Mendis might have broken Ajit's record, but there's still yet another World record he's holding. And that's the fastest to take 200 wickets and score 1000 runs as well. He has achieved this feat in 133 matches surpassing Shaun Pollock who did this in 137 matches.
Re: Agarkar still holds another World Record
by Guest on Jan 14, 2009 08:00 AM
How about the Ducks Hall of fame, most consecutive ducks, he got that with five ducks in a row..Number One in that even ahead of Walsh. Most likely he will keep that forever.
Re: Re: Agarkar still holds another World Record
by tinku b soni on Jul 19, 2009 01:29 AM
Breaking Shane Warne's recording of fastest 50 wkts and holding it for almost ten years. Still holding record for fastest 50 in ODIs for India. Fastest 200 wkts with 1000 runs. A unbeaten Test century at Lord's and all you got saw was his 5 consecutive ducks.
Re: Re: Agarkar still holds another World Record
by slash five on Jan 14, 2009 12:12 PM
haha, yeah, but i'd look at the positive side of his work. he's worked hard for it. despite the critics - agarkar has earned every wicket, and critics have only been keyboard warriors at most.
Re: Re: Re: Agarkar still holds another World Record
by Judson Daniel on Jan 14, 2009 06:37 PM
He has always been the scapegoat of Indian Cricket. He is always tagged with the term "Inconsistent" where as no Indian bowlers can be termed "Consistent". No one has understood his potential till now. It's not easy for anyone to have stayed in Competitive cricket for more than 10 years and bagging 288 wickets on the way. No one would ever understand....
Re: next murali
by Devdutt Nayak on Jan 13, 2009 09:34 AM
Of course, like they can watch sachin and sehwag together. It will be fun to watch these two face those two.
Both Irfan Pathan and Ajit Agarkar are missed opportunity, else they could have been groomed as 'effective' all rounders. both lost identity is being batsmen or bowler. Bad economy rate eclipses their wicket taking capabilities. But a genuine medium/fast pacer with batting skills like Kallis, is need of the hour for India.
Re: Hope he does not turn out to be another Agarkar- Eternal fail
by anil babladi on Jan 13, 2009 05:07 AM
He is a mystery spinner & all of them weill be sorted out. He was sorted in his first ODI series..
mendis is mostly a tail sweeper most of the top teams' top order batsmen can play him without any problem now he is usually brought on when the 5th or 6th wicket falls and then h sweeps the tail agarkar mostly got top order wickets in that matter he is still good i wonder why he wasnt allowed to take 300 wickets i was really waiting for the momnet when he would do so
Re: mendis is not great
by Amit Desai on Jan 12, 2009 10:17 PM
he might not be that great - but mendis is still baffling for most cricketers in the world to read. he has troubled all teams that he has played with. he's a spinner while agarkar is a fast bowler - so he is brought in a bit later in the game than agarkar, but def it's not true that he is brought on when 5th or 6th wicket falls. so give mendis the credit that he deserves
