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From: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Subject: Re: Worst Aussie side since 1970
Reply-To: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 19:14:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.152631.9579@st-andrews.ac.uk> rasf@st-andrews.ac.uk (Russell Anthony Stewart Fiedler) writes:
>
>Well, the selectors have thought long and hard over the last few days. Urgent
>messages have crossed the Atlantic as nohoper after nohoper was recalled,
>selected and then dropped when somebody even more inept was thought of. I can
>guarantee that this bunch of losers could not possibly win a game. Abosolutely,
>positively, no way, ever...but just in case I've decided to call it 
>
>THE SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER XI

[Many unforgettable (?) players deleted]

>Glenn Trimble. (Son of Sam)
>     I'm not sure if it was a Test I remember him playing in or if it was an 
>     ODI. It was embarrassing anyhow. His batting was forgettable but it was 
>     his bowling which sticks in the memory. A selection of long hops and wild
>     full tosses the like of which is rarely seen in park cricket much less in
>     a first class arena.
>     Right hand bat. Right arm medium.

I think his debut was a ODI vs NZ, before which the Channel 9 commentary
team (bless their souls) were touting him as a promising allrounder, with
fabulous pedigree.  After he delivered the aforementioned series of
abyssmal deliveries, and a forgettable innings, Richie Benaud (I think) was
moved to call him "the alleged allrounder"...

>
>Thanks to Peter for help with the list.
>
>Cheers,
>Russ Fiedler
>

Cheers, Paul
From: tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu (Mahesh V Tripunitara)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pakistan Vs Rest Of The World X1
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:40:34 GMT
Organization: Penn State Computer Science

In article <BvB6AB.ACz@acsu.buffalo.edu> v079rbu4@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sanjay Kohli) writes:

>enjoyed watching Lara and Tendulkar beat the hell out of Pakistani Bowlers. 
>Most of the Bowlers bowled with Short RunUp except WAQUAR YOUNIS(so called 
>Worlds Fastest Bowler); Tendulkar hit 3 Sixes on WAQUAR YOUNIS bowling; 
>2 of the were Consecutive Balls and 1 was right after the drinks break 
>which was a hook on WAQUAR'S Bouncer.  When Tendulkar was hitting Pakistani 
>bowlers all over the ground it became India Vs Pakistan (instead of rest of 
>the world) and crowd went wild. 

>P.S. I loved Tendulkars pull(another six) on Wasim Akram's ball. 

Isn't that the stadium where baseball is played ? In that case, it would be
much too small for cricket & the boundaries would be very short.

Mahesh.
From: fkhurshi@crc.ac.uk (Ms F. Khurshid)
Subject: Imran Khan -retiring again?
Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:03:57 GMT



I saw a headline recently about Imran Khan retiring from test cricket.....how
many times have i seen that one?    or does he keep retiring and
coming back to play for the publicity or do th Pakistani team really need him.


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London U.K
From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India's visit to SA
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:04:56 GMT
Reply-To: shamim@bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ

OK, OK, enough of this cribbing about who got selected and who didn't. 
Let's get on with the programme. This is the time when nettors 
make predictions. So where is Zakir Abdi when you need him?

	--SAN
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From: barnard@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Etienne Barnard)
Subject: Re: South Africa's preprations for international cricket
Date:  5 Oct 92 08:28:48 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa

vijays@ecs.comm.mot.com (Vijay Surti) writes:


>Now that India is about to go to SA, I am interested in knowing how
>SA is prepraring for this series. Their recent comeback to international

etc.

Mike Procter still coaches the national side, but Barry Richards
lives in Australia these days. Other well-known figures in important
positions are Peter Pollock (convener of the national selectors),
Eddie Barlow (coach of the once-powerful provincial side, Transvaal)
and Clive Rice (who plays for Natal, another province, captained by
Jonty Rhodes, who is about half his age).

The three major competitions are the Currie Cup (4 days), UCB
competition (55 overs) and Benson and Hedges Cup (45 overs, day/night).

The national side is probably weaker now than it has been at any
stage in the past three decades. The 1970 team (which beat
a strong Australian side 4-0) contained players like Richards,
Procter, the Pollock brothers, Barlow, etc. [all of whom proved to be
of good international quality]. Later players like Rice,
Van der Bijl, Kirsten and Le Roux performed well in county cricket and 
the Packer series, indicating that the level of SA cricket was still
good. [Around 1980 the national side would have been realistic
opponents to all except - possibly - the West Indies, especially if
one remembers that Lamb and Wessels would also have been eligible].
Since then the standard has declined substantially, and besides
"senior citizens" like Kirsten, Jimmy Cook and Kepler Wessels, the
only player who seems to amount to much by such standards 
is the pace bowler Alan Donald. (The opening bat Hudson has also been
somewhat successful in his limited international exposure.)

