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 11:37 | 23/Jun/2009 |
| Freeze Frames | |
| In an era of crowded schedules and uncompetitive blue-riband events, here was an eye-opener - two weeks of the best fun imaginable, served up in thrillingly digestible portions, in front of packed crowds and rapt TV audiences. Soberingly, if this was the 50-over World Cup, the public would have long since tuned out, and we'd still have five weeks a...
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| 11:29 | 23/Jun/2009 |
| A time to heal | |
| Few None write of Pakistan cricket with the passionate empathy that powers every word of Osman Samiuddin's prose. And predictably, his post-win writing has been top-notch, managing deftly to celebrate while putting the win against the larger backdrop of all that is happening in that country.12 militants were killed and seven others sustained injuri...
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| 13:09 | 22/Jun/2009 |
| The anti-terrorism weapon | |
| Memo to Barack Obama: cricket is the new Predator. Tunku Varadarajan advances the argument that the United States would do well to divert at least a fraction of its planned aid to Pakistan for the construction and maintenance of cricket grounds across the country.As Pakistan fights for its survival against the barbarian Taliban--who would turn that...
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| 11:13 | 22/Jun/2009 |
| Gentlemen, come play | |
| Younus Khan is from Mardan in the North West Frontier Province where, a day before Pakistan defeated Ireland to book its plae in the semi-finals, Pakistan security forces claimed to have killed 65 Taliban militants while counter-attacking following an earlier attack on the Nowshera mosque, a bomb blast in the busy Tejarat Gunj Bazaar in Dera Ismail...
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| 11:09 | 22/Jun/2009 |
| Pakistan V2 | |
| At some point Sunday evening, while doing an over by over live gig on the World T20 final, what struck me was the un-Pakistan-like way the team fashioned the victory: meticulous, methodical, responsible, clinical. Sambit Bal agrees, and says what was odd in a good sort of way was the way victory was accomplished.Resolute. Restrained. Mature. Measur...
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| 19:28 | 21/Jun/2009 |
| Past as prelude | |
| What would have been just another final was given context and nuance by an event atrocity that happened [a round up post from then, and a piece I had done for Rediff at the time] three and a half months ago [Almost unnoticed, the first arrest in that case was made three days ago].The attack on the Sri Lankan team March 3 robbed cricket of its amule...
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| 10:58 | 19/Jun/2009 |
| Method, madness... | |
| Consider this sequence at the start of Pakistan's innings:Kamran Akmal cuts the second ball of the day fiercely past point. He then thumps, off the front foot, the last ball of that over, short in length, past cover. The second ball of the second over produces a wicket; Akmal pulls the third in front of square leg and drives the next off the front ...
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| 13:12 | 18/Jun/2009 |
| The clash of cultures | |
| Match previews [and Cricinfo is the only site doing it] tend to be somewhat perfunctory affairs done to a prefabricated template: set it up by talking of the states, look for interesting personal contests, round the whole thing off with relevant stats. Which is how it will be if you have to do a dozen of these a week.And then someone like Osman Sam...
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| 13:09 | 18/Jun/2009 |
| The long goodbye | |
| “John Buchanan has informed Knight Riders that despite his hard work over the past two seasons, he has not achieved everything that he set out to and has not been able take the franchise into the future as per his vision for this team. We have amicably agreed that Knight Riders will release him from his contract with immediate effect,” said Jay Meh...
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| 10:37 | 17/Jun/2009 |
| Belief systems | |
| Commentators talking of the fabulous run India's limited overs teams have had since the first edition of the T20 World Cup invariably bring up all-round bowling skills, improved fielding and most importantly, a deep batting lineup of incandescent stroke-players. There is one other quality to that team, unquantifiable, hence largely unmentioned -- s...
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| Make Money | 17:54 | 18/Jan/2009 |
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| Make Money From Internet Affiliate Busin... |
| Internet Affiliate BusinessThe fastest and easiest way to start an internet business when you arelow on cash is through affiliate business. All you need is the abilityto write a coherent article, post it to top article directories anddrive traffic to an affiliate site. You do not need a fancy website, orhave to worry about a budget for pay per clic...
