“Cricket is a Gentleman’s Game.” Who are the Most Gentlemanly Cricketers of the last 30 years?

[Thunderbolt14]

Who do you think? Kane Williamson is my top pick.

 

[Ab Fan]

Some names on top of my head:-

Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Hashim Amla
AB de Villiers
Shaun Pollock

Alastair Cook
Joe Root
James Anderson

Kane Williamson
Ross Taylor
Trent Boult

Adam Gilchrist
Pat Cummins

Misbah-ul-Haq
Shoaib Malik

 

[Bigboii]

Sachin Tendulkar everyone in India adores him, he is rich and famous, and he is in the elite category of sportsmen in the world.

And even after having all of that he is extremely humble

(think of all elite sportsmen in the world except for tiger woods I don't think you can call many other elite athletes "humble") (I know his cheating scandal but still)

 

[JattMaula]

Lala.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Lala.

Good one, but not after the biting the ball incident

 

[JattMaula]

Good one, but not after the biting the ball incident

Gamesmanship doesnt exclude you from gentlemanship.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Some names on top of my head:-

Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Hashim Amla
AB de Villiers
Shaun Pollock

Alastair Cook
Joe Root
James Anderson

Kane Williamson
Ross Taylor
Trent Boult

Adam Gilchrist
Pat Cummins

Misbah-ul-Haq
Shoaib Malik

I think my favorites from all of these are Dravid and Williamson. Just fantastic, humble, polite and above all hardworking people with good intentions. Love them. Cook and Anderson too, are class.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Gamesmanship doesnt exclude you from gentlemanship.

Between ball tampering, fixing, and drugs, I don’t think many Pakistanis qualify as gentlemen actually. The closest you will get are Misbah, Shoaib Malik, and Hafeez.

Imran Khan was a true gentleman. Miandad? Not at all.

 

[Proactive_]

You should change the thread title to "Who are the Most Gentlemanly "successful" cricketers of the last 30 years", since there's no way to judge the "gentlemanliness" of cricketers who couldn't have long careers and were easily forgotten; even though they might have been fitting the bill much more than most cricketers being mentioned here.

 

[JattMaula]

Between ball tampering, fixing, and drugs, I don’t think many Pakistanis qualify as gentlemen actually. The closest you will get are Misbah, Shoaib Malik, and Hafeez.

Imran Khan was a true gentleman. Miandad? Not at all.

Miandad was a competitor who played to win but he was a gentleman. Imran is philanderer. Can't be a gentleman.

 

[AAli98]

Ian chapell- So often i hear people say what happened to gentleman's game. I look at them and say to myself you idiot dont you know anything about the history of cricket. Where did cricket started?? It started in Pubs with gambling .....so it was never a gentleman's game and it never would be . Anyone who thinks that is an idiot........

 

[Thunderbolt14]

You should change the thread title to "Who are the Most Gentlemanly "successful" cricketers of the last 30 years", since there's no way to judge the "gentlemanliness" of cricketers who couldn't have long careers and were easily forgotten; even though they might have been fitting the bill much more than most cricketers being mentioned here.

To be honest, I think the bigger cricketers have the bigger responsibilities to be gentlemen. For example, the grace with which Kane Williamson handled the World Cup final earns him the greatest gentleman in all of cricket for me, perhaps even of all time.

 

[SensiblePakFan]

Kane for sure. Not even a competition.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Ian chapell- So often i hear people say what happened to gentleman's game. I look at them and say to myself you idiot dont you know anything about the history of cricket. Where did cricket started?? It started in Pubs with gambling .....so it was never a gentleman's game and it never would be . Anyone who thinks that is an idiot........

Be that as it may, there have been true gentlemen in Grace, Hobbs, Hammond, Bradman, Frank Worrell (perhaps the greatest) throughout the game. Cricket has always been an elite sport played by the likes of the British upper class and the gentlemen of the subcontinent like the Nawabs of Pataudi.

