World Cricket II

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Change the title to P_R Vs Plum

[wizzy]

http://www.icc-cricket.com/events_an...ting_panel.php

ICC awards or not Ajmal is the best bowler in the world across all formats of the game...ask Hussey bros

[P_R]

Flau, Karthigeyar Date-vai introduce paNNadhukkAgavE neenga vAzhga

On Mankading http://cricketingview.blogspot.in/20...mankading.html

There is a marked preference among the people who are interested in cricket on my twitter time line for clearly stated laws. There is an allergy towards any view which examines the account a player gives of himself.

All modes of dismissal are not created equal in cricket. It is a simple game, but nevertheless a very human game. The mechanical clarity of unambiguous rules is only a part of game, not all of it.

If you think that there is the written law, and thats all there is to it - that there is no right, no wrong, and no account of oneself to be given by a sportsman beyond the strict letter of the law, then you and I watch a different game. The game you watch is a boring, humorless one in which everyone must behave the same way - in which the optimal action for each player is measurable and any player who does not perform to this standard is a sub-standard fool.

Cricket is far richer than that. It is a game which requires judgment to be exercised by its players and its adjudicators - judgments not merely about what is to ones maximal advantage, but judgments about what is right by one's opponents and by the game.

It is healthy for there to be discomfort with decisions made on the field. Regrets and reflection are signs of maturity and decency.

Mankading happens rarely and never without comment. That is how it should be.

[wizzy]

PVR is bringing FIB to India

[wizzy]

[raajarasigan]

PVR is bringing FIB to India

[wizzy]

kabada naadaga veshadari type article


http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/579767.html


after all his gyaan this one made me chuckle

Iain O'Brien is a former New Zealand fast bowler who played 22 Tests

was half expecting our Akashwani to come up with an article on similar lines

[raghavendran]

Brian Lara, Enid Bakewell to be inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

The International Cricket Council today announced that Brian Lara and Enid Bakewell will be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame tomorrow evening at the LG ICC Awards 2012.

West Indies’ Lara becomes the 67th male member of the Hall of Fame, while England’s Bakewell becomes the third woman to be inducted.

Lara and Bakewell will attend the LG ICC Awards tomorrow evening at the Waters Edge in Colombo.

Two further inductees will be announced later in the year.

The duo of Bakewell and Lara attended a special Hall of Fame cocktail reception on Friday evening to celebrate their inductions. The reception was attended by a variety of Lara’s former team-mates as well as the current West Indies squad.

Also attending the reception were members of the Ireland squad, along with their coach and Lara’s former team-mate Phil Simmons, as well as bowling coach Craig McDermott.

Brian Lara was one of the West Indies most prolific batsmen having represented the country for 131 Tests and 299 ODIs in a career that spanned 17 years. He amassed some 11,953 runs at an average of 52.88.

He scored 34 Test centuries and 48 half-centuries while his best performance with the bat featured against England in Antigua in 2004 when he scored 400 not out and to this day that total still remains the highest by any Test batsmen in an individual innings.

In the 299 ODIs that Lara played he scored 10,405 runs at an average of 40.48 that included 19 centuries and 63 half-centuries and in 1994, when captaining the West Indies, he led the team to victory in the ICC Champions Trophy in England.

Lara’s First Class career began in 1987 and when it ended in 2008 he had scored 22,156 runs with his highest score coming in the English County Championship playing for Warwickshire against Durham when he hit an unbeaten 501 in 1994.

Lara said of the induction: “I think it’s a very humbling experience for me. First of all, to be considered and then to be selected is a great moment. To be named alongside some of the great cricketers not just from West Indies but from all around the world like Sir Garfield Sobers, the Three Ws, Sir Vivian Richards is a very special feeling.”

“I had quite a few special moments in my career. I think our 2-1 series win in Australia in 1993 under Richie Richardson was very special. Then obviously winning the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004 under my leadership was also a very special occasion,’’ added Lara.

Joining Lara in the Hall of Fame is one of England’s all time cricketing legends from the female game, Enid Bakewell.

Born in Nottinghamshire in 1940, Bakewell played the majority of her cricket for the East Midlands, Nottinghamshire Women and of course England Women.

One of England’s best all-rounders she made her Test debut in 1968 against Australia in Adelaide where she scored a century on debut while her ODI debut came in 1973 in Hove, Sussex. She scored 1,078 Test runs at an average of 59.88 while she claimed 50 Test wickets with her useful left-arm spin at an average of just 16.13.

In 1979, playing the West Indies, Bakewell became the first English player, male or female to score a century and take 10 wickets in a Test, which was also her last appearance for England. Only fellow Hall of Famers Ian Botham, Alan Davidson and Imran Khan have achieved the feat in the men’s game while alongside Bakewell, Australia’s Betty Wilson also holds the accolade.

A delighted Bakewell said: “I do feel very honoured. To be named after, Rachael Heyhoe Flint is a huge moment for me. Rachael was a huge inspiration for me. My induction into this elite panel is also a big statement for women’s cricket.”

http://www.indiansportsnews.com/hot-...l-of-fame.html

[ajaybaskar]

Martin Crowe diagnosed with cancer.

http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_martin-crowe-diagnosed-with-cancer_1752731

[VinodKumar's]

Pollard bats in beanie ...