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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Snippets - Indian cricket
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:46:09 GMT


Stuff gleaned from news reports:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

o    Raj Singh Dungarpur elected president of the Cricket Club of India.
     In an unrelated item, he has requested the BCCI to set up a committee
     to organize the Jaipur ODI. He alleges that the Rajasthan Cricket
     Assoc. has been misusing its funds, and is incapable of successfully
     organizing the international fixture.

o    "I will be back", says Srikkanth. He's been in good form, with centuries
     against Karnataka and Goa in successive matches, and hopes to break back
     into the Indian team against England.

o    Another ex-India-opener, Lalchand Rajput scored 125, and Pandit made 54
     for Assam in the East Zone Ranji league. I noticed that a 'Ravi Thakkar'
     was also playing for Assam. Could this be the same chap who represented
     Bombay a few monsoons ago ?

o    "Please don't ever say India has a good batting line-up", said Sunil 
     Gavaskar, after the Indians collapsed again, in the sixth ODI against
     South Africa. Earlier, he also talked about the Indian batsmen needing
     'heart transplants' from Dr.Christian Bernard :->

o    Mohan Chaturvedi is back as the wicketkeeper for the Delhi team. Also,
     a new pace bowler on the horizon - Feroz Ghayas. This chap made his
     debut for Delhi against Services, and took 13 wickets in the match. He
     also scored 40 off 43 balls in Delhi's only innings. Ghayas is 19 yrs.
     old, 6'2" tall, and is said to be faster than Vivek Razdan (so?). Lillee
     selected him for the MRF Pace Academy, and he's already played for the
     Indian u-19 team. A name to watch.....


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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: Pak in Controversy again?
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:17:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.001402.16135@walter.bellcore.com>, shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi) writes:
> 
> We now have Graveney who does not have a lot of respect amongst the
> Pakistanis. Surely the ICC can find other people? What is the
> controversy? After all Pakistan is nominating a NZer for a series to
> be played in NZ! Why not Gavaskar or Pataudi? Or Lloyd?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

Sorry. That should read "be played in the WI". 

	--SAN
From: shafqat@neuro.duke.edu (Saad Shafqat)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pakistan are missing Imran in ODI's
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:28:58 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Dec21.041039.43933@datamark.co.nz> david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland) writes:


>
>So what you are saying is that Pakistan is not the World's best
>cricket team (As some wish to think), but just Imran Khan.
>
>Mind you, the way he went on during the world cup, he might just as
>well claim the prize for himself anyway.
>


Only too true!  Imran's acceptance speech on receiving the world cup
trophy was too self-centered and shallow.  He had no words of praise
for his team.  There was a sentence about commiserating with the
England side, and the rest was about his personal triumph in the
twilight of his career that will have enabled him to build a
monument to his mother's glory in the form of a cancer hopsital.
But Imran is Imran.  In Pakistan, he can get away with anything.
And he did.



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From: rajesh@ivy (Rajesh Raman)
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Subject: Re: Kapil Dev : The Haryana Hurricane.
Date: 4 Jan 1993 05:14:01 GMT
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Vishv Malhotra (vmm@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au) wrote:
: It amazes me to see Kapil being associated with Haryana.
: Does he play for it?
: 
: Or, is it that Chandigarh has been given to Haryana?
: 
: 
: --
: ------------------------------------------
: Vishv Malhotra
: vmm@cs.utas.edu.au

  He won the Ranji Trophy for Haryana a year or so back. 9-wicket-in-an-
  innings haul if I remember correctly.

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Rajesh Raman

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From: "faraz rabbani" <faraz.rabbani@canrem.com>
Subject: re: sa wins 3rd test by 9
Reply-To: "faraz rabbani" <faraz.rabbani@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:53:12 EST

To: msains@ibis.ru.ac.za (Malcolm Sainsbury)

 MS> I'm afraid the Indian fans won't like this news, but cheer up, there
 MS> is at least some good news for you.

 MS> We had heard so much about the prowess of Kapil Dev, and we were
 MS> beginning to think that his reputation was inflated.  He has not had a
 MS> good tour of SA (by the standards of his record).  However we found out
 MS> today why he has been classed as such a world-class allrounder.  He
 [rest of article deleted]
 
I thank you very sincerely on behalf of all cricket lovers for your
wonderful reports of the Indian tour of South Africa.  They make me
feel as if I am hearing them from a friend...  Hope to hear more!
<grin> 

Faraz Rabbani, feeling cold in Toronto, Canada!


