Memories Of Greatest Cricketers - - #8 Shane Warne

[directhit]

chinna payyanukku gaaji kudukkaama yEmaathittu post vEra

[P_R]

In the Asian test championship ('98) he broke through Rahul Dravid's defence. He got him out lbw the previous ball but the umprire turned it down. The next one was a fantastic ball Dravid couldn't answer.

I guess you are mentioning the 1999 Chennai test Second innings in which Sachin scored 136.... Athulla thaan ithu nadakum....The umpire who denied Dravid's LBW was Steve Dunn.....

Oh okay !

Here it is

[crajkumar_be]

In the Asian test championship ('98) he broke through Rahul Dravid's defence. He got him out lbw the previous ball but the umprire turned it down. The next one was a fantastic ball Dravid couldn't answer.

I guess you are mentioning the 1999 Chennai test Second innings in which Sachin scored 136.... Athulla thaan ithu nadakum....The umpire who denied Dravid's LBW was Steve Dunn..... Athe paradesi thaan Ganguly ku 1 pitch catch a out kuduthuduvaan....

The ball that dismissed Dravid in the second innings to me was the ball of the century.... The LBW appeal was an inswinger to Dravid which would pitch in line straighten and hit him in line which was absolutely plumb.... The next delivery would also pitch in line and Dravid would try to play it within the line with a straight bat but the ball will beat him swinging the other way clipping the outside part of the off stump.... Chance e illa..... Akram was also my favorite bowler....

Asian Test Championship la Dravid was dismissed by Shoiab Akthar and the very next ball he bowled Sachin with a Yorker...... Second innings layum Dravid was dismissed by Akthar if I remember right....and Sachin was runout in a controversial manner.... Steve bucknor thaan ithula villian....

Naanum lighta confuse aitten between ATC (Calcutta) and the Chennai test.

The umpire who denied Dravid's LBW was Steve Dunn..... Athe paradesi thaan Ganguly ku 1 pitch catch a out kuduthuduvaan....

He is a notorious "out" umpire (pitched outside leg ku ellam out kuduppaan) aana inga maathi not out kuduthuttaan.
"1 pitch catch" yeah

[P_R]

1 pitch catch" yeah

French cricket-la legitimate out'unga.

[Sanguine Sridhar]

1 pitch catch" yeah

French cricket-la legitimate out'unga.

Frech cricket! Ball-a adichitu, bat-ala iduppa suthuradhu thaane?

France-la appadi oru game irukka enna?

[P_R]

Frech cricket! Ball-a adichitu, bat-ala iduppa suthuradhu thaane?

Yes. Plus...oru vattaththukkaLLayE vaazhkkai

France-la appadi oru game irukka enna?

Charu Nivedita-vai thaan kEkkaNum

[equanimus]

A rather funny game indeed. Got a bit curious and searched on the web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cricket

[littlemaster1982]

Allan Donald about Wasin Akram in Cricinfo interview

Who were the fast bowlers you watched and wanted to be as a youngster?

When I started playing, the best fast bowler was Wasim Akram. He was the complete, most skillful fast bowler I ever saw and played against. On the flattest wicket in the world he swung it massively upfront. He was very clever, he was quick, and when the ball was old he was able to reverse it from both sides of the pitch. You just didn't know which way it was swinging. To execute that you needed unbelievable skills. You can talk about it, you can show it on the big screen, but "how the hell does he do it?" was a question on the lips always.

Did you ever ask Akram how he did it?

He simply said he had to work unbelievably hard. He would bowl a lot in the nets, deliberately rough up the ball - a skill learned from the great Imran Khan. He told me about how he experimented at the crease to understand the importance of angles. He would use both sides of the wicket simply so he didn't become predictable. Obviously he was hiding the ball a lot in his bowling stride, so you couldn't say which way it was going to swing. That is how it is: if you don't practise a skill you are not going to become very good at it.

Reverse swing is all about angles on the crease. You watch the very best - and again I use Akram's example. He would come from wide, come from close, come from wide round the crease and create horrible angles. The batsman facing him was aghast to see the ball come at him from his wide left arm and then suddenly swing away. So where he started and where he finished were completely different. And the release is more difficult to execute than anything else. You almost have to turn your body sideways to become a bit slingy. You have to almost drag the ball to make it go wide outside off stump and then bring it back in to hit middle and leg.
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The whole interview is quite good

[ajithfederer]

Rest in Peace Huma

Condolences to wasim akram and his family.

[littlemaster1982]

RIP Huma. Condolences to Wasim Akram