Monday, March 10, 2014
Thursday, April 18, 2013
BOWLERS ON A ROLE IN THE PEPSI IPL 2013
Six years back , when T20 came into existence at highest level ,all cricket pundits declared it to be the graveyard for the bowlers and especially spinners. This also became visible in T20 world cup and later in that year's IPL. Bowlers were thrashed all round the park. On the very 1st match of IPL McCullam went on to score 157 and RCB bowlers were found running for covers all round the Chinnaswmy stadium. Legends like Kapil Dev felt lucky not to play T20.
But in the 2nd IPL only , bowlers made their presence felt which went on to improve season by season . Now in the current sixth season of IPL , bowlers are really on a role. Each of the team doing good have a handful of performing bowlers. Sunrisers Hyderabad is among top two teams on the point table and they are boasting a world class opening bowling attack in the shape of Steyn and Ishant Sharma and quality spinner in the shape of Amit Mishra.
The bowlers have modulated themselves beautifully to adjust to the situation and in this harakiri of cricket and now it is them who are deciding the result. Not only these bowlers are taking quick wickets ,they are doing it quite miserly. On 16 and 17 April ,within two days world seen two hat-trick and tht in T20 cricket, first by Sunil Narine and he was followed by Amit Mishra. Though first went onto for loosing cause but the latter performance was the ultimate decisive three bowls to decide the result and just turned the match upside-down. It was no other than Narine who was the chief reason of success of KKR in the last season.Already we know the lethal Malinga behind the MI success.
Hope ! the perception of young India to change who only considers batsmen as their role model and as a result we are not able to produce quality bowlers .The worse situation is of spinners.Once India boast to be land of spin bowlers,now doesn't have enough of young spinners on whom the Indian cricket can have faith.The attitude need to be and so will everything fall in place.
But in the 2nd IPL only , bowlers made their presence felt which went on to improve season by season . Now in the current sixth season of IPL , bowlers are really on a role. Each of the team doing good have a handful of performing bowlers. Sunrisers Hyderabad is among top two teams on the point table and they are boasting a world class opening bowling attack in the shape of Steyn and Ishant Sharma and quality spinner in the shape of Amit Mishra.
The bowlers have modulated themselves beautifully to adjust to the situation and in this harakiri of cricket and now it is them who are deciding the result. Not only these bowlers are taking quick wickets ,they are doing it quite miserly. On 16 and 17 April ,within two days world seen two hat-trick and tht in T20 cricket, first by Sunil Narine and he was followed by Amit Mishra. Though first went onto for loosing cause but the latter performance was the ultimate decisive three bowls to decide the result and just turned the match upside-down. It was no other than Narine who was the chief reason of success of KKR in the last season.Already we know the lethal Malinga behind the MI success.
Hope ! the perception of young India to change who only considers batsmen as their role model and as a result we are not able to produce quality bowlers .The worse situation is of spinners.Once India boast to be land of spin bowlers,now doesn't have enough of young spinners on whom the Indian cricket can have faith.The attitude need to be and so will everything fall in place.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
WELL LEFT ..........MR. DEPENDABLE !!!!!
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| TRIMURTI OF INDIAN CRICKET |
Popularly and rather fondly called as THE WALL has reinvented himself a numerous time .As far as I can remember ,I became a real fan of him since the 1999 WC match against SL inwhich along with Ganguly he made a world record partnership.As Ganguly has been always my favourite ,the dark phase of Indian cricket during Greg Chappel, Ganguly was dethroned from captain and Dravid was given the responsibility I felt a bit unhappy or it would be more appropriate to say felt can't say with what.But despite of that my respect for his talent and attitude never decreased.
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| Dravid announcing his retirement |
The whole world will always remember him for altruistic nature.He was a versatile cricket as his records speaks .A terrific batsman in both forms and highest number of catches in tests along with more than 100 in ODI. He took a big leap in versatility and caricature during WC 2003 ,when he agreed to keep the wkt enabling team to play with extra batsman.
Last year when everybody was failing in England he, rose to the occasion and tried his best to save the country's pride as a world champion .Everybody was expecting the same from him in Aus also but aghast! he couldn't repeat the same in which he is specialist and got out bowled 6 times out of 8......the end was sensing soon.............and at last ended on 9-3-2012.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Ashwin-a drop of water in drought.....
It is a matter of just 2days backed ,result of final test between IND and WI resulted in a draw but clearly shown the capacity flavour to entangle you before the silver screen if not in the ground itself.Seen a lot of ups and down in the match but the biggest thing which impressed was the performance of newly wedded ASHWIN ,and for the matter of time raising hopes to become India's belonging allrounder.
