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Wriggling Snake Mar 2016 3:26pm, 3 Mar 2016 11,278 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I saw KP bat a few times and he didn't even spring to mind at all, and Cook,isn't that odd, I suppsoe it's because he's basically stubborn, when I saw KP bat, he looked a walking wicket. Thinking about it more I saw bell get all 3 centuries against the aussies in 2013.......didn't come to mind either....
The Teaboy Mar 2016 3:35pm, 3 Mar 2016 13,828 posts	0 The Teaboy I guess these things depend on when you see them. After all, with the amount of cricket some of us have watch on TV and/or live, there isn't a player we haven't seen have a shocker.
Nicholls595 Mar 2016 3:39pm, 3 Mar 2016 2,391 posts	0 Nicholls595 I played indoor cricket against Phil DeFreitas one winter. He didn't have many off days. Good job I couldn't get out out
Wriggling Snake Mar 2016 3:47pm, 3 Mar 2016 11,279 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I saw Border play....and Pringle, I saw Pringle get Viv Richards out.
Ceratonia Mar 2016 4:15pm, 3 Mar 2016 3,202 posts	0 Ceratonia I saw KP get out playing against Cambridge university for Surrey. Cambridge only had to score 4 runs in the second innings to win. I don't think they've beaten a county since. Derek Pringle was there too in his capacity as a reporter (although he appeared to me to have spent much of the day in the pub....)
Crash Hamster Mar 2016 5:18pm, 3 Mar 2016 715 posts	0 Crash Hamster Bowlers; Bob Willis off his long run; Malcolm Marshall; lovely. Ian Bell when he made an Ashes hundred at Durham; Graeme Smith at Edgbaston when he just never looked like getting out. Way back in the distant past, Alvin Kallicharran for Warwickshire...
Wriggling Snake Mar 2016 5:41pm, 3 Mar 2016 11,281 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I saw Smith get his 250+ at Lords, good lord it was dull...... Bowling I think it was Donald, Allan Donald, he looked a nightmare to face when he was a bit pissed off.
postieboy Mar 2016 7:06pm, 3 Mar 2016 3,141 posts	0 postieboy Ian Botham was my childhood hero so it was an ambition achieved when I saw him play in the flesh at the Oval in 1987. I saw him bat for 30 minutes before being bowled by Abdul Qadir. We couldn't play good leg spin then and not much has changed over the years!
Chrisity Mar 2016 7:37pm, 3 Mar 2016 14,456 posts	0 Chrisity Fred Trueman will be up there, although i resented him for only giving his autograph to whichever lad carried his bag to the pavilion for him. I remember being called into the headmaster's study when i was 9. (which in those days usually meant a caning), but instead when i entered he was watching the TV with Fred bowling out the West Indies for 91 and i saw the last 5 wickets that he took. I was a Lancashire member from 1967 to 1974, so i have to say Clive Lloyd as the best batsman, alongside Harry Pilling.
Nicholls595 Mar 2016 8:04am, 4 Mar 2016 2,398 posts	0 Nicholls595 I once watched Notts play a benefit match (Mick Newell's I think) against my local club. Chris Cairns played and his dad Lance guested for Notts. Lance clubbed a couple of trademark sixes over cow corner, before Chris square cut the ball for six, out of the ground and into the cornfield. This was before Twenty20 and nobody had ever seen a six over point before.