Name cricketers who give the most entertaining press conferences

[Local.Dada]

From India- Rohit Sharma- hilarious and chilled out

Ashwin- always to the point, will speak his mind

From Pakistan- Rizwan. Probably claim for the greatest press conference taker of all time: I still remember the deep philosophical words that Pak team performance is due to inconsistencies in the culture. What a deep philosophical statement with lot of depth. My hands down favorite.

Australia- Pat Cummins, cool and chilled out demeanor.

In the past enjoyed attitude/ swag of Marlon Samuels when he won the WT20.

Also some Srilankans seem to have a good sense of humor.

The rest seem very plain and dry and very robotic.

Feel free to add more names.

 

[RyanRyan10]

Knew Rizwan would feature in your list even before I opened the thread

 

[deltexas]

1. Rizwan
2. Daylight
3. Inzi
4. Daylight
5. Rest all others

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

"Do you think I can play till the 2019 World Cup?"

 

[kingusama92]

Younus Khan also gave some classics during his captaincy.

Sarfraz is another one.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Anyone know what happened here? Tendulkar seemed like he was about to burst into tears. Definitely one of the stranger declarations I have seen in test cricket.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

 

[Major]

Inzi on every loss

First of all, thanks to Allah, the boys played well.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Tilakaratne dilshan

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Umar Akmal

 

[deltexas]

Anyone know what happened here? Tendulkar seemed like he was about to burst into tears. Definitely one of the stranger declarations I have seen in test cricket.

Nothing happened. An explanation was given on the declaration . Nobody cried. The pertinent issue as a pak fan here would pak got heavily thrashed in the game . Nobody cares if tendulkar got a 200 or not - more like did tendulkar 194 help ind win the test or not?? Simple.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Nothing happened. An explanation was given on the declaration . Nobody cried. The pertinent issue as a pak fan here would pak got heavily thrashed in the game . Nobody cares if tendulkar got a 200 or not - more like did tendulkar 194 help ind win the test or not?? Simple.

Ouch. Looks like I hit a nerve. No need to get so defensive mate. I was just asking. Can't think of too many times a team declared with a batsman on 194. And then the batsman gave a presser where he sounded confused and looked sad. Btw, not everything is an attack on India so sit down and stop barking.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Dhoni was quite good. Laid back, charming, sometimes sarcastic.

Cricket press conferences are quite full and cliched so it's hard to think of others.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Ouch. Looks like I hit a nerve. No need to get so defensive mate. I was just asking. Can't think of too many times a team declared with a batsman on 194. And then the batsman gave a presser where he sounded confused and looked sad. Btw, not everything is an attack on India so sit down and stop barking.

Funny thing is Sachin fumed about it in his bio and allegedly sulked in the dressing room but trust Indians to keep trying to rewrite history.....he is clearly devastated in the press conference.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Dhoni was quite good. Laid back, charming, sometimes sarcastic.

Cricket press conferences are quite full and cliched so it's hard to think of others.

Yes, most are just boring with players repeating same the boring, mechanical dialogue about the game. Cricketers need to take a cue from other sports.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Funny thing is Sachin fumed about it in his bio and allegedly sulked in the dressing room but trust Indians to keep trying to rewrite history.....he is clearly devastated in the press conference.

Yeah I basically got the idea from the stone-dead expression on his face in the presser but I didn't know this. Always thought it was a strange declaration. India were in an incredibly dominant position and a couple of overs wouldn't have made a difference. We can say all we want that milestones don't matter, but we are not professional cricketers. And these milestones do matter to players.

 

[Markhor]

Every second of this is 2000s Pakistan cricket heritage.

Stumbling over the line in what should've been a routine runchase in an ODI under the lights, Inzy's usual introduction, bit of dry humour, credit to opposition they bowled good line and length, pitch wasn't easy, praise random debutant performance, and Ramiz on the mic.

