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Neenga ithu rendayum vida matreenga :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Exactly. That was only for Sachin..Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
Ajay,
T20 WC thread la ethaavathu post kandupideenga paaklaam :poke:
Mudiyaathungraya.. Come on Ajay.. You can do it :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramakrishna
btw i object that T20 is like street cricket. Street Crickets are much better.
Ryan Harris neenga thaane nominate pannirukeenga? He became famous and got selected for his nation side after IPL. :poke:Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
IIRC in his first two ODIs he took five wicket hauls. enakku appo dhaan appidi oruthan irukkan 'ngradhE theriyum.
He played for Deccan chargers when Mr. Sridhar was supporting them. Illana enakkum therinjirukaadhu,Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Pakistan in New Zealand T20I Series - 3rd T20I
Pakistan won by 103 runs
இதுவரை இப்படியொரு கண்றாவியான ஸ்கோர் போர்டை நான் என் சரித்திரத்திலேயே பார்த்ததில்லை. நியூஸி அணியில வரிசையா மொதோ நாளு பேரும் முட்டை வாங்கிட்டானுங்ஹ.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zeal...ch/473920.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/co...ry/494269.html
:rotfl: :rotfl3:
The most awesome things that didn't happen this yearWelcome to our wondrous and possibly slightly offbeat look back at the highs and lows of 2010
Dear cricket fans, once again we have come to the end of another calendar year of outstanding cricketing action. Personal and team records have been set and then broken. There have been controversies but also champions, scandals but also surprises, outrageous behaviour but also outstanding performances.
What a year it has been.
Unfortunately at this very moment I am not able to pick my favourite memories from 2010. Due to too much exposure to cricket on TV and the internet, my mind is no longer capable of distinguishing between cricketing memories. The only ones I remember with any clarity are Shane Warne's ball of the century to bowl Mike Gatting, Yuvraj Singh's six sixes and a VVS Laxman Test innings that must have been against Australia. I think.
I intend to go through Youtube for fresh 2010 memories as soon as possible.
However I am also left a tiny bit disappointed. There was potential for plenty more cricketing drama and suspense and thrills in 2010, none of which actually transpired. Which is why I have decided to assemble a collection of 12 imaginary cricketing highlights from 2010, one for each month. None of these things happened. But if they had, it would have been awesome. I sincerely hope that in 2011 the ICC and other cricketing bodies will be able to achieve landmarks like these.
And here they are:
January 2010
After months of legal wrangling, conclusive rulings have finally been passed on all IPL ownership cases. In a verdict that upheld the stay order on a lower court decision that overturned an appeal following a show-cause notice issued by the BCCI, the Bombay High Court has decided that Rajasthan Royals will be now be owned by the Bombay High Court. Justice Kulkarni says: "We are planning to dismantle the entire team and build it up from scratch. So far we have decided to retain only Shilpa Shetty."
February 2010
Chaos ensues during a friendly Afghanistan-Pakistan cricket match. Halfway through the Pakistani innings, just as Misbah-ul-Haq tickles a ball down to fine leg, the ground is attacked by a unmanned US Predator drone aircraft. Thankfully none of the players are hurt as the drone manages to fire only one round at the commentator booth. A dazed Ravi Shastri says: "It was a tracer bullet."
Afghanistan win the match after Kamran Akmal scores 13 off 122 balls, runs out two out of the first five Pakistani wickets, drop-kicks Salman Butt, who was trying to take a quick single, sledges profusely in Urdu while Mohammed Sami bats, drops four catches and leaks 77 leg-byes.
March 2010
Cricketing and international sporting history is achieved when Bangladesh defeat Australia and South Africa in a triangular series in Hong Kong. The Tigers win each match by an average of five wickets or 80 runs. The final match between Bangladesh and Australia is a chaotic affair as the match is interrupted by seven power failures, one pizza delivery guy and 13 drinks breaks. After the match, player Justin Thomas of Lismore, New South Wales, switches off his Xbox 360 and goes to sleep.
April 2010
There is mounting evidence that the international cricketing calendar is too burdensome when Virender Sehwag scores a scintillating 113 off 79 balls for Kenya against a flabbergasted New Zealand side in the Twenty20 World Cup. After the match Sehwag clarifies that he woke up in the morning and simply lost track of the schedule. "Also," Sehwag tells reporters, "I thought it was a Test match."
May 2010
Crisis hits Pakistani cricket as the special commissioner appointed to look into charges of match-fixing against Kamran Akmal, is secretly taped accepting bribes from a News Of The World journalist in London. But it turns out the commissioner himself was secretly taping this secret taping to trap the journalist. Who, it was later revealed, was secretly taping the secret taping of the secret taping. In the ensuing chaos an undercover policeman working for Scotland Yard is deported to Pakistan.
