sb@cvl.UUCP (Babu Srinivasan) (03/04/85)
India WINS !!!! ***************India Beat Australia today.******************** Australia (153 allout) -- At one stage, 17 for 4. Phillips - 60, Hogg - 22. Binny - 3/27, Siva 3/33, Kapil 2/?? , Amarnath 1/17. India (154 / 2) --- At one stage, 123 for no loss. Srikkanth 93 n.o., Shastri - 51 India meets N.Zealand on Tuesday in the semi-final. W.Indies meets Pakistan in the other semi-final on Wed. The Indians won all their group matches. England, Australia & Sri Lanka are eliminated from the tournament. Redirected from iitnet (courtesy Ram Kedlaya, kedlaya@ut-sally)
raghu@ut-sally.UUCP (Raghunath Ramakrishnan) (03/06/85)
india beat new zealand in the semi finals of the benson and hedges tournament! vengsarkar, kapil and shastri played key roles. any more details?
somanathan@elmer.DEC (Chandra) (12/18/85)
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The first test between Australia & India ended in a draw at Adelaide.
Australia 381 & 17 for no loss
India 520 all out
Highlights:
o A great performance by Kapil 8/106. He wiped out the Aussie
tail in 21 deliveries.(4 wkts, 5 runs in 21 balls).
o Sunil Gavaskar completed his 31st century & became the first batsman in test
cricket to score 9,000 runs. He remained not out on 166. Only 2 batsmen
failed to score double digit scores on the Indian side.(Vengsarkar &
Kirmani)
o The last batsman S.Yadav frustrated the aussies by scoring 41, night
watchman. Chetan sharma 54, Srikanth 51 were the other top scorers.
o Gavaskar is looking for one more record-- 100 catches (now on 96).
somanathan/DEC,Mass
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The first test between Australia & India ended in a draw at Adelaide.
Australia 381 & 17 for no loss
India 520 all out
Highlights:
o A great performance by Kapil 8/106. He wiped out the Aussie
tail in 21 deliveries.(4 wkts, 5 runs in 21 balls).
o Sunil Gavaskar completed his 31st century & became the first batsman in test
cricket to score 9,000 runs. He remained not out on 166. Only 2 batsmen
failed to score double digit scores on the Indian side.(Vengsarkar &
Kirmani)
o The last batsman S.Yadav frustrated the aussies by scoring 41, night
watchman. Chetan sharma 54, Srikanth 51 were the other top scorers.
o Gavaskar is looking for one more record-- 100 catches (now on 96).
somanathan/DEC,Mass
-------------------pns@cbdkc1.UUCP (Prabhat Sahay CB 3E288 RAA) (01/08/86)
I wondered if any one out there has any further information about Indian team's performance in Australia. I heard that Gavasker slammed another 172 runs in the third test and India's final score was about 600 for some declared. Prabhat
shah@cornell.UUCP (Amitabh Shah) (01/10/86)
The third test between India and Australia was drawn (like the first two).
The scores were:
India 600 for 4 declared (India's highest against Australia in Aus.)
Gavaskar 172, Srikanth 116 (his first century), Amarnath 137, Kapil Dev 42,
Vengsarkar 37 n.o., Azharuddin 59 n.o.
Australia replied very solidly in the first innings and at the end of the
4th day they were 300+ for 4 but lost their last 5 wickets in 9 runs to be
all out for 392 (Boon 100+, Marsh 98, Border 70+). Yadav took 5/99 and Shashtri
4/101. Following on they lost 6 wickets for 96 by the 4th mandatory over
but managed to draw at 119 for 6. Yadav took 4 and Shashtri 2.
Earlier in the first test Gavaskar scored another century and also crossed
9000 runs in test cricket (the next best Boycott is around 8200). That test
was drawn due to bad weather. Only one inning each was played and Kapil
Dev took 8 Australian wickets in their inning.
In the second test India almost won but for a 170+ by captain Border in the
second inning and lost time due to bad light.
Now India, Australia and New Zealand will play in the Benson and Hedges
One Day tournament.
For Hockey Fans, India won the 4 nation tournament in Sharjah a few days
back. Though they tied with W. Germany for points, they won because of a
better goal difference. Pakistan was third and England was fourth.
amitabh'
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shah@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (ARPA), shah@cornell.csnet (CSNET)swami@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (01/10/86)
> Gavasker slammed another 172 runs in the third test
slammed??? given his style, scrounged might be more appropriate :-)
swami@a.cs.uiuc.edu
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"i am so full of good intentions, i MUST be on the road to hell"sridhar@tekchips.UUCP (S Sridhar) (01/16/86)
> > > Gavasker slammed another 172 runs in the third test > > slammed??? given his style, scrounged might be more appropriate :-) ^^^^^^^^^ His inglorious 36 n.o in the 1975 world cup must be still rankling in your mind, eh? He himself has time and again admitted that was his worst nightmare and something he'd like the world to forget about. (See India Today Dec 31 issue). All said and done he has "slammed" enough centuries to warrant another (slammed) one.
reddy@ctnews.UUCP (T.S.Reddy) (03/18/86)
While we are on the subject of intimidatory bowling and Marshall and
Company's attempts to bounce the English team out of the game,
I came across the following related article in the Mar 8th issue of
The Economist. By the by, the contents page title of this article
was "Head before wicket".
