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Subject: Re: (costly) Predictions 92/93
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:16:58 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico

In article <1992Sep14.124836.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au> ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au writes:
>In article <716223012@flounder.cs.duke.edu>, azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar) writes:
>
>Ha Ha! How about a friendly wager that Pakistan won't win the WSC?

Ok.  I don't know about Salman, but I'll make you an offer with the emphasis
on firendly and not wager.

If Australia wins:
I will send you an article from American sports (baseball mit, "football" etc)
or an article of clothing celebrating your favorite American sport
(t-shirt, sweatshirt, cap etc)

If Pakistan wins:
Youu send me something similar having to do with cricket ( I know, this thing
is tilted in my favour from the very start :-)  )

If West Indies win:
All deals are off, unless we can con some West Indian into making this a
three-way insanity.

Have your people call my people and we'll work ouut the details :-)
...and after all, owls *are* perhaps what they seem.

>Daniel.

j n a.
From: corsair@chopin.udel.edu (CORSAIR the Pirate)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:53:02 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

Sorry, sir. I agree. Ian Smith is indeed a reliable keeper. Plus, he's
always a threat with the bat. Who can forget his incredible 179 v India
in 1990?


Stay cool.
May the Schwartz be with you.
Corsair the Pirate
From: cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: County Championship 1992 September 9 (Wednesday)
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:04:55 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.


County Championship 1992 September 9 (Wednesday)
Day 3 of 4

At Chelmsford
Derbyshire (6) 226 (TJG O'Gorman 64, CJ Adams 60, DR Pringle 5-63)
and 309 (JE Morris 55, CJ Adams 136)
Essex (4) 96 (GA Gooch 53, IR Bishop 6-18)
and 283-5 (JP Stephenson 97, N Shahid 51)

At Canterbury
Glamorgan (3) 158 (AP Igglesden 5-45)
and 389 (A Dale 50, IVA Richards 76, A Cottey 141, MV Fleming 4w))
Kent (4) 219 (NR Taylor 74)
and 119-2 (TR Ward 53)

At Manchester
Sussex (8) 563 (NJ Lenham 136, AP Wells 143, B Donelan 68, P Moores 74, Barnett 4w)
Lancashire (3) 174 (GD Lloyd 53*, IDK Salisbury 6-28)
and 207 (JP Crawley 9w, IDK Salisbury 5w)
SUSSEX won by an INNINGS and 182 RUNS


At Nottingham
Surrey (6) 207 (CC Lewis 4-65)
and 377-5 (DJ Bicknell 77, GP Thorpe 100, AJ Stewart 85, MA Lynch 70)
Nottinghamshire (8) 357 (CC Lewis 52, KP Evans 104, MP Bicknell 5w)

At Taunton
Somerset (8) 534 (AN Hayhurst 102, MN Lathwell 50, RJ Harden 126, CJ Tavare 124, 
                  ND Burns 54)
and 25-2
Durham (3) 219 (I Smith 110, NA Mallender 5w, AR Caddick 4w)
and 337 (W Larkins 117, Daley 88, IT Botham 74)
SOMERSET won by 8 WICKETS



Matches continue Wednesday, Thursday


Day 2 of 4

At Lords
Warwickshire (7) 337 (RG Twose 84, TL Penney 154, KJ Piper 72)
Middlesex (4) 161-7


Match continues Thursday, Friday



CDC
From: cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: County Championship 1992 September 7 (Monday)
Date: 8 Sep 92 08:57:09 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.


County Championship 1992 September 7 (Monday)
Day 1 of 4

At Chelmsford
Derbyshire (6) 226 (TJG O'Gorman 64, CJ Adams 60, DR Pringle 5-63)
and 4-0
Essex (4) 96 (GA Gooch 53, IR Bishop 6-18)

At Canterbury
Glamorgan (3) 158 (AP Igglesden 5-45)
Kent (4) 134-5 (NR Taylor 60*)

At Manchester
Sussex (4) 331-3 (NJ Lenham 136, AP Wells 135*)
v Lancashire (1)

At Nottingham
Surrey (3) 207 (CC Lewis 4-65)
Nottinghamshire (4) 102-3

At Taunton
Somerset (4) 398-5 (AN Hayhurst 102, MN Lathwell 50, RJ Harden 126, ND Burns 54)
v Durham (1)


