He's back

No, not he, but he!

Actually, so are Kumble, Zaheer and Jaffer.

But who cares!

Ashley Giles has been passed fit for the Ashes. It can't get more woeful!

I'm struggling to understand why Dinesh Karthik has come in as a replacement for Yuvraj Singh? What's the point in sending a reserve wicket-keeper for a one-day leg of the tour (1 practice game, 5 one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international)?

Answers here in the form of comments are also sought as to what the point of picking Wasim Jaffer is. Is there a message being sent out to the incumbent openers (Sehwag and Tendulkar) that their inconsistent performances are no longer tolerable? Are the selectos serious about Jaffer being a short-term choice as one-day opener?
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Completely on expected lines

No, I’m not referring only to Steve Bucknor's appointment for yesterday's game, but also the actual way the much-hyped 'clash of the tournament' panned out.

A target of 250 was never going to be a problem for Australia. While a lot was written and spoken about the bowlers having an off-day, the fact is that on a good batting surface, India needed to have at least two batsmen making big scores.

Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid were both out without making the hundreds that they ought to have, once they’d settled in nicely. Sehwag’s dismissal for 65 was perhaps the turning point of the game, since it meant Dravid and Kaif would have to rebuild the innings, prevent a collapse and set the stage for Dhoni (the only one capable of making quick runs late in the innings in Yuvraj’s absence) to provide the impetus at the end of the innings.

You can write all you want about the bowlers screwing up, but in my opinion, it was the batsmen who messed up.
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Very promising stats

India and Australia have played each other in 9 one-dayers since the 2003 World Cup final.

The scoreline is overwhelmingly one-sided in Australia's favour, P 13, W 9, L 2, NR 2. As close to hopeless as you can find ahead of Sunday's allegedly marquee game.

The last time India beat Australia in a one-dayer was 9 matches ago. To put it in perspective, that was at a time when VVS Laxman played one-day internationals, John Wright was India's coach, no-one knew that Sourav Ganguly would not be part of the one-day side in a matter of a couple of years and Greg Chappell probably didn't even know Jagmohan Dalmiya's email address.

Given that my pre-tournament prediction (to Ganesh, on instant messenger) on Sri Lanka winning the trophy, and my change of stand when Pakistan emphatically said 'We are like this only', have been thrown into the dustbin, I'll try some reverse-woofing.

Australia to win on Sunday by a margin of at least 120 runs (if batting first) or 6 wickets (if chasing).

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Pakistan turning it on!

South Africa are right now 42/5 against Pakistan at Mohali in a must-win game for both teams. Pakistan are thus on track to fulfill my earlier prediction.

Update: South Africa are turning it on. Pakistan are 27/6, chasing 214! Ntini's analysis reads 5-2-8-5! Pakistan's batting scorecard is on its way to looking like a complete phone number: 3 4 7 5 0 1 4 0 3.

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Indian blues

If I start to talk about the shortcomings and the blunders of this Indian team, it would get too long. But there are some glaring ones which hurt me, especially after yesterday's loss.

• Dravid is taking things too easily after the initial success as captain.


• We should stop going over the moon about Irfan, if he excels in just one game.


• There is nothing wrong in dropping Sehwag, even if he claims that he has spoken to God and has cleared his mind.


• Someone place a firm slap on Yuvraj for being brainless most of the time.


• We need to field a XI, hence pick Kaif ahead of Raina, though there is not a lot of difference - its a shame to Tendulkar for calling Raina the next Tendulkar.

I was talking to my friend about the dismal display by India in recent times and I had to agree to his point that India is becoming another England - just stay on the headlines most of the time, but don't do anything on the cricket field.
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Quite beyond me

I'm quite certain that RP Singh (bowling avg. 40, econ. rate 5.7, strike rate 43 in his last 10 one-dayers) and Suresh Raina (batting avg. 18, highest of 34, 141 runs at a strike rate of 68 from his last 10 one-dayers) are in the team for reasons other than what we're led to believe, i.e. as a bowler and as a batsman respectively.

