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Subject: RE: World's worst fielder
From: John.Mcmullan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (John Michael McMullan)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:16:20 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.


I really think that this world's worst fielder thread is getting out of hand.

Ewen Chatfield while certainly not a consistently good fielder had his flashes
of brillance. Most notable was a caught & bowled against England in a one
day international match (David Gower). I still see replays of it over here all
the time (along with some other great Kiwi catches).

As for criticism of his batting. I'm a bit young to remember it properly but
as we all know, once No.11 is out in a test-match that's the end of the
innings. Sitting around the TV with a bunch of my father's friends watching
Ewen Chatfield and Jeremy Coney batting for what seemed like hours (but can't
have been longer than a session) was definitely an experience I will not
easily forget. Every ball he faced was expected to be the last. As I recall
these two batted out valuable time and scored enough runs to avoid the
follow-on. Another great Kiwi pastime :-).

Also in my club gear is an old Gray-Nicholls Scoop cricket bat that Ewen
donated to the club. There is a large red circle that marks the spot on the
bat where he drove Dennis Lillee for four runs (off or cover drive, I forget
which).

Max Walker (Aussie Commentator?) once called him the greatest No. 11 batsman
in the game. If that isn't a batting compliment, what is?


END - my ego trip on Ewen Chatfield.

So lay off the bunny fielders/batters. In a cricket team everybody has to
bat+field and the fact that someone can't bat or field very well yet still
manages to make their country's international side consistently means they
must have been/be a very valuable bolwer (eg Phil Tuffnel!).
All the same it is very interesting seeing what people from other countries
think of players past and present :-).
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From: diwadkva@ctrvx2.vanderbilt.edu (Vaibhav A. Diwadkar)
Subject: Re: Richard Hadlee Shares His (derogatory adjective) Views.....
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Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:38:00 GMT

In article <715718913@lear.cs.duke.edu>, 
azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar) writes...

>	   Sir Richard was a great bowler, but not much of a sportsman. I
>was surprised at him wishing it would rain when Pakistan was thrashing
>the effeminate NZ attack all over the place. As a New Zealander, he
>could have wished, but no sportsman worth his salt, would like to see
>his/her team win at the cost of the game.
> 

	- Which game is this a reference to?  The final match in the
	WCup qualifier?  Or the semis?  Both could apply in this case
	I guess.  Just curious.  

				  - Vaibhav.

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From: K.K.W.Ho<Kelvin Ho>@lut.ac.uk
Subject: Re: England Tourists to India, Sri Lanka and Australia.
Followup-To: rec.sport.cricket
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 10:36:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.090930@axion.bt.co.uk>, dgrove@axion.bt.co.uk (David
Grove) wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance, but am I right in believing that Stewart is the only
> WK in the side?
> 
> If so, whilst I have no doubts over his ability as a keeper, I do feel that
> the responsibility of keeping wicket, vice-captaincy and probably 
> occasional opening bat are too much for any man for a complete tour.
> 
> Please tell me I'm wrong (but be nice about it!! :-))
> 
> Dave Grove.


     Richard Blakey of Yorkshire is also a specialist wicketkeeper-batsamn.
 He kept wicket for England in one of the One-Day Internationals against
Parkistan this summer.
From: aapfl6!zulfiqar@aapfl1.attmail.com
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: PAK, ENG  ONE DAYS ON PPV
Date: 10 Sep 1992 14:03:36 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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        DON'T  FORGET  PAKISTAN  VS  ENGLAND  ODI  THIS  SATURDAY

                                ON  PPV


        England vs Pakistan One Day Internationals would be televised
        by most of the cable companies throughout the US.

        Different companies are airing the matches at different times.
        Majority is showing it LIVE on AUGUST 22 (SATURDAY). Some would
        TAPE-DELAY the event by a few hours.

        The AUGUST 24 match may be TAPE-DELAYED and played on
        AUGUST  29 (SATURDAY). Some systems would show it LIVE.

        Your best bet would be to check with your local cable company
        to find the time and day of both the matches. I understand that
        the operators may not know yet because AVI has just struck deals
        with these companies. You might have to talk to your PPV MANAGER
        to get details.