Allrounder ,always considered to big plus point in the game,who can forget the great Garry Sobers .At the moment also world is seeing a few of good one or some have just left.Last time when I have really amazed with input an allrounder can put in was during England's memorable ashes win in 2004-05,it was the allround capabilities of FLINTOFF which shifted the balence in favour of England ,stats also show itand he was awarded man of the series.In the following year only ,Collinghood's inn of 100s followed by a amazing spell of 10 overs giving 21 runs and clutching 6 wkts made the Aussies to feel that reign has ended.So was the difference created by these allrounders. Now Kangaroos have got his man in form of Watson who have really come par with his talent and clearly giving the feel of another Kallis in natation.
As IND is considered really have always willing to have rebirth of Kapil Dev but in vain haven't been possible up till now.Irfan made to feel and so his elder brother Yusuf.But the crackers has just fussed when it demanding.India win WC 2011 ,was too much relied on Yusuf but when situation demanded Yuvi delivered and Yusuf kept lurking from dressing room.Unexpectedly Yuvi really looked solving the problem of soving the drought of allrounder in Ind but whether these slow spin will be handy in pacy pitches Aus and England-there is no answer....
Hope Ashwin fills the slot but not at the cost of bowling,as nobody might be ready to see another Irfan collapse.
Allrounder ,always considered to big plus point in the game,who can forget the great Garry Sobers .At the moment also world is seeing a few of good one or some have just left.Last time when I have really amazed with input an allrounder can put in was during England's memorable ashes win in 2004-05,it was the allround capabilities of FLINTOFF which shifted the balence in favour of England ,stats also show itand he was awarded man of the series.In the following year only ,Collinghood's inn of 100s followed by a amazing spell of 10 overs giving 21 runs and clutching 6 wkts made the Aussies to feel that reign has ended.So was the difference created by these allrounders. Now Kangaroos have got his man in form of Watson who have really come par with his talent and clearly giving the feel of another Kallis in natation.
As IND is considered really have always willing to have rebirth of Kapil Dev but in vain haven't been possible up till now.Irfan made to feel and so his elder brother Yusuf.But the crackers has just fussed when it demanding.India win WC 2011 ,was too much relied on Yusuf but when situation demanded Yuvi delivered and Yusuf kept lurking from dressing room.Unexpectedly Yuvi really looked solving the problem of soving the drought of allrounder in Ind but whether these slow spin will be handy in pacy pitches Aus and England-there is no answer....
Hope Ashwin fills the slot but not at the cost of bowling,as nobody might be ready to see another Irfan collapse.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
HAT-TRICK..........
A hat-trick or hat trick in sport is the achievement of a positive feat three times during a game, or other achievements based on threes. The term was first used in 1858 in cricket to describe HH Stephenson's feat of taking three wickets in three balls. A collection was held for Stephenson, and he was presented with a hat bought with the proceeds. The term was used in print for the first time in 1878.
The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including association football, water polo, and team handball, but didn't become popular in North America until the mid 1940s (in the National Hockey League and then baseball (three strikeouts or hits)).
A hat-trick occurs in cricket when a bowler dismisses three batsmen with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch or the other team's innings, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count.
Hat-tricks are very rare and as such are treasured by bowlers. In Test cricket history there have been just 39 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Fred Spofforth for Australia against England in 1879. In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's Hugh Trumble, against England in 1902 and 1904, and Pakistan's Wasim Akram, in separate games against Sri Lanka in 1999.India's Harbhajan achieved this feat in Kolkata in 2001.
In One Day International cricket there have been 27 hat-tricks up to 22 August 2011, the first by Jalal-ud-Din for Pakistan against Australia in 1982, and the most recent by Lasith Malinga for Sri Lanka cricket team against Australia on August 22nd, 2011 in the last match of the five-ODI series played in Colombo. With this last hat-trick Lasith Malinga became the first and only bowler to take three hat-tricks in any form of international cricket. Four players have taken at least two One Day International hat-tricks in their careers: Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan and Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka. (Akram therefore has four international hat-tricks in total).
In Twenty20 International Cricket, Brett Lee of Australia had a hat-trick against Bangladesh in the Super Eight of the Twenty20 World Cup on 16 September 2007 in South Africa. Jacob Oram of New Zealand made a hat-trick against Sri Lanka on 2 September 2009 in Colombo, And Tim Southee, also from New Zealand, made a hat-trick against Pakistan, and ended up with a 5-For at the end of the match.
