It is a list only of people who retired prior to 1995 as clearly stated. So hold your horses. Others' time will come.
In the US, they have Halls of Fame for all 3 major sports - American Football, Baseball & Basketball. Every year 3-4 new players are inducted into the Hall of fame. Players have to wait a minimum of 5 years before even being considered for induction.
Since cricket is a poor copycat of baseball terminology and all phrases American (e.g. Pinch hitter, fly ball, line drive, are all baseball terminology), it would be no surprise if this is what the ICC people have in mind.
Re: Hold your horses!
by bigben bigben on Jun 28, 2009 07:36 PM
Read as: "Players have to wait a minimum of 5 years AFTER RETIREMENT before even being considered for induction. Regards.
Re: Hold your horses!
by Nishit Shukla on Jun 28, 2009 08:05 PM
Who is this nincompoop who says 'cricket is a poor copycat of baseball terminology and all phrases American', I mean ok, pinch hitter is something that has crept into the cricketing lingo, but no one has ever heard of line driv$e and fly ball. The fact is that baseball as a sport is a poor cousin of cricket.
Re: Hold your horses!
by Y Z on Jun 28, 2009 07:56 PM
bigpen ... hold your asses buddy ... cricket was invented 200 years before baseball. so, baseball is a poor copycat of cricket.
Re: How many Pakistanis in Hall of shame????
by Zaved Akhtar on Jun 28, 2009 09:06 PM
Harbhajan is capable enough to qualify for your category: "Slapping fellow teammate"
Re: Re: Aah! without Tendliya
by Jayendra Bandyopadhyay on Jun 28, 2009 08:01 PM
Read carefully, Kapil is there. Sachin is still playing, how can he be considered in the list of hall of fame??
In the news on this subject Subhash Gupte's first name is incorrectly spelt as Subash.I think this mistake occurs because of what I call as the "Dravidian Syndrome" in which "H" is incorrectly "removed" like mentioned above or "added" for eg Prashant,Jayant, Lata become Prashanth,Jayanth and Latha without knowing or respecting how the person spells his or hers name.
As usual the English dominated ICC has shown prejudic against the Asians- No hall of fame is complete without Lala Amarnath, Vijay Merchant, Chandrashekhar, Prasanna and Polly Umrigar. I am sure there would be a few from Sri Lanka and Pakistan also. India should flex its muscle in cricket and teach these guys a lesson
