The Cricket World Cup Thread

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 05 Jan 2011 03:36

1) Gawd is benign and softie both inside and outside.
but his millions of followers are not so benign. they get into a tizzy with the slightest provocation.
gawd will be gawd. boyz will be boyz.

2) alcohol is benign looking liquid both inside and outside.

but millions of its followers get into a tizzy with the slightest provocation.

hence gawd==alcohol.
( watching from a dark kave kamplex drinking XXXX)

nachiket · Post by **nachiket** » 05 Jan 2011 04:35

Whilst staying clear of the theological debate here's another tidbit

Tendulkar now has 5 centuries in South Africa

Apart from Tendulkar, no other Indian batsman has even recorded two hundreds in South Africa. Pravin Amre, Mohammad Azharuddin, Rahul Dravid, Wasim Jaffer, Kapil Dev and Virender Sehwag have a century each in South Africa.

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 05 Jan 2011 05:00

The real darkhorse in the yindian chase is viru. If that mad max gets going, a target of 250 will become 150+ rapidly. But SA will score 300 in a day tomorow and yindians will loose onlee

SaiK · Post by **SaiK** » 05 Jan 2011 05:17

How come many here think that change will come sudden and dramatic towards positive ends.., after all success is a measure of successive failures and learning. If there exists no way to consider a failure and correct them, then we have to conclude we have no other option, perhaps that is the case to persist with the oldies gang.

Reading cricinfo article on gawd-steyn. Steyn concludes gawd is greatest bat and there is no point wasting energy to experiment (or fight with him) but bowl to him best one can. Now, RD, Sehwag and others have consistently failed - check stats of the tour. And no youngster is ready to knock on this oppty. means our bench shape is pretty badly steyned. Anyways, by gosh! leave the gawd alone as he has contributed much more than any other gray haired players.

Playing with gawd no other batsmen in the team seem to learn from him is what we should highlight from this series. Particularly from the youngsters given oppty - vijay, pujara, raina, et al have failed to learn.

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 05 Jan 2011 05:28

Wait what ? Pujara? He has played two matches. Scored a decent fifty on debut under reasonably important circumstances. Yesterday he got a peach of a delivery that nobody could've kept out. And suddenly hes unfit? Whats wrong with you! Did you even watch how he got out? Its all fine and dandy to keep claiming oh noes theres nobody onlee but thats not the case. Gambhir took a long time to settle and his results now are there for everyone to see. Gauti knuckled down and scored a gritty 90. The tail wagged pretty ferociously. You can't expect everyone to score all the time. Everyone has their off time. Quit knocking people without giving them enough chances. If one youngster fails bring in another one. Big deal. Why whine and whine and whine. Man !!

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 05 Jan 2011 06:14

2 of those 6 other 100s (Azhar in 97 and Sehwag in 01) came when SRT also scored a 100, both lost causes in CTown and Bloemfontein. Add the two 90s (93 by Gambhir and 90 in the first by Dhoni) in this tour. Dravid's 100 in 04 could have got our first win in SA, but we drew from the jaws of victory. Jaffer's 100 went in vain as we lost with 10 minutes to spare in 07. Paaji and Amre's efforts came in the 92 tour, Amre in fact scoring a 100 on debut, followed by SRT (both drawn causes), and Paaji in a lost cause. The fourth test could have been a close affair, but rain put things down and we had to wait till 07.

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 05 Jan 2011 08:06

Ohja might have been a good choice to partner Bhajji

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 05 Jan 2011 08:36

picked from cricinfo..

sachin has scored a hundred in his first innings in the first match of the year for 4 years consecutively now...talk about starting good..

just saw the highlights...amazing fast bowling from dale steyn. the ball that got Pujara...would have gotten any batsman anytime.

