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Yeah, Sidhu was very clearly our best opener till Sehwag came. Slightly feeling that he is under-rated here. He was a poor man's Sehwag and Dravid, being too defensive or too aggressive in his innings. Not sure if I remember correctly but I think he got dropped after the 200 for batting too slow.

His batting against Warne was so much fun to watch though.

Maybe generally, but my post wasn't meant to denigrate him (apart from his commentary), but more a question of how did Azhar average less than Siddhu in the 90s?

Siddhu was an alright player - flat track/home track bully maybe, but at least he was that - was good enough/memorable enough until Sehwag came along. I don't even remember who used to open with Siddhu....

 

[srbhkshk]

In a sense a lot of our players from 80s and 90s are underrated, Vengsarkar for instance is never talked about much but he was brilliant and actually was #1(ICC rankings) in the world for a brief time, I guess all of these guys sort of got buried in footnotes once the likes of Sachin , Dravid , Sehwag etc. arrived.

 

[srbhkshk]

Also, it's kinda annoying how Ganguly averaged 50 in the 90s and then sucked ass for 7 straight years in the easiest batting conditions of all time to end up with an average of 42.

 

[ankitj]

Ganguly was batting like a tailender for a long time.

 

[Flem274*]

my 10 second theory is flatter decks -> bowlers bang it in harder -> ganguly was never a huge fan of bounce and did tend to go fending wide.

still an overall very valuable cricketer. good batsman, useful 5th bowler (i thought he could have done more with his bowling). he'd add a lot to the current side.

 

[srbhkshk]

I was going through statsguru to see any decent Indian all rounders we don't talk about and discovered two things.

1. We have had a guy with the name Naoomal Jeeomal play tests for us.

2. Hemu Adhikari, very decent stats, anyone know much about him? [ Edit - Scratch that, the bowling average is just over 3 wickets]

Hemu Adhikari Profile - Cricket Player India | Stats, Records, Video

Read about Hemu Adhikari cricket player from India profile, stats, rankings, records, videos, photos at ESPNcricinfo

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[srbhkshk]

Srikkanth hitting Patterson for a six and getting bowled off a no ball -

 

[harsh.ag]

 

[srbhkshk]

Yeah, he is gonna Mankad a couple guys out of spite now.

(Also, maybe Ponting can also teach him a bit about not claiming dropped catches.)

 

[honestbharani]

What a bunch of horseshit from Ponting. Take catches on the bounce and then lecture about spirit of cricket.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The lack of self awareness from some of the former australian players is just embarassing. From Waugh, who is the last person to lecture anyone on the spirit of cricket, sanctimoniously saying he was 'deeply troubled' when Sandpapergate happened, to Michael 'broken ****ing arm' Clarke coming on TV pretending to almost cry when watching footage of bancroft tampering the ball to now Ponting, the guy who claimed several clearly dropped catches , bullied aleem dar endlessly when he didnt like his decision, who told Srinath to **** off when the poor blokecame over to see if he was ok after being hit in the face by a bouncer, and just generally being a massive prick on the field... they're all just clueless morons. Sickening to watch. hope Ashwin told him to stuff it.

 

[h_hurricane]

There was some highlights video I watched a few years back in a India -Australia match in mid 80s (india down under or something like that). The batsman was Srikanth I think. He square drove the ball straight to a 20 year old Steve Waugh at point who dropped it, picked it up and claimed the catch. In the mean time, TOTAB, his captain, was arguing with the umpire on why that should been given out

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yes, Ive mentioned it many times. Waugh had another one like that where he successfully got Lara out in the 95 series in which he literally picked it up off the ground after dropping it (which is orders of magnitudes worse than simply claiming one that bounced inches in front of you, and requires a special kind of shamelessness to attempt). Rashid Latif was rightly raked over the coals for it and yet these two Waugh incidents are barely ever talked about. The guy has done a top class job in somehow maintaining a statesman-like image in the eyes of most casual fans. And yet he had the gall to speak up and say he was distressed by what Smith and co did during Sandpapergate. **** off you prick not everyone buys your tired act.

This is a pretty great piece which puts it well

What's with the sanctimony, Mr Waugh?

If there's a problem with the Australian team's culture, Steve Waugh is as much to blame as any of the current players

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[vcs]

He picked up the ball with elite honesty and without crossing the line, though

 

[Daemon]

Nothing gets me harder than an OS rant about cheating Australians

 

[ankitj]

Play hard, play fair.

 

[h_hurricane]

Play hard, play fair.

Would have been racism if it came from Sunny G.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Nothing gets me harder than an OS rant about cheating Australians

Cheating is fine, its just a silly sport at the end of the day so who cares. The sanctimony is so laughable though. It'd be like burgey lecturing someone on inappropriate posts or watson telling someone off for being racially insensitive or sledger attempting to point out why someone else's posting is bad or hb telling another poster how annoying his posts are....

 

[the big bambino]

For sanctimony nothing beats the India fan with the eternal grudge.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Yes, Ive mentioned it many times. Waugh had another one like that where he successfully got Lara out in the 95 series in which he literally picked it up off the ground after dropping it (which is orders of magnitudes worse than simply claiming one that bounced inches in front of you, and requires a special kind of shamelessness to attempt). Rashid Latif was rightly raked over the coals for it and yet these two Waugh incidents are barely ever talked about. The guy has done a top class job in somehow maintaining a statesman-like image in the eyes of most casual fans. And yet he had the gall to speak up and say he was distressed by what Smith and co did during Sandpapergate. **** off you prick not everyone buys your tired act.

This is a pretty great piece which puts it well

What's with the sanctimony, Mr Waugh?

If there's a problem with the Australian team's culture, Steve Waugh is as much to blame as any of the current players

www.espncricinfo.com

He looks like a shifty-eyed rat to me, tbh. Notice all the deep breaths he takes in while talking? Classic sign of a pathological liar.