Sport Today

I lost your post on your amusing analogy of Coke vending machine & cricketers.
Coming from a cricketer it really surprised me.

First of all cricketers are human beings & not a pre-programmed run vending
machine who churns out runs whenever he is put on the cricket field. Cricketers
dont come with installed micro-processor with a pre-defined average & every
time he goes out to bat he scores those runs (45 in Azhar's case, just imagine
how cricket would be if that was actually the case)

A batsman can score anything between 0 to 400 & thats the beauty of the game,
if you really wanted an analogy you could have chosen a Russian Roulette. A
Bradman average although was 100+ he was never guaranteed to score those runs
every time he went to bat. So every great innings must be taken with joy rather
than "Big deal, he always gets those runs in those conditions"

Unlike other sport (like football, basketball, soccer, bowling, golf , <add any
other favorite sport>) batsman never get a second opportunity, a mistake means
he no longer take part in that game. Meanwhile a Jordan average of 31 means
even in his bad day he can score 26-30 points. You should have seen these big
differences before making your analysis

I really cant believe that I have to explain things like how there are billion
factors that'll come to play in each innings and most of which not in the
batsman control.

Although I find it perfectly acceptable to blame Azhar not being cautious in
his stroke selection, your coke can defense was really illogical

Cheers,
Roshan [who never equate cricketers to a coke vending machine]

For God's sake, Roshan, it's only an analogy. Haven't you ever heard of
Tendulkar being called "dynamite" or a particular wicket being called a
"featherbed" or something of the sort...

My favorite analogy about Azhar was made by Kim Barnett, Azhar's captain
at Derbyshire. During one of Azhar's better seasons with Derby, he said,
"bowling to Azza is like bowling to a revolving door!".

-Samarth [ come to think of it, of late, Azhar's been as expressive on the
cricket field as a vending machine ].

Thats the point, an analogy should be made with something comparable. As I said
a vending machine has a success rate of 99% of delivering what it intends, but
can a batsman be expected to match his average 99% of the times?

Cheers,
Roshan

Does Tendulkar blow up stadiums when he steps into them? Then, why call
him "dynamite"? Would you want to sleep on a cricket pitch for the rest of
your life? Then, why call it a "featherbed"?

-Samarth.