ABD is the best keeper_cum_batsman as on date. Hours of wicket keeping followed by hours of long innings without complaints or silly excuses. Right successor to Boucher.
Rather than moaning and groaning and making very gallant statements asking more a turning pitch to FINISH THE MATCH in 3 days( not sure for whom he did not clearly say), I wish he will lead by example by scoring some runs. The young ashwin seems to be more scoring runs than Dhoni. Can anyone remember the last time he scored over 50 runs. No doubt,he is a great finisher in T20s and ODIS. He can't blame on the pitch and pujara,sehwag and gambhir for not scoring runs. Now that he has got a tailormade wicket,he is soon going to run out of bahanas
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by pravin sarode on Dec 02, 2012 04:54 PM
not captain but most seniors like sachin, sehwag must learn how the AfricA refused mighty AustraliA victory in 2tests and now they dominate the host right from bigining of the test some serious communication gap is there in team as coach garry kirsten used to motivate sehwag sachin like school days friend but now coach is dumped by these IPL horses for making fun in travel tourism events like mumbai test match finished in day 4 lunch time with 2 session of day 4 and entire day 5 for private shopping in mumbai as well as IPL black money bank account settlement in mumbai branches and site seeing?
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by Jiju on Dec 02, 2012 04:59 PM
Do you work in the post office (specially in the telegraph section)?? I see traces of telegraphic messages in your post.
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by Abhijit Nair on Dec 02, 2012 05:05 PM
only the timeless test of 1910 has most runs scored 654 in 4th inn. of game If Aus can bat for 2 days they will reach 632 !!!
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by Abhijit Nair on Dec 02, 2012 05:07 PM
i mean the if at all Aus reach 632 that will be 2nd highest ever 4th inn. total in history England made 5.654 chasing 696 and could have won that game vs RSA but they had to catch the ship
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by pravin sarode on Dec 02, 2012 05:09 PM
West Indies won the inaugural World Cup in England in 1975, defeating Australia in the final. Then in 1975–76 they toured Australia, only to lose 1–5 in the six-Test series, and then beat India at home two-one in a four Test series later that same winter. It was in Australia that the quick bowler Michael Holding made his first appearance. Colin Croft and Joel Garner made their debut the next year, and Malcolm Marshall two years after. In the span of about four years, West Indies brought together a bowling line-up of a quality that had rarely been seen before. The tour of India had seen the debut of Vivian Richards, arguably the finest West Indian batsman ever, and Gordon Greenidge, who joined a strong batting line-up that already included Alvin Kallicharran and opener Roy Fredericks in addition to Rowe and Lloyd. These players formed the nucleus of the side that became recognised as world Test match champions until the beginning of the 1990s.The West Indies generally play fast bowlers more so than spin bowlers. This is partly because the Caribbean pitches tend to be very hard and fast.[citation needed] The West Indian team at any one time will generally consist of four fast bowlers (as opposed to a mixture of fast and spin bowlers). They have on occasion played spin bowlers however, they tend to be batting All-Rounders. Examples include Gus Logie, Carl Hooper, etc. One famous example of their "four-pronged" pace attack (as it has been dubbed) was during
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by sivanandam lakshmanan on Dec 02, 2012 06:12 PM
Dhoni is an useless fellow in Tests & he will come to bat early in any format of matches provided runs are coming easily. If the wicket is hard to bat he will come late & needlessly run out himself or partner & put the blame on other. He won the World cup as it is conducted in INDIA & BCCI purchased it for India from semi final onwards. India got No 1 status because of the previous Wins under Ganguly,Dravid,Kumble & also the wins from lower rated teams. He can't represent any form of Cricket if he is born in AUS/SA/Eng. He is shrewed politicians who also removes potential challengers to him like Karthik,Shewag,Bhjji.
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by pravin sarode on Dec 02, 2012 06:30 PM
dhoni is IPL champion but zero in test cricket as test cricket is changing every now and then and tv reply shows English players area of weakness of dhoni sehwag gambhir sachin that indians are not upgrading their styles
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by Shikari Shambu on Dec 02, 2012 06:39 PM
Pravin Sarode, this is the nearest you can get to the "reply to the topic" phrase (the first line). Only the Lord can understand the relation between the later part & the subject.