Pitches in SA are rather fast, but more conducive to swing
and seam than those in Australia. The batsmen are notoriously suspect
against spin bowling, and given the Indian expertise in this regard, I
do not think that the groundsmen will be encouraged to prepare pitches
which take much turn ...

As for a possible national side: one hopes that some young players
will play themselves into contention before the series starts, but
otherwise expect something like the following

A. Hudson (see above)
J. Cook  (ageing, but with a good record)
K. Wessels (		"		)
P. Kirsten (		"		)
J. Rhodes (exceptional fielder; limited but resourceful batsman)
B. McMillan (stable middle-order batsman; medium-fast bowler)
D. Richardson (wicket keeper -- neither his batting nor his keeping
   seems to be of international standard, but one needs a keeper ...)
R. Snell (enigmatic medium-fast bowler; a complete failure in the
   recent county season, but talented beyond doubt)
M. Pringle (improving medium-fast bowler, who may prove himself to be
   of international quality)
A. Donald (see above)
C. Eksteen (left-arm spinner, slaughtered by Siddhu during the SA tour
   of India (1991), but one needs a spinner ...)
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From: banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji)
Subject: Cricket roundup
Originator: banarji@unixg.ubc.ca
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:35:57 GMT


		Cricket Roundup (various countries)

From Hindustan Times till Sep 17

1) Domestic Cricket in India-Duleep Trophy
2) Sri Lanka-Australia test series
3) India tour of South Africa
4) Miscellaneous

			Duleep Trophy

Quarter Final. South beat East by 172 runs at Visakhapatnam
South 226 (Raman 91, S. Mukherji 6-77) and 341 (Raman 85, Robin 65, Kumble 67,
Avinash 5-105, Biswal 5-76)
East 254 (Sunil Kumar 90, Karim 79, Raju 6-71) and 141 (Raju 6-46)

Semi Final. Central beat West by 179 runs at Madras.
Central 347 (Amre 83, Ankola 5-67) and 256
West 261/8 dec (Shastri 62, R. Chouhan 6-62) and 163 (P. Gandhe 6-65)

Semi Final. North beat South by 200 runs at Bangalore.
North 317 (Prabhakar 55, A. Sharma 61, V. Yadav 56) and 356/8 dec (Bhaskar 
101*, V. Yadav 66, Maninder 66*)
South 367 (Azharuddin 153, C. Sharma 5-87) and 106 (Maninder 6-23)

Final. North beat Central on first innings at Hyderabad.
North 268 (A. Sharma 50, S. Sharma 5-66) and 131/5
Central 97
	
			SRI LANKA-AUSTRALIA TEST SERIES

Australia won series 1-0 with 2 draws.

1st at Colombo (SSC). Australia won by 16 runs.
Aus 256 (M. Taylor 42, Healy 66*, Hathurasinghe 4-66) and 471 (M. Taylor 43,
Boon 68, Jones 57, M. Waugh 56, Matthews 64, McDermott 40, Anurasiri 4-127)
SL 547/8 dec (Mahanama 78, Gurusinha 137, Ranatunga 127, Kaluwithrana 132*)
and 164 (Matthews 4-76)

2nd at Colombo (Khettarama). Drawn.
Aus 247 (Jones 77, Matthews 55) and 296/6 dec (Moody 54, Jones 100*, Matthews
51) 
SL 258/9 dec (Hathurasinghe 67, Aravinda 85, McDermott 4-53) and 136/2 
(Mahanama 69, Hathurasinghe 49)

3rd at Moratuwa. Drawn.
Aus 337 (Border 106, Matthews 57, Healy 71, Ramanayake 5-82) and 271/8 (Border
78, Matthews 96, Healy 49, Liyanage 4-56)
SL 274/9 dec (Mahanama 50, Aravinda 58, Tilakratne 82, Ranatunga 48, McDermott
4-89, Dodemaide 4-65)

INDIAN TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA

Schedule of test matches:
1) Nov 13-17, Durban
2) Nov 26-30, Johannesburg
3) Dec 26-30, Port Elizabeth
4) Jan 2-6, Cape Town

	There are also 7 one-day internationals between Dec 7 and Dec 19, 
besides other matches. India will also tour Zimbabwe and play one test.
	New Zealand will now tour Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
England's tour of India in 1992-93 includes 3 tests, 7 one-day internationals
and other matches. Schedule of test matches:
1) Jan 29-Feb 2, Calcutta
2) Feb 11-15, Madras
3) Feb 19-23, Bombay

	After this, England will go on to Sri Lanka. One test is scheduled at
Colombo on Mar 13-18. Although Gooch is captaining England for the tour to
India, he will skip the Sri Lanka leg which will see Stewart as captain.
From: 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu (Murali Iyer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: NEWSFLASH - Irani Trophy
Date: 30 Sep 1992 13:56:26 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
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In article <1992Sep29.211553.4429@news.acns.nwu.edu>, sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf) writes:
>	Just got a newsflash from a friend in India, about the Irani trophy
>game in progress at the moment ( I thought it would be about to start now,
>seems it's already been going for a couple of days ).
>	Rest of India batted first, and seem to have racked up 638 all out.
>Delhi in response are 86 for 1.
>	Almost no details at all, except that for ROI Raman got 184,
>Kambli 94 , Praveen Amre 84, and Yadav ( I presume Vijay ) 86. 

Sadiq, I heard from perhaps the same friend, the following this morning:

3RD DAY'S PLAY:    DELHI ALL OUT 230 FOLLOWING ON AND 127 FOR 2 IN THE 2ND
INNINGS.

KUMBLE 7 FOR (NOT TO SURE APPROX 50.) TWICE ON HAT.

I put the above in caps so that no one will miss it.

Kumble will now have enhanced his claims, and rightly so, IMHO.

More news as it comes in.

-Murali
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From: wicks@meena.cc.uregina.ca
Subject: cricket in jamaica
Date: 2 OCT 92 14:04:01 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

I hope to be in Jamaica from December 13 to 20th. Are there any matches
during that time.
From: kka8934@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: INDIAN TEAM to SA/ZIMBABWE
Date: 2 Oct 92 03:40:16 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


The Indian team to tour SA/ZIM was declared late last night(10/01,IST).
According to BBC, the following is the composition of the 16 member team
led by Md. Azharuddin:


Ravi Shastri (V.C.)
WV Raman
Ajay Jadeja
Md. Azharuddin (Capt.)
Sanjay Manjrekar
Sachin Tendulkar
Praveen Amre
Kiran More(W/K)
Vijay Yadav
Kapil Deo
J Srinath
Manoj Prabhakar
Chetan Sharma
Subroto Banerjee
Anil Kumble
Venkatpathy Raju


Those who do not find a place from the team that last toured Aus are
Srikanth, Sidhu, Kambli and S.Ganguly.
Vijay Yadav, I believe, is the other W/K; am not very sure.

GOOD LUCK to the Indian team....
From: aksimha@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Gerd Von Rundstedt)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Best england XI since 1970
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:25:16 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

In article <1992Oct1.014240.20061@eng.ufl.edu> yelton@uful07.phys.ufl.edu (John M. Yelton) writes:
>>
>And now for a trivia question. What England batsman of the era 1970-1990
>has the best batting average (minimum 10 completed innings to keep 
>out Andy LLoyd who was never out, just concussed).
>Few people get this one right without looking it up.
>>


   Wild guess.... Bob Woolmer? Steele got out a couple or more times!



Arun Simha
From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: NEWS FLASH - Azhar captain
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:19:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20814
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu


         Azharuddin has been retained as the captain of the Indian touring team
to SA and Zimbabwe. The announcement came in a press conference today addressed
by Vishwanath the chairman of the selection board. The captain of the team to
play England will be selected later. Azhar is given the notice, effectively.

       I cannot understand the selection of selection committee at all.
Vishwanath had to dash from Guyana for the selection committee meeting; it
should mean that he did not watch the Duleep Trophy, Deodhar Trophy and
possibly a part of Irani trophy; and he is the chairman !!!!


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

Department of Electrical Engineering
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From: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Worst Aussie side since 1970
Date: 30 Sep 92 05:22:28 GMT
Reply-To: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au

In <1992Sep26.152631.9579@st-andrews.ac.uk> rasf@st-andrews.ac.uk (Russell Anthony Stewart Fiedler) writes:


>Graham Yallop (c)

Jeez, some people get bad press don't they.

