Who is cricket's greatest alpha character?

[reyrey]

Kumble

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Feel free to define alpha character as you wish as I realise it is somewhat subjective.

I've defined it thusly

 

[Prince EWS]

Clive Rose

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Clive Rose

Might as well just lock the thread now, nobody will have any better answer than this

 

[thierry henry]

Viv might've been the coolest man alive but CW posters make him seem like the uncoolest. He's been hagiographised into Andrew Tate for cricketing boomers.

 

[Son Of Coco]

There's no such thing as a great alpha.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Virat Kohli

Dhoni captained Kohli when Kohli was the captain.

Badass batting performances
Genius tactics
Tit for tat moments
4th Umpire
.. Etc etc

 

[Migara]

Viv, Imran or Sobers.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Dhoni captained Kohli when Kohli was the captain.

Badass batting performances
Genius tactics
Tit for tat moments
4th Umpire
.. Etc etc

So Alpha that he had accepted defeat in the tri series vs SL, where India has to chase 320 in 40 overs(he said mid innings that they were packing their bags), and then Kohli came out and helped them chase it in 33 overs. That’s alpha

 

[BoyBrumby]

Curtly. Extremely low temperature chap.

Peter Willey deserves a nod too; even Botham (a try-hard alpha manque if ever there was) knew better than to mess around with Pete. Hard AF by repute.