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From: srini@ecf.toronto.edu (KANDALA SRINIVAS)
Subject: Re: bowling speed of Waqar and Wasim
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:13:09 GMT

In article <C0EBno.1CD@acsu.buffalo.edu> sivap-m@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Muhunthan Sivapragasam) writes:
>> 
>
>	these speeds were recorded in onedays, or testmatches ?
>
>	135 kmph = 84 mph. Jeff Thomson was recorded 99, and 91 mph

It was 89 and not 99 (kinda hard to believe the speeds achieved by the
baseball pitchers).

srini
>before 75, and 79 worldcups reespectively. in 1975 there were atleast
>5-6 bowlers bowling faster than 90 mph ( including Lillee, Holding, Roberts ).
>
>	So if Waqar bowls at 135 - 140 kmph that is quite slow for one
>of the fastest bowlers in the world today -- any comments ?
>-- 
>						S. Muhunthan,
>
>	"The shortest distance between two people is a smile"
>################################################################################


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From: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: Gooch Cocktail Party........
Reply-To: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Organization: GWDG Goettingen, F.R.Germany
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:13:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.221954.3397@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, VENKATV@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (V. Venkataramanan) writes:
>In article <TFL0DWC@gwdu03.gwdg.de>, jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de writes:          

[ stuff deleted ]
           
>>... Kanitkar played in the test series against the Windies in 1974-75...
>>Swamy
> i don't think Kanitkar held his place in the team throughout the 
     series. So maybe he didn't open with Gavaskar after all.
>-venkat     

As someone already mentioned Kanitkar played at one down, and after
two tests he was dropped. I wasn't sure if he opened once, so I didn't
comment on that in my previous posting. I think if did play along with
Gavaskar it could be only the Bangalore test (which was the first test
of that series), but I am sure that he was playing at no.3 (one down)
in that test. He scored about 60 odd in one innings, I think, but failed 
rather miserably with next best score being around 20 (not too bad
 by the present standard where a score of60+ would keep the guy going 
for about 3 or 4 tests if he can manage a couple of double digit
 scores in the other tests.

By the way, I would like to know what is Kapil's test record at the 
moment; could some one please post it ? (I saw in a recent posting 
that he has taken 412 wickets, but I am totally unaware of his batting
record (total # of runs scored, # of centuries, fiftys and catches 
taken). 

With regards ..

Swamy
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Subject: Re: Pak wins Test vs NZ!
From: cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:02:59 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <1icdlaINNsve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>, guptar@ucs.orst.edu (Rakesh Gupta) writes:
> In article <brad.726201461@hawk> brad@hawk.adied.oz.au (Bradley Edelman) writes:
>>NZ all out for 93.  Akram 5/45, Younis 5/22.
> 
> 
> 
> Hats off to pakistani team for a great victory.
> 
> Indian cricket team should take lessons from pakistani team about ABC of
> cricket.
> A - Batting

Well to be perfectly honest the Pakistanis are not really in a position to brag
about their batting. Their top order got themselves out through some truly
dreadful shots in both innings.

> B - Bowling

The bowling of Waqar, Wasim and Mushtaq was a joy to watch.

> C - Fielding

Not a hell of a lot to shout about here either. Whilst Mujtaba took a good
catch to get rid of Andrew Jones in the second innings there were some
appalling misses in the first. Greatbatch was dropped twice before he had
scored 50 and Inzamam put down a straight forward chance from Hartland when he
was on bugger all too. There were 6lbws in NZ's first innings and 2lbws and 4
bowled in the second innings - doesn't take much effort from the fielders to
achieve this.

> 
> Not only the whole team but management and coaching staff should also take
> lessons.
> 
> 
> rakesh gupta
> 
> p.s.  this is not a joke.

That's a pity - it might have made some sense if it was.

Alan
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Unbelievable!
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:56:15 GMT


Check out the scoring rate....

