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From: kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: Re: SA-India, draw. Amre man of the match.
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:53:01 GMT

In article <m0mrUvi-0000HnC@ford.ee.up.ac.za> pieter@ford.ee.up.ac.za writes:
>As expected the game ended in a draw with SA around 180/3. Hudson
>scored 60 odd before being caught behind driving off Srinath. Cook was
>out earlier caught and bowled by Kumble with a very lazy shot after
>lunch. Wessels made 23 before trying to cut a Srinath ball that was to
>close to him. More made the catch. Nopt out was Kirsten on 11 and
>Rhodes on 21.  /dev/kapil was most impressive in his search for test
>wickets, bowling 19 overs for 19 runs.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Look at that !!! Terrific !

>
>Clive Loyd named Amre man of the match for his gutsy debut 100.  

Well deserved. Amre proved that given a chance he can do really well.
He was not given enough chance during the World cup and
India-Australia series.


BTW, Richie Richardson has criticised the cricket rule which forces
teams to bowl a minimum of 90 overs a day in a test match. He feels
that it is too much and that 85 will be reasonable. If a team is not
able to bowl 90 overs on a day, it will be fined heavily.

West Indies chasing 253 to win in 52 overs against Australia XI
scored 213 for 5. Haynes scored 79, Athurton scored 46 (10 boundaries)
and Richardson 39. Earlier, Steve Waugh scored an unbeaten century
(100 n.o) before Healy declared the second innings at 294 for 4.
This was Steve Waugh's 23rd first class hundred. He scored 95 in the
first innings. A great comeback to test cricket by Steve Waugh.
West Indies will be playing NSW team led by Mark Taylor tomorrow.

Cheers,

V R Kumar


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From: SHARIQ@charlie.usd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Pakistani team
Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:01:51 -0600
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Does anyone know what the Pakistani team bound for Australia and New Zealand
going to be.Rumour has it that Shoaib,, and Moin have been dropped




 and Rameez 
is new vice-captain place of Salim Malik. Sounds weird.

Shariq
From: sheth@a.cs.okstate.edu
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Date: 15 Nov 1992 11:14:08 -0600
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Hearty congats to Amare for his century in debut.  I am sure he will follow examples of Vish and Azar and come up with many more centuries.
In very trying situation he has proved to everybody that he is certainly 
test class material.  I hope everyone in the team gets inspiration from this 
magnificient performance and India will do well on remaining tour.
Atul
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From: taravade@shark.ecn.purdue.edu (Kunal N Taravade)
Subject: Re: First ball dismissal
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:55:12 GMT

pad@sdd.hp.com (Ramchandran Padmanabhan) writes:

>In article <1992Nov18.125735.5687@desire.wright.edu> sturumella@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>In article <92323.091531SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>, Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>>> several people have been dismissed first ball of a test match. gavaskar has
>>> had this honour(?) on 3 occasions- out to geoff arnold(?) at the oval(?) in
>>> 1974 (summer of 42), out to marshall at calcutta 83-84 and out to imran at
>>> ?? in 85-86.
>>> kapildev has had the honour of dismissing a batsman 1st ball of a test match
>>> on two occasions- mohsin khan at jullundur, 83-84 and jimmy cook a few days ago
>>> 
>>> Stay cool,
>>> The Thinker
>>> 

>>Gavaskar was also out first ball in 2nd test between India and Kallicharan's
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>west indies in 1978 at B'lore.
>>Gavaskar c. Shivnarain b. sylvester clark  0.
>>then Gaekwad and Vengsarkar steadied the innings 
>>srinivas
>>


>  West Indies batted first in the 1978 Bangalore test.
>  Therefore this was NOT the first ball of the test match.
>                             **********************


>  Also Gavaskar had his leg stump uprooted by Holding at Sabina Park 
>  in the SECOND innings of the first test in 1983.

>

Continuing this thread of Gavaskar's first ball
dismissal, wasn't he also dimissed on the first
ball of  his last first class match for ROW vs England
in 1987 in the second innings after making 188 in the 1st??

