Which cricketer terrorized you the most as a fan?

[MechEng]

Yes, there is always that one cricketer whom you want to never score runs or take wickets and gave you anxiety when they were batting/bowling in flow.

 

I have been following cricket since 1997-98, and the cricketer that made me most uncomfortable was Ricky Ponting.

 

Yes, we all remember that 140 in the World Cup finals, but more than that I also feared him whenever I supported sides like NZ, WI, SL playing the decider game in an ODI series against Australia. 

 

You knew it, once set, he won games, big games. His contemporaries like Gilchrist, Hayden, Warne, McGrath, Symonds, Akhtar, Inzamam, Lara and other greats from the 90s never gave me the same kind of anxiety. Even the present generation cricketers like Stokes, AB D, Steve Smith, Steyn, Root or Broad don't have that sort of impact on me.

 

So who was that one cricketer whom you feared the most and wanted him to fail badly everytime?

Edited December 1, 2023 by MechEng

[singhvivek141]

Sanath Jayasuria...he was a beast.

The pair of Jayasuria & Aravinda D Silva was my biggest fear.

[punjabi_khota]

McGrath,Moin Khan,(briefly) Mohammad Asif

[cricketfan28]

akthar bahi, very intimidating, luckily he was a underachiever.

[Texan]

Saeed Anwar, Younis Khan... they always made big runs against India. Once these guys got set, Indian bowlers found it very difficult to get them out

[Nash]

Flower brothers from Zimbabwe.  Not terrorizing but frustrating specially in test matches in india. Andy was hitting centuries on demand and prolonging out inevitable victories for days.  

[Laaloo]

Sanjay manjrekar

Dinesh mongia

Vinay Kumar 

Ashok dinda

Badrinath

 

[Bigg Brother]

Dhoni 

[Zero_Unit]

Afridi. On his day, he didn't look like an idiot. you never knew which version of Afridi you would get on that day

[adkrish22290]

As someone who started watching cricket in the mid-to-late nineties (1996-97), it has to be Sanath Jayasuriya. He always played his best against India.

Edited December 1, 2023 by adkrish22290

[Gollum]

Sanath Jayasuriya tops the list. Even as a washed up buddha he scored a matchwinning 100 in the 2008 Asia Cup final. That too was a brutal knock. 

 

 

[NameGoesHere]

Which cricketer?  You mean there’s only one?

 

Kis kis ne loota, yeh poocho na ham se

 

Jo ik naam hota, to dard bayaan karte

 

The 80s Windians, Sanath, McGrath, Miandad… it continues 

 

Edited December 2, 2023 by NameGoesHere

[Iconoclast]

Salman Butt

Kakmal brothers

[MechEng]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

Sanath Jayasuriya tops the list. Even as a washed up buddha he scored a matchwinning 100 in the 2008 Asia Cup final. That too was a brutal knock. 

 

 

 

Jayasuriya over Steve Smith, Ponting, McGrath, Hayden, Gilchrist, Akhtar, Akram, Ambrose, Donald as well?

Edited December 1, 2023 by MechEng

[jf1gp_1]

Alan Donald. Our batsmen were clueless.

[BacktoCricaddict]

I hate to admit it.

 

J...d M.....d.

 

I mostly just hated him but was always scared he'd take matches away, and he did that a lot. Which is why I remember the 1996 WC match so fondly. Other than the Venkatesh Prasad win, it was fun to watch jm scratch around and finally get out to seal the deal. 

[The Hound]

Kieron Pollard everytime he played against CSK 

[nevada]

All mentioned names are past cricketers. Why dig up old wounds? I will go with fresh ones.

Travis Head. Ruined two finals for us.

Steve Smith - the name is enough

Cummins - ditto

Lyon - hurls grenades on day five

Kane Anchorson - perpetual thorn 

Daryl Mitchell - ditto

Clouderson - will he ever retire?

 

Maybe it's a weaker era now, because just the Paxtan team of yesteryear had an assortment of nightmare players against us - Miandad, Anwar, Salim Malik, Ijaz Ahmed, Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq, Aqib Javed, Afridi, Chukhtar, Chukaib,Younis Khan etc.

 

 

 

[Jamadagni]

Travis Head

[Majestic]

David Warner and Kane Williamson whenever they played against RCB.