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| Krishna Prasad | 15:13 | 7/May/2009 |
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| FUSED BULB |
| FUSED BULB Preface: Today our office boy came to my office to remove a fused bulb. He removed the bulb and thrown it in the garbage can. This gave me the following thoughts. I was dear one for everybody onceBut now everybody hate mePeople knew that I am of no useThat’s why they threw me in trash I was helping the boy to readBooks for studyin...
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| Pratik Phadke | 19:05 | 5/Oct/2007 |
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| World Cup Champions and all that ... |
| What a final! And India won! A bowler called Sharma bowled a ball with Pakistan requiring 5 to win .... and he got the Pakistani batsmen out. How about that for erasing some past demons :-) India had actually won a major multination tournament outright. How long have we waited for that?The hyper-celebrations reflected a nation thirsting for success...
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| Bhanu Gouda | 09:03 | 16/Jul/2008 |
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| SAMSUNG Instinct or is it extinct while ... |
| Two weeks back I purchased the SAMSUNG Instinct phone and upgraded my account with sprint. I am a loyal sprint customer and I would like to remain to be one. However I have an issue with SPRINT now. Sprint marketed the phone to be “THE iPhone killer”. I believed Sprint. I believed all the reviewers out there who got their hands on this little cute ...
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| Infinite Abs... | 19:03 | 4/Apr/2007 |
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| Au revoir! |
| And the Chappell era of indian cricket comes to a close.Of all the coaches that indian cricket had till now, none captured headlines like Chappell. Probably because none before him had taken on the established inertia of the system and tried to bring changes. I admire the courage of Chappell. It was so much easier to let things be where the big st...
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| vikram chand... | 19:37 | 14/May/2007 |
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| Warne, the last googly! |
| Warnie and his 'estranged' wife Simone are starting life anew. something about hmmm not being able to straighten a dogs tail comes to mind....
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| Sandil Srini... | 11:24 | 30/Apr/2007 |
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| Finito |
| F inally, done, isn't it? Got so much to write about, curses to be flushed, the horrible ICC that's murdered my sweet little game. But then, why bother, when Sambit Bal and Sir Richard Hadlee took the words outa my mouth and pasted them all over the internet?
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| Ashfaq Frame... | 09:40 | 4/Aug/2008 |
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| Being a father... |
| This May 1st, my family tree extended one more branch, me and my wife got blessed with a cute little baby boy. Several months' waiting period finally got justified. Waiting outside the operation theatre when my wife was delivering, some strange things were happening inside me. I felt as if my stomach and heart are misplaced. And when the nurse came...
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| Kannan Pulacode | 04:09 | 15/Dec/2007 |
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| Who's your president? |
| In case you are debating between Hillary and Obama, choose the one closest to your idealogy here . Do not be surprised by the results.
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| balaji venka... | 21:22 | 22/Mar/2007 |
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| Prem: I would retain Uttappa instead of bringing Pathan when he has not played in game 1 & 2. Uttappa had played well against WI and SL in India series and this would be lurking in SL's mind. There is more chance of he firing with SG that will place a better platform to VS at one drop to continue attack. Same batting order MSD, YS, SRT, RD can do t...
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| Chamcha Numb... | 21:15 | 26/Mar/2007 |
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| It's not youth or experience ,stupid !!... |
| It is not a question of youth or experience , Stupid !!!!!The pendulum has swung the other way following India's early exit in WC. If you listen to the head honcho of BCCI, the media , the numerous internet boards and their messages , youth is the answer to India's current woes.But they just don't get it.Just a while ago when India were beaten blue...
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| Shekhar Kale | 20:59 | 7/Jun/2007 |
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| Cricket: Not a public event ? |
| There has been a lot of outcry over the rights to telecast cricket matches in India. BCCI and IB ministry of India insists that the telecast of the cricket matches (and other sports) should be shared with Doordarshan, the govt media. The various media companies that buy the rights to telecast the matches from BCCI as ifBCCI is the sole proprieter ...
