Don Bradman, Arthur Morris, Doug Walters, Bill Lawry, Richie Benaud, Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, Allan Border, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Steve Smith, Pat Cummins, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, David Warner, Cameron Green, Todd Murphy, Nathan Lyon, Travis Head, Shane Watson, Brett Lee, Mitch Starc, Scott Boland, Mark Waugh, Matthew Hayden, Jason Gillespie, Damien Martyn, Justin Langer, Andrew Symonds, Dean Jones, Phil Hughes, Rod Marsh, Mitchell Johnson, Ryan Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Simon Katich, David Boon, Merv Hughes, Peter Siddle, Elysse Perry, Meg Lanning, Michael Hussey.
When the Lord God walks out to bat for Heaven's Eleven (He opens with Sunil Gavaskar; The Don bats three), it must be a comfort to His mind that if the wheels do come off, He's got Warnie to spin them inside-out. Man, one day I hope to be in the stands to watch.
Yet to see anyone in AFL match the sheer dynamism, power and skill of this guy. To be at the ground at those games he was in full flight was incredible. That whole Lions team were just amazing to behold at their peak.
How many players today can kick goals from 55 to 60 metres out on both feet on the run with multiple angles regularly like Aker has done in his career simply an outstanding player
Far away from Australia...this week I have seen my US alma mater's women's volleyball team lose a college playoff game against an equally talented team. I have seen England's men's national soccer team lose another World Cup quarterfinal via the impact of a missed penalty kick. What do they lack? Ruthlessness. And nobody had that more abundantly than Jason Akermanis.
Such a character! Off the field he had the biggest mouth on him, throwing shade left and right in the cheekiest of ways, and then backing it up every weekend with a dominating performance. There are no characters in the game anymore. Not like Akers. Fuck I miss him, and I'm not even a Brisbane fan...
I imagine Lee's yorker to Kallis is as legendary to the Aussies as Flintoff's Yorker to him is to us. Worth looking up that South African batting line up on the full clip btw because it was terrifying throughout the 2000s.
I forgot how fast Aka was. Dude was an absolute beast from mid to the 50 for the goal. I also remember Nigel Lappin kicking some huge goals from sprinting mid
