There has not been a better player of short pitched balls (bouncers) than Mohinder Aamrnath. He had the perfect technique for scoring against the short pitched balls. Who can forget the way he used to hook the bouncers of Malcom Marshall?
Whenever there was a fielder at deep fine leg, Amarnath used to use his bottom hand to push down the ball while hooking bouncers and the ball used to land at short fine leg. When there was no fielder at deep fine leg, he used to hook the ball the way it is played normally.
Gavasker scored 7/13 hundreds in windies against Marshall,holding,Roberts,garner and 4/7 hundreds in aus against Lillee and Thompson.Manjrekar too was successful in windies and pak.Tendulker scored 7 100s in Aus and 3 in South Africa. Likes of Vengsarker,Patil,Sardesai,Wadekar have shown great courage against fast bowling.So it is wrong to say Indians cannot face fst bowling. In India actors and politicians are from north,businessmen like Ambanis are mostly from gujarat and mathematicians,scientists are mostly from south. Just as a marathi can only become Ritesh Deshmukh or Amol Palekar and not Amitabh in Bollywood,a UP wala South Indian cannot become Gavasker or Tendulker. So leave cricket especially batting to Mumbai and Marathis.Rest should concentrate on things they are good at. Even Dravid is Marathi manoos settled in Bangalore.
Re: Mumbai batsmen
by Shirish Kulkarni on May 18, 2010 01:53 PM
It is a question of Indian player not Marathi or Hindi. What do you think, marathi are not Indians. I am also Marathi person, but I love to be called Indian first.
Re: Mumbai batsmen
by sunil k on May 18, 2010 07:13 PM
G R vishwanath is the best player who played against "unplayable" fast bowling on all pitches...pure classic inningses...full of elegence
Re: Mumbai batsmen
by sathya MS on May 18, 2010 02:03 PM
GREAT GUNDAPPA VISHWANATH COULD PLAY FAST BOWLING THAN ANYOTHER INDIAN BATSMEN. RAHUL DRAVID IS BORNE TO SOUTHI INDIAN FATHER
Re: Mumbai batsmen
by Nitin Darji on May 18, 2010 02:37 PM
Rahul Dravid is half Marathi, half Tamil settled in bangalore. So he is basically a mixture. Cant deny that he is one of the best players India has ever had against the short ball.
Re: Re: Mumbai batsmen
by great maratha on May 18, 2010 02:04 PM
There is nothing parochial in my comments.Everybody has a speciality.A white man has never won a 100m olympic gold.Blacks are not good in gymnastics.It is a fact.I meant Marathis are good in some fields and equally poor in others.So does it mean i am regioanal.
Re: Re: Re: Mumbai batsmen
by manoj acharya on May 18, 2010 02:13 PM
yes You are regional, look at your id 'GREAT MARATHA!!' you should have called yourself Great Indian.India is divided in the sick minds of peple like you. Ownership is fine, take pride in Being Indian first !!
how long this has gone on - weakness against pace, rising ball... useless. Look like a bunch of cowards, scared of fast bowling. No change even as we know.
Re: India hasn't learned in 80 years of playing intl cricket
by anti rapist on May 18, 2010 01:47 PM
oomshik, theres enough fodder in p0rki cricket these days to keep ur interest alive. dont come to indian forums looking for entertainment.
If YOU noticed YUSUF pathan has changed his stance in order to face short balls but that hasnt helped,raina at the start of his innings is glued to the backfoot.The next world cup is in india ,slrinaka were there will be less bounce, so i jst wanna say keep faith in them and dhoni...
If YOU noticed YUSUF pathan has changed his stance in order to face short balls but that hasnt helped,raina at the start of his innings is glued to the backfoot.The next world cup is in india ,slrinaka were there will be less bounce, so i jst wanna say keep faith in them and dhoni...
Guys i think srikanth should be made TN Cheif minister.Within a Short span as indian chief selector this Clown from Madras has done a lot to TN Players.hopefully he can save TN From Karuna and Jaya
Re: Chikka as TN Chief minister
by Indian Saint on May 18, 2010 12:18 PM
None of the Indian players can play a short raising ball. Why blame Srikkanth who selected a good team on paper. He can not drop Yuvi, Dhoni, Raina...also, Uthappa, Kohli and Manish Pandey are even worse to play a raising ball. This is the problem that the entire India should address- this is to do with our pitches, our system. Selecting A i/o B will not solve this problem.
Re: Re: Chikka as TN Chief minister
by Manjesh on May 18, 2010 12:30 PM
Who told you that Manish,Uthappa, and Kohli can't play rising ball.They won't be worse than Chikkas crap Murali vijay who puts his bat behind his legs even while facing Darren samy and Shane watson.it's not his inability to handle short pitch which sucks but his footwork against quicks is pathetic.He is another Devon gandhi and Sujith Somasunder in making
Re: Re: Re: Chikka as TN Chief minister
by sundar raman on May 18, 2010 12:47 PM
if you observe the game more closely, ghambir is the biggest joker playing in the most improper way to a short pitch. So is yousuf. What is the average of yusuf in the tournament worse than Mitchell jhonsons of aussie. When your star performers do not perform how do you expect to blame the selection. What happened in WI 2007 world cup. Then did you blame the selection? Bcoz vengsakar was the selector. How many chances did agarkar get? Dont get talking about selection buddy! There are hell a lot of instances of mumbaikars getting more than plenty of chances.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Chikka as TN Chief minister
by Manjesh on May 18, 2010 01:44 PM
Mumbai has produced Tendulkar,Gavaskar,Manjrekar,Ravi shastri,etc. Tell me the name of cricketers TN has produced..Oh yes they have sadagopan ramesh,Laxmipathi balaji,Murali vijay,Dinesh Karthick,W.V Raman,Robin Uthappa and Clown Chikka so yes Compared to mumbai TN has Produced more Talented cricketers..LOL
Re: Re: Re: Re: Chikka as TN Chief minister
by naveen dhanerwal on May 18, 2010 03:12 PM
Agarkar! Would you mind to compare his records with other pace bowlers? With RP, SreeSanth, Parveen Kumar, Nehra and even with Khan? Compare his records by strike rate, by fielding point of view, by down order batting point of view and the talk about his higher eco rate then you will find only Khan, Nehra and Parveen a little, I repeat very little than Agarkar's (5.07 compare to other 4.9) Dhoni spoiled his carrer for his friends RP and Sreesath. Check RP and Sreesath's eco rate (over 5.2 with even worse strike rate), their worst fielding, their on field behavior, their down order batting! And you say he got too many a chances! He is the third highest wicket taker for India 288 wickets from some 190 matches, is this a bad record?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chikka as TN Chief minister
by Manjesh on May 18, 2010 03:37 PM
The truth is this tamil people are not good in any sports let it be cricket,athletics,football,swimming.
Re: Re: Re: Chikka as TN Chief minister
by vathula on May 18, 2010 01:17 PM
The ball that Murali Vijay got out against West Indies. Vijay hit that ball flat and deep- well caught by Pollard inches off the ground at the boundary line. You seem to be a bisaed person
Sehwag, ever injured, will avoid the balls. Yuvraj Singh, the manly youth he is, will 'raise' when he sees a ball. Rohit, being lazy, will sleep between the balls Ashish Nehra, being an innocent kid, will be lost between the balls. Dhoni, the captain, will try to steward the balls and lose!
kick the shame man of indian cricket history srikanth from selecot post he is big shame bias with state wise otherwise why he ignor uttaoppa support balaji all time
