Pick one cricketer....

[M0rphin3]

???

Oops, meant Sinclair.

 

[Cabinet96]

Would agree with all of that, and note:

Still being very unreliable in one-day cricket.
A knack of pissing off other countries' fans.

The one day cricket is perfect. They definitely have potential in one day cricket, just don't perform consistently.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Congratulations, you have just managed to fit every NZ cliche drawn from the 1970s into one post, with the possible exception of team spirit.

They may be cliches, but they're also truths unfortunately. Doesn't stop them from being irritating as ****.

 

[Burgey]

sehwag: what, me worry?

kallis: what, me?

watto: what?

butt: not me.

pietersen: me.

sreesanth: *wat, me.

Heh.

 

[hang on]

thought that there would be at least one person on here old enough to get the alfred e neumann starting ref. am relieved.

 

[kavin_3]

australlia

adam gilhichrist

 

[smash84]

Congratulations, you have just managed to fit every NZ cliche drawn from the 1970s into one post, with the possible exception of team spirit.

awta

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Brian McMillan summed up the 90s South Africans in many ways.

Could bowl quick, bat with more application than skill, had great hands at slip and was a tough competitor. Many South Africans of that generation had such all-round skill and were wonderful test players. The obduracy in BigMac's batting and scoring rate was also quintessentially post-apartheid South African.

 

[jan]

I, as a Czech would need a guy who plays for a country he was not born in, doesnt speak its language, is slightly fat, has fielding issues and is almost 40

 

[SJS]

Australia : Ian Chappell
- A typical Aussie for me. Blunt and forthright to the extent of appearing rude. Loves the sound of his voice but is never boring. Fiesty, competitive, tough as nails. Can be genuinely generous towards opponents and still be opinionated.

 

[Daemon]

...who sums up your/a cricketing nation.

India-Virender Sehwag

A master of batting against spin bowling, and can bowl some decent spin himself when he gets thrown the ball. Spinners go to India to die, and no one in recent times can murder an offspinner like Sehwag can. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he can be found out on seam friendly pitches, but good luck to you if you have the misfortune to be bowling to him on his home turf.

Yeah pretty much. I'd say his belly is a characteristic of Indian players as well

 

[Furball]

England - Ali Cook/James Anderson

Despite some amazing performances in the past year, people refuse to admit just how good they are.

 

[Daemon]

Anderson has been great over the 5 or so series of his but the way you keep going on about him means he's dropped in my eyes, however that works

I'd like to find something bad to say about Cook but there isn't much besides the (very) weak argument that he's feasted on lesser bowling attacks.

 

[Flem274*]

Well he did feast on a Zaheer-less India.

 

[Daemon]

I define lesser bowling attacks as everyone besides Dale Steyn