Your ten favourite childhood cricketers

[hk031992]

in no order:

Saeed Anwar
Allan Donald
Jonty Rhodes
Wasim Akram
Michael Bevan
Brian Lara
Waqar Younis
Sanath Jayasuria
Adam Gilchrist
Saqlain Mushtaq

 

[saeed5646]

imran nazir
ijaz ahmed
kallis
saeed anwar
rana naved
matthew hayden
flintoff
andrew symond
younis khan
shane warne

 

[Swashbuckler]

Sachin
Ganguly
Dravid
Kumble
Sehwag
Laxman
Muralitharan
Damien Martyn (I used to imitate his batting style)
Sarwan
Nathan Astle

My list is India dominated (and batting dominated ) since I used to follow all our matches, very little when 2 other teams played. Now I am more balanced

 

[hk031992]

imran nazir
ijaz ahmed
kallis
saeed anwar
rana naved
matthew hayden
flintoff
andrew symond
younis khan
shane warne

good list. Symonds and Flintoff were super fun to watch

 

[hk031992]

Sachin
Ganguly
Dravid
Kumble
Sehwag
Laxman
Muralitharan
Damien Martyn (I used to imitate his batting style)
Sarwan
Nathan Astle

My list is India dominated (and batting dominated ) since I used to follow all our matches, very little when 2 other teams played. Now I am more balanced

hey as long as Harbhajan isnt there, i am happy

 

[Ahmed216]

Wasim
Inzi
Aravinda
Sachin
Shoaib akhtar
Lara
Donald
Ponting
Zulu
Sanath

 

[Cuts_and_cuts_hard]

1) Lara
2) Waqar
3) Laxman
4) Wasim
5) Dravid
6) Mark Waugh
7) Damien Martyn
8) Shoaib Akhtar
9) Inzi
10) Darren Gough (loved his action)

 

[hk031992]

Wasim
Inzi
Aravinda
Sachin
Shoaib akhtar
Lara
Donald
Ponting
Zulu
Sanath

how could i forget Zulu? what a player

 

[Hitman]

Sachin Tendulkar
Ajay Jadeja
Andy Flower
Sanath Jayasuriya
Allan Donald
Lance Klusener
Shaun Pollock
Pat Symcox
Mark Waugh
Alec Stewart

 

[Stalin]

Ms Dhoni
Zaheer Khan
Yuvraj Singh
Adam Gilchrist
Bret Lee
Shane Bond
Andrew Flintoff
Lasith Malinga
Jacques Kallis
Virender Sehwag

 

[RyanRyan10]

Ajay Jadeja
Saurav Ganguly
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
HH Gibbs
Brian Lara
Zaheer Khan
Wasim Akram
Adam Gilchrist
Shaun Pollock

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

Aus: Bevan + Ponting (never liked Mcgrath or Warne. Loved S. Waugh but when Ponting emerged, he was replaced by him. Had a lot of appreciation for Boon, Whitney, Dean Jones, McDermott, Bruce Reid too. Australia have always for some reason remained my favorite team)

Ban: Really liked Ashraful a lot. Sad how his career went tho.

Eng: Dominic Cork + Neil Fairbrother. (To me, the English team was the most boring team ever, dour cricketers, no passion, no flair, weird how life changes so fast)

Pak: Saeed + Waqar + Imran. (Never liked Inzi, always thought he was lazy and had excuses. Didn't like Wasim too for some reason. Really liked Muhammad Zahid and Akhtar but they never became reliable bowlers and were too injury prone to be banked upon. Liked Saqlain and Afridi too but that too was shortlived)

Ind: Venkatapathy Raju. (No idea why, but his action appealed to me so much. Would bowl like him even tho I am a right armer, but because of him, worked on my left-arm and in the end could eventually bowl left-arm spin with a lot of accuracy, control, and speed. Jadeja was good too, so was Prasad. Mongiia too was someone who I was fond of)

Srilanka: Aravinda de Silva. (Also liked Vaas but never really liked Murali)

Nzl: Bond + Martin Crowe. (Bond was to me the ultimate fast bowler. Sad his career was so restricted)

RSA: Peter Kirsten (don't ask why). Richard Snell (very short-lived career and it's mostly from watching highlights but really liked the guy) Rhodes. (the guy added spice to fielding. absolute joy to watch even tho he's not the best fielder RSA have poduced)

WI: Carl Hooper. (Never really liked WI's fast bowlers because they were just so metronomical. So measuerd, looked so calm, never had hair flowing, arms dangling exquisitiness about them. No way demeaning the bowlers, just saying that they didn't really appeal to me)

Others: Bas Zuiderant from Holland. Was just the name probably nothing else.

