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re: Uncommontators

Peter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:39:08 GMT

Hmmm... It would still be even better if there were more "non-players" in boxes, regardless of who is playing, such as Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Jim Maxwell, Fazeer Mohammed, Tony Cozier and Harsha Bhogle. At times, the cheerleading of Bill Lawry, Ian Botham, Ravi Shastri, and Robin Jackman can be a bit too much to bear.

re: England's (t)urn?

Peter — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:40:29 GMT

Waiting for the day when CA takes a page out of the book of the ECB and drops Lee in the manner of Vaughan.

re: Choke De! South Africa?

gchakravarthy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:32:07 GMT

OpeningBat ...

You better believe it, man.

Smith's still not done with the personal Heimlichs on each of his Proteages!

re: Choke De! South Africa?

gchakravarthy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:29:52 GMT

The choke's on you, PDP!

re: Choke De! South Africa?

Peter — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:10:24 GMT

I got suckered! Time to start bleeding Aussie green and gold again. I've been getting soft. The Ashes will reignite the spirit in me!

re: Choke De! South Africa?

openingbat — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:17:23 GMT

They choked! I can't believe it.

re: Choke De! South Africa?

Peter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:14:49 GMT

Hmmmm... Yes, the young generation doesn't have scars from the past. A turning point was Edgbaston last summer in the third test. That 5 wicket victory changed the fortunes of the Saffas for the foreseeable future. After that they chase down a near record target in Perth to win by 6 wickets and followed it with a 9 wicket win at the MCG.

Warney is gone and he was inflicting mental damage in addition to taking wickets. Never underestimate the power of Warne.

re: MS Phoney? Come on!!

gchakravarthy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:54:30 GMT

Here are some more reasons ... ala Dave's "Top 10" from our friends @ Cricket with Balls (www.cricketwithballs.com/.../reasons-india-are-out-of-the-worldt20)

re: MS Phoney? Come on!!

Peter — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:13:34 GMT

Lovely, lively, lay it on the journos!

I don't know who has a worse short term memory, the English press and fans, or the Indians? Maybe Dhoni should talk to a certain KKR owner for tips on how to deal with a fickle following. It will be interesting to see how much bloodletting is done.

Nominations for a scapegoat -

#1 Greg Chappell - It's all his fault. If he hadn't been the coach of the Worst ODI World Cup campaign in history, then India wouldn't care so much about T20 and they wouldn't be so heartbroken now.

#2 Ricky Ponting - Australia picked a terrible T20 team for this event. If only they had stopped rushing people out the door like Matthew Hayden and denied deserving players like Cameron White, they would have beaten the West Indies and then India certainly would have beaten Australia in the Super 8s. His selfishness in skipping the IPL and all that T20 experience denied India an easy win. Did I forget he was going to gift wrap Harbhajan his wicket?

#3 Brett Lee - Donated all of his runs conceded to Chris Gayle instead of saving some for Yuvraj and Dhoni. What a jerk. All those lasting bonds built up at Kings XI between Binga and Yuvi, singing songs deep into the night, count for nothing.

#4 - Andrew Symonds - How selfish of him to get kicked off the tour. If only he had hung around long enough to help the Aussies beat the West Indies. Then when they played India in the group stage, Bhajji was going to give him another Hindi lesson that would have left him dazed and confused and looking for some Kingfisher.

#5 All other Australians - Duh! Why look at the Indian failures like Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma when you can blame everything on the Australians instead?!

re: The hand that rocks the handle

Peter — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:58:13 GMT

According to the 12th Man, reverse swing isn't the only confusingly obsessive term out there! We are not far off from having the reverse catch (drop) and a host of other "reverses"!

re: Boyle's Law of Cricket

openingbat — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:45:06 GMT

Gas is always greener on the off-side.

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re: Testing Times

arvi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:08:12 GMT

India vs new zealand...is almost a bundle of contradictions in many ways....

1) india is expected to win against a lowly ranked team

2) india is not expected to win abroad

3) indian hype is expected to be burst

4) indian hype is to continue....\

Pundits and all can grab one thread and sing yarns and yarns of cricketing "panditry" ...

Somehow it warmed my heart seeing mccullum's fight back, ryder and verttori's tonne and left me a distaste that bhajji got 6.....Reading richardson's articles seems to show that kiwi board has bent a tad too backward to make the hosts comfortable....

-A

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