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From: sudhama@engin.umich.edu (Sudhama Gopalan)
Subject: Re: England team's reactions/comments on situation in India
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:35:23 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <0096671E.E89BC1C0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>

>success. I personally have nothing against him, but would like to see Rajesh
                                                                       ^^^^^^
Sorry to sound nitpicky (if there's a word like that) - you mean Vijay Yadav, 
the 'keeper from Haryana. Rajesh Yadav, if I'm not wrong, is another Ranji 
player for a different team (don't know for sure which one).

>Yadav get a few decent chances before he is also written off. Perhaps, Yadav
>for tests and More for ODI's? No? Well it was worth a try. :--)

Sudhama
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: NZ v Pak: Pakistan win by 33 runs
From: awil2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Andrew James        Willmott       )
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:57:31 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

Patel has just been bowled by Wasim Akram to dismiss NZ for 93. Pakistan
have pulled a victory out of the fire yet again! Why can't they pick on
someone else, that's what I want to know. :)

Wasim bowled well again, picking up a five wicket bag, but the person who
really pulled things around for Pakistan was Waqar Younis, whose form has
been fairly patchy until now. Apparently Javed was about to pull him off and
replace him with Mushtaq earlier today, but Waqar wanted another over, and
the rest is history. The bowling figures of the two strike bowlers were:

22-4-5-45  for Wasim Akram
13-4-5-22  for Waqar Younis

Wasim Akram was man of the match, having 8 wickets in the match.

Andrew the dejected.
(The WI are 271/2, with Richie Richardson having just reached his century.)
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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: Pak win by 33 runs - the swing demons do it again
Keywords: over rates, slow play
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 21:45:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.031921.6700@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>, penglish@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Paul English) writes:
> 
> 22 overs in more than 2 hours ?!
> 
> Does the 90 over rule apply in NZ, and if so have Pakistan being having
> trouble meeting the target.  This wont apply in this case since the match
> finished, but surely such an over rate, even given the fall of wickets,
> must be unacceptable unless there were other stoppages.
> 
> 

The 90 overs a day, six hours a day rules are all part of the ICC
regulations now. They are enforcing a 6 hour day in India where
traditionally the tests have had 5.5 hours of play in a day. 

In this case, however, nobody would have paid the slightest attention
to this rule. The spirit of this rule is to ensure sufficient action
for the paying public (also to limit the WI pace quartet but I will be
nice today) and I daresay that the public were getting quite a bit for
their money. 


	--SAN
From: Philip Shead <drinnen@deakin.edu.au>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: J. Taylor in England Team
Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:54:32 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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 Simple question. Who he is and what does he do?
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: R Smith is fine.....
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:30:06 GMT

An old piece of news.....
(Source: The Times)

The only fitness concern in the English team was Robin Smith, who had 
been hit on the toe in net practice at Lilleshall.  However, fears he
had broken his toe proved unfounded.  "He  walked into the hotel okay
anyway," Keith Fletcher, the manager, said. 

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 06
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: pdy@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Poojitha Yapa)
Subject: Re: Sri Lanka : How good are they ?
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:27:02 GMT

From article <16B4FE612.074SPOCK@Witsvma.wits.ac.za>, by 074SPOCK@Witsvma.wits.ac.za:
> Sri Lanka is capable of beating NZ (recent result), Zimbabwe and the way
> India is playing, perhaps them as well.
>  
> But, I question if they can beat the "top four":WI, Aus, Pak, Eng.
> Also, SA has improved tremendously since their reintroduction into
> world cricket and as they did reach the rain affected semis of the World
> Cup, I would have to say that Sri Lanka may not be able to beat SA either.
>  
> ..-----------------------------------------------------------------------.
> |  Mukesh Kasanjee            Nickname    : Spock                       |

Emotions Vs. . Facts 
SL beat SA at the  world cup - not too long ago
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Confident Englishmen Land as Indians Struggle in SA...
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:36:51 GMT

	England's cricket team arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday full of
confidence for  their test and  one-day series against India currently
being battered in South Africa.

	"I think we  can win the series if we  play to our potential," 
said team  manager Keith Fletcher.  "India is a  good side but not too
many  batsmen seem  to be in form at the  moment.  We possess a strong
attack  which  will pose  plenty of  problems  to the Indian batsmen,"
Fletcher said.

	Captain Graham Gooch, who  will play  his 100th test in India,
was more  circumspect.  He promised  an entertaining  series and  said 
India's poor  showing on  their tour of  South Africa was no signal of
easy England wins. "The Indians might be struggling in South Africa at
the  moment but  they are a  talented lot and will be tough to beat at
home," he told reporters on arrival.

