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Positive Media essential tonic For Cricket. In modern days of media evolution a positive media plays a significant role for nursing, guiding and injecting fresh life to world cricket. Cricket for different reasons is played more on media these days with more and more technology introducing into the kitchen sink of cricket privacy. Current players, retried super stars, leading cricket writers, match reporters, online bloggers all get into their acts as Cricket struggles its journey to become global commodity. Only a few decades into history when cricket used to be played only in whites with less bookies and pokies poisoning the serenity and somberness cricket used to be poetic. No match fixing, no drug abuse, no cheer leaders. Cricket had all its glamour and grace. But after Packer commercialisation, so called globalization cricket has lost more than gain. It is true that media had positive role on some occasions, yet in some instances too many controversial write-ups at times have hurt the game. Some shallow visioned ex cricketers of some countries often unnecessarily came down heavily on minnows rather than suggesting ways and means to improve the game. A good player may not be necessarily be the best analyst of the game, may not be a good administrator. Media often forgets that. Advent of T 20 and more specifically the controversial IPL have rocked the traditional cricket foundation. Cricket has become Disco Dewayne
for Hollywood, Bollywood show pieces. Cricketers are bought and sold like stocks. IPL-ICL deliberately created by business opportunist to hurt of game of all countries except the particular cash cow of world cricket. Some sections of media unimaginatively tried to over play T-20 aggression, some players started down-playing the continued role of traditional versions of cricket. Too much cricket in too short a time took heavy toll on leading cricketers. Crowd attractions for longer versions got diminished. Still traditional rivals played some absorbing cricket series. Test cricket is the ultimate test of cricketer’s skill, technique and temperament. If T-20 is Michael Jackson Rap music then Test Cricket is Tagore Songs. Media must stand by traditional form of cricket whose appeal will last forever. The flavor of fancy cricket will evaporate soon but the romantic appeals of traditional cricket played in all whites will last forever. Let there be more Robin Marler, Let there be more Jack Fingleton, more Nevil Cardus. Cricket tomorrow is pledged bound to stand by positive cricket tomorrow and beyond.
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Tri-nation tournament in Bangladesh 2009-10
Tiddlers Among Big fish Saleque Sufi
Bangladesh will soon witness the battle of three co hosts of 2011 World Cup in their backyards in an ODI series. For Bangladesh it can be acid test to judge their true potential against high quality oppositions – world leaders after its credible home and away performance against minnow Zimbabwe and weakened West Indies. Indians must be basking in glory after their ascendency to number one spot of ICC test ranking crashing strong Srilanka in tests. And we know Srilanka on their day still be devastating.We only hope Bangladesh does not become tiddlers among the big fish. Bangladesh team strength will bolster with the inclusion of 4 ICL players Shahriar Nafees, Aftab, Alok Kapali and Dhiman Ghosh in their Ranks. But injury to Tamim, Mashrafee and even Shakib and Mushfiqur remain a concern. While we welcome the decision of bringing back talented ICL players back in main stream we can always question the wisdom of Bangladeshi Selectors and BCB to stick to cooling period for them while none others did that, Bangladesh even after all their heroics is still rank underdog against major opposition. Why there players were not given taste of international cricket against easier opposition against Zimbabwe at home. We believe some personal ego of some irresponsible cricket officials took precedence over national interest. Let’s try to make an honest assessment of what Bangladesh can expect from Tri-Nation ODI series. Let us not forget both India and Sri Lanka have in their ranks some of the best cricketers in contemporary cricket and many would say some of the best ever. To start with no one should dream that Bangladesh will win any laurels. But since the name of the game is cricket we can always keep hoping against hope. We have beaten both of them more than once in ODI, we have knocked out India from the last World Cup. There is no guarantee that this may not happen again if we can play to our full potential without getting overawed by the opposition. 6 Cricket Tomorrow January 2010