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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: AUS-WI, Test III @ SCG, D2 Lunch, AUS I 339-5
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:14:09 GMT

AUS-WI, Test 3, SCG ---   D2  -  Lunch
AUS I innings:             339 for 5 ( score @ D1 Close 272 for 5 )
M Taylor c Murray b Bishop  20    D Boon c Murray b Adams  76
M Waugh  run out            57    D Martyn b Ambrose        0
S Waugh c Simmons b A'rose 100
A Border     n.o            33
G Matthews   n.o            30
Sundries 23
Ambrose 27-8-50-2    Bishop 25-5-65-1    Walsh   25-8-69-0
Hooper  30-4-94-0    Adams  11-2-37-1    Simmons  5-1- 8-0
HL: Allan Border amassed 10000 runs in test cricket when he reached 21.
    For 15 minutes stayed on 9999 scored a single off Hooper to score
    the 10000th run. Good on him.

NZ-PAK, D2
PAK-I    216 all out (Miandad 92, D'Sua 5-72)
                     (at one stage, 12 for 3)
NZ-I     147 for 4 (Greatbatch 67 n.o, Harris 0 n.o, Rutherford 14,
                    Harland (sp?) 43+, Latham 2)
                    (at one stage 106 for no loss)
-- 
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From: sjasthi@cse.unl.edu (srinivas jasthi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India Vs SA 4th test 2nd days play (complete score card).
Date: 3 Jan 1993 23:16:07 GMT
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                  India were 13/0 in reply to South Africa's formidable
total of 360/9(decl)  at the end of 2nd day of 4th cricket test. India are
0-1 down in the series and desperately need to win the test to square the
series.Kumble with 3/101 and Srinath 2/51 are most successful bowlers. 


The complete score card at the end of 2nd days play is :

South Africa (first innings):

   A.C. Hudson c and b Srinath ................. 19
   K.C. Wessels b Prabhakar ..................... 0
   W.J. Cronje c Manjrekar b Kumble ............ 33
   P.N. Kirsten c More b Kapil ................. 13
   D.J. Cullinan c Prabhakar b Raju ............ 46
   J.N. Rhodes c More b Srinath ................ 86
   B.M. McMillan c sub (Yadav) b Kumble ........ 52
   D.J. Richardson c Tendulkar b Kumble ........ 21
   O. Henry run out ............................ 34
   C.R. Matthews not out ....................... 28
   A.A. Donald not out .......................... 1
   Extras: (b2, lb22, nb1, w2) ................. 27
   Total: (for nine wickets declared) ......... 360

   Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-28, 3-57, 4-78, 5-177, 6-245, 7-282, 8-319, 9-345

   Bowling: Kapil 29-8-42-1, Prabhakar 23-6-48-1, Raju 47-15-94-1,
            Srinath 25-6-51-2, Kumble 47-13-101-3


India (first innings)

   A.D. Jadeja not out .......................... 4
   M. Prabhakar not out ......................... 7
   Extras: (w2) ................................. 2
   Total: (for no loss) ........................ 13

   Bowling: Donald 4-2-9-0, McMillan 3-1-4-0
Date:  3 Jan 93 22:55:10 GMT
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Subject: England Vs Delhi (3-day match at Faridabad)


   England vs Delhi (1D - Faridabad, India, Jan 3)

   England opened their three-month tour of India by restricting Delhi
to 190 for three by the close of play on the opening day of a
three-day match on Sunday.  England Captain Graham Gooch won the toss
and sent Delhi in to bat under an overcast sky.  Opener Hitesh Sharma
made a laboured 87 in 365 minutes and was unbeaten at the close.
Delhi's batting was overawed by the England attack and the home side
crawled to a measly 95 for two at tea.

     This will be a very good match to watch the performances of
Maninder Singh (especially after recent comments from G.Boycott),
Atul Wassan and Vivek Razdan.


Delhi

   Manu Nayyar c Steward b Jarvis ................. 11
   Hitesh Sharma not out .......................... 87
   Bantoo Singh c Lewis b Hicks ................... 15
   Ajay Sharma c Hicks b Lewis .................... 30
   K.P. Bhaskar not out ........................... 22
   Extras (b2, lb8, nb 3, w2) ..................... 25
   Total (3 wkts) ................................ 190

   Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-95, 3-151

   Bowling
    Malcolm 17-7-34-0, Jarvis 16-6-16-1, Lewis 19-1-47-1, Tufnell 22-3-60-0,
    Reeve 6-2-11-0, Hicks 10-5-12-1.

   Teams:

 England: Graham Gooch, Mike Atherton, Alec Stewart, Mike Gatting,
          Graham Hick, Neil Fairbrother, Dermot Reeve, Chris Lewis,
          Paul Jarvis, Phil Tufnell, Devon Malcolm.

   Delhi: Kirti Azad, Manu Nayyar, Hitesh Sharma, Bantoo Singh, Ajay Sharma,
          K.P. Bhaskar, Mohan Chaturvedi, Atul Wassan, Vivek Razdan,
          Firoz Ghyas, Maninder Singh.

===





































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From: aamir@cs.sfu.ca (Aamir Husain)
Subject: Re: Pak vs NZ 3rd ODI, plus Aus vs WI 5th day
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:53:18 GMT

update

NZ 58/3 in (24), 63/3 in (25), 67/3 in (26), 70/3 in (27)
crowe - 22 not
rutherford - 7 not
extras - 7
anjum 8-1-1-21, 9-1-1-26, 10-1-1-29
mushtaq 6-?-0-14


at the MCG
WI are 148/3
lara -4 out c boon b whitley at 148

Aamir
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From: aamir@cs.sfu.ca (Aamir Husain)
Subject: Re: Pak vs NZ 3rd ODI, plus Aus vs WI 5th day
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:18:24 GMT

update
NZ 77/3 in (29), 83/3 in (30), 89/3 in (31), 90/3 in (32)
crowe - 25 no, 26, 28, 
rutherford - 11, 16, 20, 21,

musthaq 7-1-0-16
waqar 5-1-1-12, 6-1-1-13
sohail 1-0-0-6
malik 1 over
waqar bowling over number 30. he's back on

at the MCG
WI 169/4, 178/5
arthurton out at score 169/4
hooper-  out c whitney b warne 177/5
adams new bat in

Aamir
From: msains@ibis.ru.ac.za (Malcolm Sainsbury)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: SA vs India 4th Test Day 1
Date: 2 Jan 93 16:51:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: ibis.msains.54.725993475
Organization: IS Department, Rhodes University

Kepler Wessels won the toss and on a wicket that seemed to hold
mega-runs on it, decided to bat.  Azharadin admitted that he would also
have batted.

However the wicket had surprising bounce most of the day and a lot of
bite and turn too.  In the first hour there was prodigious swing from
Kapil and Prabharkar and (as in Port Elizabeth), Wessels was bowled
by Prab in the second over with no runs on the board.  Thereafter the
bowlers held the upper hand for the rest of the day.  Kirsten again
failed (13), Hudson got 19 and Cronje 33 and SA were 78 for 4.  The young
debutant Cullinan played a very controlled and secure innings but
let the blood rush to his head on 48 and was caught off Raju trying
to lift the spinner over mid-wicket.  A pity, but a very valuable innings.
Jonty Rhodes scratched around, was dropped twice (very sharp chances),
popped the spinners up and into all sorts of gaps, but showed great
character to play his own unique range of hybrid shots and was still there
at the end of the day with 62.  With him was all-rounder Brian McMillan
on 4, and the total on 189 for 5.

SA dropped one of the fast bowlers from the PE test (Schultz) in favour
of new-boy (batsman) Cullinan, so they bat right down to number 9 and
Matthews (at 10) is a fair bat too.  The Indians attacked the whole day
and the spinners dominated the overs and the proceedings of the day.

Indian fielding is definitely not up to the (admittedly high) standard
of the South Africans.

Tomorrow looks like it will be another fascinating one with the chances
of seeing what Alan Donald & Co will make of the wicket.  This track does
tend to get slower and slower by the day.  It remains to unfold tomorrow.