GuruPrabhu · Post by **GuruPrabhu** » 05 Jan 2011 09:38

Gawd list need retooling. Here are Gawds of runs scored in a series. The original Gawd of Indian cricket is the only one who makes it, TWICE:

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... iew=series

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 05 Jan 2011 10:11

^^what's the most Tendulkar has scored in a series?

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 05 Jan 2011 10:19

link If I did it right, it says

SR Tendulkar 3 5 1 446 177 111.50 2 1 0 6 Mar 1998 India
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India), 1997/98

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 05 Jan 2011 10:26

Amall correction for series averages of SRT compared with all other Indian batsmen. Gavaskar tops the list.

Code: Select all

Series averages Player 	Mat 	Inns 	NO 	RunsDescending 	HS 	Ave 	100 	50 	0 	Start Date 		Winner 	
SM Gavaskar 	4 	8 	3 	774 	220 	154.80 	4 	3 	0 	6 Mar 1971 		India 
India in West Indies Test Series, 1970/71
SM Gavaskar 	6 	9 	1 	732 	205 	91.50 	4 	1 	1 	1 Dec 1978 		
West Indies in India Test Series, 1978/79
DN Sardesai 	5 	8 	0 	642 	212 	80.25 	3 	1 	0 	18 Feb 1971 		
India in West Indies Test Series, 1970/71
R Dravid 	4 	8 	3 	619 	233 	123.80 	1 	3 	0 	4 Dec 2003 		drawn 	
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (India in Australia), 2003/04
R Dravid 	4 	6 	0 	602 	217 	100.33 	3 	1 	0 	25 Jul 2002 		drawn 	
India in England Test Series, 2002
M Amarnath 	5 	9 	0 	598 	117 	66.44 	2 	4 	0 	23 Feb 1983 		West Indies 	
India in West Indies Test Series, 1982/83
VL Manjrekar 	5 	8 	1 	586 	189* 	83.71 	1 	4 	0 	11 Nov 1961 		India
England in India Test Series, 1961/62
M Amarnath 	6 	10 	2 	584 	120 	73.00 	3 	3 	0 	10 Dec 1982 		Pakistan 	
India in Pakistan Test Series, 1982/83
SV Manjrekar 	4 	7 	1 	569 	218 	94.83 	2 	3 	0 	15 Nov 1989 		drawn 	
India in Pakistan Test Series, 1989/90
GR Viswanath 	5 	10 	1 	568 	139 	63.11 	1 	3 	0 	22 Nov 1974 		West Indies 	
West Indies in India Test Series, 1974/75
RS Modi 	5 	10 	0 	560 	112 	56.00 	1 	5 	0 	10 Nov 1948 		West Indies 	
West Indies in India Test Series, 1948/49
PR Umrigar 	5 	10 	1 	560 	130 	62.22 	2 	4 	0 	21 Jan 1953 		West Indies 	
India in West Indies Test Series, 1952/53
V Sehwag 	3 	6 	0 	544 	201 	90.66 	2 	1 	0 	8 Mar 2005 		drawn 	
Pakistan in India Test Series, 2004/05
VS Hazare 	5 	10 	2 	543 	134* 	67.87 	2 	3 	0 	10 Nov 1948 		West Indies 	
West Indies in India Test Series, 1948/49
SM Gavaskar 	4 	7 	0 	542 	221 	77.42 	1 	4 	0 	12 Jul 1979 		England 	
India in England Test Series, 1979
SC Ganguly 	3 	6 	0 	534 	239 	89.00 	2 	1 	0 	22 Nov 2007 		India 	
Pakistan in India Test Series, 2007/08
SM Gavaskar 	6 	11 	1 	529 	166 	52.90 	1 	2 	0 	21 Nov 1979 		India 
Pakistan in India Test Series, 1979/80
MH Mankad 	4 	5 	0 	526 	231 	105.20 	2 	0 	0 	19 Nov 1955 		India 	
New Zealand in India Test Series, 1955/56
BK Kunderan 	5 	10 	0 	525 	192 	52.50 	2 	1 	0 	10 Jan 1964 		drawn 	
England in India Test Series, 1963/64
GR Viswanath 	6 	8 	1 	518 	161* 	74.00 	2 	2 	0 	11 Sep 1979 		India 
Australia in India Test Series, 1979/80
SM Gavaskar 	6 	11 	1 	505 	236* 	50.50 	2 	1 	2 	21 Oct 1983 		West Indies 	
West Indies in India Test Series, 1983/84
VVS Laxman 	3 	6 	0 	503 	281 	83.83 	1 	3 	0 	27 Feb 2001 		India 
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India), 2000/01
SM Gavaskar 	6 	9 	1 	500 	172 	62.50 	1 	3 	0 	27 Nov 1981 		India 
England in India Test Series, 1981/82
GR Viswanath 	6 	7 	0 	497 	179 	71.00 	2 	2 	0 	1 Dec 1978 		India 
West Indies in India Test Series, 1978/79
R Dravid 	4 	7 	1 	496 	146 	82.66 	1 	4 	0 	2 Jun 2006 		India 	