Raina made 19 today against West Indies in the ICC Champions Trophy while RP Singh has so far bowled 4 overs for 29 runs without looking anywhere like picking up a wicket. I could still hope to be proved wrong though!

I'd pick Powar and Kaif ahead of those two just about anyday, especially Powar since he didn't exactly disgrace himself in West Indies and West Indies have three left-handed top order batsmen. We've been critical of Kaif earlier, but I can't find a good reason why Raina should play ahead of Kaif!

At the risk of becoming hoarse, let me point out that the batting line up did it again, 3 wickets down by around the 15th over with only 69 on the board!

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ICC awards shortlist

The ICC announced the shortlist for the third ICC Awards.

The list, pared down from the nominees list announced in September, has Ponting listed as a potential winner in all the categories he was listed in (Player of the Year, Test player of the year, ODI player of the year and captain of the year).

Mohammad Asif, charged with a doping offence, is still in the final list.

Simon Taufel could win another 'Umpire of the year' award while India gets a token nomination for the 'Spirit of Cricket award', which would have been unthinkable when Sourav Ganguly was captain, given his frequent visits to interrupt the match referee's siesta.

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England improving

England've put up 157/9 in 42 overs so far. This obviously suggests they're improving as a one-day side, given less than a week ago, they made 125.
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ICC-BCCI partnership

In the light of the carping between the BCCI and the ICC over poor pitches, honouring Azharuddin, playing in the ICC Champions Trophy, hosting the 2011 World Cup, hosting the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, bidding for ICC event rights, etc., Anand Ramachandran reports on a developing symbiotic relationship between the ICC and the BCCI.

Labels: 2006 champions trophy, 2011 world cup, bcci, champions trophy

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Life's a pitch

To the best of my knowledge, the ICC only has guidelines some nonsense spouted on what constitutes a good wicket for test cricket. There's nothing mentioned about one-day cricket.

CNN-IBN & CricketNext report that a couple of captains and match referee Madugalle have complained about the pitch at the Brabourne stadium for one of the ICC Champions Trophy games.

I am certainly not complaining. I'm loving these low-scoring games. They're far more fascinating to follow than 'Team A 350/8 in 50 overs lost to Team B 351/5 in 47 overs' type of games.

The ICC insisted that venues which would host games in this tournament should not have any advertising/sponsorships associated with them which would conflict with the ICC's official sponsors. As a result, venues like Eden Gardens, Wankhede stadium, Chinnaswamy stadium and MA Chidambaram stadium were left out and Mohali, Ahmedabad, Brabourne (Bombay) and Jaipur were drafted in and allocated games. Given the volume of games at each venue (5 for the first three venues and 6 for Jaipur), the rainy season having ended in most parts of India a month or so ago and the frequency of games (albeit being played on different pitches), it was but natural that the pitches wouldn't be great for batting. Just as bowlers are resigned to encountering batting wickets in one-dayers, perhaps the batsmen also need to reconcile themselves to the fact that the only time they can get scores of 280 and above is when they're facing a pathetic bowling lineup.

The BCCI really ought to make it clear to the ICC that it doesn't think low-scoring games are bad for one-day cricket and that it was the ICC's intransigence which has ensured that the games are being played in tier-2 cricket grounds (aside from Mohali, which is tier-1 and Brabourne, which is tier-7 and last hosted a one-dayer more than a decade ago).

Labels: 2006 champions trophy, champions trophy, match referee, pitch

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We're waiting ...

We're still waiting for the first real competitive game of the ICC Champions Trophy. With only four venues being used for the tournament, the pitches were bound to deteriorate fairly rapidly. The first few games of the tournament held out the promise of some run-fests in the offing, but a combination of factors, such as pitch over-use, good bowling, a few teams coming in after a longish break etc., has meant that teams have been unable to get big totals.

This is a wonderful thing. Like we've maintained all along, low-scoring one-day games are good for cricket, since they really address the constant imbalance of the game in favour of batsmen. Top-ranked teams have had hiccups chasing 126, messed up chasing 196, like South Africa did against New Zealand yesterday.

