By Phil Holt, Aust.
Earlier visitor poll results
Favourite cricketing moments
Poll close July 2006.
1. Gatting's dismissal while playing a reverse sweep shot in the World Cup Final, and costing England victory. Calcutta 1987.
2. A dehydrated Dean Jones vomitting on the ground on his way to making 201 in the Tied test versus India. Madras 1986.
0. David Lloyd being struck in the groin by Thomson, Perth 1974.
0. Rod Marsh breaking his bat in a ODI versus New Zealand, Sydney 1981.
0. Steve Waugh being dismissed 'handled ball' against India, Chennai 2001.
3. Bob Willis going out to bat without his bat, 1982.
0. Gatting's vitriolic exchange with a Pakistan Umpire, 1987.
0. Shane Warne being caught on 99 at the WACA versus NZ, 2001.
1. The Kluzener-Donald run out fiasco which kept South Africa from certain victory in the World Cup Semi versus Aus, 1999.
0. Umpire Cumberbatch giving Dean Jones out run-out, when he left his ground believing that he was out bowled, unaware that it was a no ball. No one seemed to know that there was rule protecting batsmen from this. The next day the crowd had an effigy of Cumberbatch in a noose. Georgetown, 1991.
Should Jason Gillespie cut his hair?
8. No, because like Sampson, he will lose all of his power.
1. No, it offers a large surface area for sponsorship display.
1. Yes, because it causes too much wind resistance.
1. Yes, it covers the batsman's view of the sightscreen.
1. Yes, because he looks like a sissy.
1.At least now he can call himself the Flying Dragon.
Voting for the biggest bungle of the 2003 World Cup
poll closed June 13, 2003.
13 discalculate Pollock,
6 Boucher blocking that ball,
6 Warne taking the pill,
3 Aussie selectors for dumping Steve Waugh,
3 Hussain for turning up,
2 Hussain for not turning up,
1 Pedro Collins treading on the rope.
What is the future of Bangladesh in Test Cricket? closed Feb 7, 2003:
5 make their opponents play with one arm tied behind their backs,
5 give them a 300 run headstart,
3 drop them to a second division,
1 make them play for England (then England would be better),
1 don't let them play at all,
1 only allow them to play England,
1 make them play in the Women's Guild,
1 until they become mature, they should only play India, because India is the only team which can play any team into form,
1 bring back George Harrison for a second 'Concert for Bangladesh'.
1 They should get 99999999999999999999999999999 players.
July 2002
Funniest bowling action, Paul Adams 50% defeated Colin Croft 16%, Shane Warne 16%, and Peter Taylor 16%.
October 2001 voting
Best suggested mascot for the England Cricket Team was "chopstick" (how useful is one chopstick?)
75% said NZ were not whimps for abandoning the tour of Pakistan at a time of unrest.
Winners of August/September 2001 voting.
No clear winner for most decrepit cricketer
Inzamam ul Haq had 75% of the vote as the slowest between wickets
No clear winner for worst catcher
50% say England test side should be stuffed and exhibited in a glass case as the worst team ever.
Winners of June/July 2001 voting.
Ugliest cricketer: Wasim Akram with 33 percent of the vote.
Dumbest cricketer: Shane Warne with 44 percent.
Fattest cricketer: Shane Warne with 44 percent.
2001 Ashes winner forecast: Australia with 87.5 percent
Reason: They will drink more beer, 50 percent
Shane Warne gets a special mention for polling votes in all three categories (ugly, dumb and fat).