World Greats Test Championship - TIME TO ANNOUNCE SQUADS FOR SERIES 2 - FREDDIE, DRAVID & INZY injured!! PLUS Pakistan v India!!
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Saeed Anwar
Shoaib Mohammad
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Younis Khan
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Hanif Mohammad Saeed Anwar Younis Khan Javed Miandad Mohammad Yousuf Inzamam-ul-Haq Imran Khan Wasim Akram Saqlain Mushtaq Shoaib Akhtar Waqar Younus 
FIRST TEST. Bellerive Oval, Hobart.
Tony Greig:
Welcome to the first test of this opening World Greats Test Championship here in Hobart. As you can see, this looks an astonishingly flat deck. We hope there will be some carry to it as otherwise it will be as big a toil scoring runs as it will be bowling on it. If, as we expect, Hanif Mohammad is both opening and keeping for Pakistan, Imran Khan will be desperate to have a bat first as opening after 100-odd overs of keeping, which would be likely, would be brutally hard. Meanwhile, it is expected that Don Bradman will pick an all-rounder at 6 to help shoulder the burden but it remains to be seen if that will be Keith Miller or Alan Davidson
M.Hayden
A.Morris
D.Bradman (C)
R.Ponting
G.Chappell
K.Miller
A.Gilchrist (Wk)
A.Davidson
S.Warne
D.Lillee
G.McGrath
Hanif Mohammad
Saeed Anwar
Younis Khan
Javed Miandad
Mohammad Yousuf
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Saqlain Mushtaq
Shoaib Akhtar
Waqar Younus
Imran Khan wins the toss and Pakistan will bat first
Despite Hanif Mohammad cutting one to slip that was too close to him from Lillee early and departing for 8. The pitch looked as lifeless as expected, resulting in Warne bowling as many overs as anyone in the morning session. It was a continued toil as Anwar and Younis Khan ground then into the dirt, especially with Keith Miller experiencing some soreness than meant he had only bowled 4 overs by Tea.
There was no great urgency about the visitors batting and we were well into the evening session before Warne finally got Khan to misjudge one and bowled him for 79, but Pakistan we still only on 181-2 at that point. Miller finally returned for just one over before the new ball in the 79th Over and immediately yorked Anwar with his 3rd ball, the over after Anwar had gone to an excellent hundred. At that point Miandad was on 4 off 33 deliveries and unsurprisingly Don Bradman immediately took the new ball and his new ball bowlers. It had little effect though as day one ended at 223-3.
Day two was a disaster for the hosts as Keith Miller didn't return to the field and Matthew Hayden dropped both Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf in a 192-run partnership ended by, guess who, Shane Warne, who got Miandad lbw with a straight one for 106. The 3rd new ball saw Yousuf miss out on a hundred, caught behind for a 272-ball 91. The biggest shock was that Imran Khan didn't show more intent when he came in after that and they closed on 451-5.
That intent came in day three, Mainly by Inzamam-ul-Haq, with a magnificent 131-ball 98, before being bowled trying to give himself room to McGrath, at which point they declared having put on over 100 in an hour and a half.
There was much more intent by both sides in Australia's first innings. Akram had got Morris cheaply before lunch and then the skipper put the onus on himself at Saqlain after lunch. Imran removed the Don & Punter before Saqlain produced a beauty to trap Hayden and suddenly Australia were 128-4 at tea. Chappell and Miller, looking in slight discomfort, played really well after tea, both scoring half-centuries with only Miller to fall to one that reversed from Waqar.
Glen Chappell changed the game on day 4. He managed to see off a brutal reverse-swing old-ball spell from Wasim and Waqar before he, Gilchrist and Davidson cashed in once they had to come off and take the new ball. The latter two with 50's but Chappell was still there at the close, a magnificent 233 not out, with Australia 8 down and only two behind. He'll have been gutted to have been run-out by Lillee in the first over of the morning as they tied the scores before Wasim bowled Lillee.
Pakistan's only plan thereafter was for Hanif to make some runs and try and drill Australia's bowlers further into the dirt. Which they succeeded in.
2ND TEST PITCH OUTLOOK FROM THE GABBA: @CerealKiller
@Guesty98 Question Marks over Miller's fitness but not injured.
