17-18 average in recent cricket days is a gr8 acheivment by Bond. Hes the best bowler of todays odi cricket.. and he delivered his best since his debut. and what could i say about ponting .. only this that hes now on the peak of his betting.. and he will get a bad patch or bad time as like gilchrist and hayden faced.. Ponting is a gr8 player. but hes rate of convert 50's to 100 is amazing..hes playing xtra ordinary from last 2 years.. and time will shine him down and stop as like hes playing now these days.. :D
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Hi, kashikooler979, From your question it seems that u r a great lover of cricket..\n\nAbout Shane Bond, Yes he is the fastest and accurate bowler in the world of cricket at the moment. His greatest strength is to pitch the ball in the right spot and that to with the high speed and that too with complete accuracy. He hav control on all these qualities at same time. Brett Lee or Shoaib Akhtar are also quicks but they can achieve this right spot+accurate+high speed combination once in say 4-5 matches but not all the time. This makes bond superior. To be a CHAMP of game, the most important thing is to be consistant, Bond is a consistant performer. The only problem for him is the fitness. this is only threat to his career.... due to which he misses more than 2 years of cricket. otherwise his record would seems more impressive....\n\nAnd regarding Ricky Ponting, yes he is at his best in his career. Today again a century... And about your observation of converting 50's to 100's . I also notice that after reading your question and then going through records. He is also a champ.. I like his one quality most, that is he raises his standard of game to very high on a very important match.. Like finals and the situation when australia demands a big innings fron him. He leeds from the front on a very important match. This quality is missing in my favourite sachin tendulkar. He has a very bad record of finals he played.. But ponting's style is different.....
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Well he is strong physically and he considers Cricket another form of Baseball and he may be a little bit lacking in technique but the sheer power he has allows him to score runs at the rate he does.It is yet to early to compare him with one of the greatest players in the history of Cricket-Sachin Tendulkar and it is also too early to say whether he will break any of Sachin's records.If he keeps going at this rate he definately will break some records.
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Yes they are playing to little tests, but the reason for that is that the BCCI (Board for Control for Cricket in India) know that one day games generate a lot more money.  So to boost their income, they will rather play more ODI's.
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Age is catching up on him and he refuses to accept it. My view is that like Saurav, he has his eyes on the World Cup. Both want to end their career after that. Just look at the talent that we have right now, and to think of it, a year back the whole game would revolve around Sachin. Agreed that he's one of the greatest of his time, but nothing in this world lasts forever.
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Yes, Ganguly is batting on 118.  He came in a 5-2 and played a decent unbeaten knock. But, what I did not like was the fuss he created about security concerns after twin ULFA related blasts in the city, postpoining the start of play by 45 minutes.\n\nBut then I know how the media manipulates news. If the game was put off by 45 minutes, all it takes is a douchebag-of-an-Indian-scribe to call the delay due to Ganguly.\n\nGrow up you bunch of Indian-arssehole-journos.
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Dude, it's difficult to summarize in this segment. Here's a very brief take:\nAustralia scored 434 in a one-day match against South Africa and.... they lost. Amazing game. You can check scorecard by clicking the link http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/AUS_IN_RSA/SCORECARDS/AUS_RSA_ODI5_12MAR2006.html\n\nI am sure there are some TV channels in USA that show cricket matches. The ODIs are pay-per-views, but you can watch the highlights.
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His control is getting worse for the last three years.  His WHIP has been increasing too.  He is still good, but no as good as before.  He is still capable to witn 15+ games, but not too many Ks should be expected.\n\nSafe bet, yes.  But it's hard for him to keep this sharp for the rest of the season.
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I dont know why people start making comparisons and projections.Its very early to predict about his future as captaincy skills.Let him take time and gain confidence.
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Performance should be teh key to selection..\nIF it was implemented 2 years before ganguly would have played some 40 ODI's lesser than his current number and sachin would have played some 330 ODIs in his whole carrer..\njust to naarow this discussion based on the 2 in the question
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THAT IS QUITE NORMAL.\nEVERY TEAM IS STRONGEST IN ITS DEN.\n\nIN THAT TIME THEY HAD AWESOME BOWLERS LIKE HOLDING, MARSHALL, AMBROSE,WALSH.\nAND WINDIES POSSESED FEARSOME BATSMEN LIKE RICHARDS, LLOYD,HAYNES,GREENIDGE,HOOPER AND RICHARDSON.\n\nWE WERE NOT SO STRONG AS WINDIES.\n\nNOW THE SCENARIO IS DIFFERANT.\n\nEVENTHOUGH, ITS HARD TASK FOR US TO BEAT WINDIES IN WINDIES.