        I also understand that the match would be SCRAMBLED and would not
        be distributed to satellite dish owners unless you make special
        advance arrangements with AVI @ (407) 239-8933.

        Different cable companies are charging different amounts. The
        range is from  $15 to $20.

        Some folks want to know what they can do if their cable company
        is unaware of the matches. I suggest that you call the PPV MANAGER
        of your company and let him/her know of your interest and ask them
        to contact AVI @ (407) 239-8933. It would not be a bad idea to
        give AVI the name/phone of your cable company's PPV MANAGER
        as well.

        In reply to someone's question, Sammons Communications has indicated
        that in towns where they operate there is no interest in cricket
        and so would not be carrying it. That is hard to believe.
        However, there are other companies in NJ, MA, NY carrying these
        games and are in close proximity.

        If anyone needs any further info. you can post it to rsc and I
        will see if I can get the answers.
From: cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: County Championship 1992 September 8 (Tuesday)
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:51:28 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.


County Championship 1992 September 8 (Tuesday)
Day 2 of 4

At Chelmsford
Derbyshire (6) 226 (TJG O'Gorman 64, CJ Adams 60, DR Pringle 5-63)
and 309 (JE Morris 55, CJ Adams 136)
Essex (4) 96 (GA Gooch 53, IR Bishop 6-18)
and 46-0

At Canterbury
Glamorgan (3) 158 (AP Igglesden 5-45)
and 176-4 (A Dale 50)
Kent (4) 219 (NR Taylor 74)

At Manchester
Sussex (8) 563 (NJ Lenham 136, AP Wells 143, B Donelan 68, P Moores 74, Barnett 4w)
Lancashire (3) 170-9 (GD Lloyd 53*, IDK Salisbury 5w)

At Nottingham
Surrey (6) 207 (CC Lewis 4-65)
Nottinghamshire (8) 357 (CC Lewis 52, KP Evans 104, MP Bicknell 5w)

At Taunton
Somerset (8) 534 (AN Hayhurst 102, MN Lathwell 50, RJ Harden 126, CJ Tavare 124, 
                  ND Burns 54)
Durham (3) 219 (I Smith 110, NA Mallender 5w, AR Caddick 4w)


Matches continue Wednesday, Thursday


Day 1 of 4

At Lords
Warwickshire (4) 319-7 (RG Twose 84, TL Penney 88*)
v Middlesex (3)


Match continues Wednesday, Thursday, Friday



CDC
From: mrichardson@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: This little piggie...
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:19:03 -0400
Distribution: world
Organization: Georgetown University

The recent article in The Economist (Aug. 29) which somebody mentioned 
has the laughable remark that, "the best in cricket are now as fit as 
the best in most other ball games" which reminds me of an incident 
some years back.  I can't remember it fully and wonder if someone can 
help on what might be the ultimate cricket trivia question.  In a Test 
against England, in Australia, in the 80's, some fan released a pig 
onto the paddock with a couple of names painted on.  One was Eddie for 
Eddie Hemmings but I can't rmember the other - was it Botham?  I think 
the test was at the MCG - certainly the humour is sufficiently 
sophisticated to bring Melbourne to mind - but, and this is either a 
savage indictment of the game or of my interest in it, I remember 
nothing elsae about the Test!  Anybody else remember this?
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From: andyc@is.morgan.com (Andrew Coad)
Subject: Eng/Pak row reaches New York Times
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:29:16 GMT

This Sunday, September 13th, 1992, an article appeared in the NY Times (Page 3)
about the long summer of discontent on the cricket field. The article is long, I
don't type too fast so I can't post it. If anyone wants a copy, mail me direct 
with a fax number and i'll get you a copy.

Andrew Coad
Morgan Stanley
New York

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From: s1172217@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Smith)
Subject: Aus V SL stumps Day 5
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 20:27:51 GMT

The third test ended in a draw after Aus batted for all of the 5th day (
although rain washed out at least the 1st session) and finished at 8/~280 with
Matthews (a good bat who shouldn't have to make up for the top orders failings
so often) making 96 before he was bowled.  I have no other details at this
stage.

