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From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Gooch Marriage Break-up
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:33:31 GMT

	Captain Graham Gooch was promised the full support of the England
cricket squad on Tuesday after revelations that he had separated from his
wife of  16 years on the  eve of a lengthy overseas tour.  The split made
front page news in  Britain only hours after the squad left for India and
Sri Lanka. 

	"Throughout  his period as  England  captain, Graham  has  always
enjoyed  the full  support of  the England  players and  everyone here is
determined to help him in any way possible,"tour manager Bob Bennett said
in a statement shortly after arrival in New Delhi.

	Gooch, 39, would only say: "It is  a private  and personal matter
and I  do not wish to  make any  further comment."  In Britain, his wife,
Brenda, told reporters: "Yes, it's true. It's a personal matter. There is
nothing else I want to say."   Gooch married Brenda, 38, in 1976 and they
have 3 daughters, Hannah, nine, and six-year-old twins Sally and Megan.

	He had decided earlier not to carry on to  Sri Lanka  in March at
the end of the Indian tour so he could return to his family and tour offi
cials said he would still go home.  "There has been no  change of plans,"
said one official, who asked not to be identified.

	Bennett and Fletcher both  appealed to the press to leave Gooch's
personal life out of the tour.  "I was very saddened when Graham told me,
but the problem is very much a private one and I hope he will now be left
alone to get  on with leading the team on  this tour," Fletcher said.  "I
hope he will be permitted to resolve the matter in private," said Bennett.

	Gooch, who has played 99 tests for England, has frequently been a
reluctant tourist, saying  he wanted to spend  more time with his family.
He agreed to make the  India trip only after lengthy talks with his wife,
adding: "This is definitely my last trip."

====
Summarized from Reuter reports:

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 04
From: sarath@ee.upenn.edu (P. Sarath Kumar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Shastri.....
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:17:26 GMT
Reply-To: sarath@ee.upenn.edu (P. Sarath Kumar)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

>From: sudhama@engin.umich.edu (Sudhama Gopalan)

>Since I did'nt see this on the net, I thought it would be a good idea
to post..
>Apparently, Shastri underwent surgery for a hernia.


Does anyone need more cofirmation that Shastri has balls? (-:
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From: Prakash Panjwani <pp2@maestro.bellcore.com>
Subject: Re: Indian Team
X-Xxdate: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:36:53 GMT
Organization: Bellcore
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:37:16 GMT


Ahhhh (in relief not pain :))).... For once, the selectors have sprung no
surprises on the poor cricket fans.  This is probably the best team they
could have selected, given the performance of most players in South
Africa.

The only notable omission is, probably, Maninder Singh.  But then again,
if this team is only for the One Day Internationals, it doesn't really
matter.  However, I hope they give Maninder another chance sometime
during this series.  I wonder who will open in the ODIs??  I would pick
Kambli and Prabhakar to open the batting.  Siddhu should probably bat
down the order, since he seems to be a much better player of spin bowling
than fast bowling.  Remember World Cup in 1987?  He scored at least four
half centuries batting at number 3.  But then again, those were the days
when Gavaskar and Srikkanth used to provide a pretty good start to the
innings.  Anyway...here would be my team for the ODI (in the batting
order):

Prabhakar
Kambli
Azhar
Tendulkar
Siddhu
Amre
Kapil
Yadav
Kumble
Srinath
Chauhan 

Any comments?

-Prakash
From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: WSC game tonight
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:25:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.C0pKux.ELr
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


        Te WSC game tonight is between Pakistan and Australia. It is a
Daynighter from Melbourne and will start at 10:30 EST. The game is broadcast on
radio. The frequencies are 21740 kHz and 15240 kHz. But the reception from
3:30am EST on 9580 kHz will be much better. Most probably, Radio New Zealand
will also broadcast it - in which case the frequency 0f 9700 from 2:00am EST
will be equally good.

       As this game does not invlove West Indies, I do not expect that it will
be beamed to WI audience. If it does, I will try to put the scores on the net.