June 2010
An astounding 18,234 spectators attend the first match in a three-match series between the women's cricket teams of India and Sri Lanka in Rajkot. "This is wonderful for the sport of women's cricket. Whenever I am stopped at traffic signals and talk to people I tell them how much I love watching women playing with each other," says chief guest MS Dhoni, who inaugurates the series. Dhoni quickly leaves after the ceremony, along with 18,223 spectators.
July 2010
An impasse is broken when the BCCI finally agrees to trial the new Umpire Decision Referral System. However, the system will be implemented with some modifications. Players will now have to make referral requests in writing, on a prescribed UDRS (Bharat) 7B form, at least three days before a decision is expected. Each referral must come attached with a demand draft for Rs 250 (Foreigner: $25,000) payable to the BCCI's bank account in Mumbai. Foreign players must attach a copy of passport with valid visa page. If the referral is found to be valid, a final decision will be posted to the concerned umpire's postal address. If the referral request is invalid, no further communication will be sent.
August 2010
Spectacular scenes unfold at ICC headquarters in Dubai when Qatar wins the right to host the 2023 cricket World Cup. Experts are taken aback that a country without a single cricket pitch or cricket team has been awarded the event. "The idea is to take cricket to new countries and markets. This is a brave new step!" says an ICC executive committee member before driving away in a new Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta convertible with full leather upholstery, steering wheel cut out of a single diamond, solid gold dashboard equipped with permanently attached midget human being constantly reading out the speed, and jacuzzi.
A representative of the Qatari bidding team says the country was looking at various ways of building cricketing infrastructure including "buying Bangladesh or maybe one or two West Indies".
September 2010
The 2010 edition of the Twenty20 Champions League tournament is called off at the semi-final level after three teams from Australia and one from South Africa make it to the final four. "Yesterday's match between the Johannesburg Wanderers and the New South Wales Somethingortheothers was watched on TV by one man in Guwahati. Who already has an Airtel connection. Without the Indian teams this is an exercise in futility. We have decided to cut our losses," said an insider who did not want to be named.
October 2010
British prime minister David Cameron tells a shocked world that the Ashes urn seems to have been misplaced. "We've looked everywhere," said Cameron in the House of Commons, "we've looked on the beaches, on the grounds, in the fields, in the streets and in the hills." A contrite ECB says that the only option left is to declare England Ashes champions in perpetuity and devise a new tournament format. Surprisingly Cricket Australia agree to this in exchange for Graeme Swann.
November 2010
Cricket fans are both troubled and amused as China announces a new bat and ball game called Tricket. The game uses almost exactly the same rules as cricket but has 25 players per team and costs only one-third as much. But unlike cricket, tricket also plays video in high-definition, has a dual SIM facility, longer battery life and 32 GB onboard memory.
December 2010
The year ends in infamy with startling Wikileaks revelations. Cables from the ICC office to recipients in India seem to indicate that Sharad Pawar tried to buy cricket from the ICC in 2006. Observers are shocked to learn that the ICC seriously considered this for months. But the deal fell through, the cables say, because Pawar wanted to buy only the good bits. "I only want batting and drinks break. You can keep bowling and follow-ons," Pawar is said to have been quoted as saying.
Let us all hope and pray that 2011 delivers us many more cricket surprises and thrills. Have a very happy new year.
Thambi IPL la Sachin's mumbai match thavira vera entha mathchukkum nee inga vanthu post pannalaya? kadaisila intha pazhamum pulikkumngira range-kku pesurenga :lol2: :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramakrishna
The use of technology was not without incident, as Steve Bucknor, who had stated before the series that he didn't need a third umpire, turned down a run-out appeal against Jonty Rhodes in the Johannesburg Test when he was in fact a foot out of the crease. Rhodes went on to make 91. Bucknor realised his folly upon watching the replay in his hotel room and pledged at a press conference to use the third umpire in future decisions.
Looks like Steve Bucknor has been doing this since the early 90's.
A good article to read on the friendship between CSA and BCCI boards.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/494874.html
1992
South Africa return the favour
When the time came for South Africa to host their first international series after readmission, it was only natural they pick India
Siddhartha Talya
January 1, 2011
On January 9 in the New Year, India and South Africa will meet at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium in a Twenty20 game as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the arrival of Indian indentured workers in the province of Natal. That game, at one of the venues of the FIFA World Cup, is expected to attract the biggest crowd for a cricket match in the country, but its foundations were laid almost 18 years ago when international cricket returned to South Africa following decades of boycott due to apartheid. The Indian team, in 1992-93, became the first recognised non-white national side to tour South Africa, and it was no surprise that Durban, with its large diaspora and ties with the motherland, put on a huge reception and staged the first Test.
The tour - labelled the Friendship Series - was South Africa's way of reciprocating India's efforts in ending the country's sporting isolation in 1991. India had been among the principal opponents of apartheid - it snapped diplomatic ties with South Africa in 1948 following the electoral victory of the National Party, which implemented the apartheid laws. But Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990, the return of the African National Congress (ANC), the movement towards establishing a multi-racial democracy and emotional links with its large Indian population all boosted the possibility of restoring relations.
Ali Bacher, the former South Africa batsman who captained them in their previous Test series, in 1970-71, led the effort in pushing for full-member status within the ICC after becoming the managing director of the unified United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA). India's vote - with backing from its government - played a critical role in achieving it. And when a home series against Pakistan was cancelled, India called on South Africa to fill the breach. Within days Clive Rice led South Africa on a three-match tour of India to mark his country's return to international cricket. A year later it was India's turn to tour.
"In 1991, our reintroduction into world cricket, at the ICC level, was proposed by India," Bacher said. "Because of this we said to them that when we have our first international tour into South Africa, it would be India, as a gesture of appreciation for their support for our return to international cricket. We offered it to them. They never said it should be part of the deal. It came from us and obviously we kept our word."
The tour served as a successful example of sporting diplomacy, given the political backdrop and the mutual desire to improve ties, and the significance of India's visit expressed itself in the reception the cricketers received from the Indian community. Hundreds cheered on the streets of Durban during a motorcade reception, and there was little doubt over where their loyalties lay - partly as a result of emotional ties but also due to the alienation wrought by apartheid.
"When we went there we were shocked by the extent to which apartheid had wreaked havoc in society," Ayaz Memon, a senior Indian journalist who visited South Africa in 1991 and covered the 1992-93 tour, said. "To see such segregation in real terms was quite extraordinary."
Harsha Bhogle, who was also among the journalists on the tour, wrote this in his biography of then India captain Mohammad Azharuddin: "'The team has come from our motherland to defeat the white man,' they said and their voices spoke of a language of pain and hatred."
"We were isolated for 20 years and to keep the game alive you become more innovative, and market-orientated. You think more about the game, how to survive, how to prosper, how to bring in supporters" Ali Bacher on South Africa's infrastructure for cricket
The Indian cricketers, for their part, served as good ambassadors, meeting Mandela at the ANC headquarters, visiting the townships to promote the game, going to Pietermaritzburg - where Mahatma Gandhi's struggle against discrimination began - and were helped by Amrit Mathur, now Chief Operating Officer of Delhi Daredevils but then a newly appointed tour manager. PR was to prove an important element in a tour that meant more than cricket.
"There were too many official functions and sometimes we felt, 'Give us a break,' and he [Mathur] used to handle that so well," Sanjay Manjrekar, a member of India's touring party, said. "He was such a good communicator and a guy who spoke on behalf of us, addressed the South African community and presented the Indian perspective. He was also young and he could easily get us to change our minds, and he was on the same wavelength. He did a brilliant job."
The cricket, though, failed to measure up to the pre-series hype. The Tests, especially, made for dull viewing, with run-rates of two or just above and steadily declining attendances. Three of the four Tests ended in draws; only Kapil Dev's enthralling century in a losing cause in Port Elizabeth and Allan Donald's fiery spell to win his team that Test stood out, while Jimmy Cook's first-ball duck in the Durban Test - his maiden Test - after waiting for 21 years since his first-class debut was a sore moment. The ODIs were better received, though the Indians were mauled 5-2.
There were two crucial aspects that had long-term implications - one for the game in general and the other particularly for South Africa: the use of technology by umpires to make decisions, and South Africa's preparedness to host an international sporting event. Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to be ruled out by a third umpire.
How did the teams agree to use the system? "I remember Azhar and Ajit Wadekar [the India coach] listened very carefully and they appeared to like what I was saying, but they were very nervous," Bacher said. "But they agreed. And it's quite extraordinary that they never consulted their board, I never consulted my board. We pushed the button and off we went."
The use of technology was not without incident, as Steve Bucknor, who had stated before the series that he didn't need a third umpire, turned down a run-out appeal against Jonty Rhodes in the Johannesburg Test when he was in fact a foot out of the crease. Rhodes went on to make 91. Bucknor realised his folly upon watching the replay in his hotel room and pledged at a press conference to use the third umpire in future decisions.
Peter Kirsten plays towards point, Zimbabwe v South Africa, World Cup, Canberra, March 10, 1992
Peter Kirsten and Steve Bucknor: both ran into trouble over run-outs © Getty Images
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Floodlights, grassbanks, well-appointed stadiums and facilities were on offer for the tour. Even back then South Africa had in place the infrastructure that would go on to make it a preferred destination not just for cricket events. "It wasn't like India trying to put together the infrastructure for the Commonwealth Games," Manjrekar said. "Though the country was living on its own, it had set global standards very early."
"We were isolated for 20 years and to keep the game alive you become more innovative and market-oriented," Bacher said. "You think more about the game, how to survive, how to prosper, how to bring in supporters. In the eighties we came up with day-night cricket for domestic matches. So when India came in 92-93, it was something we had carried on since the 80s."
The tour, however, was not without controversy and things took an ugly turn in an ODI in Port Elizabeth when Kapil Dev ran out Peter Kirsten after warning him for backing up too far as he ran in to bowl.
"Kirsten was taking too much of a start, taking an advantage," Manjrekar said. "Kapil shared that with me and I said, 'I think you should warn him'. Kapil did that twice to Kirsten, and told the umpire. When that kept happening, I told him he was well within his rights to run him out. And that's what Kapil did, very much against his nature. It was absolutely fair and it was after he had warned him at least twice - anyone else would have run him out the second time."
The umpire, Cyril Mitchley, then at the bowler's end, didn't quite share the sentiment. "After the incident, the UCB had 12 reported cases of schoolboys doing it. They saw Kapil do it, they followed it. As much as I respect Kapil, I didn't agree with what he did," Mitchley told the Indian Express in 2006.
Kirsten didn't hide his displeasure, though what his team-mate Dave Callaghan said, as Bhogle quotes him in his book, best captures the mood at the time: "So this is what the f****** Friendship Series is all about."
What followed after that "Mankaded" dismissal could potentially have landed the tour in strife. South Africa captain Kepler Wessels' bat, later that over, made contact with Kapil's shin and the Indians lodged a complaint claiming he had struck the bowler deliberately. "On one occasion he bowled the ball and Kapil was holding his knee, his shin, in pain and I thought he had cramps. I asked 'Paaji, kya hua' (What happened?)," Manjrekar said. "And he said, 'Nahi yaar, usne balla maar diya mujhe' (No man, he hit me with his bat). That's when Kapil went to the umpire and told them this had happened."
Clive Lloyd, the match referee, while fining Kirsten 50% of his match fee, didn't take action against Wessels due to lack of visual evidence, as SABC, the broadcaster, claimed it had not recorded the incident. The Indians didn't push the case further after that. "There was a responsibility among all of us that we should not make this an issue," Manjrekar said. "It wasn't something that robbed us of a wicket, or like we let go of something that would have helped us win a game. So we just got on with it."
While events on the field may have caused some friction, they did not detract from the momentuousness of the tour and what South Africa and India had achieved together in their cricketing diplomacy. The match on January 9 owes much to that tour nearly two decades ago.
Siddhartha Talya is a sub editor at Cricinfo
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kapildev mankaded kirsten
A youtube comment
Kapil warned him few times before he went for the appeal and got him out. The problem I had with Kapil that he didn't retaliate when Kepler Wessel, then captain of SA hit him with his bat, intentionally, Kapil simply laughed off, that was typical docile Indian spirit back then. I hated that and yeah Match refree/umpire didn't do anything. That was disgusting and frustrating for me, yeah I saw the game live.
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Look at the face of Graeme Smith.. He may well turn into another Ponting...
Tendulkar, Dhoni in Chappell's 2010 World XI
Batting icon Sachin Tendulkar and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni were among the four Indian cricketers who found a place in former Australia captain Ian Chappell's '2010 World XI', which did not feature a single Aussie.
Dashing opener Virender Sehwag and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan were the other two Indians in the XI, which features five South Africans.
"Four years ago the Australian cricket team was cock-a-hoop. They'd regained the Ashes and had accentuated their superiority by smashing England at the MCG on the way to an eventual 5-0 series victory. Now the team is in tatters and it's best illustrated by a comparison of World XIs chosen at the end of the calendar year," Chappell wrote in his column for 'The Daily Telegraph'.
"In 2006, Australia had six players in the XI, with Brett Lee as 12th man. In the 2010 side, no Australian made the XI and Shane Watson is the 12th man," he pointed out.
"It's been a slippery dip for Australia since the retirement of bowlers like Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. The ride gathered pace when Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden called it a day. They have now hit the sand pit because of the struggles of the one player who kept the brake on the downhill ride, Ricky Ponting," he further explained.
Chappell described Sehwag as the most dangerous batsman in the world right now.
"A dashing opener who can win a game in the opening session of a Test. The most dangerous batsman in world cricket," he said.
Chappell lavished praise on Tendulkar, saying the 37-year-old, who recently became the first batsman to notch up 50 Test hundreds, seems to be getting better with age.
"Unlike Ponting, Tendulkar defied the advancing years and enjoyed a tremendous resurgence. He even rediscovered the art of dominating bowlers," Chappell said.
Explaining the reasons for picking Dhoni and Zaheer, Chappell said both have been consistent in their respective roles.
"Dhoni has batted consistently, scoring runs when India need them and doing an adequate job with the gloves. He's a calm leader with some flair," Chappell said.
"Zaheer is a left-armer who has developed into a dangerous bowler with both the new and old ball. He performs well against good opposition," he added.
Among others who found a place in the XI were South African captain Graeme Smith, their middle-order mainstay Hashim Amla, prolific all-rounder Jacques Kallis, the aggressive AB de Villiers and tearaway pacer Dale Steyn.
"Smith is a solid opener who has the knack of making the tough runs when they're really needed. Hashim Amla is a player who really blossomed in 2010. He mastered the knack of scoring centuries and at an improved run rate," he said.
"Kallis's churned out runs with his usual efficiency, displayed a safe pair of hands and bowled with some of his old pace and fire," he added.
"De Villiers came of age. His ability to accelerate the scoring rate stood out like a beacon in a predominantly average-conscious South African team," he added.
Chappell picked England's Graeme Swann as the spinner in the XI, the pace attack of which is spearheaded by the feisty Steyn with England's Jimmy Anderson for company.
"A most improved attacking bowler who confirmed his progress with another successful year. A probing and accurate spinner."
"Dale Steyn bowls at a good pace and swings the ball away from right-handers. A proven formula for dismissing good batsmen," he said.
"Anderson swings the ball both ways at a respectable pace and has greatly improved his accuracy. Along with Steyn, he's proved the worth of swinging the new ball," he added.
© PTI
http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news...-2010-world-xi
enna mApLa vekka padAma sollitta? 4 varusham munnAdi vERa mAdhiri sonnA mAdhiri gnAbagam?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian Chappell
indha varusham when tendulkar fails, and Ponting wins the world cup and comes back with a bang in tests, apdiyE vekkapadAma mAthi solvIrO?
Paul Collingwood has announced he will retire from Test cricket following the current Sydney encounter against Australia. He will continue to play both Twenty20 and one-day internationals for his country.
Fans choose their all-time ODI dream team
http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/newsdet...713_1294221180
The people have spoken. To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first One-Day International, cricket fans from almost 100 countries around the world have cast their votes on the ICC website for what they consider to be the all-time ODI team.
In total, fans from 97 countries cast almost 600,000 votes on www.icc-cricket.com between 22 December and 2 January to make their views known as to who have been the best ODI players of the past 40 years in the key categories of opening batsmen, middle-order batsmen, wicketkeeper, spin bowlers and fast bowlers.
Three players from Australia and India, two from the West Indies and one each from South Africa, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have made the final dream 11 with another Aussie named as 12th man while the momentous "438" game between South Africa and Australia in Johannesburg in 2006 has been voted the best ODI yet.
The All-Time ODI Dream Team (as voted for by visitors to www.icc-cricket.com) is:
Opening batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag (both Ind)
Middle order: Brian Lara, Viv Richards (both WI) and Ricky Ponting (Aus)
All-rounder: Kapil Dev (Ind)
Wicketkeeper: Adam Gilchrist (Aus)
Spinner: Muttiah Muralidaran (SL)
Fast bowlers: Wasim Akram (Pak), Glenn McGrath (Aus) and Allan Donald (SA)
12th man: Michael Bevan (Aus, the player who received the most number of votes without being enough to make the would-be starting 11).
Supporters had the chance to select the dream team from a shortlist of 48 players in different categories and they could pick their favourite game from a choice of 10 memorable matches.
The match they chose was a run-fest in Johannesburg's famous Wanderers Stadium in March 2006. Batting first, Australia made a record 434-4 in 50 overs with captain Ricky Ponting setting the day alight with 164 off just 105 balls.
The mood of the capacity crowd did not improve when SA lost a wicket with just three runs on the board. But then an innings of magic from Herschelle Gibbs (175 off 111) backed up by cameos by Graeme Smith (90 off 55), Mark Boucher (50 not out) and Johan van der Wath (35) saw the Proteas to a scarcely possible winning score of 438 with nine wickets down and one ball remaining. It was a wonderful occasion and truly an ODI never to be forgotten.
The first ever ODI was played between Australia and England on 5 January 1971 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Cricket Australia will also mark the 40th anniversary of ODI cricket with a number of events, including a cocktail reception with members of Australia's first ODI team at Victoria's Government House, during Melbourne's Cricket Weekend - which also includes a Twenty20 International - from 14-16 January.
The Australian ODI team from 1971 will also be presented to the crowd during the innings break of the first ODI match of the series between Australia and England at the MCG on Sunday 16 January.
The 40th anniversary of the ODI is being marked in the build-up to cricket's flagship event, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, which begins in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 19 February. As with all nine previous editions of the tournament, fans around the globe will no doubt be treated to amazing feats of individual and team brilliance that will live long in the memory.
The following is the short-list from which voters chose their favourites:
Greatest ODI team of all time
Opening batsmen (2) - Saeed Anwar, Sourav Ganguly, Gordon Greenidge, Matthew Hayden, Sanath Jayasuriya, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Glenn Turner
Middle-order batsmen (3) - Michael Bevan, Martin Crowe, Aravinda de Silva, Inzamam-ul Haq, Brian Lara, Javed Miandad, Ricky Ponting, Viv Richards
All-rounder (1) - Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Andrew Flintoff, Richard Hadlee, Jacques Kallis, Imran Khan, Lance Klusener, Shaun Pollock
Wicket-keeper (1) - Mark Boucher, MS Dhoni, Andy Flower Adam Gilchrist, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Moin Khan, Alec Stewart, Kumar Sangakkara,
Fast bowlers (3) - Wasim Akram, Allan Donald, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Dennis Lillee, Glenn McGrath, Chaminda Vaas, Waqar Younis
Spinner (1) - Shahid Afridi, Carl Hooper, Anil Kumble, Muttiah Muralidaran, Saqlain Mushtaq, Harbhajan Singh, Shane Warne, Daniel Vettori
Greatest ODI match of all-time
* West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs at Lord's, 21 June 1975
* India beat West Indies by 43 runs at Lord's, 25 June 1983
* Pakistan beat India won by one-wicket at Sharjah, 18 April 1986
* England won by three wickets against Australia at Sydney, 22 January 1987
* Australia won by one-wicket against West Indies at Sydney, 12 January 1996
* Australia tied with South Africa at Edgbaston, 17 June 1999
* Pakistan tied with Sri Lanka, at Sharjah, 15 October 1999
* India beat Pakistan by five runs at Karachi, 13 March 2004
* Bangladesh beat Australia by five wickets at Cardiff, 18 June 2005
* South Africa beat Australia by one-wicket at Johannesburg, 12 March 2006
For more information go to www.icc-cricket.com.
I'd have someone replacing Sehwag, Ponting, Donald and Kapil.
Possibly, M Waugh, de Silva and Imran. Pacer #3 yOsikkaNum but surely not Donald
Some of the best matches I have seen are India's two 1-run losses to Australia in successive matches. adhulayum the Chennai one in 1987 with a 4 converted into a 6 mid match, which effectively turned a 1-run victory for India to a 1-run loss. Drama, fun, skill all around.
The 1992 match was a classic, too, down to Sankatapathi lapped by Srinath going for the 4th run turning a possible tie to a loss.
Quietly amidst the IPL frenzy, Baakkisthan have won a test match in NZ.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zeal...ch/473921.html
How on earth did this NZ team draw 2 Tests in India :roll:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n80n_t0FTw4
Great shot from Ijaz Ahmed
December 17, 2010
Posted by Samir Chopra 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Samir Chopra
India's Great Misses: Exhibit One - the 1979 Oval Test
Sunil Gavaskar could have been the author of the greatest Test innings ever © Getty Images
Of all the Test matches that India has let slip from its grasp in its cricketing history, three rankle me in particular. As India start a 13-month schedule of Test cricket, which could cement their standing as No. 1 and turn them into undisputed world champions, they might want to think about how three matches that should have been wins turned into draws. Hopefully, India won’t make the mistakes they made in these three games if they want to be world champions, not just in terms of rankings but also in terms of perception.
Exhibit Numero Uno in this rogues' gallery is the Oval test of 1979, the fourth test of the series with England, arranged to take place after India’s disastrous outing in the 1979 World Cup. India had lost the first test by an innings, saved the second after being bowled out for 96 on the first day, and weathered an Ian Botham-storm bravely in the rain-ruined third. Things didn’t improve much in the fourth. India conceded a 102-run first innings lead, and on the fourth day, with plenty of time left in the match, found themselves chasing 438 to win.
Incredibly enough, thanks to the innings of lifetime from Sunil Gavaskar, which aided and abetted a 213-run opening stand with Chetan Chauhan, and a 153-run second wicket partnership with Dilip Vengsarkar, India were, at one stage, 366-1. India had begun the twenty mandatory overs at 328-1, needing five and a half runs over to win. Run chases at that pace were not common back then, and required the raising of a team’s game.
India, however, stumbled badly, going from 366-1 to 429-8 before time ran out. Indeed, a loss looked possible at one stage. The promotion of Kapil Dev to No.4 failed (a promotion that Gavaskar disagreed with as he felt Gundappa Viswanath would have done better by just picking up singles and keeping things moving), while for England Ian Botham did his bit by picking up 3 for 17 and effecting a run-out, and India collectively lost the plot.
There are many ways to not be excessively critical of India: it was always going to take them a long time to switch from thinking about saving the game to winning it (India batted for 150 overs in their second innings); it was a miracle that they even came that close to winning despite their record in the series; and so on.
But it is worth remembering what India missed out on: the greatest run-chase of all time would have been achieved in England, in front of an English press. Would there be any doubt that Gavaskar’s innings would have been reckoned the greatest of all time had India won? The anointment would have been swift and its displacement would have taken some doing. I mention the venue and the audience deliberately because there is no doubting who controlled the cricketing world's information order, the influence on which is as much part of a champion's responsibility as the actual performance on a field.
India had the stage set for them: the right venue, the right moment, had all come together. They failed to rise the occasion, whatever the reason. The Oval test of 1979 was deemed a “brave fightback”, a “glorious draw” and all of the usual platitudes that India seemed to specialize in back then: brave losers and brave fighters. Not winners. In saying this, I’m not being excessively harsh; India did suffer from a loss of tactical and psychological nerve back in September 1979, one that ensured the greatest of cricketing glories slipped away from their grasp. It was the symptom of a fundamental problem, one which would manifest itself in Exhibit Numero Dos. But that’s a story for the next post.
http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/diffst...exhibit_on.php
Gavaskar :clap:.
Apparently he has the second highest score in the 4th Innings.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cric...ry/497212.html
Aussie squad for world cup
Australia squad Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Cameron White, Tim Paine (wk), Steven Smith, John Hastings, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger
2nd Test: New Zealand v Pakistan at Wellington
New Zealand 356 & 293 @ Stumps, Day 4.
Pakistan 376
New Zealand set a target of 274 for Pakistan on the final day.
How South Indian cricketers are different
http://www.openthemagazine.com/artic...rts/goodfellas
Does anybody know who is this bowler :D?Quote:
It is unlikely that any international batsman from the South would have said, like Virender Sehwag did after nearly breaking (with Dravid) the record held by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad for the biggest opening partnership, "I have not heard of Vinoo Mankad."
Nor would any bowler when introduced to Sunil Gavaskar say, "Yes, I know you are the commentator," as another India player did.
Praveen Kumar, maybe.
Number Crunching
42
Glenn McGrath holds the record for bowling the most maiden overs in World Cup history. He is followed by Chaminda Vaas and Richard Hadlee, who have bowled 38 and 33 maiden overs respectively.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/conte...ta=statsmod_hp
No wonder those guys won 3 world cups.
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Misbah-ul-Haq is the MOM and MOS
Result: Match drawn and Pak wins the series 1-0.
This is their first series win outside sub-continent in seven years.
Vettori steps down from captaincy
http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zeal...ry/497458.html
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In 1962, India’s leading off-spinner Erapalli Prasanna, already a Test player with a tour to the West Indies behind him, decided to take a break from the game to pursue his engineering studies. He returned to the squad five years later, better educated, and a better bowler to boot, as he reassumed the mantle of India’s strike bowler.
The man who took over in his absence, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, qualified as an engineer too. He was, and continues to be, a man of wide interests—Carnatic music and history, journalism, cricket administration and umpiring. When India resumed cricket relations with Pakistan in 1978, Venkatraghavan was the only player to visit Mohenjo-Daro. He is the only cricketer I know who can mention historian Vincent Smith in casual conversation. What is it about players from the South that makes them different? Where cricket is concerned, the South is another country, with its own culture, its distinct texture. An occasional Bishan Bedi, with his collection of cricket books and ability to quote from them, seems the exception north of the Vindhyas. India’s most successful bowler, Anil Kumble, came through an election to become the President of the Karnataka State Cricket Association, as did his teammate for many years, Javagal Srinath, who became the secretary. Both are qualified engineers.
In the current Indian team, VVS Laxman, having to choose between medicine and cricket, gave himself a deadline before falling back on academics. He comes from a family of doctors. Even a middling record might have been seen as a failure, and the player might well have been the black sheep of the family. By backing his talent, he emerged as one of contemporary cricket’s most popular batsmen, with a record of batting under pressure unmatched by colleagues with better averages and more centuries.
Rahul Dravid, a commerce graduate, would have been a star student even wit-hout the cricket. On tours, he visits bookshops. But his reading is not restricted to books on cricket or the usual sportsman’s diet of self-help and inspirational guides. He is the only current player I know who has read Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi. Recently, he recommended to me Matthew Syed’s Bounce.
Kumble, who inaugurated a festival of Sanskrit literature in Bangalore the other day, is passionate about wildlife and photography, often combining the two to dramatic effect. He has turned author, with Wide Angle, a coffee table book on his cricketing days, containing photographs taken by him. How much of all this is a result of temperament and how much education is hard to tell, but one certainly influences the other.
With cricket’s cradle-to-bank system, it is difficult to imagine teenagers who have made it to Ranji Trophy teams taking a chance on falling behind by deciding to focus on academics instead. India’s finest batsman is a dropout, as is the country’s greatest all rounder (although he was on the rolls of a university for playing). But, as Bedi has said, “Sachin Tendulkar’s university is the university of life. He has learnt more there than he would have from his geography textbooks.”
Interestingly, the more successful you are as a player, the more likely that you will be forced to attend a finishing school where bearing and composure are drilled into you. Advertising agencies round off the rough edges and prepare a player to walk and sound like he means what he says in the commercials. A good example is Irfan Pathan, who, when he first made the international grade, came across as a rough, uncertain, diffident speaker. Today, he is confident, carries himself with dignity and speaks English with panache. A similar makeover is apparent in his brother, Yusuf Pathan.