Tony Greig:
Welcome to the first test of this opening World Greats Test Championship here in Hobart. As you can see, this looks an astonishingly flat deck. We hope there will be some carry to it as otherwise it will be as big a toil scoring runs as it will be bowling on it. If, as we expect, Hanif Mohammad is both opening and keeping for Pakistan, Imran Khan will be desperate to have a bat first as opening after 100-odd overs of keeping, which would be likely, would be brutally hard. Meanwhile, it is expected that Don Bradman will pick an all-rounder at 6 to help shoulder the burden but it remains to be seen if that will be Keith Miller or Alan Davidson
M.Hayden
A.Morris
D.Bradman (C)
R.Ponting
G.Chappell
K.Miller
A.Gilchrist (Wk)
A.Davidson
S.Warne
D.Lillee
G.McGrath
Hanif Mohammad Saeed Anwar Younis Khan Javed Miandad Mohammad Yousuf Inzamam-ul-Haq Imran Khan Wasim Akram Saqlain Mushtaq Shoaib Akhtar Waqar Younus Imran Khan wins the toss and Pakistan will bat first
Despite Hanif Mohammad cutting one to slip that was too close to him from Lillee early and departing for 8. The pitch looked as lifeless as expected, resulting in Warne bowling as many overs as anyone in the morning session. It was a continued toil as Anwar and Younis Khan ground then into the dirt, especially with Keith Miller experiencing some soreness than meant he had only bowled 4 overs by Tea.
There was no great urgency about the visitors batting and we were well into the evening session before Warne finally got Khan to misjudge one and bowled him for 79, but Pakistan we still only on 181-2 at that point. Miller finally returned for just one over before the new ball in the 79th Over and immediately yorked Anwar with his 3rd ball, the over after Anwar had gone to an excellent hundred. At that point Miandad was on 4 off 33 deliveries and unsurprisingly Don Bradman immediately took the new ball and his new ball bowlers. It had little effect though as day one ended at 223-3.
Day two was a disaster for the hosts as Keith Miller didn't return to the field and Matthew Hayden dropped both Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf in a 192-run partnership ended by, guess who, Shane Warne, who got Miandad lbw with a straight one for 106. The 3rd new ball saw Yousuf miss out on a hundred, caught behind for a 272-ball 91. The biggest shock was that Imran Khan didn't show more intent when he came in after that and they closed on 451-5.
That intent came in day three, Mainly by Inzamam-ul-Haq, with a magnificent 131-ball 98, before being bowled trying to give himself room to McGrath, at which point they declared having put on over 100 in an hour and a half.
There was much more intent by both sides in Australia's first innings. Akram had got Morris cheaply before lunch and then the skipper put the onus on himself at Saqlain after lunch. Imran removed the Don & Punter before Saqlain produced a beauty to trap Hayden and suddenly Australia were 128-4 at tea. Chappell and Miller, looking in slight discomfort, played really well after tea, both scoring half-centuries with only Miller to fall to one that reversed from Waqar.
Glen Chappell changed the game on day 4. He managed to see off a brutal reverse-swing old-ball spell from Wasim and Waqar before he, Gilchrist and Davidson cashed in once they had to come off and take the new ball. The latter two with 50's but Chappell was still there at the close, a magnificent 233 not out, with Australia 8 down and only two behind. He'll have been gutted to have been run-out by Lillee in the first over of the morning as they tied the scores before Wasim bowled Lillee.
Pakistan's only plan thereafter was for Hanif to make some runs and try and drill Australia's bowlers further into the dirt. Which they succeeded in.
2ND TEST PITCH OUTLOOK FROM THE GABBA: @CerealKiller
@Guesty98 Question Marks over Miller's fitness but not injured.
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- Gordon Greenidge
- Desmond Haynes
- Clyde Walcott
- Viv Richards
- Brian Lara
- Everton Weekes
- Garry Sobers
- Malcolm Marshall
- Andy Roberts
- Michael Holding
- Lance Gibbs
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Two strong batting sides on a flat deck, the result not a great surprise in the end.
We’ll go unchanged for the second test at the Gabba.
Despite his fitness, backing Miller into have an influence on this match with the ball. Him, Gilchrist and Davidson provided some very handy partnerships with Chappell, but perhaps most impressively is Glenn McGrath striking off 8 runs off just 2 deliveries.
We’ll go unchanged for the second test at the Gabba.