Matches continue Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

CDC
From: 5912ramasubr@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India - SA series
Date: 15 Sep 1992 22:00:40 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5912ramasubr@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsf.csd.mu.edu


Hi there
Can anybody post the itinerary for the
forthcoming India - South Africa series.
Thanks
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Subject: Re: World's worst batsman
From: R.D.Lynn@massey.ac.nz (R.D. Lynn)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 02:26:14 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

In article: <karnik.716502514@unity> news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Neeran Karnik)
writes:

>In <1992Sep14.155805.1332@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> mrichardson@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:

>>Whole new can of worms here (or in the word's of an immortal Globe and 
>>Mail journalist, this "opens up a whole Pandora's kettle of worms") - 
>>as far as worst BATSMAN to (dis)grace an international crease with any 
>>regularity is concerned, someone's earlier suggestion for worst 
>>fielder - Ewen Chatfield - has got to be a top contender.

>	Is it a coincidence that the world's worst batsmen are also, to a large
>extent the world's worst fielders ? Chatfield, Chandrashekhar, Dilip Doshi,
>Malcolm, etc are a few examples....
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Neeran  Karnik  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Dept. of Computer Science,      | Email: karnik@cs.umn.edu
>University of Minnesota         | Tele : 612-339-5350 
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In his early years, there is no doubt that Chatfield was a terrible fielder,
but you could no say that about him in his later years. Some of the catches he
took off Richard Hadlee at fine leg (mistimed hooks usually) were very good.

As for his batting, he wouldn't be considered a player with great natural 
ability, but when it comes to guts and determination, he was number 1.
One only has to remember his 50+ match winning stand with Coney against
Pakistan in 1985, to justify the last statement. This against some hostile 
fast bowling from a young Wasim Akram. Remember that Chatfield had been
struck in the head by a short, fast rising delivery from Peter Lever in
1975.

My vote for worst batsman - Bruce Reid 
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From: aksimha@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Gerd Von Rundstedt)
Subject: Re: Yale Cricket Club seeks opponents! : -)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:43:59 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

In article <1992Sep10.183432.7131@cs.yale.edu> bhanot-rohit@CS.YALE.EDU (Rohit Bhanot) writes:
>
>Yale Cricket Club is interested in playing cricket matches against other
>teams within driving distance.Any teams interested may contact:
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   Wan't them chaps to bowl you half-volleys, huh, matey?


  Arun
From: sagrawal@us.oracle.com (Sanjay Agrawal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: England's Itinerary
Date: 13 Sep 92 03:48:35 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, California
Originator: sagrawal@dvlseq.us.oracle.com
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

Jan 3-5 v Ranji champions Delhi, Faridabad
Jan 8-10 v Board president's XI, Kanpur 
Jan 13 v Board president's XI, Indore
Jan 16 1st 1-day, Ahmedabad
Jan 18 2nd 1-day, Jaipur
Jan 21 3rd 1-day, venue not decided
Jan 25 v India under-25, Cuttack
Jan 29-Feb 2 1st test, Calcutta
Feb 5-7 v Rest of India, Hyderabad
Feb 11-15 2nd Test, Madras
Feb 19-23 3rd Test, Bombay
Feb 26 4th 1-day, Bangalore
Mar 1 5th 1-day, Jamshedpur
Mar 4 6th 1-day, venue not decided


Sanjay Agrawal
From: cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: County Championship 1992 September 14th
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:02:19 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.

In article <1992Sep14.220938.23955@st-andrews.ac.uk> cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele) writes:

>County Championship 1992 September 14 (Monday)
>Day 3 of 4

>At Gateshead
>Durham (6) 312 (W Larkins 53, PWG Parker 70, JD Glendenen 76, M Watkinson 5w)
>and 53-0
>Lancashire (8) 224-6 (MA Atherton 199, Martin 133, ID Austin 58, 
>                      P Bainbridge 5w)
Lancashire total should be 562. Sorry. - CDC
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Subject: re:worlds worst appealer
From: P.W.Frizzell@massey.ac.nz (P.W. Frizzell)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 04:05:32 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

On the opposite tack for the worlds worst appealer must be Ewen Chatfield.
On occasions all ten fielders would be screaming out for an LBW decision
while "chats" quietly walks down the pitch, picks up the ball and heads 
back to the start of his run up.  If he ever did appeal you knew it was
close.
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 4 Sep 1992 13:56:09 CDT
From: <U58582@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: CATCHES BY GAVASKAR IN TEST CRICKET ?

