HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: vs@duke.cs.duke.edu (Vijay Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Watching cricket in the US :-)
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:01:21 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.


A couple of us went to a local sports bar last night to
watch the first day's play of the test match between Australia
and the West Indies.  On the table next to us were a group
of local college students, absolutely flummoxed by the game.
Here are some comments we overheard from them that I thought
were funny:

Camera focuses on Merv Hughes, mustache and all:
"Take a look at that big cat, man!"

Desmond Haynes lets a harmless ball outside the offstump
go through to Healy, shouldering arms in classic fashion:
"This is one weird game, dude!!  He missed that one
completely!"

Now one of the guys was actually making a definite attempt
to figure out the rules.  Turns to his friends, after much
contemplation and with a look of glee, announces:
"That is the way the run the bases - back and forth, back
and forth."
The others were quite impressed at this revealing discovery.

For the baseball fans, these guys were geniunely impressed
by the bare-handed fielding of the Aussies.  Merv Hughes
catch of Phil Simmons was very well appreciated.

Richie Richardson's stats are shown on the screen as
he comes out to replace Simmons.  4952 runs, a figure
that none of them could quite absorb.

All in all, it was an enjoyable evening listening to their
remarks about Steve Waugh sliding into the fence trying to
stop a four, and other similar "naive" observations.
If you can watch a match in your local area, try to do it,
because it will be definitely a different experience from what
you are used to.

	Vijay
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan)
Subject: Re: Indian Team for 1st Test
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:30:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.050952.12310@usl.edu> sgs1679@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:
>In article <1jnadmINNm84@nyquist.usc.edu> shivanan@nyquist.usc.edu (Shivanand Bhajekar) writes:
>>In article <6687@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett) writes:
>>>
>>>I've just heard the Indian team for the first test. Here it is:
>>>
>>>Azharrudin   (capt.)
>>>Sidhu
>>>Raman
>>>Kambli
>>>Tendulkar
>>>Sharma
>> ^^^^^^^^
>>
>>
>>Which Sharma is this??????
>>

	Possibly Ajay Sharma because his position is that of a batsman.He 
also did very well in one of the early matches ag. Eng. 
	
Ciao
Bhaskar
From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Ian Botham
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:04:11 GMT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA

In article <C1GwMn.29K@cs.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) writes:
>
>In the early 80s Botham was the man -- both as a bowler and as a bat.
>If you consider a 1980's team, Botham contributions in the first 4-5
>years make his the first or second choice for my World XI for the 1980's.
>

Except against the West Indies, which leaves Botham open to the charge (that I 
am now making) that - with the possible exception of Australia 1981 - Botham 
was a veritable colossus against any team short of the highest standard,
but wanting at that level. His performances against the West Indies were 
pretty bad. I concede, though, that other than Gooch and Boycott with the bat 
and ??? with the ball, the rest of England didn't do too much against the WI 
during Botham's era, either.
From: rajesh@quince (Rajesh Raman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Patil's  consecutive 4 s
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:56:29 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: quince.wpi.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Mahesh V Tripunitara (tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu) wrote:
: In article <24JAN199307593297@vill.edu> 000087384@vill.edu (GUNNA, SANDEEP) writes:

	If I had a tail guess where it would be after seeing all those
	responses. Sorry guys, I was wrong. 

	BTW, "that"'s no a tail !!!
--

Rajesh Raman

--

Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: India Under 25s ( was Re: Snippets...
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:51:34 GMT

In <1993Jan23.043212.28864@news.acns.nwu.edu> sidiyus@courtney.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf) writes:

>	Don't talk to me about late ! We haven't gotten the Times from  
>B'bay since the 6th of December !!! If it wasn't for your updates, Neeran,  
>I'd be screaming in my sleep by now :-)

	:-) I have only a little more this week.... in another article.

>>    a 153 run partnership off just 95 balls, with Zubin Bharucha (96).

>	Zubin's been scoring regularly, hasn't he ?? Good to see.

	Yes, but he needs to do much better to get anywhere near the
selectors' doors-knocker :-)



>	Got some stuff from a friend returned from India - says Bombay  
>were missing Kilkarni much of the time with the flu. Also, either Abey or  

	And Sameer Dighe was captaining the side!

>Salil were always out for the PresXI games, alternately. BTW, Sunil More  
>is that bat, right ?? I seem to remember a More who was a terrific  
>spinning prospect (Ramesh? ) while in school ( tho I don't remember a More  
>who was a good keeper :-) )Wonder what happened to him. 

	Sunil More is a solid type of batsman - he's been batting in the
middle-order, but Pradeep Vijaykar (TOI cricket correspondent) says he is
a good opening prospect.


>	The team has 5 players from Bombay - SRT, Bahutule, Kuruvilla,  
>Sameer Dighe (keeper + opening bat - maybe the keeper of the future for  
>India ??) and Jatin Paranjpe ( hooray !). Also, Jadeja, Zaidi, Feroz  
>Ghayas, Rajesh Puri (haryana), Ganguly, that bat from Karnataka - cant  
>believe I cant get his name -am drawing a blank. Not Sridhar, the other  
>one. Sheesh. Some Kureishia guy from UP (?) I seem to remeber a Ahmed  

	Rahul Dravid from Karnataka?? And probably that Khurasia guy 
from UP - not sure of his first name, something like Aman maybe....


Neeran [also annoyed about the Anokla deal] Karnik


     +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
     | Neeran M. Karnik | #2 fan of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on r.s.c.  :-> |
     | Dept. of CompSci.| "I am Sachin's number one fan" - Sunil Gavaskar  |
     | U of Minnesota   | "A jewel in India's crown" - Tony Cozier         |
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: ccjwm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (John Miller)
Subject: Re: Windies win by 1 run
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 01:06:48 GMT

In article <11853@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> brendan@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>In <1k2q69INNa10@aurora.engr.LaTech.edu> sista@engr.LaTech.edu (Ravi K. Sista) writes:
>
>|WEST INDIES HAS WON THE ADELAIDE MATCH BY ONE RUN.  DAVID MURRAY TOOK A 
>|SPLENDID CATCH ON THE LEG SIDE WHEN AUSTRALIA NEEDED TWO RUNS FOR VICTORY.
>|SCORE CARD FOLLOWS SHORTLY
>
>The ball took a nasty deflection of the helmet visor.
>What a way to go after such a brave effort.
>
>--

Cruel it was!  (Heavy sigh!)
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| John Miller           | Internet Mail - ccjwm@jcu.edu.au            |
| Computer Centre       | PSI Mail - PSI%050527372000051::J_MILLER    |
| James Cook University of North Queensland | Phone: +61 77 815447    |
| Townsville, 4811,  AUSTRALIA              | Fax:   +61 77 796371    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: sagrawal@oracle.com (Sanjay Agrawal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: WI vs Aus (Day 3 stumps)
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:22:22 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corp
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

West Indies were bowled out for 142 in their 2nd innings. Tim May took 5 wkts for 9 runs
in 7 overs!

Sanjay Agrawal 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
Subject: Re: India Vs England full score card.
Reply-To: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
Organization: Bristol University Particle Physics Group /ZEUS Online
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:37:17 GMT

In article <C17v3F.1EJ@cup.hp.com>, pshah@cup.hp.com (Pankaj Shah) writes:
|>Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
|>Path:
|
dscomsa!dxcern!mcsun!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.co
om!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!pshah
|>From: pshah@cup.hp.com (Pankaj Shah)
|>Subject: Re: India Vs England full score card.
|>Sender: news@cup.hp.com (News Admin)
|>Message-ID: <C17v3F.1EJ@cup.hp.com>
|>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:23:39 GMT
|>References: <1993Jan21.111930.26488@rdg.dec.com>
|>Organization: Hewlett-Packard
|>X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]
|>Lines: 8
|>
|>: 	England
|>: 	=======
|>:         .
|>:         .
|>: Extras					30
|>					       ^^^^
|>Wow!  That is a LOT of extras in 50 overs!  Was one of the Indian
|>bowlers 
|>having a bit of trouble?
|>

yes I think it was mainly Srinath, wides and noballs.
--
Tim Llewellyn			
Zeus-UK VMS guru
Soukous Addict
ZEUS02::TJL,BRSPVA::TJL,TJL@ZEUS02.DESY.DE,TJL@SIVA.BRIS.AC.UK
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: sbasu@kirk (BASU)
Subject: Re: Indian Team for 1st Test
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:28:21 GMT

In article <6687@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett) writes:
> 
> I've just heard the Indian team for the first test. Here it is:
> 
> Azharrudin   (capt.)	<= 5
> Sidhu	
> Raman <= 1
> Kambli <= 3
> Tendulkar <= 6
> Sharma
> Amre <= 4
> More <= 8
> Kapil <= 7
> Prabhakar <= 2
> Srinath
> Chauhan <= 11
> Raju <= 10
> Kumble <= 9
> 
The above indicated numbers would be the batting slots of the guys  
selected. The ones without # would be extras. 