K. Sankara Rao                          e-mail k.srao@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu

Department of Electrical Engineering
Fargo, ND 58105  USA

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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: World Test Team for 1992
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:59:39 GMT

In <1993Jan5.105711.31@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au>
HCPD7@DEVAX1 (Martin LAI) writes:

| > (3) when being umpired by their fellow countrymen, and

| 	Are you alleging that umpires "cheat" on purpose?

I didn't read the original article as implying that (which doesn't
mean that its not what the author meant, but it was a reasonable
statement if you ignore that possible interpretation).

Just as playing styles differ, umpiring styles differ as well, what's
given out regularly LBW in one country, will be regularly given not
out in another - the payers adapt to their local conditions (where
they play most, once you include all the local games) and play accordingly.
Sticking your pad down the pitch with your bat in behind the leg may be
dead safe in one country, and absolute folly in another, players
from the first country may get into a habbit of doing that, then get
given out LBW a lot when they visit the second.   This isn't cheating,
the umpires woould give out both local & visiting players in the same
circumstances, its just a different interpretation of the laws (in this
case, probably what it takes to be "playing a shot").

This is also probably a lot of the cause of the accusation that umpires
"cheat" - it should rather be "they don't umpire the way we're used to".
And note, the accusations usually come from visiting press, rather than
visiting players - the press are used to umpiring standards in their
home countries just as much as the payers are (if not more so, many of
them get to travel less often).

This is probably even why Miandad so rarely gets out LBW in Pakistan,
as well as being a good player and being able to avoid the obvious
cases, he is just smart enough to know what the Pakistan umpires give out
and what they don't.

kre
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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: B&H World Series, WI-PAK @ Gabba, PAK 71 allout, WI 72-1
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:55:56 GMT

WI had an easy game against PAK at Gabba, Brisbane. Javed won the toss and
elected to bat on an apparently placid pitch, unfortunately for him, it had
moisture and life.

PAK 71 all out  (23.4 overs) (Anwar - 2, Saaeed - 1, ul Huq - 0, Javed - 0,
Malik - 8?, Akram - 19,  Mujtaba - 4?, Latif - 22 n.o, Mushtaq - 1, Yonus - 0,
Aaqib - 4?, Extras - 16, Bishop 5-25, Ambrose 3-13, Benjamin - 2- ?, Hooper
0-14)  

lowest number of overs (23.4 overs) ever faced for a completed innings in the
history of international limited overs matches. so far this distinction
belonged to India (who else ;-) (24.1 overs). I felt PAK suffered from playing
in slow pitches of NZ and could not adjust to the relatively fast and bouncy
pitch at Gabba. Javed and Malik got out to couple of beauties rest to wrong
choice of shots and lack of application. Latif played very well.

WI 72 for 1 (19.2 overs) (Lara 10, Haynes - 25 no, Riche Richardson - 22 no)
(Akram 9-?-1-33, Waqar 7-3-0-13, Aaqib 2-0-0-14, Mushtaq 1.2-0-0-10)

Richardson scored a six off a full toss by Mushtaq to complete the formality.

MOM Ian Bishop 

I think, PAK has been knocked out of a final berth with this horrific loss. But
I am not sure about it.

Tomorrow, WI meet AUS at Gabba.

Parthasarathy
Chemical Engg
Monash Uni
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From: axeman@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (Samir Chopra)
Subject: Re: Cricket Commentary Faux Pas
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:06:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.101549.597@schbbs.mot.com> TUK067@maccvm.corp.mot.com (David Wheeler) writes:
>gnb@baby.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
>
>>The all-time classic, many years ago.
>
>>John Arlott was commentating and a batsman was struck "in the groin"
>>on the fifth ball of the over.  After a few minutes of rolling on the
>>ground, he gets up and is ready to play.
>
>>Arlott: And <name> is ready to face <bowler> now, one ball
>>remaining...
>
>Reminds me of another cracker during an England/WI Test some years ago,
>commentator (I think) Fred Trueman:
>
>         "And now the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey..."
>

Another  classic Arlott line came during the 1983 World Cup. For
those not fortunate enough to have seen Mohinder Amarnath bowl,
a description of his run-up would surely include the adjective
"lazy". For Mohinder did not run up to the wicket, he dawdled
his way close to the stumps and then almost as a afterthought,
as a casual shrug, bowled the ball to the eagerly waiting
batsman. Anyway, Mohinder came on to bowl and John in the
commentary box said:

"Mohinder starts his run up....<pause> is he going to make it?"

