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From: spt@engr.LaTech.edu (Shyam Prasad Talluri)
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Subject: 'ALL TIME GREAT INNINGS'
Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:43:45 GMT
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	By now everyone on the network would have known me as a staunch
	Gavaskar admirer.But now I would like to post some of the great
	innings Iwatched or heard.The two of the great innings I can 
	readily recollect are :
	(1) Gavaskar's 101 at manchester England in 1974.
	(2) Visvanath's 97 n.out at madras in 1975-1976.

	I watched visvanath's 97 notout at Madras.I reckon it as the best 
	innings Ihave ever seen.The wicket at Madras looked bald with absolutely
	no grass on it. Pataudi the Indian captain won the toss & decided to 
	bat. India didn't have gavaskar as he had been out with a finger 
	fracture.India lost Engineer,solkar,pataudi,gaekwad in quick succession.
	The predictions that the pitch would play truly quickly dissappered as
        Andy Roberts started breathing fire and was almost unplayable. 
	Ashok Mankad stood in for a while, then the mastery of vishy's batting
	wat to be seen to be beleived. Against a four pronged pace battery of
	Roberts,julien,boyce and holder and also the spin of lance gibbs
	Vishy played a truly great innings.He played some awesome drives
	on either side of the pitch but the stroke that remains in my memory was	a square drive of Andy Roberts off the offstump which left Clivelloyd,
	Vivian Ricfards and Lance gibbs applaud in appreciation.The next day
	I remember 'THE Hindu' gave the details of the way vishy caressed the
	W.I attack showing allthe strokes played by him.I can't remember any
	better innings than that, it was a real peach, and only vishy can 
	play such type of innings.

    

         
        Shyam.p.Talluri
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Subject: WI/Aus T4 D1 Lunch
Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:35:12 -0600
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WI are 2 for 100 at Lunch. Haynes 39 and Richardson 0. The fall of wickets are
84,99. There will be no updates - probably after lunch.

Simmons c Hughes b SWaugh 46  (8 fours). 
There are 14 boundaries - including three all run boundaries.
At lunch WI are  
Hughes got Richie out lbw  for 2. Rich 99 for 2 

After 90 minutes, WI are:  none for 81, Haynes 23, Simm Simm 46: 23 overs, I
think.

83extras in a Sheffield Shield game if noballs count for 4

At drinks in the first session - WI are   none for 62, Haynes 12, Simmons 40
and 16 overs are bowled.

Straight drive off McD for a four all 
run and a three straight drive.

In the fifth over of McD, Simmons hit two fours thrugh gully, one an uppish
shot and and beautifully hit four along the ground. McD was relieved and Steve
Waugh came and had a maiden over. Later, Simmons hit a straight drive off Waugh
for a four.

WI got their 50 in 50 minutes off 77 balls. They seem to be scoring the first
hour ad an ODI. Haynes is very tentative and is lucky to be stll at the crease.

After 30 minutes, WI are:  26 -   after 7 overs
Haynes 10 and Simmons 8, one a very good shot through square leg, another a
lucky uppish shot thriugh point.
Haynes hit a very good square cut for 4

00:20 GMT on 23-1-93  (7:20 pm EST on 1-22-1993)

    WI/AusAdelaide test is comong on thesatellite G6 Channel 20 - startsat
00:30 GMT

Warne and May in Dodemaide 12 th man. Langer in
Benjamin in, Adams out Walsh in.


Richie won the toss and will bat
From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: West Indies vs Australia (4T4D - Adelaide, Australia, Jan 25)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:00:37 GMT

In article <C1H4yv.B5n@cs.uiuc.edu>, bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) writes:
|
|> Now the question is, can you deny giving Tim May the MoM award --
|> maybe, maybe not, but you could make a very strong case for the
|> debutant who essentially bowled out Windies and then took the
   ^^^^^^^^
I have just been informed that Tim May is not a rookie and in fact
did play a few Tests earlier.  Sorry, I just assumed that he was making
his debut because I did not recall his name as one of the players during the
Indian tour...

