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Whats with the rolleyes at the shaving arms part? Adidas can spout some mumbo jumbo about an 1.13% or whatever improvement in delaying muscle fatigue, and you play it up as being important in a game of half chances. Now, suppose Ponting shaved his forearms, wouldn't it reduce friction...

Ganguly is the best part timer currently. By such a long way its not even funny. I've never seen him take tailend wickets. He picks up proper batsmen when most needed.

When was the last time England played a tri-series outside of England or Australia ?

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Kapil Dev would have been God if he was playing now. His bowling suffered a lot because of the Indian pitches and the lack of support from the other end. He would easily average around 23-24 with the ball and 40 with the bat on the flat pitches nowadays. Kumble would have been superb on the...

It still doesn't make sense for him to speak of the Indian team so condescendingly. It is, to the best of my knowledge, indisputable fact that India have won more tests abroad since 2000 than any other team bar Australia. As far as my knowledge goes, Australia have won 23 tests overseas since...

Who says it was a good decision to declare when he was near a milestone? It was a good decision to declare because he wanted the bowlers the chance to have a crakc at the opposition despite the fact that his teammate was near a milestone. Theres a difference between declaring based on a 'when'...

The criticism of Dravid's captaincy today unwarranted to be frank. This is the same guy who declared in Pakistan with Tendulkar on 194*. If he didn't declare today when the armchair critics wanted him to, I'm sure he had a perfectly valid reason.

India do have something like the second best win ratio of all teams outside home since 2000. Plus gone are the days when preparing greentops was a recipe for sureshot success against India for other teams. Over the last few series, that has backfired on many teams since India has quite a decent...

You do realize you were replying to a post made an hour before yours ? :rolleyes:

This is now the highest ever total without a single centurion in the innings.

Its only a trap if you catch your prey unawares. Are you saying Dhoni didn't realise what the intentions were behind getting Pietersen on?

Please, spare us the insecurity and patriotism. Packer did absolutely nothing for Indian cricket. The main impetus for Indian cricket was the 1983 World Cup win, and even that wasn't as great a boost as the liberalisation on the economy in the early 90s. Packer was no better than Chandra, he was...

Actually, they HAVE to. Would you care to find out how much John Howard is willing to pay the ICC to avoid the Australian tour of Zimbabwe ? If South Africa do not want to tour Australia in December, then they WILL be forced to shell out millions to the ICC just because Australia are damn...

Its ridiculous that other countries have to tour outside their homes during their prime cricketing season while Australia never has to. Instead of throwing a childish "OMG Save the Aussie Boxing day test!!!!11!" tantrum, people should address the issue in a mature manner. It doesnt matter that...

Nah, it just means they don't have any cricket to play till September, and instead of just waiting around, why not just announce the squad now so that the players can prepare themselves.. Thats a specious argument. South Africa lost to Bangladesh too in the 2007 World Cup, and yet they...

Does anyone else think Star Cricket was created purely so that ESPN Star could charge for 2 channels instead of one ? Suppose theres 3 ODIs and 3 Tests in a tour within a month, if ESPN Star telecast the ODI series, and Star Cricket telecast the Test series, they could mint double the money by...

Its the multiple injuries and the 18 years of non-stop playing. Also, many people wouldn't like it to suggest it, but I think coaches have a role to play too. Chappell, and to an extent Wright wanted Sachin to bat in the middle order in ODIs, and in Tests he wanted him to be the anchor because...

It is also interesting to note that Pontings average shot up above 50 only after the retirement of many of the greats like Wasim, Waqar, Donald, Ambrose, Walsh, and after Pollock went from great to okay. It is also interesting to note that Ponting averages 12 in India after 3 tours there. ;)

But still Sachin has played 30 odd more tests, and has been plagued by injury for the last 8 years. It is also interesting to note Ponting has 25 not outs in 107 tests to Tendulkars 23 in 137 tests.