Ellarum ippadiyae amaithiya pesama irundha eppadi panjayatha arambingappa :huh: :lol:
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Ellarum ippadiyae amaithiya pesama irundha eppadi panjayatha arambingappa :huh: :lol:
His innings in the finals of 1983 WC. watch out for the casual stance. Treats indian bowlers like club bowlers and the match as a club match, hits the ball with utter disdain and never bothered to run, just a stroll towards square leg and back in time to face the next ball. :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by wrap07
I heard that before Somerset he was signed to play for some other county. But his contract was terminated because they were annoyed with his behaviour of throwing his wicket away when he didn't find the bowling challenging enough :lol:
Can someone confirm if that is true !
I don´t know about this prabhu, but certainly he gave the feeling that at certain stage he gets bored and get outQuote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Oops.. :oops: missed out the chance to talk about my most favourite cricketer Kapil Dev :P
however my two cents on the legend :P
Kapil was the only reason I started watching Cricket ( at the age of 11). Whenever India wins a toss, most Indian supporters will hope for an Indian batting. But as a kid, i always wanted India to bowl first because i can see my hero with red cherry walking upto the run up :P
Many of us talk about his hitting 4 6's in a row of hemmings to avoid a follow on against England in 1990. Not many know that during the previous tour to England in 1986 in the 1st test at Lords, he hit 4 4's in a row of Edmonds to seal the victory (India were 5/110 chasing a target of 133. Kapil stepped into blast 23 of 10 balls and nipped any hopes english had in their mind ). India went on to win the series.
He was a supreme athlete. He has played 131 test matches but he was never been run out nor has he dropped a catch.
During 1982 tour of West Indies ( Kapil's first tour as captain ), in the 2nd one day match he blasted 72 in 38 balls for a victory over West Indies (Beating West Indies in West Indies those days were near impossible and that to by India). To me this was the beginning of the fairy tale of India winning the world cup 3 months later. Infact India also beat West Indies in the 1st of the league matches in the World Cup.
Kapil :bow: for all those pleasant moments in my teens :clap:
Wow! King Viv :clap: :notworthy:
During the mid-eighties, for some strange reason myself and my bro would support W.I whenever they played against India (guess mainly because of Sir Viv) :lol:
Richards was my first cricketing idol. andha walk to the crease, stance, gum-chewing nonchalance and arrogance, backlift(?), power - SINGAM :notworthy:
My best memory of his innings is in a one day match against India in India. He hit a record 6(7?) sixes in that innings innings.
Video ellam pottu paakkanum...
My father used to be a big fan of him. He used to call him "sixer manna" when he walks out to bat.
Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards was born on 7 March 1952 at St. John’s, Antigua. Considered to be one of the finest batsmen of all time, he was also a part time off break bowler. One of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, he was nominated Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1977.
Richards made his test debut at Bangalore against India in 1974-5 and his one-day international debut against Sri Lanka in the World Cup of 1975. His last test was against England at the Oval in 1991 and his last ODI was at Lord’s in the same series. Playing 121 tests, he scored 8,540 runs at an average of 50.23, with 24 hundreds and 291 as his highest score. He claimed 32 wickets and took 122 catches. In 187 ODIs, he scored 6,721 runs at an average of 47.00, with 11 hundreds and 189 n.o. as his highest score. He also claimed 118 wickets and took 100 catches.
For more than fifteen years, Richards dominated cricket – the traditional as well as the instant version – like nobody’s business. The very sight of him walking in with his famous swagger, chewing gum, his huge shoulders loosening up for action, sent shivers down the spines of international bowlers. He could play all the shots in the game, but his flicks to mid-wicket and the pull shots were absolutely breathtaking. He could easily dispatch a short of a good length ball to the cover boundary with a classical back foot drive, or just swish it through mid-wicket for four. Such was his genius. A brilliant cover fielder in his early days, he later took some outstanding catches in the slips.
One young – highly rated - England fast bowler once beat him with his first four deliveries in a side game. at troubling the great man, the bowler said, “ Hey, Viv. It’s round and red in colour. Can you see it?” Richards did not say a word, but dispatched the next delivery right out of the ground, into the river across the road. While the groundsmen were looking for the ball, Richards walked down the pitch, tapping at imaginary bootmarks, and chewing his gum and drawled, “ You know how the ball looks like. Now, go get it!”