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| The Commentator | 07:00 | 1/Oct/2008 |
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| The oldest athlete and the most successf... |
| As I start to grow grey behind my ears, the story that warmed my heart at the Olympics was not Superfish Michael Phelps quest for Olympic immortality, but th story of this man who 44 years after his debut at the 1964 Olympics is back again as the games’ oldest athlete - Hiroshi Hoketsu. Read more on this athlete here: But they probably wouldn’t be...
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| Elecsys expr... | 15:42 | 18/Sep/2008 |
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| Analysis of Issue - 3 |
| “It is unrealistic to expect individual nations to make, independently, the sacrifices necessary to conserve energy. International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations.”Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support yo...
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| Kishore Bandi | 14:18 | 8/Mar/2007 |
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| Reading Mind |
| Have scientists found a way to read your mind? Many of who saw the movie "Minority Report" experienced two distinct reactions: first, "Please, this is pure science fiction" and then, "There but for the grace of God..." Really, how many of us have not fantasized at least once about what we would do if we ever came upon that guy who stole our car? An...
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| nw land | 18:01 | 28/Feb/2007 |
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| welcome |
| hai rediffmail users, i will you all the best. be happy always. yours
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| Rahul Pahuja | 06:32 | 19/Mar/2007 |
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| Thoughts on India-Bangladesh |
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| So, India now have their backs to the wall. They came out flat, ran into a tenacious bunch of Bangladeshis and got embarassed. What went wrong? Did anything go right? What can be done to fix the problems. Below are my thoughts.....The only thing that went right was that we won the toss. Thats about it.Now lets talk about what specific things went w...
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| ravi prasad | 19:09 | 15/Jan/2006 |
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| Media Masala |
| Media being pro -ganguly is understandable though questionable.but why anti -Dravid-for 5 years as vc the guy gave 110% including keeping wickets in odi's-is it to much to expect ganguly to grow up and conduct himself in a manner befitting his stature and not like a incorrigible kid with his tantrums on and off the field-rather he concentrates on...
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| amol prabhud... | 00:36 | 26/May/2007 |
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| Success in Life |
| The founder of a highly successful company was asked what it took to achieve success in life. He replied: “The same thing it took to get started; a sense of urgency about getting things done.” Success in life should be determined by contributions, not accumulations.
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| Bindu Roy | 23:50 | 25/Feb/2007 |
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| Power of Intention |
| Have you heard of the Power of Intention----------------------believe me----------------take my word for it --------------------------boy it works:)--------------Thank God for that.Sooooooooooooooooo much has been happening in life lately-----------almost immediately.First I got an opportunity to get into teaching at a Management school and also if...
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| marcus duff | 07:39 | 31/Jan/2007 |
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| SONG 4 MY GURL!!! |
| I Live My Life For You Y'know you're everything to me and I could never seeThe two of us apartAnd you know I give myself to you and no matter what you doI promise you my heartI've built my world around you and I want you to knowI need you like I've never needed anyone beforeChorus:I live my life for youI want to be by your side in everything that y...
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| Shankar V | 12:30 | 9/May/2007 |
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| Revisiting: Sachin Tendulkar is V/C? |
| I had posted this before the announcement of the team to the world cup - Sachin Tendulkar is Vice-Captain?I was questioning the sinister move by Vengsarkar to name Tendulkar as the V/C and I wondered whether it was to place a check on Dravid as the captain. I now feel that it was probably also to assuage the captaincy ambitions of our one-time capt...
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| Sameer Wadkar | 19:28 | 7/Jan/2007 |
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| Do our players really care? |
| One thing I have learnt over my work life is that if you want to be really respected and sought after you start by making every effort not to let your stakeholders, your team and every other concerned persons down. Thats the quality thats most visible in the Aussies. They do not want to let their team, friends and fans down. Martyn also retired to ...
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| dilip krishnan | 21:52 | 19/May/2009 |
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| Elections in IPL Times!General elections in India are often termed as the Festivals of Democracy: quite flattering, ain’t it! The irreverent ones, though, choose to dub them as the Theatre of the Absurd! Either way, you can’t afford to ignore it when over 700 million women and men trudge it to the polling booths on the appointed day in the largest ...