Samir
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From: barats@microsoft.com (Barat Shah)
Subject: Re: Bombay's bowlers (was Re: Snippets )
Date: 05 Jan 93 18:48:32 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Dec30.005228.13737@news.acns.nwu.edu> sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf) writes:
>
>
>
>>>>Let me throw in a new name - Atul Bedade. He plays for Baroda. A month ago,
>>he hit a century against Bombay at the Wankhede stadium which included
>>11 6's, one of which fell on the roof of the stadium. ( 110 yards ).
>>>
>
>>no offence - who was bowling - Rohini Hattangadi ? or was it Sandip Patil.
>>Other  than Raju Kulkarni (assuming he still plays) i do not know if
>>Bombay has any "front line" bowlers. The "other" bowler shastri is infact
>>somewhere  in S.A. trying to play cricket.
>
>>cotah
>
>	True, the lack of a penetrating bowling attack has long been
>Bombay's biggest problem. But the reason we're so hopeful this year is that
>that is no longer the case. Under decent bowling conditions and on a
>helpful pitch, I would put up Bombay's current bowling attack against any
>other in Indian domestic cricket. 
>	Ideally, we go in with 5 specialist bowlers. A three-pronged pace
>attack consisting of Abey Kuruvilla, Salil Ankola and the skipper Raju
>Kulkarni. On a fast pitch, I believe that's about as good as one gets in
>domestic cricket. Providing orthodox left arm spin is Sanjay Patil ,a very
>good though vastly underrated bowler - outside of Raju and Maninder, there
>aren't that many domestic leftarmers I can think of who are vastly
>superior. And last, but certainly not least, we have promising young leggie
>(and fine bat) Sairaj Bahutule. A good combination . (And, of course, there
>is always Iqbal Khan to provide relief and variety if neccessary). 
>			Sadiq [ this _is_ the year ! ] Yusuf
>

  And I believe everyone was also very impressed by a new fast bowler
  Vignesh Shahane- the comment was - "too bad Kulkarni is the captain
  else replace Kulkarni with V.S.
 
  Bharat
>
>


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From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Subject: Pak-NZ D4 - NZ 86/6
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 01:09:01 GMT

Jones  c Mujtaba b Waqar   19   Good sharp slip catch, well held by Mujtaba
Parore c Rashid b Wasim    13   Earned the penalty reserved for flashers
Latham b Waqar              0   Stumps flying - blood and thunder stuff
Rutherford n.o.	            9
Harris n.o.                 8


Fall of Wickets: 4/65,5/67,6/71

Waqar 2/20, Wasim 4/41

41 runs to go. Harris just off-drove Wasim for 4, and in the next over
Rutherford hooked Waqar for 4. 


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From: sougata@cc.gatech.edu (Sougata Mukherjea)
Subject: Some more views about India
Reply-To: sougata@cc.gatech.edu (Sougata Mukherjea)
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:22:37 GMT

