From: 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu (Murali Iyer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Message from Sadiq [Happily ensconced at home] Yusuf
Date: 31 Jul 92 22:05:05 GMT
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Hello netters:

I am including this message I received from Sadiq [Gower fan] Yusuf from India,
where he has gone for a holiday. As you will find out, he has sent some
interesting tidbits from India. Happy reading. All typoes appearing hereafter
are our dear Sadiq's contributions. I distance myself from the printer's devil. 

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Hi Murali,
       What's up ? Iam getting to you from Bombay, from a friend's accnt.
You can reply to my old accnt, the mail is getting forwarded here.
       Well, how are things with you ? Am enjoying myself a bihere
The only problem is that I can't telnet down and enjoy RSC. (actually, I
can telnet down, but it costs 50 bucks an hour and that only if I first
deposit a thousand bucks ! Considering I did it once and it was incredibly
slow, (you may have seen a testing message on RSC from me), I think Iam not
going to do it after all.
     Still, I decided I might as well send you guys some stuff while Iam at
it. I can come in to a friends place maybe once in a while, pretty rarely.
Would you mind terribly if I sent you a little bit when I come in ? Could
you post it on to RSC ?? I have no access to rsc from here. I did get the
address to post to, but my friend deleted it. Also, Iam never going to know
if it gets to rsc as I cant even read rsc here.
     Well, anyway, I'll post some stuff off to you right now ! Do let me know
if this gets to you, and also if you can forward it to rsc. Thanks.

                        Sadiq [ the poster ] Yusuf
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      News From the (Bom)Bay Area :

     First , some old stuff. This is from Sportstar of July 27th, but I
don't know if it's filtered thru there.
    Tamil Nadu won the Subbiah Pillai trophy limited overs tourney, the
only major tourney for the southern states. They beat Karnataka in the
rainaffected final, after beating Kerala in the semis.
   In the final, TN opener Mujibur Rehman hit Srinath for 17 runs ithe
first over of the match (four authoratative cover driven boundaries)
[
{ hey, maybe we ought to list him among our probables :-) } He ended uas
the sides top-scorer. TN ended up with 233 for 6 in 45 overs, Srinaths
figures being 9-1-79-1 . (A pasting, it looks like), including being hit
for 25 off his last 2 overs. It began to drizzle in the 28th over of Kar.
inning, but they bungled in not speeding up right away. They ended up with
188 for 5 off 38.2 overs before the game was called off. Their runrate of
4.92 was less than the 5.18 of TN, and TN was awarded the trophy.
    In the Kerala game, Mujibur Rehman had 63 off 67 balls with 6 fours for
TN, but the show was stolen by Senthilnathan who went from 60 to 90 by
hitting Sandeep for 5 sixes in one over (!!! And the idiots dont mention
how much he finally ended up with !)

    Final :
       Tamil Nadu 233 for 6 ( Mujibur Rehman 76, N.Gautam 28,
Senthil 39, S.Sharat 40) bt Karnataka 188 for 5 ( C.Saldhana 38,
Somasundar 35, Arjun Raja 56).

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     For the Bombayites interested, the first twoweeks of the Kanga league
have been washed out due to rain and unplayable conditions respectively.
(painful ! I refused a lunch and dinner invitation last Sunday for the
kanga lkeague

and they cancelled it ! Oh well. BTW, some of the better players will
be missing - Kambli, jatin Paranjpe and a few others are playing the
Lancs. league )

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     Theres controversy over the Duleep trophy North Zone selections.
The Duleep will be played sometime in August I believe, and North Zone
announced its team ( the West team hasnt been announced yet ). The 14
man squad printed by the Times (came from the news services) did not
include Ajay Jadeja !! Well, thats been cleared up as Jadeja is the 15th
name, they claim ( teams are usually 14 , aren't they?) . But anyway, even
after thats taken care off, the 14 member team doesn't include Ajay Sharma
or Vivek Razdan. It has been specified that Razdan will be in the Deodhar
team, replacing Yogendra Bhandari , but is NOT in the Duleep side. The team
has been strongly criticised by Delhi captain Kirti Azad, who pointed out
that Ajay Sharma scored 952 runs in the Ranji Trophy last year, which is
the third highest aggregate ever, and Vivek Razdan took 28 wickets and
scored 2 centuries. Two Delhi selectors, Suresh Luthra and Maninder Singh
Jaggi, have resigned. ( Kirti Azad, BTW, claims there are at least 5
players on the team who shouldnt be there).
The team :
   Kapil (capt), Maninder Singh (vice capt), Siddhu, Raman Lamba,
Ajay Jadeja, KP Bhaskar, Rajesh Puri, Bantoo Singh, Amarjeet Kaypee,
Rajiv Nayyar (shouldnt that be Manu?), Manoj Prabhakar, Atul Wassan,
Chetan Sharma, Vijay yadav, Yoginder Bhandari.
Standbyes :
     Bhupinder Singh jr., Rajiv Vinayak ( so he hasnt disappeared after all)
Abdul Qayyum, Ashwini Gupta, and Mahesh Inder Singh
    Razdan will replace Bhandari for the Deodhar, thats the only change.

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     Another old article, from early in the month. Its on Sachin and his
woes in county cricket. Still, as Sachins troubles continue, may not be
totally out of line. ( Wish I had scanning access here !!)