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| Anup nair | 15:55 | 13/Feb/2007 |
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| What a Shame !!!!!!!!!! |
| By the time you read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military honors.On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels ‘Sanjay Dutt relieved by court’. ‘Sirf Munna not a bhai’ ‘13 saal ka vanvaas khatam’ ’although found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay c...
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| Shyam Sankar | 07:06 | 27/Sep/2007 |
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| Level Playing Field |
| The T20 Championship has opened the eyes of many. In its own way it has also shown up the limitations of the 50 overs format. The shorter format means that the sides are more evenly matched than in the 50 overs format. And in the event of a one-sided contest, the whole thing gets over in 3 hours – it doesn't drag on for a whole day.Test cricket is...
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| TestCricket ... | 03:08 | 27/Jun/2007 |
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| Test #1836 Records : Chanderpaul remains... |
| Test #1836 West Indies in England 2007 ( 4 th Test ) at Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street The latest test series between West Indies and England resulted in the same manner as did the every series in the new millennium. After winning the first test of the new millennium played at Edgbaston from June 15 th to 17 th inside three days by a huge margin of an innings and 93 runs, they are yet to register a test victory against England . West Indies went on to surrender The John Wisden Trophy in 2000 series by losing three of the next four tests with the rain ruined third test played at Old Trafford ending in a draw. Thus they ended their supremacy of last 27 years of 20 th century during which they never lost a test series to England . Odds were never in their favor to regain the John Wisden Trophy even before they started the 2007 series. Yes, not even before Brian Lara announced his retirement from the international Cricket immediately after the World Cup debacle. However they did put up a good show in the first test at Lord’s though weather ruined the proceedings and helped West Indies in escaping the test match with a draw. If Chanderpaul’s absence in the 2 nd test was itself a major blow for the West Indies , they took another crushing blow when their captain Ramnaresh Sarwan suffered a series ending injury in the second test before even taking a batting stance. There after things went from bad to worse with Chris Gayle not being able to take off at all and their stop-gap skipper Daren Ganga having a horrible existence at the crease since taking over the captaincy with scores of 5 & 9, 5 & 0 , 0 & 6. The Brilliance of Bravo and Resilience of Chanderpaul could not stop West Indies from losing last three tests even though it looked as if West Indies might avoid a defeat while Chanderpaul and Bravo were batting in last two tests. So England extends their streak of not losing a test match to West Indies to sixteen and West Indies requires a tremendous amount of reversal in their cricketing fortunes even to dream of regaining the John Wisden trophy when they host England in 2009. Following are some of the statistical highlights of the fourth test of the 2007 series: Though England dominated the test series from every imaginable angle, one batsman they could not corner was Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Chanderpaul topped the batting averages for both sides but ended up on the losing side as he did in 2004 notching up plethora of test records in the process. He batted for more than 1000 minutes without getting dismissed while making 116* in the 2 nd innings of the 3 rd test at Old Trafford and 136* & 70 