Vishy had the magical wand in his hand .Pure easthetics .Of course when ever Vishy hit a century India won but I rememeber him as a supreme artist which has enthralled the public Swarup
Re: Vishy the artist
by Thiyagarajan Iyer on Feb 21, 2010 08:56 PM
GRV was the greatest cricketer ever to have played the game in the entire world and being the most honest man , the Indian cricket as a game had won many a hearts He was a walker and never waited for the Umpire to give him out When India lost the Jubilee test in 1979-80 against at Bombay, Mr KN Prabhu ,the great Cricket critic in TOI wrote that while India lost the Gentleman's game Cricket had won
While he was the supreme touch artist and had always played the game naturally with out bothering about statistics / records etc , Sunil Gavaskar was essentially a percentage player with limited strokes in the V He was never a hooker and avoided many strokes unlike GRV I rate Sachin as the only comparable player (may be ahead of GRV) Being few days younger to GRV, I had remained his greatest admirer and fan to this day We require more GRVs to lift the game away from to-day's ugly commercialisation back into its glorious days of late 60's and early 70's
Vishy is a strokeful and sylish player. He never played for the records and was never selfish. He never played for 60 over for 36 runs in world cup because he hated the captain. I can see Laxman as another stylish player, a treat to watch and of course Sachin is a class player.
G.R.VISHVANATH WAS EASILY THE MOST STYLISH INDIAN BATSMAN EVER. PERHAPS VVS LAXMAN, AZHARUDDIN MAY COME CLOSE TO HIM BUT VISHVANATH WAS A PURE ARTIST. WHO CAN FORGET THE SILKEN DRIVES, THE FAMOUS SQUARE CUT, ELEAGANT FLICKS. HE WAS A MAGICIAN. EVEN VISHY IF HE GOT OUT CHEAPLY HIS PRESENCE IN THE CREASE WAS FULL OF STYLE AND ARTISTRY. GAVASKAR. TENDULKAR AND DRAVID MAY BE CONSISTENT AND GREAT THAN VISHY BUT WHEN IT COMES TO STYLE AND ELEAGANCE VISHY WAS THE BEST.
This guy was more kannadiga then indian. team selected by him. more than 10 players from karnataka only 3 went on to become better players. There were a time when india had majority kannada players
Team as follows sujith somasundaram dravid Vijay Bharadwaj david johnson, dodda ganesh sunil joshi venkatesh prasad srinath kumble
Re: kannada patriot
by Pavan S on Feb 13, 2009 06:10 PM
With the exception of Sujith ("Somsunder" and not Somasundar"AM" the common tamilian 'am' at the end of every shiit)everybody had a supremely valid reason to be in.
Draivd, Kumble, Prasad and Srinath were automatic choices.
Sunil Joshi (was kept in because captain Tendulkar felt he was had an exceptional left arm spinner with a great guile in the angle of the delivery and also someone who could bat)
David Johnson bowled faster than the fastest bowler in those times i.e. Srinath. So he was brought in be someone like Shoaib Akthar but didn't work out and that's a different matter altogether.
Dodda Ganesh was given a chance just like the rest of the pack... like Paras Mahambrey, Salil Ankola, Abey Kuruvilla, Mohanty, Youhana and various other such players. (Just note the number of useless bombay bowlers who were gievn a chance)
Vijay Bhardwaj proved to be the right choice as he was the man of the series of the champions trophy (mini world cup as it was called then). He obviously lost his way after that and that is a different matter altogether. And moreover Vishy was not the chairman when this guy walked in to the team.
And tambi what is Srikanth(an) doing?? Bringing in Badrinathan, Dinesh Karthikhan, Balajian... all meaningless selections.
With Zaheer, Ishant and Munaf being automatic choices and Irfan being looked at as fast bowler all rounder do you think Balajian (with his 120 Kms balls) has a chance?
Karthickan despite all d runs behind him wil b alwyscw behind Dhon
Re: kannada patriot
by Pavan S on Feb 13, 2009 06:10 PM
With the exception of Sujith ("Somsunder" and not Somasundar"AM" the common tamilian 'am' at the end of every shiit)everybody had a supremely valid reason to be in.
Draivd, Kumble, Prasad and Srinath were automatic choices.
Sunil Joshi (was kept in because captain Tendulkar felt he was had an exceptional left arm spinner with a great guile in the angle of the delivery and also someone who could bat)
David Johnson bowled faster than the fastest bowler in those times i.e. Srinath. So he was brought in be someone like Shoaib Akthar but didn't work out and that's a different matter altogether.
Dodda Ganesh was given a chance just like the rest of the pack... like Paras Mahambrey, Salil Ankola, Abey Kuruvilla, Mohanty, Youhana and various other such players. (Just note the number of useless bombay bowlers who were gievn a chance)
Vijay Bhardwaj proved to be the right choice as he was the man of the series of the champions trophy (mini world cup as it was called then). He obviously lost his way after that and that is a different matter altogether. And moreover Vishy was not the chairman when this guy walked in to the team.