A genius and a gentleman! Modern cricket badly needs someone like him.
snippets about the great
GREAT BATSMAN
West Indies debut v India, 1974; scored unbeaten 192 in second Test; highest score 291 v England at The Oval in 1976
Hit 8,540 runs in 121 Tests at an average of 50.23, with 24 centuries and 86 sixes
Scored the fastest Test century, from 56 balls against England in Antigua, 1986
Made 6,721 one-day international runs, with 11 centuries and 45 fifties, including unbeaten 139 in 1979 World Cup final
Highest first-class score 322 for Somerset against Warwickshire at Taunton 1985
GREAT CAPTAIN
The only West Indies captain never to lose a Test series (14 series, from 1980-91)
GREAT ALL-ROUNDER
Off-spin took 32 Test and 118 ODI wickets
Ran out three Australians in the inaugural World Cup final in 1975
Played football for Antigua in the qualifiers for the 1974 World Cup
GREAT MAN
Refused a 'blank cheque' to play for a rebel West Indies side in apartheid South Africa
Never wore a helmet while batting
GREATNESS RECOGNISED
Depicted on an Antiguan stamp in 1975
A Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1977
One of the Wisden's five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garry Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne
Knighted for services to cricket in 2000
Sri,
Sorry for not being regular. in fact I wanted to add on what I had written on Kapil. Pre-occupation. But many hubbers had written about Kapil, the legendary.
Coming to the present icon, the very name (Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards) was majestic. Though this word is often misused now, we can safely use it for Sir Viv. Yes, he was a bowler's nightmare in all its true sense.
He made his debut in the 1974-75 series against us. In the first test at Bangalore, his scores were minimal. Come second test at Delhi. Patuadi captaining India pulled out due to injury and Sunny was named as the skipper. There was a Ranji trophy match in between the first and second tests involving Bombay and Gavaskar had his finger fractured and he was ruled out of the next three tests. So on the morning of the match, Venkat was named as Captain. [If I remember correctly this was the match Parthasarathy Sharma made his debut and Bedi returned after serving a 1 match suspension on displinary grounds]. The first wicket fell cheaply and Richards walked in. Our Venkat was bowling his heart out and he had our man. Richards snicked and w/k Farook Engineer caught the ball. But umpire Gothaskar negatived the appeal. Richards was on 12. With this reprieve he went on to score 192* which included 5 sixes. He later confessed that he knew he was out but in his heart of hearts he had a fear that "walking" would finish his career. WI went on to win that test. This is not to undermine Richards but just to state that however talented you may be, you need a bit of luck on your part. Poor Venkat not only returned back the captaincy to Patuadi but was made as 12th Man in the Madras test.
The Madras test saw Richards scoring 50 in the first innings(the test of Viswanath - the unforgettable 97* aginst Andy Roberts & Co who were breathing fire) In the second innings he went for a big hit against Prasanna and was stumped. This prompted Tony Cozier who was on the commentary box (Radio) to say "Only if he had connected, it would have gone to Ceylon".
The much touted 1975-76 series between WI and Australia down under rather ended as a one sided affair. Australia beat WI 5-1. Thommo and Lillie literally spat fire and with Greg Chappell in the form of his life, it was cake walk for Aussies. Richards could sparkle only occasionally. Even the only test won by WI (the second one at Perth) it was Roy Fredricks with his 71 Ball hundred and Super Cat Clive Lyoyd with his 149 stole the show.
The 1976 series against India at Caribbean (March -April) helped Viv to score heavily to retain his reputation. He scored two centuries (or three?) and except Venkat, no bowler could make an impression on him. That series saw the relations souring between the two teams as India successfully chased 406 to win the third test at Port of Spain to tie the series 1-1.[The irony was the test originally scheduled at Guyana due to rain was shifted to POS]. The WI orchestrated a "Bodyline" attack at Kingston Jamaica - Sabina Park and won 2-1.