Gavaskar had around 110 catches (not sure of exact number).
And obviously holds the record for India.
Top 5 should be
Gavaskar
Vengsarkar
Kapildev
Solkar
Vishwanath

last 4 not necessarily in that order..
From: mapsj@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Simon Juden)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Date: 13 Sep 92 19:33:14 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

...if this thread is still looking for the world's worst fielder I know who it
is. Unequivocally, definitely, indisputably. Me.

Simon
From: dgrove@axion.bt.co.uk (David Grove)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Bat preparation
Date: 7 Sep 92 12:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: dgrove@axion.bt.co.uk (David Grove)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs



Dear All,

At the end of last season I bought a "Slazenger V100 Super" bat which I duely
knocked in and oiled in the months running up to this season.

After a relatively small amount of use and a particularly bad season with the
bat :-( a large crack has now developed from the base of the bat up one side.

The bat felt fine after I'd knocked it in, right up until the shot which
cracked it (a mistimed pull off a slower ball which hit the toe of the bat
and spooned up to silly mid-on :-(((()

Anyway, I have a few questions I'd like to clear up if possible:

	1. Is the crack due to something I've done/not done?
	2. What help can you offer in oiling and knocking in bats? (most
manufactures IMO just tend to say "This bat should be knocked in and oiled 
but be careful not to over-oil it" without giving any advice as to how much,
how often).
	3. Can I expect a full refund/replacement on the bat?

My knowledge of knocking-in is limited to use an old ball in a sock, do it as
much as you can until you get so mind-bogglingly bored that you can't
continue, your arm drops off or your housemates/neighbours complain about that
"constant hammering noise", and then just try it out in the nets and see how
it feels.

I've tried using non-oil bats such as a "Duncan Fearnley Attack" but never
really felt happy with that and it also ended up cracking.

Thanks in advance for any helpful advice,

Dave Grove.
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From: papadopoulos-dimitrios@CS.YALE.EDU (Dimitrios Papadopoulos)
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:33:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.150427.16392@news.uakron.edu> murali@iris.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah) writes:
>I saw the posting on world's worst fielder (?)...
>How about B.S. Chandrasekhar (sp ?).. 
>He made Dilip Doshi look good
>Cotah

Yup Chandra was not a great fielder but two of his catches of his own 
bowling in the second innings of the test India won in 1971 against
England were great by any set of standards.I think the batsmen were
Illingsworth and Snow.

--Pushkar



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From: mamohamm@pluto.acs.oakland.edu (SKEPTICAL)
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:06:18 GMT

In article <BuI29z.Kot@comp.vuw.ac.nz> John.Mcmullan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (John Michael McMullan) writes:
>
>It's a bit dissapointing to see that your list of the best wicket keepers does
>not include what a lot of commentators called the best in the world from the mid
>eighties to the recent world cup where he was getting just a bit old and tired
>to stick it with the 'Young Guns'.
>
>IAN SMITH -

Also Wasim Bari is probably the best keeper Pakistan ever produced.

I consider him at par with Alan Knott and Rodney Marsh in wicket
keeping abilities.

regards





-- 
____________________________________________________________________
IMITATING IS THE FINEST FORM OF FLATTERY
She Sells Sea Shells on a Sea Shore
Speculating about speculation is pure  SKEPTICAL
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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273)
Subject: Re: Aust. v. SL. - 3rd. Test  and Mark Waugh
Reply-To: shamim@bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 14:15:54 GMT

In article 1@economics.adelaide.edu.au,  ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au writes:

>Mark Waugh "scored" his fourth consecutive duck in Australia's second innings.

Hmmm....curious. Overseas batsmen seem to get into a bad patch after a good 
English county season. It happened to Azharuddin when he had a good season in 
England but failed in the earlier part of the Aussie tour. 
It happened to Salim Malik who had a great season with Essex and then failed 
rather consistently against SL and in the WC. Now Mark Waugh. I wonder if 
Tendulkar will suffer from this coincidence? One thing going for SRT, however, 
may be that he did not have as good a county season as Azhar, Malik or Waugh did. 
Adds a little spice to the upcoming SA/Ind series. 

---
	--SAN

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From: 10702946@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (PARTH DESAI)
Subject: world cup
Summary: India,Pakistan,Sri Lanka
Keywords: joint bid
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:57:35 GMT

Hi,

	Does anyone have any more information on the proposed joint worldcup 
bid by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

PARTH.
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From: rupertb@is.morgan.com (Rupert Brown)
Subject: Trouble at t' mill (Yet again)
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:49:25 GMT


Confirmed on Reuters today...