India in West Indies Test Series, 2006
VVS Laxman 	4 	7 	1 	494 	178 	82.33 	2 	1 	0 	4 Dec 2003 		drawn 	
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (India in Australia), 2003/04
[b]SR Tendulkar 	4 	8 	1 	493 	154* 	70.42 	2 	2 	0 	26 Dec 2007 		Australia [/b]	
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (India in Australia), 2007/08
V Sehwag 	3 	4 	0 	491 	293 	122.75 	2 	1 	0 	16 Nov 2009 		

Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2009/10
VVS Laxman 	5 	8 	2 	474 	130 	79.00 	1 	4 	0 	11 Apr 2002 		West Indies 	
India in West Indies Test Series, 2001/02
GR Viswanath 	5 	9 	0 	473 	89 	52.55 	0 	5 	0 	2 Dec 1977 		Australia 	
India in Australia Test Series, 1977/78
GR Viswanath 	6 	8 	0 	466 	222 	58.25 	2 	1 	1 	27 Nov 1981 		
England in India Test Series, 1981/82
V Sehwag 	4 	8 	0 	464 	195 	58.00 	1 	1 	1 	4 Dec 2003 		drawn 	
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (India in Australia), 2003/04
G Gambhir 	3 	6 	0 	463 	206 	77.16 	2 	1 	0 	9 Oct 2008 		India 	

Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India), 2008/09
ML Apte 	5 	10 	1 	460 	163* 	51.11 	1 	3 	1 	21 Jan 1953 		West Indies 	
India in West Indies Test Series, 1952/53
SM Gavaskar 	5 	9 	0 	450 	127 	50.00 	3 	0 	1 	2 Dec 1977 		Australia 	
India in Australia Test Series, 1977/78
DN Sardesai 	5 	10 	0 	449 	87 	44.90 	0 	5 	0 	10 Jan 1964 		drawn 	
England in India Test Series, 1963/64
SM Gavaskar 	3 	6 	1 	447 	137 	89.40 	2 	2 	0 	16 Oct 1978 		Pakistan 	
India in Pakistan Test Series, 1978/79
SR Tendulkar 	3 	5 	1 	446 	177 	111.50 	2 	1 	0 	6 Mar 1998 		India 
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India), 1997/98
PR Umrigar 	5 	10 	1 	445 	172* 	49.44 	1 	3 	0 	16 Feb 1962 		West Indies 	
India in West Indies Test Series, 1961/62
M Amarnath 	5 	9 	0 	445 	100 	49.44 	1 	3 	2 	2 Dec 1977 		Australia 	
India in Australia Test Series, 1977/78
G Gambhir 	3 	6 	1 	445 	167 	89.00 	2 	1 	0 	18 Mar 2009 		India 
India in New Zealand Test Series, 2008/09
ML Jaisimha 	5 	10 	0 	444 	129 	44.40 	1 	3 	0 	10 Jan 1964 		drawn 	
England in India Test Series, 1963/64
M Azharuddin 	3 	5 	1 	439 	122 	109.75 	3 	1 	0 	31 Dec 1984 		England 	
England in India Test Series, 1984/85
NJ Contractor 	5 	10 	0 	438 	108 	43.80 	1 	1 	0 	12 Dec 1959 		Australia 	
Australia in India Test Series, 1959/60
V Sehwag 	3 	4 	0 	438 	309 	109.50 	1 	1 	1 	28 Mar 2004 		India 	
India in Pakistan Test Series, 2003/04
SR Tendulkar 	3 	6 	2 	435 	217 	108.75 	2 	0 	0 	10 Oct 1999 		India 
New Zealand in India Test Series, 1999/00
SM Gavaskar 	6 	10 	1 	434 	127* 	48.22 	1 	3 	0 	10 Dec 1982 		Pakistan 	
India in Pakistan Test Series, 1982/83
R Dravid 	3 	4 	0 	433 	177 	108.25 	2 	1 	0 	16 Nov 2009 		India 
Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2009/10
R Dravid 	2 	3 	2 	432 	200* 	432.00 	2 	1 	0 	18 Nov 2000 		India 
Zimbabwe in India Test Series, 2000/01
VS Hazare 	5 	10 	1 	429 	145 	47.66 	2 	1 	0 	28 Nov 1947 		Australia 	
India in Australia Test Series, 1947/48

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 05 Jan 2011 10:45

thanks!

Nirantar · Post by **Nirantar** » 05 Jan 2011 13:31

Okay. Trying bit different way this time.

Jeete ga bhai jeete ga SA jeetega
Haare ga bhai haare ga TI haare ga

SA will not be all out < 250. We will loose onlee!!

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 05 Jan 2011 13:43

3 down

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 05 Jan 2011 13:48

BTW, Kallis has taken full rest and has belted a boundary.. WTF.. if he is injured and can't feild, just get out and let the game continue.,.

AMla out 64/4. Kallis is looking in ominious form though.

manish · Post by **manish** » 05 Jan 2011 13:49

Amla gone!!

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 05 Jan 2011 14:59

100/5 ZaK gets AB, if we can somehow get through this partnership, cat will be amongst the pigeons

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 05 Jan 2011 15:03

for a supposedly injured guy kallis is batting quite well!

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 05 Jan 2011 15:05

`Just like saeed anwar's 194 for which he needed a runner to do the running, but which gawd beat without a runner - kallis too needs the rest to do the batting burden pickup, something gawd does without having to sit out on injury excuses. Only. seems like.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 05 Jan 2011 15:19

Singha wrote:for a supposedly injured guy kallis is batting quite well!

and he sat out the whole Indian innings. this is not done.

anyway, no wkts for last 10 minutes. we will lose onlee !

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 05 Jan 2011 16:10

Stuff that I learned today on DGB:
1) His first capitancy was in 36. DGB was apparently a Freemason (well, will give ammo for one stalwart of the forum

). Bill O Reilly and three other Catholics of Irish background were instigated by capitan DGB for a disciplinary reason that even when B O'R was around 80 or so, he never forgave DGB for that bs maneuver.
2) DGB apparently got gifted a 1000 GBP gift after the epic 30 series. Which was like a king's ransom those days. DGB refused to share it with his team-mates. This was at the height of the Great Depression. Oz (as expected) trailed the US by 1 year even with the Depression. There was depression in england too, not as much as the US. Quite a few of the regulars who went awol from the english team were out hunting for jobs. So there you go, the 974 happened for a reason

