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From: anam@cs.UAlberta.CA (Anam Magsudul)
Subject: Re: Mark Taylor ambidextrous
Keywords: australian
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:33:15 GMT

pmc5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul M Corballis) writes:

>In article <6671@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan15.145434.165538@dstos3.dsto.gov.au> gbf@se21.itd writes:

>[intro deleted]

>>>
>>>Does anyone know of any other ambidextrous cricketers.
>>
>>Curtly Ambrose bats left-handed and bowls right-handed I think. Phil
>>Tufnell bats right-handed and bowls left-handed. Come to think of it so do
>>I. I think its quite common because batting involves the use of both hands
>>and so if you are taught to bat the opposite way round to your natural
>>inclination early enough its probably not that hard to do.
>>
>>Rob.

>Sir Richard Hadlee also springs to mind as a right-hand bowler/left-hand
>batsman.  He also bowled one delivery of left-arm "spin" against 
>Australia in about 1987.

>Cheers, Paul

As a matter of fact you could make a very decent team with players
who bats and bowls opposite hand. I can think of many, a few of them
are:
Sir Richard 
Bedi
Doshi
Shastri
Maninder (Isn't is interesting that most of India's left arm spinners
	are right-handed batsman? durrani is exception)
Sadiq
Salem Jaffar (Most probably)
Ejaj Ahemd (bowls left-arm)
Edmonds
Tufnell
Ellison
Cris Old
Underwood
Marsh (bowls right arm)
Mattews
Hohns
Bright
Ranatunga
Ajit desilva
Gurusinha (Probably bowls rt. arm)
Ambrose
Clive Lloyd (used to bowl rt. arm)
Gary Troup (May be)

Anyway, this is a never-ending list. However, none of them are ambidextrous,
because they neither batted both handed nor bowled with both arms. I know
a cricketer (who represented Bangladesh), could bowl right arm medium-pace
as well as left-arm orthodox spin and he used to mix that regularly. That
is quite difficult, I think.

Anam.
From: khan@shrike.und.ac.za (Feroz Khan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Sri-LankaU24 vs Tvl U24
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:45:10 GMT
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Hi there Netters

Here is the result of the Sri-Lanka U24 and Transvaal U24 match.

Transvaal U24   1st innings   141 all out
                              B White 42

Sri Lanka U24   1st innings   189 all out
                              R Kalpage 57
                              D Liyange 46
                              Jack 4-34
                              Stevenson 4-55

Transvaal U24   2nd innings   191 all out
                              A Pollock 61
                              D Laing 40
                              Kalpage 4-63
                              Muralitharan 5-64

Sri Lanka U24   2nd innings   141 all out
                              R Kalpage 34
                              Jack 5-52
                              Stevenson 4-39


Transvaal U24 won by 2 runs.


Below are two press report on the match:

From The Natal Mercury 26 January 1993
--------
Sri Lanka fluff it

JOHANNESBURG - The touring Sri Lankan Under 24 cricket team snatched
defeat from the jaws of victory yesterday as Transvaal Uunder 24 scored a
surprising two-run win in their four-day cricket match at the Wanderers.

  The Sri Lankans were almost assured of victory before last man Ruwan
Muralitharan holed out to Anthony Pollock at mid-on off Steven Jack with
only three runs needed for victory with 20 overs to get them. - (Sapa)
---------

From The Daily News 25 January 1993
---------
Good knock by Pollock

JOHANNESBURG - Anthony Pollock set a breezy 61 for Transvaal Under 24 in
the second innings of their cricket match against their Sri Lankan
counterparts at the Wanserers yesterday.

  With Dean Laing, he figured in an 75-run partnership to which Laing
contributed only 14 runs.

  When Pollock departed after hitting 5x4s and three sixes, Liang went on
to score 40 as Transvaal reached 145 for 6 at stumps, a 97 run lead.

  Earlier Kalpage and Dilip Linyanage featrured in a 90 run partnership
for the eight wicket after the Sri Lankans resumed at a shaky 51/5.
---------

Hope you enjoyed that.

Feroz Khan
University of Natal
Durban
South Africa
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From: 000087384@vill.edu (GUNNA, SANDEEP)
Subject: Re: Patil's  consecutive 4 s
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:59:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.064540.29766@leland.Stanford.EDU>, urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan) writes...
>In article <1jt9h9INNo4a@bigboote.WPI.EDU> rajesh@quince (Rajesh Raman) writes:
>>
>>	Sandeep Patil hit 6 fours off 6 successive deliveries of a 
>>	Bob Willis over that consisted of just those 6 deliveries.
> 
>Not quite; one of those 4s was off a no-ball, and somewhere in the middle
>there was a ball that was not scored off.

