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From: "faraz rabbani" <faraz.rabbani@canrem.com>
Subject: re: pc cricket simulator
Reply-To: "faraz rabbani" <faraz.rabbani@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 21 Dec 92 09:14:42 EST

To: shankar@remus.rutgers.edu 
 
FE> I am looking for the Cricket simulator game for the PC. I
FE> remember reading about it in the RSC before but I don't have the
FE> anonymous ftp site address anymore. If anyone can please mail me it's
FE> address + the name of the file, I would really appreciate it.

If you ever DO find out, could you tell me the name and where you
found it?  I am told that there is one called "Sticky Wicket", but I
have no idea where to find it...

Faraz Rabbani


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From: rick@psg.com (Rick Buhagiar)
Subject: Re: donald
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:01:48 GMT

In <1992Dec30.205341.28025@news2.cis.umn.edu> suraj@microbe.med.umn.edu (Suraj Muley) writes:

> in a recent article neeran karnik says "donald's better than dev. hadlee,
> imran and marshall.

> i disagree with this statement. donald has just started his career as a test
> cricketer and he has to prove himself in the long run. it's easy
> to have a great record after playing a few matches but it's tough to maintain
> that form. it's like a person having a GPA of 4 at the end of the first quarter

Yes from what I have seen of Donald then I agree with you. Being an Australian
this is going to kill me saying this but Richard Hadlee in my opinion was the
best bowler I ever saw. His pace-swing combined with a great brain for bowling
made him quite dangerous. Dean Jones who some say was the greatest  one-day
batsman was no match for Hadlee. Other greats that spring to mind were Terry
Alderman, and Holding.

Regards, Rick.
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From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Allan Lamb hits 18 off the last over (was Re: pak vs aus 1-day)
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:50:31 ACST
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
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In article <6973@otc.otca.oz>, brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
> in article <JONT.92Dec15164624@ml.harlqn.co.uk>, jont@harlqn.co.uk (Jon Thackray) says:


and at the next match there was a sign on one of the MCG (?) grandstands saying
"will Bruce Reid please call Alan Lamb on  42 464" or something similar.  Gave
Richie Benaud something to talk about other than complaining that the Mexican
wave was an act of hooliganism!!

regs

Rob
From: koodli@mysore.pilgrim.umass.edu (Rajeev Koodli)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
Keywords: I want my present........
Date: 29 Dec 92 19:08:31 GMT
Reply-To: devadoss@cs.umass.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst

In article <ljumcqINNo6s@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, tsreddy@skitime.Eng.Sun.COM (T.S.Reddy) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec28.114247.13033@news.acns.nwu.edu> fsahmed@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Farhan Ahmed) writes:
|> >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.
|> >>
|> >>
|> >>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.
|> >>
|> >
|> >
|> >
|> >Seriously, does a knighthood really matter at all? I feel that it is
|> >a scam by the British to glorify themselves! 
|> >
|> >Farhan Ahmed
|> 
|>      As somebody said, I doubt that it matters too much in Britain itself 
|> nowadays. Anyway, Gavaskar rejected what was probably an even greater
|> honor a few years ago to become a member (I wonder in what capacity) of
|> the hallowed institution the MCC. Ostensibly because he was treated 
|> very rudely by the doorkeeper or something. Does anyone have the
|> details?
|> 
|> T.S.Reddy
|> e-mail: tsreddy@Eng.Sun.COM

-- 

SMG rejected the offer of Life Membership of MCC saying (I am not completely precise)
` If Lords is the Mecca of Cricket and MCC claims it is the Custodian, then they 
should have responsible stewards at the gate '



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From: suraj@microbe.med.umn.edu (Suraj Muley)
Subject: tendulkar should play his strokes at will
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:04:15 GMT

i am not very sure that cricket fans claiming that it is right that
sachin tendulkar should play his strokes freely and that vengsarkar
wasn't as good later in his career when he started restricting his stroke
play are at best immature and should not taken seriously. The "changed"
vengsarkar as some people might want to call him was a world class 
batsman and was in the Wisden's top five in 19--. at one stage it was
accepted in all cricketing nations that he was the no. 1 batsman. 
i am not sure vengsarkar could have achieved this distinction had
he continued his stroke play relentlessly. it's good for people to 
watch a great knock from sachin tendulkar but not at the cost of taking
too many risks. tendulkar needs to put his head down a bit and try
grafting an innings. wasn't sunil gavaskar as much a treat to watch as
sachin tendulkar. to me it sure was. people who get these short lived
pleasures out of a quick 50 from tendulkar are indeed short sighted and
selfish in a way as they are more worried about their bit of
entertainment rather than the welfare of the team.

any comments on srt changing his approach ?

suraj muley.
medical school
univ of minnesota.
From: mshah@cs.arizona.edu (Munil A. Shah)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: S. Africa v. India averages after 3rd Test.
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:38:54 GMT

> Here are the latest averages for the S. Africa v. India test series at the end
> of the third test.
> 
> Batting:
> Name      Matches   Innings     HS     Runs    Average     100's    50's
> More         3         4        55      102     25.50        0       1
> Shastri      3         5        23       59     11.80        0       0
> 
> Bowling:
> Name        Overs    Maidens    Runs     Wickets    Average     Strike rate*
> Tendulkar     7         2         14        1        14.00         42.00
> Shastri      31         4         74        2        37.00         93.00









	
	Do I have to repeat the same thing? Even More and Tendulkar .....
Shastri HI HI!!!

