Best and Worst Chris Cairns moments

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

possibly, but there isnt much doubt that cairns was not only the better batsman(compared to samuels) but also one of the most talented players of the last decade.

I'd suggest that Samuels is also one of the most talented players of the last decade, if only to prove that judging talent is highly subjective.

 

[Richard]

I thought McGrath had been fired up from other comments. I think he was well within bounds to respond in that manner if that was the only reference he made to McGrath's wife. Perhaps insensitive in retrospect, but McGrath was really on the hunt to be insulted and it was a blow for blow situation.

That match had to be the most foul-tempered since SCG 1970\71.
Certainly the most foul-tempered I've seen.

 

[Truekiwijoker]

OK all, with Cairnsy having his last hurrah in the Twenty20 match against the Windies, I thought it would be interesting to put together your favourite (and least favourite) Chris Cairns moments.

BEST: 102* vs RSA at the Gabba. Better paced innings then the one vs India at Champions trophy. And better bowling attack. Plus, against India, you always felt we could still get the runs. In the RSA game, I thought we were shot.

WORST: Popping his calf against South Africa, watching him hobble down the pitch, get run out, and then fall over. I said at that moment "Well, we have no hope at the World Cup now". He played anyway. And we still got knocked out.

This is a tough one, there were so many golden C. Cairns moments. Regrettably there were also plenty of appalling ones, especially early in his career.

BEST: For me it was when he straight-drove Shane Warne for 6 at the WACA in the opening test of our ill-fated 1993/4 tour of Aus. It was early in Warnes Carrer, and he seemed a bit affected by it. It was ione of the best shots I ever saw him pull, and it was long before he developed as a batsman. It beats the opening test of the next Australian tour at the 'Gabba when he came on as first change, and the Aussie top order got knocked off, with only Ponting and Healy to rescue Australia (both of whom lived dangerously for a while). There was also a near hat-trick (or was it a hat trick? I cant quite remember) on a tour of India in the late 90's.

WORST: The nadir for me was when he walked out of our team in a sulk and went to play County Cricket midway through the Windies tour in 1996. Seeing him at nightclubs hitting on other jokers birds whenever there was a test at the Basin (between playing days) was also a regular low-point. Then theres's the time he put Adam Parore out of Cricket for two seasons by breakinghis jaw... with his fist.
To be fair alot of his low points were off the feild, although there were plenty on it too...

 

[Richard]

Then theres's the time he put Adam Parore out of Cricket for two seasons by breakinghis jaw... with his fist.

Never knew about that!
When did it happen?

 

[Blaze]

Never knew about that!
When did it happen?

Never.

 

[Richard]

I mean, I know Parore wasn't always the most popular guy, but I'd be astonished if a team-mate had ever gone so far as to break his jaw by punching him.

 

[sirjeremy11]

Then theres's the time he put Adam Parore out of Cricket for two seasons by breakinghis jaw... with his fist.

As John McEnroe used to say "You caaaaan't be serious!"

 

[Blaze]

I mean, I know Parore wasn't always the most popular guy, but I'd be astonished if a team-mate had ever gone so far as to break his jaw by punching him.

IIRC he bowled a bouncer to him in the nets which broke his jaw, in any case he wasn't out for 2 years.

 

[sirjeremy11]

IIRC he bowled a bouncer to him in the nets which broke his jaw, in any case he wasn't out for 2 years.

And I suppose that Chris Harris punched Cairns so hard it ruptured his spleen, and that it wasn't just a net session gone wrong

 

[Smudge]

I'm pretty sure I remember the ball Cairns bowled to Parore in the nets was captured by news cameras, so I'm terribly interested where Truekiwijoker got his conspiracy theory from.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

I've read Parore's biography and the whole jaw breaking thing was when Cairns got ****ed the night before, and Glenn Turner didn't like it so he made Cairns bowl like crazy to Parore. This mad Cairns madder and madder until he eventually bowled a very quick and accurate bouncer . It had Parore out of the loop for a while, but not 2 years.

And where did the Cairns breaking Parore's jaw with his fist come from?

 

[Cloete]

OK all, with Cairnsy having his last hurrah in the Twenty20 match against the Windies, I thought it would be interesting to put together your favourite (and least favourite) Chris Cairns moments.

BEST: 102* vs RSA at the Gabba. Better paced innings then the one vs India at Champions trophy. And better bowling attack. Plus, against India, you always felt we could still get the runs. In the RSA game, I thought we were shot.

WORST: Popping his calf against South Africa, watching him hobble down the pitch, get run out, and then fall over. I said at that moment "Well, we have no hope at the World Cup now". He played anyway. And we still got knocked out.

I was at the Gabba for that hundred, some of the crowd had already started heading home. They needed something like 8 an over.

Gotta be one of the best innings' (if not the best) I've seen live. Was just an absolute joy to watch

 

[Craig]

That'd be the River Taff.

Sorry it had been a while since the game was played.

That said I have never been to Cardiff.

 

[Truekiwijoker]

I'm pretty sure I remember the ball Cairns bowled to Parore in the nets was captured by news cameras, so I'm terribly interested where Truekiwijoker got his conspiracy theory from.

Nope, it was a punch that put Parore's test career on the sideline. The team management told the press that it was a bouncer (which remains the 'official version of events), but the truth got out eventually amonst the general public.

After all, Cairns never bowled THAT quickly, did he?

Feel free to find this footage to prove me wrong.

 

[Smudge]

I'm not going to ring up TVNZ archives and spend my hard-earned on a little internet argument.

 

[Truekiwijoker]

I'm not going to ring up TVNZ archives and spend my hard-earned on a little internet argument.

Do you play club cricket Voltman?

If you do, ask some of your older clubmates what they think...

 

[Smudge]

I no longer play club cricket, Truekiwi, due to work commitments (I'm actually covering the matches rather than playing them). Incidentally, how old do you think I am?

 

[Truekiwijoker]

I no longer play club cricket, Truekiwi, due to work commitments (I'm actually covering the matches rather than playing them). Incidentally, how old do you think I am?

Dunno, mid or early 20's. If you were late 20's you'd know what I'm saying is true.

 

[marc71178]

Dunno, mid or early 20's. If you were late 20's you'd know what I'm saying is true.

I don't think I've found any of your posts so far to be true.

 

[Richard]

After all, Cairns never bowled THAT quickly, did he?

I can't remember what speeds Cairns was clocked at in 1999 (wouldn't rule-out it being up to 92mph), but rest assured, 70mph can break a jaw easily if it hits in the right (or wrong) spot.
My nose was broken in 1995 by a ball probably not much above 50mph.