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Following on from a pub-based discussion last Friday that swore blind that Liam Plunkett looked (and sounded) more like a Palace full-back than a cricketer, let's have your unlikely cricketer pictures.

I'm sure paichukka can start a sub-thread about 'cricketers with Nationwide names'

Anyway, here's mine:



Oliver Pitcher, 13-year-old opener for Bermuda.

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Love this one of Canada's Ian Billcliff



He looks like a booze-cruiser from Kent, with passport photo to match.

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I wanted to put a picture of Peter Taylor (the nerdy looking skinny off spinner) but I can't find one for love nor money. Great player, but he looked more like an allergic to everything bird-watcher who worked at the library.

I'll add this one, just because the photo demanded my attention.

Bangladeshi whizz-kid Tamim Iqbal looking ike a very young French mime artist.






-- Edited by El Presidente at 20:47, 2007-03-19

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Well this is a debatable entry. Anyone who has played for or against Ljubljana will know that cricketers carrying a little above fighting weight are not rare, but this is such a glorious picture of big "Sluggo" (Even his nickname sounds Ljubljanesque) taking a brilliant catch, proving that he wasn't just being hidden at first slip.

Bermuda's Dwayne Leverock pouches a tough chance.



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Just a brilliant picture

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I can't decide whether Big Dwayne is:
a) a B-list gangster rapper from the suburbs of LA
b) a bouncer for a slightly seedy establishment somewhere in Kentish Town
c) a shotputter from Guinea-Bissau who has become his country's first Olympian in over 50 years
d) Ainsley Harriott, a year on from the cancellation of his TV show contract and Fairy Liquid advertising deal.

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Forget cricketers not looking like cricketers. How about people who resemble their name?

Check out this female, who, if it weren't for the B&W photo, might indeedly look precisely like her name.

http://www.electraisd.net/alumni/display_class.aspx?y=1993

Girl 5 across and 5 down....




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El Treasurorio wrote:

Forget cricketers not looking like cricketers. How about people who resemble their name?

Check out this female, who, if it weren't for the B&W photo, might indeedly look precisely like her name.

http://www.electraisd.net/alumni/display_class.aspx?y=1993

Girl 5 across and 5 down....



Hooray 1500th post.

 Brilliant! I'm sure she's a lovely girl, though.


 

I can't decide whether Big Dwayne is:
a) a B-list gangster rapper from the suburbs of LA
b) a bouncer for a slightly seedy establishment somewhere in Kentish Town
c) a shotputter from Guinea-Bissau who has become his country's first Olympian in over 50 years
d) Ainsley Harriott, a year on from the cancellation of his TV show contract and Fairy Liquid advertising deal.


or e) A Ljubljana cricketer with a taste for a pint or 2, a fear of salad and gyms. If he wants to join us, he fits the profile. (Said by a member of the team whose Belgian Hotel  lift wouldn't allow the whole team in at once due to excess average weight - 1200 Kilos, 15 people or 11 Ljubljana cricketers maximum)



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El Treasurorio wrote:

Forget cricketers not looking like cricketers. How about people who resemble their name?

Check out this female, who, if it weren't for the B&W photo, might indeedly look precisely like her name.

http://www.electraisd.net/alumni/display_class.aspx?y=1993

Girl 5 across and 5 down....



By the way, magificent mullet wearing by the last 2 blokes (one capping it off with a Midge Ure light tache - class)

 



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I wanted to put a picture of Peter Taylor (the nerdy looking skinny off spinner) but I can't find one for love nor money. Great player, but he looked more like an allergic to everything bird-watcher who worked at the library.
Not hard to find:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/shared/spl/hi/cricket/02/ashes/classic_clashes/html/1986.stm

Here's a video:

http://crickethighlights.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-peter-taylor-montage/

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Anonymous wrote:

I wanted to put a picture of Peter Taylor (the nerdy looking skinny off spinner) but I can't find one for love nor money. Great player, but he looked more like an allergic to everything bird-watcher who worked at the library.
Not hard to find:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/shared/spl/hi/cricket/02/ashes/classic_clashes/html/1986.stm

Here's a video:

http://crickethighlights.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-peter-taylor-montage/

 Thanks for that Mr / Mrs Anonymous. Thanks for the clip too. I did find that pic, but that was about all. I was looking for something that made him look more like this guy



but that BBC pic makes him look quite healthy. By the way is there anyone else reading this that can remember Herbett Birdsfoot, from Sesame Street? (who is pictured above)

 



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OK, an obvious one, but



Very much the handsome bespectacled American who saves Julia Roberts or Michelle Pfeiffer from a lifetime of domestic drudgery and/or spousal abuse.

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Not wishing to blow my own rusty old trumpet or anything, but I made a vaguely amusing suggestion that female batsmen should be called "batgirls" for the BBC text commentary team - they published it and it's now led bizarrely to a whole "Cricketers as superheroes" discussion.
Rip-off of this thread if you ask me, and not as funny...!

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nice one Muppette. don't know if you wanna put that in your cv though

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