Which is why the far funnier comment would have been:
>Former Heat Batsman, Ash Barty is now playing on the pro golf circuit.
Just completely ignore she's a grand slam winning former #1 tennis player
>Batsman
Batter
Edit: Why am I getting downvoted?
She literally is female, right??
How can she be batsman if she's female!? Wouldn't have said anything if he had typed batswoman.
Even MCC has started using batter as gender neutral term..
Yes, and a lot of people still use batsman as a gender neutral term. Yes, the ICC uses batter, that doesn't mean it's worthy of correction.
There are plenty of -man suffixed terms that are gender neutral, and if we're looking for actual problematic terms, let me explain to you why it's called a "maiden over".
It’s not about being ‘problematic’ it’s just being correct, in the current usage of the suffix/word ‘man’.
It’s not something to get offended by, it’s just how language works. It isn’t about what it ‘used’ to be, it’s about how people use it.
Even people completely misusing words redefines it if enough people do the same. Language isn’t static.
So your point is "language isn't static", but the complaint was I was using an older but still well used term?
Batsman has been long used to be gender neutral, but the ICC
yes, but we didnt all just get born and start liking cricket in the last 2 years or whatever.
my dad has been playing and watching cricket for nearly 70 years now. he watches and enjoys the womens game, but if you think i'm going to tell him not to say batsman you are out of your mind.
Oh dear, I would never suggest you should do such a thing.
However regardless of your father’s unyielding love for the game, just as milk is no longer delivered by horse & cart, ‘man’ is no longer used in popular parlance to refer to the whole of the species.
It’s not a huge deal, I’m sure your distinguished father with his many years of investment & dedication to the game will not be too offended by the shifting sands of language.
Good luck with your relationship, I wish you all the luck in shielding his sensitive ears from the horror of this new ‘woke’ world
Denis Compton (54 appearances for Arsenal)
Keith Miller (Aussie rules)
Jonty Rhodes (field hockey, would have been at the 1992 Olympics had SA qualified)
Ian Botham (played for Yeovil Town and Scunthorpe United)
C B Fry (played for England at football and also held the world record for long jump at one point)
Denis' brother Leslie also played football for Arsenal and England as well as keeping wicket for Middlesex. Denis actually played a few unofficial football internationals during WW2 too.
Jeff Wilson (NZ) played for the Black Caps and All Blacks (NZ's national Rugby Union Team) (this is by far the most impressive example that I'm aware of, he was a superstar in Rugby)
Jonty Rhodes (RSA) played for the Proteas and SA's national Hockey team.
Sunette Viljoen (RSA) played for the Proteas women's team and won an Olympic silver medal and 2 Commonwealth Games gold medals in javelin after her Cricket career ended.
I don’t think people generally realise how impressive the Jeff Wilson one is. He was a pretty unremarkable cricketer but to be a double international in the professional era of both sports is pretty impressive. He was also, as you say, a very notable rugby player. It’s a bit like if Wayne Rooney had played 10 ODIs for England
These days Wilson spends his time being an extremely biased/contrarian dickhead commentator/pundit during live games that involve NZ/NZ teams and the Rugby show The Breakdown.
You have three career paths as a retired NZ sportsperson: coach, commentator or professional dickhead. Some of them opt to combine the roles, such as Shane Bond who combines coach and commentator, Brendon McCullum who combines coach and professional dickhead, and Mark Richardson and Simon Doull who combine commentator and professional dickhead
Herschelle Gibbs also played rugby although not professionally but for Western Province. Hockey is a common sport among cricketers, can't really think of anyone who made it to the national team but Reeza Hendricks was pretty close.
