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From: bnataraj@uceng.UC.EDU (Bhaskar Natarajan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: "We are the world " Team of 80's
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:22:22 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati, Engineering College

In article <00961702.FF66D0A0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 5912ramasubr@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>Here is my ALL World team of 80's
>
>1.Gavaskar
>2.Greenidge
>3.Richards
>4.Miandad
>5.Gower
>6.M.Crowe
>7.Kapil Dev
>8.Imran Khan
>9.Dujon
>10.Hadlee
>11.Qadir

The bowling is a bit too weak, no? I'd drop one batsman (who??!!) for one
darn good bowler.But who might that be ?? Botham ? 

Bye
Bhaskar
From: ravi@wti.com (Ravi Raj)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: All-rounders galore! What's wrong with this picture?
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:22:46 GMT
Organization: Wavefront Technologies Inc, Santa Barbara, CA


Consider the following Indian XI:

W.V. Raman       |   started off his career as a bowler, still bowls
Ajay Jadeja      |   started off his career as a bowler? still bowls
Md. Azharuddin   |   specialist batsman, occasional bowler
Sanjay Manjrekar |   specialist batsman, cannot bowl 
Sachin Tendulkar |   specialist batsman, decent bowler, specially in ODIs
R. J. Shastri    |   started off his career as a bowler, still bowls
Kapil Dev        |   need I say more?
Kiran More       |   keeper, thank God this guy can't bowl!
Manoj Prabhakar  |   specialist bowler, decent batsman, has opened!!
Chetan Sharma    |   specialist bowler, has scored a century!! decent bat!
J. Srinath       |   specialist bowler, a wild hitter in the Lance Cairns mode

There is just one batsman (Manjrekar) who cannot bowl. And just one
bowler (Srinath) who cannot bat.  Yet, this team has crumbled on
dead pitches and not been able to dismiss opponents twice on bowler's 
tracks. Can someone tell me -- What's wrong with this picture?
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From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket,soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Best SriLanakan cricket team
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:13:38 GMT
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
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> My choice would be either Amal Silva, Brendon Kurruppu or Guy De Alwis.
> Amal and Brendon were better batsmen but Guy was a better wicket keeper.
> Guy's batting record was poor because he lacked the attitude for 1st class
> cricket.  He was an explosive bat at the school level and he did very well
> when he captained the SL U-19 side against the visiting AUS U-19 in the
> early 80's. This team included David Hookes and Graham Yallop (?)

What! That makes Hookesy a pretty young man at the moment!! David Hookes is
about 38 years old at the moment (making him 28 in the early 80's - a bit too
old for Under 19 selection! :-) Perhaps you mean the early 70's?

> Vasee

--
Daniel.
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From: sista@engr.latech.edu (Ravi K. Sista)
Subject: Schedule for SA
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 02:32:07 GMT

"Can anybody post the full schedule of the Indian Team tour of South Africa
and Zimbabwe.  I did not note that down when some one last posted on the
Network.  

Thanks in advance."

With Regards,

Ravi Kumar Sista
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:06:08 EDT
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: NEWS FLASH - Azhar captain
 <1992Sep30.201710.15289@dvorak.amd.com>

In article <1992Sep30.201710.15289@dvorak.amd.com>, rajiv@dvorak.amd.com (Rajiv
Malhotra) says:
>
>
>Wadekar really does not inspire a lot of confidence.  For a few
>series, as long as he was winning, everything was okay. When
>things were not going so well, he quit.
>
it seems that your facts are pretty much mixed up. wadekar did not quit. he
was DROPPED from the bombay and indian team after the 74 debacle in england.
rather than take those insults, he "retired" from competitive cricket.

