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By: Unwanted records | confused of calcutta

Unwanted records | confused of calcutta — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:53:35 +0000

[...] 513 for 7, four runs behind 2nd spot and 11 runs behind 1st spot; if you interested, I published the top 10 such scores in this post. And it made me think, they didn’t really want that record. For sure Karthik and Tendulkar [...]

By: David Butler

David Butler — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:04:01 +0000

Law 24 states that a bowler must inform the umpire if he decides to bowl with his ‘wrong’ hand. But RH batsmen can play LH and vice versa, the so-called reverse sweep. This is unfair.
One consequence is that if a ball pitches an inch outside the leg stump – which has now become the off stump – the batsman can’t be out lbw.
Madness.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:36:35 +0000

I am not pessimistic by nature, but I am old enough to remember India being bowled out for 42 sometime in the late sixties or early seventies. I even remember the roy ullyett cartoon.

By: Shripriya

Shripriya — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:29:55 +0000

Ah, a day brings so much clarity :) It will be good for India to notch up the rare “away” test win!

By: JP

JP — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:58:47 +0000

Sure Kamran, I will go take a look.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:57:18 +0000

Reminds me of the usual Red answer to the three teams that come from Merseyside: Liverpool; Tranmere; Liverpool Reserves

I’d actually discounted the Tie, and allowed for the other 3 outcomes.

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By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:56:32 +0000

JP, are you discounting the possibility of an England win? I prefer to believe all four results are still possible :-)

By: JP

JP — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:04:01 +0000

I must be masochistic. I’d rather see the wicket stay a run-feast for a day, then a complete nightmare on the fifth day, so much so that we enter the final session on Tuesday with all three results possible. Tall order maybe, but that to me is cricket.

By: Shripriya

Shripriya — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:28:11 +0000

Winning this one will not be easy either. Clearly England will not win, but I think a draw is the most likely.

Watching England bat at the end of day three, it was clear that unless the pitch starts to crumble or the batsmen make mistakes or Kumble just becomes incredibly unplayable, batting is not going to be too hard.

A draw would be sad. India has batted beautifully and deserves to win. Especially since Sachin and Ganguly were, essentially, robbed of their hundreds :) (then again, England deserved to win at Lords and that didn’t happen…)