 -Kunal

 
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From: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Subject: Re: CHINAMAN AND NOW YORKER AND FIELDING POSITIONS
Reply-To: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:51:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.195926.4954@news.columbia.edu> pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis) writes:
>Promised fielding positions diagram (artistic licence claimed):
>
>
>
>		 	     EC	     C    CP     P
>							G
>  LOff							
>
>		MOff					   2S		3M
>									
>					SMOff		   1S
>				 ______________
>SH			      B	|______________|	WK
>
>					SMOn		   LS
>									FL
>		MOn
>
>  LOn
>
>				  MW		SL	BSl	


When I first posted this, I somehow lost the annotations explaining the
positions:

LOff= Long Off
MOff= Mid Off
SMOff= Silly Mid Off
EC= Extra Cover
C= Cover
CP= Cover Point
P= Point
G= Gully
#S= Slips (I only put in 2, but you can have any number you want <10)
3M= Third Man
SH= Straight Hit
LOn= Long on
MOn= Mid On
SMOn= Silly Mid On
MW= Midwicket
SL= Square Leg
BSl= Backward Square Leg
LS= Leg Slip
FL= Fine Leg
WK= Wicket Keeper
B= Bowler

Those are the basic ones, although not an exhaustive list.  You can 
usually derive the position by generalizing from the above.  Square 
means at right angles to the wicket, fine means at an acute angle to the 
wicket.  Deep/Long means close to the boundary, mid is midway to the
boundary (kind of), short means close to the wicket, and silly means
suicidally close to the wicket.

Cheers, Paul
Flames expected, and cheerfully returned.
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From: raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Subject: Re: The Pakistanis in Australia
Organization: DA&MRL, Engineering, UWO, London Ont. CA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:25:29 GMT

In article <9211220516.12052@munnari.oz.au>, khanzu@ac.wfunet.wfu.EDU (Zaki Khan) writes:
|>      Hi there kids!  This is the Pakistan Sports Desk reporting live from the 
|> Wake Forest University Campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
|> 
|>      The Pakistan Cricket team squad to tour Australia for the World Series Cup
|> has been announced:
|> 
|>           Javed Miandad (captain)
|>           Rameez Raja   (vice-captain)
|>           Salim Malik  
|>           Aamir Sohail
|>           Inzamam-ul-Haq
|>           Wasim Akram
|>           Asif Mujtaba
|>           Waqar Younis
|>           Naveed Anjum
|>           Aaqib Javed
|>           Mushtaq Ahmed
|>           Ata-ur-Rehman
|>           Rashid Latif
|>           Saeed Anwar
|>           Shahid Saeed
|> 
|>      On stand-by is Test star opener Shoaib Mohammed and wicketkeeper Moin Khan.
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Pity :-(


|> 
|>      The addition of Saeed Anwar and Shahid Saeed is a pleasant addition as bothare big stars on the domestic circuit. Shahid was named one of the top five 
|> cricketers in Pakistan for the 1991-92 season, whereas Saeed was the recepient 
|> of this honor a year earlier. Both are openers and promise to provide some    
|> exciting cricket Down Under.
|> 
|>                                                             Zaki Khan

-- 

S.R.Raza.
raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca

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From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: NZ tour to continue
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:25:31 GMT
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


     NZ tour of Sri Lanka will continue. It is shortened to include two
(instead of three) tests and three ODIs. Five of the players have asked to go
home and they have been released and will be replaced by players flown from NZ.
The players going home are: Patel, Greatbatch, Latham, Watson and Larso. Coach
Lees is also returning home.


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

Department of Electrical Engineering
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105  USA

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From: mr1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Muthukumarappan Ramurthy)
Subject: test
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:34:11 GMT


Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:18:29 -0500 
From: Shrisha Rao <sr3u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Azhar and 100's and victories

Azhar has never won a Test match for India with his batting. He has
often triggered a batting collapse by getting dismissed too soon.
However, he has won at least one 1-day intl. with his own batting, that
I can clearly remember. This was when he scored 108 off 68 balls against
NZ in 1988. This was a very valuable innings for India as most
established players like Amarnath, Vengsarkar, Kapil, Srikkanth, Sidhu
etc. were not in the team or were being "rested". India opened with
Chandrakant Pandit who scored 30. The only other player with a score of
consequence was Ajay Sharma, with whom Azhar had a partnership of
120-odd in about 15 overs. It's a pity he doesn't play anything like
that anymore.

Shrisha Rao
Carnegie-Mellon University
sr3u@andrew.cmu.edu

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
From: SHARIQ@charlie.usd.edu
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Subject: 199,299,499
Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:19:43 -0600
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Mudassar Nazar, and Azharuddin got out at 199. I do not know of any other 
batsman whoo did the same. As for 299, the Don got that before his partner,who
incidentally was the last man got run out,thus leaving the great Don stranded 
on 299 n.o. Martin Crowe was out for 299 caught at slip of Ranatunga of the 
penultimate ball of the day. As for the score oof 499 Hanif got that,
for Karachi against Bahwalpur before getting run out while going for his 500th
run. 