Then came the biggest moment of Viv. Not knowing what he is indulging is, the foul mouthed Tony Grieg commented that "We will make them Grovel". He was referring to the Tour to the Old Blighty by the Windies. The entire WI team was picqued but two men took this insult to the heart and they simply demolished England. If Viv took care of the batting the "Rolls Royce of Fast Bowling" Michael Holding scathed through the brittle England line up. They were white washed 5-0. Richards' innings of 292 at Oval is folklore. That calendar year (1976) saw Viv amassing 1610 runs, a record of sorts. From there on, his march continued. He came , he saw and he conquered.
His clinical annihilation of England in the 1979 finals of World Cup with a 132 made way for one of the most one sided finals of the World cup, untill Australia reduced Pak to 132 in the final, after 20 years. Viv's 33 in 1983 was a sheer treat (Srikanth openly admitted that he was literally enjoying the innings). He dominated the cricket scene for 10 years and the late 80s saw his decline, though he could do it again. Remember his 56 ball century in 1986? Same way he got hooked to SriLankan attack in 1987 World cup and his whirlwind 180+ was a testimony for it.
Will come back.
Regards
Bala, the match you are speaking about was during the tour of 1987-88. In that match he literally toyed with the Indian bowling.
checked the stats in cricinfo just now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murali Srinivas
Viv made 1710 runs in 1976 ( 2 double centuries, 5 centuries, 5 half centuries, 5 20+ scores, 2 single-digit scores in 19 innings ). WOW :clap: - A world record for most runs in a calendar year which he held for 30 years. only Mohammad Yousuf broke it in 2007.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vep6z5L-aAY
Found this when searching for philips sachin ad..
Murali Sir,
:clap:
Oh yeah... I think he repeated the same feat (or was it before this series) in England also (189 and 181 were his scores i think)Quote:
Originally Posted by Murali Srinivas
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uyLYQzyOzpY&feature=related
Dennis lillee to Viv richards
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by wrap07
whata bowling exhibitionQuote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
first ball - a clear intimation of what lillee was trying
second ball - nasty bouncer just over the head- reaction of richards was 8-)
third ball- nasty bouncer over the head- richards trying to hook rather than leaving it over the head without helmet :notworthy:
fourth ball - nasty bouncer again ...it was like lillee want to end richards career
fifth ball - richards defends on the back foot expecting a bouncer
last ball - perfect inswing . ..*bang*
chance illa...
thanks af
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AamQVDdCcBg&feature=related
fastest test century - vivian richards
*A RARE SCENE IN THE TEST MATCH
everyone at boundary.no slips.noone in inner circle.bowthAm bowls with the anticipation of richards hitting a confortable single or getting caught at long !
richards hits the ball for a massive six on leg side :notworthy:
he looks like a boxer in the cricket field :D
Thanks Viv :D
4 bouncers on the trot is fatal. Now its just one per over. Players safety is much bigger than the game :)
Viv :bow: :bow: :bow: The only inspiration for me to chew a gum while playing (periya richards-nu nenappu :P) More on him later 8-)
Here's kapil dev P.Kirsten incident :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAbWWXY0EGw
nerd,Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerd
vivian richards carries a charismatic aura with him which no other cricketer had i think..i mean the heroic attitude,body language and persona.
sachin is adored like a our home kid...but richards had been watched like a hero :D
Wasim Akram said this incident in a talk show. During a test match against West Indies, Viv got out in his ball, for no reason Akram shouted with some foul and rude language. Viv gave a polite look and left the ground. At the end of the day Viv was waiting for him in the boundary line and when he saw Akram he removed his shirt and shouted with an angry face “Come on! Let’s fight!!” Looks like Akram got scared and pummified :rotfl:
ARAVINDA DE SILVA
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Bio-data :
Full name : Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva
Born : October 17, 1965, Colombo
Age : 42 years
Major teams : Sri Lanka, Auckland, Kent, Nondescripts Cricket Club
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm offbreak
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Record:
http://content-search.cricinfo.com/s...yer/48462.html
Dear Sri,
I don't have a great recollect of Aravinda. But of course he was still active till early 2000. Prabhu a great fan of Aravinda will be able to capture more of him.
My favourite shot of Aravinda was his hook cum pull shot. He had a dream run in 1996 World Cup. In fact he was the one who was responsible for our defeat at the World Cup semifinals at kolcutta.