Taking two wickets in two consecutive deliveries is occasionally known as a brace, or (more commonly) being on a hat-trick. This is only a run-up to the hat-trick. If a hat-trick is not achieved, it is not called a brace.
Four wickets in four balls is referred to in cricket literature and record books as four in four but the term double hat-trick has also been used in the media, as it will contain two different, overlapping sets of three consecutively dismissed batsmen. It has occurred only once in international one-day cricket, in the 2007 World Cup, when Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga managed the feat against South Africa by dismissing Shaun Pollock, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis and Makhaya Ntini, though it has occurred on other occasions in first-class cricket. Kevan James of Hampshire took four wickets in four balls and scored a century in the same county game against India in 1996. The Cricinfo report on the game claimed that this was unique in cricket. Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka is one of the two bowlers, the other one being Wasim Akram of Pakistan against Bangladesh as well to achieve a hat-trick in the first three balls of any form of international cricket. Chaminda Vass did so in their pool B ODI world cup qualifier against Bangladhesh on 14 February 2003 at City Oval, Pietermaritzburg. He took his fourth wicket with the fifth ball of the same over and missed the double-hat-trick.
Albert Trott and Joginder Rao are the only two bowlers credited with two hat-tricks in the same innings in first class cricket. One of Trott's two hat-tricks, for Middlesex against Somerset at Lords in 1907, was a four in four
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While all hat-tricks are rare and prized, some examples are particularly extraordinary. On 2 December 1988, Merv Hughes, playing for Australia, dismissing Curtly Ambrose with the last ball of his penultimate over and Patrick Patterson with the first ball of his next over, wrapping up the West Indies first innings. When Hughes returned to bowl in the West Indies second innings, he trapped Gordon Greenidge lbw with his first ball, completing a hat-trick over two different innings and becoming the only player in Test cricket history to achieve the three wickets of a hat-trick in three different overs.
In 1844, underarm bowler William Clark, playing for "England" against Kent, achieved a hat-trick spread over two innings, dismissing Kent batsman John Fagge twice within the hat-trick. Fagge batted at number 11 in the first innings and at number 3 in the second. This event is believed to be unique in first-class cricket.
The most involved hat-trick was perhaps when Melbourne club cricketer Stephen Hickman, playing for Power House, achieved a hat-trick spread over three overs, two days, two innings, involved the same batsman twice, and was observed by the same non striker, with the hat-trick ball being bowled from the opposite end to the first two. In the Mercantile Cricket Association C Grade semi final at Fawkner Park South Yarra in Melbourne, Gunbower United Cricket Club were 8 for 109 when Hickman came on to bowl his off spin. He took a wicket with the last ball of his third over and then bowled number 11 batsman Richard Higgins with the first ball of his next over to complete the Gunbower innings, leaving Chris Taylor the not out batsman. Power House scored 361 putting the game out of reach of Gunbower. In the second innings opener Taylor was joined by Higgins at the fall of the fourth wicket as Hickman returned to the attack. With his first ball, observed by an incredulous Taylor at the non-strikers end, he clean bowled Higgins leaving Higgins with a pair of golden ducks.
One of the most unlikely of hat-tricks occurred in 2009. Representing City Eagles in Christchurch, New Zealand, David Crocker (a former wicket-keeper batsman turned surprised bowler) took 3 wickets to secure a hat-trick with the first 3 deliveries he bowled in Suburban Cricket. It is unknown if this has occurred before with the very first deliveries a bowler would bowl in a competition claiming wickets. David also scored 118 against the same team.
At least two triple hat-tricks have been achieved. The first was by Scott Babot of Wainuiomata Cricket Club playing in the Senior 3 competition in New Zealand in 2008. It consisted of five wickets in five balls, across two innings and separated by seven days, as the match took place on consecutive Saturdays. The second was in an Ireland club U13 youth game in 2011, achieved by David Delany of Clontarf Cricket Club playing in an All-Ireland final against Bready Cricket Club. Bready needed 19 runs to win with 6 wickets in hand, when Delany took five wickets in five balls, with all five batsmen being dismissed bowled. Clontarf won the game.
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The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including association football, water polo, and team handball, but didn't become popular in North America until the mid 1940s (in the National Hockey League and then baseball (three strikeouts or hits)).
A hat-trick occurs in cricket when a bowler dismisses three batsmen with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch or the other team's innings, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count.
