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gaurav manchanda
IRFAN PATHAN
by gaurav manchanda on Nov 22, 2009 08:22 PM

whenever any one of sachin or sehwag gets injured and gambhir was asked to open, India tried lot of players (raina, rohit, virat, dinesh karthik, robin uthappa)at number 3 position. look at their batting averages at number 3:

raina       23.37 16 matches

karthik 4.50      4 matches

rohit sharma 14.5 6 matches

uthappa 18.83      6 matches

There is one player who have a better average than all these players at number 3 position and that is IRFAN PATHAN.

irfan pathan 28.64       18 matches

he can bowl also. india always lack good pace bowlers & their strength is spinners. if irfan comes as a 3rd pacer then india can play with 2 spinners which makes their bowling stronger.
Irfan is also a strong candidate for number 7 position. he can score quick runs. Since last 18 months, there is only a single half-century by number 7 batsman and the next big score is 40 runs. If u look at statistics the highest batting average of a number 7 batsman is 23 (irfan pathan). All these statitics reveals the fact that IRFAN is a better option for number 3 (in case any one of sehwag, sachin and gambhir not playing) and also for number 7.

remember, India has won the T20 world cup, CB series Australia with 5 specialist bowlers (one of them being IRFAN PATHAN).



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gaurav manchanda
unlucky high performance domestic players
by gaurav manchanda on Nov 22, 2009 07:54 PM

what badrinath and cheteshwar pujara has to do to get into Indian playing XI.

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Rajish Thandan
VVS is best yaar he is the best
by Rajish Thandan on Nov 22, 2009 05:44 PM  | Hide replies

I dont know why u all think like this. He is a master in test cricket. We can also see in new zealand series in new zealand he was very consistent. So i like him and salute him.

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Salil Chandra
Re: VVS is best yaar he is the best
by Salil Chandra on Nov 22, 2009 06:30 PM
Wonder if Ganguly shd be brought back as coach

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sanath
Re: south indian selectors
by sanath on Nov 22, 2009 06:50 PM
How many players are from South India ? Kindly elaborate before tallking crap !

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Ravi Kiran
Re: south indian selectors
by Ravi Kiran on Nov 23, 2009 03:05 PM
In the recent one day series against Australia, not even one player was there in the Indian Team from the South. What are u talking non sense.

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gaurav manchanda
Re: south indian selectors
by gaurav manchanda on Nov 22, 2009 07:55 PM
this is nothing new in indian cricket. indian selectors are following the history.

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vidya
Re: south indian selectors
by vidya on Nov 22, 2009 05:25 PM
its all unnecessasy comment

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vidya
Re: indian selectors
by vidya on Nov 22, 2009 05:28 PM
he is good some situations he can't prove himself

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sanath
Re: indian selectors
by sanath on Nov 22, 2009 06:49 PM
How many players are from South India ? Kindly elaborate before tallking crap !

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vsgiri
Truly Great
by vsgiri on Nov 22, 2009 04:00 PM  | Hide replies

So much hype is made about Tendulkar but not so much of Dravid who has very many important world records like max. no. of catches, max. no. of century partnerships as well Best player trophy from ICC in 2006 for both categories but was looked down upon due to interference from Ganguly supporters ( Parliamentarians as well media peiple from Eastand North) who showed chappel to Dravid and also supported SA team with the same Bengalee curator Mukherjee laying a green turf at Eden gardens to see Dravid get defeated and Sourab retains his position inspite of very poor showing by Sourab at that time.Inspite of all provocation Dravid has steered India from deep trouble on m,any occassions than any one else in the recent past including the recently drawn match.

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Sandip Dhar
Re: Truly Great
by Sandip Dhar on Nov 22, 2009 04:03 PM
Also remember your truely great Dravid ran away like a squirrel from captaincy

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Sandip Dhar
Re: Truly Great
by Sandip Dhar on Nov 22, 2009 04:05 PM
dravid does not have the charisma or courage as saurabh, no matter what he does

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gaurav manchanda
Re: Re: Truly Great
by gaurav manchanda on Nov 22, 2009 04:42 PM
but dravid is much better batsman as compare to ganguly. He can play short pitch with ease and also capable of handling pressure more easily than ganguly. he also have pull India out of crisis situations more times as compare to the ganguly.

The only things in which ganguly dominates dravid is selfishness, bad politics, inconsistent performance and "DIVIDE & RULE" policy.
All used to say that under ganguly's captaincy India reached in the 2003 world cup final. but remember 1 thing, in 2003 world cup sachin, dravid, nehra, srinath were in prime form.
ganguly has scored 3 centuries in that world cup and that too are against weaker kenya (2) and one against Namibia. Just look at the scores in all the matches he has played in 2003 world cup
8 (netherland)
9 (australia)
24 (zimbabwe)
112 (namibia)
19 (england)
0 (pakistan)
107 (kenya)
48 (Sri Lanka)
3 (new Zealand)
111 (ganguly)
24 (Australia Final)

The most funny thing about ganguuly in the world cup 2003 was that he was the second highest run scorer in the tournament.

Bottom Line, Ganguly is not better than dravid

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Sandip Dhar
Re: Re: Re: Truly Great
by Sandip Dhar on Nov 22, 2009 04:44 PM
Only reson dravid is playing now is because he is from south. if ganguly ould have been from south, you all would have danced with him on your head. he would have still been playing and dravid would have retired.

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gaurav manchanda
Re: Re: Re: Re: Truly Great
by gaurav manchanda on Nov 22, 2009 04:54 PM
if u think that dravid is getting chance bcoz he is from south then India should have BADRINATH (a south Indian)in the team. he is also the one of the best domestic batsmen since the last 3 years.

1 more thing, compare runs scord by ganguly and dravid

DRAVID
11038 avg 53.06 in tests

GANGULY
7212 avg 42.17 in tests

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Mahesh Dave
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Truly Great
by Mahesh Dave on Nov 24, 2009 07:46 AM
Sandip Dhar,

Gaurav shut you off.. Stats speaks for itself.

Why're you talking nonsence now? Nothing left to talk so change the subject now...LOL

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Sandip Dhar
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Truly Great
by Sandip Dhar on Nov 22, 2009 05:10 PM
if badri would have been in indian team then south indian selectors would have won padmabibhusan in regionalism

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gaurav manchanda
Re: Re: Re: Truly Great
by gaurav manchanda on Nov 22, 2009 04:44 PM
sorry in the above list i have mistakely written ganguly's name along with the 111 (2nd last in the list). Here the team was Kenya.

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Sandip Dhar
Re: Re: Re: Re: Truly Great
by Sandip Dhar on Nov 22, 2009 05:02 PM
no need to be sorry, ganguly will remain a great player whatever your interpretation is, dravid will alaways be a second grade player

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Mahesh Dave
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Truly Great
by Mahesh Dave on Nov 24, 2009 07:49 AM
I am sure in your book you have Ganuguly as the greatest and Manoj Tiwari as the 2nd greatest with SS Das as the fastest bowler in the world..LOL

For the cricket followers around the world, Ganguly is not even remotely close to Dravid in batting..

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Mahesh Dave
Re: Re: Truly Great
by Mahesh Dave on Nov 24, 2009 07:45 AM
Sandip Dhar is P-o-r-k-!-s-t-a-n!

Sandip Dhar is P-o-r-k-!-s-t-a-n!

PO-R-K-I-__A-L-E-R-T

Who is Saurabh???

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Avijit Roy
Harbhajan
by Avijit Roy on Nov 22, 2009 02:57 PM

Latest news Harbhajan out from team for his bad performance whole 2 years . New latents brought in Team India

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