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Duminy gone...
Mclaren adikaraane
:cry3:
SA 138/5.
Intha chanceyavathu pudichikunga Windies !!!
From 107/5 to 351/9 :cry3: Remba kastam :sigh2:
SA 352 all out... on stumps day 2...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdST6...layer_embedded
A good animated ad for ashes featuring 11 all-time australian greats. :thumbsup:
Sandhirabalan 151* :clap: :clap:
Nash 114 :clap:
2nd Test
South Africa 543/6 dec
West Indies 424/4 (116.0 overs)
http://cricket.rediff.com/report/201...0-wish-him.htm
Happy birthday to aNNaN Plum's favorite player :fishgrin:
Murali to quit Tests after 1st Test Vs India:
http://www.cricinfo.com/srilanka/con...ry/466299.html
'Only Harbhajan can emulate me' - Murali :lol2:
http://www.cricinfo.com/srilanka/con...ry/466431.html
:lol: vaaipae illa..Quote:
Originally Posted by VinodKumar's
pinnE "Nobody can emulate me"-nu tharperumaiyA sonnA nallA irukkAdhulla - adhAn ipdi maraimugamA solli irukkApla
:lol: Good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Bangladesh wins against England :shock:
Bangladesh :thumbsup:
3rd ODI
England 347/7 (50 overs)
A Strauss 154 (140), I Trott 110 (121)
Bangladesh 76/3 (15 overs)
Fast bowlers
Lean, mean pace machines
West Indies' fast-bowling reservoir was so deep, they could have had an XI full of quick men and still have to leave some out
Tony Becca
July 12, 2010
Roberts, Holding, Croft and Garner: striking fear in the hearts of batsmen through the 70s and 80s © Getty Images
West Indies cricket and fast bowling go together like a horse and a carriage. Like their exciting middle-order batsmen, West Indies fast bowlers - and definitely so up to 20 or so years ago - seemed to pop up day after day. Most were fast enough to make batsmen tremble in their boots, and the majority of them are numbered among the best of their time - a few among the best of all time.
From the days of Learie Constantine, George Francis and Herman Griffith, through the likes of Manny Martindale, Leslie Hylton, Hines Johnson, Roy Gilchrist, Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith, to the fearsome quartet of Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Colin Croft, and later on to the likes of Malcolm Marshall, Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose, fast bowlers have been the bread and butter of West Indies cricket.
Constantine, it is written, was as fast as any bowler of his time; Herman Griffith, the man who became a household name in the Caribbean after bowling Don Bradman for 0 in the fifth Test of 1930-31, was all quality. The Indians of the 1958-59 series will confirm that Gilchrist was undoubtedly one of the fastest of his time. The pair of Hall and Charlie Griffith was one of the great ones in the history of the game, and no batsman who had the misfortune of facing them in the 1970s going into the 80s, doubted the quality, the skill and the class of Roberts, Holding, Garner and Croft. They were four big men, all standing over six feet, one at 6ft 7in, and another at 6ft 8in. They were all fast but brought different skills to the combination, and batting against them was a nightmare.
So rich is the history of fast bowling in West Indies cricket that selecting the three quicks on the all-time West Indies team is no easy task. In fact, even if the job was to select an all-time West Indies team of fast bowlers, batting from No. 1 to No. 11, there would still be some great ones left behind.
The contenders
Wes Hall
A big man with an intimidating approach and follow-through, Hall was the first of the modern West Indies fast bowlers. He formed a deadly duo, first with Roy Gilchrist and then with Charlie Griffith; he and Griffith are numbered among the world's greatest fast-bowling pairs. In 48 Test matches, Hall took 192 wickets at an average of 26.38.
Charlie Griffith
The same height but much bigger than Hall, Griffith was accurate and deadly, especially so with his yorkers, which usually knocked over stumps, and his bouncers, which normally knocked down batsmen. In 28 Test matches, Griffith took 94 wickets at an average of 28.54.
Andy Roberts
If Hall was the first of the modern West Indies fast bowlers, Roberts was certainly the big brother of the breed that conquered the world - the set that included Holding, Croft and Garner. Known for his well-disguised bouncer, Roberts took 202 wickets in 47 Test matches at an average of 25.61.
Michael Holding
The Rolls Royce of fast bowlers, Holding was smooth from run-up to delivery. He was fast - as fast if not faster than any of his colleagues - he was fiery, and yet he had the look of a choir boy, even at The Oval in 1976 while destroying England with 14 wickets for 149 runs. In 60 Test matches, Holding took 249 wickets at an average of 23.68.
Colin Croft
One of the most underrated fast bowlers of his time, Croft was a perfect match for the other three members of the quartet that propelled West Indies to the top of world cricket. Roberts was the wise one, Holding the quiet destroyer who delivered some nasty yorkers, Garner the man who got the ball to jump off a fairly good length, and Croft, with his awkward action that so often got the ball to leave right-hand batsmen when it should have been coming in to them, moved the ball off the seam prodigiously. In 27 Test matches, he took 125 wickets at an average of 23.30.
Joel Garner
Standing at 6ft 8in, Garner was a batsman's nightmare. At the point of delivery, as Geoffrey Boycott once said, the ball seemed to be coming out of the sky, and it was almost impossible to pick its length. Because of that, batsmen the world over spent most of their time trying to survive rather than to score runs. In 58 Test matches, Garner took 259 wickets at the amazing average of 20.97.