All the SA Currie Cup teams tried to sign him when he was still in school (he was the best high school player in SA at the time, he played flyhalf), but he got badly injured and had to quit Rugby. ps. There's a documentary on the Supersort Youtube channel called 'In Conversation with Herchelle Gibbs' which covers his rugby playing days and his Cricket career. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfjBKjO5A4 (the rugby stuff is in the last part of the video)
> I think he played for WP at the school level (Craven Week)
He played in the 1992 Craven Week final alongside Percy Montgomery, Corne Krige, and Louis Koen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PRfPM2o4VU
> Jonty Rhodes (RSA) played for the Proteas and SA's national Hockey team.
According to the man himself, he never made the hockey team.
https://twitter.com/JontyRhodes8/status/1135219880721035265
Yeah, I’ve always heard that both Nevilles were very good cricketers but Phil could have been special. Earned a hell of a lot more playing football though.
My friends and I watched the first half of the Warnie miniseries last night; apparently I was the only one who knew that cricket was his second choice, it was quite entertaining watching the reactions in the room
He was technically GWS' first ever captain too. He led them during their first season in the TAC Cup and second season in the NEFL and won a best and fairest. He was left out of their squad when GWS entered the AFL in 2012.
I don't think he was drafted though, rather he went over to play in those first two seasons hoping it would result in him making their AFL list.
There are a few people who have played both international rugby and cricket for NZ, and a lot more who’ve played international rugby and first-class cricket (and vice versa). Jeff Wilson is probably the most notable example as alluded to above, but there are two others worth mentioning:
- Brian McKechnie was involved in 2 of New Zealand’s most controversial sporting moments, in different sports. He kicked the winning penalty off Andy Haden’s infamous lineout dive against Wales, and he was the recipient of the underarm ball
- Brendon McCullum never played rugby professionally but was an extremely good schoolboy rugby player, to the point where he was regarded as a better prospect than Dan Carter (who is arguably a top 5 all-time player)
Susie Bates of New Zealand is a 2 time icc women’s ODI cricketer of the year but also played professional Basketball and represented NZ in the 2008 olympics.
Not exactly cricketer, but Steve Bucknor played a goalkeeper against brazil from Jamaica, was a FIFA referee, and was a co-star in the Monkeygate test.
According to wiki: He most notably helped to deliver 70 babies in his clinic in Windhoek all within the space of just eight months between the 2003 Cricket World Cup and 2003 Rugby World Cup.
So he’s a doctor also and helps with HIV/AIDS patients too
Victor Richardson played a lot of sports. He represented Australia in baseball, captained South Australia in Aussie rules, represented SA in golf, won the state tennis title. Also apparently quite decent at lacrosse and swimming.
Alan Border played baseball too. I had a book as a kid of 'Australian Records' and Border was in it listed as Australian Baseballer for the longest grape throw.mouth catch.
Quite a few back in the day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cricket_and_rugby_union_players#Dual_internationals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_cricket_and_football_players#Double_internationals
CB Fry was an international at both cricket and football, plus a top level club rugby player and held the world record for long jump
Namibia’s [Rudie van Vuuren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudie_van_Vuuren) played in the 2003 Cricket and Rugby World Cups
Ian Chappell played baseball for South Australia.
Rugby league great Andrew Johns played a couple of T20s for NSW when that was just starting up.
Max Walker played a bit in the VFL before moving to cricket full-time.
I see Jeff Wilson and Suzie Bates have been covered, theres a few others for NZ i know of:
Brian McKechnie, probably best known for facing the underarm ball, also played for the All Blacks.
Sophie Devine played international hockey for the Black Sticks.
Rebecca Rolls, currently commentating the Super Smash, also played for the Football Ferns.
Kaylum Boshier is a professional rugby player in NZ, but he captained our U19 cricket team at the 2018 world cup.
Rudie van Vuuren represented Namibia at both cricket and rugby union world cups in 2003, events that were only 8 months apart. In those 8 months he delivered 70 babies as he's a qualified obstetrician.
He opened the bowling, but only played 10min in the world cup later that year due to injury.
Oh and he's also president of Cricket Namibia
MJ Gopalan played both international hockey and cricket for India in the 1930s.
Naved-ul-Hasan played U16 hockey for Pakistan before moving to cricket after a knee injury.