New Zealand would feel fairly aggrieved. Yesterday, I tried to catch some highlights from the game in the news, but the only cricket news on all channels was about Shoaib and Asif's "Be positive" campaign.

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Boof's new role

Darren Lehmann, dumped by Australia early last year, is now playing the role of a mentor to South Australia's young and upcoming cricketers. He's evidently enjoying his role.

There's a really good bunch of young players and I'd like to help them along the way. I'll probably step back a little bit more and let the young blokes show everyone how good they are and let them play. So then I would just be a fix-it bloke along the way.

We're trying to get to the stage where when we older blokes leave the game, the younger blokes will have played 40 or 50 games with us. I would hope that others might do the same when they retire. I'm a bit of a cricket nuffy - I like playing the game and seeing the young kids do well on both sides.

Darren Lehmann had predicted earlier this year that Mark Cosgrove was the future of Australian cricket, and had the ability to play tournament-winning (i.e. World Cup winning) knocks.
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BBC-Cricinfo partnership brewing?

Why else would there be such a remarkable coincidence? On BBC Sport's "Stump Bearders" section, Bill Frindall answers this question

Nikhil Kotnis, UK

My great uncle, Kandu Rangneker, played one Test for India in Australia in the 1930s (I think). He didn't get a great score then, but I gather he was fairly prolific in domestic cricket. Do you have any info?

Your great uncle, Khanderao Moreshwar ('Kandu) Rangnekar (1917-1984) was indeed a prolific scorer in Indian domestic cricket for Holkar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bombay.

A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-paced bowler, he appeared in 85 first-class matches (1939-64), scoring 4605 runs, averaging 41.83, taking 21 wickets (best 5-112) and holding 42 catches.

He celebrated his first-class debut in 1939-40 by scoring the first of his 15 centuries, 102 for Maharashtra v Western India at Poona. The highest of his three double-centuries was 217 for Holkar v Hyderabad in 1950-51. He appeared in three Tests in Australia in 1947-48 scoring 33 runs at 5.50 (1, 0, 6, 18, 8 and 0).

A vice-president of the Indian Board of Control, he became president of the Bombay Cricket Association.

On Cricinfo, Steven Lynch gets gets this question

When I was a child in the 1970s, a man came for dinner, and said he had played for India. He must have been in his fifties then. He said he played three Tests, candidly admitted he didn't do well, but two things he said about his debut Test stick in my memory. First, that the two best Australian batsmen were both out hit wicket, and also that he himself was out in both innings to somebody they called the "Black Prince". Which Indian cricketer could this have been, and who was the Aussie? Thanks for any help ... I've been tormented by this for years! asked Dilip D'Souza from Bombay

Your dinner guest must have been Khandu Rangnekar, a stylish left-hander who made 102 on his first-class debut, for Maharashtra against Western India at Poona in 1939-40, and who also made three double-centuries, the highest 217 for Holkar against Hyderabad at Indore in the 1950-51 Ranji Trophy semi-final. He won three Test caps, all in Australia in 1947-48, and didn't cover himself with glory, making only 33 runs in his six innings. On his debut, at Brisbane in November 1947, both Arthur Morris (who made 47) and Don Bradman (185) were out hit wicket. Rangnekar himself made only 1 and 0, falling in both innings to the left-armer Ernie Toshack ... whose nickname was indeed "The Black Prince", apparently on account of his curly dark hair. Toshack had the amazing figures of 5 for 2 in the first innings, and added 6 for 29 in the second. It was India's first tour of Australia, and proved a difficult one: the Aussies won that first Test by an innings and 226 runs, and took the series 4-0, with Bradman scoring 715 runs at an average of 178.75. Rangnekar later became the president of the Bombay Cricket Association, and vice-president of the Indian board: sadly, he died in 1984.

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Pakistan significantly enhances chances of victory

Pakistan are now officially on track to win the ICC Champions Trophy for the first time. The team thrives under situations where there're controversies and infighting.

A little more than a week after Younis Khan re-accepted the captaincy, the Pakistan Cricket Board revealed that Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif have tested positive for drugs in an internal test.

Are they out to prove Tim May right? Given they've hardly played any international cricket in the last couple of months, over-work can surely not be the excuse?!

