International Cricket - 2011-2012 Thread (Part 3)

Support · 07/03/12 - 10:58

ACU wrote: »

Modi is a despicable cretin. He should have been locked up years ago. However in India, since he has connections in high places its never going to happen. Having dirt on top BCCI officials also helps in keeping him out of jail.

This thread is a continuation of: International Cricket - 2011-2012 Thread (Part 2)

dtcdtcdtc · 07/03/12 - 14:05

Re Chris Cairns court case,Nick Hoult is tweeting live updates from court

They've been talking about Rod Marsh refusing to sign a cricket bat because Chris Cairns' signature was on it.
Cairns trying to show how disparaging the rumours were

@NHoultCricket

dtcdtcdtc · 07/03/12 - 17:14

Some strong stuff in the trial

Howard Beer the icl anti corruption officer confirmed that he knew the Mumbai v Chandighar match in October 2008 was fixed. Beer spoke with Sandeep Patil, coach of Mumbai who had appoached him with concerns
Sortly after, Patil mysteriously left the tournament
Beer denied that Cairns was involved

Bhaveshgor · 07/03/12 - 17:33

Greg chappell looks like he will be hated even further By Ganguly and indian, with some people implying he was Rascist,

"Test cricket for a lot of, not only India, a lot of subcontinent teams, I think it's pretty tough. And the challenge for Test cricket is, without the sort of grounding that we [Australians] had as kids, Test cricket is too hard. It's very demanding mentally, physically and emotionally."

Chappell then spoke about what was wrong with the Indian culture. "The culture is very different, it's not a team culture," Chappell said. "They lack leaders in the team because they are not trained to be leaders. From an early age, their parents make all the decisions, their schoolteachers make their decisions, their cricket coaches make the decisions.

"The culture of India is such that, if you put your head above the parapet someone will shoot it. Knock your head off. So they learn to keep their head down and not take responsibility. The Poms (British) taught them really well to keep their head down. For if someone was deemed to be responsible, they'd get punished. So the Indians have learned to avoid responsibility. So before taking responsibility for any decisions, they prefer not to."

but i only agree with him on Dhoni,

Chappell said MS Dhoni the Indian captain, was one exception to that rule, but even he seems to have lost to the system. When asked if any Indian captain, when on 329 not out himself, would have declared the innings, Chappell said: "If MS Dhoni would have ever got to 329 in a Test match, he probably would. Look, Dhoni is one of the most impressive young men that I have ever worked with. When he came into that Indian team, you just knew that he was a leader in the making. He was definitely someone who could make decisions, and he didn't mind putting his head above the parapet, and didn't mind putting the bigger players in their place. I think he is the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket in recent times.

"But looking at him on this tour - I didn't meet or speak to him at all - but just watching the body language and just watching him on the field, it wasn't the MS Dhoni that I knew. I think Indian cricket has worn him down as well. Especially captaining all three formats, and India plays about 50% more cricket than Australia does. And Dhoni played four years, captaining three years while being wicketkeeper and their key batman - one of the best chasers of a target that I've ever seen. Very confident, very un-Indian in that regard. There was no false modesty about him. If he thought he could do something, he would take responsibility and say 'I can do that.'"

it will be Interesting to see Ganguly response to this. I can clearly tell why we didn't like this Coach.

Nansbread · 07/03/12 - 17:37

joining thread

dtcdtcdtc · 07/03/12 - 22:27

Prompt start in Dunedin . South Africa 238 all out

dtcdtcdtc · 08/03/12 - 07:15

Speculation on cricinfo that Dravid is about to announce his retirement on Friday

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/current/story/556624.html

dtcdtcdtc · 08/03/12 - 07:18

dtcdtcdtc wrote: »

Prompt start in Dunedin . South Africa 238 all out

New Zealand have a slight first innings lead at the close on 243/9
Surprised me as I thought they would get turned over cheaply. 4 wickets for Philander

jake1981 · 08/03/12 - 08:11

Watching the final between Aus and Sri Lanka
These have got to be the most biased commentators around . It's very funny. Even Mark Nicholas is towing the party line
Good contest a well with SL on 52/3 in the 8th over chasing 231

ACU · 08/03/12 - 11:57

Looks like the cricinfo website has been hijacked. I cant get to it. Another site is displayed instead. Anyone else getting the same problem?