Malcolm Marshall
Unlike the other great West Indies fast bowlers, Marshall was a little man. In fact, to look at, he seemed more a batsman or a slow bowler. But he was fast, moved the ball both ways, in and out, and possessed a nasty bouncer. In 81 Test matches, Marshall took 376 wickets at an average of 20.94.
Courtney Walsh
A gentle giant, Walsh was Mr Consistency. He generally bowled just short of a good length. He was dependable, was the "work horse" of the great West Indies team of his time, and astonishingly, in terms of wickets taken he seemed to have gotten better the older he got. In 132 Test matches, he took 519 wickets at an average of 24.44.
Curtly Ambrose
Standing at 6ft 7in, Ambrose was one of the tallest of the great West Indies fast bowlers, and it was only natural that he got the ball to bounce awkwardly from an almost perfect length. He dropped it on the same spot delivery after delivery and batsmen found it nearly impossible to play him, forget score against him, as was the case in Perth in the 1992-93 series, when he smashed Australia with seven wickets for one run in 32 deliveries. In 98 Test matches, Ambrose took 405 wickets at an average of 20.99.
Ian Bishop
If ever a bowler appeared destined for greatness, it was Bishop. Coming in off a lovely run-up, he had a beautiful side-on action, good pace, and got the ball to mostly leave the right-hander. However, after a promising start, injury cut him down on two occasions, and he was forced to change his action. Although he remained good enough to compete and deliver, he never achieved what he seemed destined to do. In 43 Test matches, Bishop took 161 wickets at an average of 24.27.
We'll be publishing an all-time West Indies XI based on readers' votes to go with our jury's XI. To pick your fast bowlers click here
http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/466820.html
A terrific bowling unit. :clap:
97
Ricky Ponting has been involved in the most wins as a Test player with 97 victories followed by Shane Warne with 95. Adam Gilchrist though, has the best win-loss ratio of 6.63 among players to play more than 50 Tests]
The Australian team in the last decade hold the first 8 spots. This is a terrific achievement :clap:.
RT Ponting 1 1995-2010 144 97 23 0 24 4.21 42.87 3.51 735 93
SK Warne 1 1992-2007 145 92 26 0 27 3.53 38.57 3.30 653 104
SR Waugh 1 1985-2004 168 86 36 1 45 2.38 38.37 3.11 735 103
GD McGrath 1 1993-2007 124 84 20 0 20 4.20 39.65 3.39 652 93
AC Gilchrist 1 1999-2008 96 73 11 0 12 6.63 44.27 3.73 735 93
ME Waugh 1 1991-2002 128 72 27 0 29 2.66 36.93 3.12 653 104
ML Hayden 1 1994-2009 103 71 18 0 14 3.94 42.39 3.64 735 93
JL Langer 1 1993-2007 105 70 17 0 18 4.11 40.52 3.54 735 93
MV Boucher 2 1997-2010 134 69 34 0 31 2.02 38.78 3.11 682 84
JH Kallis 2 1995-2010 140 68 38 0 34 1.78 37.33 3.05 658 84
IVA Richards 1 1974-1991 121 63 19 0 39 3.31 35.56 3.23 687 53
:roll: Puriyala?
Test players who have participated in most test wins in their career for their country. Out of 144 matches ponting played for australia his team has won 97 matches. And he is number one on the list with most test match wins under his belt.
Quote:
Originally Posted by 19thmay
MCC Spirit of Cricket series
Aus vs Pak 1st Test Lords
Aus - 208/7 (59.1 overs) Ponting out for 26 :poke:
Aus 213/8. Common Pakistan :cool2:.
Too tonty 8/9. Caaman paakis
Hope they dont choke like before.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
It is too much to ask the Pakis not to choke. Would you ask the sun to rise in west?
Watch out for a potning 100+ and an Aussie escape to victory in the second inns!
Day 2 will always be in favour of batsmen. If PAk manages around 400 + by day 3 , we are in for an interesting finish. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Plum
AngE dhaan pak veppAnga twistu. The best way to predict pakistan is to analyse conventionally and settle for the opposite. So when you have favourable batting conditions, expect an inexplicable collapse. Then it is aus who actually enjpy the fav conditions in 3rd innings. Then simply crush pak in 4th innings. Ponting doesn't have an hundred at lord's. Unlike sachin and laraa I don't expect him to sign off without one :)
You are right, enakennamo M.Hussey-ey first inningsla oru 100 potruvaarunu thonudhu.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
True 19 :lol:
ponting 100 suuurQuote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Why the Aus-Pak match is played in the Lord's?
coz of pakistan's security situation, no teams willing to play there...so all of pakistan's home series' will be played in england henceforth till the situation is better...england board has reached an agreement with pcb one feels regarding this...Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
Poor thing!!
Is this the first test match played at a neutral venue? Any test matches played at Sharjah?
ya i think there was a 2-match test series between pak and WI in Sharjah some years back, when Inzy and all were playing...Quote:
Originally Posted by 19thmay
aus vs pak played in sharjah post 2000 - 3 tests and all won by aus