idhellAm neengaLE sollikkiRadhu :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
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idhellAm neengaLE sollikkiRadhu :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Should this thread be renamed as '10-nations cricket II' to avoid blatant misleading of genuine sports fans.
Genyoon sports fans are welcome to post about the glorious cricket that is played in Bermuda, Fiji, Nepal and Iceland.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Ha ha. You're not fooling anyone folks. Even Golf is a weld level sport. :lol2:
This sport is not for everyone.
indha elitisaththai oththukkuradhu endha thayakkamum irukka koodaadhu.
It's way too underprivileged as a 'sport' or a 'game' (Neville far better than Michael Vaughan at cricket but still turned into a professional footballer) even in strongest of cricketing nations to be considered elitist.
Neville 'ngradhu yaaru.
Somebody who chose football over cricket I infer.
adhukku mEla comment paNRadhu waste of the time, waste of the energy, waste of the discuss.
True story P_R. A whole chunk of your beloved English cricketers are failed footballers. While a huge proportion of cultured footballers chose to shat in general direction of this poor excuse of a sport called cricket.
Have a sleepless night you Elitism-chasing cricket-loving Shankar-worshiping IlyaRepin-peeping Nolartard.
Oh really. I can't imagine. Half of them being too unfit to have ever tried football. Imagine Thorpe executing a bicycle kick :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Bishen Bedi: most of cricket is played between the earsQuote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Sriman to Sammandham aNNan: idhu saabam maadhiri theriyalaiyE..yEdhO vaazhthu maadhiri irukkuQuote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
k_g: namma heart peer gold
Exactly. But I could imagine Richard Dunne hitting a sexy cover drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Like Chinese checkersQuote:
Bishen Bedi: most of cricket is played between the ears
:DQuote:
Sriman to Sammandham aNNan: idhu saabam maadhiri theriyalaiyE..yEdhO vaazhthu maadhiri irukku
k_g: namma heart peer gold
I love you dearly. But you knew that already.
Guess the diving dude:
http://p.imgci.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/9800/9863.2.jpg
:lol: Thorpe?Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
yEdhO oru thadavai reNdu thadavai alertA kudhikkalaam. adhukkaaga Odikitta irukka mudiyumA.
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btw on elitism chasing, If Allen makes a full-steam-ahead aspiration heavy MiP, mine will surely be MiNYC. Whattabeauty yeng gael.
idhu ooru. michadhellAm namma weakness therinju poweder pOttu varradhu dhaan.
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WIndies in England
insufficient practice - http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-...ch/534201.html
visa problems - http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-...ry/563863.html
nalla naaL-layE naazhippaal...
K_g (Long time doubt) Were you recently engaged or did your long time Girl friend just proposed to you?. Is that why you are freakin out inside and acting out all macho outside by trolling in all threads?. Please educate us! :lol2:
World Series ellae :huh: antha madhiri :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
No, I am diagonized with brain tumor. Taking things lightly.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
cricinfo is running a good series :clap: Wasim bhai on Martin Crowe..gun player..highly underrated :)
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Perfect technique, Martin Crowe. All the great batsmen I played against played late and on the front foot. I remember, he got a hundred in Lahore. At the other end, no one from New Zealand was getting runs. In that series the ball was reverse-swinging miles after 15-20 overs, and I think they were Pakistan balls, those rock-hard Grays [Gray-Nicolls]. They used to swing miles and used to stay rock-hard till the 80th over.
I asked him once, "How come you played me and Waqar so well?" He said, "I used to just wait for your inswing delivery. I used to play every delivery [for] inswing. If you play [for] inswing and if the ball is going away from you, you are not going to follow the ball. If you are playing inswing with the straight bat, the outswing will automatically will beat you. You won't nick it unless you are chasing it." So that was his technique.
