Biggest SOBs in world cricket!

[imran666]

2 of the biggest SOBs in the world idiots dont know they r live on TV :hysterical: ZjyJxaKK6rQ

[Lord]

^glad they didnt start smooching:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[Don Sharma]

SOB has more than one meaning to it :) If it is used to refer to an arrogant, meanie, disgusting individual...the a fore mentioned players are right up there. But if it is used in amazement, to refer to someone who guts it out, one need not look beyond Brian Close. He was one son of a gun!

[Rajan]

SOB has more than one meaning to it :) If it is used to refer to an arrogant, meanie, disgusting individual...the a fore mentioned players are right up there. But if it is used in amazement, to refer to someone who guts it out, one need not look beyond Brian Close. He was one son of a gun!

i read an anecdote about him- ============================= apparently on those helmetless days, he got hit off a fast bowler's bouncer on his forehead, the ball deflected and fell on the offide. the keeper/some one concerned wondered "goodness me, it did not hit your temple, God knows what would have happened"... Close replied, " then it would have fell on the leg side"... ========================= i may not have reproduced the exact anedote, but it almost meant that...

[achilles]

2 of the biggest SOBs in the world idiots dont know they r live on TV :hysterical: ZjyJxaKK6rQ

This still makes me laugh:hysterical:

[ViruRulez]

What has jadeja done??:hysterical: I can see why some opponenets may put bhaji or sree in there. But Jadeja???

exactly' date='he should the opponents favourite:hysterical::hysterical:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[HyroProto]

Doubt it. He will be showered with garlands as soon as he scores some runs. Look at monkeygate Symonds and Tyson Hayden, welcomed with open arms in IPL. IPL is all about results and character is irrelevant

no mention of Harbajan ? :giggle:

[Don Sharma]

i read an anecdote about him- ============================= apparently on those helmetless days, he got hit off a fast bowler's bouncer on his forehead, the ball deflected and fell on the offide. the keeper/some one concerned wondered "goodness me, it did not hit your temple, God knows what would have happened"... Close replied, " then it would have fell on the leg side"... ========================= i may not have reproduced the exact anedote, but it almost meant that...

There is an utube video of his facing a lethal Holding. Check it out. He was a fine short leg as well.

[HyroProto]

LOL guys.... Do you know who is reagarded as the best F1 driver of all time by many ? even bu Schumacher himself ? Ayrton Senna One time..Senna needed Alan Cross not to finish the race if he wanted to win the championship..Know what Senna did ? He deliberately crashed in to Cross in the very first bend in the race taking himself & cross out of the race..thereby wining the championship He crashed his rival... putting his own life & his rival's at risk so that he could win a championship... But still Sena is hailed as a great F1 driver..Didnt one time Schumacher deliberately ruin all others qualifying time after himself putting the best time in, so that others dont have enough time to qualify ? And isnt Schumacher regarded as a great F1 driver still ? I'm, not saying what Sanga did ws right..it was WRONG... but so have all the other great sportsman as well... (including Harabajan).. This is the first time...but even then what Sanga said was "He will still get the runs" meaning he was saying to Randiv or some one that Shevag would still get the hundred even if he bowled a no-ball....

[Rajan]

LOL guys.... Do you know who is reagarded as the best F1 driver of all time by many ? even bu Schumacher himself ? Ayrton Senna One time..Senna needed Alan Cross not to finish the race if he wanted to win the championship..Know what Senna did ? He deliberately crashed in to Cross in the very first bend in the race taking himself & cross out of the race..thereby wining the championship He crashed his rival... putting his own life & his rival's at risk so that he could win a championship... But still Sena is hailed as a great F1 driver..Didnt one time Schumacher deliberately ruin all others qualifying time after himself putting the best time in, so that others dont have enough time to qualify ? And isnt Schumacher regarded as a great F1 driver still ? I'm, not saying what Sanga did ws right..it was WRONG... but so have all the other great sportsman as well... (including Harabajan).. This is the first time...but even then what Sanga said was "He will still get the runs" meaning he was saying to Randiv or some one that Shevag would still get the hundred even if he bowled a no-ball....

Neither Harbhajan nor Sanga is a great , atleast as of now. obviously u did not understand what he told Randiv...check the relevant thread, then try to reason out.

[HyroProto]

obviously u did not understand what he told Randiv...check the relevant thread, then try to reason out.

dude..I'm Sinhalese... I can understand every word of what Sanga said..he said "ඌට ගෑහුවට හම්බවෙනවා".. meaning "He will still get it"... join the dots

[Rajan]

dude..I'm Sinhalese... I can understand every word of what Sanga said..he said "ඌට ගෑහුවට හම්බවෙනවා".. meaning "He will still get it"... join the dots

then u should quit defending the indefensible. Dilshan and Randiv were allowed to do what they did by a captain who claims to follow the 'spirit of the game' but in reality , did not care to stop it.all these lectures of schooling bullshit only to indulge in slimey actions, and later acting innocent! Sanga the oscar nominee!

