Saw your previous post only now, fair enough if it his personal opinion but then again I have an opinion on his opinion :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
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Saw your previous post only now, fair enough if it his personal opinion but then again I have an opinion on his opinion :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Nowadays I'm finding it hard to hate Ponting :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
Nalla paya sir avan.. :-) Konjam settai pannuvan.. Avlothaan..
Yes and I have to respect that. :). Appadi pannama noy noyyi nu kelvi ketta nallava irukkum?. :lol:
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Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
Since English is No 1 now, I have to change my 20 year old Ashes tradition and support Underdogs Australia from now on.
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Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
Lara kooda illaya... kashtam.. India thavira veru yaaru No.1 irundhalum avainga thottha sandhosha paduvom.. இயற்கையின் நியதி..
Well, with England taking over the annoying anglo-saxon mantle, I am thawing towards Ricky boy, too. And these things can only help.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
Ricky, nee nanbaenda!
Ajay/AF, that guy, interestingly, hasnt given a Wicketkeepers' list in the first place.
namma pOdalAmA listtu?
Ian Healy (one of the best that I have *seen* )
Alan Knott(pala engliskaarangaLukku ivar dhAn beshttu)
Les Ames(sila engliskaarangaLukku ivar dhAn)
Adam G (ivar illAma indha list pOda mudiyAdhu)
N Mongia(Feeyar favourite)
Matt Prior(according to ingliskaarans, the best currently, and on the tip of pushing Adam G from his mantle)
Prior beating AG :shock: No way!!!
Healy should be the best.. (at least from the days I started following cricket)
Try telling that to Englishmen flush from their success against India...
My comment was for LM's shock
If you consider the wicketkeeping part alone then may be he is the best. If you consider the overall contribution to the team, I don't think anyone could get near GillyQuote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
innum oru varushaththukuLLa indha prachnai theerndhudum. Prior will be the indisputable all-time best with in a year
England 38/2 against Ireland.
If Ireland win today, it will be a huge boost in their quest for test status.
If they win test status, one more guaranteed vote in ICC for the anglo-saxon axis.
Brilliant move by England to field a depleted team for this match.
That Veto for England in ICC is coming closer and closer - I hope it happens soon so that ICC apologists here hide their face .
Boyd Rankin is playing for Ireland today. He played for England A last week.
Is there anyone else who finds this free movement between England and Ireland disgusting? How many of you agree that if such movement had been between India and some other country, English media and ICC apologists will be crying foul or satirising it?
You Mean England Lions as in England A?
His cricinfo profile shows he did recently play for Lions but not shows Eng A.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/conte...yer/24599.html
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Originally Posted by Plum
Ofcourse yes. Lions-nu sonnA ellorukkum puriyaadhenu A-nu sonnen. Other countries callit A team. England calls it Lions.
This is because, till recently, their teams were timid Lambs(and one of them actually had a Lamb). Since international teams cannot be nomenclatured, they did it to their A team. Perulayaavadhu Lion irukkattumennu.
Maybe that numerology or something has worked out and their senior team is actually playing with ferocity these days.
Super idea.. We can use the services of Wahab Riaz, Shakib Al Hasan..Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Ponting looking good. Aus looking shaky.
Kamaan!
Scotland, Ireland, Wales - ellAm oNNu dhaan saar.
neenga vENumnA nEpaalathulErndhO, poodaanlErndhO aaL eduthu viLayAdikkunga.
Eh? Scotland is a separate Cricketing team. Ireland is. And is a separate nation.Northern Ireland is part of UK.
Anyway, You call yourself England Cricket team.
Ofcourse, you ruled the world so players from Papua New Guinea to Australia will be eligible for you.
What is to note is that if the situations had been reverse with India having that advantage, somehow English media and Cricket-associated people would have made a vice of it; and influenced ICC to clamp down on it.
sAbam kudukkavA? nAn enna kudukkaRadhu. England is slowly gaining power on and off the field. innum konha varusham dhAn. Veto thriumba varudhA illaiyA pArunga
BTW, Mandela thennappirikavai Enlandukku vithuttArA?
West Indies team kooda than multiple island players vachirukku.. avanga enna Jamica, Trinidad & tobaco nnu thaniyava peru vachirukkainga..evlo dejenta WI'nnu ella theevu kaarangalukku credit koduthirukkaainga..
England team should be renamed similar to WI.. appuram naanga aarum kelvi ketka maattom
Enna pEru vepPAnga? Commonwealth? United Nations? Rainbow Nation?
More choices
League o Nations
Axis of Evil
england - ireland, wales, scotland'kum sutthamaa aagaadhu...
most of the ppl in wales/ireland will support the opponent team which plays england.. cos they feel england is dominating them..
scotland oralavu paravaala...