CRICKET - RICHARDSON SIGNS FOR YORKSHIRE                    SPOG
    LONDON, SEPT 8, REUTER - WEST INDIES CRICKET CAPTAIN RICHIE
RICHARDSON IS TO PLAY FOR YORKSHIRE NEXT SEASON AFTER SIGNING
WITH THE COUNTY ON TUESDAY.
    RICHARDSON, 30, WHO HAS SPENT THE CURRENT ENGLISH SUMMER
PLAYING LEAGUE CRICKET WITH BLACKPOOL, HAS BEEN GIVEN A ONE-YEAR
CONTRACT.
    HE REPLACES INDIAN TEST BATSMAN SACHIN TENDULKAR, WHO BECAME
YORKSHIRE"S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER THIS SEASON BUT IS NOT
AVAILABLE NEXT YEAR BECAUSE OF HIS COUNTRY"S TOUR OF SRI LANKA
IN AUGUST. RICHARDSON HAS SCORED 4,693 RUNS IN 63 TESTS AT AN
AVERAGE OF 47.40.


It appears according to both press and radio reports that YCCC's
cricket committee have been bounced into signing Richardson in
preference to a pace bowler since the sponsorship deal from
YTV stipulates that the signing must be 'well known' and no 'known'
bowlers are available next summer.
Ray Illingworth has called for the Cricket committee to resign and
Brian Close has also expressed dissatisfaction.
More worryingly YCCC's president Sir Lawrence Byford seems happy with
the deal - up to now he hasnt done a bad job in improving things
but this is another act of folly by the club.
Its going to be another long winter...
From: shamim@.bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273)
Subject: Re: Hadlee Over the Sub-Continent .....
Reply-To: shamim@.bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 16:05:41 GMT

In article 5SEP199219043017@ctrvx2.vanderbilt.edu,  diwadkva@ctrvx2.vanderbilt.edu (Vaibhav A. Diwadkar) writes:
>	- As for touring Pak, I can't believe there were all that many 
>	tours of NZ to Pak in the last 20 years and I suspect that if
>	indeed Hadlee pulled out of tours their number could not be more
>	than one or two.  NZ's last tour of course does not count since 
>	Hadlee had retired by then.

NZ came to Pakistan twice during Hadlee's career. I am not sure if Hadlee was in the touring 
party. He certainly does not have any great bowling statistics against Pakistan in Paksitan 
or NZ: the best NZ bowling statistic was 9 for 80+ in a match by Cameron. (This may have been 
bettered on NZ's last tour by Pringle (?) who took 7 wickets in one innings at Faisalabad.)

	--SAN
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Subject: Hadlee and the Sub-Continent cont'd ...
From: warren@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Warren Turner)
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:53:26 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
X-Mailer: mail-news 4.0



In defense of our 'cricketing god':

Hadlee toured Pakistan & India in the 1976 tour. This was near the
start of his test career, so obviously he was in no position to choose
when & when not to tour! I understand that he did have quite a torrid time
health-wise (no prizes for guessing... ), & this contributed to his
decision not to tour Pakistan in '84. He did say that conditions had improved
out of sight in India in 1987, & he had no 'health problems'. So '84
was the only TEST series that he missed vs Pakistan or India.

 As for his bowling successes against Pakistan, the '76 tour (note - a
very 'green' Hadlee in more ways than one :-)) set back his bowling 
statistics markedly - Bowling success in Pakistan does not come easy
for (young inexperienced) visitors (excuses, excuses!). He had a good
series with the ball in the '85 Pakistan NZ tour, but not in the two-test
run-feasts of '89 (& getting old! :-)). 

Although his bowling average vs Pakistan is his worst
(28.39 - still quite good), his batting average was one of his better ones
(37.26)

 - possible conclusion: too many matches vs Pakistan on good batting
tracks ??? :-)

Finally, Hadlee's sportsmanship is/was no better or worse than most other
international cricketers - we all have our own opinions on such matters -
but for the humour-impaired, I think that Hadlee's 'From the New Zealanders
point of view, I hope it rains' comment was said slightly 'tongue-in-cheek'.