Another knock of his which almost snatched victory from us was in the 1998 cup final at Sharjah. With Sachin and Sourav having put on a record stand of 256 (or 254?) for the opening wicket , India piled up 307. With Aravinda's century, SL almost made up and fell short by just 7 runs, with Aravinda getting run out.
But one thing about him. He was all class when compared with his colleagues who were more of power rather than grace and timing.
Will come back if I can recollect more
Regards
To me Aravinda will be the greatest SriLankan cricketer.Yes Jayasuriya and Murali will have more records to boast of, more matches won by their dominance and command over the craft. Aravinda, was not just a craftsman. He was an artist. To watch him in flow, control the pace of a match, adjust his game to the situation is to understand what batting is all about.
I first saw him only in the '92 World Cup. He had 8 years of cricket under his belt already and was captaining the side for the tournament. In many matches he outshined his team mates. The first match I remember him is the knock is the Hero Cup 2nd semi. A half century for a losing side when everyone else collapsed. The story of his career..till then. Post '96 his class was up for display.
First: my favourite de Silva shot.
The way he would use the pace of the ball is remarkable. He would spot a furious outswinger early, lean back and away (instead of forward and into the line). And then he would wait. And wait he would for a thrilling agonizing amount of time. Even the backlift would seem defensive with no sign of what is to come. Then he would let loose that late cut with such ferocity that one would understand why he was called Mad Max. Point had absolutely no chance seeing the ball, let alone stopping it. A wide third man would madly attempt to race with a perpendicular ball, in vain. And all this in one fluid motion. From his demeanour you won't even be able to gather whether he knew he was aware that he was poetry. His expression would be something like: "okay, what's next" !!!
I remember a match against South Africa (don't recall where) where he collected half a dozen boundaries through his late cut off Donald and company. Jonty Rhodes at point/backward point, mind you. Donald tries to bounce short to get him to nick something to third man. Aravinda would have none of that. Excellent control of bounce, his backfoot movements adjusting to the line to dispatch actually very good balls.Call me old, but we just don't get to see these kind of context in these days of slam-bang cricket.
And there is this charge that he was not comfortable with spinners. People who say that have not watched him play his late cuts of Warne. He was one of the very few who were comfortable playing Warne staying in the crease - everyone else who tasted success with Warne - came down the wicket and thereby changed the length of the delivery. A bit like reverse sweeping :-)
But Aravinda's played Warne on 'fair' terms. This is not to say he did not come down the wicket. He was good at that too. But where he stood out was in bravely late-cutting Warne even when Taylor, Waugh etc packed the place with silly point, slips etc. He had so much confidence in having sighted the ball, picked up the line and spin. If that is not comfort I don't know what is. Dravid is the only other player I have seen whose range of shots of the backfoot come close to Aravinda.
More to come on....
His hook
His innings pacing
When he goes ballistic
The intelligent bowler that he is
PS: Sorry am not sharp with the match details in this post. My recollection of exact matches is pretty sketchy for matches/tournaments without India.
That match was in Colombo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murali Srinivas
de Silva's wicket was the turning point. They needed less than 6 an over with Mahanama and de Silva batting it was SL's match.
Agarkar - in one of the rare matches when he played for India - won the match for us.
:yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Muralin Srinivas
Mr Murali and Prabhu :clap: :ty:
Prabhu, waiting for you to continue :)
Murali Sir/PR,
:clap:
His short-arm pull and the square cut :notworthy:
Also, his on-drives (slightly towards midwicket rather than straight down) were deadly
yen +2 chemistry (or was it physics) paritchai veena ponadhukku main reason De Silva (WC 96 semifinal) :evil: He was the main edhiri of the Yindhiyan team!
:exactly: adhuvaraikkum gaali nu dhaan nenachitrundhenQuote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Agarkar - :lol: Rarest of the rare occassions
Aravindha de Silva
A very compact player.My next favourite batsman after sachin.whats special about sachin,aravinda type batsmen are.. they make the shots look easy.his footwork,shots everything look compact and easy.
The linchpin of the succesful team in 1996 who consolidated whenever jayasurya dint fire.Useful offspinner.
