Tendulkar, Kapil, Gavaskar, Sehwag named in Greatest All Time Test XI

[53fd]

bla bla bla....anything else ?

Good that I educated some one about a fact in cricket today.

First watch some cricket matches and then tell us about it. If you had seen the matches you would know what I am speaking about.

For someone who does not know Sangakkara used to be an opener , it's funny you are trying to argue that the strike rate is as important as the batting average is in test matches. So if the batting strike rate is as important as the batting average is in the Test game, why wasn't it ever a part of cricket till the 1970s? And why did it start with the ODI, & only come into Test matches later?

 

[Bhairava]

I'm sorry, 'bla bla bla' is not any more convincing than the Umar Gul interview you were trying to use as your argument to substantiate that strike rate is as important as batting average. Try harder.

I don't need to try anything.

If you watch cricket matches everything is self explanatory. Explaining that to someone who doesnt know the basic rules in cricket and who has not seen cricket for a decade and that too to one who hates anything Indian is just not possibel.

Sleep tight with Afridi as your opener.

 

[53fd]

I don't need to try anything.

Someone who uses Umar Gul's interview (& that too for the ODI, not the test games) as 'evidence' to suggest that the batting strike rate is as important as the batting average in the test game format shouldn't be on this thread anymore.

 

[53fd]

I don't need to try anything.

If you watch cricket matches everything is self explanatory. Explaining that to someone who doesnt know the basic rules in cricket and who has not seen cricket for a decade and that too to one who hates anything Indian is just not possibel.

Sleep tight with Afridi as your opener.

How is the bowling strike rate a cricket 'rule'?

 

[Bhairava]

For someone who does not know Sangakkara used to be an opener

Another epic fail *facepalm*

Everyone in cricket experiments with his positions and only after that they settle into their specialised position.They may also open for few matches for team sake like emergency injury for openers or for the balance of the side etc.

Rahul Dravid was India's keeper for about 5 years. But is he a wicket keeper ? NO.

God your ignorance about cricket is embarrassing. You are a sub-continental for god sake !!

it's funny you are trying to argue that the strike rate is as important as the batting average is in test matches. So if the batting strike rate is as important as the batting average is in the Test game, why wasn't it ever a part of cricket till the 1970s? And why did it start with the ODI, & only come into Test matches later?

Everything matter as a single package - Strike rate,Average,Runs scored. Not one in isolation. How difficult is it for you to understand this simple fact ?

As I said start watching cricket. You'll get to know what we are speaking.

How is the bowling strike rate a cricket 'rule'?

Haha very funny. Atleast I know there is a thing called Strike rate for bowlers.

 

[53fd]

I don't need to try anything.

If you watch cricket matches everything is self explanatory. Explaining that to someone who doesnt know the basic rules in cricket and who has not seen cricket for a decade and that too to one who hates anything Indian is just not possibel.

Sleep tight with Afridi as your opener.

Someone who doesn't know the basic facts of cricket (that the strike rate statistic started in the 70s), & was asking me to compare the batting strike rate of Sehwag to the cricketers from the 1930s, shouldn't really be talking. So that just proves that you have no idea what you're talking about

 

[Mabs]

Oh yes it does matter !

Listen to what Umar Gul had to say in a recent interview.He said that the first three overs of Sehwag in the WC semis destroyed him mentally that he was out of the game and could not concentrate on bowling the remaining 7 overs.

You need such batsmen as there are enough 'solid' batsmen later on to consolidate in case he does not fire.

Yes, that is what Umar Gul experienced but adjudicators do not take this factor into account when ranking a player. The current ODI and Test batsmen rankings are based on points deduced from batsmen's performance and not from their ability to intimidate the opposition. It is a simple concept, I don't know why you are having so much difficulty in grasping it.

 

[53fd]

Haha very funny. Atleast I know there is a thing called Strike ate for bowlers.

Someone who thinks that a statistic such as 'strike rate' is a cricket 'rule' really needs to stop talking & watch more cricket

People come up with all kinds of parameters for measurement, doesn't make it a cricket rule.

 

[Bhairava]

Someone who thinks that a statistic such as 'strike rate' is a cricket 'rule' really needs to stop talking & watch more cricket

Someone who doesn't know the basic facts of cricket (that the strike rate statistic started in the 70s), & was asking me to compare the batting strike rate of Sehwag to the cricketers from the 1930s, shouldn't really be talking. So that just proves that you have no idea what you're talking about

Thank me for teaching you that a thing called Strike Rate for bowlers even exists in cricket.

 

[53fd]

Everyone in cricket experiments with his positions and only after that they settle into their specialised position.They may also open for few matches for team sake like emergency injury for openers or for the balance of the side etc.

Rahul Dravid was India's keeper for about 5 years. But is he a wicket keeper ? NO.

God your ignorance about cricket is embarrassing. You are a sub-continental for god sake !!

Sure, everyone experiments. But that doesn't mean Sangakkara was never an opener. Rahul Dravid was a wicketkeeper for 5 years, & he isn't now, but it doesn't mean he wasn't ever a wicketkeeper. You're getting ridiculous now, & you know that.

 

[Nelson]

I thought that the opening pair would be Lara and Tendulkar... but its nice to see 4 Indian players in the team. There are 4 Australian also... looks like India and Australia ruled cricket all of its time....

 

[53fd]

Thank me for teaching you that a thing called Strike Rate for bowlers even exists in cricket.

People come up with all kinds of parameters for measurement, doesn't make it a cricket rule

 

[Bhairava]

Yes, that is what Umar Gul experienced but adjudicators do not take this factor into account when ranking a player. The current ODI and test batsmen rankings are based on point deduced from batsmen's performance and not from their ability to intimidate the opposition. It is a simple concept, I don't know why you are having so much difficulty in grasping it.

It does matter how much you influence the bolwers or intimidate them because the rest of the batsmen find it easy revolving around you.

This is a fact told by every opener (Gambhir,Warner,Tendulkar etc) who has opened with Sehwag in the other end. He simply makes the task of batting easy for you.

You need atleast one or two such hara-kiri batsmen in your side to fire you up.

Look the Don,Tendulkar,Gavaskar,Lara are all "solid", quintessential "test" players who patiently build up their innings and Sehwag is a perfect complement to them who goes after the bowlers.

Statistics always dont show everything.

People come up with all kinds of parameters for measurement, doesn't make it a cricket rule

Yeah atleast you should know such and such thing exists in cricket before opening the big mouth.

 

[53fd]

Yeah atleast you should know such and such thing exists in cricket before opening the big mouth.

So, why do you need to know, when it's not part of the game itself?

 

[53fd]

Yeah atleast you should know such and such thing exists in cricket before opening the big mouth.

Anyone can come up with any kind of parameters, it doesn't mean anything because it is not part of the game, or it rules.