In fact the 6th ball; so he had 5 consecutive fours and a noball followed by
another 4.  The over looked something like this 44444n(w-b)4; though it
didnt matter that his stumps were hit on that 6th ball.
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Subject: Re: WI, WSC I final, Full Score card, Comments
From: WEABEP@DEVAX1 (Peter ABELA)
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:46:30 +1000
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In <farrell.727322435@coral> farrell@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au writes:

>   Of course, this is the way Ambrose should bowl all the time, not just when
> he's annoyed. But boy is he a good bowler! I haven't seen any evidence that
> Akram and Waqar are in the same class.
> 
I guess you can't have watched Pakistan's tour of Australia in 1989/90, where
Wasim Akram bowled Australia out regularly, and Mark Taylor was the only
batsman to score any runs (he averaged 100). The in-swinging yorkers Akram
bowled then were something to behold.



The Speaker.

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From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Akram
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:00:13 GMT
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In article <1993Jan27.064411.27298@massey.ac.nz> SAbbas@massey.ac.nz (S.G. Abbas) writes:
>
>
>I disagree with you. I have seen and met all team mebers when they were
>in New Zealand. They simply do not obey Miandad. Why. Because Miandad is
>too soft person to be leader. Someone "loose tempered" like I thiink all
>fast bowlers, should have been captain. 

Now do you folks understand my point about cultural differences? :):)
All I heard were complaints about him chewing too much booty, and
now we hear that he could have chewed some more.
>



j n a
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From: atulthombre@hgrd01.enet.dec.com (The Solitary Reaper)
Subject: Re: India Win 2nd ODI
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:07:53 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.114049.7774@bnr.uk>, mtrayer@bnr.ca (Mark Trayer) writes...
>
>	-- Some stuff deleted --
>
>Azharruddin batted excellently for 36 before being lbw
>to Reeve off the 42nd over.  A decision that surprised 
>the commentators as they felt that the ball struck him too
>high.  Maybe this performance will silence some of his
>critics ?

	I don't think Azar batted excellently. I watched him play yesterday,
though he scored 36 run with fairly good speed, he was struggling throughout
the innings. Incidently Geoff Boycott (sp?) and Sunil Gavaskar were in the
commentary box (Both of them never together). Both of them were constantly
pointing out the mistakes in the Azar's technique. How his feet are not moving,
how he is playing away from the body etc. etc. But he played some excellent
shots. One of them was a cover-drive very early in the innings. This delivery
was slightly short pitched, slightly outside the off-stump and Azar leaning on
back-foot punched it through cover for four. The other one was through
midwicket (a typical Azar shot) which fetched him 3 runs.
	The decision which gave him out lbw was a bit surprising because the
ball was a good-length and on the middle and leg stump. Azar tried to swing it
to the square leg boundary, missed it. The ball struck him on his upper
thigh-pad. He didn't show any discontent and accepted the decision.

Atul.

>Mark.
> 
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From: KSRAO@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
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Subject: Adelaide test - start
Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:22:34 -0600
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00:20 GMT on 23-1-93  (7:20 pm EST on 1-22-1993)

    WI/AusAdelaide test is comong on thesatellite G6 Channel 20 - startsat
00:30 GMT

Warne and May in Dodemaide 12 th man. Langer in
Benjamin in, Adams out Walsh in.
From: sdnaik@IASTATE.EDU (sanjeev d naik)
Subject: pair of ducks in test matches!
Keywords: pair , tests.
Reply-To: sdnaik@IASTATE.EDU (sanjeev d naik)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:30:52 GMT

all u statisticians NOTE: 


        
        artherton bags a pair in the 4th test of the on going WI-AUS test
series.


Q: maximum pairs in test matches ?  (chandra ? - how many ? - 8? )

ciao

sanjeev.
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From: 000087384@vill.edu (GUNNA, SANDEEP)
Subject: Re: disastrous debuts
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:59:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.232613.20361@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, pramasun@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Padmanabhan Ramasundaram) writes...
> 
> 
>            Srikkanth made 0 and 13 in his debut. The way he got out in the 
>second innings was rather comical.  (He strolled out of his crease and was run 
>out!).  I suppose he can be called reasonably successful , at least in one 
>dayers.
> 
>            Vishwanath also made 0 in his debut innings.
> 
But went on to make a century in the next innings.  Maybe the first of
the kind.

bye
sandeep

>Paddu.
From: rakesh@mame.mu.OZ.AU (Rakesh DESAI)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Changes needed for Perth test
Date: 26 Jan 93 05:17:13 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

At tea Aus 8/110 (Langer (brave boy) 44 n.o., May 4 n.o.)

no comments about that score.  I guess Peter Roebuck has more sense in
future before writing off a team like West Indies.  With judgement like
that no wonder he never played for England and Botham, Richards and
Garner left Somerset.