He carries the innings with such confort and good pace like INZI.his cut shot and the leg flick(not squarer...a bit straight)were :clap:
he fields quite well for his physique :D
A class act. He once on-drove an inswinging delivery from aquib-javed to the fence. mei-silirththu-pOnEn :notworthy:
I believe the above emoticon is noteworthy and not notworthy :P
Bilus doo dodal evvalavoo?? :lol2:
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Originally Posted by crajkumar_be
I still remember the 97-98 Test series when India was desperately trying to get him out by placing a deep square leg, a deep mid wicket and bowling short deliveries at him... he used to perfectly pull, hook them into the gaps.... Frustration na apdi our frustration namakku... When India toured to SRL(the series where SRL made a record score of 952) in the second test at SSC he scored centuries in both the innings(ennama pull pannuvaaru) and made things worse for us!!!! Vaazhga De Silva !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by crajkumar_be
ellarukkum intha maadri cricket series la paritchaiya kotta vitta kathai irukkum... for me it was 10th Science, 1998 April.... I need not tell why.... Sandstorm sharjah la naa paritchaikku padikave illa.... Nalla vela pass panniten!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
//Dig.. naansanss :twisted: "oru thadava exam mudinjiruchu na yen mark-a naaaaneeee nyabagam vechikkamaatten" :razz:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
:rotfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by crajkumar_be
Prabhu, I stand corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Bala, thanks.
Regards
Kalyasi, uuu matriculation ?? :P
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Originally Posted by Kalyasi
I am ICSE. Exam-kku appuram dhaan Sandstorm.
So I lost a lovely excuse :-(
Sorry for posting one on Kapil so late -
One of his fiery innings was for the semi-final in WCC down under against Newzees (remember his hitting the seagull and requesting water?).
The Newze total was not huge but the harakiri of our "batsmen" except Dilip made it appear tough and as if India were losing grip in the match. In came Kapil and handled Hadlee in a way only he can and then it appeared like such an easy game:-)
We didn't have opportunity to watch 1983 world cup live (enjoyed running commentary) but the WCC was live with that new TV in the hostel common room! That was one of the most enjoyed Kapil scores!
PR,
I think he is nicknamed mad max for his love for sports cars.
i remember ranatunga saying this in an interview long back, i am not sure though, he cud've been nick named for his agressive batting style too.
i remember couple of one day matches apart from the 1996 WC semis and finals where he was the man of the match in both semis and finals.
one odi against india, aravainda just rushes to the crease, first ball of chetan sharma ( by his walk, we wud be thinking the ball is going to disappear to the stands), he spoons the first ball to midoff and rushes back to the pavilion.
Another match, he went down the track and tried to hit ambrose out of the park, his bat breaks into two. :lol:
No. It was for his battingQuote:
Originally Posted by sriranga
Q:They used to call you 'Mad Max.'
A: It was after the 1986 tour of India that they started calling me Mad Max. I guess it was probably the way I approached the game in the initial stages of my career. I tried to get on top of the bowler right from the start and I believed a lot in myself. I was able to do that at a very young age.
From this interview
Anyone knows what he did in that tour ?
The final is ultimate. No other ODI has been so comprehensively dominated by a single player.Quote:
Originally Posted by sriranga
The semi was his match. I don't think I can put it better than this[/url]
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The match couldn't have begun in more dramatic fashion. Both of India's tormentors were gone in the first four balls, playing mirror-image shots - slashes to third man off Javagal Srinath. But what happened in the next one hour was breathtaking and magical.
Aravinda de Silva batted as if he was in a trance, untouched by the gravity of his team's situation, immune to the roars of a 100,000-strong partisan crowd, and undaunted by the occasion. He was in the zone.
His 50 came off 32 balls and contained 11 fours. Yet there was no trace of violence in it. Not for a moment did it feel manic. Instead, he was a picture of serenity and played the purest of cricket strokes, hitting cleanly and crisply between cover and extra-cover with such precision that fielders were rendered redundant. It inspired Christopher Martin-Jenkins to invoke Nevile Cardus who once said wrote of Reggie Spooner: "He uses the bat as a lady might use her fan."
:lol: I think this was in the Hero CupQuote:
Another match, he went down the track and tried to hit ambrose out of the park, his bat breaks into two. :lol: