Based on coolest specifically, rather than best or favourite, Chris Gayle is the coolest I have seen IRL. I loved watching him hit the ball over the stands, while looking like he wasn't really that bothered.
Chris Gayle is a good shout as a cricketer, but a risky one as a human. I reckon there are some stories to come out about his behaviour at some point in the future.
If you discount sleezy men from lists of top anything in elite sport, you're left with a sparse field.
I love Sir Viv and only last week had a photo taken with his statue (bowling at it, sadly I am uncool) but he's a shade before my era really, I didn't see him play live.
Per John Arlott: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."
He played football for England too and was a great all round athlete.
A brilliant track and field athlete, C.B. equalled the world long jump record with a jump of 23’ 6½” (7.17m) in 1893. With little formal training in the discipline itself, it is said that he prepared for the event by smoking a cigar. On completing his record equalling jump, he apparently returned to the changing room to finish his smoke.
Dennis Compton. Rocking up in dj from night before.
Honourable mention for David Gower for utterly not getting with the programme and continuing the cause of languid back-foot play (and unfortunately bijoux innings too)
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Based on coolest specifically, rather than best or favourite, Chris Gayle is the coolest I have seen IRL. I loved watching him hit the ball over the stands, while looking like he wasn't really that bothered.
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‘Rags’ Randall
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The op Is correct. End of thread.
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What he said.
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It’s Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards to you
As you were
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They’d all bow their heads to Mike Procter.
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More sway back out of the road. 8 yard runup in the JPL and he was rapid.
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And whilst I remember, who was it who observed that people who cheat at games always try to cheat at life?
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David Steele.
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Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie.
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Good shout Octo. I remember watching his first test appearance on TV.
‘When all about you are losing theirs’.
Think he latterly became a postman.
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It’s a close call between them but I’m with SFB.
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C B Fry
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Gower was quite cool, obvs. Gayle is a sleazebag, doesn’t matter how cool he appears.
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Carl Hooper
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Peter Such
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D.I. Gower was pretty cool too.
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Always thought Richie Richardson had more coolth than is fair
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it’s guaranteed to be a west indian, anyway
it’s impossible to be west indian and not cool
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Peter Such
Heh
The Court Jester of Spin
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Sir Jack Hobbs
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Chris Gayle is a good shout as a cricketer, but a risky one as a human. I reckon there are some stories to come out about his behaviour at some point in the future.
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Gower and Cowdrey are good shouts. Bushmen Bedi and Michael Holding among the bowlers. Derek Randall as a fielder
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Bishen Bedi .
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That reminds me I’ve got a first edition of CB Fry’s autobiography iirc
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Michael Holding
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If you discount sleezy men from lists of top anything in elite sport, you're left with a sparse field.
I love Sir Viv and only last week had a photo taken with his statue (bowling at it, sadly I am uncool) but he's a shade before my era really, I didn't see him play live.
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Per John Arlott: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."
He played football for England too and was a great all round athlete.
A brilliant track and field athlete, C.B. equalled the world long jump record with a jump of 23’ 6½” (7.17m) in 1893. With little formal training in the discipline itself, it is said that he prepared for the event by smoking a cigar. On completing his record equalling jump, he apparently returned to the changing room to finish his smoke.
How cool was that?
Also got a First in Classics from Oxford.
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Chris Tavare
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Brian Lara followed by Denis Compton
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WG Grace was pretty cool tbg
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and quite the hipster in terms of his grooming
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That Somerset team with Sir Viv was chocked full of cool dudes.
‘Budgie’ Burgess and Colin Dredge also spring to mind.
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Brian close!
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Sad times for RoF when nobody has offered up John Snow as the coolest cricketer... :(
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Dennis Compton. Rocking up in dj from night before.
Honourable mention for David Gower for utterly not getting with the programme and continuing the cause of languid back-foot play (and unfortunately bijoux innings too)
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Am trying to think of the least cool West Indian cricketer.
Roston Chase maybe?
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KP would be very disappointed not to get a mention, he definitely believed he was.
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wait for the biggest khunt thread and he'll be up there
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Phil "the cat" Tufnell
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Boon
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