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  1. aussie_beater

    Rest of India v Mumbai

    Yes I agree that Yuvraj's skills against decent spin bowling are quite suspect.In the world cup group match against Kenya last year when India were in trouble batting second and Ganguly and Yuvraj were in the crease, you could see the discomfort of Yuvraj against Obuya the Kenyan leggie and only...
  2. aussie_beater

    Rest of India v Mumbai

    And that's quite a legitimate point which can be argued.But what miffed me with that earlier post from Arjun was the comparison he gave between Irfan Pathan and Yuvraj.And I have seen he has been going around in this forum in other threads about how great a batsman Irfan Pathan is and how...
  3. aussie_beater

    Rest of India v Mumbai

    what are you smoking ? can you back that statement up that Pathan is better then Yuvraj as a batsman ? First of all we are talking about the Aus series which is a test series. Yuvraj as far as I remember had a pretty decent test series last time he played in Pakistan, and he has played only 4...
  4. aussie_beater

    Genuine legends who still play...

    Yes I agree with you that Murali will be always surrounded with controversy, but he will be remembered for a long time as a legend for sure.
  5. aussie_beater

    Genuine legends who still play...

    I think it will be Sachin, Lara, Warne, Murali
  6. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Greatest Post War England XI

    yeah i think he was 33 or something like that when he played his first test.
  7. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Greatest Post War England XI

    Actually Doshi's career and reputation were shortchanged because of his famous rift with Gavaskar.That pretty much ruined his career after the Pak tour of 1983 and ofcourse being a cotemporary of Bedi didn't help his cause.
  8. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Greatest Post War England XI

    Who is VV Raman ?....never heard about him. Are you talking about VV Kumar ? I read an article about VV Kumar long time ago in a magazine in India called "Illustrated Weekly" which doesn't exist anymore.... that he was a prodigious talent only to be pushed out of the test scene because of...
  9. aussie_beater

    Reverse Swing

    agreed. inswinging yorkers are equally awesome, but the thrill about very well directed and extremely fast reverse swing of the Akhtar variety(when he manages to bowl one), is that the batsman is totally caught unawares and in most cases doesn't have a clue.In that Avatar, look at the...
  10. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Greatest Post War England XI

    I agree with that. New quality spinners have become rare in India these days compared to the late 70s and early 80s when India really was a good breeding ground for good spinners.The same is with Pakistan who never had the same spin success as India in the 70s but still had quite a few good...
  11. aussie_beater

    Who is gonna win the Sept 19th clash???

    when did khan,Balaji,pathan and Nehra help India win a series against Aus ? I thought that was Bhajji who won the series for India last time around.And as for the series against Pak, I think Kumble was the main wicket taker and Pathan and Balaji discharged their duties honourably.where does Khan...
  12. aussie_beater

    New Zealand Vs Australia......

    With the current form of the Indian team, I am not even gonna think of anything beyond the India-Pak clash on the 19th.If India gets past that, then I will come back to this thread and become the most jingoistic Indian fan of the forum :drunk: :drunk:
  13. aussie_beater

    Who is gonna win the Sept 19th clash???

    I don't ever agree with that assumption. Its just one of those things which is a result of people trying to come up with their own reasons about why India-Pak cricket dried up so dramatically from what it used to be earlier. And this one comes from the fact that Pak was winning most of the time...
  14. aussie_beater

    Who is gonna win the Sept 19th clash???

    Hmmm....hold it mate, Zaheer and Pathan haven't reached a level where someone else should start modeling themselves on these two. Don't overreach yourself in criticizing the Pakistani pacers because on his day, Shoaib Akhtar is the most dangerous fast bowler on the planet and I don't think the...
  15. aussie_beater

    Reverse Swing

    there is nothing greater or exciting then this sort of bowling....those deliveries that Akhtar bowled to get rid of Dravid and Sachin at Eden Gardens in 1999. It just blows your mind away.
  16. aussie_beater

    Players Who You Predicted Would Be Great................

    Yes, hindsight is always 20/20...couldn't avoid that cliche :D :D But if you were around those times, anyone would have felt like Hick was going to be the next Jack Hobbs for English cricket.
  17. aussie_beater

    Players Who You Predicted Would Be Great................

    Hirwani was the stock legbreak bowler, nothing more. He took those 16 wickets against WI in Madras in 1988 in a pitch where the ball was spinning like a top and with awkward bounce and keeping low and doing all sorts of wicked stuff. To top it all the Windies batsman with the exception of Gus...
  18. aussie_beater

    Sachin to miss Trophy

    Are you kidding me ? What ODI tournament did Ajit Wadekar win as captain ? Did he even captain India into a ODI tournament. Azhar was successful in winning tournaments only in India....the hero cup variety...how many tournaments did he win outside India ? And these days we are not even playing...
  19. aussie_beater

    Players Who You Predicted Would Be Great................

    Basit Ali - I saw this batsman in the 92 tour of WI by Pak and he appeared very impressive to me.Not sure what happened to him, but I really thought that this was one hell of a player of fast bowling who could be a star. KP Bhaskar - I still feel sorry for this guy.He was the most prolific...
  20. aussie_beater

    Time to drop Shoaib Akhtar?

    Yes it was Salim Jaffar...... who I still remember as the non-striker who could have been run out by Walsh for being out of the crease in the Reliance world cup match in 1987 between WI and Pak. WI lost that match by 1 wicket, after Walsh instead of running out Jaffar and taking the last wicket...

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