Adhellaam friendly fire Softie. Irelandkulla protestant-catholic sandai bayangaramaa irundhadhu. England is viewed as pro-protestant. But now that is settled.
This is not like india-pak.
Great Britain sends one team to Olympics. Just that historically they have separate teams in football, cricket, rugby etc.
Scotland stopped fighting for independence centuries ago I guess.
Many of Britain's finest poets and authors are Welsh(GB Shaw) or Scottish. Or even Irish.
Auld lang Syne, kind of their vande mataram is Scottish.
There is no denying they are closely knit as a group of nations/sub-nations. Much more so than India-Nepal-Bhutan.
But they have been historically separate teams. And either they should put up one British team(which will still not have Irish players) or not steal the Irish and Scottish players.
I don't resent Saffer-born but grew up in English system like Strauss, Prior etc.
But Trott, KP et al are a stretch
Morgan and Joyce even more so. It is a shame that not only can they move from one team to another permanently but also keep alternating per whim and fancy.
Joyce, for instance, played for Ireland, then England, and then went back to Ireland.
That's way too much flexibility. Certainly, Britain will whine if the boot were on the other foot.
Any instance of it happening earlier? Genyoon question.Quote:
Certainly, Britain will whine if the boot were on the other foot.
kudos to SL curators for preparing a true subcontinental track which supports the home team. When was the last time India played on similar track against a visiting team?
Have the ICC ever sent a pitch inspection team to OZ/Eng/SA for preparing a pitch with more bounce? Time to go back to Azhar days when India played 3 spinners :-)
The moment these team encounter a dust-bowl these teams cry foul and ICC will unleash Atkinson. I hope cricket doesn't go field Hockey way when they switched to artificial turf which completely disadvantaged the teams from Asia.
Exact precedence vENumA? The above quoted double standards on pitches is an example that corroborates their attitude and behaviour.
Turning square on day one saar. Match paatheengaLA?
Super star yaarunnu kEttA paattula color colorA vedikkumE, adhu maadhiri pandhu bounce aagura idam ovvoNNulayin vedichu sedharudhu.
sari, idhaiyum rasippOm.
^ I did..a part timer like Dilshan was turning it on day 1..Ponting's dismissal wouldn't happened on day 1 in Chennai/Bangalore where the batsman can hit through the line.
..After lunch Lakmal/welegedhra were bowling cutters with the keeper standing infront of the stumps.
Tony was mourning about it. If SL had Murali OZ wouldn't have reached 200 with their current batting lineup in this pitch.
PR chennai lion Mussey agrees with me on the pitch :lol2:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lank...ry/530595.html
"It is certainly the driest first day pitch I've played on in Test match cricket," Hussey said. "Their quicks got wickets as well. They obviously got four of the wickets, got a bit of reverse swing, so we've got to use that to our advantage tomorrow hopefully. It certainly took a lot of turn on the first day but I thought in general, the guys played the spin pretty well.
"It was quite a difficult pitch to start on really. It was really slow so it was hard to find your timing initially. I guess my message was just to try and play as straight as possible and just try to hang in there for as long as you can because it does get easier the longer you go.
"Having said that, it's sort of an apprehensive feeling as well because there might be one ball that explodes and takes the glove or takes your edge and you're gone anyway. I think the message [to the other batsmen] is to try to play their game, be positive and just try to take time to get used to the pace of the pitch because it was a little difficult to time the ball early."
First day headingleyla seam AnA Atkinson pOvARA anga?
New Zealand 2 day testukku inquiry paNNAngaLA?
How can you even claim that double standards don't exist?
What annoys me is ipdi dominateun paNNittu BCCI dominancenu En polambaRInga?
Ridiculous turn on Day one by any standards.
Anyway avunga vayalu, avunga varappu. nadaththattum.
We have morons like http://twitter.com/#!/SANJAYMANJREKA...87733898010624 who seem to think playing on bouncy track is the golden standard in cricket and deems curators patriotic when they prepare a track which suits the home team..Until we have self-loathing idiots as cricket commentators/experts you can't blame ICC when they look to standardize pitches in subcontinent.
? naan enna sonnEn. In fact genuine question-nu solli kEkkumbOdhu sandhEgappattA eppadi?Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
I think I have conceded in more than one occasion in our discussion over the last few months that Eng-Aus players' disciplinary excess should be pulled up too. aRikkai yEdhAvadhu vidaNumA?
BCCI gold-nga, diamond-nga. Influence 'ngradhai adhu kaNNAla kooda paathadhilleenga.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
btw Randiv is getting more and more impressive.
Angle, drift ellAm payyan siRappA seyyurAn. I am beginning to like him more and more.
Bcci gold-nu yaaru sonnadhu. Other boards don't get enough debitnu dhaane sonnen? Idhu nejamaave ungalukku puriyalannu maindain panna poringalaa?