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  1. aussie_beater

    Why do Australians get special treatment?

    It was all on tape. The match referee saw the tapes and made a decision about the punishment based on his assessment of the guilt, but the charge was "tampering with the ball" wasn't it ? But in the case of Warne and Waugh, did the Aussie board invesitgate the matter to find out before charging...
  2. aussie_beater

    Why do Australians get special treatment?

    Ok again my question...how do you know that it was only the weather thing and not anything else ? Because Warne and Waugh said so ?
  3. aussie_beater

    Why do Australians get special treatment?

    Dean Jones did not say he had taken the money, did he ? Those two guys confessed taking the money. And the Aussie board believed what those guys said was the reason and did a hush-hush on the whole matter.That's the worst part.
  4. aussie_beater

    Why do Australians get special treatment?

    First of all, it was not just weather, but also pitch reports. And how do we know that this whole deal was only about those two types of information ? Because Waugh and Warne said so, eh ? Did ACB do a full fledged investigation involving the boards and law enforcement agencies of the country...
  5. aussie_beater

    What has been the worst moment in ur country's cricket history?

    The worst moments for India as seen by me. These were really gut-wrenching moments that I can't forget. 1) AustralAsia Cup Final in Sharjah in 1986 versus Pakistan. Miandad hits Chetan Sharma for a 6 in the last ball of the match and wins the match for Pakistan. 2) Bridgetown test versus West...
  6. aussie_beater

    All Time Pak XII vs All Time Ind XII

    Here's my India XI 1. Sunil Gavaskar 2. Vijay Merchant 3. Rahul Dravid 4. Sachin Tendulkar 5. Jimmy Amarnath 6. Kapil Dev(c) 7. Syed Kirmani(wk) 8. Javagal Srinath 9. Prasanna 10. Subhash Gupte 11. Bishen Singh Bedi And my Pak XI 1. Hanif Mohammed 2. Saeed Anwar 3. Zaheer Abbas 4. Javed...
  7. aussie_beater

    Ranatunga: 'In my book, you can't chuck a legbreak'

    What are you talking about ? He led the Sri Lankans to a world cup victory....do you have some horribly short memory or something ? If you are calling him that just because he used to get on the nerves of opposition teams mostly, then I think you are terribly biased. Lot of other captains have...
  8. aussie_beater

    All Time Area XI's

    Miandad opening ?? And Sachin at 3 instead of Dravid ?? And Moin Khan getting the wicket keeper slot ahead of people like Kirmani and Wasim Bari ? And in that area 3 team, D. Haynes gets the opening slot ahead of the likes of Jack Hobbs and Herb Sutcliffe, Barry Richards or even his more...
  9. aussie_beater

    All Time Area XI's

    And Marshall is pretty much widely accepted as the greatest fast bowler of all time...Walsh is not even in that frame of reference.
  10. aussie_beater

    All Time Pak XII vs All Time Ind XII

    Hmmm..... Ijaz Ahmed and Yousuf Youhana are in at the expense of Javed Miandad and Zaheer Abbas ....this must be the best day of their life :p :p
  11. aussie_beater

    All Time Pak XII vs All Time Ind XII

    I would put Jimmy Amarnath ahead of Gundappa Viswanath, because to face a very good fast bowling attack like Pakistan, Amarnath is a much better option then Viswanath.
  12. aussie_beater

    Favorite Shots

    Some of my favourite shots - Sachin's straight drive and short arm pull. Viv Richards front foot hook/pull. Kapil Dev's "Nataraj shot"(hook with a complete swivel of the hips and the front leg raised pretty high). Same shot used to be played by Clive Lloyd very nicely. Saurav Ganguly's cover...
  13. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Cricketers of the Century

    No I think the teams were quite evenly balanced, and in that particular match the pitch didn't have any particular demons as was demonstrated by the fact that the total first innings score by the two teams exceeded 1100 runs.India just crumbled under pressure in the second innings. I am...
  14. aussie_beater

    Cricketers harshly done by their own cricket board

    I completely agree with you about Dean Jones. He was one batsman that I admire a lot and IMO was the best batsman of the Border era in Aussie cricket. He was just amazing in ODIs as well. And he had a quality that not many Aussie batsman have....he could play spin exceptionally well. I don't...
  15. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Cricketers of the Century

    yes that's very true. I saw that innings...it was amazing. Kapil played out the first two balls of that over for no runs and then just went berserk. And the very next over in the first ball Hirwani was dismissed by Angus Fraser. That was the same test where Gooch scored a massive 330 odd runs...
  16. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Cricketers of the Century

    Whoa mate, hold on there !! ....that did not happen, except in one single match in Madras(Chennai) in 1983 where he came in at number 4 but in that match also he came in when the scoreline was 0-2 and Viv Richards quipped "Man, it doesn't matter when you come in to bat, the score is still zero"...
  17. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Cricketers of the Century

    Well it does stand out for most who have watched him at his devastating best and then compare him with the rest of his contemporaries like Gavaskar, Chappell, Miandad and the rest.
  18. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Cricketers of the Century

    Gavaskar played the one innings against spin bowling that I admire the most and it convinced me of his superior technique against spin as well.It was the 1987 Bangalore test against Pakistan which was his last test match also, and he scored 96 in the second innings in the worst minefield I have...
  19. aussie_beater

    Best All Time Test XII

    My twelve : Sunil Gavaskar Barry Richards Don Bradman Viv Richards(c) Sachin Tendulkar Gary Sobers Alan Knott + Wasim Akram Malcolm Marshall Shane Warne Curtly Ambrose Twelfth man : Ian Botham
  20. aussie_beater

    Wisden's Cricketers of the Century

    If you use the Gregorian Calendar and start the first millennium with the year 1 AD then the third millennium begins with the year 2001 AD.But if you use the Common Era Calendar, in which years are numbered -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ..., and you begin the first millennium with the year 0 CE then the...

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