Bharat
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From: mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World XI or What?
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:18:47 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <1993Jan20.002338.15634@grace.cri.nz>, howard@grace.cri.nz (Howard Silby) writes:
> 
>  Sanjay Naik at North Carolina writes:
> 
>>       No world eleven today is complete without Crowe. He's been one of the
>>most consistent batsmen in world cricket over the last 6-7 years, if not the
>>most consistent. I'd like to see NZ play more 5 match series ( when was the
>>last time they did) - this would give Crowe more exposure to the test scene.
> 
>  Crowe has played in 40 tests since 1985 and has averaged 61.05 per innings.
>  
>  He has scored Test Centuries in every country he has visited, and has
>  the highest ratio of centuries to tests of any current player.

In fact I would add that along with Richardson (15 centuries/66 tests 4952
runs) Crowe (15 centuries/63 tests 4591 runs) should be an automatic choice for
the batting.  Since combined, they possess the charisma of a garden snail, they
do not catch the eye as readily as a Richards or Chappell, and so will be
looked over by the less discerning of armchair selectors.

>  Returning to Crowe, not including him in a World XI would be ridiculous
>  bit I wouldn't expect some of the netters to get a hypothetical job as
>  a world selector -I noticed one posting had NOT ONE of Border, Crowe, 
>  Miandad or Gooch -indeed it did not have one player who had scored 
>  > 200 in a test!!

Probably one of the jingo crowd-:)

> 
> Howard.

McBean
From: wadhwa@cs.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India vs. England
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:49:13 GMT
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From: spt@engr.LaTech.edu (Shyam Prasad Talluri)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: "The first test"
Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:50:19 GMT
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	The first test between India and England is around the corner
	and the Indian team should prove it's mettle as a force to 
	reckon with. After dismal performances in Australia and recently
	in south africa the pride of the team is tarnished. 

	The captain azharuddin who seems to have regained his touch
	withthat strokeful 35 should lead from the front. In my opinion
	he should bat at no 3 as that's where he has made most of his runs.
	On placid Indian pitches he can develop more confidence in countering
	the short pitched bowling.Azhar's lack of hook stroke has made him
	a prey to the rising deleveries. And also he has the tendency to take
	his eyes of the ball. But ofcourse once he starts timing the ball
	then it's impossible to bowl to him. One sincerely hopes he will
	get back to his best against the attack he likes most. Any way 
	good luck to him.

	Raman has an inherent weakness against the diagnol line, which
	was thoroughly exposed by Sir Richard hadlee.It's now or never
	for Raman as he should show that he is good enough at test level.
	Kambli, should in my opinion bat a little lower at either 6 or 7.
	It's unwise to expose an youngster at a high up in the batting 
	order. Let him get the feel of the things, no doubht he has tons
	of talent.

	Onus is on the seniors. kapil, should stike a few early
	blows, get his outswinger working which was conspicuos by
	it's absence during the S.africa tour.If he can generate the type 
	of lethal outswingers in his first spell, he will be unplayable.
	Manoj prabhakar should concentrate more on his bowling than on batting.
	Srinath is learning all the time and one hopes he turns out to
	be a strike bowler too.

	Coming to the spin department, Kumble's fastish leg cutters have
	certainly been succesful in S.Africa, but his success against a
	more experienced english side will to a large extent depend on the 
	wear of the pitch. Ha is not a bowler who can beat the batsman in
	the air for a mishit, he is more a cutter of the ball than a floater.
	raju's bowling has been affected by the one-dayers, I have  seen him
	turn at right angles at secunderabad Gymkhana but now unfortunately 
	he is not getting much turn at all.one hopes he will find his rhythm
	soon and pove to be a stike bowler.

	One last word, it's good that shastry is out of the side, he is 
	a big waste who can neither bowl nor bat nor field.