.
3) His two epitome series were 1930 (974 runs + RE Foster's famous debut 287* got upended by his 309 in one day + 334 at the end) and 1948 (the Invincible tour) where DGB capitaned one last time. As I mentioned before, the average of the english team in the 30 tour was > 35 years. Coming to the 48 tour, apparently DGB was reluctant to tour citing old-age, but then this was post-WWII fanaticism/rebuilding the nation time. So he felt the need to lead to do what was necessary to up the people's spirits. Since this was WWII civilian rationing time in England, the assies set off with 200 bags of food they would consume in England, which was very well received. DGB was like a grandfather figure in the team, very bossy but supportive. Keith Miller (or was it Arthur Mailey) had some nice stuff to say about DGB and his bossiness, but this is a family phorum. Post-WWII English team was a non-starter, half the team got killed or maimed in the War, DGB got a honorable discharge from the assie side (or something to that effect), no wonder the Invincibles were Invincibles.
4) DGB's average before Bodyline was ~112. After that series, it never went past ~99 even though Larwood retired in the post-Bodyline era to maintain amity between oz and england. Larwood eventually settled in Kingsford, 5km from SCG. Larwood wrote a ghosted autobiography where he claims that DGB murdered cricket by his industrial-level plundering and it is not right to claim that I murdered cricket by my bowling. In the 34 tour, Larwood had gotten a shellacing from DGB and ever since that point, his primal obsession was DGB. Jardine as I mentioned before was more of a "these assies are assies" type, ending up in Hinduism or Orientalism.
5) When asked in an interview in the 70s about his last innings second ball duck to Eric Hollies, whether he can laugh it off now, a serious DGB unable to understand the non-seriousness of the question apparently hit off with "No, I still regret it." And oh yea, the whole english team sang "He is a jolly good fellow" before DGB left the pavilion.
6) DGB was apparently an anti-social in the team, who lived the duty of being born to be a star. He never talked to his team beyond the field, never drank beer, went back to respond to his fan mail for like 2-3 hours per day. He was apparently lured to play in the english county forgoing his assie national duties and he was inches close to accepting that offer (1000 GBP offer) till the assie companies of that era ganged up and came with a counter-offer of the same amount. He actually said this (or something similar): "I am like the opera or the symphony conductor, people pay to come see me. I am the star of the show. Now if I get an offer to star elsewhere, I being the performer, should not think twice to go." Some of the worst and most visceral criticizers of DGB were his team-mates, much of that still survives and is worth digging.
7) DGB was a selector even in 36 as capitans that day were selectors too, and continued to be in that role (or a similar one) through 1971. And was a major say in the apartheid era policies of ACB as he was the Chairman + responsible for some key boycott decisions of the SA team.
8 ) Apparently there was a famous obituary written on DGB when in england, he got hit with a burst appendix.
9) Till DGB came to the scene, keeping scores was seen as a big insult. In fact, the 1928-29 ashes capitan on the assie side said "It is not what you score, but how you score it." DGB brought in that obsession to live cricket, see cricket and think cricket, but in the process never got quite close to being Mr. cricket. Or so claim people who know better than me.

rvishwak · Post by **rvishwak** » 05 Jan 2011 16:35

SA 132/6 Prince gone

Tanaji · Post by **Tanaji** » 05 Jan 2011 16:38

Stanji, your post are educative as always...

Meanwhile Sreesanth ji apparently cried again. Not sure how much credence one gives to this report, but apparently he cried again after getting a dressing down from Dhoni

http://www.rediff.com/cricket/report/in ... 110105.htm

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 05 Jan 2011 16:56

bradman's unsocial and prudish behaviour created quite a few problems with the rest of the aussie players, many of whom were easy going catholics. he also refused to drink and that was taken as a snub.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 05 Jan 2011 17:00

India will lose onlee.

Come on people we need some more anti-jinx power here. 2 more wickets.

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 05 Jan 2011 17:08

Is Kallis really hurt?

