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From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Lamb fined ans suspended by Nothants
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:37:23 GMT

In article <9224018.24237@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>In <19898@plains.NoDak.edu> ksrao@POWER.EEE.NDSU.NODAK.EDU writes:
>
>
>| BBC TV news has reported that Northampton CCC has fined Lamb maximiu (
>| the amount was not mentioned) and suspended for the next two county matches
>| for publishing an article in Daily Mirror - not authorised by the club.
>
>Local news says 5000 pounds (maximum possible) plus 2 matches.
>
>They also had (brief) interviews with Intikhab who said the allegations
>were rubbish, Aaqib (identified as Pakistan's captain - no idea what
>game that might have been) who didn't say much, and Ritchie Richardson
>who said that he'd never seen anything like it in a test, so he couldn't
>comment, but that it should be stopped if it was happening.
>
>They also showed a ball, with someone's thumb taking a noticeable
>piece out...

Yes, there is a beautiful sequence of Aqib Javed gouging the ball with his
thumbnail. So the Pakistanis docotr the ball. So what? I hear a rumor that
England tried the samething in the fifth test, and failed... If Mickey Stewart
and Allan Lamb really know what the Pak attack is doing, why haven't they let
the England seamers in on it, so they can do it too?  (;-) for the humor
impaired...).

As for the ICC's pathetic behaviour, well, what can you expect. Their refusal
to make the reports public confirms that the ball was changed under 42.5,
IMHO, because if it had been changed under 5, releasing the reports would have
defused the whole situation. Faced with legal threats, they bottled and
allowed the whole mess to drag on.

It would have been better to get the whole thing out in the open, and
either change the laws or come down hard on the perpetrators (who are by no
means confined to the Pakistan team).

One last thought: it's a crying shame that this stupid controversy has
overshadowed a summer of cricket in which we've seen the finest seam
bowling for many years (certainly the best I've seen in 20+ years of watching
cricket). Perhaps we need to rethink the whole concept of international
control of the game, at least get rid of the mealy-mouthed appeasing assholes
who run the ICC at present. It seems they can always be relied upon to take
the worst possible course of action...

The Wisp. [England supporter, admirer of good cricket everywhere...]
(and royally pissed off by this fiasco!)
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:22:15 EDT
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Accusations of Cheating
 <1992Aug26.200106.12085@unislc.uucp>

In article <1992Aug26.200106.12085@unislc.uucp>, ramana@unislc.uucp (Ramana
Ramachandran) says:
>
>:
>: Does Hat-trick come from cricket?  I've a feeling it does.
>:
>: Cheers, Paul
>
>Oops ! doesn't the name suggest a magical connection :-) :-)
>
>ramana

the term does owe its origin to cricket, tho' the exact incident which gave
rise to the term is shrouded in the mists of history & legend. if anyone
is interested in a hilarious, albeit fictional, account of the incident
they might like to look up george macdonald fraser's excellent novel-
"flashman's lady", in which the protagonist, harry flashman (the bully from
"tom brown's schooldays"), manages to dismiss the top three batsmen of his
day , fuller pylch(?), albert mynn & someone else, off 3 successive balls
with a combination of good bowling, luck and a little gamesmanship, prompting
one of the unlucky three to say "that trick deserves a new hat any day".

Stay cool,
The Thinker

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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:58:32 EDT
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Cricketers and their books --Some musings
 <1992Aug28.161818.1659@walter.bellcore.com>

In article <1992Aug28.161818.1659@walter.bellcore.com>, shamim@bellcore.com
(Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273) says:
>
>BTW, Nadeem, in one of your postings you have referred to Sunny
>Gavaskar as the "Little Master." I assume you know that Hanif Mohammad
>used to be called the "Little Master."  Somehow I always think of Hanif
>when I read this title and not Gavaskar.
>
these titles/nicknames tend to get passed down thru the ages. e.g. c. k. nayadu
 ken barrington and dilip vengsarkar have all been referred to as "colonel".
"tiger" smith (w/k for warwickshire(?) in the early 20th century), "tiger"
bill o'reilly and "tiger" pataudi is another example of this. i guess it
depends upon which generation you belong to. when i was growing up, hanif had
long since retired and gavaskar was at his peak, so i would think of gavaskar
or viswanath when i heard the term "little master". of course, nationality is
also an important factor.

