World Cricket II

[KV]

no voips!
inga inna solldhu, dravid dravid nu solldha?

[P_R]

Ricky vs Jacky irukkattum. One or both of them will overtake Sachin. adhukkenna solRInga ellorum?

Never. Sachin is in great flow. His average this year is 50. He had a good tour of SA and even in England - he was not bad at all (Laxman was a disaster and Dravid was brilliant). Unfortunately he didn't play in WIndies.

Kalllis is amazing but then, we play more tests than S.Africa. And he has a good lead on both of them. Sachin's lead is more than safe.

[VinodKumar's]

Ricky vs Jacky irukkattum. One or both of them will overtake Sachin. adhukkenna solRInga ellorum?

Intha maari safe matter kellam strategy podathinganu sollurom

[Plum]

See, once Ricky scores his turn around century against NZ/India, pEi mAdhiri adippAn. Remember he has the most prolific 52 test streak after Bradman. Once formku vandhuttA, avan pEchai avanE kEkka mAttAn . Kallis ipdiyE steadyA pala varusham veLAndu cross paNNa vAippugaL irukku...

[ajithfederer]

England spinner Graeme Swann has told BBC Sport he would like to see one-day international cricket scrapped.

"I think one-day cricket will have to give at some point, hopefully for everyone," he said. "I don't think that game should carry on for much longer.

"For me it's not as enjoyable to play in. I think Test cricket and Twenty20 are the way forward for cricket."

Swann, 32, said the recent postponement of the World Test Championship was "disturbing" and "short-sighted".

A key member of England's side in all three formats of the game, Swann was top of the one-day bowling rankings as recently as October before slipping to third.

Being English we rate Test cricket above and beyond anything else, and certainly the Champions Trophy

Graeme Swann, he has taken 90 wickets in 64 one-day internationals at an impressive average of 25.43.

But he cut a frustrated figure for much of the recent 5-0 hammering in India in which he took just two wickets in four matches and was surprisingly left out for the game in Mumbai.

Swann said he has no imminent plans to quit one-day cricket but believes abandoning the format would help reduce overcrowding in the international calendar.

"We do play too much cricket and if something had to give my choice would be 50-over cricket, or make it 40-over cricket or something," added Swann, who captained England in their last three Twenty20 internationals.

TOP 10 ODI BOWLERS

1. S Ajmal (Pakistan

2. D Vettori (NZ)

3. G Swann (Eng)

4. M Johnson (Aus)

5. M Morkel (Aus)

6. D Bollinger (Aus)

7. S Afridi (Pak)

8. M Hafeez (Pak)

9. D Steyn (SA)

10. S Al Hasan (Bangladesh)

"But that's a purely personal choice. I don't think many people agree with me.

"I think I will finish [playing] before any changes take place so I will carry on playing whatever they put in front of me."

Swann's calls are unlikely to be heeded because one-day cricket remains such a lucrative form of the game, especially in the subcontinent.

Last week, the International Cricket Council called off the inaugural World Test Championship - due to be staged in England in 2013 - in favour of the 50-over Champions Trophy after pressure from its broadcast partner ESPN Star Sports.

"This is frustrating because being English we rate Test cricket above and beyond anything else, and certainly the Champions Trophy," said Swann.

"[Abandoning the Test Championship] is a bit disturbing and short-sighted in my view but I'm not the powers that be."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/15899824.stm

[Plum]

Coincidentally, England are #1 in T20 and Test Cricket. "EngaLukk pidikkAdhadhu, varAdhadhu Cricketla irukka koodAdhu. Adhai naanga subtleA solluvOm. IdhaoyE BCCI panninaa araajagam. Engala nambaradhukku ulagam pooram madaiyargal irukkum varai naanga idhaiyum pannikittu Cricketin paadhukaavalargaL maadhiri nadippom, vaazhga muttaal gendilmen cricket believers who are the source of our strength"

[P_R]

Flau, even you have said ODI is pointless now and should be on its way out, haven't you

I disagree with Swann, but don't see self-serving agenda and all.

EngaLukk pidikkAdhadhu, varAdhadhu Cricketla irukka koodAdhu

appadinnA powerful colonial power Ingilaandhu ennikkO ODI-yai scrap paNNirukkaNum

And its not as if anyone is convinced Eng have found their niche in limited overs cricket in the T20 format. Even the most hardcore Eng supporters know their being top T20 team is a happy accident (unlike their test No.1 status). I believe what Swann is saying is what pretty much you said earlier about ODI v T20.

I too think one of the formats should disappear from the face of the earth

[P_R]

And you can see it is the annoyance about Test championship being edged out for ODI sEmbian's trophy, that he is commenting about.
ellAththaiyin agenda-vAvE paakkureeyaLE. ulagam romba perusu saar and other such homilies.

[Plum]

Not so straightforward feeyaar. Till the 1999 world cup, Engand didn't realise they were shit at modern ODIs. They had the best record after Windies in World Cups until 1992. 1996 was considered a blip in those God-forsaken, unfair, subcontinental conditions. 1999 - till they were knocked out, they velieved they are still great. It was after 2007 that they started realising they were utter crap in this format. By then, BcCI had ODIs as the golden goose. So, no, it wasn't out of generosity that powerful England let ODIs survive.

[Plum]

Yes, I believe one of the limited overs format has to go. And I'd sacrifice the ODIs. But avan solRadhum nAn solRadhum vERa reason illaiyA? Btw, even in Guardian, which is about as liberal a site as English can get, people truly beieve in their #1 T20 status. You don't get more reasonable people in England than Guardian readers so I don't believe that Emglish supporters are not proud of their #1 status in Twenty20. I mean, it is an English trait to talk up whatever they are good at. Look at how Swann says