Shariq
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:19:40 EST
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: century on debut

In article <1992Nov17.202417.17784@news.uakron.edu>,
murali@stretch.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah) says:
>
>did azhar score century on debut -- ? could someone clarify for me please

he sure did. his scores:
110  at calcutta
48 and 105 at madras
122 and 54* at kanpur


Stay cool,
The Thinker

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From: rmbraun@eleceng.uct.ac.za (ROBIN BRAUN)
Subject: Re: First ball dismissal
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 08:09:57 GMT
Organization: Elec. Eng., University of Cape Town

In article <1992Nov17.144146.10526@schbbs.mot.com> TUK067@maccvm.corp.mot.com (David Wheeler) writes:

>Just to set the record straight:

>>zorl@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr RK Laubscher) writes:

>>...the highlights of this match are Kapil Devs first ball dismissal
>>of Jimmy Cook (first time a batsman has been dismissed first ball of
>>the match on debut)...

>This is not the first time that this has happened in a Test match, but
>the second.  On the first occasion, the unfortunate batsman was Chris
>Smith (Hampshire and England).

He is also a South African by coincidence.
From: shivanan@nyquist.usc.edu (Mr. Shivanan Bhajekar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: CHINAMAN AND NOW YORKER AND FIELDING POSITIONS
Date: 23 Nov 1992 17:08:53 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <karnik.722562988@deci> karnik@deci.cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
>>SH= Straight Hit
>
>	This one, I've never seen used. Is it possible to field in this
>position? Would the fielder not be right in front of the sightscreen and
>therefore distract the batsman ?

	This position is indeed not allowed. The batsman can complain
	to the umpire if he finds a fielder blocking the sightscreen.

	On the other hand a fielding position "Straight Backward hit"
	or deep Wicket keeper(??!!) is allowed. believe me it was used
	once in some test match (I dont remeber which one) when there
	were a few balls remaining( of the mandatory overs) and the
	batting side had to score a few runs (in 4s and 6s) to win.

	Shivanand Bhajekar



>>Flames expected, and cheerfully returned.
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Neeran   Karnik  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Dept. of Computer Science,      | Email: karnik@cs.umn.edu
>University of Minnesota         |        karn0001@student.tc.umn.edu
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 21:12:43 CST
From: <U58582@uicvm.uic.edu>
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Subject: Re: fastest hundred

so?
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From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Subject: Re: Statistics Corner: Re Amre's Feat
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 01:15:46 GMT
From: B536HIND@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (C. S. Sudarshana bhat)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Stats: Imran Khan vs. Karsan Ghavri (up to 1978)
Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:08:24 -0600
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Since Murali was wondering how Imran fared chronologically, I thought that
I might as well post what I have.  Though not a whole lot, it does show
why I would have picked Karsan Ghavri over Imran Khan in 1978 (this was just
prior to the Indian team's historic Pakistan tour; also KD's debut series).

           Karsan Ghavri    Imran Khan
Tests            11            15
Innings          19            26
Not Outs          3             2
Runs            333           503
Top Score        64            59
Average          20.81         20.95
Fifties           1             1
Catches           8             8
Balls          1550          4126
Maidens          45           109
Runs            833          2043
Wickets          30            62
Average          27.76         32.95
5 W/I             1             4
10 W/M            -             1
Best Blg         5-33          6-63

What do you folk think?
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From: murali@charles.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah)
Subject: out on 99
Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:01:03 GMT

Keywords: 

>	Of course 99 is fairly popular, I think G. Boycott was once
	99* as an opener when the innings finished.

	tom
>
was Gooch once run out on 99 in W.I. -- can anybody confirm this
cotah
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From: mr1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Muthukumarappan Ramurthy)
Subject: Amre's second century in SA
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:24:42 GMT

Praveen Amre has again proved his class by rescuing the Indian team with a 
knock of 101. If I am not wrong this is his second century in South Africa
(with the first one coming in the first test).Hats off to him. Maybe he ans
-wered his critics with the bat.Certainly he is the find of the tour.



