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From: sougata@cc.gatech.edu (Sougata Mukherjea)
Subject: Re: Ravi Shastri (Indian team for 1st test)
Reply-To: sougata@cc.gatech.edu (Sougata Mukherjea)
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:53:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.143513.1135@nmsu.edu> sbasu@spock (BASU) writes:
>In article <C19Iyn.3B0@cs.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)  
>writes:
>> 
>> I am by no means a great Ravi Shastri fan, but the team
>> selection for the first Test shows how valuable he is for
>> a TEST team.  COnsider a possible line-up now..
>> 
>> In the absence of Shastri you have to eiter weaken the batting 
>> and go with 5 bowlers and 5 bats plus More (why not Yadav???),
>> and use Prabhakar to open the batting!!  Thats just great -- we
>> ask the most consistent bowler overthe last two series to
>> opne both the batting and bowling -- a good way to burn him out...
>
>How does he then get his highest Test AND one day scores when he opens the  
>batting - 
>100 vs Pakistan '87(Imran & Akram) (odi)
>40 vs NZ '90(Hadlee & Morrison) (test)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
He has a 95 vs Nz while opening. In fact, till the secong innings of the
fourth test vs SA, he has never scored less than 30 while opening for India
in tests.

>64 vs SA '92(Donald & Pringle) (test )
>
>In case you haven't noticed, he is generally a flop anywhere else in the  
>batting lineup.
I wouldn't agree. What about his 60's in Australia in '91-92 and his match-saving innings with Tendulkar in England?

- Sougata
>
>> 
>> 
>> Bharat
>> -- 
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>> AI Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>> 405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801   (217)-333-5978 (O), 337-6498(H)
>> Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana
From: azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Wasim Akran appointed Pakistan captain
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:56:44 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <1993Jan27.204400.22347@nmsu.edu> sbasu@sulu (BASU) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.230918.14990@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
>urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan) writes:
>> (Malik,Rameez,Shoaib?), or is he either beyond his years (Yes, I know
>> he has 102 Test wickets) ?
>
>If one watched the England-Pakistan one day series last year, both Rameez  
>Raja & Salim Malik showed how inept they were as captains.

To be fair Rameez's captaincy was acceptable, but no great. However, Salim
Malik could be called inpet. Nevertheless, I have been advocating
Wasim Akram's captaincy potential for several years, and have gotten
into debnates with very knowledgeable fans (like Aman) who support
Salim Malik's captiancy.

>Imran should, in support of Wasim & Waqar, formally retire from active  
>cricket & be the Pakistani team manager & coach rolled into one. If he is  
>given the power that he had as captain to select & train the team, Wasim &  
>Waqar can, under his guidance, lead the team to new highs.
>Scrooge

IMran has formally retired. I agree with Akram analysis, but express
my concerns about Waqar.

Salman [thinking, speculating, wondering] Azhar



-- 
When humans are given unalieanable rights like life, liberty, and the
pursuit in happiness, very often they interpret that as happiness of
pursuit which threatens the liberty of life in their surroundings.
                                 --- D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar
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Subject: Re: Standard of International Cricket ????
From: robert@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Robert Van Doorn)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:40:12 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

stuff deleted..
>
>
>I am an avid fan of TEST cricket, BUT, I want to be entertained.!!!!!
>
>I do not have the figures to highlight my case, but I would bet that the # of runs scored in a
>day during the tests of the 70's(Chappelli) would far outweigh the paltry number we get these days, and have done for many years.
>
>Who can remember the last person to score 100 runs(on their own) in a session. My last

Mark Waugh scored his maiden test century between tea and stumps vs England.

>recollection of  such a feat, was Dougie Walters, in a Test in Perth in the mid 70's, doing so with
>a "6" of the last ball of the days play.!!! Now that is what I call entertainment.
>
>You people cannot tell me that you feel fully entertained when you watch a Test these days.????
>
 
The 4th test in Adelaide is very entertaining, so was the Melbourne test.
And, you can't tell me that Lara's 277 wasn't entertaining! To see spin
bowlers substantially turning a match around like Warne in Melb. and May
in Adelaide is something in itself. We currently have the 2 best test teams
in the world playing, and the series has had everything, except a situation
where either team has been able to win in the last over of the match. But
then maybe you'd get that from the pajama game?

