What is the teesra?

[DCC_legend]

does anyone actually know what the teesra is yet or is Mushy not tellin???

 

[tooextracool]

Its merely another attempt from Saqlain mushtaq to get some attention from the Pakistan selectors.

 

[silentstriker]

Doesn't even make any sense. Doosra is one that goes the other way. Teesra is one that goes straight? We already have a name for that. Or does it spin both ways in one delivery?

I have to agree with tooextracool, its just a way to get a look in from the selectors.

 

[chaminda_00]

Flipper i think, his been working on one for a while

 

[Jono]

LOL, Saqi what a champ.

 

[silentstriker]

Flipper i think, his been working on one for a while

A flipper, eh? I don't think a flipper will put him ahead of Kaneria in the pecking order.

 

[nightprowler10]

A flipper, eh? I don't think a flipper will put him ahead of Kaneria in the pecking order.

Given Kaneria's recent form, I wouldn't be too sure about that.

 

[silentstriker]

Given Kaneria's recent form, I wouldn't be too sure about that.

Are there any other leggies in the pecking order before they go back to a finger spinner like Saqi?

 

[Richard]

Jack Iverson made one particularly impressive observation at one time...

"The ball can do three things - break to the off, break to the leg, or go straight on. It can't disappear or explode."

Saqlain would perhaps do well to remember that. He already bowls a straight-on ball, in addition to his Off-Break and Doosra.

Thinking-up clever names for deliveries using Urdu\Hindi language (the Doosra had in fact been around for 30-odd years pre-Saqlain, Eripalli Prasanna was probably the first to bowl it, it's just Saqlain and Moin were the first to give it a name) isn't particularly impressive any more.

Nonetheless, I cannot fail to be surprised that Arshad Khan was not-so-long-ago picked ahead of Saqlain.

 

[Richard]

Are there any other leggies in the pecking order before they go back to a finger spinner like Saqi?

Mushy?

The first player-coach in international cricket?

 

[gunner]

the teesra was a delivery saqlain was developing when he got injured

hopefully he still remembers about it and he will come back
he wouldnt tell anyone what it is

 

[silentstriker]

Thinking-up clever names for deliveries using Urdu\Hindi language (the Doosra had in fact been around for 30-odd years pre-Saqlain, Eripalli Prasanna was probably the first to bowl it, it's just Saqlain and Moin were the first to give it a name) isn't particularly impressive any more.

Doosra and teesra, 'the second one' and the 'third one' is not particularly clever. It may sound exotic because it is in a foreign language to a lot but when I first heard it, I just thought 'WTF?'

It's like saying "So what about that majestic #5 by Warne that got Gatting out in the Ashes?" The naming system is quite stupid IMO.

 

[Richard]

As I say - once you've got three deliveries that do everything it's possible for a cricket-ball to do, you can't develop anything else.

 

[gunner]

maybe it rolls along the ground?

maybe hes waiting for the world cup final and pakistan have to defend a score and brings out the teesra for the first time ever?

 

[Richard]

maybe it rolls along the ground?

Banned

 

[Pratters]

Doosra means the other one.

Teesra means the third one when translated. Also, for what it actually does, from Wikipedia -

Nobody knows, bar him what it does yet, but he is planning to test it out whilst playing county cricket for English team Surrey during 2006.

I doubt if it would be any rocket science though.

 

[haroon510]

i have no clue what teasra is. considering the " dosra" teasra should means stright but we have seen Kumbli balling stright deliveris and geting important wickets with it.
kunaria is a waste. i never liked him from the day first. he is in his best against bangladish only. i can't believe the pakistani selectors pick him over mushtaq and saqlian.

 

[silentstriker]

i have no clue what teasra is. considering the " dosra" teasra should means stright but we have seen Kumbli balling stright deliveris and geting important wickets with it.
kunaria is a waste. i never liked him from the day first. he is in his best against bangladish only. i can't believe the pakistani selectors pick him over mushtaq and saqlian.

A record for most names butchered within one post?

 

[Jamee999]

Maybe it shifts into a 4th dimension, and then reappears on the batsman's off stump...

 

[gunner]

or maybe it just is a doosra that shapes away halfway after pitching thean a doosra?