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Nag_rocks
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high and lows of indian cricket in 2004:
http://www.cricketnext.com/news1/next/joshi/tap104 1.htm |
Nag_rocks
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Kingchoudary
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Sachin gaadi meeda thaadenkesthavu Rocky mama, daani badulu mee Nagappa meeda veyyi adhe koosintha better.... |
Babu
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bore annaru ga
ANIL KUMBLE – CNEXT RATING 9/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 11 matches, 583.2 overs, 116 maidens, 1781 runs, 68 wickets, average 26.19, best effort 8-141, six five-wicket hauls and two hauls of ten wickets or more in a match.
ODIs: 13 matches, 113.2 overs, five maidens, 551 runs, 8 wickets, average 68.87, best effort 2-37.
The gentleman champion of Indian cricket has once again proved his critics wrong. The remarkable aspect of Kumble is, he has been written off by his critics quite a few times, and every time he emerges stronger.
In the year 2004, he has till date taken 68 wickets in 11 Tests and that is just brilliant. His one-day record this year is not so eclectic because he has been ‘benched’ by Sourav Ganguly quite a few times.
The year 2004 has been special for Kumble. He reached the 400-wicket mark in Test matches against Australia in his hometown and then went on to become the leading wicket-taker for India in Test matches when he went past Kapil Dev’s 434 wickets. And we hear that Kapil Dev is the same man who once thought that Kumble was one bespectacled academician incapable of athleticism.
IRFAN PATHAN – CNEXT RATING 9/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests (batting): 8 matches, 9 innings, not out once, 206 runs, 55 highest, average 25.75, one fifty
Bowling: 292 overs, 80 maidens, 801 runs, 31 wickets, average 25.83, best effort 6-51, five five-wicket hauls and one haul of ten wickets or more in a match
ODIs (batting): 27 matches, 20 innings, not out eight times, 209 runs, 38 highest
Bowling: Overs 239.3, maidens 11, runs 1,195, wickets 46, average 25.97, best effort 4-24.
We have provided the statistics of Irfan Pathan’s bowling as well as batting in the year 2004 simply to illustrate how well he has started to settle down in a role of a genuine all-rounder. No-one has done more for the team than Irfan has in the year 2004. He has batted valiantly in the losing cause against Australia at Bangalore, he has bowled his heart out and was responsible in a huge way in the series win in Pakistan, and he just continues to improve not just on the cricket field but also in terms of commitment towards the team’s cause. Irfan is a dream player for any captain. And he is only 20.
VIRENDER SEHWAG – CNEXT RATING 8/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 11 matches, 18 innings, not out once, 1,131 runs, 309 highest, average 66.52, three hundreds and four fifties.
ODIs: 25 matches, 24 innings, no not outs, 601 runs, highest 90, average 25.04, four fifties.
Like the Indian team, the year 2004 has been a mixed one for Sehwag. The pinnacle for the Master Blaster has to be the 309 that he scored against the likes of Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Sami in Pakistan. He is also the only Indian batsman to have scored 1,000 runs or more this year. He did get two big hundreds (against Australia in Chennai and against South Africa in Kanpur) but the Delhi dasher himself would admit there have been instances when he could have done better.
Sehwag is currently battling with his natural belligerence juxtaposed against the critics’ delight of traditional defense a Test opener must have.
Surprisingly, he didn’t fare too well in the one-dayers this year and has a poor average of just under 26. He didn’t bowl too much either. However, there is no denying that in the year 2004, Sehwag has created maximum impact as a batsman in the Indian team and fear among the opposition bowlers.
RAHUL DRAVID – CNEXT RATING 8/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 11 matches, 17 innings, not out thrice, 786 runs, highest 270, average 56.14, one hundred and four fifties
ODIs: 29 matches, 26 innings, not out twice, 912 runs, 104 highest, average 38.00, one hundred and eight fifties.
Whenever the Australians managed to dent the ‘Wall’, India crumbled. He was majestic in Rawalpindi where he hammered the Pakistanis for a huge 270. Before that, he was the king of all he surveyed in Australia and dislodged Sachin Tendulkar as India’s premiere batsman. He is not exactly out of form these days, but he seems to have got into a shell that is his undoing. There is no denying, however, that he is world’s premiere batsman as the ICC Awards proved, where he was declared the first Player of the Year.
The big question for Dravid is whether he can repeat the consistent aggression he displayed this year.
SACHIN TENDULKAR – CNEXT RATING 7/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 9 matches, 14 innings, not out five times, 879 runs, highest 248 not out, average 97.66, three hundreds and two fifties.