What about Australian test side for Perth.

Mark Taylor needs a break for same reason as Dean Jones, performance in test
matches.  For last 16 innings he hasn't crossed 50.  Matthew Hayden can
make debut at Perth.  I doubt selectors will take two spinners in
Perth (or any spinners at all).  How about debut for one or two pace
bowlers Julian or Angel or Reiffel (ofcourse he has played 1 test)?

Any comments?

Just heard Langer made 50 n.o.

enough said

rakesh
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Subject: WI/Aus T4, D1 session 1 drinks
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:35:48 -0600
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At drinks in the first session - WI are   none for 62, Haynes 12, Simmons 40
and 16 overs are bowled.

Straight drive off McD for a four all 
run and a three straight drive.

In the fifth over of McD, Simmons hit two fours thrugh gully, one an uppish
shot and and beautifully hit four along the ground. McD was relieved and Steve
Waugh came and had a maiden over. Later, Simmons hit a straight drive off Waugh
for a four.

WI got their 50 in 50 minutes off 77 balls. They seem to be scoring the first
hour ad an ODI. Haynes is very tentative and is lucky to be stll at the crease.

After 30 minutes, WI are:  26 -   after 7 overs
Haynes 10 and Simmons 8, one a very good shot through square leg, another a
lucky uppish shot thriugh point.
Haynes hit a very good square cut for 4

00:20 GMT on 23-1-93  (7:20 pm EST on 1-22-1993)

    WI/AusAdelaide test is comong on thesatellite G6 Channel 20 - startsat
00:30 GMT

Warne and May in Dodemaide 12 th man. Langer in
Benjamin in, Adams out Walsh in.


Richie won the toss and will bat

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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: Indian team for 1st Test -- Discussion
Keywords: indian team selection
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:22:59 GMT

In <C1Ko6x.34p@rice.edu> pvr@rice.edu (PVR Narasimha Rao) writes:


[about Kambli]

>He *does* have great shots in the vee. In his knock in the Jaipur ODI,
>for example, he relied on "shots in the vee" in the first half of his
>knock. He didn't start using the pull shots until late in the innings.

	That's nice to hear - Kambli, when he first burst onto the scene
in Bombay, didn't seem the kind of player who would adapt his game to the
needs of the situation, but he seems to have worked wonders, thanks in 
part, I'm sure, to Achrekar's guidance.

>|> >BTW, good luck to `SBT' (`Shraddhashram Batting Trio' -- 
>|> 	Minor quibble - it's Shardashram :->

>Now it's Neeran's turn to "embarrass me in public" :-)

	Oh no, wouldn't dream of it :-) As I said, minor quibble....


>     +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
>     | PVR Narasimha Rao | #1 fan of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on r.s.c.  :-) |
>     | Dept of Elec Engg | "I am Sachin's number one fan" - Sunil Gavaskar  |
>     | Rice University   | "Sky is the limit for him" - Imran Khan          |
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	HOLLLLLERR!!!! Copyright violation!!!! ("Look who's talking"
says McBean) :-)


     +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
     | 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         |
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From: sista@engr.LaTech.edu (Ravi K. Sista)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Small correction
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:53:40 GMT
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In the English innings 


             Gatting    c&b Srinath         0

Sorry for the late posting.

Keep in touch for the latest from Chandigarh, guys

With regards,

Ravi Kumar Sista


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From: ST001558@brownvm.brown.edu
Subject: test
Organization: Brown University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:14:16 GMT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
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From: rakesh@mame.mu.OZ.AU (Rakesh DESAI)
Subject: Aus-WI 4th test, 4th Day at Lunch
Keywords: AUS,WI
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:41:04 GMT

At the lunch Australia is 3/64

Boon lbw Ambrose 0
Taylor c Murray b Benjamin 7
Langer n.o. 18

Mark Waugh c Hooper b Walsh 26 (supposed to be a great catch, Waugh was
playing very well other wise)

Steve Waugh n.o. 4

Rest must be sundries, quite a few no balls.

Rest of the history WI 252 and 146, Aus 213 and needs 186 to win but
looks like a big task ahead.