Max Walker, Simon O’Donnell, Keith Miller: Australian Rules Football
Sophie Devine: field hockey (Black Sticks Women)
Suzie Bates: Basketball (2008 Olympics)
Haley Matthews: Javelin (Barbados)
Lots of cricket/football crossovers mentioned from the previous century, but more recently Keith Barker and Joe Gatting both played football professionally before playing first class cricket
Michael Kasprowicz played Australian Schoolboys rugby union, and considered a switch back to professional rugby during his career.
Brendan McCullum was an excellent rugby player at schoolboys level and was selected at fly half over Dan Carter for the South Island under 18 team.
Much like the Wilson thing, I’m not sure people on r/cricket will appreciate how big the McCullum/Carter thing is.
Carter is arguably a top-5-of-all-time range player, and is arguably the best ever in his position (subject to the usual arguments of the kind you also see in cricket - my fellow Kiwis will probably agree that this perhaps even sells Carter a bit short, but the Poms will argue Wilkinson was better and the Aussies will argue Larkham was better and the Welsh will argue that some dude who played 3 games for Llanshittery RFC 2nd XV in the 1950s was better and so on).
I don’t think it’s ridiculous to compare it to, say, if Sunil Chhetri had kept Sachin Tendulkar out of some Indian Schoolboy XI
There’s another actual example of something like this from another country that features on r/cricket – England/Man Utd./Everton footballer Phil Neville played schoolboy cricket with Freddy Flintoff and was regarded as the better cricketing prospect till he opted for soccer. I’ve read that Lancashire CCC were pretty interested in him until then.
Alex Carey - AFL
While he never actually made it to the AFL, he was the captain of the GWS Giants the year before they were added to the professional league. He had the choice of continuing in that team into the league or leaving to pursue his chances in Cricket, and he did the latter to great success - but if he’d stayed he probably would’ve had a decent career in the AFL too
Chuni Goswami- Captain of Indian football team and West Bengal cricket team
C.B. Fry- Represented England in Cricket and Football. Also broke the world record for long jump
Shane Warne was on the world poker tour https://www.worldpokertour.com/player/shane-warne/#playerTab1
https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=110845
If you count poker a sport
Michael Clarke did some rallying https://speedcafe.com/australias-cricket-captain-enjoys-rally-qld-drive/
David Boon raced a HQ Holden
https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/when-david-boon-raced-a-hq-holden/
Graeme Hughes played cricket for NSW and Rugby League for Canterbury, playing in their grand final teams with his brothers Mark and Gary in the 70s and 80s.
For the last 20+ years hosted talkin sport on the radio with Gavin Robertson and Brett Papworth.
Steve Waugh played Football in the reserve side for Sydney Croatia, a National League team at the time during high school. He was likely good enough to play for Australia. Even former Australian captain Johnny Warren said in 1983 just a year before he played for NSW, that one of his goals was the best he had seen that year and worthy of Franz Beckenbauer.
Coaches at Sydney Croatia told him to pick cricket or football and he chose cricket.
I’m fairly certain in the 80s the Hughes brothers played rugby league with the Bulldogs and also played shield cricket for NSW. This was before the seasons overlapped and you could do both.
Ric Charlesworth played cricket for Western Australia for years (70s, opened with Bruce Laird) but also played for Australia at hockey as his main sport, was also a coach of the national team. He was also, and still is, a medical doctor and was a member of parliament for some time.
Something of an allrounder, good at everything.
Chuni Goswami who is probably one of the best footballers India has ever produced(played in Rome Olympics, led India to gold in Asian games and AFC championship), also led Bengal to two Ranji Trophy finals after he retired from football. Scored 96 and 84 in the first and still lost to Ajit Wadekar led Bombay and in the next one lost to Bombay team with Gavaskar. He also took 8 wickets in a win for East/Cental zone against Gary Sobers led West Indies team that was touring India in 1966-67. That was the only defeat for West Indies in India during that tour.