Great Shewag, Gambhir, Yuvaraj, Dhoni , Raina and Rohit are also mere mortal. These players in between them can smash any attack any day. But good incisive bowling and tight fielding can also tie them down and make them commit mistakes. Does Bangladesh have clever users of new ball? Has the team seen how Shewag massacared strong Srilankan attack in the recent past? Bangladesh must do extensive home work how to get these guys early, how to play to their patience? Once they are allowed to play themselves in any one of them can bat out Bangladesh from the match. Shewag does not like to be tied down. He will obviously play attacking stroke every second or third ball and some of these will always fly past deep point or Short square legs. He plays on the up. If Mashrafee is not there, can other seamers counter this? We still feel whatever depth Indian batting may have if Shewag, Gambhir can be picked early (and since Tendulkar is not playing) Indian batting will struggle. Bangladesh has real quality spinners. Razzak, Shakib and now Kapali added can cause some problems to Indian
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batsmen even though they are now the best players of spin. If it is possible to restrict Indian innings with 250 Bangladesh can always dream to upset them as Indian bowling in ODI does not look world class now. Zaheer, Sharma. Praveen Kumar can not be penetrative on Banglaesh wicket. But Bangladesh has to play Hrabhajan and Ojha well. If Tamim can not play for his injury Ashrfaul may be asked to bat with Shahriar Nafees to open the innings. Ashrfaul have played some useful knocks in that role for Mohammedans recently. Aftab will be well suited at number three. Rakibul is technically the soundest batsman at this moment who should bat at 4. Shakib and Alok Kapali should be useful for 5 and 6. We are not aware about the nature of injury of Mushfiqur. If he can not make it obvious choice is Dhiman Ghosh. If Mashrafee is fit and Ok he will bat at number 7 with Razzak and two pacers at 10 and jack. I would like to see tow pacers and three spinners with Alok and Asraful backing up all the time. Naeem and Riad may toss out whom to play as both are more than useful batsmen as well. Dollar Mahmud, Russel, Robin Rajib will, vie for one spot with Mashrafee spearheading if not two will play.
do nothing but to stand and admire. Sri Lankans will be equally difficult opposition for Bangladesh. But in recent times Bangladesh played them well and won against them. So Bangladesh must take their chances. Muralidharan is injured and may not feature in ODI series. Mendis may not cause a big problem for tigers; neither do the Rooki Lankan pacers. We are not aware whether Dilhara Fernanado of Lasith Malinga will be playing. But this must not worry Bangladesh. Bangladeshi fans must not dream much. They must realise they are up against two very high quality ODI teams perhaps two of the best in the business. We hope that Bangladesh will play well, fight to the best of their abilities and if some opportunity come garb with both hands.
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Selectors must have a look at two rookies from Biman picked up in the initial squad. But Bangladesh must be very careful in choosing pacers. Shewag and Company as well as Dilshan- Jayasuriya and company can make a feast of them. Can anyway write off Sri Lankans any day anywhere in ODI? Dilshan is in silky form. Old horse Jayasuria still sings songs of destruction, Sangakkara, both Jayawardenas (Mahela & Prasanna), Samaraweera are all capable of taking any attack apart. If not dazed by Shewag’s blinders, Sri Lankans could match Indians other ways. When some one like Shewag strike almost tri hundred in a day in Bradmanian style against quality bowling opponents can January 2010 Cricket Tomorrow 7
Some of the key players who could be decisive in course of the tournament
Players to watch out
Shakib Al-Hasan Shakib, 22, was appointed Bangladesh captain after Mashrafe Mortaza picked up an injury in the Caribbean this summer and lead the side to their first Test series win over West Indies and a 3-0 sweep in the one-dayers. Apart from performing well as a captain, Shakib was Bangladesh’s most successful allrounder on that tour. He was the leading wicket-taker in the Tests, with 13 at 18.76 and scored 159 runs, and scored a century in the ODIs.
overall vs India vs Sri Lanka
Span
Match
Runs
HS
Bat Avg
100
Wkts
BBI
Bowl Avg.
5
Ct
St
2006-2009 2007-2007 2006-2009
75 3 7
2047 108 189
134* 53 92*
35.91 36.00 37.80
4 0 0
83 2 4
3/8 2/43 2/22
30.36 63.50 52.75
0 0 0
16 1 2
0 0 0
Mohammad Ashraful Ashraful, 25, is one of the most powerful batsmen of Bangladesh with a batting average of 23.78 in ODIs
overall vs India vs Sri Lanka
Span
Match
Runs
HS
Bat Avg
100
Wkts
BBI
Bowl Avg.