He was always on the front foot to us. He never went on the back foot. He said, "Against you guys, if I had gone on the back foot, I would have had no chance whatsoever." He was like Sunny Gavaskar, he never gave you a chance as a batsman. When he was in, he made sure he got a hundred. He used to just rotate the strike. Any yorker down leg side or slightly off-line, he used to hit us for four, and that used to annoy me as a bowler. That's why he was so successful and so difficult a batsman to bowl to.
I loved the wickets in New Zealand. I got so many wickets there because of the conditions. The ball always swings there, always seams, and I enjoyed bowling there. I got so many wickets against New Zealand, but Martin Crowe every time got runs. It shows the quality of his technique and his temperament.
He was very quiet as a batsman. He was not a sort of batsman who would hit a four and then stare at you or come back at you. He was very calm, his concentration was 100% every delivery, he was always aware about his field. He always knew what was happening around him, whether the ball had actually started reversing. They eventually realised what reverse swing was. In 1991-92, nobody knew how to play reverse swing; only Martin Crowe, I reckon.
He just played for inswing. He didn't look at the shine, he didn't look at the wrist, he only went at every ball as an inswinger, and when the ball is reverse-swinging, that is the technique.
He realised it early on that if the ball is swinging, or late reverse-swinging, he has to play the inswing, guard his pads and guard his stumps. And he realised if the bowlers bowl the away-swinger then he will get beaten but won't nick it because he won't go for the drive. That's when we bowlers used to get frustrated, bowl slightly fuller, and that's where he used to get runs.
^ excellent write up there by wasim....:clap:
This is incredibly funny:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-c...ry/564117.html
:lol: - paavam tensala iruppAn ingE endha englis gendiman oru vArathula ivan thirumbi varradhukulla correct paNniduvAnOnnuQuote:
Mitchell Starc, the Australia left-arm quick, will not be able to make his Yorkshire debut this week after being deported following a visa error that initially led to him being detained at Heathrow for more than four hours.
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Mitchell Starc's appeals came to nothing as the UK Border Agency ordered him to return to Australia to fill in his visa forms correctly © AFP Enlarge Related Links
News : Starc news can warm Yorkshire
Players/Officials: Mitchell Starc
Series/Tournaments: England Domestic Season
Teams: Australia | England | Yorkshire
He has been instructed to fly halfway around the world, fill in a couple of forms correctly and then fly all the way back again. His girlfriend has been allowed to stay in England.
This is even funnier:
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With Yorkshire mired in debt, Graves insisted that he would not be paying the return air fare. "We've told them straight, we're not paying the airfare again," he added. "We paid originally but now it's down to them
:lol: :rotfl: :bow: - thiruvaasagam!Quote:
Originally Posted by david hopps, a writer who migrated from guardian to cricinfo recently, the inside story being the insufferable ways of Mike Selvey in guardian and his typical English araajagam and class-based attitude
More from Hoppsyy:
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He is being overly generous. Starc is an international sportsman and as such is coming to England to increase the happiness of the nation, although if this rain continues admittedly not by much. He is not a drug trafficker, an illegal immigrant or somebody trying it on. There are times when a spot of courtesy does not go amiss. There are ways in which these issues can be resolved and flying somebody around the world to fill in a form does not strike you as the best of them.
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Britain's Olympians need not worry. On the evidence of Mitchell Starc, the UK Border Agency can be relied upon to be full of nationalistic zeal. All these assumptions of a Fast Track may prove to be untrue. The first Russian weightlifter to be spied walking towards the border will be sent back to Moscow to fill in another form in no time.
^Telegraph is keeping mum on this issue..before P_R takes charge..have any Protea players been sent back on visa issues :-)
something to chew on from Procter interview..known ching chan to ECB for peeps who don't know.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/563437.htmlQuote:
As an ICC match referee you were placed in some very difficult situations.