   	Good luck to the Indian team,





	S.P.Talluri
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:23:26 EST
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT GAVASKAR

In article <Jan.22.18.06.34.1993.20564@maya.rutgers.edu>,
govindra@maya.rutgers.edu (S Govindarajan) says:
>
>  Richards never hit 24 runs in an over. The record of 24 runs in an
>over is held by three persons. Andy Roberts (of Ian Botham), Sandeep
>Patil (of Bob Willis) and Kapil dev (of Eddie hemmings). Kapil's was
>all 6s, Patil's was all 4's and Roberts' was a mixture of 4's and 6's.
>>
didn't botham hit 24 in an over in his "comeback" series vs NZ a few years
back?

Stay cool,
Spaceman Spiff

Non illegitimati carborundum          Don't let the bastards get you down
From: ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World Presidents XI
Date: 22 Jan 1993 06:39:14 -0800
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In article <del.727582037@hawk> del@hawk.adied.oz.au (D Elson) writes:
>OK, guys the team is starting to fill up ...
>
>1.   M. Hayden     (QLD, Australia)
>2.   vacant
>3.   J. Langer     (WA, Australia)
>4.   Vinod Kambli  (Bombay, India)
>5.   vacant
>6.   vacant
>7.   J. Russell    (County ??, England)   (WK)
>8.   J. Adams      (??, WI)
>9.   P. Alley      (NSW, Australia)
>10.  vacant

I would suggest DULIP LIYANAGE or MUTTIAH MURALITHERAN from Sri Lanka.
Liyanage is a pace bowler who surprised Alan Border and Co. with his pace.
he is 20 years old and has since done quite well against the Kiwis and the
U-24s in South Africa.

MUTTIAH MURALITHERAN is an agressive spinner (off-spin) who was the other
discovery of the Aussie/Kiwi tours.  Border in particular was all at sea
once too often.  Muralitheran is also doing quite well in South Africa.
He bagged 4 wickets for 2 runs in a recent game.

>11.  J. Angel      (WA, Australia)

>Up-and-coming players only.  Send in your favourite rookie or
>county player to fill up the team.


- Vasee



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From: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT GAVASKAR
Reply-To: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Organization: GWDG Goettingen, F.R.Germany
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:00:12 GMT

In article <93021.000032SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>, Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <Jan.20.20.06.18.1993.10698@maya.rutgers.edu>,
>govindra@maya.rutgers.edu (S Govindarajan) says:
>>
>>Speaking of successive boundaries, what is the world record in tests?
>>I can't think of any batsmen who had more than 4 in succession. I can
>>recall only two (Indian) names who had 4 successive boundaries.
>>Vengsarkar (Vs England at Madras  '81-82). He hit 17 off one over from
>>Ian Botham with 4 successive 4's and a single off the 5th ball.
>>Srikkanth had 4 successive 4's (Vs SL at Kandy (?)) in 1985 of De Mel.
>>I don't know whether any one has 5 successive 4's. Patil (Vs England
>>at ???) could have done it......

SURE! Sandeep Patil hit SIX fours in one over from Bob Willis in
England in a test match. I am not sure if these are off consecutive 
deliveries as there may be a couple of no balls in that over.

>srikkanth hit 4 successive balls for 6,6,6 and 4 off bob holland in 85-86.
>
>
>Stay cool,
>Spaceman Spiff

Swamy
From: sjasthi@bison.unl.edu ()
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: test
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:40:35 GMT
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This is a test .  Does this really work god knows life is so hard .


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From: mtrayer@bnr.ca (Mark Trayer)
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Subject: India Win 2nd ODI
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:40:49 GMT
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India have just won the 2nd ODI by the comfortable margin
of 5 wickets with at least 5 overs to go.  The winning
runs were scored by Kapil Dev with a 4 through square leg
off Dermot Reeve.  I don't have a lot of details on the
Indian innings as Radio 5 didn't read out the full score 
card while I was listening.  