Stay cool,
The Thinker

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Subject: Re: "We are the world " Team of 80's
From: warren@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Warren Turner)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:32:34 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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In article <00961702.FF66D0A0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 5912ramasubr@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
|>Here is my ALL World team of 80's
|>
|>1.Gavaskar
|>2.Greenidge
|>3.Richards
|>4.Miandad
|>5.Gower
|>6.M.Crowe
|>7.Kapil Dev
|>8.Imran Khan
|>9.Dujon
|>10.Hadlee
|>11.Qadir

I'd have Allan Border at no. 6, as he would complement the lower-order
dasher's well. Crowe isn't really a no. 6; he, Miandad & Gower would
fight it out for 4 & 5.
 Hadlee & Qadir were the No. 1 bowlers of their respective types for
the 80's, but one of Kapil/Imran would have to be replaced by the
leading West Indies bowler overall for the 80's: Marshall.
 I'd question Dujon's ability to stand up to Qadir - maybe Smith (NZ)
or Kirmani.

ciao,
     Warren.



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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273)
Subject: Re: Pakistan vs Rest of The World
Reply-To: shamim@bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 22:35:04 GMT

In article 26075@julian.uwo.ca,  raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed) writes:
>To make it short cricket organisers in NA are basically cricket illetrate(IMHO offcourse)
>what we need is someone like Asif Iqbal.
>
>Any opinions?
>
>S.R.Raza



I am not sure what you mean.  Most of the fans who go to the exhibition matches 
in NA are from test playing countries.  The same is true for Sharjah. The majority 
of people who show up at a game in Sharjah are from India, Pak, SL and Bangladesh, 
i.e., the immigrant population. So I am not sure that the crowd in NA is that much
more cricket illiterate than the one in Sharjah. 

As for Asif Iqbal, what NA really needs is a Sheikh Bukhatur. Playing cricket at 
Downing Stadium or the Sky Dome makes it a huge farce. Basically Sheikh Bukhatur 
spent the money on building a good stadium. He then paid handsomely to get good teams to come and make the matches competitive. The whole thing went for a loss for some time and 
I am not sure it still turns out a profit. But it has become a social event in the 
life of Dubai. 

A good stadium in NY, a few years of nourishment and money, and we may have a 
viable OD tournament on our hands. 

The organisers in NY are really not to blame for Downing Stadium. Getting Shea or some 
other such place is just too damn expensive. I spoke to the organisers and there is 
simply no way they can afford the sums involved. 


	--SAN
From: sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: NEWSFLASH - Irani Trophy
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:15:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Sep29.211553.4429
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.


	Just got a newsflash from a friend in India, about the Irani trophy
game in progress at the moment ( I thought it would be about to start now,
seems it's already been going for a couple of days ).
	Rest of India batted first, and seem to have racked up 638 all out.
Delhi in response are 86 for 1.
	Almost no details at all, except that for ROI Raman got 184,
Kambli 94 , Praveen Amre 84, and Yadav ( I presume Vijay ) 86. 
	What does that do to the team I had predicted a few days ago ? Not
very much - Raman probably has a decent shot at making it ahead of Siddhu
at opener ( I think Siddhu and Jadeja both were supposed to play -
obviously neither did a whole lot . Tangent - read someplace that it was
pretty unfair to look at Raman as an opener only, why not as a #6 ? Well,
he was captain of ROI, did he open with both Siddhu and Jadeja around ? If
he didn't , maybe he has a shot at the #6 spot. ) Other than that Kambli
obviously improved his chances, but there doesn't seem to be room for him
unless the selectors decide to go with just 2 openers and drop Jadeja.
Yadav is pushing hard for a spot, and might (maybe even ought ) to make it.
That means Banerjee will probably go on the East ZOne spot, and either
Ankola or Kuruvilla ( probably Ankola ) will be left behind. 

			Sadiq [ instant analyser ] Yusuf
  
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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: All Rounders
Reply-To: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:58:38 GMT

svb0224@zeus.tamu.edu (BALIJEPALLI, SRIDHARREDDY V) writes:
final rankings are :

>1) Imran Khan
>   Kapil Dev.
>3)Richard Hadlee
>4)Ian Botham.

>Discussions and flames welcome.

A question -- you should indictae whether you are ranking them based
on their career value or peak value.  For example, you give Imran
credit for being a great bowler and a great bat, though he was hardly
both at the same time and definitely not both throughout the course of
his career (lest people think this is a flame, I rated Imran as the
highest in terms of career value, and this was even WITHOUT
considering his captaincy)....

>Sridhar.

Bharat



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From: pvr@argo.rice.edu (PVR Narasimha Rao)
Subject: Re: Test 11 to SA and ODI 11 too
Organization: Rice University
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:04:34 GMT


In article <1992Oct3.015232.21040@news.acns.nwu.edu>, sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf) writes:

|> In article <BvI5LM.5rE@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu writes:


|> >Kambli
|> ^^^^^^^^^
|> (Freudian slip ? ) :-) 


Incidentally, Bharat made the same slip (Kambli instead of Kambli) twice in his
post, both in the test team and in the ODI team! Shows how much one wants
Kambli to be in the team.


|> 	Now, here I have very different views. In my book, Manjrekar has
|> waay too much class to be dropped from the Indian team in anything ( tho I
|> too dislike  seeing a purist like  him slogging ). The #3 spot in the OD's


Manjrekar is no longer a `purist'. :-(

ODIs have really spoiled him (though he adapted to them well). I was distressed
to see the changes in him after the Eng tour. In the _test_ with SL, the way
Manjrekar got out is a shame - he got out chasing a ball very very wide of the
off-stump. Compare that with the unbelievable discretion he exerted in Pak over
outside the off-stump balls.


|> 	So, coming to the point, the Grand Design , the reason for me
|> blabbering away this long :-) Open the innings with Jadeja and Manjrekar.
|> Manjrekar is maybe our best player of pace, clearly he can handle it.
|> Manjrekar is good for the opening role in ODI's, his style is to build an
|> inning with placements - singles and twos that keep the scoreboard ticking
|> along. And he has shown the ability to accelerate once he's gotten his eye
|> in ( witness the India/Australia ODI, and the India/SA ODI in Delhi last


Totally agree. But, I am very doubtful about whether Manjrekar wants to open.
Also, I am not very sure if Shastri will agree to play down the order.

Manjrekar said in an interview that he _wouldn't_ open innings (on being
asked by the interviewer if he would open if his captain asked him to do so).
However, he was referring to tests and I don't know if he woudl agree to open
in ODIs.

In terms of keeping the score board ticking and being capable of building a good
innings, even Raman is a good choice.


|> year ) . Plus, as an added bonus, you don't ruin maybe the best technique
|> in India, as an opener he doesnt have to try the crazy slogs that he almost
|> certainly would have to at #5 or 6 in a ODI. 


The "best technique" in India has already been "ruined" enough. :-(

Oneday cricket went to the head of Manjrekar (who once said, "you don't have to
go wild hitting ball all over the place to get runs even in onedayers. Play to a
plan. Don't go for risky shots, go for simple placements and you can score at
will. There isn't much difference between tests and ODIs that way") so much that
he started playing ridiculous shots even in tests ....


|> 		Sadiq [ he keeps going and going and going... ] Yusuf

|> >Bharat

PVR
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From: khan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (LAHORI POOND)
Subject: Pakistan's worst team (70,80,90)
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: w
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:08:22 GMT


1) Rizwan-uz-zaman
2) Mansoor Akhtar (V.C)
3) Haroon rashid (C)
4) Ijaz Faqhi
5) Sajid Ali
6) Taslim Arif (W.k)
7) Nadeem Ghauri
8) Eithshamudin
9) Zakir Khan
10)Mohsin Kamal
11)Nazir Jr

  Compiling this team wasnt very easy. After all not many Pakistani players fit
in the abover catogery. Though i would have liked to leave Mansoor Akhtar out ofthe list he still has made a remarkable reputation for himself for screwing up.
Its shame cause I have seen him play some great knocks, specially in domestic
cricket.Even though Taslim Arif has a double century and a wicket to his credit
he still in my opinion was one of the worst keepers we had. Nadeem Ghauri if u 
remember is the chap who went on the Aust tour. His a left arm leggie i believe.The poor chap cant field besides his mediocre bowling. Eithashamudin, well what
can be said of him hmmmm well i guess he was a typical English cricketer,       overwieght and a very fast spinner with a long start,otherwise known as
slow medium pacers. Zakir khan was, well the least said about him the better.
I admit the reason why i put mohsin kamal up there was not neccessarily cause
of his cricketing abilities but because for some reason i just hated his guts.
I guess that hatred stems from the Gymkhana enclousre in Lahore. Putting 
Nazir Jr there also was a shame cause having played him once twice i started to
respect him a lot. EVen at his age he had great controll over him bowling. The
reason why I Put him there was cause i just cant come up with a name of a lousy off spinner from the top of my mind. Hopefully someone can replace his name fromthe list.
      As far as Rizwan ,Ijaz and Haroon Rashid are concerned i think they    
 deserve thier spot. The worked hard for their positions. I was tempted to
 put Zaheer Abbas's name up there but then I realized that I would soon be
 cooked on a high flame over the net. Even though he had some great innings and
 a good style he hardly played any match winning or match saving inning for
 Pakistan. Anyway he just manages to scrap through. Boy is my mail gonna be
 flooded for saying this. Oh yeah i am not sure if Sajid Ali played for pak or
 not though seeing him play domestically was enough to put him in there.   
    Its geting late here so.............


 laters



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From: CS19241099G@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CRAWFORD, TROY)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: No more spinners?
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:49:11 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
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	There have always been great batsmen, from Grace, Bradman, Sobers,
Pollock to Richards and now Crow, there have been fast bowlers too, in 
Spofforth, Larwood, Lillee and now the likes of Waqar and Wasim seem to 
have taken over the torch, but what about the humble spinner?  The Tiger 
has passed, along with the sub-continent marvels of Bedi, Prassana and
Chandra (I don't dare try), but now that Qadir has hung up his whites, 
what legacy has been left, and are all the spinners all gone?

ENGLAND
	Tufnell - He can't bat or field, but he can bowl a bit.

AUSTRALIA
	Warne - No, I think his efforts against India tell all.
	Matthews - He is a batsman now!

WEST INDIES
	Are you kidding, Haynes and Harper don't rate a mention.

PAKISTAN
	Mustaq - Yeah, the only real champ, but still not even a Qadir

INDIA
	Maninder? There's thousands in India, yet he's the best?

ZIMBABWE
	Traicos played for South Africa in the '60s, he is passed it

SRI LANKA
	Anasuiri - he aint much, a club cricketeer really.

NEW ZEALAND
	Don't flame me too much, but I wont even mention Patel

SOUTH AFRICA
	No spinners here.	

	Anyhow, as I see it, the world of spinners no longer is a highly
populated plateau, with only a handful of members headed by Mustaq and 
(dare I say it) Tufnell, boy is cricket in a poor state.  Please send some 
ideas, because we all need that sharp edge that cricket brings.

Aussie Aussie Aussie
Oi Oi Oi

Aussie Aussie Aussie
Oi Oi Oi

Aussie				*** CHRIS ***
Oi

Aussie
Oi

Aussie Aussie Aussie
Oi Oi Oi
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From: venki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (N. Venkateswaran)
Subject: Re: "We are the world " Team of 80's
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:47:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.011929.20075@marlin.jcu.edu.au> ccjwm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (John Miller) writes:
>In article <1ahjpbINN3qb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxk23@po.CWRU.Edu (Rohit Kashyap) writes:
>
>> Discussions deleted with the resultant team looking like the left hand 
>> column below.
>
>Look what happens when I pick a hypothetical 2nd World eleven from those
>left over.
>
>1st team (Others' choices)		2nd team (my choices)
>--------------------------		---------------------
>
> 1.Gavaskar				 1.Haynes
> 2.Greenidge				 2.Gooch
> 3.Richards			 	 3.Zaheer
> 4.Miandad				 4.Greg Chappell
> 5.Border				 5.Gower
> 6.Kapil Dev				 6.Clive Lloyd (Capt.)
> 7.Imran Khan (Capt.)			 7.Botham
> 8.Dujon				 8.Rod Marsh
> 9.Hadlee				 9.Garner
>10.Malcolm Marshall			10.Lillie
>11.Qadir				11.Holding
>
>12.Maninder				12.Phil Edmonds
>

	Lets consider a third team with Brearley as the Captain. Definitely
	a more intelligent team that could give the other two a run for their
	money.

	Barry Richards
	Glenn Turner
	M. Amarnath
	A. Kallicharan
	M. Brearley (capt)
	A. Knott (wk)
	A. W. Greig
	M. Procter
	M. Hendrick
	L. Gibbs
	B. S. Bedi
	
	D. Underwood (12th man)

	Players upto and including #9 are test level batsmen. #'s 1 thru 4
	are very strong players of pace bowling. Procter and Hendrick can
	open the bowling and Greig and Amarnath can help with the slow
	medium stuff. Gibbs and Bedi provide the spin. And Brearley gets
	selected for his captaincy!

	n.V.
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From: ccjwm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (John Miller)
Subject: Re: Article on the Gower Affair
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 01:19:27 GMT


Not only is Gower still a great bat, he was also far and away the best
commentator on the Nine commentary team during the last World Cup (IMHO
of course).

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From: svb0224@zeus.tamu.edu (BALIJEPALLI, SRIDHARREDDY V)
Subject: Worst Indian Team 1980-90
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:55:00 GMT


Here is my worst Indian team from 1980-90.

1)Ghulam Parkar
2)Pronob Roy
3)Lalchand Rajput
4)T.E.Srinivasan
5)Ashok Malhotra(c)
6)Surinder Khanna(w.k)
7)Bharat Arun
8)Suru Nayak
9)Rashid Patel 
10)Kirti Azad
11)L.Sivaramakrishnan

Any comments?

Sridhar.


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From: ccjwm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (John Miller)
Subject: Re: "We are the world " Team of 80's
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 01:19:29 GMT

In article <1ahjpbINN3qb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxk23@po.CWRU.Edu (Rohit Kashyap) writes:

> Discussions deleted with the resultant team looking like the left hand 
> column below.

Look what happens when I pick a hypothetical 2nd World eleven from those
left over.

1st team (Others' choices)		2nd team (my choices)
--------------------------		---------------------

 1.Gavaskar				 1.Haynes
 2.Greenidge				 2.Gooch
 3.Richards			 	 3.Zaheer
 4.Miandad				 4.Greg Chappell
 5.Border				 5.Gower
 6.Kapil Dev				 6.Clive Lloyd (Capt.)
 7.Imran Khan (Capt.)			 7.Botham
 8.Dujon				 8.Rod Marsh
 9.Hadlee				 9.Garner
10.Malcolm Marshall			10.Lillie
11.Qadir				11.Holding

12.Maninder				12.Phil Edmonds

A test series between these two teams would be worth watching I'd 
reckon.  I wouldn't been keen to put much money on either team
even though the 2nd eleven contains a number of players getting
towards the ends of their careers.  All were still potential
man of the match winners in the early '80s.  If anything stands
out, it is that the West Indies were definitely the team of the
80's, not that that was in doubt.

It's probably possible to pick a 3rd eleven as well which would
be hard to beat.  Yep these little exercises a fun but like 
comparing Bradman to Gavaskar are pretty futile.  I guess we all 
know that by now without me saying so.

Anyone want to try for a third with the bodies left out of these
two World teams of the '80s?

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From: d188sid@utarlg.uta.edu (S RAMACHANDRAN)
Subject: reward for anybody posting Indian team to SA- "porno graphics"
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From: aksimha@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Gerd Von Rundstedt)
Subject: Tragedy for B.S. Chandrashekhar
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:01:43 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA



    I haven't seen this on the net so far, so I guess I'll go ahead.

 --

   B.S. Chandrashekhar lost both his legs after a car accident six weeks ago.
   A benefit match was held on the 4th of October. Brian Lara, Richardson,
   Bishop, Aquib Javed, et al played in the match. Colin Cowdrey (B'lore born)
   came down to visit B.S at his place.
     Sunil Gavaskar presented the collection (Rs 2.5 lakhs - 8000 odd U.S $)
    to an emotional Chandrashekhar. Chandrashekhar was carried to the field
    (from his Wheelchair) by his friends.
 
      My favorite legspinner of all time! Good luck to him....
   

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