Score at 13:15 local time: (Thanks to Pieter and dougie)


               SA vs India, 4th Test, Newlands. 1st Inn: SA 360/9
              South Africa                               India
Wessels    c Srinath b Srinat  34 (122)  Jadeja     c Kirsten b McMill  19 ( 53)
Hudson     c More b Srinath    11 ( 30)  Prabhakar  c Wessels b Henry   62 (256)
Cronje     c More b Srinath     0 ( 18)  Manjrekar  c Hudson b Donald   46 (209)
Kirsten    c Manjrek b Kapil   13 ( 73)  Amre       c McMilla b Donald   6 ( 16)
Cullinan * not out             14 ( 68)  Tendulkar  c Hudson b Cronje   73 (207)
Rhodes   - not out              7 ( 69)  Azhar      c Richard b McMill   7 ( 12)
McMillan                                 Raju       c Cullina b Matthe  18 ( 74)
Richardso                                Kapil      c Hudson b Cronje   34 ( 72)
Henry                                    More       lbw Matthews         0 (  7)
Matthews                                 Kumble     c Hudson b Matthew   0 (  4)
Donald                                   Srinath    not out              0 (  1)
Extras  (W: 0 N: 2 B: 0 LB: 2)  4        Extras  (W: 3 N: 1 B: 0 LB: 7) 11
Total  (R:1.32  O:62.5)        83 / 4    Total  (R:2.02  O:136.4)       276 / 10
                   Ov   M  R  Wi Wd Nb                      Ov   M  R  Wi Wd Nb 
Cronje            18.4  8  17  2  0  0   Prabhakar         10.0  4  19  0  0  1
McMillan          36.0  9  76  2  3  0   Raju            *  5.5  2   7  0  0  0
Henry             33.0  8  86  1  0  0   Kapil             17.0  4  30  1  0  0
Matthews          28.0 12  32  3  0  0   Kumble          - 12.0  8   7  0  0  0
Donald            21.0 13  58  2  0  1   Srinath           18.0  8  19  3  0  3
                                        


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From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Subject: Pak-NZ D4 - NZ 67/5
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 00:34:52 GMT

Jones c Mujtaba b Waqar 19 .... Good sharp silp catch, well taken by Mujtaba
Parore c Rashid b Wasim 13 .... Earned the penalty reserved for flashers
Latham n.o.              0

Waqar is starting to swing the ball in ... could be an exciting hour or so.
From: rajagopa@charlie.ece.scarolina.edu (Sundararaman Rajagopal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Why was Dean Jones dropped from the AUstralian team??
Date: 11 Jan 1993 14:39:50 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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Hi netters

I was recently going through an issue of The Cricketer" in which there were 
reviews of the recently concluded test series between Australia and Srilanka.
Dean Jones apart from Greg Mathews was the main stay of the australian batting
in most of the matches(including the test matches) and infact saved the Australian team in the second test by scoring a century.

I am wondering why he has been dropped from the test team for the current seriesagainst the WestIndies. did he fail so badly in the domestic matches or did the
Australian selectors have a recent coaching stint from their Indian counterpartsas to how destroy the career of good players ???

Hope somebody from Australia can clarify this!!

Raj.
From: gupta_sn@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Sandeep N Gupta)
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Subject: Re: no subject (file transmission)
Date: 7 Jan 1993 12:20:06 -0500
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In article <9301061659.AA14346@edison.ece.scarolina.edu> rajagopa@charlie.ece.scarolina.edu (Sundararaman Rajagopal) writes:
>has been made out. And if Maninder can get back his form I think the bowling
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I wonder, what more should a person do to show that he is in form?

