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The 2015 Cricket World Cup was a strange competition. It was a World Cup dominated by aggressive teams, giant, left-armed fast bowlers and Steve…
It's Big Bash League season again and the success of Australia's domestic Twenty20 league has left English fans looking on enviously and wondering what…
There has been a lot of discussion regarding Kevin Pietersen's recently released autobiography and his version of the truth. There have been three different…
The recently concluded Anderson-Jadeja push-gate farce reminds me of the Harbhajan-Symonds monkey-gate fracas. 1) The antagonists had a previous history of riling everyone the…
On Sunday, amidst the heat of Chennai, in MAC stadium at Chepauk, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was belting the Aussie bowlers in front of a…
The inevitable end of Zaheer's career leaves a big void with no replacement in site. Yet the lack of ceremony is a little disconcerting.…
Now that the 2012 World Twenty20 is completed, it is time to present the mandatory World XI. The main guiding principle is that players…
One aspect of IPL which I had struggled to comprehend was how the franchises would fit in only four among the max 10 available…
In one extremely short-sighted stroke, the ICC is attempting to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. The facts are fifty over cricket…
Number of matches India has lost when Yuvraj remained not out = 1. Check here. The Indian team looks unbalanced (7 batsmen, 4 bowlers)…
Sachin Tendulkar has become the first male cricketer to score 200 runs in an ODI. Cricinfo says it best: "His experience of 20 years…
precious, I agree too that Flintoff is a bit lucky to be here, because he is still playing, so he might have just peaked and his performance might dip from now on. I mainly included Flintoff and Gough in the all-time list because they are two of the most under-rated bowlers, who bowl with great heart (keep puffing and steaming in like thomas the tank) despite this batsmen favoring era, that too in the slog overs and batting powerplays etc. Based on the performance so far, I rate Flintoff as good as McDermott for whom I have a very high regard. I also rate bowlers like Ambrose and Garner very highly but I dont think they played under such a huge workload as later players.
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=bowling_average;qualmax3=40;qualmax4=4.5;qualmin1=5000;qualmin2=150;qualval1=balls;qualval2=wickets;qualval3=bowling_strike_rate;qualval4=economy_rate;size=200;template=results;type=bowling
Dhoni is probably another player who is lucky, because he is still playing and can be eclipsed by DeVilliers/Sarwan/Pietersen in the long run. But I think it is a safe bet to nominate a player who scored 183* in a chase – even in this batsmen favoring era.
I would loved to have seen Klusener play for a longer duration for SA or Symonds for AUS. Really explosive players. I also would have loved to see Kapil dev play as a Pinch hitter at the top and Jayasuriya as finisher like Klusener instead of an opener. Also if Chris Cairns, Shaun Pollock, Imran Khan and Flintoff had done more to justify their batting potential.
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?batting_fielding_first=2;batting_positionmin1=4;batting_positionval1=batting_position;class=2;filter=advanced;innings_number=2;orderby=batting_strike_rate;qualmin1=1;qualmin2=1;qualmin3=1000;qualmin4=45;qualval1=sixes;qualval2=fours;qualval3=runs;qualval4=batting_average;size=200;template=results;type=batting
Tendulkar blasts his way into all-time ODI team
Geoff, there have been very few matches, where both teams played to their full potential. (Ireland vs Dutch was an exception). There have been lots of ups and down in each matches. Proabably the sense of occasion and UDRS is causing these issues.
I would like to see two top teams going full blast at each other giving nothing away. That would be the best ad for ODIs. What is happening currently is more IPL like drama. It gets more TRPs, but this is probably not the best of ODIs
The Death of Cricket, and other short stories