Of course, many modern day Aussies do not deserve to be called gentlemen, so Ian Chappell’s word has no bearing. Between Justin Langer refusing to walk, “accidentally” tipping off the bails of the wicket to pretend the batsmen hit the wickets, Ponting arguing with the Umpire, and Smith and Warner getting caught up in ball tampering, Australian cricket is at an all time low in the ethical gentleman department.

 

[Hitman]

Sachin and Dravid are definitely among the 2 nicest guys I have seen in a cricket field.

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Dravid and Williamson are on top of my list.
Sachin
Pujara
Rohit
Cummins
Shoaib Malik
Babar Azam
Inzi
Rahane
Saeed Anwar
Misbah i used to like but he has turned out to be very cunning individual.

 

[Varun]

Sangakkara, anybody?

 

[andy0204]

Hashim Amla the way he handled Dean Jones comment.

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

Sangakkara, anybody?

Not at all, he had feuds with many cricketers and was also the one who asked suraj randiv to bowl a no ball to stop sehwag from getting to his century.

 

[andy0204]

Not at all, he had feuds with many cricketers and was also the one who asked suraj randiv to bowl a no ball to stop sehwag from getting to his century.

It was Dilshan who asked Randiv to bowl a no ball but I agree he had feuds and I saw him angry with Younis Khan.

 

[Panchujeev]

Only one name...Kane Williamson...

 

[Ab Fan]

Who can forget Sangakkara's sledge to Shaun Pollock? That looks funny though when you see it now because Sanga was young and Pollock was already a big name till that point.

A relatively funnier memory he had was in a game against Pakistan. As a keeper, he created an illusion to Hafeez that he has to run fast to complete the second, forcing him to dive around even though it was a comfortable two.

 

[Mueez]

Rahul Dravid, Cook, Anderson, Williamson and Hashim Amla.

 

[Hitman]

Hashim Amla the way he handled Dean Jones comment.

Amla was always class, an extremely nice guy both on and off field.

 

[gazza619]

Funny to see Cook in many people’s list.

A gentleman should also walk when he edges the ball and Cook was the last person to walk.

Younus Khan top’s the list for me.

 

[gazza619]

Amla was always class, an extremely nice guy both on and off field.

I think we are only talking about on field activities here, arent we?

 

[Bhaijaan]

Andre Nel
Tino Best
Shoaib Akhtar
Sreesanth
Andrew Symonds


They were some of the kost humble, down to earth and gentelemanly cricketers I have seen

 

[Robert]

Root, Holder, Williamson spring to mind.

 

[Hitman]

I think we are only talking about on field activities here, arent we?

I mentioned him on the field, just that I added his off the field conduct as well.

 

[Rayyman]

Azhar Ali

 

[Robert]

Funny to see Cook in many people’s list.

A gentleman should also walk when he edges the ball and Cook was the last person to walk.

Younus Khan top’s the list for me.

In his first test match, Graeme Fowler walked before being given out.

Skipper Bob Willis practically pinned him to the dressing room wall. “No foreign player walks at this level, so neither do we” snarled the big man.

That was two years before Cook was born.

 

[Rana]

David Warner

Amazing gent of the game

 

[Mesozoic]

Kane Williamson tops the list.

Sachin and Dravid lost a few points with ball tampering but still they're high up.

Amla, Mike Hussey, Dhoni, Bazz , Misbah etc in the second last generation.

Rohit, Babar, Root, Bhuvi, Boult etc in the current one.

 

[gazza619]

In his first test match, Graeme Fowler walked before being given out.

Skipper Bob Willis practically pinned him to the dressing room wall. “No foreign player walks at this level, so neither do we” snarled the big man.

That was two years before Cook was born.

Interesting. Though in my view regardless of whatever Bob Willis said to Fowler, that should not change the definition of a gentleman (in the context of cricket).

I have seen many a walkers in the game.