-Sandeep Gupta


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From: axeman@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (Samir Chopra)
Subject: Re: An Offensive Posting........?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:54:38 GMT

In article <19504.2b4b00ce@ecs.umass.edu> vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>Mukesh Kasanjee [074spock@witsvma.wits.ac.za] writes:
>
> 
>>I'm surprised England gave them a tour ! They should try and beat
>>Sri Lanka first, get their act together, before thinking of touring
>>here in SA again.
>
>This posting is an insult to Sri Lankan cricket team  and fans.  In his
>acceptance speech (Democratic party) then Presidential candiate Clinton 
>also made a similar(!) remark.   

What did Clinton say? I'm finding it hard to imagine Slick Willie saying
anything about cricket...

Samir
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From: rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Indian Team.
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:10:25 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


Here is the Indian team that has been announced for the coming matches. I'm
not sure if its just for the ODI's or if it includes the tests as well.

M Azharuddin
N Sidhu
W Raman
P Amre
S Tendulkar
V Kambli
Kapil Dev
M Prabhakar
V Yadav
A Kumble
R Chauhan
J Srinath
S Ankola
S Raju



Rob.
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From: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Subject: Re: A v WI, end of 4th day
Reply-To: pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:34:06 GMT

In article <8385@news.duke.edu> shafqat@neuro.duke.edu (Saad Shafqat) writes:
>>
>>                                            (Sobers 365 tops the list,
>>Holding on the TV said the players in the dressing room were looking for
>>Lara to pass that mark - that was just before he got out...) 

[stuff deleted]

>There was a time when Miandad looked a very serious contender (280*
>at Hyderabad, 260 at the Oval, 271 at Auckland) but doesn't anymore.
>But it might just be Martin Crowe.  He is, after all, the best
>batsman in cricket today and has already teased with his 299 (run
>out, was it ?).  
>
Caught at slip, if I'm not mistaken.  Possibly caught behind, though.

Cheers, Paul
From: vs@duke.cs.duke.edu (Vijay Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Pakistan vs West Indies, Brisbane, January 9
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:36:47 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.


Pakistan: 71 all out (Bishop 5/25, Benjamin 3/?, Ambrose 2/?, Hooper 0/14)
	  Anwar 2, Inzamam 0, Javed 0, Malik 8, Akram 19, Latif 22*,
	  Mushtaq 2, Waqar 0, Aaquib 4

West Indies: 72/1
	     Lara 9, Haynes 22*, Richardson 25*

Match summary
-------------
Pakistan started the match disastrously with the first five batsmen
back in the pavilion with the score on 12.  Brian Lara had two fine
catches at first slip.  Inzamam was out for a duck to a foolish stroke,
trying to lift a ball to leg from outside the off stump, popping up
an easy catch to point.  Javed was then out caught behind off the
finest of snicks for a duck.  Mujtaba played on a ball from his
outside his off stump.  Akram and Malik then had a brief partnership
(19 runs) till Malik played all over a ball that was on his off stump.
He seemed to be completely undecided on what to do with that ball.
Rashid Latif then joined Akram at the crease, and played confidently
against the West Indian pace bowlers.  Akram skied one to behind square leg
that was dropped by the running wicket keeper Junior Murray who
collided with Phil Simmons running in from fine leg. But the mistake
did not prove costly since Akram shortly mishit one to Simmons at
deep square leg fence.  Waqar was out quickly, edging one to slip for
Lara's third catch.  Mushtaq was all at sea, popping a ball bowled
right at him to the man in the covers. Latif all the time looked
good, but did not get enough of the strike to push the score along.
He smashed Hooper for two successive fours, which was one of the
few highlights in the Pakistani innings.
Aaquib was the last to go, hitting a full toss straight to the man
at mid-off.

The West Indies bowling was straight and fast, no great swing, nothing
spectacular.  The Pakistanis were out to poor shots and displayed bad judgement,
Inzamam and Akram in particular.  The West Indians fielded very well,
holding the catches (Lara in particular).