And tambi what is Srikanth(an) doing?? Bringing in Badrinathan, Dinesh Karthikhan, Balajian... all meaningless selections.
With Zaheer, Ishant and Munaf being automatic choices and Irfan being looked at as fast bowler all rounder do you think Balajian (with his 120 Kms balls) has a chance?
Karthickan despite all d runs behind him wil b alwyscw behind Dhon
Re: kannada patriot
by Ram V on Feb 13, 2009 12:08 AM
so what, we have had substandard from Bombay like Jaffer, Naik, Agarkar given so many chances. There was a time when Sunil Gavaskar and Pawar wanted only Bombay players. Of course Dhoni is trying to change everything now. Hats off to Dhoni, India is on top.
Re: kannada patriot
by rajni on Feb 13, 2009 09:40 AM
Krishnan if the selectors give N time chances to tamilians no body will stay in the team because of there poor performances,lets see how many of you get chances by your Kris srikkanth,no matter how many you come you just can't be equal to Kannadigas - Srinath, Kumble,Venkatesh prasad,Rahul dravid
Re: kannada patriot
by arvi on Feb 13, 2009 06:23 AM
given a chance U krishnan will make even jaylalitha ..karuna nidhi ..rajini ..vijay kanth every one as part of team india...U TN guys are pethatic and are passionate about only TN not for country ..what can we expect from such narrow minded ppl like u...E my Shi
Re: kannada patriot
by iamnotlegend on Feb 12, 2009 07:28 PM
many of the players u mentioned played when azhar was captian and later some under ganguly and srinath, kumble prasad would have been selected under anyones captiancy
Re: kannada patriot
by ramprasad mantravadi on Feb 12, 2009 08:17 PM
5/9 had success and 3 of these 5 are stars in every sense. Not bad for kannadiga patriotism.
Re: Re: Re: kannada patriot
by krishna on Feb 12, 2009 09:50 PM
There have been many players from different regions who played for India but did not contribute... All of these were players were chosen because they performed well in the domestic circuit... (i.e., Devang Gandhi, Kanitkar...
Re: RULE: -
by Salil on Feb 12, 2009 11:41 PM
if mumbai cricketers are so selfish... then that should not help the team right. Then why is it that mumbai wins ranji tropy time and again ?
It should either mean that they are actually not selfish and if they are selfish thern that should help as well (since "selfish" mumbai keeps winning...so lets select all selfish guys so that we win )
Re: RULE: -
by jose wesley on Feb 12, 2009 06:30 PM
yah its true ,mumabi player always play own carrer not for team,sachin is a match winner like lara?gavaskar is playing sleeping cricket
Re: RULE: -
by Ganesh Raam on Feb 12, 2009 06:51 PM
Mumbai players are selfish, they play for records It' a Fact that Wheever Gundappa Vishvanath Hit century India have won except on 2 occasions ...one in Bangalore and other in Chennai- The match was drawn In fact in the last test at Melbourne in 82 Vishy hit a century, Kapil bowled well and the australians were shot out for 72 runs in their second Knock Its not only Karnataks but also Players from TN are tru gentlemen and play to the spirits like Venkataraghavan, Krish Srikkanth, WV Raman... If you look into Records of Both sachin and Gavaskar.........With their Centuries the wins.were in single digit percentage
Re: Re: RULE: -
by Salil on Feb 12, 2009 11:43 PM
if sachin and favaskar hit centuries and still we lose..that goes to show others didn't contribute at all.
When you gundappa hit century...go check how much others have contributed
when will most in the forum realize ...what selfish really means?
Re: Re: Re: RULE: -
by Salil on Feb 12, 2009 11:55 PM
should i add..that if when mumbai players score 100 others dont want to contribute..have some consiparcy against them or something?
Re: Re: RULE: -
by rational man on Feb 12, 2009 08:23 PM
Man, you need to understand the game, more. Gavaskar and Sachin are great not only for winning matches but also saving the matches from the claws of defeat.
Re: RULE: -
by RONNIE KHER on Feb 12, 2009 08:23 PM
huh!! Sachin in 1998 against Australia, in 2008 against Australia, selfish?? dude, nobody disputes that Dravid, Kumble are thorough gentlemen but does that imply Mumbai cricketers are selfish? Think before speaking espescially when you are being regionalistic. By your logic Ganguly is nothing short of a dacoit.
Tomorrow team is to be selected and my playing xi wil be for odi and t-20
M S Dhoni Virendra Sehvag, Gambheer, Raina, jedeja, yusuf, irfan, yuvraj, zaheer, ishant, harbhajan singh, piyush Chawla, Dinesh Kartic and praveen Kumar and for test M S Dhoni Sehvag, yuvraj, Gambheer, Dravid, laxman, sachin, zaheer, ishant, harbhajan singh, amit mishra, badrinath, Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Kartic and Rohit sharma ( as he batted well in test)
Re: What will be team india
by kumarbiplab on Feb 12, 2009 10:05 PM
Rohit Sharma in test ? LOL. Uthappa needs to be in ODI/T-20 rather then Irfan/Piyush/Dinesh