+------------------------------------+
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|  Morwell, Victoria, Australia.     |
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From: guptar@ucs.orst.edu (gupta rakesh forest products)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: duleep trophy
Date: 15 Sep 1992 11:18:58 -0500
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HI

Does anyone know what is happening in Duleep Trophy finals in India?
I think Central and North Zones are in finals.

thanks

rakesh gupta
From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World's worst batsman
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:29:52 GMT
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au

In article <karnik.716502514@unity>, karnik@unity.cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
> In <1992Sep14.155805.1332@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> mrichardson@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
> 
>>Whole new can of worms here (or in the word's of an immortal Globe and 
>>Mail journalist, this "opens up a whole Pandora's kettle of worms") - 
>>as far as worst BATSMAN to (dis)grace an international crease with any 
>>regularity is concerned, someone's earlier suggestion for worst 
>>fielder - Ewen Chatfield - has got to be a top contender.

I'm sure the test series Mark Waugh has just had with the bat would make many a
tail order batsman jealous :-)

--
Daniel.
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From: cobra@chopin.udel.edu (KING COBRA)
Subject: Re: PAK, ENG  ONE DAYS ON PPV
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:55:33 GMT

How about the PPV matches in Delaware?

It seems to me that we have a lousy company and nobody asks them or sends
them any information about the PPV matches.

KING COBRA
From: cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: County Championship 1992 September 10 (Thursday)
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:05:55 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.


County Championship 1992 September 10 (Thursday)
Day 4 of 4

At Chelmsford
Derbyshire (6) 226 (TJG O'Gorman 64, CJ Adams 60, DR Pringle 5-63)
and 309 (JE Morris 55, CJ Adams 136)
Essex (20) 96 (GA Gooch 53, IR Bishop 6-18)
and 442-6 (JP Stephenson 97, N Shahid 51, GA Gooch 123*, MA Garnham 66)
ESSEX won by 4 WICKETS

At Canterbury
Glamorgan (21) 158 (AP Igglesden 5-45)
and 389 (A Dale 50, IVA Richards 76, A Cottey 141, MV Fleming 4w))
Kent (4) 219 (NR Taylor 74)
and 242 (TR Ward 53, D Thomas 5-79)
GLAMORGAN won by 4 WICKETS

At Manchester
Sussex (8) 563 (NJ Lenham 136, AP Wells 143, B Donelan 68, P Moores 74, Barnett 4w)
Lancashire (3) 174 (GD Lloyd 53*, IDK Salisbury 6-28)
and 207 (JP Crawley 9w, IDK Salisbury 5w)
SUSSEX won by an INNINGS and 182 RUNS
MATCH COMPLETED WEDNESDAY


At Nottingham
Surrey (5) 207 (CC Lewis 4-65)
and 411 (DJ Bicknell 77, GP Thorpe 100, AJ Stewart 85, MA Lynch 70, AD Brown 50*
         CC Lewis 6-90)
Nottinghamshire (23) 357 (CC Lewis 52, KP Evans 104, MP Bicknell 5w)
and 262-5 (RT Robinson 129*, GF Archer 66)
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE won by 5 wickets

At Taunton
Somerset (8) 534 (AN Hayhurst 102, MN Lathwell 50, RJ Harden 126, CJ Tavare 124, 
                  ND Burns 54)
and 25-2
Durham (3) 219 (I Smith 110, NA Mallender 5w, AR Caddick 4w)
and 337 (W Larkins 117, Daley 88, IT Botham 74)
SOMERSET won by 8 WICKETS
MATCH COMPLETED ON WEDNESDAY





Day 3 of 4

At Lords
Warwickshire (8) 337 (RG Twose 84, TL Penney 154, KJ Piper 72)
Middlesex (5) 201 (NMK Smith 5-61)
and 273-5 (MW Gatting 71, KR Brown 75*)


Match continues Friday

I'll give a table after the Middlesex v Warwickshire match ends.
Each team has one match left. Essex have won the championship but several
teams can finish second.