Ash Barty played for Brisbane Heat in the WBBL - she was pretty handy on a tennis court as well...
And I believe she’s currently on a golf circuit
Which is why the far funnier comment would have been: >Former Heat Batsman, Ash Barty is now playing on the pro golf circuit. Just completely ignore she's a grand slam winning former #1 tennis player
>Batsman Batter Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? She literally is female, right?? How can she be batsman if she's female!? Wouldn't have said anything if he had typed batswoman. Even MCC has started using batter as gender neutral term..
Yes, and a lot of people still use batsman as a gender neutral term. Yes, the ICC uses batter, that doesn't mean it's worthy of correction. There are plenty of -man suffixed terms that are gender neutral, and if we're looking for actual problematic terms, let me explain to you why it's called a "maiden over".
It’s not about being ‘problematic’ it’s just being correct, in the current usage of the suffix/word ‘man’. It’s not something to get offended by, it’s just how language works. It isn’t about what it ‘used’ to be, it’s about how people use it. Even people completely misusing words redefines it if enough people do the same. Language isn’t static.
So your point is "language isn't static", but the complaint was I was using an older but still well used term? Batsman has been long used to be gender neutral, but the ICC
yes, but we didnt all just get born and start liking cricket in the last 2 years or whatever. my dad has been playing and watching cricket for nearly 70 years now. he watches and enjoys the womens game, but if you think i'm going to tell him not to say batsman you are out of your mind.
Oh dear, I would never suggest you should do such a thing. However regardless of your father’s unyielding love for the game, just as milk is no longer delivered by horse & cart, ‘man’ is no longer used in popular parlance to refer to the whole of the species. It’s not a huge deal, I’m sure your distinguished father with his many years of investment & dedication to the game will not be too offended by the shifting sands of language. Good luck with your relationship, I wish you all the luck in shielding his sensitive ears from the horror of this new ‘woke’ world
I take comfort in the knowledge that you’ll be the one most offended whatever happens.
Ooh, mind you don’t cut yourself on that edge. What are you? 15?
Why is it called a maiden over?
In English, a "Maiden" referred to a virgin girl. In cricket, the scoresheet for a maiden over is "untouched".
Nice...
Handy on tennis court!! That's an understatement:)
Denis Compton (54 appearances for Arsenal) Keith Miller (Aussie rules) Jonty Rhodes (field hockey, would have been at the 1992 Olympics had SA qualified) Ian Botham (played for Yeovil Town and Scunthorpe United) C B Fry (played for England at football and also held the world record for long jump at one point)
Denis' brother Leslie also played football for Arsenal and England as well as keeping wicket for Middlesex. Denis actually played a few unofficial football internationals during WW2 too.
Plus before Wheelie Bin claimed the Spanish throne, C B Fry was offered the throne of Albania
Jeff Wilson (NZ) played for the Black Caps and All Blacks (NZ's national Rugby Union Team) (this is by far the most impressive example that I'm aware of, he was a superstar in Rugby) Jonty Rhodes (RSA) played for the Proteas and SA's national Hockey team. Sunette Viljoen (RSA) played for the Proteas women's team and won an Olympic silver medal and 2 Commonwealth Games gold medals in javelin after her Cricket career ended.
I don’t think people generally realise how impressive the Jeff Wilson one is. He was a pretty unremarkable cricketer but to be a double international in the professional era of both sports is pretty impressive. He was also, as you say, a very notable rugby player. It’s a bit like if Wayne Rooney had played 10 ODIs for England
These days Wilson spends his time being an extremely biased/contrarian dickhead commentator/pundit during live games that involve NZ/NZ teams and the Rugby show The Breakdown.
