how anyone's going to improve on that magnificent facial adornment.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Have you not seen the picture of Anwar posted by Fusion?

The rich dark colour, the luxuriant shine and the slightest cheeky wave. You're right that size isn't everything but it's hard to see how anyone's going to improve on that magnificent facial adornment.

It's like a full head of hair....... on his chin.

Marvellous beard.

 

[Durham_CCC]

Vettori is growing a beard.

But, Amla for me.

 

[zaremba]

I'd want to include Bob Massie. I know he didn't sport a full beard but his trademark bugger-grips were the metaphor for the man: the beard that promised so much but ultimately never made it

 

[BoyBrumby]

EDIT
Plus Panesar, of course. And I think Fowler was sporting one when he made that double-ton in India. I'm struggling for a bearded test keeper. Humpage played a few ODIs, so he may have to do. Throw in WG, and there's an English international bearded XI. I thank you .....

Jack Blackham, Australia's very first test stumper, had a beard of no little note:

 

[zaremba]

Jack Blackham, Australia's very first test stumper, had a beard of no little note:

Magnificent. That is not a beard to be trifled with.

However it does raise the question: what account should we take of the 'tache, and its interplay with the beard? I would venture to suggest that the star turn on Blackham's face was not the beard but the mo. By contrast, Saeed Anwar's beard stands or falls on its own merits. For that reason, Saeed still gets my vote - just.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

 

[zaremba]

Yes, good call with Frindall. Another one whose beard sums up the man - on the geeky side but above all professionally miserable

 

[G.I.Joe]

Have you not seen the picture of Anwar posted by Fusion?

The rich dark colour, the luxuriant shine and the slightest cheeky wave. You're right that size isn't everything but it's hard to see how anyone's going to improve on that magnificent facial adornment.

That particular photograph of Anwar doesn't lend itself to such description though. It looks like one big black mass glued to his chin. There isn't any interplay of light and shadows to give us an idea of texture or flow (unlike in Blackham's case up there).

 

[zaremba]

That particular photograph of Anwar doesn't lend itself to such description though. It looks like one big black mass glued to his chin. There isn't any interplay of light and shadows to give us an idea of texture or flow (unlike in Blackham's case up there).

You may need to adjust the settings on your screen for maximum effect.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Surprised Andrew Symonds hasn't been mentioned yet.

 

[Craig]

 

[Harry Harrison]

Inzi and Mike Gatting. Both had multi colored beard.

 

[Craig]

Saqlain Mushtaq's beard. A bit 'meh' for mine.

 

[biased indian]

W G

 

[biased indian]

Merv Huges

 

[biased indian]

Andy Roberts

 

[Ikki]

Sir Viv

 

[masterblaster]

The Sikh's do not come out well in this contest. Monty's is ever so slightly but ever so critically too bushy and Harbhajan's is just lame.

It's so evident that Harbhajan Singh cuts his hair and trims his beard regularly. He's not supposed to ofcourse being a Sikh but it's clear that he does. His hair is getting shorter and shorter and the beard is becoming less visible. Of course it's his choice and if he choses to do that it's fine, but Sikh's aren't supposed to do that are they? Especially if they haven't chosen to get rid of the turban and the beard like some Sikh's do now.