The West Indian innings was brief, Wasim and Waqar unable to replicate
the form they had displayed in New Zealand.  Lara was dropped by
Rashid Latif off Akram with the score on 24.  The catch was going
straight to the man at first slip, but Latif dived in front of him to
botch the chance.  Haynes looked solid as ever, content to push and
prod, smashing the occasional loose ball for four.  Lara was out
caught by Waqar at third man, slashing at a ball from Wasim.  Richardson
came in and put the match beyond doubt, looking at home right from
the start.  He hit Aaquib for a couple of fours, and ended the innings
with a six over long off from Mushtaq.


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Subject: Re: Pak vs WI. Update ....
From: hossain@latcs1.lat.oz.au ( )
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:49:29 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

In article <1993Jan9.014656.4007@latcs1.lat.oz.au> hossain@latcs1.lat.oz.au ( ) writes:
>Corrections .....
>
>>>Pak 72 all out (23.4 overs)
>>     ^^
>>should be 71
>>>
>>>Batting (not in order)
>>>======================
>>>Miandad 0
>>>Inzamum 0
>>>Salim   8
>>>Anwar   2
>>>Saeed   1
>>>Akram  19
>>>Latif  22 n.o.
>>>Waqar   0
>>>Mushtaq 2
>>>Aaqib   4 
>>>Extras 12
>        ^^^^
>>>
>>>Bowling
>>>=======
>>>Ambrose 3/13 
>	   ^^^^
>>>Bishop 5/25
>>>Benjamin 2/16
>>
>>These figures may not be 100% correct
>
>WI 0/21 (8 overs)
>Haynes 5
>Lara 10
>Extras 6


WI 1/22 
Lara c.waqar b.wasim 10

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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: PAK Lost (7-180) and knocked out of WSC finals
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:56:29 GMT

Inzamam ul Huq n.o              39
Rashid Latif c Healy b Reiffel   5
Mujtaba  n.o                     5
Sundries                         5

            Total        7 for 180

(end of 50 overs)

AUS won by 32 runs

PAK is well and truly knocked out of the WSC finals, SCG match result
notwithstanding. Attendence for todays match at MCG -- 68,179
From: yeshwant@chico.cse.ogi.edu (Yeshwant K Muthusamy)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: There is still hope for Test cricket!
Date: 5 Jan 93 08:42:07 GMT
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Hats off to the Pakistanis' for their exciting 34-run victory over
New Zealand. I envy the guys who were fortunate enough to watch this
Test. Quick wickets, determined batting (Greatbatch and Miandad), 
see-sawing fortunes, awesome displays of pace and swing bowling from 
Akram and Younis... who says Test cricket is on the decline?!

If only every Test match were as exciting and decisive as this one!

Yeshwant

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From: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: King Kapil's no. of wickets
Reply-To: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Organization: GWDG Goettingen, F.R.Germany
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:32:12 GMT

In article <C0E1yM.1vD@unccsun.uncc.edu>, mfkhan@uncc.edu  writes:
>
>Could someone pl. let me know Border's test runs. 
>It is difficult to believe some one is coming close to Gavaskar's
>record run tally.
>thanks
>
>farrukh
>
>


Border has just crossed the 10,000 run mark. I don't remember the 
exact no. of runs he has scored but he is less than a hundred runs
behind Gavaskar's total of 10,152 runs.

The only way I think one can stop him crossing Gavaskar's tally
is to convince Gavaskar to return to test cricket (and Gavaskar's
cricketing knowledge and captaincy may well do good to Indian 
cricket at this moment of poor perfomance and lack of morale).

Swamy
 

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From: sudhama@engin.umich.edu (Sudhama Gopalan)
Subject: Re: Waqar's Hundered Wkts...
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 16:42:35 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <93007.151447SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.182654.24747@julian.uwo.ca>, raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza
>Syed) says:
>>
>>What is the record of fastest 100 test wkts?
>>
>i'm not sure, but names that spring to mind are:
>sid barnes - 189 wickets in 27 tests
>charlie "the terror" turner - 101 in 17
>george lohmann - 112 in 18
>clarrie grimmett - 216 in 38

I think either Colin Croft or Ian Botham has that record. The number of Tests is
11 or 13 or something.

