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I like Tim Bresnan and Alastair Cook. "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail" "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education."
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The fact is simple: England need to win this match to retain the number one Test ranking. If England don't win, South Africa will…
The Sri Lankan Test cricket side have won only one match since the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan. Their highest-ranked bowler is the left-arm spinner…
The West Indies have taken out the second match of the one day international series in the Caribbean, comfortably defeating Australia by five wickets.…
As usual, the already slow Arnos Vale pitch slowed down in the second innings. But as the history of match results attests, teams still…
Kallis is a far better bowler than Brett Lee. Check out Lee’s record against England. Kallis gets in my Greatest All Time X1 along with Imram Khan. [not the 6 best batsmen and 4 best bolwers and best wicket keeper but the best team]
Gavaskar
G Pollock
Viv Richards [captain discipline]
Bradman
Kallis
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imram Khan
Wasim Akram [he bolwed on flat pitches and he’s left arm]
SF Barnes [be bowled fast legcutters litterally ie not seamers]
Murali
Windies hammer Australia to level ODI series at 1-1
My piece on the second ODI is up now. You can find it quickest by going to my profile page. Thanks for the interest.
I don’t know about Kallis being the greatest but certainly the most underated and underappreciated allrounder. In terms of batting allrounders, we need to remember that Sir Gary Sobers batted with no helmet protection, poor gloves, and bats not as good as today’s. He also probably played with poor sightscreens and on uncovered wickets. Also Sir Garry’s bowling needs to be split up into the various categories of what he bowled ie his effectiveness as a left arm seamer compared to as an orthodox left arm spinner compared to his more expensive left arm wrist spin.
Joe public likes their all rounders to be dashing with the bat eg Miller, Sobers, Botham. Folks also tend to forget the value of Kallis’s slip catching. However, Cook will get more hundreds than him. Cook has 19 hundreds at aged 26.
Windies hammer Australia to level ODI series at 1-1
Ian Chappell is my favourite commentator and he has a wonderfully positive but nuanced thought process.
Channel Nine's commentary team: a final report card
If you want a better idea of what happened, read my piece that describes every dismisal in technical detail eg the above “Brett Lee trapped Kieran Powell leg-before off the opening ball of the innings” shortchanges the reader; it doesn’t paint the full word picture for the reader who might not have seen the action ie that the lefthanded Powell left the ball (bat high above head) but the over the wicket ball from Brett Lee sharply swung back into him. A ball that swung from the hand and off the pitch from middle-and-off to middle leaving it as plum as can be.
My piece also mentions the atmosphere created by the buzzing vuvuzelas and the partying big bouncing women in the crowd that the TV cameras were so fond of. I also list all the “left-handers” who are not lefthanders at all; they’re righthanders who bat “top-handed” eg Warner and Michael Hussey all bowl and throw right arm the same as Chanderpaul and Gayle if they were playing. In fact, I should have mentioned that Chris Gayle was in the crowd (dressed in black) signing autographs and a having a chat with Michael Holding and the Prime Minister of the host country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines(sp). Why was Gayle there? His home in Jamaica is not exactly a stone’s throw away from Saint Vincent .. unless thrown by Superman.
MY PIECE SHOULD BE PUBLISHED SOON. I think it’s better than my first article (on game 1 of this series) which was good but too long and contained a horriby clunky second sentence that folks will need to let slide given it was my debut article.
Windies hammer Australia to level ODI series at 1-1
Mark Nicholas was a very astute Captain of a Hampshire side that included Malcolm Marshall. He learnt a lot from Marshall. I watched him captain Hampshire in domestic ond day matches in England in the early 90s. He is also very articulate and makes insightful points. His county nickname was Elvis due to his hairstyle. Yes, he’s a posh dandy, but an articulate and insightful dandy.
Channel Nine's commentary team: a final report card
If the Bodyline series is removed from Bradman’s career, he averaged over a hundred. Why should it be counted when no one else in the “best test batting averages” table had to endure such a series? Bradman averaged over a 100 in non-bodyline cricket and non-bodyline cricket is what everyone plays We need to compare like with like.
How does Tendulkar rate against Bradman and Gavaskar?
@Jason From Cric Info Stats Guru:
Kallis vs England: 28 matches, 46 wickets at 34.67 and he scored 1879 runs at 42.7
Brett Lee vs England: 18 matches, 62 wickets at 40.61 and a he scored 334 runs at 20.87
Windies hammer Australia to level ODI series at 1-1