No I did not watch Amarnath. Didn't he have a long string of ducks against WI at home though?you must be too young if you didnt think of mohinder amarnath when it came to facing pace bowling full on. his hooks off holding-garner-roberts-marshall are legendary. kapil was excellent against fast bowling too.
Interesting. There is no concept of the "burnt ball" here in Pakistan. However when the tennis ball loses its hair it does become very bouncy we call it the "bald ball".tape ball is an interesting phenomena. It's very hard to bat against it, because it keeps low. Alternatively in SL we burn the outercrust of the tennis ball, so it travels very quick. It's not quick as the tape ball but the "burnt ball" leaves some useful bounce. Since most SL street batsmen are short, they like when the ball bounces, so they can cut and pull. Burn't ball really comes to the picture when you bowl wrist spin. It bounces devilishly if you bowl good side spun leg breaks. When I was on top of my game the keeper used to take the ball chest high when I was bowling. To complicate problems, the sliders with the burnt ball really slides. With this "burnt ball" we had a bloke in my school who used to be very quick. Even a nick off him would travel 40-50m on the out field with the burnt tennis ball. And when one side of the burnt ball is made smooth with a sand paper, ball swings as well. This bloke bowled Waqar-esque banana inswingers at our toes in the College days.
the street doesn't have to be busy. In fact the best streets to play are those that have few people and houses. Looks like you haven't had the joys of playing lots of street cricket.I refuse to believe him for the sole reason that I can't imagine a busy Asian street accommodating the long run up he'd need to accomplish that feat.
I don't think they troubled him on flat wickets.Have bowlers who purely rely on pace and not swing like Lee, Akhtar and others troubled Sehwag in the past? Something I have not paid attention to in the game. Can someone give me an answer?
No I did not watch Amarnath. Didn't he have a long string of ducks against WI at home though?
Amarnath has a brilliant record against WI too
.Semi-myth tbh, He played them in 5 series, 3 at home, 2 away.
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He had two good series, one of which(home) he played only 2 games and scored 142 runs with two not-outs resulting in his average being 142.00 in that series. The other good series, he averaged 66 away, which saw some of the best knocks against fast-bowling ever.
He also had one decent series away where he averaged 40.
Based on his previous performances, the Indian team depended and counted on him performing well in the future, In the last 2 series he played against them(Home) he scored 44 runs in 6 games averaging under 5.
Overall, he averaged 38 against them, which I think is a fair gauge of his performances.
Yes. There weren't too many who would average in the 40s against the Windies in the 80s. A high 30s against them was quite decent.an average of 38 against the windies in 80s was awesome. border averaged about 39 as well.
Of course some do, but it's funny how talk gets around about how fast a guy is and immediately numbers like 130kph+ are thrown around. A lot of the time, it's just not true.All this overestimating talk....I reckon we underestimate a lot of it. First class cricketers aren't ****ing machines ffs. I'm not saying your average opening bowler in country cricket bowls 130km/h but just because they're not at a higher level doesn't mean that some don't.
Those saying 100km/h deadset bowl right arm slow.