Stay well

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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: A v WI, 3rd test (Lunch & tea Day 1)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:06:49 GMT

At lunch, Aust 1/~80 (Taylor C Murray B Bishop 20).
At tea, 2/164 (Boon C Murray B Adams 76).  S.Waugh 56 M.Waugh 8

Taylor got a thickish edge giving Murray an easy first test catch.
Boon attempted a sweep, got a top edge from low on the bat, ball balooned
up to just behind short square leg - Murray up and around quickly to
take it easily.

Murray missed a stumping against Steve Waugh on 4 - ball just touched
top of Waugh's pad which was probably enough to just get it to hit
the gloves rather than go into them.  I'm not sure a leg bye was given
when they took the run, or whether it was a bye.

One notable LBW decision turned down, almost yorker length from Ambrose
to Steve Waugh, who looked to totally lose it, and simply turned away.
Ball took his pad outside the line (definitely not taking a shot), at
first glance I decided that the ball had to be missing off stump, on
replay it was closer than I first thought, but benefit of doubt went to
batsman.

15 minutes past tea now, Aust 2/192 (S.W 64, M.W 22)

kre
From: rmandel@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Mandelbaum)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: SA/India Test --- latest update (5:00pm SAT)
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:10:31 GMT
Organization: GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania





India  batted first. All out for 212.
SA first innings:  All out for 275.

India second innings: India in deep deep trouble on 40 for 6 !
Current batsmen:  Prabhakar and Dev.

More later.

Cheers,
-Robbie Mandelbaum.
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From: arbi@charles.polymer.uakron.edu (The Dude)
Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
Organization: The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:47:34 GMT

the question whether it matters apart, gavaskar, kapil, any other indian
or for that matter any citizen of a republic country (one headed by an
elected president) cannot be knighted.

peace an' luv,
arbi
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Subject: NZ v Pak D3 Tea
From: awil2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Andrew James        Willmott       )
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:22:18 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

At tea, Pakistan are 158/8, a lead of 110 runs.

Inzama Ul-Haq propped up the Pakistan innings with a sparkling 75 scored in
quick time. The middle session looked to be going all Pakistan's way with
Inzaman and Akram putting on the runs with ease. They wrested the initiative
back from New Zealand, who would not be wanting to chase more than 150-200,
especially with Mushtaq to face on a crumbling pitch. However in the two
overs before tea, Inzaman went LBW to Owens (his first wicket), and Wasim
Akram was bowled around his legs by Patel. Earlier in the session Rasheed Latif
had supported Inzaman with another 30 before falling to Sua.

Andrew
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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: AUS-WI, MCG, D3 Close, AUS-II 26-1
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:08:08 GMT

D3 Close
Australia I Innings : 395. Mark Waugh 112  Border 110,  Healy 24
Walsh 4-91, Ambrose 3-70, Bishop 3-83
HL: 204 run, 5th wkt partnership between M. Waugh and Border

West Indies I Innings:   233 allout (D3, just after tea)
Haynes b M. Hughes 7               Simmons c Boon b M. Hughes 6
Riche c Healy b M. Hughes 15       Lara lbw  Whitney         52
Hooper c & b S.Waugh       3       Arthurton c Healy b McDer 71
Williams c Healy b McDerm  0       Bihop b McDermott          9
Ambrose c McDer..  b Warne 7       J Adams c Boon b McDermot 47
Walsh n.o                  0       Sundries 16
FOW 1-11, 2-28, 3-33, 4-139, 5-144, 6-192, 7-192, 8-206, 9-233, 10-233
M Hughes 19-5-51-3 McDermott 25.1-8-66-4  Warne 24-7-65-1
Whitney 13-4-27-1 S.Waugh 4-1-14-1
HL:M.Hughes 150 wkts (Riche); 106 run ptnship Lara-Arthurton (4th wkt)

AUS II innings:        26 for 1 (D3, Close)
David Boon b Simmons      11
Mark Taylor  n.o           9
Warne                      1
Ambrose 6-3-7-0, Bishop 6-2-8-0, Walsh 6-3-5-0 Simmons 6-5-2-1

IND-SA, 3rd Test at Port Elizabeth  D3 Lunch
IND I innings   212 allout
SA  I innings   275 (Cronje 135)
IND II innings  71 for 6  (Yep. 71 for 6, Kapil and Manoj at the crease)

