by Maxx » Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:43:09
Perhaps he can do what Kambli couldn't - make a flying start and
continue.
Nice article to get the juices flowing for the SA-IND series at the
end of the year:
http://www.cricket365.com/india/story/8611397/-Bring-it-on-Steyn-the-...
Should be a cracker
by RSX » Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:35:24
> Perhaps he can do what Kambli couldn't - make a flying start and
> continue.
> Nice article to get the juices flowing for the SA-IND series at the
> end of the year:
> http://www.cricket365.com/india/story/8611397/-Bring-it-on-Steyn-the-...
> Should be a cracker
by D Ramapriy » Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:45:16
> Perhaps he can do what Kambli couldn't - make a flying start and
> continue.
> http://www.cricket365.com/india/story/8611397/-Bring-it-on-Steyn-the-...
> Should be a cracker
Ramapriya
by vijaykum.. » Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:23:57
> > Is it just me or does he remind anyone else of Kambli? ?Talented,
> > flamboyant, left handed etc.
> > Perhaps he can do what Kambli couldn't - make a flying start and
> > continue.
> Kambli played the last of his 17 Tests at an age when Dhawan hadn't
> even made his debut. If there was someone like a Kirsten or Wright as
> coach when he played, with a good bunch of selectors, he'd have - or
> should have - played at least 50 Tests more. Any which way you dice
> it, it's ghastly that someone with Kambli's record played as little as
> he did. I don't buy any of the stories about his Ryder-like off-field
> life and so-called weakness against short deliveries as the excuse to
> finish him off in Tests.
> > Nice article to get the juices flowing for the SA-IND series at the
> > end of the year:
> >http://SportToday.org/
> > Should be a cracker
> Don't know about RSA but Dhawan sure would feel at home in Oz because
> his wife stays in Melbourne :)
> Ramapriya
Vijay
by D Ramapriy » Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:19:02
> I watched Kambli bat at the ***hede in 94/5 v WI. With Dravid,
> Laxman and even Ganguly (in addition to the already established
> Azhar, Sachin and Manjrekar) in contention for MO spots, there is
> no way he would have lasted another 50 tests. His technique was
> too suspect - and his attitude
He wasn't even 24 when he played the last of his 17 Tests. He got to a
thousand Test runs in 14 innings and his Test career aggregate stands
at 1,084 runs. If you think that that's a long enough rope ere
condemnation and an appropriate age to give up on a guy with that sort
of record, I've little else to add. RSD, VVSL and SCG all began their
Test careers circa the age when Kambli was dropped for good. They had
their little chinks but got better by ironing them out. There's no
saying that Kambli too would have but he wasn't even given a half-
decent chance other than occasionally in ODIs, which anyway is a very
different cuppa.
Ramapriya