It seems Indians have teased Brad Hogg little to much. Now you will see, he will kill indians with his bowling. Infact he is better bowler than bhaggi and kumble. Also, we should remember that each of other fast bowler are capable to clean-up our battling line-up. how will they counter them first? Hogg will later only if required. so better make plan for them rather than Hogg.
I appeal to Indian Cricket selectors to call back Punjab medium-pacer VRV Singh in the place of Pankaj Singh. It is not good for the Indian selectors to trust on inexperienced Pankaj in place of VRV. VRV has the experience of playing against Aussies and it will be better choice than Pankaj who has a very slim chance to get included in the test squad.
RE:Call back VRV immediately for Test series
by suman on Dec 23, 2007 03:59 PM
mr.Rajdeep Singh ,are you VRV singh brother or cousin.. No body knows VRV singh exactly and you are telling about his performance don't over sentiment about your brother
Sachin Tendulkar topped Shane Warne's countdown of greatest cricketers edging out Brian Lara, who was placed second. Curtly Ambrose, Allan Border and Glenn McGrath rounded out the top five in Warne's Times column.
Warne rated Tendulkar ahead of Lara on account of his mental toughness and hailed him as a "great player and a great man". He wrote, "Outside grounds [in India], people wait until he [Tendulkar] goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer ... He [Tendulkar] grew up under incredible weight of expectation and never buckled once - not under poor umpiring decisions or anything else."
Warne and Tendulkar clashed several times on the field, but their most most famous battles were on Australia's tour to India in 1997-98. Warne struck the first salvo, dismissing Tendulkar for 4 in the first Test, but was then taken apart in the second, going for 122 runs in 30 overs as Tendulkar smashed a matchwinning unbeaten 155. Tendulkar finished the series with an average of 111, while Warne's ten wickets cost him 54 apiece.
After all Sachin is a batsmen, of course he has been doing his duty successfully all these years. This doesn't mean that he is perfect all the times and have hand over the other end. We all know sachin who got out with zero many times. He is not undistructable. Challenging a bowler who already crushed the Indian batsmen on their own soil, is really foolishness...........If he is capable of playing and attacking the bowler, he is welcomed to do on the field. ......... Anyway we are about to see his performance on the field soon. An fool can perform is his own backyard, performing on others backyard is important. Sachin all the best!! Try to show ur caliber on the field. we all know by this activity of ours, u again proved that ur egocentric for which one Great team player has paid the cost.....................Anyway all the best again for sachin.........hopfully, he will not get out by Mr Hogg!!
RE:Ego!!!
by sathya raj on Dec 23, 2007 09:20 PM
Sir Surender... Would you mind find a good replacement for satching...or Go back to office and do some work...stop writing B.S... what u want a player to do...hit 100 all the time..SHUT UP SURENDER
Sachin should tell the below to himself every day when he wakes up
Never again will i fail under pressure. Never again i will bat slowly when i reach milestones. Never again will i get injured on the verge of getting dropped. Never again will i play world cup as i already played 5 WCUPS and never utilized the chances i got to win the cup. Never again will i evade Tax if someone gifts me a car. Never again will i get bowled to any Aussie bowler or any bowler for that matter and pretend as if the ball kept low,i am already very short that it cant keep lower than me. Never again will i make some average bowlers look difficult to get away and score my recently trademarked slow half centuries of 50 runs in 120 balls when the team needs some quick runs..
Ya Sachin fans ask me how much cricket have i played to talk about him,how much money does he pay u all to write like that?Have u played Cricket before
Yuvraj hit 6 sixes in one over,will Sachin hit at least one six in the whole ODI tournament in AUS with the big grounds and high class fast bowlers,no not Hogg it is the other bowlers who he should really challenge,oh ya atleast joke to challenge...
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by JM on Dec 23, 2007 10:57 AM
Raman, know what you are barking instead of just throwing up on your blog. Sachin did not evade tax, it was the overawed IT guys and politicians who waived the tax WITHOUT HIM ASKING IT TO BE WAIVED.