	Gooch, 39, welcomed the introduction  of television monitoring
of close decisions to aid umpires, saying experiments with video moni-
toring  during the  series  between India  and South Africa had proved
successful.  "We will have no  objection to it being introduced during
our tour  of India," he said.  But  he said he  was worried  that test
cricket was being pushed into the background by one-day internationals
which have proved so  popular with the fans.  "The trend  worries me a
great deal," Gooch said.  England play six one-day  internationals and
three tests in India before going on to  Sri Lanka  in March.

	Gooch was  considerably  more cheerful  at the prospect of the
century of  England test caps he will  complete with the first test of
the series in Calcutta next month.  "It's a nice feeling to reach such
an  important  milestone," he  said.  Fletcher  said the team  was not
unduly worried about India's placid wickets. "We will be happy to play
on  whatever  wickets we  get," said  Fletcher, who  played on most of
India's test grounds under Tony Lewis in 1972-73 and as captain in 81-
82.  Fletcher said the  present England side  had many young, talented
players and  hoped the tour would  provide them with a chance to prove
their worth.

===
Summarized from Reuter reports:

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 04
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: New Zealand batting collapse
Date: 5 Jan 93 01:41:40 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <1993Jan5.142323.13024@waikato.ac.nz> higham@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>We can hardly believe our ears here, New Zealand, chasing 127 to win have
>slumped from 65-4 to 88-9. Three wickets have fallen at 88. Akram and Waqar are
>the destroyers for Pakistan. The collapse began with a superb catch by Aamir
>Sohail to dismiss Jones. Patel and Owens are at the wicket, with 39 still to 
>get. 

Sohail makes up for it by grounding a regulation catch from Patel off
Waqar at second slip.  NZ 92/9.  I just got a very faint signal, infact that
is the only sentence I've been able to hear so far.



More later, hopefuly.


j n a
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From: misra@vijay.b30.ingr.com (Vijay Kumar Misra x4018)
Subject: Performance of Kiran More
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:22:07 GMT

In the past all indian wicket keepers used to be a very good dependable
batsmea and outstanding keepers. I would like to how many catches Kiran
More have dropped in last two years. I think he has consistently
maintained an average of greater than 1 catch per innings. Also how
many times he has scored decently when India was in dire need of runs.
I bet we need new hands behind the wickets.

Vijay
From: banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: News from India (Kirti Azad baffles England)
Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:14:19 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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        		News from India

  As you know, England didn't fare too well in their first match in India.
Although the match ended in a predictable draw, they ran into trouble against
the off-spin of Kirti Azad (6-30) of all people. He is not regarded as anything
more than an occasional bowler in Indian domestic cricket. (But remember
how he paralyzed England's middle order in the 1983 World Cup semi-final? The
BBC correspondent remembered this).
  Want to bet on Kirti replacing anyone in the current team :-)
  England's next match is against the Board President XI at Lucknow from
Jan 8. The original schedule put this match at Kanpur. Probably it has been
shifted due to continuing trouble in Kanpur. There was some talk about 
shifting the first 1-day int'l from Ahmedabad as some disturbances were
going on last week.
  This may be Lucknow's first major cricket match in a long time. Only
trivia buffs will remember that Lucknow once hosted a test match, back in
1952-53. However, our Pakistani friends should remember this test better as
it was their country's first victory. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wickets while
Nazar Mohammad (Mudassar's father) carried his bat for 124*.
From: kre@munnari.OZ.AU (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: A v WI, end of 4th day
Date: 5 Jan 1993 22:45:21 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
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The day ended with WI 5/488 just 15 behind Australia's 9/503 (dec).
With just one day to go, a result doesn't look likely...

Rain took 90 minutes of the pre-lunch session, and while play continued
past 18:00 to make up time, only 17 mins (or so) were possible before
the umpires offered the batsmen the light, and the offer was accepted.

Richardson completed his 100 today, but was out soon after, caught
hooking off Hughes, with the new ball.  Getting Richardson hooking
has been a plan all seaason, often with two back on the boundary behind
square, today only Warne was there, but Richardson couldn't have done
better if he'd been aiming to give some catching practice.

Arthurton played a scratchy innings against the spin bowling, reaching
47 before being caught behind off Matthews, a decision that he clearly
didn't like much - impossible to tell from the replay whether he hit it or
not, the Australian fielders were clearly convinced, it was one of those
"finally, we got him" appeals rather than "please give us this one".
It appeared that Arthurton may have hit his foot with the bat, its possible
the ball hit the bat at just the same time, so he may have touched the
ball without realising it - or everyone else may have been fooled by
the noise of bat on shoe.

Adams and Hooper were still batting at stumps. 

But the day was dominated by Brian Lara - he made 277 before being run
out, not being able to get back after thinking of what would have been
a pretty silly run, maybe he was tired when he was thinking of that one.
he never looked like getting out any other way, though he wasss dropped
by Steve Waugh in gully on 172 - a very hard chance which would have been
a brilliant catch if taken.