What is it about high profile ICC tournaments and drug intake revelations? Shane Warne before the 2003 World Cup, and now these two!

Given Pakistan's coach Bob Woolmer fervently argued for Law 42.3 to be scrapped after his team was accused of altering the condition of the ball, it may perhaps come as no surprise if he now argues that drug testing in sport needs to be scrapped as well.

Labels: 2006 champions trophy, akhtar, asif, champions trophy, drugs, mohammad, pakistan, shoaib, shoaib akhtar

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A lovely sight

It was lovely seeing Sachin Tendulkar in the slip cordon yesterday in India's opening game of the ICC Champions Trophy against England at Jaipur. He's always been a pretty safe slip fielder, but I can't remember him doing duties there for nearly the last half-decade, perhaps after his back started playing up in 1998/99.

The huge worry remains the brittle batting order, a theme I've touched up on last season as well. Once again, three down before the 15th over, even if the target was only 126.

If someone's figured out what on earth Michael Yardy was doing batting for England at #4 with Pietersen and Collingwood cooling their heels in the pavillion, please leave a comment here!

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BCCI honours list unconvincing

The BCCI has decided to felicitate India's captains in the last 50 years at a function held a day before the final of the ICC Champions Trophy.

Presumably they're only honouring those who captained India in test cricket, since the list (Polly Umrigar, Dattajirao Gaekwad, Nari Contractor, M.A.K. Pataudi, Ajit Wadekar, Bishan Singh Bedi, S. Venkatraghavan, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Ravi Shastri, Dilip Vengsarkar, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid) indicates so.

But, if Ravi Shastri, who captained India in one test, can be honoured as a captain, why can't Chandu Borde and Virender Sehwag, who captained India as many times as Shastri did, be honoured as well? Hemu Adhikari too would have been eligible, were he alive now. If DK Gaekwad (4 tests) Venkataraghavan (5 tests) and Srikkanth (4 tests), can be honoured, why not GS Ramchand (4 tests). At least Ramchand skippered India to a memorable win against Australia at Kanpur (thanks to Jasu Patel's 9/69). Neither Gaekwad, nor Venkat, nor Srikkanth led India to a win.

As an aside, if you manage to get hold of the October issue of Cricinfo Magazine, read the item (pg 92) on the 1988/89 Irani Trophy game between Tamil Nadu & Rest of India and enjoy Cheeka's continuous "Nee adi da machaan" (spank it, dear brother-in-law!) motivational quotes to VB Chandrasekhar, who scored a 56-ball century in a chase of 340).

Got it: Here's the report.

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Lee to make India debut next week

More than six years after he burst on the international scene, Brett Lee has not played a single Test or ODI in India. Australia's first game of the ICC Champions Trophy, at Brabourne Stadium, will probably be the first time he does so!

Given the amount of cricket that's played around the world, and the fact that Australia've played two test and two one-day series in India after his debut, it is very surprising.

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"The wicket has got another terrorist"

Rahul Bhattacharya, writing for The Scoop on Cricinfo, links to our post on Dean Jones' foot-in-mouth disease over his 'The terrorist has got another wicket' comment on television and subsequent proof about the identity of the bowler.

The Scoop says

But it was on World One-day XI captain Shaun Pollock that Jones's remarks had the most devastating effect. Research by cricket24x7 has proved beyond any doubt that it was, in fact, Pollock and not Boje who 'got the wicket' of Kumar Sangakkara on Day Four in the second innings of the momentous Test match following which Jones made his comment, a fact readily confirmed by this scorecard and this video clip. The Scoop understands that Pollock suffered a mental breakdown due to confusion over whether Jones was denying him a Test wicket, obliquely referring to him as a terrorist, or, worst of all, making a shamefully cheap jibe at his recent drop in pace by likening his bowling to Boje's slow left-armers.

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Well said, Neil Manthorp

In a column for BBC Sport, Neil Manthorp points out that much of Herschelle Gibbs' problems are self-inflicted.

I missed writing about the astonishing statement by South Africa's High Commissioner to India a couple of weeks ago.

