Made no mention of anyone being better. Just disappointed at thier efforts so afr and want to see new blood.
You said they're ahead of Smith. Seems an indication of rank. My post addressed that rank.
Rank doesn't necessarily equate to being better than. Factor here is the repeated failuer hence their rankings go down.
Big call.
I addressed rank. Read over my post.
He'll be thrilled.
Who else ?
I remember when I was around ten years old. I was very small for my age, skinny and not strong by any standards.
Oh right. Only because Smith and Morton have failed too often. Same with Ganga. If we had a better system they could probably be more consistent and better players.
God coached you?I remember when I was around ten years old. I was very small for my age, skinny and not strong by any standards.
I had not learnt anything about how to bat but I had the only bat in the neighborhood so I got to play with the big boys.
I had no clue as to how to bat. So finally after struggling for a long time, I developed a technique of my own. I stood awkwardly and, I am sure uglier than hell, at the crease, watched the ball from the bowlers hand like a hawk, I watched it off the wicket and then as it came close to me I put my bat in its way and turned it a bit (often it turned on its own) one way or the other, edging (smartly) on either side of the wicket.
The big bad fast bowlers got very agitated and came in bowling faster and that just helped my edges to go for boundaries instead of singles or scampered twos.
Of course, I joined a proper club at 14, got god coaching and started playing in front of the wicket.
Chanderpaul, with all his impressive Test records, has always reminded me of myself as a ten year old
God coached you?
You are dead right.Only God could have corrected SJS' technique.
You are dead right.
My coach made lot of fun of how I was when I first came for coaching. It seems that after he had made me stand with the proper grip and the proper stance at the wicket, as he went back two thirds of the length of the wicket back, to throw balls at me to play, he found that my face was turned towards covers, due to the sideways stance which wan't yet natural to me.
So he asked me to turn my head and look towards him. According to him, every time he asked me to do that, I would just screw my face and towards him and look at him from the corner of my eyes with my head firmly turned towards covers
He always had a heartily laugh when he narrated it and I always felt it wasn't funny at all and that he repeated this story far too often
Far better for my money. Yousuf's output of Dec05-Nov06 would've been halved, probably more, had everything that should've been out been out. Chanderpaul's would only have decreased slightly.