-Munil
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From: zorl@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr RK Laubscher)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Corrected score-card: 7th ODI India vs RSA
Date: 21 Dec 92 07:46:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: hippo.1992Dec21.074618.27807
Distribution: rec.sport.cricket
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Corrected score-card: India vs RSA (7th ODI)

RSA
Wessels c Tendulkar b Raju ................57
Hudson lbw b Prabhakar .................... 8
Kirsten c Banerjee b Raju .................30
Rhodes c Kumble b Prabhakar ...............37
Callaghan c Yadav b Raju ...................0
Cronje c Manjrekar b Kapil Dev ............55
McMillan not out ...........................3
Richardson b Prabhakar .....................0
Matthews run out ...........................1
Extras.....................................12
Total (for 8 wkts)........................203
Overs .....................................50

FOW: 1/21, 2/86, 3/108, 4/108, 5/199, 6/200, 7/201, 8/203

Bowling: Prabhakar 10-1-43-3 (2nb)
	 Kapil Dev 10-4-27-1 (1w)
	 Sharma     8-0-34-0
	 Banerjee   3-0-20-0
	 Raju      10-0-37-3
	 Kumble     9-0-33-0


India
Prabhakar b Donald.........................12
Manjrekar lbw McMillan .....................6
Tendulkar c Richardson b Matthews .........21
Azharuddin run out ........................24
Amre not out ..............................84
Kapil Dev lbw b Matthews ..................17
Yadav not out .............................34
Extras .....................................6
Total (for 5 wkts) .......................204
Overs......................................47.2

FOW: 1/16, 2/39, 3/43, 4/80, 5/130

Bowling: Donald      10-0-49-1
	 De Villiers  8.2-3-26-0
	 McMillan    10-1-38-1
	 Matthews    10-2-44-2
	 Callaghan    5-0-21-0
	 Cronje       4-1-22-0

India won by 5 wickets.  RSA win series 5-2.
Man-of-the-match: Praveen Amre
Man-of-the-series: Kepler Wessels

-- 
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Phone: +27 [0]461 22023 ext 524 Fax: +27 [0]461 24377
From: mcssecgm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Cricket over holiday
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:32:59 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Over the coming festive season, a few important cricket
matches are occuring, so here's my predictions of the
three test matches:

Australia v West Indies

WI win.
The apparent 'dropping' of Dean Jones seems unthinkable to me
however the newcomer Martyn seems to be in fine form of late.
However, if the Aussies want anything out of this game, the old
heads must get the runs. Border and Martyn to do very well.
Bowling may let Aus. down
The WI will have a strong attack, and although a lack of
non-1-day cricket recently, I think the WI will bat and bowl well.
Hooper and Haynes to be top batsman.
Hooper surprise match-winner with ball too!!

Prediction: WI win (Haynes 88, Hooper 120 & 4wkt inns!!,Border 78,Martyn 99)


South Africa v India
After watching the last few 1-dayers between these sides, I predict
a much closer and keenly fought contest. Wessels to continue his
solid 1-day form however may lack partners. De Villiers and Donald
must take responsibility in bowling.
India will surprisingly forget the 1-day series form and turn up
trumps. Azharuddin and Kapil to pile on runs, with Prabhakar & Kapil
sharing a lot of wickets. Kumble I feel may not get amongst wickets.

Prediction: India win (Azharuddin 143, Kapil Dev 102, Wessels 87*,Prabhakar
5 wkt inns)


New Zealand v Pakistan
Don't know much about recent form except Sri Lanka and WSC.
Expect bowling performances to be sub-par. 
Ramiz & Miandad to top score for Pak.
Parore makes NZ cricket history.

Prediction: Draw. (Ramiz 98, Miandad 114, Parore 101 & 7 catches in inns)


Just a bit of fun. Anyway, enjoy whatever holiday you observe
this season r.s.c readers and heres to another year of cricket.

C.G.Milne
DIT
Scotland		"Scotland going for minor country status"
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From: bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan)
Subject: Re: WI/Pak ODI
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:10:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.134436.22@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au> WEABEP@DEVAX1 (Peter ABELA) writes:
>In <9212171510.AA16119@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> B536HIND@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU writes:

>	Of his four wickets, Javed fell to a very good leg cutter being caught
>	behind. Sohail got bowled, Malik caught behind. All in all it was
>	a pretty inept performance. Javed called it the worst by Pakistan in
>	years.