I was in India this winter and had the fortune(misfortune?) of watching the
India/SA matches on TV. Some comments:
- I don't know why Azhar is retained. Maybe to give him a chance to captain
in India. But he was really pathetic on the field. He dropped at least 3 
sitters during the 1 day matches. His batting improved during the later 1 day
matches but was pathetic in the tests.
- I saw Tendulkar for the first time but unfortunately he was not in the
best of form. He couldn't accelerate even against Cronje and got out to very bad
shots. He also got out to some poor decisions on one or two occasions.
- Manjrekar was a disaster. I am a great fan of his but he's totally out of form
- Jadeja was another flop. I heard so much about his solid batting. But he's
not suited for either tests or 1-days.  However, he's our version of Jonty Rhodes (who incidentally, is by far the best fielder I have seen).
- Amre was our best batsman on the tour. However, he failed whenever he was 
promoted in the batting order.
- Inspite of the trend in r.s.c I think Shastri is the best slogger we have
after Kapil.  He should be played in the 1-days lower down the order.
HOWEVER GOOD NEWS FOR SHASTRI HATERS: HE'll definitely miss the first half of
the England tour. He had an operation after the 3rd test.
- Yadav a the bright spot. His innings in the last 1-day was a gem of an innings. 
He should definitely replce More. A much better bat and has a chance to become a
better keeper.
- Raman played a wonderful innings but faded later on. He definitely needs more chances. 
- Srinath impressed me a lot. His bowling in the last test showed his potential.
He definitely bowled faster than any other Indian bowler in the last 20 years.
- With Srinath, Kumble, Prabhakar and Maninder (Kapil's bowling was pretty bad)
India's bowling looks good. 
 However, the batting looks pathetic. The batsmen have developed a tendency of
guiding balls oustide offstump to the slip fielders. Hopefully, the placid
Indian wickets will help them to get back into rhythm. 
- This was definitely one of the most boring test series. Only in the 2nd 
innings of SA in the 3rd test did a side score more than 3 runs per over
in a test innings. The fourth test was ridiculous. The run rate of the test
was barely 2 runs per over. With captains like Wessels and Azhar test cricket
will end pretty soon. 

- Sougata

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From: murali@iris.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah)
Subject:  Re: Waqar's Hundered Wkts...
Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:26:24 GMT

Keywords: 

>>I think either Colin Croft or Ian Botham has that record. The number of Tests is
11 or 13 or something.

Sudhama
>>

U sure ? Thats a astonishing # of wickets per match. Could u confirm please.

cotah
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From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Subject: Re: AZZA RETAINED
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:38:21 GMT
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1993Jan11.230358.15423@leland.Stanford.EDU>, urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan) writes:
>In article <C0pCpu.G3u@ns1.nodak.edu> ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu writes:
>>
>>     Azzaruddin is retained as Captain of the Indian team for the first three
>>games against England. He will be reconsidered after that for the remainder of
     Listening to BBC Newsdesk at midnight (GMT), it appears that he is retaind
for the first three ODIs (possibly the selectors did not know that the A'bad
game was postponed). The reporter with Newsdesk said that he is retained as
the captain for the tirst two ODIs.

K. Sankara Rao                          e-mail k.srao@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu

Department of Electrical Engineering
Fargo, ND 58105  USA

Phone:  (701)237-7217  (o)
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Subject: NZ v Pak: 35 to get, 1 wkt left
From: awil2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Andrew James        Willmott       )
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:45:09 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

Patel has just been dropped at second slip by Aamir Sohail from the bowling
of Wasim Akram. The good news it that there's a day and a half left to get
the runs. The bad news is that there is only one wicket left. The bloody
commentators keep trying to put the kiss of death on NZ bby suggesting that
they could still win.

Waqar has bowled 11 overs on the trot, Wasim 12.

Andrew the overwrought
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From: crash@hal.COM (Chris Craddock)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: bowling speed of Waqar and Wasim
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:22:52 GMT
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In article <C0EG9y.G0I@ecf.toronto.edu>, srini@ecf.toronto.edu (KANDALA SRINIVAS) writes:
|> In article <C0EBno.1CD@acsu.buffalo.edu> sivap-m@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Muhunthan Sivapragasam) writes:
|> >> 
|> >
|> >	these speeds were recorded in onedays, or testmatches ?
|> >
|> >	135 kmph = 84 mph. Jeff Thomson was recorded 99, and 91 mph
|> 
|> It was 89 and not 99 (kinda hard to believe the speeds achieved by the
|> baseball pitchers).

NOPE! it really was *99* even if you do find it hard to believe.