Hat-tricks are very rare and as such are treasured by bowlers. In Test cricket history there have been just 39 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Fred Spofforth for Australia against England in 1879. In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's Hugh Trumble, against England in 1902 and 1904, and Pakistan's Wasim Akram, in separate games against Sri Lanka in 1999.India's Harbhajan achieved this feat in Kolkata in 2001.
In One Day International cricket there have been 27 hat-tricks up to 22 August 2011, the first by Jalal-ud-Din for Pakistan against Australia in 1982, and the most recent by Lasith Malinga for Sri Lanka cricket team against Australia on August 22nd, 2011 in the last match of the five-ODI series played in Colombo. With this last hat-trick Lasith Malinga became the first and only bowler to take three hat-tricks in any form of international cricket. Four players have taken at least two One Day International hat-tricks in their careers: Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan and Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka. (Akram therefore has four international hat-tricks in total).
In Twenty20 International Cricket, Brett Lee of Australia had a hat-trick against Bangladesh in the Super Eight of the Twenty20 World Cup on 16 September 2007 in South Africa. Jacob Oram of New Zealand made a hat-trick against Sri Lanka on 2 September 2009 in Colombo, And Tim Southee, also from New Zealand, made a hat-trick against Pakistan, and ended up with a 5-For at the end of the match.
Taking two wickets in two consecutive deliveries is occasionally known as a brace, or (more commonly) being on a hat-trick. This is only a run-up to the hat-trick. If a hat-trick is not achieved, it is not called a brace.
Four wickets in four balls is referred to in cricket literature and record books as four in four but the term double hat-trick has also been used in the media, as it will contain two different, overlapping sets of three consecutively dismissed batsmen. It has occurred only once in international one-day cricket, in the 2007 World Cup, when Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga managed the feat against South Africa by dismissing Shaun Pollock, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis and Makhaya Ntini, though it has occurred on other occasions in first-class cricket. Kevan James of Hampshire took four wickets in four balls and scored a century in the same county game against India in 1996. The Cricinfo report on the game claimed that this was unique in cricket. Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka is one of the two bowlers, the other one being Wasim Akram of Pakistan against Bangladesh as well to achieve a hat-trick in the first three balls of any form of international cricket. Chaminda Vass did so in their pool B ODI world cup qualifier against Bangladhesh on 14 February 2003 at City Oval, Pietermaritzburg. He took his fourth wicket with the fifth ball of the same over and missed the double-hat-trick.
Albert Trott and Joginder Rao are the only two bowlers credited with two hat-tricks in the same innings in first class cricket. One of Trott's two hat-tricks, for Middlesex against Somerset at Lords in 1907, was a four in four
.
While all hat-tricks are rare and prized, some examples are particularly extraordinary. On 2 December 1988, Merv Hughes, playing for Australia, dismissing Curtly Ambrose with the last ball of his penultimate over and Patrick Patterson with the first ball of his next over, wrapping up the West Indies first innings. When Hughes returned to bowl in the West Indies second innings, he trapped Gordon Greenidge lbw with his first ball, completing a hat-trick over two different innings and becoming the only player in Test cricket history to achieve the three wickets of a hat-trick in three different overs.
In 1844, underarm bowler William Clark, playing for "England" against Kent, achieved a hat-trick spread over two innings, dismissing Kent batsman John Fagge twice within the hat-trick. Fagge batted at number 11 in the first innings and at number 3 in the second. This event is believed to be unique in first-class cricket.
The most involved hat-trick was perhaps when Melbourne club cricketer Stephen Hickman, playing for Power House, achieved a hat-trick spread over three overs, two days, two innings, involved the same batsman twice, and was observed by the same non striker, with the hat-trick ball being bowled from the opposite end to the first two. In the Mercantile Cricket Association C Grade semi final at Fawkner Park South Yarra in Melbourne, Gunbower United Cricket Club were 8 for 109 when Hickman came on to bowl his off spin. He took a wicket with the last ball of his third over and then bowled number 11 batsman Richard Higgins with the first ball of his next over to complete the Gunbower innings, leaving Chris Taylor the not out batsman. Power House scored 361 putting the game out of reach of Gunbower. In the second innings opener Taylor was joined by Higgins at the fall of the fourth wicket as Hickman returned to the attack. With his first ball, observed by an incredulous Taylor at the non-strikers end, he clean bowled Higgins leaving Higgins with a pair of golden ducks.
One of the most unlikely of hat-tricks occurred in 2009. Representing City Eagles in Christchurch, New Zealand, David Crocker (a former wicket-keeper batsman turned surprised bowler) took 3 wickets to secure a hat-trick with the first 3 deliveries he bowled in Suburban Cricket. It is unknown if this has occurred before with the very first deliveries a bowler would bowl in a competition claiming wickets. David also scored 118 against the same team.