Frankly, we can't have this issue hanging like a sword for a long time. Speedy resolution of the issue will be most welcome so that we get on with the business of cricket which people of India love a great deal.

Perhaps he's been asleep this decade. Herschelle Gibbs has refused to co-operate with a police investigation over a span of six years. That is why the sword continues to dangle over his head.
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Three month tour for Ashes urn

The Ashes urn will be displayed in various parts of Australia for three months, between 21 October 2006 and 21 January 2007.

Given its fragility, and if it were to fall to the ground, I wonder if Ricky Ponting will tell the culprit

You've just dropped the Ashes, mate!

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A waste of time

Anyone else who thinks that six games, pitting Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, West Indies & Zimbabwe to find out who the best two are, is pretty pointless?

If the ICC had a cut-off of eight teams for the ICC Champions Trophy, why didn't they just pick the first eight teams in the list and get the competition moving, rather than an extra stage?

At no point of time in the history of the ICC's rankings have Bangladesh or Zimbabwe come anywhere close to the top 8.

Aside from the once-a-year superlative performance resulting in wins against Pakistan, India, Australia & Sri Lanka, Bangladesh has been pathetic. Zimbabwe has been equally bad, and the fact that it beat Bangladesh in a one-day series does nothing to indicate any sort of ability to play with the other higher-ranked teams.

The ICC Champions Trophy really ought to be called the ICC Champions Atrophy!

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Pakistan contemplating name change

The Pakistan government is considering changing the name of the cricket board and the cricket team. Sources reveal that they have two options:

• Ctrl-z-istan and Ctrl-z-istan Cricket Board
  
• Undostan and Undostan Cricket Board

The decision will be revealed before the team plays its first game in the ICC Champions Trophy.

The government is looking at an urgent name change following the PCB's decision to name Younis Khan as captain exactly two days after he quit as Inzamam's stand-in.

If Mohammad Yousuf knew Tamil, he'd appreciate the saying Kai-ku yettinadhu vaaiku yettama pochu, approximately translated as "So near, yet so far".
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Shane Bond fit

Shane Bond seems set to play only one-day cricket this season and skip the two-test series against Sri Lanka at home.

This obviously is contrary to my view expressed here earlier this year that he'd be better off quitting one-day cricket. Maybe he'll do that after the 2007 World Cup.

Bond was included in New Zealand's ICC Champions Trophy squad and declared himself fully fit and ready to make yet another comeback. Him being fit is a situation at 00:45 on 7 Oct 2006. Things could be different in fifteen minutes time!

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Shock and horror

I am astounded to find that Steve Bucknor doesn't get to umpire a single game involving India, at least as per the list announced today, in the ICC Champions Trophy. But, since the umpires for India v Australia haven't yet been named, I fully expect him to officiate in that game, despite several indicators that he's now a pathetic umpire.
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Pakistan sideline Inzamam

As a result of the pitiful ban he copped after his team's "protest" at The Oval in August following an accusation of tampering with the ball, the Pakistan Cricket Board decided to replace Inzamam-ul-Haq with Faisal Iqbal for the ICC Champions Trophy.

But, this means Inzamam will not be able to play if Pakistan reaches the final, even though he'd have served out a four match ban. Inzamam's ban would only be done and dusted with after the semi-final stage. My guess is that even if Pakistan ensures shows that one of the players got injured during the tournament, they still can't get a replacement. I think replacements are only allowed if an injury was sustained to a member of the 14-man squad before the tournament.

Pakistan may have actually been better off letting Inzamam be part of the squad, hoping that they reached the final (which isn't entirely unlikely!), by when he'd be eligible to grace the occasion. I can't see Faisal Iqbal actually make it to the playing 11, given that the middle order would be pretty formidable as it is (Younis Khan, Mohd. Yousuf, Afridi & Razzaq).

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A little known fact about Shane Warne

Shane Warne reveals in an interview that he doesn't worry about having the most sixes hit against him in international cricket.

There are a lot of statistics linked to me, most of which I don't worry about - being hit for the most sixes in international cricket, for example - while having the most Test wickets is obviously great.

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