Lara scored well over 100 in 4's, almost all of which were hit along
the ground, certainly something nice to watch, today he was even more
dominating than yesterday.  His 277 is the highest by any WI player on the
SCG, the fourth highest test score in Aust, the 2nd highest (I think) by
anyone at the SCG, the 4th highest first century (Sobers 365 tops the list,
Holding on the TV said the players in the dressing room were looking for
Lara to pass that mark - that was just before he got out...)  He was involved
in 2 record partnerships, best 3rd wicket for the WI (297 with Richardson,
who made just 109 of them), and best 4th wicket by the WI at the SCG.

There's isn't much else possible to see, but I think I can predict that
Lara's future in the WI team is pretty secure for the next test, and
probably the one after...

kre
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: Fletcher:  Who is he.....  
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 19:48:47 GMT

> Leadership with a quiet word
> 
> Scyld Berry , The Independent, Jan 03, Sport Page , Page 26 
> 
> 
> 	When asked by the  TCCB for their recommendation, the  England Test
> committee put forward no candidate except Fletcher to succeed Micky Stewart
> (a name like  Bob Woolmer, Warwickshire's  coach, could at least  have been
> considered, even if Ray Illingworth and Geoff Boycott are too busy with the
> media).  

It is clear that the TCCB has sold out to Gooch and Mickey Stewart and
their blue collar ethic completely. Gooch has effectively removed
Atherton from the vice captaincy and installed Alec Stewart who will
undoubtedly be England's next captain, probably after the Ashes
series. Gower has been sacked despite his talent and loyalty while
Gatting and Emburey, after raking in thousands of Krugerrands and
spitting in the face of the TCCB, are back in favour. And now it is
Fletcher and Gooch, the Essex combo. No wonder Ray Ill. or Boycott
were not even considered. Boycott was openly critical of England this
summer vs Pakistan and there was no way the TCCB was going to let him
get in. In fact he was sacked as the batting coach and did not
participate in the Lillishall training camp. And of course we all know
that Fletch and Boycott do not get along. 

As for Fletcher and his credentials, winning on the county circuit is
quite a bit different from winning and playing test cricket. The
sub-continent remembers him as a petulant player who batted dourly at
best. India is not in the best of form at the moment but I have a
feeling that it will not be easy for England this winter. 

	--SAN
From: KSRAO@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: England v Ind Board Pres XI D1
Date: 8 Jan 1993 08:15:48 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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           On a rain shortened first day, the Board Pres XI scored 178 for 3.
To paraphrase Mike Cpstello:

           International cricket returned to Lucknow after 40 years. The
historic event was illuminated by a performance of rare quality...   from Vinod
Kambli. He seemed to be intent on despatching every ball to the river Gomti. He
scored 10 fours and a six in a total of 61 (off 65 balls) before being hit on
the forearm by Chris Lewis. His arm will be in cast for six days. Ajay Sharma
followed him and was hit on the fingers in the next ball.

         There were no more details given. I hope Mike is not going to 
emulate Harsha Bogle while reporting on this tour. He is the only source for us
unless Pieter with his machine goes to India to tour with the England team.

Rao
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: NZ v Pak after 1 hour
From: cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:47:45 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Fortunes have swung back in Pakistan's favour after 1 hours play today. New
Zealand are currently 71 for 6 with Rutherford and Harris at the crease. First
wicket to fall was Andrew Jones who was out for 19 caught Mujitaba bowled Waqar
for 19. Next to go was Parore caught behind off Wasim for 13 and soon after
Latham was cleaned out middle stump by Waqar for 0.

Alan
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: raza@hobbes.ccs.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Subject: Re: dougie for pak/Nz?
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:36:28 GMT

In article <C0C620.5yp@ns1.nodak.edu> ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.150231.9101@julian.uwo.ca>, raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed) writes:
>>
>>Would any one be runnig dougie for today's play b/w
>>pak and Nz....?   j.n.a ?....., Mr. Rao (He must be back
>>by now;))
>    I am back but cannot run dougie for the Pak/NZ game. It is not on TV and I
>cannot pick Radio NZ well. Dougie will be running for the Pak/WI game over the
>weekend though.
>
>K. Sankara Rao                          e-mail k.srao@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu
>
>Department of Electrical Engineering
>Fargo, ND 58105  USA
>
>Phone:  (701)237-7217  (o)
>        (701)235-9912  (h)
>

Any one in Newzealand willing to volunteer(sp?)???

--

S.R.Raza.
raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca
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Subject: NZ v Pak D4 after lunch
From: awil2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Andrew James        Willmott       )
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:12:33 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

Rain delayed play for a couple of hours, but the test match resumed twenty
minutes ago. New Zealand have advanced to 52/3, chasing 127 to win. Play
has been extended to 6:30 tonight in order to make up time lost to the rain.
Currently Waqar and Wasim are bowling. Apparently play was mainly delayed
because of a wet spot in the middle of Wasim's runup.