Rob, AAITP, LaTrobe University.
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From: bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan)
Subject: Re: Selfish Gavaskar & Shastri
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:00:00 GMT

In article <C1CK1C.LzA@acsu.buffalo.edu> skumar@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shivesh Kumar) writes:
>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 

>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?"

	I saw that match and there is NO DOUBT that Gavaskar didn't go
for it. It was only in the end when Richards, Harper and Gomes were 
bowling 10 full overs that he hit a few sixes and raised expectations.
If you really want to quote stats, you should look at how many wickets
fell in the entire Indian inning. To my memory it was only 3 or 4. And
Gavaskar started hitting only after Kapil (i think) came in and started
slogging. 

	I really believe, Gavaskar's attitude in that game (and many others)
stank sky high.

Ciao,
Bhaskar { Boy, the Bearcats are living dangerously !}

>-shivesh
From: azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Dirty and rotten politics of Imran
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:17:51 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <Jan27.204322.49824@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ss733645@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu writes:
>Believe it or not in many circles (other than punjabi) the sacking
>of Miandad was expected.  Punjab selection committee has made his
>move, now we have to wait and see when they gonna lick their salaiva 
>from the floor.    
>SOHBAN SHAHID                

Relax my friend, for you are reading too much into the situation. If
what you say is true, JM would have never been mae the captain to
start with. FYI, JM and Imran are very good friends, even though their
fans are at each other's throat... In fact, there freinds are ready to
make it a Punjab-Sind or Lahore-Karachi civil war. :-)

Salman [with peace, I come] Azhar

-- 
When humans are given unalieanable rights like life, liberty, and the
pursuit in happiness, very often they interpret that as happiness of
pursuit which threatens the liberty of life in their surroundings.
                                 --- D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar  
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From: ccjwm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (John Miller)
Subject: Re: 1980s Dream Teams Matchup
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 06:26:31 GMT

In article <199301210612.AA26521@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> drinnen@deakin.edu.au (Philip Shead) writes:
> In fact I would have both Barnes's in my team. Which would be.
>S.G. Barnes
>W.H. Ponsford
>I.V.A. Richards
>D.G. Bradman
>G.St A. Sobers (vc)
>K.R. Miller (c)
>R.W. Marsh (k) 
>R.J. Hadlee
>M.A. Holding
>W.A. O'Reilly
>S.F. Barnes
>

One of the best efforts yet IMHO  but I'd bat Bradman at three and maybe
replace Richards with Everton Weeks (Sp.)  Richards failed when he
played for Queensland and I'll never forgive him for that. :-)  I don't
know much about Weeks but someone posted his record recently and its
very impressive.  My dad reckons he was great.   Graeme Pollock or
may also be preferred to Richards.   I'd probably have Gavaskar and/or
Barry Richards in place of one or both of S.G. Barnes and Ponsford.

>A found a bit of trouble with Wicket keepers because although you always
>hear of the great number of stumpings from early keepers but they
>had greater spinners to keep to. 

I would pick Alan Knott ahead of Marsh I think.  Still not much in it.

>
>A nice mix of bowlers I thought with O'Reilly's medium pace and Sobers
>spin provided the relief from Barnes' swing, Hadlee's skill and Holding and
>Millers' pace. Miller gets to be captain from Sobers.

For pace, I'd pick Larwood, Tyson, Roberts, or Thomsen ahead of Holding
much as I liked Holding's beautifully fluid action.

Its real tough to pick the all-time greatest team.
>
>As for an Australian team in England
>how about
>M.L. Hayden
>D.C. Boon
>J.L. Langer
>M.E. Waugh
>D.R. Martyn
>A.R. Border
>T.J. Zoehrer
>B.P. Julian
>S.K. Warne
>M.G. Hughes
>C.J. McDermott
>
>Taylor is out considering he average 29 in 1992, and his average is on the way

Yes!!!!  And he should never play in the one day team again, even if his 
first-class average does improve.  We need someone who can push the score
along early to open in the one-dayers.  Hayden's probably a good candidate
as might be Steve Small of NSW.

>down since being about 60 at the end of 89/90 season.
>Zoehrer for Healy is simple.

Disagree.  Six of one, half a dozen of the other IMHO.  Go for Healy
for his enthusiasm.

>And Julian is in as the left armer. I DONT think either Reid or Whitney
>will go too well in the UK. Neither are good at touring, and I think they
>need the Australian pitches to be succesful. Of the 2 I think that
>Reid would be better in England.
>

Simon O'Donnell should go for the one-days. 


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From: sbasu@kirk (BASU)
Subject: Re: The best ever 1 day XIs
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:50:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.000851.7496@gw.wmich.edu> 21modak@gw.wmich.edu  
writes:
> > 
> > AUSTRALIA
> > ---------
> > Paul Sheahan
> 
> 	WHO IS THIS PLAYER? NEVER HEARD OF IT.

He opened for the Aussies in the WSC - as I mentioned above, those  
performances were considered.

> > ENGLAND
> > -------
> > Derek Randall
> 
> 	I WOULD TAKE UNDERWOOD FOR RANDALL

Boy, you really want to weaken a batting line-up that's already under  
threat from some of the rivals mentioned.
> 
> > =============================
> > 
> > INDIA
> > -----
> > Bishen Singh Bedi
> > S Venkataraghavan
> > Maninder Singh
> > 
> 	I DO NOT THINK 3 SPINNERS ARE JUSTIFIED

For India, they sure are. Any more seamers would simply be fodder for many  
of the opposing batsmen.
> 
> > ==============================
> > 
> > NEW ZEALAND
> > -----------
> > Jeff Crowe

> 
> 	I DO NOT RECALL THE NAME BUT THE NZ CAPTAIN BEFORE WRIGHT TOOK 
> 	OVER (HE WAS AN ALLROUNDER , CAME IN AT #6) MIGHT BE A BETTER 
> 	CHOICE THAN JEFF CROWE.

You mean Jeremy Coney? May be.
> 
> > ===============================
> > 
> > PAKISTAN
> > --------
> > Asif Iqbal (d)
> > Imran Khan (c)
> > Wasim Akram
> > Waqar Younis
> > Sarfraz Nawaz
> > 
> 	THIS TEAM HAS ONLY FOUR SPECIALIST BOWLERS. I THINK SOMEONE
> 	LIKE QADIR OR MUSHTAQ AQIB OR EVEN MUSHTAQ MOHAMMED COULD REPLACE
> 	ASIF IQBAL OR RAMIZ RAJA. MAYBE EVEN MUDASSAR IN PLACE OF RAMIZ
> 	COULD PROVIDE THE 5TH BOWLER.
> 

How do you count?

> > ================================
> > 
> > SOUTH AFRICA
> > ------------

> > =================================
> > 
> > WEST INDIES
> > -----------
 
> 
> 	I THINK KALICHARAN SHOULD BE HERE SOMEWHERE.
> 

Carrying the drinks, maybe.
> >  


-Scrooge McDuck
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> 
> 
> 	-Aslam Modak
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------My opinions only.
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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: West Indies vs Australia (4T4D - Adelaide, Australia, Jan 25)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:35:19 GMT

> Man of the Match: Curtly Ambrose

No question that Ambrose deserved it, but lets play "What-if" for a moment.
Let say, what if instead of edging the last bowl bowled by Walsh into
Murray's gloves, McDermott gets a thicker/thinner edge that
flies over his head for 2 runs -- Australia wins..

Now the question is, can you deny giving Tim May the MoM award --
maybe, maybe not, but you could make a very strong case for the
debutant who essentially bowled out Windies and then took the
Aussies to (the brink of) victory..  So essentially, Ambrose has
Walsh to thank for his Man of the Match award :-)

Just a thought, but American football fans will know what I mean 
when I say "ScottNorwood's (Chokewood:-) miss cost Thurmon Thomas
to lose the MVP award in the Superbow 2 years ago....

Bharat
-- 
R. Bharat Rao                         E-mail: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
AI Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801   (217)-333-5978 (O), 337-6498(H)
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana
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From: sbasu@kirk (BASU)
Subject: The best ever Test  XIs
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:09:36 GMT


I've decided to make a list of all time great XIs from Australia, England,  
India, New Zealand, Pakistan & the West Indies for Tests.

AUSTRALIA
---------
Vic Trumper
Arthur Morris
Sir Don Bradman (c)
Greg Chappel
Allan Border
Neil Harvey (vc)
Rod Marsh (wk)
Dennis Lillee
Richie Benaud
Fred Spofforth
Jeff Thomson

======================

ENGLAND
-------
W G Grace (c)
J B Hobbs (vc)
Bill Edrich
Dennis Compton
David Gower
Les Ames (wk)
Ian Botham
Fred Trueman
Jim Laker
Brian Statham
Bob Willis

========================

INDIA
-----
Sunil Gavaskar (vc)
Vijay Merchant (c)
Vijay Manjrekar
G R Vishwanath
Dilip Vengsarkar
Faroukh Engineer (wk)
Kapil Dev
Manoj Prabhakar
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
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From: urajan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Uday Rajan)
Subject: Re: Leading Test Averages.
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:18:19 GMT

In article <1k82t1INN9s7@sunaus.Aus.Sun.COM> peterm@pinhigh.Aus.Sun.COM writes:
>Further, I think you would find that Botham used to get the majority
>of his wickets from "tailend batsmen". England always relied upon
>reliable old Bob Willis and co, to take the wickets of the "real"
>batsmen.
>

While I agree with your sentiments regarding Botham, Peter, I think it is 
easy to minimize the importance of getting the tail out quickly. Consider 
a couple of recent Test series. Against Pakistan, the top half of the 
England batting performed reasonably well; what made Waqar and Wasim so 
dominant was that the England innings was virtually over when 5 wickets were
down - often, the remaining 5 were snuffed out within an hour. Against 
South Africa, India often grabbed the first 4 or 5 wickets early, only 
to see the remaining 5 bat out almost two days. Australia in Sri Lanka 
also benefitted enormously from lower order runs. And, of course, in 
the Test just concluded, Aus recovered from 74/7 because the tail both
helped Langer and added runs of its own.

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From: rohanc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rohan Koduvayur Kri Chandran)
Subject: Kapil's wicket tally in ODI's
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 02:09:21 GMT


If anyone has Kapil's latest stats in One Day Internationals, particularly his
wicket tally I would appreciate it if they could post them on the net, or 
email them to me. In fact if someone has the stats for the whole Indian side, 
I would love to get hold of them.

Thanks a lot.

Rohan

--
*******************************************************************************
Manchester United Football Club		*  INDIA - winners of nothing in
_______________________________		*          recent cricket history.
Leading the way in the nineties		*
1990 F.A.Cup				*   ODIs - Eng 1  India 1  
1991 Cup Winners Cup			*  TESTs - Eng 0  India 0
1993 League Champions ???		*
1993 F.A. Cup ???                       *  KAPIL DEV - 412 / 4952
*******************************************************************************
Rohan Chandran				             rohanc@leland.stanford.EDU
Xref: sparky rec.sport.cricket:19892 alt.comedy.british:3093
From: mcanally@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (David Scott McAnally)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket,alt.comedy.british
Subject: Two Ronnies tribute at cricket
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:37:04 GMT
Reply-To: dsm@axiom.maths.uq.oz.au
Distribution: rec
Organization: Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto, Japan.

The commentators closed the one day match between Australia and
Pakistan (the final preliminary match, 14 January, which
Australia won) with the words:

Greg Chappell:  And so from the Sydney Cricket Ground, it's
	goodbye from me.

David Gower:  And it's goodbye from him.