Stay cool,
The Thinker

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From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Inzamam and run outs
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:20:31 GMT

In article <10170061@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> rajeev@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Rajeev Menon) writes:
>I see Inzamam being involved in an unusual number of run outs. He was
>run out in a mix up with Malik at Lord's in the second innings and also
>in the 4th ODI again with Malik. Here in the fifth ODI, he and Aamir
>end up on the same crease and Aamir is run out.
>
>I recall a certain Parthasarathy Sharma of India whose first five
>test innings ended up in run out, if I remember. He was an equally
>horrible fielder as well. As Setelvad used to say "That's driven
>through the covers, through Sharma for four". I am not suggesting
>Inzi is that bad, in fact he seems to be a good fielder.
>
>Is Inzi a very aggressive runner, or am I following him too closely ?
>
>Thanks
>
>rajeev

Well, I don't know about in general, but his run out of Aamir in the 5th
ODI was shameful. It was Aamir's call, and there was an easy run there, but
Inzi just refused it. God knows why: Aamir almost got back, it was suchan easy
single (though he was helped by some uncharacteristically inept England
fielding...)

The Wisp.
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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: Aus V SL
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:02:57 GMT

In <1992Sep2.204937.13487@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
s1172217@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Smith) writes:

| I must say I am surprised at SL, I would have thought they would have gone for
| it, 4.5 runs per over is like a good one dayer target,

But a test is not a one day game - if necessary the fielding captain
can defend with lots of filders out near the fence, preventing many
runs from being scored.  That and no limitaton on who can bowl.

Those luxuries in tests mean that the fielding captain can open the
innings with a very attacking field - meaning that shots which may
generate 4 runs past the couple of slips fielders in a one day game
are caught in the gully in a test.

That danger means that the batsmen can't play such an attacking game
as they might in a one day game.

The two things just aren't comparable.

This match looked likely to be a draw after the first innings took
2 days (because of the weather).   With that, if I was setting the
strategy for SL I'd be looking for batting practice too - one down
with one to play, and so the possibility of one all is a much better
position that two down - don't even risk that.

kre
From: vnesiah@aludra.usc.edu (Deep Third Man)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Cricket Phrases
Date: 27 Aug 1992 08:26:28 -0700
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In article <92240.092108SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu (Spaceman Spiff) writes:
>In article <26AUG199212554219@zeus.tamu.edu>, m0a1530@zeus.tamu.edu (ABBAS,
>MUSTAFA) says:
>>
>>        there is commom phrase in cricket which is --
>>                players have "GONE FOR TEA"
>>
>>        If one says this as one word like "GOND-PHATI", it means,
>>        in urudu and hindi, player have ripped a*&%... (deleted)

Along similar lines,

	Mark Waugh said as one word (makuva) translates in Tamil to
			 "come here idiot"

>
>thank you for sharing that with us. :-)

sure!


>The Thinker

DTM
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From: s1172217@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Smith)
Subject: AusVSthP
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:29:22 GMT

Aus. are 2/40 after taking a 148 run lead on the first innings over Southern
Province, with 1 day to play.
Shane Warne has appartently injured a foot a may be out for a while.

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From: mamohamm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (SKEPTICAL)
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:34:59 GMT

In article <karnik.715278130@mega> karnik@mega.cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
>In <1992Aug31.152100.13529@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> andrew@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Andrew Walker) writes:
>
>

>
>>	Devon (I'll dive for this, oops i've missed it again) Malcolm
>
>>Andrew Walker: Department of Computing Science, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ
>
>	My nomination (:->) from India is Dilip Doshi. Sandeep Patil, after
>his shoulder gave out, was a close competitor. 

	Dilip Doshi was the KING. 
	He converted singles to doubles like nobody could.
	His throws were like Frank Tanana pitching for the
	Detroit Tigers.