    If he chooses to ignore the 74 (odd) all-out vs. Eng in the World Cup 92,
that is, or the 84 all out vs India at Sharjah not so many years ago  ;-)
    	

>> BTW, which was the old record for the most economical bowling in ODI's?  Was
>> it Bedi's 12 overs for something like 5 or 7 against East Africa in 1979?  Or
>> did somebody else have better figures?
>> 
>	It was Bishen Bedi. 12 overs, 2 for 6.

    
    Does someone recall Walsh's bowling figures against SL at Sharjah some 
5-6 yrs ago ? It was quite unbelievable, but was it the record ?

Cheers,
Bhaskar
From: ratan@ring8.rutgers.edu (Santosh Ratan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India defeated England in ODI series 93
Date: 23 Dec 92 06:53:56 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi there!!

There is no team which can perform consistent in ODI cricket. It is
like the american baseball game. There isn't any meaning of winning a
world series. It is more like a chance. In the light of these facts
that India defeated the super rated English team in 1993 series.

THE psychic
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From: suraj@microbe.med.umn.edu (Suraj Muley)
Subject: the indian supporters are too emotional.
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:55:30 GMT

the indian supporters are, i feel, too emotional about a particular
player. if a cricketer does great on his debut and sometime thereafter
the typical indian supporter tends to form ties with him which are rather
long lasting. the other day i had a debate with my roommate on ravi shastri.
i have nothing against ravi as a person but he better come good more
often. most people, like my roommate, tend to remind me of his double
century which they call "recent". in one way the mahabharath is also
quite recent. the indian supporters have already fallen for tendulkar and
manjrekar and would wait forever without complain till they score again.
this attitude of the indian supporters and the selectors tends to instill
in the indian cricketers a rather callous approach which leads to not
only the downfall of the team but also in counterproductive for the 
cricketer in question in the long run.
the bottom line is that indian cricketers live on their past glories for too
long and new cricketers need to be tried more frequently. 

regarding the indian captaincy azhar is a captain for want of any replacement.
kapil was rather controversial and could not really bind the team together.
he wasn't that unsuccessful though. tendul is too young to be a captain.
manjrekar is similar to azhar as a person and needs to prove himself
for others to look up to him as a batsman. prabhakar is not well behaved
on the field. more lacks leadership qualities. the others are just
upcoming cricketers. people who say azhar is not fit as a captain 
better have an alternative and enough justification for the same.

i am sure there are a lot of you guys differing from the aforementioned
"typical" indian supporter and please do not take it personally unless
you are sure you are one.

please be informed that these are my opinions and i do not wish endorsement
of the same from every reader but in the same breath i would like to 
say learn to take logical reasonings against your articles sportingly.

suraj muley.
medical school.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
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Subject: Re: Feeling sorry for Bruce Reid
From: WEABEP@DEVAX1 (Peter ABELA)
Date: 24 Dec 92 11:44:39 +1000
Distribution: world
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In <BzGM1t.2x5@cs.psu.edu> tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu writes:

> In article <kpw105-181292130835@theophys1.anu.edu.au> kpw105@phys.anu.edu.au (Ken Wessen) writes:
> >I feel a bit sorry for Bruce Reid - he has been responsible for two of
> >Australia's most ignominious one-day defeats.
> 
	I feel sorry for Bruce Reid, but not for his record. His record is
	actually quite superb. I feel sorry for him because of all the injuries
	he has sustained. In his career, he has never completed a full test
	series in his life, although his bowling average is around 23.

	He played two tests against England in 90/91 and took 19 wickets.
	He broke down after the first test against the Windies this year, and
	he probably won't even be able to go on the Ashes tour to England next
	May.

	It's a shame that such a good bowler has had so many injury problems.

	The Speaker.

========================================================================
Peter Abela
All opinions expressed are my own, and not BHP ITs
========================================================================

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Subject: NZ-Pak Test
From: awil2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Andrew James        Willmott       )
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:53:55 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

NZ's first innings has been wrapped up quickly by Pakistan, being all out for
264, a lead of 48. Pakistan's second innings has started disastrously;
Sohail was out bowled to the first ball of the innings, and Danny Morrison
has picked up two more wickets to leave Pakistan twenty-something for 3.
Correction, Morrison has just got Salim Malik for a golden duck :-). The
score is 27/4, and once again it's all up to the great Miandad, who must be
getting tired of having to hold up Pakistan's batting on this tour. I would
guess that the next few hours could determine the match.

Andrew

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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Pakistan's side match with Queensland
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 16:18:04 GMT

Would some kind soul post a report on Pakistan's 4-day game with
Queensland at Brisbane. Thanks. 