In my book of Australian cricket statistics Yallop appears in the
following lists:

Highest test aggregates: 39 tests 2756 runs at 41.13 (around 25th)
			 8 100s 9 50s
Highest series aggregates: 554 v Pak 83/84
Highest test innings: 268 v Pak Melb 83/84 (7th)
Highest Oz score in Calcutta: 167 79/80
Highest 7th wicket part in Aust: 185 with G Mathews v Pak 83/84 in Melb
Highest 2nd wicket part v Pak: 259 with W Phillips, Perth 83/84
Highest 3rd wicket part v Pak: 203 with K Hughes, Melb 83/84
Highest 4th wicket part v Pak: 217 with G Chappell, Faisalabad 79/80
Most century partnerships: 16 (16th) 3 200s

--
When soldiers form lines or hollow squares, you call it reason.
When wild geese in flight take the form of a letter V, you say instinct.
When the homogeneous atoms of a mineral arrange themselves into shapes
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From: rajiv@dvorak.amd.com (Rajiv Malhotra)
Subject: Re: INDIAN TEAM to SA/ZIMBABWE
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 18:09:05 GMT

In article <BvH96J.7n1@rice.edu> pvr@argo.rice.edu (PVR Narasimha Rao) writes:
>
>It's unfortunate that Maninder had to be left out again! But, to quote our
>friend Sadiq[ [] ]Yusuf, "what can't be cured must be endured"! :-)
>
>It's unfortunate that one of the two K*MBL*'s in the winning combination in
>the second innings of the recent Irani trophy match had to be left out of the
>team.
> [ Much good discussion deleted ]

When looking at the team it seams that it is one batsman too short and
one seamer too many. There are only 7 specialist batsmen, six will
usually play in any given Test or ODI, leaving only one reserve. 
I believe Kambli should have been  on the team instead of Banerjee or
Chetan. What say?

>
>
>|> GOOD LUCK to the Indian team....

Let us hope Azhar can put it together this time.
>
>PVR

Rajiv

-- 
  
--- There is no future in time travel.
 
****     Rajiv Malhotra    ***
From: rajagopa@charlie.ece.scarolina.edu (Sundararaman Rajagopal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: (none)
Date: 2 Oct 1992 21:41:55 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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SUBJECT: INDIAN CAPTAIN AND TEAM ANNOUNCED

Here is the latest about the Indian cricket team for the tour to SA and
and Zimbabwe.

AZHARUDDIN RETAINED AS CAPTIAN FOR THE ZIMBABWE AND SOUTH AFRICA TOUR

CRICKET TEAM FOR ZIMBABWE, SA TOUR ANNOUNCED
YADAV LONE NEW FACE, CHETAN, KUMBLE MAKE A COME-BACK
THE TEAM: AZHAR, SHASTRI, RAMAN, JADEJA, M'KAR, T'KAR, AMRE, MORE, VIJAY
YADAV, KAPIL, PRABHAKAR, SRINATH, BANERJEE, CHETAN SHARMA, RAJU, KUMBLE


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From: atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (A.M.T. Bell)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Worst English XI sice 1970
Date: 29 Sep 92 10:01:41 GMT
Reply-To: atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK


After reading the teams for Australia and India here's (IMHO) the worst
England XI since 1970.

1. Geoff Cook (Northants)

Went on Fletcher's tour to india and Willis's tour to australia but
didn't so much in tests in spite of all the best openers in the country
going to SA with Gooch.

2. Wayne Larkins (Northants)

Shown to be completely out of his depth in the 1979 world cup, 
played in a few tests without much success.

3. John Morris (Derbyshire)

In spite of playing against Azharuddin's pop-gun 1990 India bowling
attack hardly scored a run in tests.

4. Frank Hayes (Lancashire)

One of the great might have beens of English cricket, scored a 100
on test debut but didn't do much after that. Captain of one of the
worst lancashire teams in the late 70s.

5. Chris Cowdrey (Kent) captain

Played on gowers indian tour without doing much and was made captain
for 1 test against windies in 1988. If his name had been smith it would
have been Chris who?

6. Vic Marks (Somerset)

One of the most innocuous spin bowlers ever to play for England, often
suffered from a stiff neck from turning round sharply to follow the flight
of the ball as it went over his head and into the crowd for six!

7. David Bairstow (Yorkshire) wk

The successor to Knott and Taylor, a good county player but not much
better, soon replaced by someone who knew how to keep wicket standing
up.

