The legend retires

[OverratedSanity]

In other news Ishant continues playing to the joy of all

Announces retirement after 120 tests and 200 wickets @50. Dravid : "He knew in his heart it was time "

 

[Top_Cat]

Agarkar played 191 ODIs. Here is a list of bowlers and the number of wickets they had taken by their 191st ODI:

Brett Lee 334
Waqar 307
Warne 288
Agarkar 288
McGrath 286
Muralidharan 282

poty

 

[Top_Cat]

Announces retirement after 120 tests and 200 wickets @50. Dravid : "He knew in his heart it was time "

Yes!

 

[karan316]

Agarkar was actually a really useful ODI cricketer, he had scored runs at crucial times and picked wickets regularly. And its unfair that people are comparing him to an out of from Ishant and labelling him as a bad bowler. Did really well in ODIs and got wickets because he produced a lot of unplayable deliveries. Couldn't make the most of the opportunities in tests. But a century at Lord's and his contribution in the Adelaide win was something notable.

 

[fredfertang]

A sad sad day. True legend of the game and the first player to have his own appreciation society on here.

When I first joined there was a huge fuss made about Agarkar but I never worked out why - 5 years on 'twould be good to be enlightened!

 

[karan316]

Can we have their economy rates next to that wickets column please?

Less than Lasith Malinga and Umar Gul.

 

[Maximas]

Mind you Agarkar bowled in a different era of ODI cricket - one that was not influenced by t20 cricket

 

[karan316]

Mind you Agarkar bowled in a different era of ODI cricket - one that was not influenced by t20 cricket

True, but the problem is that Agarkar is highly underrated as an ODI cricketer and there is too much unwanted criticism directed towards him. He got wickets regularly because he bowled that amount of wicket taking deliveries and not because the batsmen kept attacking him. Accuracy was never his forte, which meant he didn't keep the economy rate down, but effective variations allowed him to pick wickets. And his batting was quite useful to the team.

 

[Neil Pickup]

When I first joined there was a huge fuss made about Agarkar but I never worked out why - 5 years on 'twould be good to be enlightened!

It dates right back to 2002, the very nascent days of CricketWeb, when things were very different. The forum was an eye-burning lime green, everyone (and not just me) was allowed oversized avatars (and indeed signature images), and nobody had yet invented Twenty20 cricket or coined the phrase "DLF Maximum". You may not believe it, but things were so different then that the emergence of any Indian capable of bowling more than 130kph was met by at least half-a-dozen threads from new users proclaiming said "pacer" (which is a word that I still insist should only be used for a particularly decrepit type of railbus) to be the second coming of Kapil Dev.

Agarkar's still unexplained ability to take wickets rapidly in ODI cricket was combined with a momentous (if completely immaterial) century at HQ to make him, in the eyes of this particularly rabid breed of supporters, untouchable. Yes, even with Sanjay Bangar in the side, Ajit was the target of all of their affections. Yet for everything that has changed in 11 years at CricketWeb, one thing has not: Marc's indefatigable ability to reply to trolls with one-line questions that simultaneously appear to take them seriously, but in reality are little more than sarcastic barbs, and that summer one man made it his mission to strike down Agarkarphilia wherever it reared its gigantic ears, and the AAAS began in a festival of irony. Yet, in what can probably best be described as an online Stockholm Syndrome, roles were reversed, and the demon became the deity.

Perhaps it helped that Ajit's highlights became more and more sporadic, and the fetishistic trolls turned their temporary attentions to other passengers on the Wheel of Mediocrity, but for one reason or another, AA's place in the folklore of CricketWeb had been secured: and with Marc unlikely to ever stop posting, his place in the Hall of Fame - sharing a changing room bench with the other great icon of his era, Rikki Clarke - is assured. This is the full, and unabridged history of the creation of the AAAS, and would-be researchers are discouraged from digging back any more deeply into the annals of CW history; what you see may very well disturb you. Especially my opinions about the England batting order.

Ajit, you will be missed.

 

[Top_Cat]

CW.net - giving new fanatical members the AAAS since 2002.

 

[fredfertang]

It dates right back to 2002, the very nascent days of CricketWeb, when things were very different. The forum was an eye-burning lime green, everyone (and not just me) was allowed oversized avatars (and indeed signature images), and nobody had yet invented Twenty20 cricket or coined the phrase "DLF Maximum". You may not believe it, but things were so different then that the emergence of any Indian capable of bowling more than 130kph was met by at least half-a-dozen threads from new users proclaiming said "pacer" (which is a word that I still insist should only be used for a particularly decrepit type of railbus) to be the second coming of Kapil Dev.

Agarkar's still unexplained ability to take wickets rapidly in ODI cricket was combined with a momentous (if completely immaterial) century at HQ to make him, in the eyes of this particularly rabid breed of supporters, untouchable. Yes, even with Sanjay Bangar in the side, Ajit was the target of all of their affections. Yet for everything that has changed in 11 years at CricketWeb, one thing has not: Marc's indefatigable ability to reply to trolls with one-line questions that simultaneously appear to take them seriously, but in reality are little more than sarcastic barbs, and that summer one man made it his mission to strike down Agarkarphilia wherever it reared its gigantic ears, and the AAAS began in a festival of irony. Yet, in what can probably best be described as an online Stockholm Syndrome, roles were reversed, and the demon became the deity.

Perhaps it helped that Ajit's highlights became more and more sporadic, and the fetishistic trolls turned their temporary attentions to other passengers on the Wheel of Mediocrity, but for one reason or another, AA's place in the folklore of CricketWeb had been secured: and with Marc unlikely to ever stop posting, his place in the Hall of Fame - sharing a changing room bench with the other great icon of his era, Rikki Clarke - is assured. This is the full, and unabridged history of the creation of the AAAS, and would-be researchers are discouraged from digging back any more deeply into the annals of CW history; what you see may very well disturb you. Especially my opinions about the England batting order.

Ajit, you will be missed.

.... and fertang asked the question and lo the venerable Pickup illuminated the darkness for him

..... and a belated like for the even more venerable Marc's post, to record his great deeds of the past

What was Richard's view

 

[benchmark00]

Nick Knight > Adam Gilchrist iirc.

 

[smash84]

with 80,000 posts, that man Richard again

 

[GuyFromLancs]

... would-be researchers are discouraged from digging back any more deeply into the annals of CW history; what you see may very well disturb you. Especially my opinions about the England batting order..

Robert Croft as a specialist batsman?

Jesus H!