I was, and in the end it cost me. I had an agreement that I was going to be a match referee at the IPL but that was withdrawn. I always had a great relationship with India, but after the Harbhajan Singh incident [Procter banned Harbhajan for three matches - a ban and verdict that were subsequently overturned - for allegedly making racist comments to Australian Andrew Symonds] I've had huge problems in the country.
The situation at The Oval in 2006 [where Pakistan refused to resume after tea, when the umpire, Darrell Hair, accused them of ball-tampering] was difficult. The ICC has changed now - there's no way a match referee would be expected to decide on their own what should happen in a situation like that - a situation which would decide whether a Test could continue or not.
But it was the Harbhajan Singh incident that really did for me. I've replayed that episode quite a lot in my mind. I've thought about what else I could have done. All I can say is this: I would do all the same things again.
As I say, I had a signed contract with the IPL. But one or two board members didn't want me and that was that. It's been a very costly incident.
About freaking time.
enna logic edhu..how many int. bats have a chest-on stance :banghead:Quote:
The ICC is to review the playing condition regarding lbw decisions in international cricket in response to the emergence of the switch hit.
ESPNcricinfo understands that the ICC cricket committee, a group that includes Ian Bishop, Kumar Sangakkara and Mark Taylor, is to consider amending the playing condition whereby a batsman attempting to play the shot cannot be given out lbw if the ball has pitched outside the leg stump.
The news, first mentioned in passing in The Guardian, will mean that any right-handed batsman who switches his stance or grip to effectively play as a left-hander, will be able to be given out even if the ball had pitched outside the leg stump and vice-versa. Bowlers will also be allowed more leeway as regards leg side wides in limited-overs cricket. The cricket committee meets in Dubai later this month.
While any recommendations cannot come into force until they are ratified by the ICC board and the ICC's chief executives' committee, it is unlikely that the cricket committee's proposals would be ignored. The decision will not affect the laws of the game, which are governed by the MCC, leading to the possibility that playing conditions in first-class cricket around the world will differ from playing conditions in the international game. It is up to each national board to determine whether to adopt the ICC's playing conditions in their domestic cricket. While some boards - including those in Sri Lanka and South Africa - tend to default to the ICC stance, others - such as the ECB - are more independent minded. At present the major differences between ICC playing regulations and MCC laws concern the rules regarding the degree of flexion bowlers are allowed, the use of runners and decisions relating to the DRS.
The MCC is also considering the repercussions of the more regular use of the switch hit stroke. Two members of the MCC's laws subcommittee - Dave Richardson and John Stephenson - also sit on the ICC Cricket Committee.
The switch hit first came to prominence in 2008 when Kevin Pietersen played it in an ODI against New Zealand in Durham. The same batsman was involved when matters came to a head in a Test in Sri Lanka recently when Tillakaratne Dilshan pulled out of his delivery stride on several occasions as Pietersen shaped to play the shot and the stand-off threatened to reach stalemate. The umpires, Asad Rauf and Bruce Oxenford, warned Pietersen for time-wasting, but the ICC is now looking for a more permanent solution.
The ICC will be keen not to encourage negative bowling, however. The shot is sometimes played, even at Test level, to counter a leg stump line from right-hand bowlers coming round the wicket and many feel that the switch hit, a shot requiring high skill levels and remarkable reflexes, has been an entertaining addition to the game. It may also be that the ICC asks for some analysis as regards the risk-reward ratio of the shot and whether its usage really does disadvantage bowlers.
Any amendment to the playing conditions is likely to prove torturously difficult to phrase. For a start, it could prove tough to define exactly what constitutes a switch hit - whether it involves a change of stance, a change of grip and when they take place. It is worth noting that the ICC, reacting to David Warner's decision to remain in his normal left-handed stance but with a right-handed grip, issued a directive to umpires in February 2010 that stated such a tactic should be tolerated as long as it did not change once the bowler had begun their run up. As things stand the laws do not define what it means to bat left- or right-handed.