For once, Scrooge invites yer responses.
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: No Chicks........  says Indian Manager
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:36:30 GMT

Indian players' rooms off limits to women

	NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (AFP) - Indian  cricket  manager  Ajit
Wadekar  has declared  his players' hotel  rooms  off  limits to
women  in a tough  code of  conduct he has drafted  for the home
series against England.

	"No woman/girl will be allowed in the hotel rooms of the
players," was point number nine of the 12 do's and don'ts set by
Wadekar to ensure cricket remains the sole  preoccupation of his
team after a wretched tour of South Africa.

	Players had more  bad news in the conduct code published
by The Hindu daily on Wednesday, eve of the second one-day inter-
national  in Chandigarh. "No  player's  wife  will be allowed to
stay overnight in the hotel rooms."

	Wadekar, a  former  captain, also  banned  players  from
leaving team  hotels or  talking  to the  press without  his per-
mission, attending private parties and showing up at the nets in
anything other than white cricket flannels.

	No concessions will be made for senior members of Azharu-
ddin's  squad, the  51-year-old  manager and former  skipper has
laid down.

	The tough stance follows the dismal tour of South Africa
where Wadekar saw the  team lose the one-day  series 5-2 and the
Tests 1-0.  India have  won just one  of their  last 21 tests --
against Sri Lanka on a spiteful wicket.

	The first one-day international against England ended in
a last-ball  defeat, but  Wadekar predicts  the team's luck will
turn soon. "We promise to rise from the ashes," he said Tuesday.

==

Thanks :  AFP


Vicky:
UMass, Jan 21
From: rrao@pima.intel.com (Ravi Rao)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: The best ever Test  XIs
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:34:55 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation

In article <1993Jan22.190936.15582@nmsu.edu> sbasu@kirk (BASU) writes:
>
>I've decided to make a list of all time great XIs from Australia, England,  
>India, New Zealand, Pakistan & the West Indies for Tests.
>
>
>INDIA
>-----
>Sunil Gavaskar (vc)
>Vijay Merchant (c)
>Vijay Manjrekar
>G R Vishwanath
>Dilip Vengsarkar
>Faroukh Engineer (wk)
>Kapil Dev
>Manoj Prabhakar
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	PLEASE, no way prabhakar makes it into an all time XI!!

>E A Prassanna
>Bishen S Bedi
>B Chandrashekar
>
>=======================
>
>NEW ZEALAND
>-----------
>John Wright
>Glen Turner 
>Geoff Howarth
>Martin Crowe
>Bev Congdon 
>Mike Burgess (vc)
>John Reid (c)
>Sir Richard Hadlee
>Ian Smith (wk)
>Lance Cairns
>Danny Morrison
>
>====================
>
>PAKISTAN
>--------
>Hanif Md 
>Majid Khan
>Zaheer Abbas
>Javed Miandad
>Mustaque Md
>Asif Iqbal (c)
>Imran Khan (vc)
>Abdul Qadir
>Wasim Akram
>Wasim Bari
>Sarfraz Nawaz
>
>===================
>
>WEST INDIES
>-----------
>Gordon Greenidge
>Conrad Hunte
>George Headley (c)
>Everton Weekes
>Viv Richards
>Clyde Walcott (wk)
>Sir Gary Sobers
>Wes Hall
>Joel Garner
>Michael Holding
>Lance Gibbs
>=====================
>
>Dare any of you to come up with a better XI from any of the above  
>countries! Suggestions about South Africa will be welcome.
>
>- Scrooge McDuck


--
-----------------------------------------------------
Ravi S. Rao
SP1-82	Intel Corpn, Chandler, AZ
e-mail: rrao@hopi.intel.com, rrao@pima.intel.com

Customary Disclaimers apply.
-----------------------------------------------------
From: skumar@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shivesh Kumar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Gavaskar Quiz
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:08:33 GMT
Organization: UB
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Shyam Prasad Talluri (spt@engr.LaTech.edu) wrote:

: 	I want to write some comments which I recollect on Gavaskar's 
: 	batting. I'll be happy if anybody could identify the context of the 
: 	comment.

:                             <deleted>

: 	test other's interest in Gavaskar. It's a pity that people have 
: 	written comments comparing gavaskar to Vengsarkar and Amarnath.Such
: 	comments thoroughy  expose the lack of knowledge in the game and it's
: 	useless to comment back on any such type of comments.


:          	
: 	 
: 	With regards,


:         Shyam.P.Talluri


:  

My dear Mr.Talluri,

Have you ever played cricket?????????? 

