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The other day when I was attending the Ballarat Grand Final Breakfast, we had former Aussie cricketer Rodney Hogg as the guest speaker. He was very entertaining and really funny. Always made jokes about other cricketers who he didn't know when he played and is now very jealous of now that he commentates.
Just wondering how many famous cricketers have you met lately?
 
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schwab2clarkson;267814 said:
The other day when I was attending the Ballarat Grand Final Breakfast, we had former Aussie cricketer Rodney Hogg as the guest speaker. He was very entertaining and really funny. Always made jokes about other cricketers who he didn't know when he played and is now very jealous of now that he commentates.
Just wondering how many famous cricketers have you met lately?
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I was lucky to have dinner with Brian Lara during their tour in I think in1999/2000. I still rate his innings in Sydney where he made 277 as the best I have ever seen and the only way the aussies were going to get him out was run him out!
 
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Since i am also not a famous personality i have only met 45 cricketers. Sourav Ganguly at Delhi, Brett Lee,Warney & Punter at Mumbai (All were taking breakfast in Hotel Taj).
It was one of my great Experiences of life.
 
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I met Liam Davis at a training camp. A rookie WA state player is about the limit of my famous meetings. Although my Dad was given a bat by Brian Booth, not that that counts :(
 
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I saw Andrew Flintoff at Marlybone Train Station back in '04 with his hot girlfriend (now wife) when I was getting a Beatles tour in London. I was the only one in my group who knew who he was and our tour guide was impressed that I recognized him.
 
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Was rudely refused an autograph from Allan Border.

Same game, a young Damien Fleming and Mathew Elliot were being up to no good. I was about 8 and they asked me to come up to the change room (a domestic game probably 200 people watching) and had a chat to me before giving a bit of paper with their number on it. They asked me to take it down to a couple of cute blondies which I did, got their numbers as well and took them back up to the change room. I got a Victorian player shirt for my troubles :)

Have been to dinners with Alec Stewart, Merv Hughes, Rodney Hogg, Greg Chappel, and the most interesting of them all was listening to an English commetator tell us his stories (name evades me at the moment). All were guest speakers
 
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had merv hughes and dean jones at my club for sportsmans nights, merv top bloke but it was all rehearsed. deano was awesome in every way but im biased coz i love him. but th best for me was a tour the great DK Lillee and Rod Marsh id together about 10-12 yrs ago with oscar swarve at golf view hotel in geelong. We hung around after the gig and They came out when most had gone and we got on the piss in shouts with both of em for hours just talking cricket shit and funny things overseas. Christ does Lillee hate that Javed Miandad, real little shit stirring prick by the sounds of it. it was just euphoric to be on the piss with my absolute childhood hero, never forget it, signed cricket shirt from both of them to me, cost me absolute zero. still got it too.
 
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By virtue of where I used to work I have met quite a few of cricketers, most of them really nice. Brett Lee is the pick of the bunch - happy to talk about anything from cricket to music to movies. Really down-to-earth.
 
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No one overly famous...apart from big Merv.
But we had Laxmipathy Balaji come to a training session one night which helped me bowl even more puss!!
 
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Ive has a few beers with none other than the great Brett Anderton, he played at the Canberra Comets a few years back, he's a real celebrity down my way.:D
 
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I have been lucky enough to train with the Aussie one day side. So i had the pleasure of training will Gilly, Roy, Punter, Brett Lee, Shane Watson, Boof Lehmann, Michael Bevan, no Warney at the time. Got some great photos, and signed shirts. Then managed to score a BBQ and a couple of Beers with them after (boof the only one drinking)
 
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I had a one on one chat with Brett Lee a year or so back at a family day for about five minutes, when he missed out on the World Cup through that ankle injury. Had a good chat about kids, his injury and about life in general.

Top bloke- very genuine & sincere- you can see why he's a popular cricketer. Got a personalised autographed pic for my daughter as well! :)
 
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My two sons and I met the entire 99 World Cup squad after one of those parades.

Warnie was fantastic, especially with the kids. Steve Waugh :):), but Mark Waugh :mad:
 
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Dean3;274015 said:
My two sons and I met the entire 99 World Cup squad after one of those parades.

Warnie was fantastic, especially with the kids. Steve Waugh :):), but Mark Waugh :mad:
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I think that you will find that Mark Waugh is just plain shy, unless your sons said something to Mark that he didn't appreciate.
 
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I met Shaun Tait and Matty Elliott at the S.A Leisure centre, had a great chat with taity about cricket and his break down while Matty just stood there with no personality and had no idea what to say.
 
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