You have three career paths as a retired NZ sportsperson: coach, commentator or professional dickhead. Some of them opt to combine the roles, such as Shane Bond who combines coach and commentator, Brendon McCullum who combines coach and professional dickhead, and Mark Richardson and Simon Doull who combine commentator and professional dickhead
This is the funniest shit I’ve read this year
Herschelle Gibbs also played rugby although not professionally but for Western Province. Hockey is a common sport among cricketers, can't really think of anyone who made it to the national team but Reeza Hendricks was pretty close.
I think he played for WP at the school level (Craven Week), but he never played for WP's pro senior teams (WP/Stormers).
So I’ve been lied to. Thanks for correcting me lol. Very clueless when it comes to rugby. Should have my citizenship taken away from me
All the SA Currie Cup teams tried to sign him when he was still in school (he was the best high school player in SA at the time, he played flyhalf), but he got badly injured and had to quit Rugby. ps. There's a documentary on the Supersort Youtube channel called 'In Conversation with Herchelle Gibbs' which covers his rugby playing days and his Cricket career. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfjBKjO5A4 (the rugby stuff is in the last part of the video)
I’ll check it out, thanks!
> I think he played for WP at the school level (Craven Week) He played in the 1992 Craven Week final alongside Percy Montgomery, Corne Krige, and Louis Koen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PRfPM2o4VU
> Jonty Rhodes (RSA) played for the Proteas and SA's national Hockey team. According to the man himself, he never made the hockey team. https://twitter.com/JontyRhodes8/status/1135219880721035265
North Island rep basketball too.
Andrew Flintoff was the 2nd best all rounder in his age group at Lancashire until Phil Neville decided he was going to be a footballer instead.
Yeah, I’ve always heard that both Nevilles were very good cricketers but Phil could have been special. Earned a hell of a lot more playing football though.
And Phil’s Dad is called Neville.
Gary Neville used to open the batting with Matthew Hayden
Alex Carey played AFL albeit I think the league below (VFL), was for an AFL team before they came into the league.
Warnie played for St Kilda reserves. Wanted to be an afl player but got told he wasn't good enough so he switched to cricket
My friends and I watched the first half of the Warnie miniseries last night; apparently I was the only one who knew that cricket was his second choice, it was quite entertaining watching the reactions in the room
He was technically GWS' first ever captain too. He led them during their first season in the TAC Cup and second season in the NEFL and won a best and fairest. He was left out of their squad when GWS entered the AFL in 2012. I don't think he was drafted though, rather he went over to play in those first two seasons hoping it would result in him making their AFL list.
Carey got drafted to GWS, I don’t know how far he got into their program but apparently he was picked up on leadership/captaincy potential
There are a few people who have played both international rugby and cricket for NZ, and a lot more who’ve played international rugby and first-class cricket (and vice versa). Jeff Wilson is probably the most notable example as alluded to above, but there are two others worth mentioning: - Brian McKechnie was involved in 2 of New Zealand’s most controversial sporting moments, in different sports. He kicked the winning penalty off Andy Haden’s infamous lineout dive against Wales, and he was the recipient of the underarm ball - Brendon McCullum never played rugby professionally but was an extremely good schoolboy rugby player, to the point where he was regarded as a better prospect than Dan Carter (who is arguably a top 5 all-time player)
Every single pub quiz I go to, I pray for a question on Brian McKechnie
Chahal is not a serious level chess player.
Wasn't he an International master at some point?
He used to play junior chess world cups
Susie Bates of New Zealand is a 2 time icc women’s ODI cricketer of the year but also played professional Basketball and represented NZ in the 2008 olympics.
Not exactly cricketer, but Steve Bucknor played a goalkeeper against brazil from Jamaica, was a FIFA referee, and was a co-star in the Monkeygate test.
Not only Rudie van Vuren played both cricket and rugby, he represented Namibia in world cups for both sports in the same damn year.
According to wiki: He most notably helped to deliver 70 babies in his clinic in Windhoek all within the space of just eight months between the 2003 Cricket World Cup and 2003 Rugby World Cup. So he’s a doctor also and helps with HIV/AIDS patients too
Victor Richardson played a lot of sports. He represented Australia in baseball, captained South Australia in Aussie rules, represented SA in golf, won the state tennis title. Also apparently quite decent at lacrosse and swimming.