[Sachinism]

LOL guys.... Do you know who is reagarded as the best F1 driver of all time by many ? even bu Schumacher himself ? Ayrton Senna One time..Senna needed Alan Cross not to finish the race if he wanted to win the championship..Know what Senna did ? He deliberately crashed in to Cross in the very first bend in the race taking himself & cross out of the race..thereby wining the championship He crashed his rival... putting his own life & his rival's at risk so that he could win a championship... But still Sena is hailed as a great F1 driver..Didnt one time Schumacher deliberately ruin all others qualifying time after himself putting the best time in, so that others dont have enough time to qualify ? And isnt Schumacher regarded as a great F1 driver still ? I'm, not saying what Sanga did ws right..it was WRONG... but so have all the other great sportsman as well... (including Harabajan).. This is the first time...but even then what Sanga said was "He will still get the runs" meaning he was saying to Randiv or some one that Shevag would still get the hundred even if he bowled a no-ball....

I think there's a slight difference between was Senna and Schumy did and what Randiv and Dilshan (and probably Sanga) did. Those guys had something to gain, SL had nothing to gain, it was a petty act.

[HyroProto]

then u should quit defending the indefensible. Dilshan and Randiv were allowed to do what they did by a captain who claims to follow the 'spirit of the game' but in reality , did not care to stop it.all these lectures of schooling bullshit only to indulge in slimey actions, and later acting innocent! Sanga the oscar nominee!

true..agree with u over here.. I never said What Sanga didnt do was right.. But my Point is..Sanga DID NOT told Randiv to bowl a No-Ball (Since that is what the indian media wanted u all to think by twisting what Sanga said)..What Sanga said was "He will get it anyway"..this means it was not an instruction by Sanga but a response made to Randiv in reply to some one elses's (Most likely from dilshan) 2 cents... So Sanga was correct in saying that "I did not tell Randiv to Bowl a No ball"..He DID NOT.. But Sanga is guilty of Doing nothing...He is guilty of Not preventing it & letting it happen... Sanga is guilty of putting the reputation of our country & the team to shame & he is guilty for not practicing the spirit of the game He is Wrong.. but it was NOT Sangas idea & he did NOT Giv orders to Randiv to do this.. & i agree with the above poster as well..Sanga had nothing to gain by this... so I beleve when he says that it was in the heat of the moment... making this incident much more shameful & right..It was spiteful..:((

[achilles]

^ Buddy, whether Sanga said something or Dilly did, the point is that Sehwag was robbed and pretty blatantly at that. The reason Sanga is held accountable is because HE IS THE CAPTAIN and it is HIS JOB to make sure nothing untoward happens. Sangakarra should acknowledge that yes, he and his team made a mistake. They will obviously bear a lot of flak but they called for it. It can't be defended as a "heat of the moment" thing. By that logic, every criminal becomes innocent. He needs to take this in his stride and move on. I can 100% ASSURE YOU that this situation could've been handled better had Mahela been the captain.

[Fontaine]

Bhajji makes this list. 10 times the hype, for limited talent.

[vamos_rafa]

Monkeys and Gentlemen Found this interesting article on the "monkeygate"....Thought of posting it here.....