in the 4 th test at Chester-le-Street . This is the third time he recorded this feat in his test career. Only five other batsmen achieved this record in test history and none of them had done it more than once. Following is the list of all such occasions. Player Vs Venue Series Inns Score C.Runs Mts T.Mts B/F T. B/F TEST# Shoaib Mohammad NZ Karachi 1990/91 1st *203 203 656 656 411 411 1151 NZ Lahore 1990/91 1st 105 308 351 1007 223 634 1152 Nasser Hussain SA Port Elizabeth 1999/00 2nd *70 70 303 303 211 211 1475 SA Durban 1999/00 1st *146 216 635 938 463 674 1480 SA Cape Town 1999/00 1st 15 231 85 1023 70 744 1482 Rahul Dravid BD Dhaka 2000/01 2nd *41 41 50 50 49 49 1512 Zim New Delhi 2000/01 1st *200 241 551 601 350 399 1515 2nd *70 311 152 753 91 490 Zim Nagpur 2000/01 1st 162 473 408 1161 301 791 1517 Jacques Kallis Zim Harare 2001/02 1st *157 157 381 381 272 272 1562 2nd *42 199 65 446 54 326 Zim Bulawayo 2001/02 1st *189 388 581 1027 443 769 1563 Ind Bloemfontein 2001/02 1st 68 456 219 1246 138 907 1564 Shivnarine ChanderPaul Ind Port of Spain 2001/02 2nd *67 67 260 260 162 162 1599 Ind Bridgetown 2001/02 1st *101 168 365 625 231 393 1601 Ind St. John's 2001/02 1st *136 304 675 1300 510 903 1602 Ind Kingston 2001/02 1st 58 362 213 1513 148 1051 1604 Sachin Tendulkar Aus Sydney 2003/04 1st *241 241 613 613 436 436 1680 2nd *60 301 108 721 89 525 Pak Multan 2003/04 1st *194 495 493 1214 348 873 1693 Pak Lahore 2003/04 1st 2 497 10 1224 6 879 1695 Shivnarine ChanderPaul BD Kingston 2003/04 1st *101 101 271 271 190 190 1703 Eng Lord's 2004 1st *128 229 383 654 270 460 1707 2nd *97 306 231 885 152 612 Eng Edgbaston 2004 1st 45 351 146 1031 86 698 1708 Shivnarine ChanderPaul Eng Old Trafford 2007 2nd *116 116 413 413 257 257 1835 Eng Chester-le-Street 2007 1st *136 252 406 819 257 514 1836 2nd 70 322 255 1074 163 677 Just for the record : Hanif Mohammad of Pakistan holds the record for batting for longest period in a single test match with his marathon knock of 337 in 970 minutes against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1957/58 whereas Aussie Opener Mark Taylor with 334* (720 mts) & 92 (218 mts) against Pakistan at Peshawar 1998/99 is close second with 938 mts of batting before getting dismissed. However Stephen Fleming of New Zealand holds the record for batting longest period of 956 minutes without getting dismissed in a single test with the scores of 274* (653) & 69* (303) against Sri Lanka at Colombo (PSS) in 2003. Fleming however was dismissed for a duck in the next match after batting for just 5 mts thus missing the 1000 mts mark. Chanderpaul’s latest 1000+ minutes batting between dismissals also makes him the owner of another interesting record. For the second time in his career he now has witnessed 20 or more wickets falling consecutively at the other end while he himself remained not out. In the third test at Old Trafford he came into bat at 88 for 3 and remained unbeaten at the close of West Indian innings, thus seeing seven of his teammates losing their wickets. In the fourth test at Chester-le-Street , Chanderpaul came into bat at 34 for 3 and remained not out again for 136 witnessing seven more wickets falling at the other end. In the second innings of the same test he stepped in at 38 for 3 and saw six wickets falling at the other end before becoming the last batsman out in the innings for 70. However Chanderpaul's unbeaten tenure at the crease which made him saw 20 of his side’s dismissals is still one dismissal short of his record 21 dismissals he witnessed during his record 1513 minutes of unbeaten batting against India in 2001-02 as he saw 6 wickets falling during his 2 nd innings knock of 67* at Port of Spain, 6 wickets during 101* at Bridgetown, 6 wickets during 136* at St. John’s and 3 wickets during his 1 st innings knock of 58 at Kingston. No other batsmen in the history of test cricket batted with such patience and perseverance to endure so many wickets falling at the opposite end. The closest to Chanderpaul’s record is 18 dismissals shared by Jacques Rudolph of South Africa and Kumara Sangakkara of Sri Lanka . Rudolph made 154* at Auckalnd and 93* & 0 at Wellington in 2003-04 series against New Zealand whereas Sangakkara made 100* at Christchurch and 156* & 8 at Wellington against the same opposition in 2006-07. They both came at the fall of first wicket in their unbeaten innings. When the West Indian skipper Daren Ganga was out lbw to the first ball of the test match bowled by Ryan Sidebottom, he not only became the 26 th player to be dismissed by the first ball of a Test Match but also just the third captain to have suffered the ignominy. At Headingley in 1926, acting as a stop-gap captain in the absence of the appointed captain Herbie Collins just like Darren Ganga, Warren Bardsley of Australia became the first captain to have suffered the fate of getting out to the first ball of a test match.. Seventy three years later Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya fell to the first ball of the match, bowled by Australia 's Glenn McGrath at Galle in 1999-00. For the entire list of batsmen who were out to the first legitimate delivery of a test match refer to the table in my posting on Test #1832 which saw India’s opener Wasim Jaffer shouldering his arms to an incoming delivery from Bangladesh’s Mashrafe Mortaza to lose his stumps to the first ball of a test match and provide 25 th such instance. For the Trivia buffs : When AC MacLaren of Australia was out to the first ball of the Melbourne test in 1894/95 of the bowling of Arthur Conningham, he provided first such instance. It was also Arthur Conningham’s first delivery in his test career . Mohsin Khan’s dismissal with the first ball of 1983/84 test at Jalandhar by Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar’s first ball dismissal by Imran Khan at Jaipur provides the only two instances in test cricket a wicket falling to the first ever ball bowled at a particular venue. Sunil Gavaskar of India and Hannan Sarkar of Bangladesh are the only batsmen to have suffered fate of losing their wicket to the first ball of a test match on three separate occasions whereas Geoff Arnold of England (2), Richard Hadlee of New Zealand (2) , Kapil Dev of India (2) and Pedro Collins of West Indies (3) are the only bowlers to have taken a wicket with the first delivery bowled in a test match on more than one occasion. Hannan Sarkar also holds the record for getting out to the first delivery of a test match in three consecutive tests, which as of today are his last three matches of his test career. Keith Stackpole of Australia in 1973/74 at Auckland against New Zealand and Wasim Jaffer against Bangladesh at Chittagong followed up their first ball dismissal of a test match with another duck in their second innings. SJ Cook of South Africa and LV Garrick of New Zealand were out to the first ball of a test match while making their test debut. Except Zimbabwe batsmen of all test playing nations have at least one batsmen or bowler involved in a first ball dismissal in a test match. During his first innings knock of 136* Chanderpaul crossed the ’s 7000 test runs milestone and became the 7 th West Indian and 30 th test cricketer to have done so. Following is the list of all players with 7000 or more test runs. Player Country Tests Inns NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avg S/R Lara, B C West Indies 131 232 6 11953 *400 34 48 52.89 60.52 Border, A R Australia 156 265 44 11174 205 27 63 50.56 40.98 Waugh, S R Australia 168 260 46 10927 200 32 50 51.06 48.65 Tendulkar, S R* India 137 220 23 10922 *248 37 43 55.44 Gavaskar, S M India 125 214 16 10122 *236 34 45 51.12 Ponting, R T* Australia 110 183 25 9368 257 33 36 59.29 58.95 Dravid, R * India 109 185 22 9366 270 24 47 57.46 42.50 Gooch, G A England 118 215 6 8900 333 20 46 42.58 49.20 Javed Miandad Pakistan 124 189 21 8832 *280 23 43 52.57 Inzamam-ul-Haq* Pakistan 119 198 22 8813 329 25 46 50.07 54.04 Richards, I V A West Indies 121 182 12 8540 291 24 45 50.24 Stewart, A J England 133 235 21 8463 190 15 45 39.55 48.67 Kallis, J H* South Africa 107 182 29 8430 *189 24 44 55.10 42.76 Gower, D I England 117 204 18 8231 215 18 39 44.25 50.60 Boycott, G England 108 193 23 8114 *246 22 42 47.73 Sobers, G S A West Indies 93 160 21 8032 *365 26 30 57.78 Waugh, M E Australia 128 209 17 8029 *153 20 47 41.82 52.27 Hayden, M L* Australia 89 159 13 7739 380 27 27 53.01 60.08 Atherton, M A England 115 212 7 7728 *185 16 46 37.70 37.32 Langer, J L Australia 105 182 12 7696 250 23 30 45.27 54.23 Cowdrey, M C England 114 188 15 7624 182 22 38 44.07 Greenidge, C G West Indies 108 185 16 7558 226 19 34 44.72 Taylor, M A Australia 104 186 13 7525 *334 19 40 43.50 41.61 Lloyd, C H West Indies 110 175 14 7515 *242 19 39 46.68 Haynes, D L West Indies 116 202 25 7487 184 18 39 42.30 Boon, D C Australia 107 190 20 7422 200 21 32 43.66 40.97 Kirsten, G South Africa 101 176 15 7289 275 21 34 45.27 43.35 Hammond, W R England 85 140 16 7249 *336 22 24 58.46 Chanderpaul, S* West Indies 104 178 24 7182 *203 16 43 46.64 43.32 Chappell, G S Australia 87 151 19 7110 *247 24 31 53.86 Finally England ’s Andrew Strauss stuck some batting form and made a fine 77 in the first innings. In the second innings he completed 3000 runs in Test Cricket and became the 143 cricketer to do so and 34 th from England . Following is the list of all English cricketers who aggregated 3000 or more runs in a test career: Player Country Tests Inns NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avg S/R Gooch, G A England 118 215 6 8900 333 20 46 42.58 49.20 Stewart, A J England 133 235 21 8463 190 15 45 39.55 48.67 Gower, D I England 117 204 18 8231 215 18 39 44.25 50.60 Boycott, G England 108 193 23 8114 *246 22 42 47.73 Atherton, M A England 115 212 7 7728 *185 16 46 37.70 37.32 Cowdrey, M C England 114 188 15 7624 182 22 38 44.07 Hammond, W R England 85 140 16 7249 *336 22 24 58.46 Hutton, L England 79 138 15 6971 364 19 33 56.67 Barrington, K F England 82 131 15 6806 256 20 35 58.67 Thorpe, G P England 100 179 28 6744 *200 16 39 44.66 45.90 Trescothick, M E* England 76 143 10 5825 219 14 29 43.80 54.52 Compton, D C S England 78 131 15 5807 278 17 28 50.06 Hussain, N England 96 171 16 5764 207 14 33 37.19 40.39 Hobbs, J B England 61 102 7 5410 211 15 28 56.95 Botham, I T England 102 161 6 5200 208 14 22 33.55 60.71 Edrich, J H England 77 127 9 5138 *310 12 24 43.54 Graveney, T W England 79 123 13 4882 258 11 20 44.38 Vaughan, M P* England 67 120 9 4846 197 16 14 43.66 52.47 Lamb, A J England 79 139 10 4656 142 14 18 36.09 51.40 Sutcliffe, H England 54 84 9 4555 194 16 23 60.73 May, P B H England 66 106 9 4537 *285 13 22 46.77 Dexter, E R England 62 102 8 4502 205 9 27 47.89 Gatting, M W England 79 138 14 4409 207 10 21 35.56 45.16 Knott, A P E England 95 149 15 4389 135 5 30 32.75 Butcher, M A England 71 131 7 4288 *173 8 23 34.58 42.02 Smith, R A England 62 112 15 4236 175 9 28 43.67 45.65 Amiss, D L England 50 88 10 3612 *262 11 11 46.31 Greig, A W England 58 93 4 3599 148 8 20 40.44 Hendren, E H England 51 83 9 3525 *205 7 21 47.64 Hick, G A England 65 114 6 3383 178 6 18 31.32 48.89 Flintoff, A* England 67 110 6 3381 167 5 24 32.51 64.17 Woolley, F E England 64 98 7 3283 154 5 23 36.08 Fletcher, K W R England 59 96 14 3272 216 7 19 39.90 Strauss, A J* England 40 75 2 3012 147 10 9 41.26 51.02 Final Statistical Tidbit: Matt Prior’s 324 runs from 6 innings he came into bat in this series is the new record for a wicket keeper’s debut test series eclipsing the previous best of 264 by Adam Gilchrist in his maiden test series against Pakistan in 1999/00.