5
Ct
St
2001-2009 2003-2008 2002-2009
152 11 20
3140 214 447
109 36 66
23.78 21.40 23.52
3 0 0
15 1 2
3/26 1/19 1/2
31.86 19.00 20.50
0 0 0
31 1 8
0 0 0
Abdur Razzak Razzak, the left-arm spinner, was named Man of the Series for his 15 wickets in recent home series against Zimbabwe. Span
Match
Runs
HS
Bat Avg
100
Wkts
BBI
Bowl Avg.
5
Ct
St
overall
2004-2009
89
487
33
14.32
0
133
5/29
25.78
2
23
0
vs India vs Sri Lanka
2004-2008 2004-2008
6 9
38 94
21 28
38.00 13.42
0 0
6 12
3/38 3/47
46.50 37.83
0 0
4 0
0 0
Tillakaratne Dilshan Over the last year, Tillakaratne Dilshan has become a massive player. Since a clever Sri Lankan coach decided he should open the batting, he’s played consistently audacious innings, made mountains of runs and won Sri Lanka matches. Span
Match
Runs
HS
Bat Avg
100
Wkts
BBI
Bowl Avg.
5
Ct
St
overall
1999-2009
167
3801
160
32.48
4
47
4/29
44.53
0
72
1
vs Bangladesh vs India
2002-2008 2000-2009
15 40
245 1074
50 160
24.50 34.64
0 1
9 11
3/17 4/29
14.22 48.27
0 0
9 15
0 0
Kumar Sangakkara Kumar Sangakkara is the most influential and talented cricketer in Sri Lankan cricket. In the year 2009 he has been in superb form and his role is really crucial for Sri Lankan success. His average is pretty handy at 36.04 Span
Match
Runs
HS
Bat Avg
100
Wkts
BBI
Bowl Avg.
5
Ct
St
overall
2000-2009
258
7750
138*
36.04
10
-
-
-
-
245
64
vs Bangladesh vs India
2002-2009 2000-2009
20 47
703 1459
121 138*
41.35 34.73
3 3
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-
-
31 37
3 4
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Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka Tri-nation Fixtures Mon Jan 4
1st Match - Bangladesh v Sri Lanka
15:30 local | 08:30 GMT 16:30 WST | 19:00 CST | 19:30 EST
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Tue Jan 5
2nd Match - India v Sri Lanka Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
15:30 local | 08:30 GMT 16:30 WST | 19:00 CST | 19:30 EST
Thu Jan 7
3rd Match - Bangladesh v India Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
15:30 local | 08:30 GMT 16:30 WST | 19:00 CST | 19:30 EST
Fri Jan 8
4th Match - Bangladesh v Sri Lanka Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
15:30 local | 08:30 GMT 16:30 WST | 19:00 CST | 19:30 EST
Sun Jan 10
5th Match - India v Sri Lanka Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
15:30 local | 08:30 GMT 16:30 WST | 19:00 CST | 19:30 EST
Mon Jan 11
6th Match - Bangladesh v India Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
15:30 local | 08:30 GMT 16:30 WST | 19:00 CST | 19:30 EST
Wed Jan 13
Final - TBC v TBC Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
15:30 local | 08:30 GMT 16:30 WST | 19:00 CST | 19:30 EST
Virender Sehwag This Indian opener has the capacity to damage the opponent bowling by himself. Sehwag has an amazing average of 34.32 in ODIs batting with 12 centuries. Span
Match
Runs
HS
Bat Avg
100
Wkts
BBI
Bowl Avg.
5
Ct
St
overall
1999-2009
212
6876
146
34.55
12
87
3/25
40.67
0
80
0
vs Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
2003-2008 2001-2009
9 38
304 1225
70 146
33.77 36.02
0 2
5 16
2/17 3/37
32.40 49.37
0 0
5 13
0 0
M. S. Dhoni Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian captain, was selected ICC One-Day Player of the Year 2008 and 2009.
overall vs Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
Span
Match
Runs
HS
Bat Avg
100
Wkts
BBI
Bowl Avg.
