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

[Tom Halsey]

http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2004/JUN/162594_SL_06JUN2004.htm

2 things here:

1) It isn't your book that counts

2) It isn't your average legbreak either is it?

 

[twctopcat]

You really don't like the guy, we get it. Unless this thread is constructive, i don't see the point of slagging him off anymore.

 

[Tom Halsey]

You really don't like the guy, we get it. Unless this thread is constructive, i don't see the point of slagging him off anymore.

I don't like Ranatunga. I have no problem with Murali, other than his action.

The idea of the thread was more that Ranatunga thinks he should own the world.

 

[marc71178]

Au Contraire, a chance to have a go at that fat poor excuse for an International Captain is good.

 

[luckyeddie]

Time for Ranatunga Downathroata to STFU too.

 

[Langeveldt]

Glad to see Anti-Ranatunga sentiment is rife here...

Im sure our respected man Arjuna would be screaming blue murder if Muralitharan was an Aussie...

 

[Tom Halsey]

So am I...

 

[Muddaser]

cant wait to see tariq mahmoods doosra in action.

 

[Langeveldt]

cant wait to see tariq mahmoods doosra in action.

Oh yeah, that is fun to watch...

Gawd, what are we going to do?

 

[bennyr]

a chance to have a go at that fat poor excuse for an International Captain is good.

Ahh, come on.

Ranatunga is just doing what he's always done - get on everyone's nerves, make outlandish statements and try to get the best results for Sri Lankan cricket.

He's been doing it for years and he won Sri Lanka a World Cup by doing it. He may be talking utter crap, but the guy led Sri Lanka to the World Cup and for that reason alone he is very far from being a "fat poor excuse for an international captain".

 

[marc71178]

Ranatunga is just doing what he's always done - get on everyone's nerves, make outlandish statements and try to get the best results for Sri Lankan cricket.

That's exactly why I called him what I did!

He's been doing it for years and he won Sri Lanka a World Cup by doing it. He may be talking utter crap, but the guy led Sri Lanka to the World Cup and for that reason alone he is very far from being a "fat poor excuse for an international captain".

So leading your team off because you disagree with the umpire is the done thing now is it?

 

[bennyr]

So leading your team off because you disagree with the umpire is the done thing now is it?

No, but many of the great captains have behaved in an unsportsmanlike manner at times to get the best result for their team. Hutton and Lloyd slowed the over rate to their advantage, Waugh and Ian Chappell engaged in a bit of sledging. Ganguly engages in a combination of the above. For these guys and Ranatunga I think pushing the boundaries of what will be tolerated caome or comes with the fire in the belly that makes them great captains.

I'm not condoning his actions, I'm just saying they should be put in the context of a passionate and successful captain of his national team.

 

[marc71178]

It wasn't just one incident in that game that immediately springs to mind though, and some of them were far beyond mere unsportsmanship.

 

[bennyr]

OK Marc, maybe my memory isn't as good as yours.

I remember a rotund man who said and still says the sorts of things that get up the noses of people he wants to get up the noses of, who led his team off the field after an umpire made a bloody minded, arrogant call to no-ball one of his players, who used to call for a runner (to quote Ian Healy) "because he's too fat", and who was a dreadful time waster. On the positive side, he led a Sri Lankan team to punch well above it's weight in winning the World Cup and was a great innovator in the one day game.

Not an ornament to the game, but not a poor excuse for an international captain.

 

[aussie_beater]

Au Contraire, a chance to have a go at that fat poor excuse for an International Captain is good.

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 tried to do that. His actions that seemed like he was about to lead his team off was not something to write home about, but then lot of other players were guilty of antics similar to that... like the incident with Gatting and Shakoor Rana in Pakistan in 1987.

 

[Deja moo]

That's exactly why I called him what I did!





So leading your team off because you disagree with the umpire is the done thing now is it?

Even though the umpire was proved wrong later on ?

 

[JASON]

http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2004/JUN/162594_SL_06JUN2004.htm

2 things here:

1) It isn't your book that counts

His Book certainly counts more (when you consider the guy lead an average Sri Lankan outfit to win a world cup) (and the most average team ever to win a world cup, beating a world class Aussie outfit in the final), than any rubbish book you might want to author. If you can come out with some thing constructive, we can progress somewhere in this thread. If its going to be another one of your mudslinging, crass threads, I suggest to the moderators close this thread now.

 

[Deja moo]

Its official now....John Howards bullshit counts , but Ranatungas opinions do not

 

[JASON]

I don't like Ranatunga. I have no problem with Murali, other than his action.

The idea of the thread was more that Ranatunga thinks he should own the world.

Giving your opinion on a given matter does not amount to "thinking you should own the world". Which school of Logic did you graduate from ?

 

[JASON]

He's been doing it for years and he won Sri Lanka a World Cup by doing it.

IIRC he won Sri Lanka a World Cup by beating a very classie Aussie outfit in the final. ie by scoring more runs than the opposition in lesser number of overs (which is the purpose of One day Cricket). Not by getting on other people's nerves!!