From: aantur@na.novell.com (Anand Antur)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: S. Africa v. India ODI Averages up to 5th ODI.
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:55:54 GMT
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At the outset, I would like to congratulate the South African Team for
winning the one-day series. They already lead 4-1 in the 7 one-day matches.

Some empirical observations:

Batting:
The SA team has a more stable "batting-core", even though it is not
faster in terms of run-rate by a great deal.

> Callaghan      4      45*    106   106.00     0       0           68.83
> Cronje         4      38*     61    61.00     0       0           79.22
> Hudson         5     108     255    51.00     1       1           63.43
> Wessels        5      55     207    41.40     1       0           46.10
> Kirsten        5      56     136    34.00     1       0           57.63
> 
> Raman          5     113     210    42.00     0       1           61.95
> Azharuddin     5      86*    167    41.75     1       0           60.51
> Tendulkar      5      32     100    20.00     0       0           54.64
> Jadeja         5      47      99    19.80     0       0           37.79
> Manjrekar      2      17      30    15.00     0       0           47.62
> Amre           4      30      37     9.25     0       0           48.68


Bowling:

THE BEST INDIAN PERFORMANCE (Srinath 37.40), IS WORSE THAN THE WORST
SOUTH AFRICAN PERFORMANCE ( De Villiers 36.67)

> Cronje        34        0       116      6      19.33     0   0   3.41
> Donald        50        9       165      7      23.57     2   8   3.30
> Callaghan     20        0        76      3      25.33     0   0   3.80
> McMillan      48.5      1       205      8      25.63     2   3   4.20
> Matthews      50        5       190      6      31.67     4   4   3.80
> Schultz        9        1        35      1      35.00     2   0   3.89
> De Villiers   37        5       110      3      36.67     1   1   2.97
> 
> 
> Srinath       47.2      4       187      5      37.40     6   2   3.95
> Kumble        49        2       156      4      39.00     0   0   3.18
> Prabhakar     44.3      3       156      2      78.00     7   3   3.51
> Shastri       22        2        94      1      94.00     0   0   4.27
> Tendulkar     24        2        95      1      95.00     0   0   3.96
> Kapil         42        5       140      1     140.00     2   3   3.33
> Jadeja        12.4      1        60      0        -       5   1   4.74
> Amre           0.2      0         1      0        -       0   0   3.00


THIS IS THE OVERALL STORY.

> Overall Team Stats:
> 
> S. Africa:
> Runs scored    Wickets lost   Overs Batting*  Runs per wicket   Runs per over
>   920             19            241.5            48.42            3.80
> 
> India:
>   917             39            249.1            23.51            3.68
> 
> 

WE ARE SURELY MISSING THE TEAM WHICH WON THE WSC CUP IN 1985-86

An explosive start  -  Srikkanth

A solid frontline   -  Gavaskar, Vengsarkar, Azhar

A read end attack   -  Kapil

Effective Bowling
pertaining to the
conditions

Great fielding

An most important, MOTIVATION and TEAM SPIRIT

Gavaskar, though not a very shrewd skipper IMHO, was very successful in 
motivating the team. A few netters may skin me for the above statement,
however I think that Gavaskar is a very defensive captain.

Back from digressing, If we are to win test matches and one-day internationals
abroad, we need GOOD, LIVELY wickets back in India.


Captaincy is not a major issue in the poor performance of the Indian Team.
I frankly feel that replacing Azhar with Kapil will not solve the problem.
The root of the problem is elsewhere.


Anand Antur
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