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From: raza@surya.ccs.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Subject: Re: First Test - Score card - Australia v/s Sri Lanka
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:20:41 GMT

In article <BtpHqM.24y@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>In article <0095F9E4.41B490A0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>>			Australia vs. Sri Lanka.
>>			      First Test.
>moghal@aludra.usc.edu (Nadeem Moghal) writes:
>>Has anyone noticed that all eleven players in the Australian second
>>innings reached double figures?
>
>What struck me was that 471 runs were scored with no one making a
>century.  Anyone know whats the highest team score when no batsman has
>reached the century mark?
>
>Bharat

One instance i remember is Pakistan 500/8 dec at Melbourne in 1982,
(Mudassar 95, Zaheer 90, Majid 70(+?), Imran 71, Miandad 62 and waseem raja
50).

S.R.Raza


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From: a2824ag@sunmanager.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Riaan de Jager)
Subject: India's tour of SA (?)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:29:34 GMT

Hi, fellow cricket lovers

Does anyone have info on the tour. When are they arriving in SA. Scheduled 
matches etc.?

Appreciated.
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From: s1172217@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Smith)
Subject: Gavaskar catches
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:48:20 GMT

Sunil Gavaskar took 108 catches in his 125 game career, hes the leading catch
taker for India, no one else from India is in the top 10 all time catchers.

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From: bnataraj@uceng.UC.EDU (Bhaskar  Natarajan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:42:00 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati, Engineering College

In article <dos105-030992132435@hanmac34.anu.edu.au> dos105@rsphy2.anu.edu.au (Darren O'Shaughnessy) writes:

	(deleted)

>try Kris Srikkanth for someone who doesn't like to get his hands behind the
>ball.
>  I apologise to Mr. Sidhu for any slur on his cricket abilities. I think.
>
>       Signed,
>               Pat Rourke  (you may not have heard of me)

But Srikkanth was accepted as one of the most brilliant fielders when he
arrived on the test scene. And he really was good till some yrs. back. This
must have been a bad time for him.

Bhaskar
From: moghal@aludra.usc.edu (Nadeem Moghal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: First Test - Score card - Australia v/s Sri Lanka
Date: 28 Aug 1992 20:51:46 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <BtpHqM.24y@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>In article <0095F9E4.41B490A0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>>			Australia vs. Sri Lanka.
>>			      First Test.
>>AUSTRALIA. Second innings.
>>T. Moody                           b. Ramanayake             13
>>M. Taylor      c. Gurusinha        b. Anurasiri              43
>>D. Boon        c. Ranatunga        b. Anurasiri              68
>>D. Jones                           Run Out                   57
>>M. Waugh       c. Kaluwitharane    b. Wickremasinghe         56
>>A. Border      c. Gurusinha        b. Anurasiri              15
>>G. Matthews    c. Kaluwitharane    b. Ramanayake             64
>>I. Healy                         lbw. Hathurusinghe          12
>>C. McDermott                     lbw. Ramanayake             40
>>S. Warne                           b. Anurasiri              35
>>M. Whitney                         Not Out                   10
>>Extras (1 w, 34 nb, 23 lb)                                   58
>>                                                           ----
>>Total                                                       471
>
>moghal@aludra.usc.edu (Nadeem Moghal) writes:
>>Has anyone noticed that all eleven players in the Australian second
>>innings reached double figures?
>
>What struck me was that 471 runs were scored with no one making a
>century.  Anyone know whats the highest team score when no batsman has
>reached the century mark?

The world record, I think is 524 by either  India or New Zealand in 
their 1975-76/1976-77 series.

In 1981-82, Pakistan scored 500 for six (or was it seven) against 
Australia at Melbourne, with MUdassar being the top scorer with
95. THere were, I believe, five fifties in the innings.

Another interesting fact about the above innings. ("Above" refers
to the Aus-SL test inning.)

There was no bye in the entire Aussie innings. This is a fine achieve-
ment, but by no means the world record. The best performance came
by, was it Alexander of West Indies, when he saw the Aussies pile
up 659 runs in a test in the fifties or the sixties, and he himself
was not responsible for even a single of them.

Mujtaba Kirmani of India came very close to it when Pakistan were all
out for 652 in the Faislabad test of 1982-83.

