Cricketers are ‘Alpha dogs’ and cricket is a dogfight.

What was once a gentleman’s game, cricket has taken the proportions of a dog fight. In a candid admission that reverberates the same sentiment as Roebucks ‘pack of dogs’ metaphor, Hayden reveals that he viewed himself and his opponents as dogs:

"They (the Indians) were reasonably pleasant. At the end of the day, two alpha dogs are never going to sit in a cage and not look at each other. It is what it is. The way I see my cricket, if you're the other alpha dog, you better not blink. I feel I'd be letting down my country if I was to blink.

"In terms of general human relations, I wouldn't say there was ill-feeling. India had four months out here. We rarely saw them other than at the ground. It's play and get back into the cage."

To be fair, Hayden was alluding to ‘alpha males’ and by referring to cricketers as alpha dogs, a Freudian slip, it is obvious that cricketers think themselves as dogs albeit ‘alpha dogs’ in a dogfight.

Now, to the question of the day or rather to more than one question of the day:

What is a top-dog? Is it the one at the ‘top’?

Then what do you call the dog at the ‘bottom’?

Are cricketers dogs? If so, name five alpha dogs.