Peter Burge, the match umpire, has warned both sides about excessive sledging,
although he did say that conduct towards the umpires had been exemplary so
far. (I think the sledging comment refers to two incidents; in the first
Waqar had a few words to say to Mark Greatbatch after we was dismissed for 133,
and in the second Rasheed Latif and Dipak Patel became involved in a minor
contretemps. The Waqar incident is unsurprising; he seems to get quite a kick
out of ending his runup a few yards from the batsman and making a few snide
comments. The second incident was surprising, as Dipak Patel is usually one
of the most mild-mannered of people, and Rasheed has seemed pleasant enough
on this tour. Anyway, hopefully they'll both take the warning and get back to
playing cricket.)

Andrew. (In sunny Auckland.)
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From: varma@paul.rutgers.edu (not yet)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: AZZA RETAINED
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:31:07 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

> It appears Kapil and Tendulkar were also considered for
> skippering the team. The team is not yet announced.

> K. Sankara Rao                          e-mail k.srao@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu

Tendulkar???????????

I only hope that this does not happen. He may be a good player,
but one has to also have experience and leadership qualities 
to captain a team. He is too young to be a captain in my opinion.
Comments?
-- 
Harsh Varma
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University

Disclaimer: None. Please, everyone adopt my opinion, I am right!

Postscript: Please dont flame me, and I get very scared by death
            threats.
From: mshah@cs.arizona.edu (Munil A. Shah)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Gavaskar's opening partners
Keywords: cricket opening
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:40:29 GMT


	What about CHANDRASHEKHAR from Tamilnadu? He played 3-4
ODs. He was a good stroke-maker.

-Munil
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: World Test Team for 1992
From: HCPD7@DEVAX1 (Martin LAI)
Date: 5 Jan 93 10:57:11 +1000
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What WAS the world test team for 1992?

> (1) on grounds that have been prepared for them,
> (2) on grounds where they have played a lot of cricket

	(1) is wrong because of (2). Groundsmen don't ask their favorite batsman
how he wants the pitch prepared and then make it exactly like that. They simply
do their best to prepare the pitch in the way they think will be best, and that
means the pitch will usually play much the same way from one match to another
(at least more similar than if it were compared with another ground). It's up
to the batsmen to learn the characteristics of the pitch and play accordingly.
It obviously helps if you have played a lot more cricket on that ground
than the players from the other team.

> (3) when being umpired by their fellow countrymen, and

	Are you alleging that umpires "cheat" on purpose?
	Why don't we get off their back and stop finding excuses for our
favorite batsmen when they fail? They can't ALWAYS be cheated by an umpire,
so if they were good enough playeres it wouldn't affect them in the long term.

> (4) in front of their countrymen

	Eventually all players will have roughly the same number of games at
home as they have away.
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pak win by 33 runs - the swing demons do it again
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:01:08 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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What a match!  Thank you Uday and Andrew.

And oh, that Oilers thing.  Houston blew a cricket equivilent of a
317 run first innings lead, and lost the game.  It was just that
kind of a day.  In the other play-off game Saints blew a 20-7 (?)
lead.  I am hoping that this starts a cricket_is_better_than_American_
football debate :):)

But what a birthday gift for me:)

j n a
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: x91kamalapur@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: AZZA RETAINED
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:01:24 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1it77bINNl51@skat.usc.edu>, ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah) writes:
> 
> The decision to retain Azhar for three games is a stupid move that
> could cause some serious problems.
> 	* Azhar  is now under more pressure to perform and we know that he has
> 	  not done well under pressure
> 	* They should have either axed Azhar or kept him for the whole tour.
> 	  If they decide to drop Azhar after the third game then the new capt
> 	  would have a hard time building a cohesive team halfway through
> 	   the series.  That would be an easier task before the series began.
> 	* Azhar would find it rather awkward to play and give a 100% after
> 	  being dropped in the middle of the series.
> 	* If somebody else in the team is jockying for a shot at the captaincy
> 	  then it would be easier for him to undermine Azhar knowing that it 
> 	  will hirt Azhar's chances and improves his chances of wearing the
> 	  captain's badge.
> 	* This decision would also give Gavaskar more amunition to take pot 
> 	  shots.  Gavaskar was a great batsman (one of the best) but he is
> 	  a pompous ass off the field as is evident in his constant meddling
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	  and sniping.. He is a lousy columnist.
> 
> 
> - Vasee
> 
>  
> 
     I greatly disagree with the choice of words you have choosen to 
     describe about the greatest batsman India has ever produced.I agree that
     he may not be the best columnist around,but his views are pretty much
     valued and apreciated.I would like to know what made you to write such
     a name calling without any reason.

  Raj ( Sunny's greatest fan)