He has been a outstanding citizen standing up against drinking and smoking (he has never endorsed alcohol or tobacco inspite og being offered crores of rupees). He has been involved in charities and has not been in one controversy.
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by karthi keyan on Dec 23, 2007 11:15 AM
Please dont bark or scrap something so as to make ppl to see ur stupid comments . . .
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by Raja kaliappan on Dec 23, 2007 11:26 AM
When a dog barks looking a moon u should never mind. Likewise never mind what Mr.Raman is barking about.
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by kailesh patel on Dec 23, 2007 11:33 AM
yawnnnnz.... raman ji... aap shayad abhi abhi cricket dekhne shuru kiya hai...people go drool over sachin when he bats... his century in australia when he was 17 made ppl say he is just like bradman... oh sry i doubt u kno who bradman is...well he is the greatest ever batsman ever.. and so is sachin.. close enough
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by Ian Chappell on Dec 23, 2007 09:21 AM
I think hogg is going to play a major role in this last battle of old warriors (Rahul,Sachin,Laxman,Anil vs Gilly,Ponting,Hayden). The fact is that both sides bowling attack is pretty inexperienced especially aussies attack. They just have lee as a experience bowler at the test level. Hogg is also new, but India have Anil,Harbhajan and Jahir to play and that matters a lot. So hogg statement for Tendulkar is typically Aussies strategy to put indian legend under some kind of mental block. Aussies know that tendulkar know about their verbal weapons on the field very well so they just 'praise' him off the field so that he just feel some pressure. Aussies know this fact also very well that beside Tendulkar the other two big threats Dravid and laxman can't do much. They have seen and tested this when they last toured India and beat them comprehensively. Dravid and Laxman was just helpless against rampaging aussies that time without the help of Tendulkar(Tendulkar had tennis elbow that time). So this time too its no different. Aussies know that when the little champ is playing, how difficult it is to beat India! He not only play like a champ against aussies but also lift the whole team up. I think mr. hogg should shut up this rubbish against the Indian great because it is not going to work at all!
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by siddharth jain on Dec 23, 2007 02:54 PM
hey frenz... Sachin used to be a wonderful cricketer but for the last 4-5 years, it has been a slump fr him... as far as AUstralia is concerned.. he has never scored against OZ (and that 2 CONSISTENTLY ... check hayden and gilchrist, ponting, symonds who always fire w/o fear against any opposition). he cant handle exteme pace wonder how its gonna be against Shaun Tait.. Believe or not but age factor has come now and its high time for Sachin to either perform like his image of being a bowler's NIGHTMARE or retire
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by Ritwik Bhuyan on Dec 23, 2007 04:46 PM
R u joking ? Tendulkar best performances have come against Australia. He averages 53 in Tests and 45 in ODI's against Australia. He have scored 7 centuries each both in Tests as well as ODI's against Australia.
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by Ajay Patil on Dec 23, 2007 10:34 AM
Dear Raman,
I don't know how much cricket u understand and what's is your IQ /Age...Is any other cricketer had such type of guts?? The same thing happened to Warne during his prime....and he confessed not to use a single word against this living legend...Please shutup and mind ur own business..
RE:Sachin tell never again to urself with the following
by bijo m on Dec 23, 2007 10:33 AM
raman i think u are from some other space. coz every in the cricketing world, be it the very junior level cricketer admires sachin a lot, a lot more than any other cricketer. see his strike rate after 18 brilliant years and you are that fool to think this way. just go to hell you born for nothing but jealousy of others. cricket is not a one man game to win a world cup alone, but why should i tell all this to you who doesn't know the abcd of cricket. so you crap go to hell again!
RE:Smart Hogg
by Raman on Dec 23, 2007 09:24 AM
Yes that is true,he knows that Sachin with his huge ego(small man bigger ego)will be avoiding getting out to Hogg and play carefully and that will dry up the runs...Way to go Aussies....u guys r not winners for this long by luck...