     ( Bit about how he had to have his sponsored car resprayed, as Asian
youth were chasing it thru the streets)
....... Worst of all, the runs will not come easily. He has three times been
tantalising close to a maiden first-class century for his county - with
86 against Malcolm Marshalls Hampshire, 92 againstCourtney Walsh's
Gloucestershire and 89 against Ian Bishops Derbyshire - yet each time he
has missed the target.
     Twice in one-day games, he has run himself out going for a second when
the fielder had the ball in his hand and a fortnight ago he was involved in
the run-out of the captain Martyn Moxon. The cricket buffs ruled it was more
Moxons fault than Tendulkars, but there is no player on earth who likes to
be at the other end when the captain, 64 and heading for his third century
in successive county matches, is run out. Even if he did bellow at him to
get back when he saw the danger.

.........(stuff about Sachin not having reached a 50 in B&H or sunday league
and Sachin quotes , sighing and wondering what was wrong, maybe he was just
out of form, and that he had found the constant switching from ODs to 3Ds
tough. And a quote from Moxon).

.....The club, the players and the supporters have tried to make "the little
lad", as he is universally known, feel at home. They, too, are aware of the
difficulties, of their reputation as a racist club because black players like
Viv Richards and Sylvester Clarke were called names by drunks in the crowd,
and the pressure on the new boy."We keep reminding ourselves that he is only
19, and we are being very patient", says Hassell (secretary of YCC).
   Tendulkar has been lodged with his friend Vinod Kambli, who is playing
Bradford League cricket with Spen Victoria, in a flat in Bradford, a city
that lies cheek by jowl with Leeds. His parents will be in England for a
holiday shortly.
    Local Indian restaurant owners have let it be known that neither he nor
a teammateneed pay for another meal so long as he is with Yorkshire which
has increased the affection withwhich he is already treated in the dressing
room.
....( Bits about how the players take turns to mother him, how Richard
blakey has responded visibly to his arrival and how Paul Jarvis has gone
out of his way to teach him the local customs. Jarvis story about how they
persuaded him to have a drink, mixed Tia Maria and a Bailey. He had it and
said it was nice , but refused a second . Also, how this truly shows the
players regard for him, as they paid for it and Yorkshiremen are meaner than
Scotsmen. { Please note, all flames from Yorkshiremen or Scotsmen should be
sent to Ted Corbett, not me ;-) } )

.... ( a match that COrbett went to watch, at Harrogate, vs Derby).
    Whenever Tendulkars name came over the public address system, whenever
he made a sharp stop or a quick throw and, finally, when he emerged from the
pavilion half hidden behing those oversized pads, htere was always a burst
of applause. The crowd, gathered for Harrogate{s festival week, willed him
to put all his insecurities behind him and to take on the Derbysire attack;
to destroy Devon Malcolm, and Ian Bishop and their own renegade spin bowler
Richard Sladdin, born less than 20 miles down the road.
   But Tendulkar coould not manage authority for nearly three hours on his
way to 50. Two days earlier on the same ground he had batted 101 balls for 40
in a one day match and the Glamorgan players had murmured that he had lost
it for Yorkshire. "he didn{t take the obvious ones and twos" they said."in
one dayers you never drop the ball at your feet. youre always looking to get
the ball off the square and run".
.....( stuff about how just 10 weeks ago one critic said no current player
could have played a better knock after an inning at Perth, how people thought
he could be Indian captain at 21, could be an outstanding tactical bowler,
and tht his fielding gave india it{s best chnce of a wicket. Only 10 weeks
ago).

..... Once he passed 50, Tendulkar drove thru the on side and past the covers
with more fluency and struck a six of Sladin but when he reached 85 it was
noticable that the brakes went on and when he flicked at a legside ball and
was caught behind the wicket he walked off without hesitation, almost as if
he was glad the pressure was gone.
.....( Stuff about how Jarvis says they havent persuaded Sachin to eat the
newspaper wrapped fish and chips yet, and how if the nearest Taj Mahal
restaurant is willing to offer you all the stuff you can eat, fish and
chips lose their attraction , specially if the pub isnt part of yuor culture)
( some more talk of cultureand how people say its hard for a Bombay boy to
fit in to a county with more self belief than Texas).

.....There is a gap, but Yorkshires committee trust it can be bridged. They
also talk about people whoo "know the price of everything and the value of
nothing" and they reckon Tendulkar is good value.
 .....( story about how Corbetts boss bought a suit for a few shillings too
much, and how the boss wasnt concerned about paying extra as it would last
him the rest of his life. The boss, a Yorkshireman , was 24 at the time).

....Yorkshire was thinking in the same way. The committee meet soon and, more
likely than not, they will invite Tendulkar back for another summer and may
even offer him a long-term contract."Sachin has the ability and one day it
will show", says Mr. hassell.
    "He looks the part , he{s been marvellous publicity even if he has not
yet brought in Indians or Pakistani supporters nad he has has behaved in
such a mature way that we want him to stay. We still think he can make all
the difference to our fortunes."

.....( Yorkshire won both the Champs, as well as the Sunday league game
against Derby. Corbett ends on teh note that soon it wont be just Asian
boys running after Tendulkars car, and if he leads Yorkshire to a title, it
wont be just owners of the Taj Mahal restaurant who make him guest ofhonour.
He'll be welcome too at the local "chip 'ole" for his "pieces an' a few, wi'
scraps" and told that he'll be even more welcome ifhe answers "Ah reet,luv"
when he's asked for his autograph) .

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      Finally, a little gloating ;-) Just want to point out to all who
claimed that Gower was past it that he has an average of 122.00 in this
series to date. Surely, he must have lasted a little beyond the five minutes
limit that a certain past captain had allocated him by now ?? ;-) ;-) ;-)


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                 Sadiq [ Gower - England's Number One ] Yusuf

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That's it, folks. 

-Murali

                               Murali Iyer 

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