From: d188sid@utarlg.uta.edu (S RAMACHANDRAN)
Subject: Indian Bowling sucks...
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:25:00 GMT

INDIAN BOWLING - AN ANALYSIS (PART II)
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	So the Board president's XI  make a comfortable 268 against us!
It's the same old, same old situation (Motley Crew).We really should be
doing a lot better against under 25 yr olds...

Shows up a few things:
1) Without K.Dev we are a pedestrian bowling attack. With him too for 
that matter in many cases.

2) Raju is V."P".Raju - guess what the "P" stands for! Once again he 
probably contained and looked good in patches but...he is really
"constipated" when it comes to wickets. Raju is our man on a fifth day
turner in Madras or Bangalore but not against good opposition on sporting
tracks...sorry guys but Raju like the Admiral(Stockdale) is persevering,
honest and loves his country but he just won't cut it.
MANINDER is the only one who could run thru' a team, I believe. Kumble
would be excellent foil to Maninder.

3) Our medium pacers except Manoj cannot be relied upon for 
consistency.

Some Predictions and comments in advance of 1 st test:

1) For India to do well in this series the batting better come good...
b'cos if under 25's can get runs off us imagine what Wessels,Rice,Kronje,
(I don't know the others) will do to us.
The Key to the indian batting will be Manjrekar and Sachin.

2) the wkts are going to be green..so we have to play 4 quicks. But it 
would be great if we can play a specialist spinner as well.

3)India should play all three openers to be fair to Raman(43 ag ZiM) and
Jadeja (in-form)...Amre sit out please!

the "if " analysis:
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1) I don't know abt you guys but I think it we would have been better
off w/ Abey Kuruvilla and Venkatesh Prasad rather than Chetan and 
Bannerjee. Why? b'cos these guys are quick ..as quick as Srinath atleast
..big 6 ft plus guys who are atleast intimidatory enuff to scare a 
few under 25 yr olds. Chetan and Bannerjee are seamers who swing and 
seam...they can be dangerous in helpful conditions but they have
not mastered swing like Dev and Manoj. It's always prudent to have a
Quickie than seamer when both are Half-baked, unpolished rookies.
Anyway a team attack of Kapil, Manoj ,Kuruvilla/Prasad and Srinath looks
a lot scarier than DeV,Manoj,chetan and Bannerjee.
I heard that A.Donald,Macmillan and Schnell are really good..
and u know what that means ...when the going gets tough the Indians
are outta here!
 Maan something tells me unless we bat really well we're gonna
get whipped! We will do well in the 1 days ofcourse.

But hey whats the worst that can happen..we will lose disgracefully
to the relatively inexperienced S.A team ..so what we've lost to
worst teams. And besides we can always prepare square turners to 
bugger these teams in India!!
Maan..at the beggining of this article I thought I could pinpoint 
some problems w/ the Ind team and suggest some remedies but I'm more
confused and doubtful than before I started. but that's the feeling
of a die-hard Indian fan ..and I guess there must be millions like me around
..SO THAT'S O.K (Stuart Smiley- S.N.LIVE)!

- Sidd .R.

the Best Indian Test 11
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1) W.V.Raman.
2) R.Shastri.
3) S.Manjrekar.
4) S.Tendulkar.
5) M.Azhar.
6) A.Jadeja.
7) N.Kapil Dev
8) M.Prabakar.
9) K.More.
10) J.Srinath.
11) Maninder.S.