RE:Smart Hogg
by innocent on Dec 23, 2007 10:38 AM
hi raman, if you dont have ego, you a dead man. all has ego. like may commented on you, i too think you new to cricket, or commenting to get noticed. eventhough i dont admire sachin he is a brilliant player with intelligance. aussies think they can win the match by basing, bullying etc, at times we need this type of statements.
I think hogg is going to play a major role in this last battle of old warriors (Rahul,Sachin,Laxman,Anil vs Gilly,Ponting,Hayden). The fact is that both sides bowling attack is pretty inexperienced especially aussies attack. They just have lee as a experience bowler at the test level. Hogg is also new, but India have Anil,Harbhajan and Jahir to play and that matters a lot. So hogg statement for Tendulkar is typically Aussies strategy to put indian legend under some kind of mental block. Aussies know that tendulkar know about their verbal weapons on the field very well so they just 'praise' him off the field so that he just feel some pressure. Aussies know this fact also very well that beside Tendulkar the other two big threats Dravid and laxman can't do much. They have seen and tested this when they last toured India and beat them comprehensively. Dravid and Laxman was just helpless against rampaging aussies that time without the help of Tendulkar(Tendulkar had tennis elbow that time). So this time too its no different. Aussies know that when the little champ is playing, how difficult it is to beat India! He not only play like a champ against aussies but also lift the whole team up. I think mr. hogg should shut up this rubbish against the Indian great because it is not going to work at all!
RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by Raman on Dec 23, 2007 09:27 AM
Ya he does lift the whole team in his shoulders,remember it was VVS Laxman and Dravid who played Magical innings under pressure agains AUS,Sachin is no way the player he was and this series he might just flop big time or even get injured half way..The lion of Indian Cricket Saurav Gangs and the young weapon Yuvraj will be the stars for India this time...These 2 r champs and play under pressure more than any other Indian bat
RE:RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by Ian Chappell on Dec 23, 2007 09:40 AM
Mr. Raman I was talking about the Aussies's last tour of India in 2005 when they beat India by 2-1 in 4 test series and your dada ranaway from 'Nagpur test' by saying it is 'GREEN-TOP'. ha! ha! poor fan of 'Bengal Tiger' or 'Royal Bengal Pussy-Cat'
RE:RE:RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by Sriram Govindarajan on Dec 23, 2007 06:43 PM
Sachin is the real coward..he did not take up captaincy when offered,dada is the highest run getter last season...
RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by Raman on Dec 23, 2007 09:35 AM
Bengal Tiger scored a gutsy 100 last time India toured and that set the tone,he has openly said that he has missed lots of 100s for India sake coming late down the order,will ur Endulkar do such a thing for the nation?No never.Saurav once told what is the use of scoring 25 centuries when ur team doesnt win,that time Endulkar had 25 centuries in ODIS but was flopping final after final,Saurav is lot better player than Endulkar,its just his test record doesnt show it.Saurav made one mistake,that was to bring Greg Chappel..
RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by CricFan01 on Dec 23, 2007 10:34 AM
Mr.Raman, If Sachin had half the ego as you, he would not have been rated by many experts as one of the greatest. When you (without any achievements, other than criticize a great player for personal reasons) can have such an ego, why not Sachin. The great Bengal tiger about whom you lavish so much praise, has a big ego.
RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by hindublogger on Dec 23, 2007 01:28 PM
Bengal Tiger? Or Master Politician? Oh he is better than Sachin? I didnt know that ..Dude when did you jump out of mental asylum?
RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by Ritwik Bhuyan on Dec 23, 2007 04:48 PM
Ha, ha, ha Ganguly better than Tendulkar ? Ganguly's average against Australia in ODI = 23 and Tests = 32. Great, isn't it ? Ha, ha, ha, ha ....
RE:Poor Strategy Mr Hogg !!
by Ian Chappell on Dec 23, 2007 09:45 AM
Mr. Raman I was talking about the Aussies tour of India last time in 2005. When your so called Bengal tiger ran away from Nagpur test by saying it 'GREEN TOP' and India lost the home series by 2-1. How shame it was? Indian captain ran away from the match? He not only showed his real character but also ashamed the whole country!