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 05 Jan 2011 17:13

RSA are looking for a 400 run Lead, Steyn is claiming he will bowl out India within 20 overs

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 05 Jan 2011 17:25

Some of the critical stuff I read on DGB comes from assies themselves. People such as Gideon Haigh, Brett Hutchins, Dick Cashman, Ivory Rosenwater. And yet Gideon Haigh is still the Janus-faced (or rather J-anus assed) oiseaule, who would defend all omissions and commissions if it came to an ass-land vs. sdre contest. Hoping to get BJ Wakley's scores of every DGB innings. Then I can do a God vs. assie comparison.

Some of the stuff I read is pure agmark-brand psy-ops. I can cite many examples. The way DGB is held as an epitome of crikkit when all things point to the fact that he was a product and reflection of the white ass-tralia that he grew up in. If people change, morals get redefined, human rights violations get recognized, how can he and his racist acts, of which there are aplenty, be the epitome of crikkiting in the 21st century. New ages require new people and new Gods. The time for SRT too shall pass, but till then.

The guy comes across as a prick too. I mean DGB wrote an autobio in 1930, can you believe that? After one tour and 974 runs later, the guy wrote his autobiography!! Wally Hammond did nt write one, as far as I know. He also had >900 runs in the 28 series. And DGB wrote 4 in all

. Even Imran (the walking ego before the current ones KP and Yuvi came along) ghost-wrote just one with Ivo Tennant, the one where he admitted to using bottle caps

. But all that is a joke when compared with the treatment Clarrie Grimmett recd on return from the 30 tour. Bradman milked 974 yes, but minus Grimmett the ashes would nt have been won. Before warnie came along, BJT Bosanquet and Clarrie Grimmett were the big spinners. The mantle went from BJT to Clarrie to Laker to Gibbs to the Quartet to [blank] to Warne-Murali-Kumble to [what might be blank yet again].

James B · Post by **James B** » 05 Jan 2011 17:37

Kallis will make a double century.

We will lose onleee

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 05 Jan 2011 17:39

Bhajji has gone to sleep after getting 2 in the marning session

We will loose onlee

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 05 Jan 2011 17:40

Zaheer seems to be injured again, Ishant is bowling half vollies on leg stump, Sehwag can't bowl because of injury, Bhajji and Sree and ineffective- things are looking very very easy for SA.

Kallis 57 not out smahing boundaries all over. Boucher looks set. SA feel they have won the game. They should start celeberating.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 05 Jan 2011 17:55

No no we still have a chance. we will lose onlee.

SaiK · Post by **SaiK** » 05 Jan 2011 18:21

we are now matchless.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 05 Jan 2011 18:37

Kallis is eyeing 12000 RUns in Test cricket

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 05 Jan 2011 19:10

one way or another there will be a result in this match, no chance of a draw.

rvishwak · Post by **rvishwak** » 05 Jan 2011 19:11

SA 239/7 Boucher gone. God strikes

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 05 Jan 2011 19:12

Finally Boucher out, new ball due next bowler, hope one of the bowlers can get Steyn injured as well and India cruise to victory, seems too much to ask?

Too further improve SA chances, looks like Gautam Gambhir is injured.

ashokpachori · Post by **ashokpachori** » 05 Jan 2011 19:26

Sreesanth, the fastest mouth in South Africa

Theatrics and S Sreesanth have always gone hand-in-hand

He is capable of somehow always turning the spotlight on himself. Sreesanth went wicketless in the first Test in South African but managed to hog the attention in the second by annoying none other than the host captain, Graeme Smith

Ohh this malu....

http://www.hindustantimes.com/reesanth- ... 46099.aspx

ashokpachori · Post by **ashokpachori** » 05 Jan 2011 19:42

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is understood to have finalised a three year endorsement deal estimated around Rs 20 crore with beverage major Coca Cola, after rival PepsiCo dropped him about two-and-half years back. According to industry sources, Coke has struck a three year deal estimated to be worth around Rs 6 crore per year with the ace batsman.