Modern-day News:

Chris Cairns has pulled out of NZ's tour of Zimbabwe & Sri Lanka, because
he must undergo an operation on a kidney - apparantly its a minor problem
he was born with. He hopes to have recovered in time for the 1-test
Pakistan tour in December-January.

With Danny Morrison still in doubt after a hernia operation, the less-than
menacing NZ attack could be a tad stretched. Maybe we'll discover a 
'new Hadlee', or have to bring back the old one!
From: azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Predictions 92/93
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:50:13 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep11.142403.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au> ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.132024.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, satkinso@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>> -  Pakistan will win the WSC 2-1 against Australia.
>
>Australia will beat the Windies 2-0 in the WSC finals.

	   Australia? Windies? What kinda teams are these.... don't
recall seeing them in WC finals (played on similar pitches earlier
this year). :-) I recall Pakistan, NZ, Pakistan, England, South
Africa, and Pakistan. ;-)

>> -  Wasim Akram will be named the International Cricketer of the
>>    year.
>
>What, you think he can do an O'Donnell do you?? No way, one of the Windies or
>Aussie test stars will win the award. Ambrose, Richardson, Boon, Taylor,
>McDermott all in with a chance.

	   I think Taylor is a good man! A very good man! But he is no
Int'l Cricketer of the year for next season down under. Taylor is
hardly in form, Boon will be tested by second-best pace attack on
bounciest wickets, and McDermott is becoming obsolete. If Bishop is
fit,  then I will pick him, otherwise Ambrose is my pick. Richardson
maybe, but he has long way to recover, but if Lara stikes form, eh may
edge out Ambrose.

   [Probably not Wasim Akram because Pakistan is only playing WSC.]

>> Jason.
>Daniel.
dsqa


-- 
"To have loved and lost is better than to have won.... For, the burden
of victory has to be shouldered throughout life, and all losses rest
easy in the insatiable abyss called grave." 
--- D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar CS Dept Duke U  azhar@cs.duke.edu
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From: mehta@watson.bms.com (Pradhyuman Mehta)
Subject: Re: County Championship 1992 September 14th
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:55:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.220938.23955@st-andrews.ac.uk>, cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele) writes...
> 
>County Championship 1992 September 14 (Monday)
>Day 3 of 4
> 
>At Gateshead
>Durham (6) 312 (W Larkins 53, PWG Parker 70, JD Glendenen 76, M Watkinson 5w)
>and 53-0
>Lancashire (8) 224-6 (MA Atherton 199, Martin 133, ID Austin 58, 
>                      P Bainbridge 5w)

    I think there is a typo in the above. Did Mike Atherton really score 199?
If he did, then the other five batters only scored 25 runs between them, 
excluding extras. The figures dont seem to add up for Lancs.

    A big thanks to you Colin, I always look forward to your postings. Keep 
them coming.

Cheers,

Prej. Mehta (mehta@bms.com)
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:26:53 EDT
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World's worst fielder
Distribution: world
 <JONT.92Sep14155005@ml.harlqn.co.uk>
 <1992Sep14.155805.1332@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>

In article <1992Sep14.155805.1332@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>,
mrichardson@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu says:
>
>Whole new can of worms here (or in the word's of an immortal Globe and
>Mail journalist, this "opens up a whole Pandora's kettle of worms") -
>as far as worst BATSMAN to (dis)grace an international crease with any
>regularity is concerned, someone's earlier suggestion for worst
>fielder - Ewen Chatfield - has got to be a top contender.

as i have repeatedly posted before, noone comes even close to b. s. chandra
in the category of worst batsman ever. anyone who manages to "score" 167
runs in 58 test matches has to be phenomenally bad.
also, on the topic of 4 successive ducks, pat pocock had 2 pairs in the last
two tests of the 1984(?) WI-Eng "blackwash" series.

Stay cool,
The Thinker

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From: mdpysca@fs1.cg.man.ac.uk (Colin Ashcroft)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: RE: 2nd Keeper ( Was England Tourists)
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:49:05 GMT
Organization: Computational Group, Faculty of Medicine
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk


Richard Blakey is the 2nd Wicket Keeper

Colin Ashcroft
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: sagrawal@cco.caltech.edu (Sanjay Kumar Agrawal)
Subject: Aus vs SL (3rd Test)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:54:42 GMT

At the end of the second day's play, Sri Lanka were 143 for 4, in reply to
Australia's 337.

Sanjay Agrawal
Oracle Corp.