Difficult to gauge a lot of them as not great coverage around, not their fault of course and you’d certainly need to make a case for likes of Hutton, Hobbs, Barrington and Hammond but I think KP compares favourably with the rest.
I never understand why people get so pre occupied with the players personality. I don’t really care what they do when the games finished I’m only interested in what they do on the field. I think Swann is a cock but what a fantastic player he was for us.
Away from the game I agree so long as it's within the law but in the dressing room it can mar team performance. Which is why I reconsider selecting Boycott as a great.
We had great success with KP in team so it certainly didn’t seem to effect the teams performance. He’s obviously arrogant, cocky and clearly wasn’t part of the dressing room ‘clique’ but he performed and to me that’s all that matters. Not as if he was humping another players wife or kicking fuck out of people. In life you won’t always get on with people you work with. Believe it or not there might even be some people who dislike me, unbelievable I know
Top run scorer in debut series, 2005 ashes, saving the game on the last day when Warne and McGrath were on the verge of skittling us to have a chase to level the series
Tin hat on -dropped by Warns when next to nowt then slogged irresponsibly.
Give owa man
Kallis was often criticised for his selfish batting but I bet South Africa wish they still had him. Botham played loads of reckless shots that weren’t exactly playing the situation but you accept the bad with players like him and KP as there’s a helluva lot of good as well.