Fraser Stewart, MCC's Laws Manager, recently raised an interesting quandary. "What would happen," Stewart asked, "if a batsman stood chest on to the bowler? If may sound a ludicrous suggestion now, but we have a generation of young cricketers growing up playing the switch hit and prepared to experiment with their stance and their grip. It may well happen."
Dave Richardson recommended as chief executive
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ICC news
ESPNcricinfo staff
May 10, 2012
Dave Richardson, the former South Africa wicketkeeper and ICC general manager - cricket, has been recommended by the ICC board to succeed Haroon Lorgat as chief executive. The board will make its recommendation at the ICC annual conference in June, when Lorgat term ends.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/c...ry/564339.html
^seems with CSK losing streak Seenu maama has lost all his marbles...first it was clipping President powers to make the CEO all the more resourceful and now acceded to this ECB arrangement :neutral:
Here starts the ECB Camel taking over the ICC tent officially also(unofficially they rule anyway).
Feeyaar vekkapttu vEdhanaipadum nAL tholaivil illai. Or who knows he might justify ECB's actions till the cows come home irrespective of merit...
Proctor and Gamble mookkaalazhugai enna thideernu?
naaLaikku idhuvum nadakkum. makkaL adhaiyum rasippAnga-nu solradhA eduththukittEn.Quote:
Originally Posted by wizzy
Richardson-ai solreengaLA? avanai paththi yEdhAvadhu history geography?Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
UDRS fetish theriyin...I meant apart from that.
idhai paththi linku edhunaa...Quote:
david hopps, a writer who migrated from guardian to cricinfo recently, the inside story being the insufferable ways of Mike Selvey in guardian and his typical English araajagam and class-based attitude
Google paNNi pArththEn..oNNum agappadalai.
apparently Giles Clarke/Seenu Maama are eying ICC chairmanship hence this gentleman agreement
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...-ICC-role.htmlQuote:
The Indian power brokers will now turn their attention to the newly created post of ICC chairman.
Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, was part of the interview panel and on the surface it would appear Collier’s snub eases his own path to the ICC chairmanship with the board unwilling to have its top two jobs filled by representatives from the same country.
But with the appointment of Richardson India's board has flexed its muscles once more and their own chairman, N Srinivasan, is keen for the chairmanship of the ICC.
Clarke can only win the election with the Indian board’s support.
linklAm illai, Guardian blog comments-la adichupPAnga. Selvey being the lord labakku doss in Guardian, Selvey(Gounds)- Hopps(senthil) mAdhiri loLLu paNNuvAr publicA. argument naduvula "nee en tea boy dhAnE, pOi taeyum sandwichum koNdu vA" apdinnu (literalA nAn ezhudhinA mAdhiriyE) solluvAr hopps kitta :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
oru kattathula Hopps nondhu pOi resign paNNittu Cricinfola join AyittAr
Seenu Maama is going all out for ICC post..building bridges with Pak by inviting Sialkot for Champs trophy..looking at his desperation he might even arrange a bilateral series before world t-20.
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Cricket in Berlin: Ours is a sport well suited to Germans, says Fabian Muir - if their potential were harnessed, they could combine the physicality of the South Africans, the mental strength of the Australians and the analytical prowess of the British | http://es.pn/J1z4Zo
I think it is common for many Germans to work in England.
ippovE sollu vAikkiREn.
that would be scrapping the bottom of the barrel if the krauts were to play cricket for Eng :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Naanga adhayum kalaippom.
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Originally Posted by P_R
Neenga dhAn Ireland, Scotland-aiyE oththukka mAtreengaLE. En POV-yai sonnEn. appuRam unga team captain vandhu eng senjappuRam expost justification kudukkuREnnu sollidakkoodaadhu paarunga.
emmadhamum sammadhamEQuote:
Originally Posted by wizzy
Ummala vitta Sermans WW-2 kaalathulaye velai senjaanga idhellam Jagajamnnu solluveer.