Nice Match report Faisal. well-written and thought out. Just my personal opinion, but I see a lot of improvement from a year or so ago, when you first took over these duties from Prem P.
Ganguly is really a great captain and a great player ...He just changed the indian team from scatch and make it worldclass. Now SA looks underdog vs india , what it was reverse two years back.
Faisal does a good job of reporting on matches. reports facts, airs a few opinions, and thats the end of it. I would anyday take a few typos rather than have to plough through the stale and supercilious style of Prem Panicker to find out exactly what happened at the match, as opposed to his well known feelings of animosity towards Ganguly's captaincy.
Wish Faisal had written a few lines about Ganguly's innings though. He missed out against the Bangladeshis last match, but seems to have taken a liking to SA!
RE:Good job Faisal
by Karan Dua on Apr 14, 2003 08:40 PM
You wrote "stale and supercilious style of Prem Panicker". Prem tries to use more & more slags to give a flavor his fluency......Slangs do not come naturally to many Indians.......understandably since English is NOT the first-language.
In one of the Panix stations with Faisal, Prem said....."Ivan Lendell use to travel with a bloody team of ?"......I was not able to control my frustration at that time.
The SA team looks disjointed and the captain must be an experienced I suggest it should given to Pollock or if their selectors thinks a new it will be Boucher or Klusner or Kallis. The job must be given to Match winners.
Please proof read the article before posting...else the Indian XI will read as: Sirendra Vehwag, Gaurav Sanguly, Sarbhajan Hingh, Minesh Dongia, Suvraj Yingh, Kohammad Maif, Mamit Ishra, Banjay Sangar, etc. Thank God, Ajit Agarkar, Parthiv Patel & Gautam Gambhir will be spared. Just like countless Indians and some ace players who seem to be jaded with cricket after the World Cup, Faisal Shariff too seems to be too bored to write anything different.
very good analysis ...wonder why some ppl r crying foul hetre .....good choice of words and well written ......kaif really showed his class agin we need dediacted cricketers like kaif and yuvraj .....our captrain no doubt i s a gem for backin his players ...way to go dada ...one of the best captains ever ...better tahn tendulakar or ppl like vengsarkar , srikanth,azhar etc etc ...definitely in the nawab pataudi mould ..........kep up the good work rediff......