Well, simply collecting comments won't make you knowledgible
enough say anything about cricket.I'd better advice you to play some
cricket first and then only you can undestand the details of the game which 
is very important for anyone to become eligible to pass back comments.
good luck

Shivesh
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: ddey@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Debabrata Dey)
Subject: Re: 1980s Dream Teams Matchup
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:00:04 EST

In article <farrell.727571222@coral> farrell@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (John Farrell) writes:
>  This is taking things a bit far! Sid Barnes scored 234 in a test match, what
>does he have to do to be as good as Hadlee?
>
Surely you are joking! There were (at least) two Sid Barnes in test history,
one that bowled fastish off-breaks and got lots of wickets and played for
England at the turn of the century, and the other who batted well 
and got into personality clashes with Bradman and played for Ozland in the
30's. Surely the second one would not have been considered in a world XI,
not as long as Bradman was playing! :-)

Amitabha


Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: AKRAM CAPTAIN OF PAKISTAN.
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 04:38:14 GMT

In article <93026.212603U17868@uicvm.uic.edu>, Sikander Waheed <U17868@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> In article <ash-260193185355@spac-at1-51.rice.edu>, ash@spacsun.rice.edu (ABBAS
> HASAN) says:
> >What took them so long to make the decision? Javed was never a good
> >captain.
> Why Javed is not a good captain? Tell me some points where you think he took
> the wrong decision.
> >He (Javed) lacks maturity and patience (remember the incident in this world
> >cup when he was jumping like a frog trying to imitate the indian keeper?).
>  IS this the reason why you think Javed is not a good captain? If yes, then you
>  know very little about cricket.
> >As for people who say that perhaps one of the other senior players should
> >have been made captain, I have this to say:
> >
> >                        Malik: Good player but his place in the team is
> >                               not very certain.
>                  What makes you think that Malik's position in team is in jeopa
> rdy? He is not dropped from the team since last 5 years or so !
> Wasim Akram is my favourite player. Whether he is a good captain or not only ti
> me can prove. He doesn't have experience in leading a team even in first class
> cricket. What I am worried is about his performance.
> 
> Sikander Waheed

Sikander you keep making these claims. Wasim Akram does have
experience of leading a first class team. He is captain of the Pakistan
International team which as you know has always had several test
players. 

\shamim
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: ravikane@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ravindra Shantaram Kane)
Subject: Re: Indian Team for 1st Test
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:21:39 GMT

Anyway- I was surprised to see that Manjrekar was
dropped from the test team as well! I think it is fine if he
is dropped from the one-dayers, but he should definitely be on
the test team. 
I would opt for the following team:
Sidhu
Manjrekar
Tendulkar
Kambli
Azhar
Amre
Kaps
Prabhakar
More(wc)
Srinath
1 spinner(raju/ maninder/...)
12th man: Raman
If needed Prabhakar could open- otherwise Manjrekar could give it 
a shot as well

-ravi

Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: karthik@seas.gwu.edu (Karthikeyan S. Govindasamy)
Subject: selection critics
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:12:55 GMT

in IMHO  i feel that the selection board has cheated the indian

fans by omitting the master blaster kris srikkanth from the first

test squad. he should be in inorder to see india through. let us

see hope for the best.




karthik


Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: sbasu@spock (BASU)
Subject: Re: Indian Team for 1st Test
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:50:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.145037.6145@lut.ac.uk> D.I.Patel@lut.ac.uk writes:
> In article <6687@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett) writes:
> >
> >I've just heard the Indian team for the first test. Here it is:
> >
> >Azharrudin   (capt.)
> >Sidhu
> >Raman
> >Kambli
> >Tendulkar
> >Sharma
> >Amre
> >More
> >Kapil
> >Prabhakar
> >Srinath
> >Chauhan
> >Raju
> >Kumble
> >
> >
> >
> >Rob.
> 
> Judging from the above here are the 11 players who i think will play:
> (In order of batting . .  .)
> 
> Raman, Sidhu, Kambli, Tendulkar, Azhar, Amre, Kapil, Prabhakar, More,
> Kumble, Srinath...with Raju/Sharma being 12 th man.
> 
> I think Azhar should bat at 5 as it is his ideal (IMHO) place.  The rest  
of
> the team picks itself.  Raman, i beleive, will be given another chance  
'coz
> he was injured and couldn't play in the last test in RSA.  Among the  
bowlers
> they pick themselves from recent performances.  From what i have read on  
the
> net about More, I am surprised he's been picked.  Is his keeping really  
that
> bad? (I know he dropped Gooch on 36 when he made 333 but lets hope that
> doesn't happen again :-)).
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Dip.