Despite his fitness, backing Miller into have an influence on this match with the ball. Him, Gilchrist and Davidson provided some very handy partnerships with Chappell, but perhaps most impressively is Glenn McGrath striking off 8 runs off just 2 deliveries.
First Test. Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
The big news here at the toss is that captain Clive Lloyd didn't come out for the toss and was not in the side, despite being out there for pre-match warm-ups. Viv took his place and immediately lost the toss to Ravi Ashwin and could well be in for a long time out in the Mumbai heat.
Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Mohammed Azharuddin
Ravindra Jadeja
MS Dhoni
Kapil Dev
Ravi Ashwin
Jasprit Bumrah
Bishan Bedi
Despite Jadeja looking consistently on edge all morning, including taking a fierce blow to his bowling hand, but he was the man to get to 50, with Azharrudin edging Gibbs to first slip on 47. Sobers eventually got the left-hander immediately after he got to the milestone to leave India 311-6. Richards then tried to fire out the lower order with pace. Marshall got Dev cheaply, but Ashwin and Bedi hung around long enough for Dhoni to hit a scintillating 82, with 2 sixes and got India up to 410.
Greenidge and Haynes both led a charmed life, with the former dropped off Ashwin and Haynes dead to rights off a Bumrah no-ball. Ashwin eventually got his man and Dev got under the bat of Greenidge to leave then 67-2 but Walcott and Viv knuckled down to see out Day 2 at 95-2
Richards showed much more intent the next morning, sweeping Bedi for two boundaries in the first three overs of the day but Bedi got his revenge by getting the master blaster lbw shortly afterwards. Bumrah then got Lara in the slips before lunch and had Weekes in all types of trouble with Walcott looking like he was playing a different game at the other end. That was much more like the game that happened after lunch, leading to Ashwin to go straight to the new ball. It did little more than the old one and Dev then screamed at Dhoni after he dropped a simple chance when Walcott feathered one through. It was a similar one to the scream of anguish from Weekes an hour later when he chopped a full ball straight back to Bedi on 48. Walcott was imperious after Tea though and went to a magnificent 100 with Sobers looking chanceless in an undefeated century partnership by close.
Day 4 started with the Windies 351-5 and were still behind when Sobers was caught behind for 55. Walcott got able support from Marshall to take him through to a 150, before looking to increase the scoring and being halfway down the pitch when stumped off Bedi after taking the lead. Richards reaction was to immediately declare just 1 ahead with half-hour left of the fourth morning.
Marshall & Holding started with the same rib-tickling tactic to Sehwag that becalmed in the first innings and although it didn't pay off before lunch, Marshall got him at short-leg for a 22-ball 3 shortly afterwards. Andy Roberts then got Gavaskar caught behind and Sobers immediately turned one that beat Dravid to leave them 47-3. Azharuddin then turned Gibbs straight to short-leg where Greenidge shelled it and he and Tendulkar managed to get them to tea at 101-3. Gibbs got him lbw three balls after the break though and Richards immediately tried to bounce Jadeja out. While Gibbs got Tendulkar at the other end it didn't work and both Jadeja and Dhoni got India through to close at 193-5.
Dhoni pressed on at the start of Day 5 but in the 80th over both Jadeja and Dev both fell to Gibbs to leave the lead at 239. Roberts was handed the new ball and got Dhoni caught behind then two kept low on Ashwin and Bedi and with 30 minutes until lunch, India were bowled out for 262.
All 4 results still possible but it seemed a Windies win was distinctly unlikely when Haynes and Walcott struggled their way out to the Indian captain and had them 36-2 but, as so often, Ivan Vivian Richards changed the feel of the occasion. By an hour to go in the match, the Windies needed 108 to win with eight wickets in hand. Jadeja, whose bowling hand was feeling better managed to get one to beat Richards slog sweep and bowl him, he then got Lara too but Greenidge and Weekes continued the assault and by the time the opener was caught at midwicket by Kapil Dev, it was 32 to win off 28 balls. Jadeja got Sobers first ball and then Bedi got Marshall with the 2nd ball of his over and it had flipped to 3 wickets in 22 balls. Cue Andy Roberts deciding to drop anchor for the draw.