5
Ct
St
2004-2009 2004-2008 2005-2009
152 8 35
5026 146 1370
183* 91* 183*
50.26 36.50 62.27
5 0 1
1 -
1/14 -
14.00 -
0 -
149 9 36
51 6 9
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Best quotes on Sachin Tendulkar by Legends Rafiqul Sharif
There are some serious fans of Sachin Tendulkar expressing their view on the great batsman of India. Some of them are quoted below: “It’s scary, where the hell do we bowl to him” -Allan Border. “You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon” - Steve Waugh. “There is no shame being beaten by such a great player. We didn’t lose to Team India. We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar” -Steve Waugh. “I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara” - Glenn McGrath. “If I’ve to bowl to Sachin, I’ll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard” - Dennis Lillee. “I’d like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he’d do okay” -Greg Chappell. “Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time” - Wasim Akram. “Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there’s one person I’ve admired over a 15-year of period, it’s definitely Sachin.” - Brain Lara “Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I’m a mere mortal” Brian Lara
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“I’ll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don’t think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player” -Shane Warne. “You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer” - Shane Warne. “Destined to be a great” - Barry Richards. “Sachin is cricket’s God” - Barry Richards. “He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.” - Richie Benaud “He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in his own way. He has a technique which is the hallmark of a great player. Everything indicates that he will be a great player and I am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me of Barry Richards”. - Eddie Barlow “I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke
“He is 99.5 percent perfect. I’d pay to see him” - Viv Richards. “It’s scary, where the hell do we bowl to him” -Allan Border.
“There is no shame being beaten by such a great player. We didn’t lose to Team India. We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar” -Steve Waugh.
“He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.”
production... it all seemed to gel” -Sir Donald Bradman. “You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it’s a toothpick? “-Brett Lee “You have to decide for yourself whether you’re bowling well or not. He’s going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway?” -Micheal Kasprowicz
“The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it is too much pressure on him” -Mark Waugh.
“In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say ‘Can you bowl me another one?’” Adam Hollioke
“Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord Is watching” - Placard at the SCG as Sachin was making his century, January 2008 There are some fans out there!!!!
Tendulkar - At a glance
“Don’t bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours” - Michael Kasprowicz.
Full name
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born
April 24, 1973, Mumbai
“Technically, you can’t fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow ? Nothing is a problem?” -Geoffrey Boycott.
Current age
36 years
Major teams
India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire
“His life seems to be stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as a God... ?” Mathew Hayden, on Sachin Tendulkar.
Nickname
Tendlya, Little Master
Batting style
Right-hand bat
Bowling style
Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly
Best Performances
119 not out v England, Old Trafford, 1990 114 v Australia, Perth, 1991-92 169 v South Africa, Cape Town, 1996-97
“I have seen GOD , he bats at no.4 for india in Test.” Mathew Hayden “He’s a phenomenon. We have to be switched on when he plays allow him no boundries, for then he doesn’t stop” - Mark Taylor This one is not by any legend, but some fans:
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Shakib brought Joy for Bangladesh Saleque Sufi
A gentle sober unassuming youngster of Magura making Bangladesh looks brighter and bigger with glories, one after another. Best ODI all-rounder in ODI of ICC rating, inclusion in ICCs best test team 2009 and now to top them all best cricketer of 2009 judged by world famous widen cricket monthly. World cricket world sports arena now knows Bangladesh for Shakib and his roaring Royal Bengal Tigers. A section of Bangladesh print and electronic media confused the award of Wisden Cricket Monthly with that of Wisden Cricket Almanac which every year selects 5 best of the best cricketers. But winning the best cricketer award of Wisden Cricket monthly is no less achievement. Bangladesh for negative reasons makes the world news headlines. These negetive news made our image so distorted over the years that the glorious achievements of our brilliant innovative farmers, hard working general masses almost remain unnoticed. Now with Shakib and his mates rocking cricket world a new interest seem to have rekindled among world community to re-explore Bangladesh potential in all areas. Shakib and his fellow tigers for their recent achievements deserve unqualified praise from Bangladeshis all over the world. Our Cricketer friend Yazdani witnessed Tigers ODI series against Australia last year in Darwin. That series did not have much to talk about Bangladesh. But Nevertheless Yazdani had useful discussions with Jamie Siddons nursing Bangladesh cricket. Yazdani told me Jamie felt Bangladeshi Youngsters have raw skills. If these could be nurtured well and if the youngsters could be given to know their potential they will only move from one level to other. Unfortunately Bangladesh lost most of its first team players to ICL and subsequent BCCI- ICC mess made 14 top Bangladesh cricketers unavailable for national side. 12 Cricket Tomorrow January 2010