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Well...I can remember what Ian Chappel said in an interview...If someone point a gun on my head and ask to chose lara or sachin then i will definitely go on say it is lara but for me i will not risk until someone point a gun on my head. To score a record breaking score once and then do that again after 10 years is something very special and no batsman had done this so far and doing that in years to come seems bleak in the meantime the way he equaled the record is by hitting a SIX followed by a FOUR which is something Sachin will never chose to do in a special moment like this. No doubt sachin is a great batsman but he does choke in crucial parts of the innings where he open the batting with no pressure on but in the case of Lara he has scored all these runs coming in the middle order which is significant ability to carry the pressure and that special character makes him best and better batman in the world. Even Sachin will agree that Lara is one step ahead of him however there is another man who has not scored big runs yet but for sure he'll end up with most centuries and leading run scorer when he done with test arena...Ricy Ponting with 31 centuries in 105 matches comparing to the 34 (129 Matches) of Lara & 35 (132 matches) of Sachin\n\nI am sorry to dissapoint you coz i think u expected everyone to say Sachin...
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sachin.....simply coz had he been in DON's era, he surely would have got 35 odd centuries. One can't claim that DON would have got runs at avg. of 99 had he been playing currently.\nAlso sachin has vast experience behind him. DON i guess played just 29 odd matches
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Well I agree with them. There are reaching their ends. Especially McGrath and Warne. Warne is the Champion Leg-spinner. I think age doesn´t affect him that much because he is a Spinner and doesn´t need to run or bowl at quicker pace like a Fast-bowler. But that´s not the case with McGrath. All the the batsmen, young in particular, have shown that he is´t a bigger threat anymore. He just bowls at a good lenght. One can play that even by moving his feet. There isn´t a superior pace anymore, either. The one who thinks that he shouldn´t be giving him his wicket, will be making a mistake, like India did. Just attack. If you can attack, every bowler in the world would come under certain pressure. So, I think McGrath, in particular, has passed his prime and should be retired from International-Cricket.\n\nRawal.
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What a hard question to answer.\nJacques has such a  long way to go, being so young ans has shown his ability.\nSachin is a machine.\n Lara, the ledgend has shown he can get the high scores.\n Ricky, is an allrounder who is calculating but heartfelt.\nHis decision to call in so as not to break Bradmans record also showed he has respect.\n I would say Ponting.
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No offense meant to all others who have answered this question, but your friend is a lot smarter than what you think - or even what many answering colleages of ours think.\n\nYOUR FRIEND IS RIGHT.\n\nThere's a small bit of info here:\n\nThere is a player called Chandrakanth Tendulkar, who played 5 Ranji trophy matches for Goa in the mid-80s. He scored 90 runs at an average of 9.\nhttp://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/35452.html\n\nNo idea if he is in any relation to Sachin.\n\nThe point is - there is a Tendulkar who has a first class average below 10. And your friend intends you to trick you here. Of course you can bring out Sachin's average of 59.72 and the bet could go nowhere. But it all depends on the exact words you chose for your claim.\n\nForget the money, point this fact out to your friend and have a drink together by pooling the money.\n\nAnd it isn't a nice idea to bet anyway.
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Ability wise I didn't see much difference. The difference really was temperament. Why else would have Vishy's career peter down? His bro-in-law, Sunny however excelled till the end. A 96 on a crumbling wicket in his last innings. And a glorious 188 against the MCC XI in his last first class match. (A second innings duck too BTW).\n\nVishy started off well...till everything for him stated going haywire.
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Stumps at Day 3\nAustralia 181/1\nLead of over 620 runs \nDon't know why they didn't enforce the follow-on despite having a lead of over 400 runs.\nLanger and Ponting were at the crease.\nHayden was run-out for 37, I guess.\n\nEngland were all out for a mediocre 157 thanks to a six-for from the old war horse Glenn McGrath, his figures reading 6/50. Three wickets for Stuart Clark and 1 for Lee. \nNo addition to Warne's tally of 685 wickets, at least for now.