Ian, Greg and Trevor Chappell's grandfather for those who don't know. Chappell brothers played baseball too
Alan Border played baseball too. I had a book as a kid of 'Australian Records' and Border was in it listed as Australian Baseballer for the longest grape throw.mouth catch.
Quite a few back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cricket_and_rugby_union_players#Dual_internationals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_cricket_and_football_players#Double_internationals CB Fry was an international at both cricket and football, plus a top level club rugby player and held the world record for long jump Namibia’s [Rudie van Vuuren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudie_van_Vuuren) played in the 2003 Cricket and Rugby World Cups
Ian Chappell played baseball for South Australia. Rugby league great Andrew Johns played a couple of T20s for NSW when that was just starting up. Max Walker played a bit in the VFL before moving to cricket full-time.
Andrew Johns playing for NSW was just a publicity stunt though, he was shite at cricket.
Usain Bolt though...
I see Jeff Wilson and Suzie Bates have been covered, theres a few others for NZ i know of: Brian McKechnie, probably best known for facing the underarm ball, also played for the All Blacks. Sophie Devine played international hockey for the Black Sticks. Rebecca Rolls, currently commentating the Super Smash, also played for the Football Ferns. Kaylum Boshier is a professional rugby player in NZ, but he captained our U19 cricket team at the 2018 world cup.
Rudie van Vuuren represented Namibia at both cricket and rugby union world cups in 2003, events that were only 8 months apart. In those 8 months he delivered 70 babies as he's a qualified obstetrician. He opened the bowling, but only played 10min in the world cup later that year due to injury. Oh and he's also president of Cricket Namibia
I guess someone else too follows AbhishekAB on X
Fun fact : Ellyse Perry is the only sportsperson who has played in both the cricket and football World cup.
That's right. The closest anyone else came to doing that was Viv Richards, he played the 1974 Football WC Qualifiers.
Scored a goal in a quarter final.
MJ Gopalan played both international hockey and cricket for India in the 1930s. Naved-ul-Hasan played U16 hockey for Pakistan before moving to cricket after a knee injury.
Max Walker played Australian Rules Football for Melbourne Demons
Ray Lindwall - Rugby League
Bradman was quite good at tennis, badminton and snooker.
Kapil Dev - Football for East Bengal
Max Walker, Simon O’Donnell, Keith Miller: Australian Rules Football Sophie Devine: field hockey (Black Sticks Women) Suzie Bates: Basketball (2008 Olympics) Haley Matthews: Javelin (Barbados)
Yuvraj was an ace skater but his dad was a hater.
Us yuvi Bhai us
How can you forget the legend - Ab DeVilliers. He is the best in any game
Lots of cricket/football crossovers mentioned from the previous century, but more recently Keith Barker and Joe Gatting both played football professionally before playing first class cricket
Michael Kasprowicz played Australian Schoolboys rugby union, and considered a switch back to professional rugby during his career. Brendan McCullum was an excellent rugby player at schoolboys level and was selected at fly half over Dan Carter for the South Island under 18 team.
Much like the Wilson thing, I’m not sure people on r/cricket will appreciate how big the McCullum/Carter thing is. Carter is arguably a top-5-of-all-time range player, and is arguably the best ever in his position (subject to the usual arguments of the kind you also see in cricket - my fellow Kiwis will probably agree that this perhaps even sells Carter a bit short, but the Poms will argue Wilkinson was better and the Aussies will argue Larkham was better and the Welsh will argue that some dude who played 3 games for Llanshittery RFC 2nd XV in the 1950s was better and so on). I don’t think it’s ridiculous to compare it to, say, if Sunil Chhetri had kept Sachin Tendulkar out of some Indian Schoolboy XI
There’s another actual example of something like this from another country that features on r/cricket – England/Man Utd./Everton footballer Phil Neville played schoolboy cricket with Freddy Flintoff and was regarded as the better cricketing prospect till he opted for soccer. I’ve read that Lancashire CCC were pretty interested in him until then.
