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    Did Imran Khan use to do intense ball tempering frequently?

    When Imran took six for six from 23 deliveries, including a hat-trick, for Sussex against Warwickshire in 1983, umpire Don Oslear voiced his suspicions. Although Alvin Kallicharran, who saw the destruction from the non-striker’s end, deemed it the best bowling he had ever seen, others were not...
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    Did Imran Khan use to do intense ball tempering frequently?

    no body would dare to bash some one who has a clean chit... infact the legacy of such greats transcends boundaries....even transcends bitter rivals. that is why Don Bradman is adored and respected a lot even in England despite the history of bitter rivalry between the 2 teams.Same is the case...
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    Did Imran Khan use to do intense ball tempering frequently?

    yaa ... it was my brother who put that topic in that forum. so what?
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    Did Imran Khan use to do intense ball tempering frequently?

    if we go thru the statements in topic there is more than just doing some simple things to get the ball reverse swinging.a lot of instances point to the shape of the ball severely altered by exceeding all the limits. i don't think in today's advanced telecast facility days that would have been...
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    Does a ''real'' cricket fan have to hate LOI and/or consider them irrelevant?

    thank you.
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    Did Imran Khan use to do intense ball tempering frequently?

    no... sound quality not good due to some technical problems this side...yet from what ever data gathered by browsing, i am forced to conclude that he was guilty.after all why several players accuse him of the same. the allegations by many of these may not be of a direct nature, several...
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    Did Imran Khan use to do intense ball tempering frequently?

    Imran was my top all rounder (yes Sobers included) till the arrival of Kallis.but his own admitting and the testimony of several players to the same thing has now changed my opinion about him considerably. i now consider him one of the greats of the game. not the all time great all rounder any...
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    Did Imran Khan use to do intense ball tempering frequently?

    is this true? i couldn't believe this at first. but his own admission that he had tampered with the condition of the ball during a county match with a bottle top once prompts me to believe so. “I have occasionally scratched the ball and lifted the seam. Only once did I use an object.Indeed, the...
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    Does a ''real'' cricket fan have to hate LOI and/or consider them irrelevant?

    test cricket is more important.but definitely 50 over cricket is important too in its own merits.test cricket is the ultimate test of the skills of a player.but that doesn't mean a successful test cricketer can always be a successful one day cricketer as well.there are lots of examples for...
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    i think there is lot of common sense in this msg:
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    i have followed a lot of their careers.more over in present days with the likes of cricinfo making the career record of players a lot more transparent to common fans than in the past , it has become possible to do deeper analysis and their by reaching to more conclusive results.
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    this is just like saying had Kapil practised a little more in his batting he could easily have achieved 40+ avg:
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    tactics, changing mind set of players, leading from the front , man handling,making the most of available resource at hand etc etc ... all being factors needed for a captain...Kapil's results as captain shows that he was a good captain over all.the main point here is that going by general...
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    ok.... each to his own
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    then what happend to Botham ?why SRT or Lara were not great captains?
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    when you analyse a player of the nature of Kapil what you have to take into account as very vital is his highly aggressive style of play ie: his str: rate of >80. hence it is quite natural to assume that his career graph need not be of that consistant nature. this is very much evident in his...
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    i just filtered out those stats to show that Kapil was a very good captain too.and just like Botham's peak deserve extra marks, Kapil's captaincy deserve extra marks too. as we all know it is not those transparent numbers like bat: avg:, bowl econ: that need to be counted, but these things...
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    read carefully .....Kapil averaged 42.33 with the bat and 24.94 with the ball "as captain in the WI"
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    here the same.. peak is a highlight and hence it deserves to be given more marks just as say 'Kapil's performance against WI'.but it can't be all the thing
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    Ian Botham vs Kapil Dev

    what about Kapil being the better one day player by a convincing margin?what about his mammoth str: RATE of 80+,what about his much better longevity in both forms of the game?

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