PAK-NZ (2 OD, at Napier, NZ). Rain affected. Max 42 overs
PAK 136 for 8 (Salim Malik 39, Miandad 17, Inzamam - 2)
NZ  137 for 4 in 37+overs. NZ won by 6 wkts.
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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: AUS-WI, MCG D2, WI 33 for 3;
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:22:10 GMT

WI 33 for 3

Riche Richardson c Healy b Hughes 15
Lara      1 n.o
Arthuton  0 n.o

Hughes 6-4-5-3  ( Sorry for the mistake in my last post (i wrote 129 wkts),
                  Hughes has taken 150 wickets ) 

I will try to update my plan every hour or so over this long break. if some
want to know the updated score, can get it by finger command

finger cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au

Paarthaa
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Subject: Re: india's loss inspite of shastri's absence
From: HCPD7@DEVAX1 (Martin LAI)
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:26:02 +1000
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> india's loss in the first one day came to me as a big surprise inspite
> of shastri's absence. i was also astonished that shastri was dropped

	There were probably no decent replacements.
	It's all good and well to bag the hell out of a player from your
country's team, but if the local competition isn't throwing up good enough
contenders to challenge him for the spot CONSISTENTLY, you can't blame the
selectors. (BTW, I'm *NOT* a Shastri fan)

> i feel india lacks the desire to win a match and fighting spirit is of utmost
> importance in winning a match. the indian batsmen don't apply themselves

	Get them a motivation expert.
	What about all the "meditation" they do? Doesn't it psyche them up? ;-)

> in the one day games. regarding the indian bowling it's not as bad as the
> batting and the bowlers need the support of the batsmen as much as that of

	You need 5 good bowlers. It's no good saying the bowling is good because
one or two of them are world-class. The others still have to be able to take
wickets occasionally and bowl to their field for all of their 10 overs.

> to have a big total. also none of these batsmen can be dropped as they
> have good individual records and have possibly scored a century in one
> of the last 8 test matches. thus our batsmen should score more often ie

	Coach Killers are those players who are good enough to start with,
	but not good enough to win with.
			- famous Australian Rugby League coach Jack Gibson

p.s. Being a new netter, I'd like to know if there are FAQ lists for cricket.

p.p.s. Why can't you people keep the score updates in rec.sport.cricket.scores
       and leave this folder to discussions of the REAL issues
       (like what happened with the "Wessels hitting Dev with Bat" incident?)
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: PK NZ D2 Tea
Date: 3 Jan 93 03:06:36 GMT
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NZ are 168/5 at tea.  The post lunch session went Pakistan's
way.  NZ were 100+/0 at lunch.  

I just drove into town, and caught the last three overs before
tea.  Waqar trapped the last batsman lbw with a -- and this is
just a wild guess :-) -- late swinging, physics defying, old
ball in dipping yorker.  His figures are 18 - 7 - 1 - 34.

Greatbatch is on 77 and Patel is yet to score.

Yes, the desk is open today.

j n a
From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
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Subject: Re: SNippets - Ind/S.A, forthcoming Ind/Zim. tour
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:38:25 GMT
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Krishnan Ramaswamy (K1R@ECLX.PSU.EDU) wrote:

> juz wondering, can netters from countried other than India
> recall instances in which the Board officials etc. hav relaesed such
> statements about the team. I can understand managers (or coaches) making
> such comments.

Remember that the BCCI is a battleground between two major factions:
the Scindia group and the Jagmohan Dalmiya - I.S. Bindra group. The
former are in control, but Dalmiya is the VP and is naturally on a
constant lookout for any stick to beat up Scindia with.  The SA tour
has been perfect fodder for him.
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From: Sanjay.Naik@launchpad.unc.edu (Sanjay Naik)
Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
Keywords: I want my present........
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:36:28 GMT

In article <10646@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> krishnam@corona.math.vt.edu (Ravi Krishnamurthy) writes:
>I believe Ronald Regan got some kind of knighthood? 
>

	I think it was Casper Weinberger, who was indicted recently. It's 
possible for someone from a Republic to get a knighthood, but it's not quite
the real thing. Furthermore, you can't be addressed as 'Sir'. Come to think
of it, Reagan might have got one as well. If you were friends with Maggie,
getting a knighthood was a formality.

>Ravi

Bye,

Sanjay Naik.

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