Chris
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:14:47 EST
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Waqar's Hundered Wkts...

In article <1993Jan7.182654.24747@julian.uwo.ca>, raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza
Syed) says:
>
>What is the record of fastest 100 test wkts?
>
i'm not sure, but names that spring to mind are:
sid barnes - 189 wickets in 27 tests
charlie "the terror" turner - 101 in 17
george lohmann - 112 in 18
clarrie grimmett - 216 in 38

Stay cool,
Spaceman Spiff

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From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Subject: A'bad ODI called off
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:46:40 GMT
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

      THe first ODI due to take place at Ahmedabad on 16 Jan has been called
off. The local cricket authorities said that in view of the current situation,
they cannot hold the game and BCCI has agreed. The first ODI will now be on 18
Jan at Jaipur. There is curfew in Ahmedabad and in Bombay, the army is called
in with an order to shoot at sight.

     There is a possibility that the ODI which is called off will be held on
some other day at some other place - BCCI has a contract with BSkyB that they
will provide them with six ODIs.

     It seems many a domestic match in Bomay have been postponed and it is
hoped that by the time Bombay Test (Feb 19) comes around the situation there
will have improved.


K. Sankara Rao                          e-mail k.srao@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu

Department of Electrical Engineering
Fargo, ND 58105  USA

Phone:  (701)237-7217  (o)
        (701)235-9912  (h)

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From: evan@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Evan Harris)
Subject: Re: Haynes fined
Reply-To: evan@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Evan Harris)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:19:15 GMT

On Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:31:05 GMT, ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu said:

ksrao> It was reported on BBC Sports Roundup that Haynes was fined for
ksrao> his behaviour after he was given out. I find it utterly
ksrao> rediculous decision after watching the dismissal and what
ksrao> Haynes did on the field.

Watching it on TV at the time I thought that there was a good chance
he'd get fined so can't say that I was surprised.

ksrao> He felt that he was not out (there was no edge but the ball
ksrao> only hit the pads - would have been his feeling) and pounded
ksrao> his bat on the pitch on his way.

He actually pounded his bat on the pitch (vertical motion, hand on top
of handle) before he started walking and looked pretty disgusted with
the decision.  Judging by the replay he was probably right (however I
didn't have the sound up 8-), but I would say it was dissent given the
way they've been ruling it this year.

ksrao> THere does not not seem to have been any altercation as far as
ksrao> the TV pictures went.

Nope.

--
Evan Harris                                     evan@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Dept of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia
From: pad@sdd.hp.com (R. Padmanabhan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Gooch Cocktail Party........
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:11:38 -0800
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In article <19506.2b4b0983@ecs.umass.edu> vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>	How many batsmen did open the innings for England with Graham 
>Gooch?  Who are they?  How many batsmen did open with Sunil Gavaskar?
>Well, read this article (Thanks: Charles Randall, The Daily Telegraph).
>
>
>======
>
>Well.  There were 15 batsmen accompanied Gooch to face the opening bowlers
>of the world.  Thery are:
>
>01. Mike Brearley                        02. Geoff Boycott 
>03. Chris Tavare                         04. Geoff Cook
>05. Tim Robinson                         06. Mark Benson
>07. Martyn Moxon                         08. Bill Athey
>09. Chris Broad                          10. Tim Curtis
>11. John Stephenson                      12. Wayne Larkins
>13. Mike Atherton                        14. Hugh Morris
>15. Alec Stewart
>
>Someone else may tell us who walked in with Gavaskar to open for India.
>
>======
>
>Vicky:
>UMass, Jan 06



  I can think of the following names. I am sure there are a few more.

  Abid Ali  
  Jayantilal 
  Ashok Mankad 
  Vengsarkar
  Solkar
  Engineer 
  Gaekwad
  Chauhan
  M.Amarnath 
  Srikanth 
  Shastri
  Pronab Roy
  Arun Lal
  Ghulam Parkar
  Parthasarthy Sharma
  Sudhir Naik


  -  Paddy.


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