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From: sxb8321@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: King Kapil's no. of wickets
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:50:57 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Could somebody please post the no. of wickets kapil has right now in his
test carrier?

	Thanx in advance.
From: kre@munnari.OZ.AU (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: A v WI, 3rd test
Date: 2 Jan 1993 10:56:52 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
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Aust has won the toss (again), left Whitney as 12th man, playing
both Matthews and Warne, otherwise unchanged (McDermott fit).
WI have replaced Williams by Murray, otherwise unchanged.

kre
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From: mohan@theta.mel.dms.CSIRO.AU (Mohan Krishnamoorthy)
Subject: Re: Cricket is #1
Organization: CSIRO, Div. of Mathematics & Statistics, Melbourne, Vic., AUSTRALI
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:04:12 GMT

> In article <921204114324.4d46@charlie.usd.edu> SHARIQ@charlie.usd.edu writes:

>  "NOW THAT CANADA HAS THE WORLD SERIES, AMERICA SHOULD TAKE UP CRICKET"
>                                                           -  LIONHEART 

And call it baseball ;-) :-I ;-O

/Mohan
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From: sudhama@engin.umich.edu (Sudhama Gopalan)
Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12:10:58 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Keywords: I want my present........

In article <1992Dec23.104232.7557@rdg.dec.com> vaghela@laxatv.reo.dec.com (Umesh Vaghela) writes:
>
>Richard Headlee was given the knighthood for taking 400 wickets in test
>cricket.
>
>Could some one tell me whether Sunil Gavaskar was given knighthood for 
>becoming first man to score 10,000 runs in test cricket.
>
>I know currently he does not have knighthood because he is not called
>Sir Sunil Gavasker, but it could have been that he might not have
>accepted the knighthood for some reason like the membership of MCC.
>
>Another question. Will Kapil be knighted if and when he overtakes Sir
>Richard Headlee's total of 431 test wickets?
>
>If Kapil overtakes the magic number 431 then he'll have both records
>of taking highest wickets in test matches and ODI's. Isn't this a great
>achievement to be rewarded for.
>
>Any comments. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>

Unlike Australia or NZ, India does not have the Queen as it's Head of State
(ie India is a republic, no dominion status here) so no Indian can qualify
for a knighthood. In any case, I'm pretty sure knighthoods don't mean much
in Britain itself today.....

Sudhama

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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 03:54:08 GMT

update

NZ are  105/4 in (36), 110/4 in (37), 122/4 in 39 i guess

crowe - 34, 39, 45 no
rutherford - 28 out b musthaq 105/4
harris - 6 no

waqar 7-2-1-15, 8-2-1-20, 

RNZ has gone off the air, so this is probably my
last posting. anyway New Zealand are nearly home
well they are home anyway but they are close to winning

at the MCG 1 hr before tea WI are 189/5

Aamir

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From: reddyc@research.CS.ORST.EDU (Chandra Reddy)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Kapil Dev's 1-day wickets tally..
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:09:44 GMT
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The sixth 1-day against South Africa was Kapil's 196th 1-day match.
During this match he claimed his 231-st wicket. I am afraid I don't
know howmany wickets he has taken in the rest of the match or in the
7th match.

Though the info. is "half-baked", hope it helps...

Cheers, Chandra.
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Subject: New Zealand 38 for 3 after 16 overs
From: A.Qadir@massey.ac.nz (A. Qadir)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 02:54:08 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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      New Zealand 38 for 3 after 16 overs

Altaf
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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: AUS-WI, Test III @ SCG, D2 Tea, AUS-I, 441-7
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:03:45 GMT

AUS-WI, Test 3, SCG ---   D2  -  Tea
AUS I innings:              441 for 7 ( score @ D2 Lunch 339 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 c Murray b Hooper  74
G Matthews c Murray b Hooper 79
I Healy                       7
M Hughes                      0
Sundries                     29
Ambrose 35-8- 87-2   Bishop 30-6-71-1   Walsh   27-8-71-0
Hooper  36-5-107-2   Adams  15-2-56-1   Simmons 10-2-25-0
HL: Allan Border amassed 10000 runs in test cricket when he reached 21.
    For 15 minutes stayed on 9999 took a single off Hooper to score
    the 10000th run. Good on him. Gavaskar scored 10122 runs.
    Border-Matthews -- 155 run 6 wkt partnership -- a record for
    Australia against WI at SCG.
    Junior Murray, first WI wk to have 4 dismissals at SCG.

NZ-PAK, D2
PAK-I    216 all out (Miandad 92, D'Sua 5-72)
NZ-I     216 for 6
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From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Subject: Pak-NZ Test, Day 1 - Pak 216, NZ 23/-
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 17:12:30 GMT


Pakistan were all out for 216 some time after tea on the 1st day of their
Test against New Zealand at Hamilton. At close, NZ were 23 for no loss.

