From: sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf)
Subject: Re: Snippets - Indian cricket scene
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:22:40 GMT

In article <karnik.724643046@myria> karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
>
>Gleanings from the Times of India editions of a few days ago:
>
>
>o	Ranji King Surendra Bhave is at it again! In a West Zone Ranji
>	league match against Saurashtra, the Maharashtra captain hit 220, 
>	his 5th double century in the Ranji trophy! Apart from him, two 
>	others scored centuries for Maharashtra (Sugwekar was one, I forget 
>	the other).
>

	I remember noticing Bhave scoring runs by the ton for a while now.
He got a 270 odd v/s Bombay a couple of seasons ago if Iam not misaken. My
question is, are we sure he's a Ranji king and no more ?? After all, he's
never really gotten a shot at a much higher level - I believe he's been
successful at the Duleep level as well and I don' believe he's ever played
an international. With India's troubles at opener, that's  a little
surprising. BTW, he did play the SAARC tournament with the 2nd team - one
brilliant inning (supposedly), and the opening partnership put on quite a
few against Pakistan as well. 
   
>o	Baroda's Tushar Arothe seems to be in terrific form. In another
>	West Zone Ranji league game, he scored 150+ in the first innings,
>	and took 11 wickets in the match, as Baroda defeated Gujrat
>	comfortably. A name to watch, or..or..or.. is he just another 
>	Ranji king ?
>
	I noticed him too . Supposedly a good slogger as well. Any idea
how old he is ??

>o	Old man Malhotra, now captain of Bengal, keep scoring centuries. He
>	got a 100 in a recent Ranji game. Saurav Ganguly got an 80 (only :-)
>	Other star performers included Maninder Singh, who had an 9 wicket
>	haul in the match against Himachal Pradesh. I saw Kirmani's name in
>	the Karnataka team, so he's still soldiering on! He scored some 50 
>	odd against Andhra, I think.
>
	Good to hear Mani's in the wickets. I did know about Kiri, and the
interesting part is that I don't think he's in the Karntaka side as a WK
anymore - I think their new keeper is this guy called Avinash Vaidya. [
Vaidya played for South in the Duleep trophy this year, before he had ever
played a Ranji trophy game !!! One of the more curious incidents - the
feeling was that the South selectors were pushing him hard :-) We're so
used to politics that it's the first reason that occurs to us for anything
:-) But he is supposedly pretty decent ] 

>o	Manoj Joglekar of Bombay will lead the Indian u-19 team on a tour to
>	South Africa (next yr?) where they will participate in a four-nation
>	one-dayer competition involving SA, Zim, and England apart from Ind.
>	Joglekar is a left handed opening batsman and an off-spinner, tipped
>	by "experts" (i.e. Sadiq and me :-> ) to go places.
>
	:-) :-) I like it :-) :-)
	Actually, didn't know much about his off-spinning. Also, am not
certain about his opening - Iam sure he's done it before, but he seems to
bat middle order most of the time ( in the Ranji's , at least. But that
doesn't mean much, Bombay is overloaded with openers at the moment ). Also
going on the SA tour is Amol Muzumdar, who is terrific (more of that anon). 

>o	In Bombay's schools cricket, Shardashram are back to their record-
>	breaking ways. For those of you who don't know, this is the school
>	that produced Tendulkar, Amre and Vinod Kambli in recent years, and
>	is coached by Ramakant Achrekar. This time, they scored 926 in one
>	innings, with five centurions - Amol Rane topscored with 226.
>
>
	Amre too ?? Wasn't certain about that. And I've been noticing this
Amol Rane's name appearing with increasing frequency , almost always with a
huge score appended ( mostly in the Under 16's , I think ). Must start
following his scores with a mite more regularity ( need to find _someone_
who I can be the #1 fan of, don't I ?? :-) ) 


		Sadiq [ a domestic sort of guy ] Yusuf


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