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22nd November 2010, 03:59 PM
#1021
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South Africa 584/9d
Pakistan 201/4 (70.1 ov)
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Kaneria has in fact taken 36 wickets in seven Tests against South Africa at an average of just over 30. Shane Warne (130 wickets) and Muralitharan (104 wickets) are the best spinners in matches against South Africa since 1990"
What about the Indian spinners???
“Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them.” - Joseph Joubert
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22nd November 2010 03:59 PM
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22nd November 2010, 07:02 PM
#1022
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Thanks Prabu and Sridhar for your info. I thought in gulf it is always around 45 to 50 degrees.
niraive kaanum manam vendum
iraivaa nee adhai thara vendum
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23rd November 2010, 12:52 PM
#1023
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2nd Test SA vs Pak
South Africa 584/9 dec
Pakistan 366/8 (124.1 overs)
Reqost to Mods: can this thread be made a sticky thread?
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23rd November 2010, 12:54 PM
#1024
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Originally Posted by
Dinesh84
Reqost to Mods: can this thread be made a sticky thread?
+1
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23rd November 2010, 12:54 PM
#1025
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2nd Test SL vs WI
SL 10-1 (5.2 overs)
Dilshan out for 4
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23rd November 2010, 12:58 PM
#1026
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2nd Test SA vs Pak
South Africa 584/9 dec
Pakistan 386/8 (126 overs)
Pakistan have avoided the follow-on.
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23rd November 2010, 01:00 PM
#1027
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23rd November 2010, 01:35 PM
#1028
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I think, with this inexperienced team, they have put up a fight so far. Another exciting draw on the cards.
Debutant Tanvir is the thorn in the flesh for SA with both bat and ball.
“Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them.” - Joseph Joubert
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23rd November 2010, 01:39 PM
#1029
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Sri Lanka 36/3 (15.4 overs)
kamaan WI!
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23rd November 2010, 02:58 PM
#1030
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Karthikeya Date on Fitness/Fielding
Interesting thoughts:
Yet, much of this apparent brilliance is just wastage of energy. What, for example, is the point for the cover fielder to race across to his left and dive to try and stop a ball that has been pushed into the gap between cover and point, towards deep point? The dive isn't going to stop the single, and not diving isn't going to cost more than one. It appears to me to amount to an amazing unawareness of the ball game. What's the point of diving about every time the ball is hit in your general direction, even though you have no hope at all of stopping it (and don't actually stop it about 80% of the time). Which batsman in a Test Match is going to get worried and play differently because there's a bunch of fielders diving about?
Would those extra hours of fielding practice not have been better spent batting for an extra hundred deliveries (far more strenuous than fielding for 100 deliveries), or bowling those extra 100 deliveries? Would they not have been better spent working on that additional subtle variation? Virender Sehwag doesn't field as well as any of the New Zealand batsmen. Neither does he move as much as any of the New Zealand batsmen when he bats. But boy can he bat!
One persistent counter argument to any effort to situate fielding only marginally in assessments of quality is that fielding is an indicator that a player is trying hard. Well, which is the better indicator? A stubbornly disciplined, professional batting effort like the one we saw from Tendulkar and Dravid this evening, or all the aimless diving about that we saw from New Zealand? Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir always look like they are looking for runs. Every movement they make suggests that they would like to find every last run that is on offer and then some. It means that they throw their wickets away a number of times. They are allowed to bat like that because they know that there is iron discipline that follows in the middle order. Professional batsmen who are unlikely to be swayed by the brilliant run scoring of Virender Sehwag. When it works perfectly like it did today, it gives you a glimpse into the very top drawer of Cricket.
That is only if you are willing to resist being swayed acrobatic beauty of the latest perfect physical specimen in the New Zealand Test team.
Do you want to decide who the fitter cricketer is? Ask yourself a couple of simple questions. Who would you rather have batting for you if you needed 1 player to bat for six hours? Tendulkar or Taylor? Who would you rather want to call on late in the day at a crucial moment in a Test? Zaheer Khan or Chris Martin? The answer in both cases is obvious. It also indicates who the fitter cricket men are. If a physio were to assess fitness, then Taylor and Martin would probably out perform Tendulkar and Zaheer in every measure. But even so, I argue, not only are Tendulkar and Zaheer better cricketers, but fitter cricketers
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