Nothing Andrew Symonds does surprises me any more. He's our best all-rounder since Keith Miller but he's behaved really stupidly in this case, and he should like Warne, I guess, be banned from Tests for a year, or else be made to listen to Alexander Downer sing Gilbert and Sullivan standards unaccompanied for half an hour. And his confederate Steve Bucknor should be fined a hundred thousand dollars and required to take an eye test. And Ricky Ponting should be breath-tested for hubris before each game. I refer them to the phrase 'It isn't cricket' and what it means. It means that when you're out, and you know you're out, you walk. It means that if you give a man out and the camera says you were wrong, you call him back. It means that if you know your enemy is coming on to bowl, you don't appeal against the light for this reason only. It means, above all, you don't report anything said on the field to any official whatever the rules of the day. And it means if you win by a combination of all of the above, you apologise for winning and say why you're sorry you won. It also means (let's spell it out) that if you unjustly escape being given out when you were out, you don't gloat; you don't brag, as Andrew Symonds foolishly did, about having cheated and having wrongly survived. I saw every minute of the second Test in person or on television and most of the larger minutes replayed six or seven times and believe me, Symonds was out at 30, Dravid not out at 38, Ponting was out at 17, and the difference this made, of no more than 260 runs that were thieved from India's lead, would have seen their victory assured by Saturday night, and what Harbhajan said, in the context of cricket, as cricket has always been played, meant nothing, nothing at all. Let me quote from page 1 of Alex Buzo's great book Legends of the Baggy Green. 'It was the fourth day of the fourth Test in Antigua on a windy May day 2003 and Rannaresh Sarwan was heading for his first century against Australia. Hoping to focus his thoughts on other topics, bowler Glenn McGrath greeted him at the non-striker's end with an enquiry. "What does Brian Lara's **** taste like?" The beanpole paceman then waited for an answer. Sarwan, loyal to his leader, responded, "I don't know, ask your wife". As an attempt to introduce a more savoury note into the conversation, this was a failure. "If you ever ****in' mention my wife again, I'll ****in' cut your throat out," shouted McGrath, towering over the Indian-descended Sarwan and pointing for emphasis. There followed a complaint about sledging to the umpire... by McGrath.' But neither man was suspended, as I recall, for three Tests because of this exchange though the story was soon well known. Is the epithet 'monkey' somehow worse, more vile, more offensive than the above? Let's look a little closer at the English language and its usage. Political cartoonists are allowed to make bears, rodents, King Kong, Gollum, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck out of politicians and are never sent to gaol for it or laid off work for weeks. The phrase 'the lying rodent' was used of John Howard and 'Wile E. Coyote' of Peter Costello without legal penalty. I compared Wally Grout, the wicket-keeper, to a wombat in 1968 without imprisonment, and the perfect Anglo-Australian Michael Charlton compared Wes Hall to the Abominable Snowman in 1960 and was allowed to continue on air and to front, in fact, the first Four Corners for years thereafter. And Harbhajan called Andrew Symonds a monkey and may lose his honour, his career, his livelihood and Ponting keep what he winningly calls his 'integrity' because of what was called by him a racist epithet and reported to the umpire and the Board. I have some knowledge of racism in cricket, having made a film called Dreaming of Lords about an Aboriginal Test Team going from empty stadium to empty stadium in England, and having seen neither hide nor hair of these brilliant young men in any State side thereafter. Bradman, it seemed, didn't like Blacks, and his successors were somewhat of this mind as well. Is the word 'monkey' racist? Or does it more or less adequately describe a man with a dark face, big white painted lips, addled rust-coloured corkscrew hair and a clownish agitatedness that adds to that first, impulsive, slanderous impression? He looks a bit like a monkey to me, just as Bucknor looks like Morgan Freeman, Ponting like a fugitive Afghan boat-person, Sharma like a fraught greyhound, Stuart Clark like a white cockatoo, Gilchrist like a King Charles spaniel and Brett Lee like the young Tab Hunter. My wife didn't know that Symonds was black, and agreed he looked like a monkey before she knew he was black. Should she be charged with racism as well? And in what way should she punished? And for how long? The whole truth of it, I fear, is that Symonds is one of the world's finest cricketers, one of the best of all time, but is not, I fear, if I may put it this way, gingerly, with caution, what we used to call a 'gentleman'. And he now and then avails himself of the chance to, I won't say cheat, the language is struggling here, but bend the rules, tweak the ancient traditions a bit -- letting Dravid be given out unprotesting, for instance -- and he, yes, also, now and then, in some lights, does look like a monkey; in the same way as, in some lights, Winston Churchill looked like a bulldog, a vile aspersion if I ever heard one. And Jack Kennedy, as was remarked at the time, looked like Bugs Bunny. And Charles de Gaulle, as was remarked at the time, like an imperious poodle. The entire French nation, come to think of it, were once called 'cheese-eating surrender-monkeys' by no less than Homer Simpson without the teeniest hint of racism ever imputed to the epithet. Cultural revulsion yes, but not racism. And the world's cartoonists, moreover, have many, many times portrayed George Bush as a chimpanzee and were never called racist for this repeated insult either. I am by a useful coincidence a member of the Primates, a luncheon club of drunken rogues and reprobates that includes Bill Leak, Warren Brown, Richard Fidler, Bruce Venables the actor and popular novelist and Meredith Burgmann the politician, a monthly gathering dedicated to the acclamation of ape-like, exuberant, uproarious behaviour, and we lately, contentiously, after much close-reasoned argument, part-funded the purchase of an orang-utan by Taronga Zoo. And some of us think the orang-utan should have drinking rights at our secret venue. So at our next meeting, ever the diplomat, I shall propose that Andrew Symonds be asked to come in his stead. And sink a few schooners. Tell a few jokes. Sing a few songs. And learn how true gentlemen behave. ...And, ah yes, what to do about it? Rudd should ask Ponting to say that in his view the Second Test was drawn, and to try at least to withdraw his charge of racist abuse and say he might have misheard it. And Rudd should invite both teams to Kirribilli House to meet the Primates and have a few jars. I'm sure this won't happen. And it's a pity.

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[mastana]

P3 - Pangakara, Ponting and Proad. :dontknow:

[achilles]

Found this interesting article on the "monkeygate"....Thought of posting it here.....

Great find. Brings the other kind of Aussies to the fore. :two_thumbs_up:

[Lord]

P3 - Pangakara' date=' Ponting and Proad. :dontknow:[/quote'] pail.i mean :fail: