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The same Shastri later wrote a urugi urugi article on murali being hounded and how he is not a chucker. I was astounded. Apram yedachaiyA 2 days back newspaper pArthEn - an agency employing Shastri had taken over as media manager for Murali
Give money? Will wag tail clearly seems to be Shastri's mantra.
P.s: this is not to diss his character - I am just jealous that I am not in his position :)
after winning the 1 st test in bombay, india were in a very strong position at the 2nd test in delhi. during the 4th day the score was not bad and gavaskar and amarnath were cruising nicely and it looked as if the game would end in a draw. suddenly gavaskar was out 65 and india was leading with 61 runs with 6 wickets in hand. on the way to pavillion he met kapil who was coming out to bat and instructed him to go slow and play cautious. kapil was not happy wirth this advise and promptly started to hit from the word go. after hitting a 6 he was caught trying to hit another 6 the very next ball for 7 runs. That triggered the collapse and India lost the match as the english were able to score the required 125 runs easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by sathya_1979
The selectors were mad with kapil making him the reason for the lost match. So he was not selected for the next test in calcutta. Initially the reason given was lack of form but after a maddened kapil informed that he will end his career, they made it as a punishment for 1 test due to disciplinary actions. Even though Sunil tried to mend the damage by proclaiming no Kapil, no Test Kapil was rested for the match. The public were so angry with the selectors and Sunil and he faced a very hostile crowd in Calcutta, who threw banana peelings at him and abused him very much. A very agitated Sunil vowed that he would never play again in Calcutta and he kept his word till his retirement.
brilliant Sivan Sir :clap: BTW, bonus points for answering who dismissed Kapil, without googling :D
kapil was caught by lamb at long on as pocock bowled a juicy ball
Sunny bhai and his shenaignans. Sunny and Shastri are the true evil of Indian Cricket - their mouth will say whatever is required to get money and they'll manipulate using their influence wherever they can.
That instance of dropping Kapil was another of Sunny's manipulative streak. The best part was "No Kapil No test" stunt later.
Much similar to Shastri's U-turn on Muralitharan after being signed up by Murali's agency. I guess that was an astute move by Murali's PR agency.
Bedi, for all his indiscrete utterances, is atleast inscrutable.
The biggest joke was not only kapil but Sandeep patil too played absolutely reckless shot to gift his wicket as the situation needed caution and he is more a specialist batsman than kapil. Still it was only kapil who was made a scapegoat for the behind screen politcis of sunny
There were some views that the Mumbai gang of Shashtri and Sunny were behind Kapil's name being dragged into the match-fixing muddle. How far is that true?
Javed Burki, Majid Khan, -------: Complete the series
Connect: Colin Cowdrey, Javed Miandad, Gordon Greenidge & Alec Stewart
I don't know the answer for complete the series question.
In the connect question, you have missed another small chap, haven't you? :D Purposeful perhaps. I won't spoil the fun, let somebody else answer it.