Nasty, brutish and short
For millions of Englishmen, the issue has been what to do about
fast, short pitched bowling. England's cricket team, presently battling
in Trinidad, have been ducking-or, in the case of Mr. Mike Gatting, who
has been invalided home with a broken nose, failing to duck-the West
Indies' attack. So violent was the bowling in the recent test match in
Jamaica that some English newspapers called for the team's return.
Whingeling whiteys? Possibly; at least in Fleet Street. The
cricketers themselves have not complained (they won a one day
international this week). Moreover, fast short-pitched bowling,
rearing towards a batsman's chest or face, has long been a weapon in
any succesful team's armoury. It has been controversial before, most
notoriously in the 1932-33 series betwen England and Australia, when
"bodyline" (in Australia) or "leg-theory" (in England) bowling threat-
ened to strain the ties between Oz and the mother country. What is new
is that any team facing the West Indies now gets no respite. Once the
90-mph thunderbolts from Mr Malcom Marshall and new-discovery Mr. Pat-
rick Patterson have been seen off, the 80-mph torpedoes of Mr Joel Gar-
ner and Mr Michael Holding replace them.
That is to be done? In many international series, the laws of
cricket are supplemented by regulations that stipulate a mazximum
number of fast short pitched deliveries per so many balls. But the West
Indies do not agree to such additions-they play just by the laws.
These state that such bowling is unfair if any umpire thinks it's
intimidatory. It may be prohibited if it is intended or likely to
inflict physical harm on the batsman.
All is then up to the umpire-and West Indian umpires appear to
take a relaxed view. This could be solved by an international panel
neutral umpires applying the rules consistently. Cricket is now the
only internationally played team game in which neutral officials are
not regarded as essential. It has become such a money-spinner that it
should not be difficult to pay for the change.baparao@uscvax.UUCP (Bapa Rao) (03/21/86)
In article <130@ctnews.UUCP> reddy@ctnews.UUCP (T.S.Reddy) writes: > >While we are on the subject of intimidatory bowling and Marshall and >Company's attempts to bounce the English team out of the game, >I came across the following related article in the Mar 8th issue of >The Economist. By the by, the contents page title of this article >was "Head before wicket". > >Nasty, brutish and short > > [etc.] Hmmm. So the chickens have come home to Blighty to roost, have they? As Reddy points out, intimidatory bowling as a matter of policy was pioneered in the 1932-33 Australia tour (and the preceding tour of India) by Douglas Jardine, then captain of the MCC. I used to follow cricket in the '60s and '70s (not any more, thankfully) and recall that the Indian batsmen's inability to deal with the bouncers dealt out by Messrs. Peter Lever and John Snow of the MCC used to be a source of great amusement to British sportswriters and BBC commentators, who spoke of the Indians frequently colliding with the square leg umpire in their attempt to escape the fussilade. And now the big bad brutish (and yes, black) West Indians are unfairly bouncing their lads around, and it is just not cricket, is it old chap? Baloney. The fact is that the West Indian pacemen, from as far back as I can remember (which is from Wes Hall and Charles Griffith through to the sonorously named Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts), have been, simply outstanding at their craft, and just awesome athletes. Same goes for their brilliant batsmen like I.V.A. Richards. And the British media have always had a problem acknowledging their greatness at the quintessential British game. With them it was always "these flaky, calypso-singing sun-soaked (and I guess, sun-tanned) islanders" (or some such). The English and the Aussies have bad days; the Windies are basically temperamental and inconsistent. Phooey. As far as the British media are concerned, the Windies are either childlike and unreliable in temperament or brutish savages. I dare anyone to tell me they are not racially motivated. Bouncers are an occupational hazard in test level cricket, and any batsman worth his salt has no problem with taking them on. As long as unskilled tail-enders are not threatened, there should be no reason to panic. The only reason to consider "neutral" umpires should be to address concerns about unfair out decisions and the like. --Bapa Rao
guest@paisley.UUCP (03/25/86)
All this garbage about intimidatory bowling is just a feeble excuse for England's poor showing wherever they are playing. Also, in the recent test, the West Indies bowled less bouncers than England, yet still managed to thrash them. England just couldn't make theirs count. Who cares about cricket, anyway?