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Opening partnership (was Re: WI last loss at home : 1973?)

Opening partnership (was Re: WI last loss at home : 1973?)

Post by David Wheel » Wed, 21 Apr 1993 13:39:42


Quote:

>It's true that there have been few great opening partnerships in the last
>20 years other than the Greenidge/Haynes combination which has to be one
>of the greatest in the history of the game. None of their contemporaries
>have come close.

In Test cricket, I agree with you.  However, another great opening
partnership springs to mind which was arguably even greater, but never
did, and unfortunately (or fortunately!) could not, make it into the Test
arena.  I am referring, of course, to the illustrious Hampshire opening
pairing through much of the 1970s and early 80s of one C. G. Greenidge &
one Barry Richards.  I had, on numerous occasions, the enormous pleasure
and satisfaction of watching these two casually dismantle some of the
best county attacks around.  County bowlers apparently used to have
nightmares about them; understandable, really :-)

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>Rajeev Menon

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Bye,

Sanjay Naik.

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Opening partnership (was Re: WI last loss at home : 1973?)

Post by Bhaskar Nataraj » Thu, 22 Apr 1993 02:18:37

Quote:

>It's true that there have been few great opening partnerships in the last
>20 years other than the Greenidge/Haynes combination which has to be one
>of the greatest in the history of the game. None of their contemporaries
>have come close.

        Gavaskar/Chauhan at least came close. Or is my memory playing tricks
again.... Spaceman ? ;-)

Cheers
Bhaskar

 
 
 
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Opening partnership (was Re: WI last loss at home : 1973?)

Post by R. Padmanabh » Thu, 22 Apr 1993 03:59:00

|>

|>
|> >It's true that there have been few great opening partnerships in the last
|> >20 years other than the Greenidge/Haynes combination which has to be one
|> >of the greatest in the history of the game. None of their contemporaries
|> >have come close.
|>
|>   Gavaskar/Chauhan at least came close. Or is my memory playing tricks
|> again.... Spaceman ? ;-)
|>
|> Cheers
|> Bhaskar

  I would rate Gavaskar/Chauhan combination as # 2 in recent years after
  Greenidge/Haynes.  After all they had 10 century partnerships for the
  first wicket in tests (and 1 century partnership in the middle-order
  that doesn't count here).

 
 
 
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Opening partnership (was Re: WI last loss at home : 1973?)

Post by Kripanidhi Naraya » Thu, 22 Apr 1993 06:50:43

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> >It's true that there have been few great opening partnerships in the last
> >20 years other than the Greenidge/Haynes combination which has to be one
> >of the greatest in the history of the game. None of their contemporaries
> >have come close.

IMO, the Greenidge-Fredricks combination was easily the most explosive &
exciting, but then the pair didn't last for as many tests as Greenidge-
Haynes pair.
-KN
Quote:
> In Test cricket, I agree with you.  However, another great opening
> partnership springs to mind which was arguably even greater, but never
> did, and unfortunately (or fortunately!) could not, make it into the Test
> arena.  I am referring, of course, to the illustrious Hampshire opening
> pairing through much of the 1970s and early 80s of one C. G. Greenidge &
> one Barry Richards.  I had, on numerous occasions, the enormous pleasure
> and satisfaction of watching these two casually dismantle some of the
> best county attacks around.  County bowlers apparently used to have
> nightmares about them; understandable, really :-)

> -----------------------------------------------------------
> David A. Wheeler, Motorola Ltd., Camberley, Surrey, England
> >Rajeev Menon

> >--
> >Rajeev Menon
> >Hewlett Packard Company, 1400 Fountaingrove Pkwy, Santa Rosa CA 95403

> Bye,

> Sanjay Naik.

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>    The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
>      North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
>         Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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Opening partnership (was Re: WI last loss at home : 1973?)

Post by Ganesh Muruges » Thu, 22 Apr 1993 06:51:38

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> |> >It's true that there have been few great opening partnerships in the last
> |> >20 years other than the Greenidge/Haynes combination which has to be one
> |> >of the greatest in the history of the game. None of their contemporaries
> |> >have come close.
> |>
> |>      Gavaskar/Chauhan at least came close. Or is my memory playing tricks
> |> again.... Spaceman ? ;-)
> |>
> |> Cheers
> |> Bhaskar

Other great opening pairs might be

Mohsin- Mudassar for pakistan, atleast they must be close to the gavaskar-
chauhan's tally.

Another one maybe Boon and Marsh (I think against India itself these
fellas must be having 6-7 100 or more partnership in tests)

Also, Gooch and Chris Broad were doing a good combination for England
before Broad left for S.Africa.

M. Ganesh
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Dept. of Computer Science
SUNY at Albany.
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