Ken Rutherford (captaining in place of an injured Martin Crowe) won the
toss and put Pakistan in. They lost Rameez for 4 and Sohail and Mujtaba
each for 0, and were 12/3 at one stage. Malik was out for 14. 
Miandad with 92 led the comeback, with support from Inzamam (23) and 
Akram (27). After Miandad was out, Rasheed batted well for 32. For NZ,
Su'a took 5 wickets, his 2nd such haul in Tests.

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From: "faraz rabbani" <faraz.rabbani@canrem.com>
Subject: re: knighthood for smg???
Reply-To: "faraz rabbani" <faraz.rabbani@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:38:43 EST

 tsreddy@skitime.Eng.Sun.COM (T.S.Reddy) writes:
 TSR> As somebody said, I doubt that it matters too much in Britain
 TSR> itself nowadays. Anyway, Gavaskar rejected what was probably an even
 TSR> greater honor a few years ago to become a member (I wonder in what
 TSR> capacity) of the hallowed institution the MCC. Ostensibly because he
 TSR> was treated very rudely by the doorkeeper or something. Does anyone
 TSR> have the details?

 Well, when India was touring England in the late 80s, what happened
is that Gavaskar wanted to get into Lords, but was not allowed in
since he did not have his pass.  But, for heavens sake!, it is hard
not to know WHO Gavaskar is and what he looks like...  especially at
the Mecca of cricket...  refusing one of its angels...  His rude
treatment and, I suppose, the uppity, W.H.I.T.E.  nature of MCC lead
to his refusal.

Faraz Rabbani

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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: AUS-WI, MCG, D4 Tea, AUS-II 145-7
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:48:19 GMT

D4  -  at TEA
Australia I Innings :    395
West Indies I Innings:   233 

AUS II innings:            145 for 7 (D4, at Tea, 88 overs)
David Boon b Simmons        11     Warne (NW) c A'ton b Ambrose   5
S.Waugh  c Simmons b Bishop  1     M.Waugh    c Adams b Walsh    16
M.Taylor b Bishop           42     A.Border   b Bishop            4
I.Healy  c & b Walsh         8
D.Martyn   n.o              40
M.Hughes   n.o               8
Sundries 10
1-22, 2-40, 3-41, 4-73, 5-90, 6-102, 7-121
? Ambrose 23-?-?-1  Bishop 20-5-45-3  Walsh 31-7-42-2  Simmons 13-6-12-1
  Hooper 1-1-0-0

Overall Lead 307

Paarthaa
ChemEngg
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From: david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland)
Subject: Re: Pakistan are missing Imran in ODI's
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:10:39 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Dec18.090748.25787@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk writes:
>All the chat about Pakistan's (relatively) poor form in ODI's since they won
>the world cup has got me thinking (well, it beats working :-)). Imran Khan was
>in the Pak side that won the WC but as we all know he has retired after a long
>and distinguished career. With Imran in the side Pak had a very good captain,
>batsman and most importantly FIFTH BOWLER to go with Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis,
>Aqib Javed and Mushtaq Ahmed. These 4 latter bowlers are a very potent bowling
>attack and they were probably the main reason why Pakistan beat England in this
>summers test series. In ODI's however you need an extra bowler and IMHO this is
>where pakistan have been falling down, their fifth bowler is never as good
>as Imran. When Pakistan find another top class (about Aqib Javed's ability)
>bowler they will start to play like the world 1-day champions that they are
>(because the beat England in the WC final :-( ).
>

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.

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From: aamir@cs.sfu.ca (Aamir Husain)
Subject: Re: boxing day test
Keywords:  many questions, no answers.
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:14:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.005058.8028@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, iam@CS.Stanford.EDU (Ian A. Mason) writes:
> i know its summer holidays, but surely someone
> in oz can post the scores. however brief, no?
> 

you got lucky Ian, so here are the scores
Aus are 335/5 in the 2nd day
mark waugh made 112, took 5.5 hrs, wkt fell at 319
204 runs partnership for 5th wkt bw him and border
border is still there on 97 not out and healy on 8 not out
border looking for his 22nd test century i think

for the kapil vs border count, border seems to have quickened
the pace a bit.

Aamir


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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
Keywords: I want my present........
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:41:06 GMT

Indians can not accept knighthood.  Dates back to a minor grudge we have called the "Battle for Independence":-)  Actually, Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize for Literature) began this tradition by turning down a knighthood.  It was a brave act at that time, (1920s or thereabouts) and gave quite a fillip to the burgeoning movement for self determination...

