There are no right answers.
Actually, that’s rubbish, of course there are right answers.
But there is no prize; just the self-satisfied glow that comes with knowing that whatever you think, is right.
So in the downtime, whilst pondering which KFC meal suits you best, or which of the huge current batch of compelling cricket biographies might have the biggest revelation, here’s a quick quiz to see what you favour in our great summer game.
A splendid time is guaranteed for all:
Waqar or Wasim
Hayden or Langer
Hopes or Harvey
20/20 or ODI
AB or Faf
Botham or Pietersen
Greg or Ian Chappell
Mark or Steve Waugh
Greg or Mark
Ian or Steve
Dean Waugh or Trevor Chappell
Graeme Smith facing Johnson with a broken arm at the SCG or McCosker facing Lever with a broken jaw at the Centenary Test
Garner or Ambrose
Wade or Nevill
Viv Richards or Barry Richards
Gerard Whateley or Jim Maxwell
Panesar or Tuffnell
Tubby flogging air conditioners or Warner flogging TVs
Steyn or Donald
Pink ball or Red
Adelaide Oval or MCG
DRS or not
Roger Harper or Jonty Rhodes
Smith or Clarke
Mitch or Shaun
Holding or Walsh
Imran Khan or Kapil Dev
Atherton or Hussein
Renegades or Stars
Sixers or Thunder
BBL or Aus Open
Kallis or Sobers
Marsh or Healy
Sarfraz Nawaz or Bob Willis
Gillespie or Lee
McDermott or Hughes
Lara or Tendulkar
Ch 10 BBL or Ch 9 Test commentaries
Broad or Anderson
Graeme Swann or Matt Prior
Greg Matthews or Stuart MacGill
Jones or O’Donnell
Ponting or Border
Gooch or Gower
Bangladesh or Zimbabwe
Lillee or Thomson
Dean Jones Tied Test double hundred or Jason Gillespie’s nightwatchman double ton
Frank Worrell or Clive Lloyd
Benaud or Miller
Leggies or Offies
Chicken or Beef
About Sean Curtain
"He was born with a gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad". First line of 'Scaramouche' by Sabatini, always liked that.
Chicken or beef? Chicken. Nandos. Mild Peri-Peri. Slight hint that the suggestion to upsize was irksome.
Awright, let’s have a crack – deep breath:
Wasim, Hayden, Harvey, 20/20, AB (both of them), Botham, the one that played more for SA, Steve, the one that played for SA, ditto, ditto, McCosker, the one that played for SA, Nevill, the one that played for SA, Maxwell, Tuffers, OLED, Steyn, Pink, hahaha haha ha, DRS, Harper, Smith, Shaun, Holding, like a tiger, Athers, Renegades, Thunder, BBL until AusOpen finals, the one that played for SA, Healy, Sarfraz, the one that played for SA, you can’t make me choose, Lara, Ch 10 by default, Broad (Anderson is a home ball bully), Prior, Mo, Jones, AB, Gower, Bangladesh, Lillee Lillee Lillee, the one that played for SA, the one with the heavy bat, Richie, leggies, vego
Wasim, in my all time X!
Langer, did more when it was harder
Hopes or Harvey – nil all draw
20/20
AB – the truth of genius
Botham
Greg Chappell for batting and selecting but not a captain’s ars
Steve Waugh, better hair in the 80’s
Gregor
Ian or Steve?
Dean Waugh, TC’s selection in Tests still pains me
Graeme Smith facing Johnson with a broken arm at the SCG or McCosker facing Lever with a broken jaw at the Centenary Test – Kim Hughes batting the Windies with a broken toe on up and down wickets
Garner. Just
Nevill
Viv
Gerard Whateley in a procession
Tuffnell – man so good they named a tube station after him
Tubby flogging air conditioners
Steyn – absolute top drawer
Red
MCG
Not
Jonty Rhodes
Clarke
Mitch
Holding – genius yet underrated!
Imran Khan -all time XI
Atherton
Renegades
Thunder
BBL
Kallis
Healy
Bob Willis
Gillespie by the length of the Flemington straight
Hughes
Lara
Ch 10 BBL commentaries
Broad
Graeme Swann
Stuart MacGill
O’Donnell
Border
Gower
Bangladesh
Thomson
Greg Matthews’ sledge about Deano
Clive Lloyd
Miller
Leggies
Beefy Botham
A direct quote from Justice Qayyum, in the PCB inquiry into match-fixing:
“This commission feels that all is not well here and that Wasim Akram is not above board. He has not co-operated with this Commission. It is only by giving Wasim Akram the benefit of the doubt after Ata-ur-Rehman changed his testimony in suspicious circumstances that he has not been found guilty of match-fixing. He cannot be said to be above suspicion.”
Some of us will never forget.
Wasim is the best fast bowler I’ve seen. But Smokie is spot on.
Langer
Harvey
ODI
AB
Pieterson
Ian
Steve
Greg
Steve
Dean Waugh
Graeme Smith
Ambrose
Wade. Nevill is not a Darren Berry/Jack Russell with the gloves like he’s made out to be.
Viv
Gerard Whateley. Best sport broadcaster in Australia by far.
Tufnell
Warner
Donald
Red
MCG
Not
Jonty Rhodes. Best off-side infielder I’ve ever seen.
Smith
Shaun
Walsh
Imran Khan
Atherton
Go Stars!
Thunder
BBL
Sobers
Healy
Sarfraz
Gillespie
Hughes
Lara (better to watch)
Ch 10 by a mile these days
Broad
Swann
MacGill
Deano
Ponting
Gower
Was Zimbabwe now Bangladesh
Lillee
Deano
Sir Frank
Miller
Leggies (despite being an offie myself)
Beef
Wasim
Haydos
Freak (Harvey)
ODI
AB
KP
Gregory Scott
Stephen Rodger
G.S
S.R
Trevor
McCosker
Sir Curtly (sans wristbands of course)
Wade
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander
Jim
Tuffers
Tubby (Strayas Favorite Air)
White Lightning (Donald)
Red
THE G
Not (has it REALLY improved the game?)
Jonty
Steven Patrick Devereaux
Do I really have to? Mitch
Mikey
Imran
Athers
Neither (Stars if really pushed)
Neither (and it won’t change if really pushed)
OZ Open (nothing like a 1AM 5th set going to 9-7)
Sir Garfield St.Auburn
Sarfraz
Dizzy
Mervyn Gregory
Sachin Ramesh
Neither (9 if pushed only when Bill is on)
Broad
Swann
Yeah Yeah (Matthews)
Deano
Yeah Yeah (Gooch)
Bangas
Dennis Keith
Deano
Clive
Richie
Offies
Chook