 

[deltexas]

Ouch. Looks like I hit a nerve. No need to get so defensive mate. I was just asking. Can't think of too many times a team declared with a batsman on 194. And then the batsman gave a presser where he sounded confused and looked sad. Btw, not everything is an attack on India so sit down and stop barking.

Why would it hit a nerve?? Am not defensive at all nor am I barking as you claim. Gave a viewpoint. Ind winning the test is absolute priority over some individual milestone - thats the crux of the matter. Dont care if it was declared when he was 199.. Did Ind win the game or not? Thats all that matters .

Yes he sounds a little surprised because in those days it was more milestone oriented. Dravid actually tried to move the team away from individual milestones and this was like a starting point. Good for Ind. The Ind team at the time recorded run chase wins when before that chasing was not Ind strength. Dravid started the process of reducing the dependency on tendulkar and he succeeded. Team over individual anyday.

 

[shaz619]

The GOAT Younis Khan.

Every presser during the 2009 WC he was being made out to be a joke, but the guy was just trying to take pressure off his team, he was even laughing off misfields and what not. Younis Khan was very tactically astute and knew what to do in order to get the most out of his team, always came across pretty chill in the heat off the battle, even made a WWF reference. And he was right! A player who was so magnificent in Tests, T20’s were just a bit of banter for him and he casually won the World Cup for his country.

 

[deltexas]

India's azhar had a standard response when ind lost. We batted poorly, bowled poorly, fielded poorly.

 

[deltexas]

Cricket players nowadays are taught to be mundane in press conferences. It is by design to be controversy free. But you lose some of the real characters

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Why would it hit a nerve?? Am not defensive at all nor am I barking as you claim. Gave a viewpoint. Ind winning the test is absolute priority over some individual milestone - thats the crux of the matter. Dont care if it was declared when he was 199.. Did Ind win the game or not? Thats all that matters .

Yes he sounds a little surprised because in those days it was more milestone oriented. Dravid actually tried to move the team away from individual milestones and this was like a starting point. Good for Ind. The Ind team at the time recorded run chase wins when before that chasing was not Ind strength. Dravid started the process of reducing the dependency on tendulkar and he succeeded. Team over individual anyday.

I didn't ask for an essay on the future of Indian cricket. I was just asking why they declared, which you took personally. The gall of a Pakistan supporter to even ask?

But anyways, I got my info. with a simple Google search. You can sit down now.

A high voltage behind-the-scenes drama was sparked off in the Indian dressing-room by Rahul Dravid's abrupt declaration in the Multan Test which left Sachin Tendulkar stranded only six runs short of a double century, the then coach John Wright has revealed.

Tendulkar, batting on 194 in the first Test against Pakistan, left no one in doubt that "he felt let down", Wright said in his just-published book John Wright's Indian Summers, disclosing for the first time the tense moments the Indian camp went through although publicly every effort had been made at that time to play down the controversy.

Acknowledging that the team managament had a "hot potato on our hands", Wright said he spent a sleepless night whereas captain Sourav Ganguly, who missed the Test because of an injury, was worried that the issue would snowball and end up dividing the team. Wright says no one could be blamed in particular for the situation which could have been avoided had he himself been able to convince Dravid to declare earlier.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

The GOAT Younis Khan.

Every presser during the 2009 WC he was being made out to be a joke, but the guy was just trying to take pressure off his team, he was even laughing off misfields and what not. Younis Khan was very tactically astute and knew what to do in order to get the most out of his team, always came across pretty chill in the heat off the battle, even made a WWF reference. And he was right! A player who was so magnificent in Tests, T20’s were just a bit of banter for him and he casually won the World Cup for his country.

When I think of Younis Khan it reminds me of a line from Michael Mann's epic crime-film Thief:

"You don't run me!"

 

[deltexas]

Exactly. Reiterates my point. Every team will have some disagreements. Common in sport. But they will have an honest conversation internally and sort it out. And thats what happened. If this was pak cricket team- the player even 20 years down the line would have been on a TV show and sob and complain about how he was "robbed" of a double hundred by his captain and how his career was "destroyed " because of that.

