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Dec 2016
9:24am, 2 Dec 2016
13,893 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I think that was down in New Zealand.
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Dec 2016
9:38am, 2 Dec 2016
13,934 posts
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Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO)
A quick google reveals that 'Syd' has been a bodybuilding champion (over 40's) in his post cricket career:
Not many cricketers look like this a decade after stopping playing....
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Dec 2016
10:43am, 2 Dec 2016
87,811 posts
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GregP
Loved Tro's post at the bottom of the last page.
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Dec 2016
10:46am, 2 Dec 2016
87,812 posts
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GregP
He also claims the toughest thing he's ever done involved being talked at by Graham Gooch. Sounds reasonable.
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Dec 2016
10:47am, 2 Dec 2016
14,921 posts
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The Teaboy
Napier did it more than once - check out his county championship innings against Surrey. I think it was at Whitgift School.
Quite handy with the ball too. Didn't he do a 7-fer in a limited overs match and a 4 in 4? Or am I mistaken?
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Dec 2016
10:51am, 2 Dec 2016
87,814 posts
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GregP
Napier's always willing to put in a shift - I'm a big fan - but his England career didn't really happen. Shocking player profile pic on CricInfo btw.
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Dec 2016
10:56am, 2 Dec 2016
7,847 posts
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Badger
I saw Syd in a nightclub in Bristol in the late '90s - he looked very powerful then, even before taking up the bodybuilding.
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Dec 2016
11:10am, 2 Dec 2016
13,938 posts
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Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO)
Surprised Gatting never took up bodybuilding after his cricket career. I guess the eating 8,000 calories a day bit he had nailed, but probably found the going down the gym to pick heavy things up and put them down again bit too hard....
A 'bit of a bloater' XI?
Brandes, Gatting, Jimmy Ormond, sure there was a mahoosive Bangladeshi ODI player as well?
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Dec 2016
11:15am, 2 Dec 2016
87,815 posts
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GregP
Oh crikey. Where's nico and Sloggers when you need them?
Inzy and Jesse Ryder. The two players that make T20 worth watching.
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Dec 2016
11:21am, 2 Dec 2016
87,816 posts
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GregP
Merv Hughes, obvs.
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The Ashes 2009
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