Your favorite cricketers not from your country

[ankitj]

Best thing about this topic is that ikki will not participate in it

 

[Mike5181]

Brian Lara
Matthew Hadyn
Michael Hussey
Ricky Ponting
Mohammad Yousuf
Jacques Kallis
Damien Martyn
Adam Gilchrist+
RTD
Neil Mckenzie
Brett Lee
Kemar Roach
Shoiab Ahktar
Dale Steyn
Andy Flower
Rahul Dravid

 

[Spark]

ABdV
Steyn
Broad
Swann
Anderson
Sehwag
Laxman
Dravid
Sanga
Mahela

All the usual suspects then some curveballs of my own.

 

[uvelocity]

oh and Dwayne Leverock

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Murphy Su'a
Malcolm Marshall
Curtley Ambrose
Mark Waugh
Shane Warne
Murali
Mahela Jayawardene
Martin Crowe
Tendulkar

 

[Ikki]

Made an XI, during my watching time:

Sehwag
Dravid
Lara
Sanga
Inzamam
Laxman
Cairns
Flintoff
Wasim
Swann - begrudgingly like the **** now.
Donald

 

[smash84]

Dravid
Viv Richards
Warne
KP
Steyn

and a few others which I cant think off the TOM

 

[BoyBrumby]

All time it's Lara & Waqar, both the kind of players one would happily part with hard earned to watch in action. Honourable mention to Gilly too, who manages to be both a genius and a gentleman.

Currently it's hard to go past Dravid & Sanga. Both have that quality that one best defines as "class" in their play and both seem the kind of chaps you'd want with you in the trenches.

 

[nsniks]

All time : Steve Waugh, Carl Hooper, Waqar Younis, Saqlain Mushtaq, Greg Blewett.

Current : Brendon Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Jayawardene

 

[honestbharani]

Lara
Murali
Warne
McGrath
Steve Waugh
Bevan
Jonty
Shaun Pollock
Klusener
ABDV
KP
Monty
Hussain
Gough


Juz from 2 or 3 sides as of now will post rest later..

 

[Cruxdude]

Of players I have had the pleasure of seeing Farokh Engineer is and always has been my favourite cricketer bar none. There are some, himself included I believe, who claim he is Indian, although as far as I'm concerned he's as Lancastrian as tripe and cow-heel pudding.

Generally I will admit to being increasingly xenophobic as I get older but of current players I'd say Tamim Iqbal and Shiv Chanderpaul are my favourite non-english players

...oh and Farvez Maharroof, obviously

Could you tell more (or link to an explanation) about what Farokh actually did to become such a big favorite. I am not familiar with his exploits.

 

[zaremba]

1. Greenidge
2. Haynes
3. Richards
4. Gower
5. Crowe
6. Botham
7. Dujon
8. Hadlee
9. Marshall
10. Holding
11. Garner

Edit: yes, I grew up watching cricket in the 80's

Love that team.

 

[Jacknife]

Agree, it's got a fair few of my all time fav' players.

 

[FBU]

Steyn
Pujara
Amir

 

[akilana]

Amir
Asif
Butt

 

[smash84]

 

[ankitj]

Among the players that I watched (and who may not necessarily be active now), the XI will be:

Gayle
Anwar
Lara
De'silva
Inzamam
Gilchrist
Warne
Ambrose
Muralitharan
Donald

 

[Daemon]

Current players:

Steyn, Amla
Sachin, Dravid
Malinga, Jayawardene
Katich, Bollinger
Tamim, Shakib
Vettori, Ryder
Goodwin, Taylor
Gayle, Edwards
Younis, Misbah
RTD, Kevin OB, Hamid, Alam and that Canadian bloke who carted Australia around for a while



Anderson and Bell would be up there if not for them ****ing us over a while back

 

[Satguru]

All time:
Lara
Ambrose
Waqar at his peak
Andy Flower

Current:
Steyn No1 by a mile... so awesome to watch. The Nagpur 7-fer was boner-worthy
Sangakkara
Jayawerdene
ten Doeschate

 

[jan]

My favourite professional cricketers are all from a foreign country.

As for non-professional players, most of them are from a foreign country as well My favourite list is here on cricinfo.