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From: mohan@theta.mel.dms.CSIRO.AU (Mohan Krishnamoorthy)
Subject: Re: Yet another survey
Organization: CSIRO, Div. of Mathematics & Statistics, Melbourne, Vic., AUSTRALI
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:26:49 GMT

In article <009639A2.BBB3B400@vms.csd.mu.edu> 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:

> In article <1992Nov13.213715.621@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) writes:

>> Hmmmm... how can 70% of the people think Shasrti is a good VC, while a
>> high %age (greater than 50%??) think he does not deserve a place on
>> the team:-)

Well, it depends entirely on the wording of the question in the survey I
suppose.  It is common knowledge that the results of a survey are quite
heavily dependant on the questions asked in it.  Feed in garbage and
what you can expect is garbage!  Despite Murali's response (in which he
apologized for his "goof up" in transcribing the details), I can think
of a few possible explanations:

If the question had been a conditional one, the results may well have
concured with what we would expect.  In other words, if the question
had been:  "IF Shastri were selected, THEN should he be made vice
captain?", preceded by the question:  "Should Shastri be selected?",
then, the results may be correct and believable (that is, of course,
if the `tests' on the sample are verified).

If the questions had been:
"Should Shastri be the (vice) captain of the Indian team", and then
"Should Shastri be selected to play in the team", with no conditional
imposition on the former question, you could be faced with what can be
termed in cricketing parlance as the MikeBrearley phenomenon!  
In other words:  Should Mike Brearley captain?  Of course YES!
                 Should Mike Brearley play?     Of course NO!

On a more lighter vein, if the question had been "Should Shastri be the
vice-captain of the team?", with no conditions imposed on his selection,
I suppose 70% of the survey population could well have thought, "Oh well,
if he [Shastri] is selected, we'd better give him _something_ to do, for
he doesn't bat or bowl.  So, may as well make him vice captain!" :-) ;-)

/Mohan 

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From: ajl@syllogic.nl (Albert-Jan Luikinga)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: NZ first class results wanted
Summary: Can someone give me NZ first class results, specially figures of Roger
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:32:53 GMT
Organization: Syllogic B.V., Houten, the Netherlands

Is there someone who can give me some NZ first class results, specialy
figures of Roger Ford. I think he is playing for Auckland, but I'm not
sure.

Thanks.

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From: cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty)
Subject: NZ replacements for Sri Lanka
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:27:16 GMT

The replacement players for those blouses who want to come home to mummy are
winging their way towards Sri Lanka. They are :-

John Wright - good old John boy, always available when he's really needed. This
means New Zealand will revert to the opening partnership used for the test
matches against England last year, namely Wright and Hartland.

Grant Bradburn - the Northern Districts spinner/batsman is only too pleased to
be given the chance to resurect his international career.

Justin Vaughan - Auckland all-rounder and definite player for the future.

Michael Owens - promising Canterbury fast bowler who impressed on first class
debut last year. Bowls straight and FAST and being a tall chap is able to
extract useful bounce from most pitches.

Alan
From: azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pakistani team
Date: 22 Nov 92 01:12:07 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <921120140553.5652@charlie.usd.edu> SHARIQ@charlie.usd.edu writes:
> and Rameez 
>is new vice-captain place of Salim Malik. Sounds weird.
>
>Shariq

	   Me is not surprised about this part at all. RR captained the
side much better than SM when you compare the two recent one-days in
England.

DSQA

-- 
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 I must, with the heat of passion, melt or sublime myself
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From: KSRAO@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
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Subject: Ind v SAI XI Day3 stumps
Date: 22 Nov 1992 19:41:41 -0600
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Ind v SAI XI Day 3 Stumps

      At stumps, India were 226 for 4. They have dismissed SAI XI for 219
earlier in the day to have a 31 run first innings lead. In the second
innings, Shastry and Jadeja had a 130 run opening partnership which ended
with Shastry getting out for 63. Jadeja made 68. Amre scored 20 runs. At close
Manjrekar and Prabhakar were batting with Manjrekar on 47.

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From: TUK067@maccvm.corp.mot.com (David Wheeler)
Subject: First ball dismissal
Organization: Motorola
Date: 17 Nov 1992 08:12:54 CST

Just to set the record straight:

>zorl@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr RK Laubscher) writes:

>...the highlights of this match are Kapil Devs first ball dismissal
>of Jimmy Cook (first time a batsman has been dismissed first ball of
>the match on debut)...

This is not the first time that this has happened in a Test match, but
the second.  On the first occasion, the unfortunate batsman was Chris
Smith (Hampshire and England).

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