Sudhama

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From: 074SPOCK@Witsvma.wits.ac.za
Subject: Sri Lanka vs India
Organization: Wits University
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 21:40:30 RSA

In the history of Sri Lankan cricket, I wonder how many times they have
beaten India in either the one day games or the test games. Can't be
that many !
 
All you Lankans out there, please do not get emotional, Im just a curious
soul here.
 
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From: mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pak win by 33 runs - the swing demons do it again
Date: 8 Jan 93 07:15:28 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <1993Jan8.142111.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty) writes:
> In article <1993Jan5.214537.21806@walter.bellcore.com>, shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi) writes:
>> In this case, however, nobody would have paid the slightest attention
>> to this rule. The spirit of this rule is to ensure sufficient action
>> for the paying public (also to limit the WI pace quartet but I will be
>> nice today) and I daresay that the public were getting quite a bit for
>> their money. 
> 
> Actually this is not quite true. The match referee, Peter Burge from Australia,
> did in fact fine Pakistan for it's slow over-rate over the three and a bit days
> of the test match. From memory I think the fine was 10 per cent of the match
> fee which was lower than the amount they could have been fined for the
> over-rate they achieved, if that makes any sense. In my opinion no fine should
> have been levied - I mean how can one justify a fine when the test finished in
> three days and one session.
> 
> Alan

This is what happens when you frame a rule with limiting the ability of a
certain team to win in mind ( no prizes for guessing), rather than taking into
account what actually happens in test matches.

McBean
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From: raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Subject: dougie for pak/Nz?
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:02:31 GMT


Would any one be runnig dougie for today's play b/w
pak and Nz....?   j.n.a ?....., Mr. Rao (He must be back
by now;))


--

S.R.Raza.
raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca
From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Subject: Pak-NZ D4 - NZ 71/6
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 00:42:52 GMT

Jones  c Mujtaba b Waqar   19   Good sharp slip catch, well held by Mujtaba
Parore c Rashid b Wasim    13   Earned the penalty reserved for flashers
Latham b Waqar              0   Stumps flying - blood and thunder stuff
Rutherford n.o.	            3


Fall of Wickets: 4/65,5/67,6/71

Waqar is starting to swing the ball in. Could be an exciting last hour.
From: guptar@ucs.orst.edu (Rakesh Gupta)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pak wins Test vs NZ!
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:40:10 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
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In article <brad.726201461@hawk> brad@hawk.adied.oz.au (Bradley Edelman) writes:
>NZ all out for 93.  Akram 5/45, Younis 5/22.



Hats off to pakistani team for a great victory.

Indian cricket team should take lessons from pakistani team about ABC of
cricket.
A - Batting
B - Bowling
C - Fielding

Not only the whole team but management and coaching staff should also take
lessons.


rakesh gupta

p.s.  this is not a joke.
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From: kansal@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Vinay K. Kansal)
Subject: Re: Waqar's Hundered Wkts...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:46:50 GMT

In article <B9d=hK+@engin.umich.edu> sudhama@engin.umich.edu (Sudhama Gopalan) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.042624.13705@news.uakron.edu> murali@iris.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah) writes:
>>Keywords: 
>>
>>>>I think either Colin Croft or Ian Botham has that record. The number of Tests is
>>11 or 13 or something.
>>
>>Sudhama
>>>>
>>
>>U sure ? Thats a astonishing # of wickets per match. Could u confirm please.
>>
>>cotah
>
>Of course, it's a ridiculous #. I'm sorry, I was'nt thinking when I posted the
>last article. I seem to have a vague notion in my head that Croft had the 
>fastest 100 wkts. I'm sure Spaceman will sort this out sooner or later.
>
>


If my memory serves me right the record is held by Botham who took 100
wickets in 17 test matches.
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