 

[introvert]

Trescothick
Jayasuriya
Dravid
Kevin Pietersen
Flintoff
Jacob oram
Irfan pathan
Daniel vettori
Shoaib akhatar
Shane bond
Chaminda vass

 

[Gullycricket]

In childhood I didn't care much about a player's stats.So may include some mediocre players
Yasir Hameed
Akhtar
Inzi
Dravid
Ponting
Kallis
Tino Best
Stephen Fleming
S.Bond
Wavell Hinds
Di villears
Matthew Hoggard
Nathan Astle

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Shoaib Akhtar
Shahid Afridi
Abdul Razzaq
Mohammad Yousuf
Younis Khan
Inzamam ul Haq
Andrew Flintoff
Kevin Pietersen
Mohammad Asif
Stephan Fleming

 

[iPakistani]

Shahid Afridi
Abdul Razzaq
Umar Gul
Misbah Ul Haq
Shane Bond
Waqar Younis
Shoaib Akhtar

 

[big_gamer007]

Sachin. -. All time favourite
Aravinda de Silva -. 96-99 was my favourite player I think because of the helmet he used to wear lol
Lance klusener - 99WC and following years he was my favourite.

The below ones are the ones I liked but we're not favourites like the three above.

Shane bond
Brett lee
Shoaib
Waqar
Wasim

 

[Smbhayi]

Azharuddin, Kaif, Ajay Jadeja, Robin Singh, Zak, Afridi, Akhtar, Symonds, Collingwood, MacMillan

 

[austerlitz]

Late 90s kid,so -

1.Tendulkar

Ganguly
Dravid
Kumble
Aravinda
Warne
Jayasuriya
Anwar
Sehwag
Donald

 

[Asif321]

Saed Anwar
Brett lee
Adam parore
Shane Bond
Saqlain Mushtaq
Moin Khan
Heath Streak
Andy flower
Jayasuriya
Klusner

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

Yuvraj
Sachin
Yasir hameed
Afridi
Shoaib akhtar
Dravid
Ganguly
Chanderpaul
Irfan pathan
Gibbs
Pollock
Scott styris
Jacob oram
Marcus Trescothick
Andrew flintoff
Darren lehmann
Nathan bracken.
Boeta dippenar
Sanath jayasuriya

 

[Last Monetarist]

1. Alec Stewart
2. Allan Donald
3. Brian Lara
4. Waqar Younis
5. Saeed Anwar
6. Curtly Ambrose
7. Courtney Walsh
8. Michael Slater
9. Carl Hooper
10. Darren Gough

 

[JattMaula]

Sachin
Sehwag
Ganguly
Zaheer
Agarkar
Yuvi
Dhoni
Lee
Ponting
Hayden

 

[Etherealistic]

Rahul Dravid.

 

[silent ischemia]

Wasim Akram

 

[Abdul Moiz]

Wasim, Gilly, Sachin, Ponting, Klusener, Pollock, Sanga, Sanath, Warne and Asif.

 

[JibranAnsari]

waqar younis
wasim akram
saeed anwar
abdul razzaq
saqlain mushtaq
sachin tendulker
henry olanga
shoaib akhtar
arvinda de silva
sanath jayasuria

 

[iPakistani]

Shahid Afridi
Abdul Razzaq
Umar Gul
Misbah Ul Haq
Shane Bond
Waqar Younis
Shoaib Akhtar

Wow I really grew up in a horrible era

 

[AFM]

Tough to rank but I'll give it a go.

1) Shoaib Akhtar

-Daylight-

2) Shahid Afridi
3) Brian Lara
4) Wasim Akram
5) Sachin Tendulkar
6) Muttiah Muraliathran
7) Sanath Jayasuria
8) Glenn Mcgrath
9) Lance Klusner
10) Brett Lee

 

[Hasan123]

Sangakara
Micheal Clarke
Mohammed Yousuf
Shoaib Malik
Shane Warne
Mahela Jaywardne
MS Dhoni
Ganguly
Shoaib Akthar
Stephen Fleming

 

[Majid Khan]

1. Brian Lara
2. Viv Richards
3. Imran Khan
4. Wasim Akram
5. Waqar Younis
6. Mohammed Azharuddin
7. Ijaz Ahmed
8. Saeed Anwar
9. Aravinda De Silva
10. Robin Smith