I think Amre & Tendulkar swap places; Prabhakar opens instead of Sidhu,
& yes, Azza bats @ #5

Scrooge
From: andyc@is.morgan.com (Andrew Coad)
Subject: US visit by Dr Howat
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:31:46 GMT


Dr Gerald Howat will be visiting the Philly region on March 1/2 `93. To coincide
with this visit, the British Officers CC of Philly and the C.C. Morris Cricket
Library are hosting a "Cricket Evening and Dinner" on Tuesday evening March 2nd.
at which Dr Howat will be the guest speaker. The location is Stouffers Hotel
Valley Forge, PA (215) 337-1500.

Dr Howat is a distinguished historian and cricket writer who has spoken on the 
game to audiences around the world. His literary contibutions include eight
cricket books including Hutton (best seller) and Constantine (Literary award).
As a visiting professor to Kentucky University he has a keen interest in U.S.
cricket and has recently contributed a four part article to The Cricketer
magazine on the history of cricket in the U.S. (Oct '92 through Jan '93). He has
also contributed to the Wisden Almanack and the 1992 edition will contain a lead
article on U.S. cricket by Dr Howat. Dr. Howat is responsible for all Under-19
reporting for The Daily Telegraph and The Cricketer. He has written several
academic articles including "Cricket and American Puritanism" which is published
in the most recent Cricket Society journal. Dr. Howat sits on the MCC Arts and
Library Sub-Committee, played for the MCC until 1989 and is still active with
his local club Mroeton in Oxon.

The evening will be a lively affair and promises to be an excellent social event
prior to the 1993 season. All players, enthusiasts and spouses/friends are
welcome to attend. The dinner will be $25.00 per head from 6:30 p.m. till close
of play. If you would like to attend please call one of the following area
contacts for further information and details or car pooling from your area:

	Phildelphia:	Douglas Hay (215) 964-8458 (H) (215) 270-6839 (W)
	Washington:	Phil Schreiber (410) 235-9781 (H) (410) 668-2600 (W)
	New York:	Jonathan Ping (718) 268-6828 (H) (212) 754-5042 (W)
	No. New Jersey:	Andrew Coad (201) 509-9533 (H) (212) 703-2379 (W)
	So. New Jersey:	Jeff Belton (609) 234-7265 (H) (800) 326-7750 (W)

Hope to see you there!

AC
From: ksingh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Karunesh Singh)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India won second one-day
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:59:09 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland

India won the second one-day, making 199 (or 200) for 5. Siddhu made 76.
From: skumar@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shivesh Kumar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Ravi Shastri..
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:45:23 GMT
Organization: UB
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


BASU (sbasu@spock) wrote:
: In article <C19Iyn.3B0@cs.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
: writes:

> Pick Manjrekar, who deserves to walk into any Indian TEST side, & that
> problem is solved. Besides, Manjrekar has more gears than Shastri - not
> just 1st & top.
       ^^^^^^^^^

Shastri has a reverse gear too not just 1st & top!!

-shivesh
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: dv@welch.jhu.edu (Deepak Vaidya)
Subject: Re: The best ever Test  XIs
Reply-To: dv@welch.jhu.edu
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:36:58 GMT

In article 15582@nmsu.edu, sbasu@kirk (BASU) writes:
 
> INDIA
> -----
> Sunil Gavaskar (vc)
> Vijay Merchant (c)
> Vijay Manjrekar
> G R Vishwanath
> Dilip Vengsarkar
> Faroukh Engineer (wk)
> Kapil Dev
> Manoj Prabhakar
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	I think Karsan Ghavri (sp) was a better bowler.

> E A Prassanna
> Bishen S Bedi
> B Chandrashekar
> 
> 
> 
> WEST INDIES
> -----------
> Gordon Greenidge
> Conrad Hunte
> George Headley (c)
> Everton Weekes
> Viv Richards
> Clyde Walcott (wk)
> Sir Gary Sobers
> Wes Hall
> Joel Garner
> Michael Holding
> Lance Gibbs
> =====================
> 
> Dare any of you to come up with a better XI from any of the above  
> countries! Suggestions about South Africa will be welcome.
> 
> - Scrooge McDuck

I am not sure but half the players in the West Indies team, but I think Lloyd
should also make the team.

- Deepak
From: ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Gavaskar Quiz
Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:22:07 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

>:        ** Unnecesarrily the comparisons with Gavaskar have gone a long
>:       way, I apologise if I had been rude on certain things.
>:
>:         Let's all be sportive.
>:
>:       With regards,


>I appreciate it...
>
>regards,

-----------------------------------

" We are the world, Gavaskar's children
  We are the ones who make his day
  So lets start praising
  There's a noise he's making
  He is saving his own  skin
  Its true he's a pompous ass
  like you and me."

[With sincere apologies to Michael Jackson, 
Lionel Richie and Gavaskarites all over the world]

8->