>
>Bharat

Nadeem Moghal
USC



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From: fdm0886@zeus.tamu.edu (Faraaz)
Subject: Qasim Omar
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:03:00 GMT

Does anyone have a clue what happened to Qasim Omar?
Is he still a viable option For a Pakistani Text side?
From: ksrao@POWER.EEE.NDSU.NODAK.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: a Pak XI beats an Indian XI
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:29:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20150
Reply-To: ksrao@POWER.EEE.NDSU.NODAK.EDU


        There was a friendly one day game in Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman
between an Indian XI and a Pakistan XI. I do not know the names of all the
players or even the team scores. A crowd of 18,000 whose glittering cars lined
up the parking lot played in a beautifully built stadium (Harsha Bogle's
words). They were treated to a fine batting performance by Inzamam-ul-Haq and
Sachin Tendulkar. Inzamam score 119 runs off 100 balls which included 6 sixes
and 10 fours. Srinath took four wickets.

       In India's innings, Tendulkar scored 84 off 62 balls with 6 fours and
five sixes. Indian team missed the target by 21 runs.

       I hope Sadiq will send details from either the newspaper reports or from
TV.


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

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North Dakota State University
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:21:08 EDT
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Cricket Phrases

In article <26AUG199212554219@zeus.tamu.edu>, m0a1530@zeus.tamu.edu (ABBAS,
MUSTAFA) says:
>
>        there is commom phrase in cricket which is --
>                players have "GONE FOR TEA"
>
>        If one says this as one word like "GOND-PHATI", it means,
>        in urdu and hindi, player have ripped asses or torn asses
>        or fucked asses----something like that. I am sure some one
>        can come up witha better translation.

thank you for sharing that with us. :-)

Stay cool,
The Thinker

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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273)
Subject: Re: Inzamam and run outs
Reply-To: shamim@bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:10:12 GMT

In article 10170061@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com,  rajeev@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Rajeev Menon) writes:
>I see Inzamam being involved in an unusual number of run outs. 
>Is Inzi a very aggressive runner, or am I following him too closely ?>

Inzimam was run out twice in the WC but those two incidents are understandable: 
against SA an acrobatic piece of fielding and against Australia (?) I think it 
was very bad decision by the umpire. 

In England, he was run out at in the Lords test (playing with Aamir) and had a mixup 
also with Aamir in the ODI. At Lords he claimed he had not heard Aamir call, 
so by the time he turned around, Aamir was already half way down the pitch. 
I do not know about the ODI incident. Another time is the run out with Malik 
but honestly speaking a lot of people have trouble with Malik's calling. So Inzi 
could have been at fault or it could be Malik. 

I do think, however, that Inzi has to improve his calling. This is definitely a 
weak part of his game, possibly because he played very little first class cricket. 

He is, however, an excellent if not the best slip fielder in the Pakistani camp. He 
took some blinders in this series and I think in all the matches he missed one chance 
in the slips area. Some of his catches, e.g., Smith at Lords, were out of this world. 
The other safe hands in the slips area is now Aamir. Strangely, when 
Malik dropped a couple of catches at the Old Trafford, Aamir asked to go into the 
slips, took a catch there and has since been used in the slips. His knocking the ball up 
at the Oval so that Mushtaq could take the catch was quite superb fielding. 

--shamim



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From: guptar@ucs.orst.edu (gupta rakesh forest products)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:58:44 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU

In article <3jwpby1z@csv.warwick.ac.uk> csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
>In article <67347@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt9911a@prism.gatech.EDU (SUNDAR) writes:
>>In article <92244.123032SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu (Spaceman Spiff) writes:
>>>>to start naming the worst! I think that the supporters of each test team
>>>>should nominate the worst from their side that they can remember.
>>>>
>>>>        Devon (I'll dive for this, oops i've missed it again) Malcolm
>>>>
>>>for india, three names spring to mind: b. s. chandrashekhar, dilip doshi and
>>>sandip patil.
>>>Stay cool,
>>>The Thinker
>>
>>How about T.A.Shekar and Salil Ankola. I still would count Kiran More as one
>>of the worst keeper I have ever seen (with respect to his keeping).
>
>How about Moin Khan? That's the worst series I've ever seen played by a
>keeper. I think he only got in the side because he's such a talkative
>little chap...
>
I think name of parthsarthi sharma of india should also be added to this list.
even anshuman gaekwad would qualify for this.

rakesh