But Bangladesh with depleted team bounced back, played admirably well against Srilanka, New Zealand, South Africa. Two players who led the way were from neighbouring places Narail and Magura. Mashrafee the “Narail Express “and Shakib the “Magura Master”. Unfortunately flamboyant Mashrafee suffered too many injuries making Shakib take much more responsibility. Over the last three months or so how brilliantly he responded with bat, ball and even as leader of an underdog side struggling to find their feet in world arena. If any neutral judge makes impartial assessment Shakib was definitely the player of the year 2009. We know Mitchel Johnson is a high quality bowler and has potential to grow as genuine all rounder but his performance was not as steady as Shakib. Playing for Australia he had better opportunity to dominate opponents. But Shakib always had to float against the tide. Australian batting gave Mitchell enough liberty to attack opponents but Shakib always had to fight with thin batting resources, struggle in team crisis. In all accounts judging Mitchell Johnson above Shakib by ICC was definitely not proper. If we are rude we may say ICC showed its racial narrowness in not naming Shakib the best Cricketer of 2009. But The Wisden Cricket Monthly did the justice. Its cricket journalists in opinion pool adjudged Shakib the best. A look at the galaxy of superstars who featured in the panel will speak on his behalf. 1. Shakib Al Hasan (BAN) 2. Gautam Gambhir (IND) 3. Graeme Smith (RSA) 4. Sachin Tendulkar (IND) 5. Jacques Kallis (RSA) 6. Ben Hilfenhaus (AUS) 7. Andrew Flintoff (ENG) 8 Dale Steyn (RSA) 9. Fidel Edwards (WIS) 10. Andrew Strauss (ENG) In the eight Tests Shakib played in that period, he took
not be burnt out with unnecessary responsibilities. He is very calm, cool, composed. We are sure success will not make him complacent. Maturity will make him more polished, more accomplished. We hope our media will be more responsible in dealing with cricket and will not loose some tricks in euphoria. Confusing the award of Wisden Cricket Monthly with Wisden almanac best Cricketer of the year is definitely not smart. I am sure if Shakib performs next year in England he will be in serious contention for it as Wisden authority always focuses radar on top performers of visiting team. Playing in England is always considered ultimate test of Cricketer’s skills and temperament. Bangladesh will also play in Lords, the Mecca of Cricket.
Man of the Match Grameen Phone Test Series Sri Lanka in Bangladesh 45 wickets at 23 with his left-arm spin, including five five-wicket hauls, and scored 498 runs at an average of 35.57. India’s Gautam Gambhir was ranked second with South African captain Graeme Smith claiming third place, just ahead of Tendulkar and Kallis, who tied for fourth place. John Stern, editor of the magazine, added: “I’m sure this achievement will be a surprise to many followers of the game but it represents an outstanding 12 months for Shakib, especially in the context of him playing for an international side that is still finding its feet.” Shakib, 22, has been described as the best player to come out of his country since it achieved Test status in 2000. In the past another world class performer tiny Ashraful rocked cricket world being the youngest test century scorer against wiles and guiles of Muttiah Muralidharan and willy Vaas in Srilanka. Ash played several other brilliant innings. His innings against Australia and England in successive ODI matches, his batting against India and South Africa in World Cup 2007 was as good as any master blaster. But his full potential still remains unfulfilled. He could not achieve the consistency the player of his class deserves. Possibly he was given leadership of the team too early burdening him with additional responsibilities of leading an underperforming underdog. As well wisher of Shakib we hope he will
Another wicket, joy for Shakib, joy for Mashrafi, joy for Bangladesh Bangladesh team has just started flowering fruits. So many youngsters are just blossoming from bud. ICL players are again available. Players like Shahriar Nafees, Habibul Bashar, Aftab, Alok, Nazimuddin and Dhiman Ghosh will create steep competitions for players willing to represent Bangladesh. Bangladesh has rookies Rubel Hussein, Dollar Mahmud to share load off Mashrafee. We have very high quality spinning option. We have Nucleus of good batting talents like Tamim, Rakibul, Ashrfaul, Shakib and Mushfique. Even Mahamudullah Riyad and Naeem are also good all-rounders. The next 6- 9 months will see Bangladesh play major cricket force at home and abroad. We are sure Bangladesh will grow from strength to strength. The recognition of Shakib will act as beacon for way ahead. Congrats Shakib, you have made all Bangladeshis proud. We freedom fighters fought risking our lives to see golden sons of soil like you Shakib. Our martyred co fighter’s soul will rest in peace to feel your achievement.