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| TRINATH APPALLA | 15:57 | 22/Apr/2007 |
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| After every day of hectic work, getting bored artificial beauties, I wait hoping for the sky to turn black. I reside in the south-east regions of the sub continent, wherein, the South-West monsoons too don't favour most of the areas. The monsoons start in May, at the tip of Kerala, dumping all of their moisture all along the west coast, and while t...
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| All the talk of the film's 'poverty porn' and obsession with garbage and faeces is just that- crap. Not nearly a masterpiece, Boyle's film is uplifting, buoyant and celebrates life and BollywoodOriginally published on NOWRUNNING.COMIs there anything really left to say about Slumdog Millionaire? It's been described in every way possible, from extrao...
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| Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
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| The Bourne Series...... download now!! |
| The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...
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| Dinesh Nambisan | 03:02 | 9/May/2007 |
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| It had to happen sooner or later, with "stings" being in vogue in Indian media it was just a matter of time before one of them focused on cricket (Come to think of it, if memory serves me right, it all started with cricket: The first widely-known "sting" operation conducted by the media was by Aniruddha Bahal (then Tehelka) with the help of Manoj P...
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| Here I was getting ready to dump my clothes in the washer and thinking about yesterday's game that I played, reminiscing the few good shots I played in the first game of the season, overhauling my total for the whole of last year (a horror year) in one inning. I was thinking why I love this game so much and thoughts of other cricket games flashed b...
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| Salman Khan | 04:17 | 1/Sep/2006 |
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| Hi Guys:Sorry I was on an assignment and extremely busy as a result did not post in a long time. Inzi - Hair issue is on the back burner (well sort-off... for now at least!). I guess Inzi Bhai has made his point well across to everyone that you can not just go ahead and label someone as "cheats" without any solid evidence. And if you do so the con...
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| Prithviraj H... | 22:27 | 10/May/2006 |
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| What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So...
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| In everyday news of politics and terrorism there was pleasant surprise to see a little multi limbed girl from Bihar being brought to Banglore for very complicated operation.As for now operation is succes. Lets wish her a very healthy and warm recovery. Also hatsoff to medical staff who has operated her free of charge, A total Dr Munnabhai style tre...
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| I like Cricinfo. I really do. They have a good bunch of correspondents. Amit Varma is good, so is Siddhartha Vaidyanathan. Rahul Bhattacharya and Sambit Bal are super. Yet, this'>http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/ 246445.html">this latest piece , by Dileep Premachandran, is kick-worthy. My grouse ? This particular line (which he has used before) - Mastering the chase was akin to reinventing the wheel for a team that had appeared clueless in ODIs following the surge to the World Cup final in 2003. With all due apologies to Hansie Cronje's side, India were the quintessential chokers - one outright win in 15 finals under Sourav Ganguly - and the motto when chasing usually appeared to be All Fall Down. The World Cup ended in March 2003. 2003-04, which pretty much is agreed to be the golden period of the Wright-Ganguly era, saw India play the TVS Cup at home (which they lost to Aus), then tour Australia (where they drew the test series and got to the VB series finals), and then onto Pakistan in March, where they won the ODI and test series. Results wise, the period saw India play Aus 10 times, win 2 games and lose 7. It played NZ thrice and won 2 and lost 1. It beat Zimbabwe in all 4 games, and beat Pakistan 3-2. The test results were much more impressive. But even then, it is generally agreed that the team played superb cricket throughout the season, in both forms of the game. In one of his articles on Rediff in Jan 2004 (during the Australia tour), Prem said that India has been playing excellent cricket in both forms of the game. Put differently: if in May, June, or July 2004, someone said that the Indian team had lost their way after the WC, what would the reaction have been? Its almost as if, to build up the case that SG the captain had reached past his sell-by date, the man's legacy, and by logical continuation, the team under him, needed to be knocked down. I suppose the frustration is more when you are a journalist, and can see more closely the decline of a once-good team, but even then, to diss the achievements of the team, and to virtually ignore their best season, is uncalled for. Cross posted on Rediff'>http://sightscreen.rediffiland.com">Rediff ILand
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