ndia’s frequent defeats to Pakistan more often than not took place in Sharjah between late 80's and mid 90's. Reason for 90% of these defeats was Traitor Dawood's influence in these matches. Our Captain in most of these matches was MD.Azharuddin who along with Ajay Jadeja had set up lot of matches for them.
There were lots of matches in Sharjah particularly where Azhar along with Ajay Jadeja ensured with their pressure building tactics like running out self or other team mates when match is nicely balanced or loaded in India’s favor.
It will be interesting to see that India have done fairly well in matches played at neutral venues other than Sharjah.
Bowling has been the strength of Pakistan. They do not have bowlers half as good as Akrams and Waqars. Shoaib Akhtar is like empty vessel. Same goes with Boom Boom Afridi.
Do you guys remember Ricardo Powell, a hard hitting player from West Indies. Even with West Indies struggling to win matches against top sides, it never persisted with inconsistent players. On the contrary, look at Afridi. He is equally inconsistent but still managed to be a regular player in Pakistan Team. He is not even a regular member but has the guts to talk about captaincy. Such is the situation of Pakistan Cricket. I was very much impressed with Asif in that home series against India. But what happened. Now the whole world knows that he is a drug addict. Pakistanis are cheats. They should be thrown out of International
South Africa is a country which have always produced quality all rounders. Remember Lance Klusner, Hansie Cronje, Jacque Kallis, Shaun Pollock. But now most of them had retired, just when it seemed South Africa will miss an allrounder here comes another one. Morkel. Another Lance Klusner is in making. I don't know wats special in South Africa for all rounders.
Re: South Africa, a country of allrounders
by sachin kulkarni on Jan 27, 2009 03:58 PM
you forgot Piter kirstern , brian macmillan & Pat symcox 3 very fine all rounders when south africa came back in international crickets n early 90s . i think you were in junior school then .
Re: South Africa, a country of allrounders
by dadu kalandar on Jan 27, 2009 10:31 AM
Exactly dude, your right South Africa have produced world's best all-rounders. Now they got another all-rounder to fill the boots of Lance Klusener. They need at the slog overs now they get perfect all-rounder i.e., Albie Morkle.
Re: Re: Re: South Africa, a country of allrounders
by roshan agrawala on Jan 27, 2009 01:17 PM
Not only All-rounders man. They produce match winners. All those all all rounders had the capability to win matches from any stage of the game. U remember Lance Klusner's display in World cup matches . Man ! I don't think any other player, may that be a specialist batsman, has won match like him. I still remember a match against New Zealand, when SA needed 38 runs in last 2 overs and Klusner along with someone else scored those 38 runs with 2 balls remaining. Haha. And that over against McGrath in the worldcup, 5 fours in that over .
Re: Re: Re: Re: South Africa, a country of allrounders
by Sachin Surendran on Jan 27, 2009 01:44 PM
Every body can bat in their team except Ntini. They have a lower order of Boucher,A Morkel,Botha,M Morkel,Steyn who all can bat except the last name and when Ntini was replaced by M Morkel then all 11 players was capable of doing justice with the bat !!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: South Africa, a country of allrounders
by ROMY on Jan 27, 2009 02:05 PM
dear Ntini also can BAT, dont forgot 4th test last Session.
