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Cricketing Footballers.
- Thread starter Leekbrookgull
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Not sure about his football stats, but here are his cricket stats.
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/45120.html
Stinkers Bridge
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Ted Danson played for Cheers FC and Yorkshire
Man of Harveys
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I think that's because there's some dispute as to his footballer status. We could always have a "cricketing ballerinas" thread I s'pose.
Tricky Dicky
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Thanks for that. Interesting. A bit worrying that someone that I remember as being quite young when knew him is now 74 - makes me feel old.
The Large One
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We have yet to mention the greatest of them all... Charles Burgess Fry.
C.B. Fry played cricket for Sussex and England, football for Southampton, offered the role of King of Albania, long jump world record holder. Oh, read it all here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_B_Fry
C.B. Fry played cricket for Sussex and England, football for Southampton, offered the role of King of Albania, long jump world record holder. Oh, read it all here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_B_Fry
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Eh?
Cricket; Captained Sussex (scoring 94 centuries - six of them consecutively - over 30,000 runs) and England (never lost and England game while captain)
Football; Played for Southampton and England, including the 1902 FA Cup Final for the former
Rugby; Played for Oxford University, Blackheath and the Barbarians.
Athletics; World Long Jump record holder AND 100 yard champion
Politics; representative at the League of Nations AND offered the role of King of Albania
Education; Oxford scholar, teacher at Charterhouse, director on the T.S. Mercury
BEAT THAT!
Eh?
Cricket; Captained Sussex (scoring 94 centuries - six of them consecutively - over 30,000 runs) and England (never lost and England game while captain)
Football; Played for Southampton and England, including the 1902 FA Cup Final for the former
Rugby; Played for Oxford University, Blackheath and the Barbarians.
Athletics; World Long Jump record holder AND 100 yard champion
Politics; representative at the League of Nations AND offered the role of King of Albania
Education; Oxford scholar, teacher at Charterhouse, director on the T.S. Mercury
BEAT THAT!
Woosnam;
Football; Captain of England, plus Chelsea, Corinthians and Manchester City.
Tennis; Wimbledon and Olympic Champion, Davis Cup Captain
Table Tennis; Represented England
Cricket; represented Cambridge and the MCC, scored a first class Lords hundred at the age of 15.
Golf; Played of Scratch
Snooker; experienced player, 147 break.
Politics; Above all that nastiness. [the highly respected position of Albanian monarch was also offered to Norman Wisdom]
Education; Winchester; captain in 7 sports. Cambridge; blue in 6 sports.
Service; served in Galipoli
Working life; Turned down a proffesional career in football, cricket and golf, considering that earing an living from a 'pastime' was 'vulgar'. Instead worked full time on his career, ending up on the board of ICI.
Brighton Breezy
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Joe Gatting is a CLASS batsman...
Dave the OAP
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Ahem.
..."I think there were about a dozen people who played both cricket and football for England: Compton and CB Fry ...
Uncle Buck
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Does he get out the way of the ball?
turienzo's lovechild
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phil neville was quite high up in cricketing circles was he not?
Tricky Dicky
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I thought it was a cricket 'square' !!