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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)
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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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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 !!
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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.
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Ohja might have been a good choice to partner Bhajji
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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.
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.
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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
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... iew=series
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^^what's the most Tendulkar has scored in a series?
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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
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Amall correction for series averages of SRT compared with all other Indian batsmen. Gavaskar tops the list.
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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
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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!!
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!!
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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.
AMla out 64/4. Kallis is looking in ominious form though.
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100/5 ZaK gets AB, if we can somehow get through this partnership, cat will be amongst the pigeons
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for a supposedly injured guy kallis is batting quite well!
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`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.
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and he sat out the whole Indian innings. this is not done.Singha wrote:for a supposedly injured guy kallis is batting quite well!
anyway, no wkts for last 10 minutes. we will lose onlee !
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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.
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.
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SA 132/6 Prince gone
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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
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
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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.
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India will lose onlee.
Come on people we need some more anti-jinx power here. 2 more wickets.
Come on people we need some more anti-jinx power here. 2 more wickets.
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Is Kallis really hurt?
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RSA are looking for a 400 run Lead, Steyn is claiming he will bowl out India within 20 overs
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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].
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].
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Kallis will make a double century.
We will lose onleee
We will lose onleee
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Bhajji has gone to sleep after getting 2 in the marning session
We will loose onlee
We will loose onlee
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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.
Kallis 57 not out smahing boundaries all over. Boucher looks set. SA feel they have won the game. They should start celeberating.
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No no we still have a chance. we will lose onlee.
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we are now matchless.
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Kallis is eyeing 12000 RUns in Test cricket
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one way or another there will be a result in this match, no chance of a draw.
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SA 239/7 Boucher gone. God strikes
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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.
Too further improve SA chances, looks like Gautam Gambhir is injured.
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Sreesanth, the fastest mouth in South Africa
http://www.hindustantimes.com/reesanth- ... 46099.aspx
Theatrics and S Sreesanth have always gone hand-in-hand
Ohh this malu....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
http://www.hindustantimes.com/reesanth- ... 46099.aspx
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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.