ODIs: 19 matches, 19 innings, not out once, 746 runs, highest 141, average 41.44, one hundred and five fifties.
Yes, we have not made a typing error. Sachin Tendulkar’s Test average for the year 2004 is indeed 97.66. However, when you look closely at his progress this year, you will realize the number comes close to Sir Don Bradman’s career average because of the magnitude of the three hundreds that he scored in 2004. He got an unbeaten 241 in Sydney and then his second one was an unconquered 194 at Multan, followed by the last one at Dhaka, which was the record-equaling 34th Test century converted into a magnificent, unbeaten 248.
This year, the Tendulkar story has been very, very good or tragically horrible. He has fallen to bowlers who, if they tell their grandchildren that they have uprooted Tendulkar’s stump in a Test match, wouldn’t believe it. Then there was the elbow injury that kept him out of cricket for a long time. But he has created a very positive impact whenever he has found his rhythm, like the Mumbai Test where batting was like skating on thin ice and Tendulkar’s 55 runs were worth 550.
HARBHAJAN SINGH – CNEXT RATING 7/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 6 matches, 312 overs, 59 maidens, 878 runs, 35 wickets, average 25.08, best effort 7-87, four five-wicket hauls and one ten-wicket haul in a match
ODIs: 9 matches, 90 overs, 8 maidens, 322 runs, 12 wickets, average 26.83, best effort 3-28.
We have rated Harbhajan Singh highly simply because he displayed remarkable courage after he made a comeback from a career threatening finger injury. He missed out against Pakistan and was no longer the side’s number one spinner as Kumble made huge strides. He did well in whatever opportunities he got in the one-dayers. In the Tests against Australia, he bowled like a champion. The Australians had done intensive homework on Harbhajan but he showed his class, besides giving them a piece of his mind in his local dialect.
ZAHEER KHAN – CNEXT RATING 6/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 8 matches, 243.5 overs, 48 maidens, 726 runs, 17 wickets, average 42.70, best effort 4-95.
ODIs: 10 matches, 88 overs, 3 maidens, 517 runs, 11 wickets, average 47.00, best 3-66.
Zaheer Khan needed someone breathing down his neck to wake him up from his deep slumber and he got it in the form of Irfan Khan Pathan, his junior in the Baroda team who got a promotion in the Indian team because Zaheer was demoted ingloriously.
Zaheer was also unlucky with the injures, but he quickly realized that if he has to stay on in Indian cricket, he has to shape up. He worked on his fitness with renewed vigour and the results are there for all to see. He is running in hard once again, and his batting has also improved.
The world record 78 runs batting at number 11 will ironically enough motivate him to more penetrative bowling.
SOURAV GANGULY – CNEXT RATING 5.5/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 7 matches, 8 innings, no not outs, 320 runs, highest 77, average 40.00, 3 fifties
ODIs: 28 matches, 27 innings, not out once, 870 runs, highest 90, average 33.46, six fifties.
Sourav Ganguly in our opinion must have been born on a roller coaster. His professional career, both on and off the field, is mired with controversies, drama, triumphs and incredible debacles. The year 2004, for the Indian skipper, stuck to the traditional script.
He had to sit out of the Multan Test that India won, and he also skipped the Mumbai Test, in which India finally beat Australia, apparently on account of injury, although some media reports indicated he was shooting in town.
In between, his shenanigans over the nature of the wicket didn’t win him many friends, and Aakash Chopra is not going to send him a Diwali card either. Ganguly, the influential leader, was a pale shadow of himself in the series against Australia and regular run-ins with the match referee too went against him.
The Test series win against South Africa and the predictable rout of Bangladesh, however, makes Ganguly’s position once again quite unassailable.
VVS LAXMAN – CNEXT RATINGS 5/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 11 matches, 15 innings, no not outs, 504 runs, highest 178 highest, average 33.60, one hundred and two fifties.
ODIs: 25 matches, 24 innings, not out four times, 837 runs, highest 131, average 41.85, four hundreds and one fifty.
The tormentor of the Aussies forgot how to score runs against them when they visited India in 2004. Perhaps, Laxman is a hardcore believer in the law of averages. Something tells us that he would prefer to be batting at number three, as his characteristic spontaneity at the crease is often restricted when he comes in at number six. Batting at three, he played a little gem in Mumbai, but unfortunately, the series was lost by then.
He got a classical 178 against the Australians in Sydney, but after that, it was very little. VVS just has to overcome his inconsistency if he has to make a permanent place for himself in the Indian team.