Update - now the site is timing out.

[Deleted User] · 08/03/12 - 12:21

jake1981 wrote: »

Watching the final between Aus and Sri Lanka
These have got to be the most biased commentators around . It's very funny. Even Mark Nicholas is towing the party line
Good contest a well with SL on 52/3 in the 8th over chasing 231

Aussie commentators? Yeah, the Ashes highlights DVD were done with the aussie commentators, brilliant listening to them after the 3rd day of the 1st test! They really brought home just how much it was hurting the aussies watching Cook & Trott bat session after session after.....

They described Hughes "catch" off Cook as one of those things and hastily changed subject, but then spent the rest of the day calling Ian Bell for not being given out by the umpires!

[Deleted User] · 08/03/12 - 13:05

dtcdtcdtc wrote: »

New Zealand have a slight first innings lead at the close on 243/9
Surprised me as I thought they would get turned over cheaply. 4 wickets for Philander

Decent score by NZ , but not enough I reckon. I see they have also gone down the South Africa road with that wicketkeeper, but he looks about 60!

Xavier Quebeck · 08/03/12 - 14:31

I don't think New Zealand will add many to their overnight score especially with Chris Martin out there!

If South Africa score 250 + in the second innings I think that will be enough.

[Deleted User] · 08/03/12 - 20:54

Looks like China have a little way to go before becoming a power in the game...

http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/features/item/186546-china-9-all-out-against-afghanistan

dtcdtcdtc · 09/03/12 - 06:19

Tons for Smith and Jallis as South Africa take control closing on 268/3 a lead of 233
Still 2 days to go

Xavier Quebeck · 09/03/12 - 08:17

Looks like victory for South Africa. I cannot see the Kiwis batting over four sessions to save the game. Once Smith gets a lead of 400 that's when he will declare.

Nansbread · 09/03/12 - 08:37

Ganguly, VVS and Dravid gone. Leaves only Tendulkar from that batting era.

ACU · 09/03/12 - 10:27

dtcdtcdtc wrote: »

Tons for Smith and Jallis as South Africa take control closing on 268/3 a lead of 233
Still 2 days to go

Looking good for SA. Hopefully they will win all their test matches against NZ and become the world number 1 test team.

davethecue · 10/03/12 - 07:12

Cracking last day set up in the NZ/ SA test
NZ need another 264 with 8 wickets left. 137/2 at the close with Ross Taylor and Brendan McCullum adding 82 sf

Xavier Quebeck · 10/03/12 - 11:27

I still think SA will win. After Taylor and McCullum NZ haven't got a great batting to come. If SA get these two out early then I think it will be over before tea.

jake1981 · 10/03/12 - 21:19

Heavy rain in Dunedin making a positive result unlikely.
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Guess that means England will keep the number one spot going into the summer

Hayden · 10/03/12 - 21:32

jake1981 wrote: »

Heavy rain in Dunedin making a positive result unlikely.
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Guess that means England will keep the number one spot going into the summer

It's only Day 4 - plenty of time left.

Grecomania · 10/03/12 - 21:35

Hayden wrote: »

It's only Day 4 - plenty of time left.

Day 5, I'm afraid.:D

Hayden · 10/03/12 - 21:37

Says Day 4 on SS3 programme guide.

Been away all week so haven't been following it

dtcdtcdtc · 11/03/12 - 08:13

Complete washout on the final day. 2nd Test starts on Thursday

dtcdtcdtc · 11/03/12 - 08:58

First match of the Asia Cup today live on Zee Cafe ch 846 on Sky
Bangla have won the toss and put Pakistan in. Spreads are predicting 265-275 with Pakistan to win by 35 runs
Another expose in the Sunday Times today by the ex NOTW Fake Sheihk .
Claims that a Bollywood actress was used in a honeytrap to target players who would then score slowly or bowl badly. Affects live games from our domestic cricket
Huge payments were also made to selected players for their co-operation as well

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