The openning partnership was worth 70+ before Prabhakar
was out.  Sidhu went on to make 70, including two sixes,
one huge one over mid-wicket off Salisbury (who actually
bowled quite well).  Both Kambli and Tendulkar went 
quite cheaply (Tendulkar was lbw to DeFreitas I think).
Azharruddin batted excellently for 36 before being lbw
to Reeve off the 42nd over.  A decision that surprised 
the commentators as they felt that the ball struck him too
high.  Maybe this performance will silence some of his
critics ?

Overall, a very good all round performance from India, whose
bowlers used the early conditions to great effect.  The only
chance that England had was for an early breakthrough from 
the pace boys, it was quite apparent from about the 10th
over that this wasn't going to happen :-)  Well, the two
ODI's have set things up nicely for the Calcutta test, here's
hoping for a good game and a pitch with life :-) :-)

Mark.

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From: eldip@lut.ac.uk (DI Patel)
Subject: England team prediction . . .
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:02:06 GMT

Here is my prediction for the 11 who might be selected for the 1st test
in culcatta 

Gooch
Atherton
Smith
Gatting
Stewart
Hick
Lewis
DeFreitas
Salisbury / Jarvis
Malcolm
Tuffnell

Paul Taylor (12th Man)

If Malcolm is seen as ineffective, then in the subsequent tests he will be 
replaced by Taylor.  I also feel Salisbury will be chosen ahead of Emburey if
they decide to play 2 spinners.  Jarvis unfortunately will be chosen only if
an extra pace bowler is played.

In the batting they pick themselves.  Fairbrother will probably be considered
as an alternative tto Hick.

Any comments?

Cheers . . .

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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: India Vs England full score card.
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:12:33 GMT

In article <C183qz.8A1@uceng.uc.edu>, bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan) writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.111930.26488@rdg.dec.com> vaghela@laxatv.reo.dec.com (Umesh Vaghela) writes:
> 
> >
> >Sidhu	    c Reeve b DeFreitas  76
> >Prabhakar   c Reeve b Lewis      36
> >Kambli	        c & b Jarvis      9
> >Azzarhuddin lbw	    b Reeve      36
> >Tendulkar   lbw     b DeFreitas   1
> >Amre	    not out..............24
> >Kapil Dev   not out.............. 5
> >Extras			         14
> >Total ( 45.1 Overs )	        201/4
> 


Hmmm....this can not be the batting order for tests. The first five
are all stroke players. There isn't a single grafter in there. This
order is a sure recipe for test match disasters. I fully expect
changes to personnel and the order for the forthcoming tests. May be
Manjrekar will come back in the side to play number 3. 


	--SAN
From: sista@engr.LaTech.edu (Ravi K. Sista)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Chandigarh news
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:06:56 GMT
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OOPS.  THE GAME IS BEING HELD AT CHANDIGARH AND NOT DELHI AS I SAID BEFORE.

ENGLAND FINISHED WITH 198 FOR 6 OFF 50 OVERS.  THE RUN RATE IS JUST UNDER
4 RUNS AN OVER.  AN EASY TASK FOR THE INDIAN BATSMEN UNLESS THEY MESS IT
UP AS THEY USUALLY DO. 

I WILL BE POSTING THE SCORES AS SOON AS I GET THEM.

KEEP IN TOUCH FOR THE LATEST FROM CHANDIGARDH, GUYS.

WITH REGARDS,

Ravi Kumar Sista




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From: ccjwm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (John Miller)
Subject: Re: The best ever 1 day XIs
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 00:50:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.233452.14375@nmsu.edu> sbasu@huey (BASU) writes:
>
>Following the tumultous responses I've been receiving to my best ever test  
>XIs, I've decided to compile my best ever 1 day XIs.
>

>
>AUSTRALIA
>---------
>Ian Chappel (Captain)  ------  < Keith Stackpole
>Paul Sheahan  ---------------  < David Boon or maybe even Rick McKosker
>Dean Jones/Kim Hughes  ------  < Ian Chappell (Captain)
>Greg Chappel
>Allan Border
>David Hookes  ---------------  < Gary Gilmour or Simon O'Donnell
>Rod Marsh (Deputy;Keeper)
>Dennis Lillee
>Craig McDermott
>Jeff Thomson  ---------------  < switched ahead of Alderman
>Len Pascoe    ---------------  < Terry Alderman
>
12th man Peter Taylor

OK before you object that Stackpole doesn't qualify, I seem to
recall him playing in the very first One-day international that
I can remember in Australia at the MCG in 75/76? against the
West Indies.  I can't remember much about the match, even who
won.

