The legend retires

[OverratedSanity]

Ajit Agarkar announces retirement.


http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/679933.html

The inspiration for Ishant Sharma's consistently mediocre performances has called it quits from all professional cricket. Will always remember you for Adelaide 2003 good sir

 

[smash84]

best of luck for future endeavors...thanks for the great memories Ajit

 

[marc71178]

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

 

[Furball]

It's a while since someone on the honours board at Lord's retired.

 

[Prince EWS]

It's a while since someone on the honours board at Lord's retired.

No it hasn't; Dilshan retired less than a week ago.

 

[Daemon]

It's a while since someone on the honours board at Lord's retired.

Why does everything need to be about England

 

[fredfertang]

Why does everything need to be about England

'cos we're entitled to lord it over you colonials so pipe down and know your place

 

[Furball]

Why does everything need to be about England

I was actually thinking mainly of India tbf.

 

[Maximas]

I guess Cricinfo is gonna crash again

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Why does everything need to be about England

He's having a sly dig at Tendi.

 

[Days of Grace]

To be fair, without looking closely at the statz, his ODI record is not too shabby.

 

[Jono]

I think this is the real reason the BCCI canned the original SA tour itinerary.

 

[Daemon]

I was actually thinking mainly of India tbf.

He's having a sly dig at Tendi.

Ah, completely forgot about that

 

[harsh.ag]

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

 

[JontyPanesar]

If you actually go back to his first tour of Australia, he didn't look like the worst bowler ever. But pretty soon he was the innocuous dobbler I will always remember him to be. He did have a knack of taking wickets, but only because he took wickets bowling pies. Nevertheless, three cool highlights to his career:

1. The consecutive ducks
2. The century at Lord's (Talk Nah Sachin, Lara, and Ricky)
3. Winning India its second test in Australia ever (with a bunch of pies on a flat pitch)

Ajit wasn't the best. He was close to the worst among international seam bowlers. But he will be remembered

 

[CricAddict]

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

Can we have their economy rates next to that wickets column please? Agarkar was a wicket taking bowler but gave away too many runs in the process.. Still remember the caning that Jayasuriya gave to Agarkar in every Ind-SL match those days..

But still, Agarkar was the one remnant apart from Sachin of the Indian team which I watched with so much passion in childhood and the one which gave us so many heartbreaks till Dhoni and co came in..
So there is sure a small feel of nostalgia..

 

[Howe_zat]

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

Beauty.

 

[Maximas]

In other news Ishant continues playing to the joy of all

 

[uvelocity]

i liked him. would be interesting to calculate the coefficient of drag of his ears though

 

[karan316]

A very underrated ODI cricketer.