At least two triple hat-tricks have been achieved. The first was by Scott Babot of Wainuiomata Cricket Club playing in the Senior 3 competition in New Zealand in 2008. It consisted of five wickets in five balls, across two innings and separated by seven days, as the match took place on consecutive Saturdays. The second was in an Ireland club U13 youth game in 2011, achieved by David Delany of Clontarf Cricket Club playing in an All-Ireland final against Bready Cricket Club. Bready needed 19 runs to win with 6 wickets in hand, when Delany took five wickets in five balls, with all five batsmen being dismissed bowled. Clontarf won the game.
HAT-TRICK IN TEST MATCHES:
- A player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. Playing for Australia against South Africa in the first match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, leg spinner Jimmy Matthews took a hat-trick in South Africa's first and second innings (No. 8 and 9 in the list below), both taken on 28 May 1912.
- Only three cricketers have taken a Test hat-trick more than once: Australian off spinner Hugh Trumble (No. 6 and 7 in the list below, two years apart, between the same teams at the same ground), Jimmy Matthews (Australian leg spinner) and Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram (No. 24 and 25 in the list below, just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams). Wasim Akram is also the only player to have taken a hat-trick while Test captain.
- Only two cricketers have taken a Test hat-trick and a One-Day International hat-trick: both Pakistani bowlers, Mohammed Sami and Wasim Akram; however, Wasim Akram has the unique distinction of taking two Test hat-tricks and two ODI hat-tricks, making four international hat-tricks in all.
- Three players have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut, English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom in 1930 (No. 10), New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick in 1976 (No. 17), and Australian pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994 (No. 20).
- T J Matthews (both hat-tricks), Dominic Cork, Mohammed Sami and Jermaine Lawson all achieved their hat-tricks without fielding assistance
- No player has taken four wickets in four balls (although this feat has been accomplished in one day cricket, by Lasith Malinga 28/3/2007 for Sri Lanka vs South Africa), but Allom's hat-trick was the last three of four wickets in five balls of his eighth over in Test cricket (the second ball being a dot ball). Two other Test players have taken four wickets in five balls: Chris Old, playing for England against Pakistan at Edgbaston in 1978 (the third ball of the series was a no ball), and Wasim Akram, playing for Pakistan against West Indies at Lahore in 1990–91 (the third ball of the series was a dot ball).
- The youngest player to take a hat-trick is Bangladeshi leg spinner Alok Kapali (No. 32), when aged 19 years 240 days. The oldest player is English off spinner Tom Goddard (No.11), aged 38 years and 87 days.
- Irfan Pathan (No. 36) is the only bowler to have taken a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match.
- Courtney Walsh & Merv Hughes are the only two players from opposing teams to have taken hat-tricks in the same series.
- Merv Hughes (No. 19) is the only bowler to have taken a Test hat-trick with each ball in a different over.
- Peter Siddle (No. 38) , is the first bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday, turning 26 on Thursday 25 November 2010.
- All Test hat-tricks by Pakistani bowlers (Wasim Akram, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Sami) have been against Sri Lanka.
- Stuart Broad was involved in 2 consecutive hat-tricks. He was the 3rd victim of the 38th and the bowler who took the 39th.
List of Test hat-tricks
HAT-TRICK IN ODI :
It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 30 occurrences in over 3,000 matches since the first ODI, between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The first ODI hat-trick was taken by Jalal-ud-Din of Pakistan, playing against Australia at Niaz Stadium in September 1982 ; the most recent was taken by Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka, playing against Australia on 22 August 2011.
Pakistani bowlers hold the record for the most ODI hat-tricks taken by a team with eight. The only bowler to have taken three career hat-tricks is Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka, three other bowlers (Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq and Chaminda Vaas) have taken two hat-tricks. Hat-tricks are dominated by fast bowlers with Pakistan's Saqlain and Bangladesh's Razzaq the only two spinners to have taken an ODI hat-trick. Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lankan cricket team became the only bowler to claim a hat-trick in the first three balls of any form of international cricket when he took the first three wickets off the opening three balls of their match against Bangladesh during 2003 Cricket World Cup. Seven hat-tricks have occurred in World Cup matches, the most important form of ODI cricket. The last was during the 2011 World Cup when Malinga took a hat-trick against Kenya to become the only bolwer to claim two World Cup hat-tricks.
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