Samit Patel - worst physique on a cricketer?

[Ranvir]

What? :blink: You've got to be kidding me. He was one of the best fielders in the game at short leg. Just because you are fat it does not make you less agile. Some of Boon's catches at short leg (fast reflex ones) will make modern day catching look like amateurs.

Yes but I'm sure chasing after the ball wasn't one of his strong points. Anyway Samit Patel looked very slow chasing after the ball today.

[Ranvir]

patel gets a lot of stick and rightly so but i think he will pwn india in this series.

A part time spinner will not pwn India, maybe his batting might. Bits and pieces players are better suited to ODIs

[BERGKAMP]

that's what i'm saying, he is very skilled batsman. bowling wise he is nothing special, as nasser hussain said today, indian batters face millions of spinners like him week in week out.

[thongale]

Irrelevant. This player here averaged 43 in Test cricket with 7000+ runs with that physique. He also was the Man of the Match for his team which won the World Cup.

Same could be said about Ranatunga. Averaged 35 in both tests and ODIs, and was the captain of a WC winning team.

[Crookbond]

I do not want to start a war but Ranatunga's physique impeded his cricket. David Boon's did not.

[Era of Gold]

Ravi Rampaul is super fat :/ Too much roti and curry

[VRV Singh]

Samit makes me laugh. I like his style in the press conference. Especially the succession of flabby come at me bro faces from about 1:27. xnRp2ssrAp4

[SLICKR392]

Ravi Rampaul is super fat :/ Too much roti and curry

Ramdin :dontknow:

[Era of Gold]

Ramdin :dontknow:

Haha on one of Trinidad's local news stations they always describe Ramdin as "the pencil thin wickets keeper batsman" eg."Here we see the pencil thin Ramdin playing a shot for four"

[SLICKR392]

Haha on one of Trinidad's local news stations they always describe Ramdin as "the pencil thin wickets keeper batsman" eg."Here we see the pencil thin Ramdin playing a shot for four"

:cantstop: So is Chanders in a way. No fit Indian cricketer anywhere in the world? :blink:

[Sir john]

bowls so many overs cook using him as workhorse

 

so far played his part in test

[Malcolm Merlyn]

bowls so many overs cook using him as workhorse

 

so far played his part in test

Welcome back.

[Wasim9211]

samit took 2 wickets, not run himself out or ran out his partner,plus took @‌ catch. herath and Powar also extra weight,

but okayed for spinner.. if samit not scored those 42 eng. not get  useful lead but I doubt he will going to southafrica with English team

for test . first test on dec. 26, 2015

[sparkey]

On ‎11‎/‎15‎/‎2012 at 10:55 PM, asterix said:

Samit Patel could be fitter than some of the current young Indian players..

yes Herath and Samit still performing good in any format,Recently Herath 's innings upset Anderson in test match.Probably current young indian player get suspends if he does same as jimmy did.

[Ankit_sharma03]

Saurabh tiwary for me is huge disappointment rather others. He is extremely young n in todays day n age there cant be any excuse . U have physio n Dietician's available . This guy was in kohli n jadeja u-19 batch look at their fitness n look at him. 

 

HE is the biggest embarrassment. 

[CoverDrive]

Cricket is one of the few sports where being unfit you can still play at the top level. There is some amount of skill involved that guys like inzi could be world class. 

 

But I feel things maybe changing as cricket also becomes lot more demanding in terms of power and schedules. Being fit adds a lot your game - Kohli, Warner etc. build on being so fit. But you still have people like Gayle who are not in position to even run a little bit but can make a bog impact

[mishra]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5726.html

[mishra]