The 2nd test pitch at the New VCA Stadium in Nagpur looks exactly the same as the pitch in Mumbai @ahmedleo414 @pillowprocter
The big news here at the toss is that captain Clive Lloyd didn't come out for the toss and was not in the side, despite being out there for pre-match warm-ups. Viv took his place and immediately lost the toss to Ravi Ashwin and could well be in for a long time out in the Mumbai heat.
Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Mohammed Azharuddin
Ravindra Jadeja
MS Dhoni
Kapil Dev
Ravi Ashwin
Jasprit Bumrah
Bishan Bedi
- Gordon Greenidge
- Desmond Haynes
- Clyde Walcott
- Viv Richards
- Brian Lara
- Everton Weekes
- Garry Sobers
- Malcolm Marshall
- Andy Roberts
- Michael Holding
- Lance Gibbs
Despite Jadeja looking consistently on edge all morning, including taking a fierce blow to his bowling hand, but he was the man to get to 50, with Azharrudin edging Gibbs to first slip on 47. Sobers eventually got the left-hander immediately after he got to the milestone to leave India 311-6. Richards then tried to fire out the lower order with pace. Marshall got Dev cheaply, but Ashwin and Bedi hung around long enough for Dhoni to hit a scintillating 82, with 2 sixes and got India up to 410.
Greenidge and Haynes both led a charmed life, with the former dropped off Ashwin and Haynes dead to rights off a Bumrah no-ball. Ashwin eventually got his man and Dev got under the bat of Greenidge to leave then 67-2 but Walcott and Viv knuckled down to see out Day 2 at 95-2
Richards showed much more intent the next morning, sweeping Bedi for two boundaries in the first three overs of the day but Bedi got his revenge by getting the master blaster lbw shortly afterwards. Bumrah then got Lara in the slips before lunch and had Weekes in all types of trouble with Walcott looking like he was playing a different game at the other end. That was much more like the game that happened after lunch, leading to Ashwin to go straight to the new ball. It did little more than the old one and Dev then screamed at Dhoni after he dropped a simple chance when Walcott feathered one through. It was a similar one to the scream of anguish from Weekes an hour later when he chopped a full ball straight back to Bedi on 48. Walcott was imperious after Tea though and went to a magnificent 100 with Sobers looking chanceless in an undefeated century partnership by close.
Day 4 started with the Windies 351-5 and were still behind when Sobers was caught behind for 55. Walcott got able support from Marshall to take him through to a 150, before looking to increase the scoring and being halfway down the pitch when stumped off Bedi after taking the lead. Richards reaction was to immediately declare just 1 ahead with half-hour left of the fourth morning.
Marshall & Holding started with the same rib-tickling tactic to Sehwag that becalmed in the first innings and although it didn't pay off before lunch, Marshall got him at short-leg for a 22-ball 3 shortly afterwards. Andy Roberts then got Gavaskar caught behind and Sobers immediately turned one that beat Dravid to leave them 47-3. Azharuddin then turned Gibbs straight to short-leg where Greenidge shelled it and he and Tendulkar managed to get them to tea at 101-3. Gibbs got him lbw three balls after the break though and Richards immediately tried to bounce Jadeja out. While Gibbs got Tendulkar at the other end it didn't work and both Jadeja and Dhoni got India through to close at 193-5.
Dhoni pressed on at the start of Day 5 but in the 80th over both Jadeja and Dev both fell to Gibbs to leave the lead at 239. Roberts was handed the new ball and got Dhoni caught behind then two kept low on Ashwin and Bedi and with 30 minutes until lunch, India were bowled out for 262.
All 4 results still possible but it seemed a Windies win was distinctly unlikely when Haynes and Walcott struggled their way out to the Indian captain and had them 36-2 but, as so often, Ivan Vivian Richards changed the feel of the occasion. By an hour to go in the match, the Windies needed 108 to win with eight wickets in hand. Jadeja, whose bowling hand was feeling better managed to get one to beat Richards slog sweep and bowl him, he then got Lara too but Greenidge and Weekes continued the assault and by the time the opener was caught at midwicket by Kapil Dev, it was 32 to win off 28 balls. Jadeja got Sobers first ball and then Bedi got Marshall with the 2nd ball of his over and it had flipped to 3 wickets in 22 balls. Cue Andy Roberts deciding to drop anchor for the draw.
The 2nd test pitch at the New VCA Stadium in Nagpur looks exactly the same as the pitch in Mumbai @ahmedleo414 @pillowprocter
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