honestbharani
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Yep.. that Warne and Steve Waugh are bad blokes...It might have been the company he was keeping at that time
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what do you think of gambhir as a batsman?
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flibbertyjibber
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I know he was concussed but lots of people thought that was a front as he was having a wretched tour, soon became obvious it wasn't.
Having said that, no sympathy for how he got it making a complete balls up of a simple catch.
When you look at it, he bumped his head and then didn't open the batting. people thought he was being soft. It is announced that he had concussion then he bats ok in first innings and as he is an opener some expected him to open in the 2nd as he was ok as no sane doctor would have allowed a concussed man to bat in the first place. Watching him groping around in the 2nd innings it was clear they guy was ill and shouldn't have been on the field. The Indian doctor wants slaughtering for allowing him out there and many on here jumped to the wrong conclusion after seeing him come out to bat in the first place.
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honestbharani
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dude... so you think it is ok for anyone who has ever dropped a catch to be concussed?
flibbertyjibber
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Well if he hadn't ****ed up a simple chance he wouldn't have bumped his head in the first place as he would have stood up and caught it easily.dude... so you think it is ok for anyone who has ever dropped a catch to be concussed?
honestbharani
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I am not arguing that point.. I am just seeing it seems real harsh that you will say you have no sympathy for a guy who got concussed, just because he got it while dropping a catch.. There are far more stupid things that people do that leads them to get concussed but I don't think I will ever lose sympathy for them however daft the action causing the concussion was....
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They may well be, but I was referring to youYep.. that Warne and Steve Waugh are bad blokes...
honestbharani
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try telling that to Warney... He is quite simply the best guy to talk to among the cricketers I have met.They may well be, but I was referring to you
He even told me how to bowl the flipper..
Burgey
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.
BoyBrumby
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Whatever then.
To me I was watching a bloke who'd previously cried off tests in the last year or so against SA & Oz in series that (hey) I'd followed (it's ever so good, Sky) do the same thing again.
I dunno, maybe it's because I'm an unreconstructed neanderthal and all, but I like to see chaps who want it badly despite being hurt and have to be talked out of playing on for the good of their health rather than those who have to be coaxed to the crease or nets to see if they might possibly be able to continue.
NasserFan207
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Lol
Umar_Akmal
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Averages is gone below 50 now. Huge slide from 58 at one point. Not good enough player to average 50+ in tests. If he can stay fit, Gambhir would average in early 40s.
NasserFan207
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Why do I get the feeling you are a troll? Every post you make is basically a dig at India. Go back to Pakpassion kid.
Also I don't like Gambhir either, mostly because I always forget how to spell his name and where to put the 'h'. It drives me nuts
flibbertyjibber
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If it drops that far he'll be dropped from the team anyway.
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But you're just speculating on both his physical condition in the lead-up to those tests, and on Gambhir's personal attitude to whether he should be playing or not. We don't know how fit he was in any of those situations- we can't even make a semi-educated guess. We don't even know whether he actually wanted to play or not. Players don't select themselves. Has there been an interview or some crucial piece of info that's gone over my head? Where did the assumption that Gambhir wasn't up for playing come from?
BoyBrumby
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Despite what Joe said earlier both Bumble and Manjrekar said they'd seen him having a full net on the morning of the second test.
Now they could both have axes to grind, but it doesn't sound too likely. Looks like a pattern to me.
& I'm unashamedly biased against anyone who gives a sly elbow to someone who'd tear him limb from limb in a square go. Him being gun-shy would fit perfectly with him being a cheap shot merchant.
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Perhaps, but it's still stretching it to conclude that it was Gambhir's decision not to play the test. Not that I'm saying that's not the case. But who knows?
Maybe being soft would be consistent with his acting like a total **** in that particular incident but it would be quite severely out of keeping with his career as a cricketer.
Maybe being soft would be consistent with his acting like a total **** in that particular incident but it would be quite severely out of keeping with his career as a cricketer.
Also I don't like Gambhir either said:What!!!!
coming to the thread, Gambhir is a serious suspect outside off stamp, though most batsmen are, but he a bit more because of his tendency of playing far away from his body (sometimes it is quite difficult to assume exactly what shot he was playing), and definitely against the short pitched stuff...but i think, he has the ability to perform outside sub continent, but may be, not in a consistent basis...but in the sub continent, he is as good as any, very good against spinners as well...in fact, after Gavaskar, he and Sehwag are the two best openers to have come from india, can't see his averages going down to 40 though...(averages do fluctuate when one doesn't have enough weight of runs to back it up, they tend to get stable, as the career progresses, i see it somewhere in the high 40's five years from now, definitely)
Cevno
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Have people critcising him in this even thread followed his career or is the the same problem many seem to be suffering from recently of thinking the world did not existing before this one series?
Criticising him for his strong points if anything.