Can you identify who
this bowler is – his figures after 4 matches read : Against Delhi
4-0-18-1; against MI – 4-0-017-1; against Kolkatta 4-0-26-1 Against Rajasthan 3-1-17-1; ...........................
At Sharjah, today the
16th and 17th matches are on .... this IPL has thrown out some new stars –
Glenn Maxwell; Lynn; and more..... and there is some little fellows striking it
rich too.
Ajit Agarkar, Bob
Holland and Mohammad Asif share the ignominy of 5 consecutive zeroes in Test
Cricket. New Zealand fast bowler Chris
Martin holds the maximum pairs ... Five
players have been dismissed for four pairs of ducks in Tests. Four are bowlers
with no great pretensions towards batsmanship – Bhagwat Chandrasekhar of India,
Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka and West Indians Mervyn Dillon and Courtney
Walsh – but the fifth is top order batsman Marvan Atapattu of Sri Lanka
"Gambhir, please
open your account," read a banner as the Kolkata Knight Riders captain
walked in to bat after three ducks in a row. He was nearly dismissed first ball
again as a leading edge was almost taken by the bowler Sandeep Sharma, who
dived to his right and got a hand on the ball but couldn't hold on. Gambhir
made 1 and somebody commented on FB – stating at this rate, Gauti can score max
of 9 – 3 ducks opening and 1 coming at 1 drop .....
Ricky Ponting, the
former Australian captain, has joined Mumbai Indians on an ‘advisory role’. Ricky
Ponting was part of the victorious Mumbai Indians side last season and had led
the team in the first few outings before handing over the reins to current
captain Rohit Sharma ~ it is another matter that high value coaches and those
in the box do not add much value .... as today too MI huffed to 125 against
DD.
Before we answer the
Q at the start, Pravin Tambe had figures of 4-0-20-4 – when Banglore was
restricted to paltry 70 by Rajasthan. One
can recall taht in May 2013, he debuted against DD..... Pravin Vijay was a
surprise element ~ had not played any form of top-level domestic cricket~
and was 41 years and 212 days old at debut.
Now in Sept 2011 - against Mumbai Indians, T&T batted
poorly scoring a paltry 98 but fought back brilliantly and perhaps the spread
out field enabled a result in favour of MI.
The match went down the wire, two needed of a final delivery when T&T
captain Daren Ganga chose to keep a
fairly spread out field. It was the
nervy Yuzvendra Chahal, the 21 year old who bowls leg spin with no great
exposure at the stumps -there was high
drama as the low full toss was hit to mid wicket and batsmen tumbled like a
hare – the throw of Adrian Barath was off the mark, Denesh Ramdin fumbled – if
he had hit the target with a underarm lob, then it would have been a super over
- more excitement for the spectator. It is the same Y Chahal who is having a dream
run, this time bowling for Bangalore.
When the game returns to India after
20 matches in UAE – there could be different heroes clambering back to success.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
Photo credit :
iplt20.com
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