Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Must say it makes me laugh seeing that Rutra Pratap Singh shot again though.
He must be the most grateful guy of all that that game was drawn.
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He must be the most grateful guy of all that that game was drawn.
gettingbetter
State Vice-Captain
I'm not sure if it is a contradiction, but maybe a double-standard. Why do you apply a set of rules to one group of players and not apply it to Shah in this instance. I've read your comments before - 'I've seen enough of him to know that he won't be a success at international level' which is all fair and good, but as you have quite clearly indicated, you initially thought that Flintoff wasn't much chop. Proved wrong. So Shah, whose around 20 ODIs spread over 7 years can't be a success?
And why then don't you want to see Shah in the ODI team?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
The point is, it's rare to be proved wrong. Mostly by thinking that you tend to be right. It's only very rare cases (Symonds, Flintoff) where people improve sufficiently, by-and-large once someone's that poor for that long they remain that way.
In any case, Shah does not yet have a two-part career - he's been poor throughout. If, obviously, he does become a ODI-standard player, it'd be prudent to divide his career up into two parts.
open365
International Vice-Captain
Is there much difference? Trent Bridge was under water yesterday, i'd say it's remarkable they're contemplating playing at all.
) but it's not, quite, in Lord's's calibre.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
"It's not looking good. Allan Donald says: "My gut feeling is we won't play today." Shudder... I'm also shuddering because I remember watching him and Athers here in the nineties; that was frightening. But briliant."
Grr, its nice and shiny out and no play today....ridiculous.
Now that I think about it, Lord's should get two Tests a summer...instead of this place. Unless there are other grounds with a drainage system equally as good, I'd rather have play where play is actually possible.
Grr, its nice and shiny out and no play today....ridiculous.
Now that I think about it, Lord's should get two Tests a summer...instead of this place. Unless there are other grounds with a drainage system equally as good, I'd rather have play where play is actually possible.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
AWTA, jest or not!
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Yeap. Let's just hope The Oval is better.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Oh, the ODIs. This game's a fave, of course, the Flintoff shirt-off game where Harbhajan took his five-for after one of the most absurd starts in ODI history.Apparently we now get action from Mumbai in 2002.Wonder what that'll be then?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Puns in a tour thread. Oh dear.Jono what, so do I.
(Hope you're not like Chaulk, BTW)
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I wouldn't mind that.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
God, I'd forgotten how much I hated this game. Dropped catches, good bowlers (Srinath, Caddick, Kumble) bowling terribly, bad Umpiring decisions having massive influence on the outcome, ridiculously unlucky dismissals, scoring-rates that varied from the stupidly fast to the stupidly slow...
Everything I hate in a ODI really.