Three results possible Aus win, WI win or Tie.  Hope it will be a tie :-}.

If Aus win then Frank Warrel Trophy will come back to Aus after almost
15 years.  If WI wins, they have chance to keep trophy for few more
years by drawing or winning next test at Perth.

bye
rakesh

PS : Heard scoop that Wasim Akram has been named as Captain of Pakistan
and most likely (I feel obviously) Javed Miandad will also play as a
senior player.  Source: commentator Rex Perreira of ABC
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From: 000087384@vill.edu (GUNNA, SANDEEP)
Subject: Re: A Question?
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:57:00 GMT

> In article I asked  000087384@vill.edu (GUNNA, SANDEEP) writes:
>Hai!
>
>If you all muat have remembered Gavaskar fulfilled his dreams
>of scoring a century at Lords during the Bi-centinnial game held
>there about 5 years ago; that too in his last first class match.
>Now my question is
>
>	Who were the other batsmen who scored centuries in that 
>match.  That there is something common about them is another
>point.
>  
Some of the netters did give correct responses; though only partially.
In all five batsmen scored centuries in that match including Gavaskar
and they all had in common their last name starting with 'G' as mentioned
by many.  They were

Gooch 
Gatting
Gower
Greenidge and ofcourse
Gavaskar.

So in all Five 'G' with five contrasting centuries.

Now ok here is another question for all of you cricket pundits:

Who is the only batsman from Asia; rather the subcontinent to have
scored a century before lunch on the very first day of a test match.
And no it is not Farook Engineer 8)

keep your answers coming

bye
~sandeep

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From: spt@engr.LaTech.edu (Shyam Prasad Talluri)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Gavaskar Quiz
Date: 24 Jan 1993 18:45:17 GMT
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	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.

	(1) Cometh the hour, cometh the man, the same man Sunil Gavask
	a collosus amid the ruins.Which was this innings , I am talking
	about. (Hint: It's from sportstar)

	(2) Oh! beautifully played backward of square on the off-side 
	generous round of applause for Gavaskar, We saw Visvanath in the 
	first innings, captain gavaskar himself now, a beatiful innings in
	trying conditions.(Whose comments are these, and where?)

	(3) Oh! Well bowled! that not only cut back as well as deceived the
	world's greatest run getter with the seam and movement, but it also
	hit the base of the stump. (which was this match & whose comments?)

	(4) That's it and it's out. Sunil gavaskar goes."It's a big bonus for
	England, The little man, the great man was looking very dangerous indeed 	for me , it's a surprise he's got out to a shot like that.
	Whose comments and which was the test?

	These are just to keep the name of gavaskar moving and nothing to
	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


 
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From: eb139@cs.city.ac.uk (MAHMOOD Z)
Subject: Re: Akram
Organization: City University
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:19:38 GMT

In <1993Jan26.222152.24592@leland.Stanford.EDU> rohanc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rohan Koduvayur Kri Chandran) writes:

>In article <1993Jan26.200402.18044@cs.sfu.ca> apurva@cs.sfu.ca (Apurva Desai) writes:

>>That would not only be a loss to Pakistan cricket but also to world cricket.
>>I hope it doesn't mark the end of The Best Bowler In The World Today.

>er... where does Curtly Ambrose come into this????????

>Rohan

har dee har har
We all know Younis is the best in he world. Surrey dont pay him that huge 
lump sum of money for nothing you know!
From: skumar@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shivesh Kumar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Selfish Gavaskar & Shastri
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:12:47 GMT
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Spaceman Spiff (SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:

: let's look at the facts:
: WI scored 333 in 45 overs (7.4 r/o)
: WI bowling attack was marshall, holding, roberts etc.
: india never had a prayer.
: gavaskar scored 83 off 96 balls (3 6's and 6 4's) and he was dismissed
: not too bad a performance. the loss of two early wickets basically sealed
: the deal for WI. india wound up with 229 in 45 (5.09 r/o).
: get your facts straight before criticizing.

: Stay cool,
: Spaceman Spiff

It seems you never watched that match but only saw the misleading statistics.
For chasing 333 you need to start right from the first over or simply quit,
staying throughout taking singles getting out at the end in trying to 
accelerate at a time when he could have only improved his stats & thats what 
he did, yes 83 off 96 will look good but not when its 7.4 r/o required or does
he expect the tail-enders to make-up the damage done by him in last few overs.
 
Anyone who watched that match on TV may remember the expert commentator 
Faroukh Engineer saying-"now he has started hitting sixers when we've
allready packed our calculators, why didn't he do that earlier?"

-shivesh
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