I didn't ask for an essay on the future of Indian cricket. I was just asking why they declared, which you took personally. The gall of a Pakistan supporter to even ask?

But anyways, I got my info. with a simple Google search. You can sit down now.

 

[deltexas]

Aiden Markram is one of the most boring to give press conferences.

 

[RexRex]

Press conferences & media interviews that aren't too cliched -> Rohit Sharma, Pat Cummins, Ben Duckett, Mark Wood, Ashwin, Phil Salt, Yuvraj Singh

Kohli's media appearances in the english language are boring. He's a lot more relaxed and open-book when he does it in Hindi. I also enjoyed Graeme Swann during his playing days.

 

[BouncerGuy]

STAY ON TOPIC GUYS..... NO PERSONAL REMARKS PLEASE

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Press conferences & media interviews that aren't too cliched -> Rohit Sharma, Pat Cummins, Ben Duckett, Mark Wood, Ashwin, Phil Salt, Yuvraj Singh

Kohli's media appearances in the english language are boring. He's a lot more relaxed and open-book when he does it in Hindi. I also enjoyed Graeme Swann during his playing days.

Kohli vs. some random journalist when he was captain used to be somewhat entertaining

 

[gani999]

From India- Rohit Sharma- hilarious and chilled out

Ashwin- always to the point, will speak his mind

From Pakistan- Rizwan. Probably claim for the greatest press conference taker of all time: I still remember the deep philosophical words that Pak team performance is due to inconsistencies in the culture. What a deep philosophical statement with lot of depth. My hands down favorite.

Australia- Pat Cummins, cool and chilled out demeanor.

In the past enjoyed attitude/ swag of Marlon Samuels when he won the WT20.

Also some Srilankans seem to have a good sense of humor.

The rest seem very plain and dry and very robotic.

Feel free to add more names.

From India, Bumrah, Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and Hardik Pandya give good press conferences too.

 

[RexRex]

Kohli vs. some random journalist when he was captain used to be somewhat entertaining

Right .. you mean the infamous 'no ball gives you pleasure ?' press conference.

 

[RexRex]

Right .. you mean the infamous 'no ball gives you pleasure ?' press conference.

One of the classics

 

[BouncerGuy]

Legendary player shan masood gives the best speech in ENGLISHHHHHHHH

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Right .. you mean the infamous 'no ball gives you pleasure ?' press conference.

There were a number of them. Chad Kohli had an unreal level of confidence and it was always fun to watch:

Another one of the funnier ones after 2017 BGT when he got over-sentimental and said he was rethinking his friendship with Australian players lol.

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

Mo Azharuddin who would have the stock standard issue, straight from Central casting, when asked about strategy to counter gilly, ponting, mcG, Warne, hayden etc
'Oh, we'll just bowl well, bat well and field well"!....accompanied with that unmistakable sideways vibration like movement of his head, the upturned collars and the rolex on his wrist...et all....
Dude was legend for a charming kind of coolness....

the other repetive thing about Mo Azhar was he always used to bemoan our fielding, guys not backing up, not throwing correctly....in every conference....

Honourable mention to the Bangladeshi journalist asking Chris Gayle or some other Wi dude :

" Today final, U why not perform?"

...or something similar words to the effect....that was diamond crazy hilarious

 

[Bhaijaan]

Rohit Sharma by far

Mujhe puchho kitna wo lagta hae ye krne me

Followed by all the Aussie players pretty much

 

[Bhaijaan]

Inzi on every loss

First of all, thanks to Allah, the boys played well.

Shet up one was the best

 

[RexRex]

There were a number of them. Chad Kohli had an unreal level of confidence and it was always fun to watch:

Yuvraj presser from 2008 Eng tour

 

[Double Trouble]

Don’t have a youtube clip with Saeed Ajmal 2010 tour of UK interview is the best of all time.

Shane Warne & Nass we’re in stitches after ever interview.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Pat Cummins, Virat is a great speaker too