Of the country’s top ten batsmen (in terms of aggregate runs), only five are graduates; three are from the south. Among top bowlers, six are graduates, five of them from the south. Perhaps education makes southerners more cunning! This is not as far-fetched as it sounds, because spin bowling, the strength of the south, is about deception, of leading the batsman into playing the ball that is not there, of making him believe it will turn one way but sending it the other.
“Education is vital,” says Kumble, whose pet project is a graduate course for players whose education is affected by their playing schedules. It is an attitude that has led to the stereotypical southern cricketer: intelligent, better educated, cultured, modest and better spoken than his counterparts from other zones. Most of them are also steeped in the game’s lore.
In his early days, Kumble was aware of the leg-spin tradition he was heir to—not just Subhash Gupte and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, but the South African googly quartet at the beginning of the last century. It is unlikely that any international batsman from the South would have said, like Virender Sehwag did after nearly breaking (with Dravid) the record held by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad for the biggest opening partnership, “I have not heard of Vinoo Mankad.”
Nor would any bowler when introduced to Sunil Gavaskar say, “Yes, I know you are the commentator,” as another India player did.
The two strains worth exploring in the southern players’ distinctive character are Brahminical inevitability, and a conservatism that comes mixed with insecurity. Even before the days of Prasanna, whose father told him he had to focus on his studies no matter what, the southern parent’s mantra has been: academics before sport. It might have mutated into ‘academics alongside sport’ over a period, but we are still some way before ‘sports above everything else’ takes over. Cricket as a career is beginning to be seen as an option, however, but this might be at the cost of education.
Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore have traditionally been cities of academic excellence. There is a certain inevitability to a child going from school to university to a ‘safe government job’. The government might have been replaced by an MNC as the aspiration, but, in essence, the story has not changed. Add to that the uncertainty of a sporting future, and the insecurity that comes with it, and the cry is for ‘something to fall back on.’ That ‘something’ in the south has always been education, even among the wealthy businessmen and technocrats who keep the chair warm for their offspring.
In Kerala, the recent success of Sreesanth (an aggressive exception to the general rule on cricketers from the South) might have reversed the process. The conviction that there is lots of money to be made—sport as business—if you are noticed as a talented player is driving a generation. With Kochi now a team in the IPL, where money speaks louder than a Sreesanth appeal for leg before, the trend is likely to gain momentum.
The south has had a reputation for decency in cricket for many decades now. When former India captain Tiger Pataudi found the politics in Delhi overwhelming, he shifted his cricketing base to Hyderabad, where he was happy to play under his good friend ML Jaisimha. Likewise Abbas Ali Baig, who also shifted from Delhi to Hyderabad.
A decade ago, that decency combined with integrity ensured that Indian cricket didn’t collapse as a result of the match-fixing scandal. As captain, Kolkata’s Sourav Ganguly, and as the face of Indian cricket, Mumbai’s Tendulkar, played crucial roles in this. No less important was the contribution of the southern brigade: Kumble, Dravid, Srinath. That India were able to find players of such standing across the country made up for the fact that there was another lot also from across the country who were leading actors in the match-fixing scandal.
Much later, when a television channel approached Kumble to do a programme, negotiations were going swimmingly till he discovered that he would have to share the studio with a player tainted by the scandal. He pulled out of the deal without a moment’s hesitation.
Poise can be taught, culture can be imbibed, and education is not just something you pick up in a classroom. Nor is class something you pick up in an education room. Yet the South’s culture of academics moulds its cricketers.
Indian players have graduated from Oxford and Cambridge, and one of them, Ashok Gandotra, even won a Rhodes scholarship (his other claim to fame being that he is the only player to have been born in Rio de Janeiro). Dilawar Hussain, the heavily built wicketkeeper who made two fifties on his Test debut, was probably India’s most qualified player academically, with a PhD. The Jalandhar-born player was principal of colleges in Aligarh and in London.
But how long will education continue to matter? In the IPL era, would a modern-day Prasanna follow his father’s wis-hes? After watching Gautam Gambhir rake in Rs 11 crore for six weeks’ work, I expect many once-promising youngsters are awaiting telephone calls from their fathers. With an apology for telling them: “Studies before cricket.”
Peter Siddle teaches tennis star Caroline Wozniacki the finer points of cricket, Melbourne, January 20, 2011
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idhAn wozniackiyA? Sharapova thangai rangekku pEsikitturundhAnga? She looks like Peter siddle's thangai :shock:
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idhukku dhAn ivLO buildup koduthAngaLA?
Photo-ve appadidhaan irukku, appuram edhukku thaniya andha :noteeth: smiley :huh:?Quote:
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oru muNOtathukuthaan.. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Puliyan_Biryani
p_b... nalla article...
andha bowler yarunu therinja enakum sollunga.
enakku therinju indha aLavukku ignorantA irukka kUdiya thambi praveen kumar dhAn.
Ok North Indies, Uttar Pradesh, Meerut!!Quote:
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Also Fossible Munap Patel...