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Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
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Originally Posted by Kalyasi
Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOjvZaXeQ8
Naanum lighta confuse aitten between ATC (Calcutta) and the Chennai test.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalyasi
:rotfl2: He is a notorious "out" umpire (pitched outside leg ku ellam out kuduppaan) aana inga maathi not out kuduthuttaan.Quote:
The umpire who denied Dravid's LBW was Steve Dunn..... Athe paradesi thaan Ganguly ku 1 pitch catch a out kuduthuduvaan....
"1 pitch catch" yeah :lol:
French cricket-la legitimate out'unga.Quote:
Originally Posted by crajkumar_be
Frech cricket! :lol: Ball-a adichitu, bat-ala iduppa suthuradhu thaane?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
France-la appadi oru game irukka enna?
Yes. Plus...oru vattaththukkaLLayE vaazhkkaiQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanguine Sridhar
Charu Nivedita-vai thaan kEkkaNumQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanguine Sridhar
A rather funny game indeed. Got a bit curious and searched on the web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cricket
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 :thumbsup:
Rest in Peace Huma
Condolences to wasim akram and his family.
RIP Huma. Condolences to Wasim Akram :(