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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 02:38:27 PM


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Title: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 02:38:27 PM
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Batsman Past and Presentwho do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling

Afridi,
Saeed Anwar,
Chanderpaul

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Please add to the list

These batsmen may be Ordinary to good against other attacks, but against INDIA they will MOSTLY do VERY WELL


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 03:43:38 PM
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bump. No interest?, sorry if boring topic, let me know.


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: CLR James on January 14, 2006, 03:49:13 PM
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Everton Weeks. Five consecutive hundreds against India.


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 03:51:17 PM
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Quote from: CLR James on January 14, 2006, 03:49:13 PM
Everton Weeks. Five consecutive hundreds against India.



Whoa! Never seen him bat...which era is he in? 19...


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: CLR James on January 14, 2006, 03:54:24 PM
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Quote from: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 03:51:17 PM
Quote from: CLR James on January 14, 2006, 03:49:13 PM
Everton Weeks. Five consecutive hundreds against India.



Whoa! Never seen him bat...which era is he in? 19...




1950s Fineleg. He was one of the three W's of West Indies along with Worrell and Walcott.


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 03:57:08 PM
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Quote from: CLR James on January 14, 2006, 03:54:24 PM
Quote from: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 03:51:17 PM
Quote from: CLR James on January 14, 2006, 03:49:13 PM
Everton Weeks. Five consecutive hundreds against India.



Whoa! Never seen him bat...which era is he in? 19...




1950s Fineleg. He was one of the three W's of West Indies along with Worrell and Walcott.



3 W's - heard a lot abt the 3W's - havent seen them. 5 centuries! Man, Ind must have hated him!


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: openforum on January 14, 2006, 03:59:29 PM
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forgot younis khan? latest edition to the list... 90% of the list wil be pakistanis i guess


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 04:01:59 PM
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Quote from: openforum on January 14, 2006, 03:59:29 PM
forgot younis khan? latest edition to the list... 90% of the list wil be pakistanis i guess



LOL sure, YK is on the list.
Yep, many Pakis have tortured our bowling.

England - GRAHAM GOOCH


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: tombaan on January 14, 2006, 04:02:32 PM
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also out of form batsman world over....their first or comeback is always against indians...from gatting to zaheer abbas


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: fineleg on January 14, 2006, 04:05:12 PM
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Quote from: tombaan on January 14, 2006, 04:02:32 PM
also out of form batsman world over....their first or comeback is always against indians...from gatting to zaheer abbas





Hayden...who else...close to  being dropped, and Ind will give them a reprieve!!!


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: CLR James on January 14, 2006, 04:12:10 PM
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The rule is simple. If you want to resurrect an out of form batsman, bring him to India (provided a decent player of spin bowling). If you want to psychologically damage and finish a spin bowler, play him against India.


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: kingcool1432 on January 14, 2006, 06:21:35 PM
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i nominate jayasurya and andy flowe under "especially great "


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: Losing now on January 14, 2006, 06:38:36 PM
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Zaheer Abbas, muddasar nazar


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Title: Re: Batsman who do great ONLY or especially great Against INDIAN bowling
Post by: ravip_ag on January 14, 2006, 06:44:58 PM
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From last two decades, my eleven would be

1.Jaysurya
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Ponting
4. Desilva
5. Gary Kirsten
6. Chandrapaul
7. Chris Cairns
8. Younis Khan
9. Shahid Afridi
10. Andy Flower
11.Jimmy Adams






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[dextrous]

Ponting?

[senthilpeter]

Ponting doesn't belong there.
Also think Anwar and Cairns scored against many others too.