8. Ian Greig (Sussex)

Played two tests against pakistan in 82, got out Zaheer and 3 rabbits
in his first session in tests but didn't have a clue against Qadir.
For surname see 5.

9. Tony Pigott (Sussex)

Had the misfortune to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and
got picked for the Christchurch test in 83-4, probably Englands worst
performace of the decade.

10. Mike Selvey (Middlesex)

Took 3 wickets in 20 balls in his debut test against West Indies in 76
but didn't do a lot after that.

11. Les Taylor (Leicestershire)

Took the wicket that won the Ashes in 1985 and on the strength of that
went on the "blackwash" tour of WI in 85-6.


I've tried not to pick players who got the odd test against the
west indies or agianst the 89 aussies, only players who were given
a chance and failed to take it.
I would have picked Hick but he's too good a bowler and fielder for this team!

tony bell                 ! keep on running   live long and prosper
serc daresbury laboratory ! "back off man, i'm a scientist"
atb@uk.ac.dl.gserv1       ! bill murray - ghostbusters
From: sma@waikato.ac.nz (Stephen Anderson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: "We are the world " Team of 80's
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:47:44 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <00961702.FF66D0A0@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 5912ramasubr@vms.csd.mu.edu 
writes:
> Here is my ALL World team of 80's
> 1.Gavaskar
> 2.Greenidge
No doubt here.  Obviously two of the greatest openers of all time

> 3.Richards
> 4.Miandad
Again two great batsmen.  hard to tie down because of their unorthodoxy
> 5.Gower
Despite all the sympathy he's got recently for his dropping from the England
side I find it hard to justify his selection in a world team of the eighties. 
How about Greg Chappell? It would add variety to the bowling attack as well.
> 6.M.Crowe
OK.  My Kiwi parochialism will let me accept that one. :)
> 7.Kapil Dev
> 8.Imran Khan
> 9.Dujon
More a first slip with gloves than a true wicket-keeper, letting a surprising
number of byes through.  Got a good rep due to his batting ability, and the
fact that he took a number of incredible diving catches (which other keepers
would have taken in front of their body.  I'd take Smith instead.
> 10.Hadlee
> 11.Qadir
OK.  Some unlucky people there, such as Vengsarker, Border, Dean Jones, Haynes,
Richardson, Akram, Botham, Barry Richards...
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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: Is it a no-ball or a wide?
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:33:38 GMT

In <1992Sep28.152258.26824@cliff.se.hou.compaq.com>
gandhi@cliff.se.hou.compaq.com (Deepak Gandhi) writes:

| Is there any WRITTEN LAW for limited over matches that describes how to
| call a ball above shoulder height?

It tends to be in the playing conditions for various series.   yes,
its written, but the written one for the world cup won't mean anything
for the series between India and SA (for example).

| I remember, in the World cup finals,
| it was called a "no-ball", but was that rule specific to the 1992 world
| cup, or is it a general rule?

These days its typically no ball, wide doesn't make a lot of sense, as
if the ball should hit the batsman on the head it couldn't be a wide
(without some even more extraordinary fiddling of the rules).  Being
a no ball also reduces the chances of the bowler ignoring the penalty
and going for the intimidation, as the batsman can always safely hook
at no-balls, if they're caught they still score however many they can run,
or the penalty run.

| Also, does the (non-striker end) Umpire have any say on such deliveries,
| or is it totally the leg Umpire's call?

The special case no ball is called from square leg, but the other umpire
can skill call no-ball for intimidatory bowling or whatever, or wide
if the ball is out of reach (ie:  just the same as he could do without
this rule).

kre
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From: d188sid@utarlg.uta.edu (S RAMACHANDRAN)
Subject: thisis a test...sooorry!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:41:00 GMT

W.V.Raman....the next Sir Gary?!! 

" The three most promising youngsters I have seen in India are N.Hirwani,
S.Manjrekar, and W.V.Raman " - Viv Richards after Hirwani test in madras
quoted in the Hindu.

" Raman has the best cover drive in the country...he also has the ability 
to pick up wickets..he should challenge Ravi in becoming one of the 
country's top allrounders"- Sunny Gavaskar after Raman got 90 odd in his
first irani game -qouted in is syndicated column in the Hindu.

" He seems to have so much time to play " - late Kripal Singh then 
T.N.C.A selector


Madras rules...Go Raman!!!