Which player you'll go back in time to see play?

[Satan666]

Kinda cheeky topic but if given the opportunity to go into the past to witness a player in several matches live who is it gonna be? Feel free to list a bowler, batsman or fielder!

Batsman: Viv Richards, the stories of him hooking relentlessly and fairlessly without a helmet against the fastest of men are legendary. Loved throughout the world, known as the master blaster!

Bowler: Fred Trueman, stories about this guy is never ending and reminiscent of the popular guy in school, the bad behaved bratt that still aced exams! A witty fellow on the field and off it as well. A guy they said could swing it both ways at fast pace and seam it off the green pitch as well. First bowler to rack up over 300 wickets at an avg of 21.5 and every 49 runs he got a wicket, amazing figures! Most of all I'd give anything to be at the Leeds test in '52 where he decimated the Indians in his first test helping reduce them for 4 wickets without making a solotary run, ended on figues for the match 8/31.


Fielder: Jonty Rhodes, damn you need to watch this guy on the field anything airborne he gonna catch it! Also played hockey for his country and a handy batsman as well.

 

[Fake Passport]

Probably W. G. Grace for his combination of all 3. There's a bit of debate about what his stats are (mainly around what games to consider) but anyway he was heads and shoulders above anyone else and was the original superstar of the game. Plus by all accounts he would have been an amusing person to have a drink with.

 

[Villain]

Sir Don Bradman.

 

[AliB]

The duo of Ian Bishop and Curtly Ambrose. Played a lot of test cricket with them in DBC14, and heard a lot from my dad about the West Indies pace attack back in the 80s and 90s.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

The duo of Ian Bishop and Curtly Ambrose. Played a lot of test cricket with them in DBC14, and heard a lot from my dad about the West Indies pace attack back in the 80s and 90s.

lol it was Courtney Walsh alongside Ambrose not Ian Bishop

 

[AliB]

lol it was Courtney Walsh alongside Ambrose not Ian Bishop

Wait, I didn't say that there was Ambrose and Bishop's partnership, I just want to see them bowl together, If you'd add Walsh and Holding = RIP opposition!

 

[Satan666]

The duo of Ian Bishop and Curtly Ambrose. Played a lot of test cricket with them in DBC14, and heard a lot from my dad about the West Indies pace attack back in the 80s and 90s.

News is Ian Bishop was touted to do great things but a severe back injury had the better of him, still though had a stellar career.

 

[Deleted member 46200]

Would love to have been following cricket when Adam Gilchrist was in his prime for not only Australia but for the Warriors. I only got into cricket and sport around the age of sixteen youtube is great but watching him from the East bank would have been a joy barefooted and sitting in the summer sun watching the Warriors with a cold one (okay juice back then) if this can happen at the age I am now then a cold bottle of Hahn!!!

 

[Yash.]

Going by the latest cricket book I am reading, I would probably go back to the 60s or 70s and watch the spin quatret of the Indian team - Chandrashekhar, Prasanna, Bedi and Venkatraghavan... They were absolute beasts...

 

[CerealKiller]

I would like to watch Pakistan play in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

 

[Satan666]

Going by the latest cricket book I am reading, I would probably go back to the 60s or 70s and watch the spin quatret of the Indian team - Chandrashekhar, Prasanna, Bedi and Venkatraghavan... They were absolute beasts...

Were they? Often heard talk but are there any stats to match them? Haveny done much research into the Indian team for that period( though i really should being an expert)

 

[Perfect Square]

Don Bradman, Wasim Akram and Saeed Anwer.

 

[Yash.]

Were they? Often heard talk but are there any stats to match them? Haveny done much research into the Indian team for that period( though i really should being an expert)

I also haven't looked in the stats... But as far as the book says, Their Bowling along with the close in catching of that Indian team was absolute joy to watch...

 

[Satan666]

I also haven't looked in the stats... But as far as the book says, Their Bowling along with the close in catching of that Indian team was absolute joy to watch...

Would imagine so. Guess the pitches they produced at that time fuel the 4 prone spin attack.

 

[Till Valhalla]

If I can go back in time why am I gonna watch anybody play cricket, I would be spending my time by messing the Time and Space Continuum.