	--SAN
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From: pieter@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Pieter Vermeulen)
Subject: Re: Indian Batsmen are not test class
Date: 31 Dec 92 05:09:19 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa

bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan) writes:

>In article <karnik.725655600@myria> karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>>'wasted' talent because he curbed his free stroking style so much.... I
>>for one, wouldn't like to see SRT waste his talent in similar fashion,
>>although he may end up scoring a couple of thousand runs less, this way!

[stuff deleted]

>	Again, no intent to be harsh on him, and i am very much a fan of
>	Sachin, but we need to see his performance in lost test matches.
>	Clearly he has succumbed to his stroke-making and put burden on
>	the rest of the incompetents (batsmen... sic), when with his ample
>	talent he could easily have put his head down and put the bowlers
>	thru a grind. I would love to hear a truthful answer from him to the 
>	question : "Did you really do your utmost in the 3rd SA test match
>	or were you a little too casual, and don't you feel partly responsible
>	for the loss of the match, and what are u gonna do about it ?"

Adding more spice:  It was generally agreed that SRT was very unlucky
to be given out in the second innings, since he did not touch the ball
that was caught (although it was pure luck that he did not). He left
the field in tears.... so I guess he did feel a bit responsible.  And
in the first innings Azharuddin was dropped on 8 and then given out on
60 caught behind of a ball that touched his shirt and not his bat
(again no fault of his though). And Kirsten was given out caught
behind by More off Raju and he didn't touch the ball by a mile either.
(He did give it his best try, but then the man don't see that well
these days. He doesn't even know where the popping crease is...) 

It is sad that so much still depends on the opinions of umpires, but
that is part of cricket and I guess it evens out over most players
careers. It is good to see technology taking the guesswork out of
decisions such as runouts and stumpings. (This test also saw the first
trial by TV for a stumping.)

Pieter


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From: aamir@cs.sfu.ca (Aamir Husain)
Subject: Re: SA-Ind Test3 result
Summary: query !!
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:07:34 GMT

In article <karnik.725656811@myria>, karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
> 
> Haven't seen the result posted here yet - so here goes...
> 
> SA won the test easily, by 9 wickets. In India's second innings, Kapil
> Dev scored 129 off 176 balls. The next highest score was 17, scored by
> Prabhakar, More and Kumble. Donald took 7-84, his best bowling in Tests
> I guess, and had 11 wickets in the match. India scored 215 in the
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> second innings, setting a target of 153 for SA. This, they scored
> easily, with Wessels 95* leading the way.
> 

Neeran, didnt he take 5 wkts in the first innings. 

Aamir
From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: India's record away from home
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:56:20 GMT

In <1992Dec23.011244.13982@news.uakron.edu> murali@stretch.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah) writes:

>>>We have world class batsmen in Tendu, Manj, Azza and probably, world class
>bowlers too.
>>>
>world class bowlers - i think the spirit of X-mas is making u call them world class. When have they bowled out opposition twice -- (in a match ?). Takes a long time to recollect -- well that ain't world class. After SMG's retirement there have not been many test matches where more than two batsmen have "clicked" (i am stretching my neck out a bit). Well, that ain't world class too. I sure would like Indian team to do well - I sure do like a million dollars too.

[please don't be so stingy with the Enter/Return key :->]

	Well, it didn't take me a long time to recollect. In just the last
test they played, India bowled out SA twice (although Pringle was injured and
didn't bat in the second innings). Earlier too, they have come close :->, e.g
the Sydney test against Australia last year, and of course, Sri Lanka before
that. This is not to say that the bowling is world-class, but to make the
point that the bowlers are NOT to be blamed in the least for all the recent
debacles. Indeed, they have performed much better than the optimists predicted!
IMHO, on a helpful wicket, the Indian bowling IS capable of taking the wickets,
it is now upto the batsmen to put up decent totals....

>cotah


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From: brad@hawk.adied.oz.au (Bradley Edelman)
Subject: Aust win 2nd Test vrs WI
Organization: Australian Defence Industries
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:00:51 GMT

Australia won by 139 runs.

Australia   1st Innings 395
	    2nd Innings 196

West Indies 1st Innings 233
	    2nd Innings 219 (Simmons 110, Warne 7/52)
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 25 Dec 1992 17:35:53 CST
From: <U17868@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject:    Pak vs NZ Cricket Commentary ?

Does anyone know if Radio New Zealand would broadcast the commentary for the te
st match against Pakistan. If so, what is the frequancy and time ?

Sikander Waheed
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Subject: NZ won 2nd ODI by 6 WKTS
From: A.Qadir@massey.ac.nz (A. Qadir)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 05:57:07 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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New Zealand have won 2nd ODI against Pakistan by 6 WKTS.
Altaf
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