CDC
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 23:33:54 CDT
From: <U17868@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject:    Border's runs in test cricket

Does anybody know what is the total of Allan Border's runs in test cricket afte
r hitting a century against Sri Lanka  in the third test.
From: cdcs@st-andrews.ac.uk (Colin D. C. Steele)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: County Championship 1992 September 13th
Date: 14 Sep 92 08:52:48 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.


County Championship 1992 September 12/13 (Saturday/Sunday)
Days 1,2 of 4

At Gateshead
Durham (6) 312 (W Larkins 53, PWG Parker 70, JD Glendenen 76, M Watkinson 5w)
Lancashire (6) 224-6 (MA Atherton 85)

At Cardiff
Glamorgan v Derbyshire, No play Saturday, Sunday

At Bristol
Essex (1) 120 (CA Walsh 7-38)
and 24-0
Gloucestershire (7) 326 (MW Alleyna 93, MGN Windows 71, SJW Andrew 4w)

At Southampton
Hampshire (3) 231 (RA Smith 90)
Worcestershire (4) 112-4

At Leicester
Leicestershire (4) 352 (BF Smith 86, WKM Benjamin 71)
Northamptonshire (3) 75-4

At Taunton
Nottinghamshire (4) 265 (RT Robinson 74, GF Archer 83*)
Somerset (8) 342-3 (RJ Harden 150*, CJ Tavare 125)

At The Oval
Middlesex (3) 344-4 (MA Roseberry 120, JD Carr 114, MR Ramprakash 57*)
v Surrey (0)

At Hove
Yorkshire (2) 232 (SA Kellett 53, C White 71*, IDK Salisbury 7-54)
Sussex (7) 342-3 (JW Hall 90, NJ Lenham 135)

At Birmingham
Kent (6) 603-8 dec (TR Ward 153, MR Benson 122, CL Hooper 102, NR Taylor 78,
                    GR Cowdrey 88, NMK Smith 4w)
Warwickshire (1) 121-5 (DA Reeve 51, AP Igglesden 5w)



Matches continue Monday, Tuesday


CDC
From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Australia v. Sri Lanka Notes.
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:08:44 GMT
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
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The third and final test between Australia and Sri Lanka ended in a draw.
Australia finished the day at 8/280 odd. Highlights were Border following his
first innings ton with 78, Greg Matthews with 96, and Ian Healy 49.
A lowlight was Mark Waugh "scoring" his fourth duck in a row, to give him two
pairs in a row.

Matthews and Border combined AGAIN with a 100+ partnership to rescue Australia
from a disastrous 4 wickets for 9 runs. Healy, again, also contributed.
I'll post the series averages when they become available. Off the top of my
head, Jones scored the most runs for the Aussies, with Matthews a close second,
while McDermott took the most wickets. Ramanayake would have taken the most
wickets for the Sri Lankans, but as for their top scorer, I'm not sure.

Matthews has now scored 5 50+ scores in a row - anyone know the record?
What about the record for the most ducks in a row?!

The Aussies now need to sort out their top order problems before the test
series against the Windies starting in November. Geoff Marsh will probably
return to open if in form, while Mark Waugh's spot will be up for grabs if he
continues to fail back here in Australia. Front runners would be Darren
Lehmann, a solidly built left hander who hits the ball hard, Michael Bevan,
much the same as Lehmann - left handed, hits the ball REAL hard, probably the
more "correct" of the two, is also one of the best fielders in Australia, and
can bowl left arm mediums or chinamen, Damien Martyn, and Steve Waugh.

--
Daniel.
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From: John.Mcmullan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (John Michael McMullan)
Subject: RE: Ewen Chatfield's batting
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:55:02 GMT


>...
>As for criticism of his batting. I'm a bit young to remember it properly but
>as we all know once No.11 is out in a test-match that's the end of the
>innings. Sitting around the TV with a bunch of my father's friends watching
>Ewen Chatfield and Jeremy Coney batting for what seemed like hours (but can't
>have been longer than a session) was definitely an experience I will not
>easily forget. Every ball he faced was expected to be the last. As I recall
>these two batted out valuable time and scored enough runs to avoid the
>follow-on. Another great Kiwi pastime :-).