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From: jeganath@leland.Stanford.EDU (Muthuveerappan Jeganathan)
Subject: Ind vs SA - end of day 1
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 16:53:09 GMT


India were 197 for 8 at the end of the first day of the third test.
HS : Azha (~60). At crease: More & Kumble. A. Donald 4 for ~50.
Source BBC.

-- Muthu
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pak in Controversy again?
Date: 23 Dec 92 07:22:04 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <1992Dec23.124153.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty) writes:
>According to the Christchurch "Press" this morning the comments made by
>Graveney pertain to the Shakoor Rana - Mike Gatting row of five years ago when
>he is reported to have said: "They (Pakistan) have been cheating us for 37
>years, and it's getting worse."

This guy should write a regular column on rsc :)

j n a
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Subject: New Zealand 71/3 after 22 overs
From: A.Qadir@massey.ac.nz (A. Qadir)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 04:02:05 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Pakistan has just got very vital wkt of A.Jones
New Zealnad 71/3 after 22 over.
Altaf
From: shivanan@nyquist.usc.edu (Mr. Shivanan Bhajekar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World Champions???
Date: 22 Dec 1992 13:09:35 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1992Dec22.192438.8872@julian.uwo.ca> raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed) writes:

	Stuff deleted ....

>lose in a big way learn it from pakistan;-) No batting lineup in the world has that
>much control over themselves so as to lose 5 wkts for 14 runs, this shows that others
>dont have any control over their batting 50-60 runs will automatically comes out of
>their bats, look at pakistan they have achieved this feat twice in one year;-) plus

	India did that against Zimbabwe in 83 and won the WC. India has
	been consistantly losing half the side for less than 70 runs
	lately. If Pakistan can do it, India can do it too.

	Shivanand Bhajekar

>pakistan also holds the distiction of most ducks in an inning (six) and if i am
From: rn2c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rajesh R. Naik)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:03:42 GMT
	<1992Dec28.114247.13033@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Doctoral student, Biology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Indians are not allowed to accept knighthood, since we are a republic.
(esp from the Brits)
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From: kre@munnari.OZ.AU (Robert Elz)
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Subject: Aust v WI - end of Aust 1st innings
Date: 3 Jan 1993 17:29:59 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
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Aust resumed at 5/272 (S.Waugh 100) with both Border and Matthews
yet to score.

Those two batted through the morning session, and a good part of the tea
session, creating a record 6th wicket partnership against the WI at the SCG.
(Big deal...).   In the process Border passed 1000, and is now just 69
(or so) runs behind Gavaskar's record (if my arithmetic is right).

Border		C Murray B Hooper	 74	6/425
Matthews	C Murray B Hooper	 79	7/440
Healy			not out		 36
Hughes		C Haynes B Bishop	 17	8/469
Warne		C Simmons B Hooper	 14	9/503
McDermott	(did not bat)
	Extras				 30
Overs 171.4			9 (dec)		503

Ambrose		35   8 2  87
Bishop		36   6 2  87
Walsh		30   8 0  86
Hooper		40.4 6 3 137
Adams		15   2 1  56
Simmons		15 ???

Border got an under edge to an attempted cut that didn't quite bounce
as much as he expected, and Murryay held a good catch, stayed down well.
Matthews got one that turned away from him, took the edge, and not a difficult
catch for Murray - who is the only WI keeper to take 4 wickets at the SCG.
Hughes and Warne both went swinging, Hughes got a top edne to an attempted
big hit, and was easily caught by Haynes at mid off.  Warne swung over
mid wicket and was caught (again easily) by Simmons out near the boundary.
Healy had been dropped by Walsh running in from long on a little earlier
(off Hooper's bowling).

The innings was declared at 17:17, WI will have just over half an hour,
probably 8 overs, to bat tonight, McDermott is just about to bowl the
first ball, which he did, took edge of Haynes' bat, through slips (wide
of slips, between slip & gully) for four.

kre
From: nitin@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Nitin Bhave)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Snippets - Indian cricket scene
Organization: HP Scientific Instruments Division - Palo Alto, CA
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Let me throw in a new name - Atul Bedade. He plays for Baroda. A month ago,
he hit a century against Bombay at the Wankhede stadium which included
11 6's, one of which fell on the roof of the stadium. ( 110 yards ).

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From: rgajendr@cisco.com (I. Rajeev Gajendran)
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Subject: Re: 6 changes in NZ team vs. Pak
Date: 22 Dec 92 02:10:14 GMT
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In article <1992Dec21.204257.3062@grace.cri.nz>, howard@grace.cri.nz (Howard Silby) writes:|>

<stuff left out> 

|> I would like to take this opportunity to belatedly congratulate 
|> the Sri Lankan team on their resounding success recently and I hope
|> they can host (or tour) other countries to demonstrate their
|> under-recognised talents such as Roshan Mahanama. I believe under
|> most conditions (not just home conditions) Sri Lanka could 
|> perform credibly (ie. win at least 3 or 4 games out of every 10) 
|> against any country in the world except perhaps England.
|> 
|> 

The New Zealand contingent on the net has sounded uniformly surprised 
at what happened to the Kiwis in Sri Lanka - they shouldn't be. As has 
been pointed out before, Sri Lanka has had talented players for many 
decades before they attained Test status. I could tell you names but 
they wouldn't mean anything to you because you never saw them play. Not 
many r.s.c. people ever saw Warnapura and Tennekoon put on 169 runs 
against Tony Greig's MCC, or saw Roy Dias schooling Bob Willis in 
the first official tour by England. He hit him for five or six fours 
in one over - mostly his gorgeous, trademark, cover drives. 

The problem has never been talent, it has been lack of experience 
and (sometimes) discipline and dedication - as was amply demonstrated 
when the team was chasing a sub-200 total to beat the Australians in the 
recent Test, and wound up losing (I almost puked!). The lack of 
experience is because the ICC refused to grant the nation Test status 
until 1982. By a sad coincidence, that's right around when the 
communal troubles in the country became a full scale civil war, which, 
among other things, definitely put a damper on cricket tours to the island.

At home Sri Lanka is very hard to beat. This is not because of cheating,
umpiring, nasty crowds, or bomb threats. It is because at home the 
players are in a familiar environment, concentrate on the task at hand,
and therefore play more to their potential. I do not know how the teams 
behave while abroad, but my guess is that the "island boys" are 
easily distracted by the exotic thrills of foreign lands. At home, I 
am prepared to bet that, right now, they could take 7 out of 10 ODIs
from ANY team except, maybe, the West Indies and Pakistan. For some reason, up 
until the most recent series, they have always struggled against New Zealand.
I have not watched them play in many years, but they have apparently 
developed into a formidable one-day side. If more frequent tours  
allow the core players to build up some good experience, they are going
to surprise a lot of teams (and their supporters) in the next World Cup. 
You heard it here first. 
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From: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Subject: Re: 6 changes in NZ team vs. Pak
Reply-To: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:30:27 GMT

In article <1h5te6INNjfg@cronkite.cisco.com> rgajendr@cisco.com (I. Rajeev Gajendran) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.204257.3062@grace.cri.nz>, howard@grace.cri.nz (Howard Silby) writes:|>
>
><stuff left out> 
>
[more stuff left out]
>
>The New Zealand contingent on the net has sounded uniformly surprised 
>at what happened to the Kiwis in Sri Lanka

Not I, for one.  After watching the last SL tour to NZ it was clear
that they had a great deal of talent, and that a bit more experience
at the international level, and they would be quite a strong side.
Considering the current strength of New Zealand cricket, which is
weaker than it has been for 10-15 years, IMO, I was not at all surprised
to see the Sri Lankans win so comfortably.

New Zealand is now in desperate need of penetrating bowlers.  I haven't
seen Owens, but he sounds promising.  If Cairns can keep fit, and live up
to his advance publicity, he should work out well; and Morrison is
a good aggressive bowler, if a bit wild.  I think a few more matches 
and NZ will be back approachin their strength of several seasons back, 
providing they can find some consistency.  This may, of course, be
wishful thinking.  :-)
 
Cheers, Paul
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From: pieter@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Pieter Vermeulen)
Subject: Re: India/South Africa 3rd Test Result
Date: 30 Dec 92 05:20:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa

axeman@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (Samir Chopra) writes:
>Given that Raju and Kumble were effective in the first innings,
>how does one explain that a full day later, on a pitch that
>should have worn a little bit, the same pair seemed to have had
>no effect whatsoever? Were they really off the mark or did the
>RSA batsmen just play them really well? Or?

The wicket did not wear significantly (no cracks etc); it just slowed
down a lot. It was amazing to see the difference in the SA bowling on
the 3rd day and the 4th day, which makes Donald's bowling that more
remarkable.  There was a lot less bounce and the ball came through
much slower. Donald was the only bowler that looked unplayable at
times. Batting certainly was a lot easier on the 4th day. That does
not take anything away from Kapil, Prabhakar and Kepler's innings,
but might explain the dismal performance of the Indian top order
compared to the tail.

The ball did turn more yesterday, but since the movement was that
slow, they could be played off the back foot.  This by the way is
exactly what Wessels predicted at the start of the game when he was
asked why he decided to bat first. 

Pieter