Ironically, he has not done too badly in the ODIs in 2004 as the figures will tell you, but was not found good enough to play against the Bangladeshis in the one-dayers. Instead of sulking over the ODI omission, however, Laxman should concentrate on establishing his world class abilities in the traditional form of the game.
MOHAMMED KAIF – CNEXT RATING 5/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 3 matches, 5 innings, no not outs, 153 runs, highest 64, average 30.60, two fifties.
ODIs: 19 matches, 17 innings, four times not out, 406 runs, highest 71 not out, average 31.23, three fifties.
Showed guts and gumption in Chennai against the Australians but just hasn’t played enough Test cricket to be rated higher. The most valuable player for India in the one-dayers, his impact as a fielder is remarkable. But he had an average year by and large.
The challenge for Kaif will be his ability to battle it out against stiff competition in the middle order in both Tests and one-dayers. He has a head and shoulder advantage – like Yuvraj Singh, he is an extraordinary fielder.
DINESH KAARTHICK – CNEXT RATING 5/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 4 matches, 5 innings, no not outs, 86 runs, 46 highest, average 17.20, 14 catches and one stumping.
ODIs: Played in just two and effected a brilliant stumping to get rid of Michael Vaughan in the NatWest series.
He gets five points because of his pluck. He is a very handy bat and if he is persisted with, he has the potential to serve India for a long time. He earned our admiration in Mumbai when he kept to three world-class spinners on a treacherous track.
MURALI KARTHIK – CNEXT RATING 5/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 4 matches, 174.3 overs, 34 maidens, 511 runs, 15 wickets, average 34.06, best effort 4 for 44.
ODIs: 7 matches, 56 overs, one maiden, 342 runs, 6 wickets, average 57.00, best effort 2-48.
Bowled superbly in Nagpur, did well overall in the series against Australia and understands his role as the third spinner behind Kumble and Harbhajan. He is an intelligent cricketer who has resigned to the fact that he will be a permanent in the side only after Kumble retires. Murali is a mature character with gutsy instincts, despite his punk star hairdo.
YUVRAJ SINGH – CNEXT RATING 4/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 5 matches, 8 innings, not out once, 277 runs, highest 112 highest, average 39.57, one hundred and one fifty
ODIs: 28 matches, 25 innings, no not outs, 747 runs, highest 139, average 29.88, one hundred and four fifties.
Our heart goes out to this young and talented cricketer. He is an excellent batsman as he displayed in Lahore, where he cracked a magnificent Test match hundred. But his captain Ganguly forced him to open the innings against Australia and that was a setback not just for Yuvi but also for Chopra.
Moreover, a single failure hasn’t justified his exclusion from the Test squad. Our sympathies are with the tall, lanky, handsome and eminently likeable Page 3 cricketing superstar.
PARTHIV PATEL – CNEXT RATING 3.5/10
Performance in the year 2004
Tests: 7 matches, 9 innings, not out once, 349 runs, highest 69, average 43.62, four fifties, 19 catches and three stumpings.
ODIs: No noteworthy performance.
The 3.5 points that he has got from us are because of his gutsy batting against the Australians. He was shoddy behind the wickets and undermined the confidence of the bowlers. He has now gone back to doing what he should have done a long time ago – ’keeping in the domestic cricket. He still has a bright future in Indian cricket because he is very young, but for the time being, the selectors won’t be looking at him.
Parthiv now needs to show the national selectors that despite his diminutive size, he can stand tall behind the wickets.
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Vemana
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Registered: 12-2004
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quote:Let's see sachin with a new eye.
Enti Sankar Nethralaya lo kotha kannu pettinchukovaalva? 
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Megamama
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sampetta GF e thaadulo malla pullalu peduthe..
chal phuttt |
Godfather
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Megamama
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emanna sachin meeda manchi articles unte ide link lo pettu maaya
edo thidatha sachin ni kaani...aadante ishtame ..
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Nag_rocks
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 9:23 am: | |
bore kodutondi mama...anduke ani websites ki eltunna, ekadanna manchi news emanna kanipistayi emo ani. |
Megamama
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NR maaya ..
malla dobbinchukundaamani esaava thaadu..
seppu seppu sepuuuu nenu ready ...
neways ..just kidding maama.....yep..i read it and it was good article though |
Nag_rocks
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this not to start another fight with anybody, i just liked it so i am posting it.
http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/C RICKET_NEWS/2004/DEC/129996_COL-INDIA_16DEC2004.ht ml |
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