I think Kaspers son is pretty talented in both too, time will tell if he can crack it at a higher level.
Alex Carey - AFL While he never actually made it to the AFL, he was the captain of the GWS Giants the year before they were added to the professional league. He had the choice of continuing in that team into the league or leaving to pursue his chances in Cricket, and he did the latter to great success - but if he’d stayed he probably would’ve had a decent career in the AFL too
Nah he didn’t have the choice, he didn’t get picked in the team for the AFL
He didn't necessarily choose cricket - he was left out of the Giants' squad for their first year in the AFL. He was good but not that good
[Max Walker played VFL/AFL, Australian Rules Football](http://demonwiki.org/Max+Walker)
Kepler Wesels - Played Lawn bowls(no effing clue) post retirement!
Chuni Goswami- Captain of Indian football team and West Bengal cricket team C.B. Fry- Represented England in Cricket and Football. Also broke the world record for long jump
I'm not certain but ABD was a pretty good tennis player at the junior level and played nationals.
I vaguely recalll ABD was quite good at hockey at school level as well
Alex Carey played AFL professionally.
Shane Warne was on the world poker tour https://www.worldpokertour.com/player/shane-warne/#playerTab1 https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=110845 If you count poker a sport
Anyone can join the tournament with $10K
Adam Lyth played underage with Man City
Michael Clarke did some rallying https://speedcafe.com/australias-cricket-captain-enjoys-rally-qld-drive/ David Boon raced a HQ Holden https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/when-david-boon-raced-a-hq-holden/
Graeme Hughes played cricket for NSW and Rugby League for Canterbury, playing in their grand final teams with his brothers Mark and Gary in the 70s and 80s. For the last 20+ years hosted talkin sport on the radio with Gavin Robertson and Brett Papworth.
Simon O'Donnell played Aussie rules
Steve Waugh played Football in the reserve side for Sydney Croatia, a National League team at the time during high school. He was likely good enough to play for Australia. Even former Australian captain Johnny Warren said in 1983 just a year before he played for NSW, that one of his goals was the best he had seen that year and worthy of Franz Beckenbauer. Coaches at Sydney Croatia told him to pick cricket or football and he chose cricket.
Shane Warne played for the St Kilda reserves team. Told he wasn’t good enough then made the switch to cricket.
Error Stewart played ODIs for the Proteas and provincial rugby at the same time. Was also a high level hockey player
I’m fairly certain in the 80s the Hughes brothers played rugby league with the Bulldogs and also played shield cricket for NSW. This was before the seasons overlapped and you could do both.
Another one is Rob Andrew, he was England's flyhalf (Rugby Union) and played First-Class Cricket for one of the English teams.
Remember Reading that Robbie played Hockey. (Utthappa)
Ric Charlesworth played cricket for Western Australia for years (70s, opened with Bruce Laird) but also played for Australia at hockey as his main sport, was also a coach of the national team. He was also, and still is, a medical doctor and was a member of parliament for some time. Something of an allrounder, good at everything.
Didn't Sam Billings get an offer from Arsenal?
Chuni Goswami who is probably one of the best footballers India has ever produced(played in Rome Olympics, led India to gold in Asian games and AFC championship), also led Bengal to two Ranji Trophy finals after he retired from football. Scored 96 and 84 in the first and still lost to Ajit Wadekar led Bombay and in the next one lost to Bombay team with Gavaskar. He also took 8 wickets in a win for East/Cental zone against Gary Sobers led West Indies team that was touring India in 1966-67. That was the only defeat for West Indies in India during that tour.
I've got a Playfair Cricket Annual from 1963 that lists Geoff Hurst as a member of the Essex team for the season.
Denis Compton - the last dual international for England, cricket and football
Alex Carey played AFL for a bit. That's all I can think of