Sreesanth is the first name. Shanthakumaran is the family name. Same with Murali. Muralidaran is the first name. Muttah is the family name. Unlike other famil names tamils inherit their father's first name as family name. Ex. Sreesanth's children will be names Sreesanth X, Murali's Muralidaran X.
Aye, I know this, but I think having the first name S (which both Sreesanth and Badrinath do in English terms - given Tamil and Malayi do not translate directly in some cases) is kinda cool, so I like to take the line that they both do.Wrong Dickinson
Sreesanth is infact his first name. Shantakumaran is his father's name.
Tamils and Malyalis have that naming structure so Subramaniam Badrinath's first name is Badrinath.
Giles himself bowled at least 2 better deliveries than that for mine, sadly neither of them are on YouTube as they were both in older, less high-profile series.
Exactly. To have such a wide amount of variation is something never before experienced in a bowler and will naturally have its considerable advantages in unfamiliarity terms.
Love the irony of some of those recent comments by Australians suggesting he would never have even played First Class cricket here, given the state of Australia's spin options at present. If Australia had Giles at his peak right now, he'd be in the Test team; it saddens me to realise they think Casson is going to be awesome.
Comparing him at his peak when every other spin option in Australia (especially Casson) are pretty far from theirs is a bit unfair on them.
That's not the point though. To suggest Giles would never have played First Class cricket in Australia is horribly wrong - so wrong in fact that he was better than every spinner we have available to us currently. Australians are certainly in no position ATM to be going through the ol' "ZOMG English spinners are crap" routine.
Dude, your'e arguing with people on PooTube. Almost no-one on this site has said that. I could go to any number of forums which say that 9/11 was an inside job and Bush was the mastermind but it doesn't make it any less a waste of my time to talk to them.
I just made a post about the irony of the comments there though; I wasn't attacking anyone here.
Mine is R in that case..i took a Credit card recently (Barclay's) and in the payment slip my name comes as R
Giles' entire career (2006/07 post-hip-injury aside) pretty much was one long peak, though. He changed very little between his Test debut in 1998 (and very probably before) and his last fit appearance in 2005/06. Which, considering he only became a spinner aged 17-18, is no mean feat.
Agreed to an extent; think Tim May was a better spinner when he was on song. The dude could turn it on ice.