David McAnally
From: mpj1150@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India defeat England by 5 wkts(2nd ODI, Chandigarh)
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:38:05 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

India won the 2nd 1-day against England by 5 wkts, thanks
to some good batting by Sidhu(76), P'kar and Azhar(30+).
Earlier some good inspired bowling by Kapil, Srinath and
P'kar restricted Engalnd to 6/198(correct if I am wrong).
Details later...
Source(BBC Sports round up 12:45 hrs GMT)
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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: Ist inning India
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 21:46:49 GMT

In article <Jan.23.15.33.33.1993.10411@thebe.rutgers.edu>, ratan@thebe.rutgers.edu (Santosh Ratan) writes:
> 
> Prediction:
> 
> Since today its sunny in San Francisco, in the coming  1st test India
> will score more than 450 in the first inning. For the second inning
> and English innings I will have to see tomorrow and afterwards if its
> sunny or not. Or, I can see the weather forecast.
> -- 

And why should we give any credence to your prediction if you can not
even tell what the weather will be like tomorrow? 

Wondering why I bothered to respond to this, 

	--SAN
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From: tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu (Mahesh V Tripunitara)
Subject: YASF (Yet Another Shastri Flame) (tm)
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:30:37 GMT

In article <93024.090122SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>wasn't playing, amarnath was having a nightmare series and shastri hadn't
>developed into a reliable batsman yet.  the man in was malhotra, who had a

Hmmm...this Shastri chap sure is taking a long time getting to be a reliable
batsman isn't he? He still isn't one...

Mahesh.
-- 
Ask not what the system can do for you, but what it can do it to.
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From: kthiruma@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (Kumara Thirumalai)
Subject: Re: The Name
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:06:37 GMT

I think that it is a corruption of CROQUET because the all Eng. Croq. club
was involved with cricket or something like that.

-- 
FROM

BALAJI THIRUMALAI KUMARA
kthiruma@ic.sunysb.edu

or thru' snailmail:
I 1129A, Chapin Apartments
700 E Loop Road
S.U.N.Y. at StonyBrook
NY 11790.

or tinkle at :
516-632-2419.
From: hfortuin@stellenbos.csir.co.za (Henri Fortuin)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Tendulkar as captain
Date: 28 Jan 93 06:50:31 GMT
Organization: CSIR
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X-Disclaimer: The opinions expressed below are purely personal
X-Disclaimer: and in no way represent the official view of CSIR.

I do not claim to know very muc about Indian cricket, but I went to watch
the Indians at Newlands when they played South Africa -- both ODI and the
test.

What struck me most about Tendulkar was his performance on the field, not
his batting. He has an assertive personality, and obviously THINKS. More
than once he would go over to Azhar with a suggestion about a fielding
position or bowling tactic. As evidence of his cricketing intelligence,
he showed a willingness to change his bowling style to suit the situation.
In the ODI's he bowled gentle inswingers. During the tests he alternated
between off- and leg-breaks, depending on who the other bowler was.

I agree that he seems young to lead a side, but our own Hansie Cronje (22)
and Jonty Rhodes (22?) are only a few years older, and both captain their
provincial teams (Malcolm Marshall says that Rhodes is the best captain he's
had since Clive Lloyd).

Azhar lacks assertiveness on the field, and the killer instinct.

Tendulkar would bring the creativity of youth, and with his enthusiasm (like
Rhodes and Jadeja) he could help India overcome their biggest weakness : lack
of commitment and energy in their fielding. He seems to be willing to try
something different when the game settles into a rut.

Maybe he should be appointed vice-captain under Kapil Dev for a major tour.
Azhar could then concentrate on his batting.

--Henri Fortuin
  Cape Town
  South Africa
From: rajesh@quince (Rajesh Raman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: India Vs England full score card.
Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:33:29 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Sagar Naik (sagar@ECE.Concordia.CA) wrote:
: 
: >The first test starts on 29th February in Calcutta.
:                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ~~~~~~~~
                                             ~~~~~~~~
	Am getting homesick ;-)

--

Rajesh Raman

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