Pick Peter Taylor instead of Thommo or Gilmour if the pitch 
will spin.  If its overcast, definately pick Gilmour instead
of Thommo.  
>=============================
>
>ENGLAND
>-------
>Graham Gooch
>Ian Botham
>David Gower
>Mike Gatting (d)
>Allan Lamb
>Derek Randall
>Tony Greig (c)
>Allan Knott (k)
>Graham Dilley
>Bob Willis
>Norman Cowans
>

Derek Underwood has got to get in here somewhere.  I'd say ahead
of Cowans.  Also Mike Hendrick ahead of Graham Dilley.  I'd
still have Boycott instead of Randall.
>=============================

I won't comment on the Indian, Pakistani, NZ, or Sth Africans
since I don't know that much about them.

>WEST INDIES
>-----------
>Gordon Greenidge
>Desmond Haynes
>Brian Lara
>Richie Richardson (d)
>Viv Richards
>Clive Lloyd (c)
>Derryk Murray (k)
>Andy Roberts
>Malcolm Marshall
>Joel Garner
>Michael Holding
>
Replace Murray with Dujon.  Then replace a batsman with Curtley Ambrose.
Probably Lara misses out at this stage.  Wow what a team!  Much as I hate
to admit it.  This one looks pretty hard to beat.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>|The above opinions expressed are that of all subscribers to this network|  
>|even if refuted. Everyone knows that I'm right.			 |
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>-Scrooge McDuck
From: bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: The best ever Test  XIs
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:14:30 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <1993Jan26.195621.20970@nmsu.edu> sbasu@kirk (BASU) writes:
>In article <C1Bz3y.7pH@uceng.uc.edu> bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar  
>Natarajan) writes:
>> 
>> >> WEST INDIES
>> >> -----------
>> >> Gordon Greenidge
>> >> Conrad Hunte
>> >> George Headley (c)
>> >> Everton Weekes
>> >> Viv Richards
>> >> Clyde Walcott (wk)
>> >> Sir Gary Sobers
>> >> Wes Hall
>> >> Joel Garner
>> >> Michael Holding
>> >> Lance Gibbs
>> >> =====================
>> >> 
>> >> Dare any of you to come up with a better XI from any of the above  
>> >> countries! Suggestions about South Africa will be welcome.
>> >> 
>> >> - Scrooge McDuck
>> 
>> 	Malcolm Marshall for any one batsman !
>
>You've got a bowling line-up of Hall, Sobers, Holding, Garner & Gibbs. How  
>much stronger do you want it? And why d'ya wanna reduce the number of  
>batsmen from 7 to 6 ?

	Dunno...but i got an inkling that even with the six batsmen
mentioned above, a couple of them will get a look in only occasionally
...with ALL seven of them,forget it; they'll have to rotate the line-up
so everyone gets at least one decent inning.

	Besides, with Marshall in the line-up (IMO he was the best), the
batsmen will more often be reqd. to score 150-250 or at most 300 odd, and
you don't need seven batsmen of the kind you mentioned for THAT.

	That was the reasoning,see ?

Regards
Bhaskar
From: rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Indian Team for 1st Test
Date: 21 Jan 93 22:09:03 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


I've just heard the Indian team for the first test. Here it is:

Azharrudin   (capt.)
Sidhu
Raman
Kambli
Tendulkar
Sharma
Amre
More
Kapil
Prabhakar
Srinath
Chauhan
Raju
Kumble



Rob.
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