Found out last night from my father that they were actually batting to WIN the
test match (against Pakistan apparently). No wonder everbody was so excited.
:-)
From: moghal@aludra.usc.edu (Nadeem Moghal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Australia v. Sri Lanka Notes.
Date: 14 Sep 1992 03:24:11 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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>Matthews has now scored 5 50+ scores in a row - anyone know the record?

The world record is seven successive scores of 50+, held by Everton
Weekes of West Indies. In late '40s, he had a world record sequence
of five hundreds, followed by 90 and 56.

A number of players have crossed 50 in six consecutive innings. I can
think of two:

Gundappa Viswanath vs AUstralia 1977-78  (last five innings were 50+)
                   vs Pakistan  1978-79  145

Zaheer Abbas       vs Australia 1982-83  91, 126, 52
                   vs India     1982-83  215, 186, 168

Zaheer's next knock was 25 not out (innings declared), and he was 
deprived of a chance to get to the record. Also, he bacame the
first batsdman in the annals with three successive innings of 150+.

Javed Miandad had a very interesting sequence, starting during the
course of the same series:

      126  at Faisalabad
      280* at Hyderabad
       85  at Lahore
       47  at Karachi

Then, on the Indian tour after the '83 world cup, he had scores of

       99  at Bangalore
       66  st Jullunder
       52  at Nagpur

Had he completed his half-century at Karachi, he would have shared
the world record.


>What about the record for the most ducks in a row?!

It is perhaps four, held by Bhadwat Chandrasekhar, who had the dubious
sequence against Australia in 1977-78, which included a pair.

Nothing, though, can beat Mohinder Amarnath's "performance" against
West Indies in 1983-84. He began the calendar year of 1983 with a 
world record; he reached his 1000 calender runs on the earliest date,
in nine matches. The world record of most runs in a year (1710 by
Isaac Alexander Vivian Richards, 1976) was in a clear jeopardy because
he still had six more tests to go.

But his scores followed this sequence:

      0 & 0  Kanpur
      1 & 0  Delhi

He was "rested" at Ahmedabad and Bombay. But then, he was given another
chance:

      0 & 0  Calcutta

He finished the series with a single run in six innings, at an average
of 0.16!  (No, it is not a factorial!)

>Daniel.

Nadeem

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From: jka@ipsa.reuter.com (Jan Arendtsz)
Subject: Re: Australia v Sri Lanka - Third Test.
Organization: Reuters Information Services (Canada) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:09:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.141409.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au> ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au writes:
>
>It's been a real disappointment for all Australians to see our team battling to
>win against the so called "minnows". I think though we cannot underestimate any
>team on their home soil. As to how the Lankans would've gone if the series was
>in Australia, well, I'm sure it would have been a different story....(I hope!)
>
>Daniel. (The leggie from Down Under!)

Well the Lankans did not fair badly the last time they played test cricket
in Australia. Although they did lose one of the two test matches, it was
by a relatively small margin (if my memory serves me correct...). One should
also remember that this was about three years ago with quite an inexperienced
team. I think the current team has a much stronger and somewhat more confident
batting lineup (yeah! 2nd innings of the first test...). 

my $0.2 worth

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From: vnesiah@usc.edu (Deep Third Man)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: MCC vote of no confidence - Eng selectors
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:20:55 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Just heard that the MCC is planning a vote of no-confidence against the
England selectors for failing to include Gower in the side.
BBC had planneda TV debate between the pro-Gower camp and a
pro-selectors camp. It was cancelled at the last minute due to the
fact that there was nobody available to speak for the selectors.

Brian Johnston, Tim Rice, Harold Pinter, Gary Linekar (football player)
and a few other big names are leading the charge against the selection cmte.
They charge that Gower was left out for personal reasons and that he is
one of the most gifted and consistent batsmen that England has.

Apparently, Fletcher, Gooch and Micky Stewart don't like Gower.

BTW, Gower got married last week and Gooch was not invited (surprise!).
Botham and Lamb were there and Gower was quoted as saying in reference
to Gooch not being invited; "I guess you can say that he is not in my team."

Poor Gower, first he is dropped from the Eng side and then he gets married.
;-)

Any comments?


Vaseeharan