1001 Things You Love about Cricket

[Cricketman]

He's a pro number 11 i'm guessing.

 

[Insomniac]

Must be a small middle

 

[Slowcoach]

1. Muttiah Muralitharan's pinch hitting during the powerplays.

 

[Skater]

95. The Geography - in no other sport do the supporters know so much about the locations matches are played. The cricketing world is very diverse, from a bright morning in stunning Queenstown to a cold, dull lunchtime in Scarborough.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I've been playing for over 10 years and I have yet to middle the ball...


96. - The fighters. The Collingwoods, the Dravids, the Giles. They prove the cricket isn't all about talent, but about attitude as well. About never giving up and trying your best, no matter how impossible the situation.

 

[King Pietersen]

97. The entertainers. Forget the boring fighters that Zorax is on about, and think about the talented entertainers. I'm thinking Pietersen, Hayden, Dhoni, McCullum, Yuvraj (as much as I hate to admit it), Gilchrist, Richards, Gibbs, Tendulkar, Flintoff. The list goes on. Those players > Ashley Giles.

 

[Thurya]

98. Ajantha Mendis

 

[Kiko_97]

99.Welsh Cricketers Nothing better to see on a cricket pitch, we need more of them. Earth to ECB selectors, bring back Geriant!!!

 

[Leggie]

Wow, you've played for 3 years and it's the first time you've ever middled a ball Leggie? I'm shocked.

Well I have. But the one I just middled was heavenly.

 

[Tusku]

100. Ganguly Sixer : It was great to see Sourav Ganguly hitting slow left arm bowlers out of the ground over mid-on/ mid-wicket. Heavenly pleasure- that's what I used to feel after watching those. .

 

[King Pietersen]

101. Ravinder Bopara. Going to be a big player in England's future, is immensely talented in both forms of the game, and he's just made his first Test hundred. Watch this space.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

I concur with the above statement. I've been wanting Bopara in the side for a while now. He's a great talent. Shouldn't have been dropped in the first place tbh but has got his place back and hopefully will perform for a long time.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

And that's that. Anyone care to summarise what the 101 things that PC loves about Cricket are? It's gonna be a pretty crappy list

 

[Cricketman]

I think we can just keep going
102 - Sachin's upper cut. So graceful, so effective, and it takes the reflexes of Superman to pull of.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Here's the 101.

1. Dwayne Leverock
2. Fast Bowling
3. Boycott
4. Kevin Pietersen
5. Fielding
6. Dustbowls
7. The Ashes
8. MS Dhoni in ODIs
9. Feeling hate towards a cricket team
10. The Serious Fraud Office
11. 2 Michael Holding Quotes
12. Reverse swing
13. Conventional swing
14. No swing
15. Dravid and Chanderpaul like batting
16. Cover Drive
17. England playing shite and then playing brilliantly but screwing it up
18. The light meter
19. Afridi
20. A Clarke ton
21. Sree, Vajji and Symonds
22. The Late Cut
23. Leg Spin
24. Billy Bowden
25. Reverse Sweep
26. Sachin Tendulkar
27. Banter
28. Wrong Umpire decisions/Really good umpire decisions.
29. Declarations
30. Bowling and hitting some guy in the balls and then getting drunk :o
31) Steve Waugh
32) Michael Vaughan's cover drive
33) Ian Bell's cover drive
34) Optimism
35. Batsmen walking down the pitch fast bowlers
36. Spin bowling
37. Matthew Hayden
38. West Indies bowling attack of the late 70s
39. Yuvraj Singh 6 sixes
40. Warnie's Off Field antics
41. 5 Day Tests
42. Freddie Flintoff
43. Test matches where the tension is thick enough to cut through all five days and make your heart skip every delivery of the fifth day.
44. Beer and Cricket
45. Record Breaking
46. Sledging
47. PlanetCricket
48. Arrogance
49. Bowling the perfect leg break
50. Variations
51. Youngistan Meri Jaan
52. The World Cup
53. Watching cricket late at night in a country where it is non-existent.
54. Fantasy Cricket Leagues
55. Glenn McGrath vs Sachin Tendulkar
56. Geooff Boycott's commentary
57. Brilliant Catches
58. Hitting people in the head
59. Cheerleaders
60. KP's Switch Hit
61. Hitting those sticks
62. Sixes hit only with timing and minimal brute force
63. Sachin vs Warne
64. Ricky Ponting's body language when Australia are struggling
65. Sachin's 143 in Sharjah against Australia in 1998
66. The fact all the fans are so wonderfully bitchy
67. A cartwheeling stump
68. Yorkshire
69. The Barmy Army
70. Irish fans
71. Equipment
72. Beer snakes
73. Jimmy's hair
74. The sound of willow and leather meeting on a bright summers morning
75. Hattricks
76. Picking the gap between cover and mid off
77. Smashing the ball straight back at the bowler
78. Winter Nets
79. Getting new equipment
80. The Lunch Interval
81. Bowling a bouncer as a spinner
82. Looking at cricket equipment
83. Middling the ball
84. Muralitharan taking his 503rd Wicket
85. Andrew Strauss
86. Test Match Special
87. Hundreds brought up with a six
88. This picture
89. Going out trying to bring up a hundred with a six
90. Muttiah Muralitharan's pinch hitting during the powerplays
91. The Geography
92. The fighters
93. The entertainers
94. Ajantha Mendis
95. Welsh Cricketers
96. Ganguly Six
97. Ravinder Bopara
98. Sachin's upper cut

Got rid of a couple because they were duplicates. I may have missed some more in this list. But there's room for 3 more.

99. Marcus North. Gun.