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World Cup Round Up Jadic
A busy cricket year will round off with Iconic Boxing day tests at MCG and Durban. Pakistan plays Australia at MCG and South Africa hosts England at Durban. A busy year of cricket saw many memorable incidents and few forgettable ones. It is a year when world cricket could see several cricketers get killed by a terrorists attack while on a way to Lahore Stadium to play a test. Pakistan became a forbidden country for international cricket after that deplorable incident. It had lost its host status of ICC Champions trophy earlier. This incident made Pakistan loose cohost status of World cup 2011 with other hosts Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka sharing the matches those were to be held in Pakistan. India also regretted to play in Pakistan after a massive carnage in Mumbai. Pakistan also refused to send team to Dhaka Bangladesh after BDR Carnage at Pilkhana Dhaka. Two major international events took place this year. Australia successfully defended its Champions trophy title played in South Africa edging out its Tasman Cousins New Zealand in the Finals. Shane Watson after few ducks scored two scorching back
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to back centuries to take Australia across the rope. Pakistan and Australia in the group match played a fascinating match. Australia went so close to get knocked out in the preliminaries. Secondly Pakistan won T20 World Cup when boom boom Afridi appeared as a monster all rounder. Pakistan beat Sri Lanka in the finals in a tourna-
Captains of World cup 2007
ment where minnows Netherlands turned the table on England. This year saw England with a depleted team won back the prestigious Ashes from arch rival Aussies. Ricky Ponting became the first Australian Captain to loose two Ashes as visiting captain. Australia can only blame their luck as in the context of individual performances Australia were well ahead against its opponents but its bowlers failed to deliver at the right moment. Australia lost 1-2. English tail Enders – the last pair held their fort for several minutes to salvage its team in the first test at Cardiff. If Australia could win that test the momentum could be with them. Andrew Strauss passed his test admirably being made to lead the team after captain Kevin Peterson (KP) fell with Coach Peter Mores. Strauss batted brilliantly to lead his team from the front. KP could not make major contribution being injured. Another top English player all rounder Andrew Flintoff was bothered with injuries and after the end of the series announced his retirement from test cricket at relatively early age. But before that with a brilliant spell of devastating swing bowling at pace he carried England to first test win of England against Australia in 70+ years. Injury also caused serious handicap for Australia with their main strike bowler Brett Lee sitting out the series. He had personal domestic problem as well which made him break his marriage with his wife. Other strike bowler Mitchell Johnson had miserable Ashes being erratic most of the time. Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle were major Aussie bowlers. But Australian bowling lacked penetration. After retirement of Great Shane Warne and Glen McGrath, Australia is struggling to take 20 wickets of opponents in tests. 2009 for the first time saw top 4 teams close their ranks in test rankings. South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and Australia constantly changed their rankings. There appears very little to choose among them. However, one thing for sure Australian years of
dominance has come to an end. South Africa played wonderfully well on tour to Australia but lost to the same team at home. Mitchell Johnson with ball and Hughes with bat appeared as outstanding player in the series in South Africa. In 2009 people started expressing concern about test and ODI after tremendous popularity of T20 version of cricket. Security concerns in India made organisers shift second IPL from India to South Africa which achieved tremendous crowd response for its glamour and grace. However astonishing nail bitting contests between India and Australia in the 7 matches ODI played between India and Australia reinjected new life to ODI. Australia won the nail bitting series. India continued to make its progress in test cricket destroying Sri Lanka in three match test series at home. A battery of 7 men world class test batsmen – Shewag, Gambhir, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laksman, Yuvaraj and Dhoni saw them win two back to back tests against Sri Lanka by huge margin. Blaster Shewag batted in Bradmanian style in the series butchering very strong Sri Lankan attack with venom and verve. He almost broke a record of scoring three triple hundred in test cricket failing by 7 runs in his 293 runs innings. He went so close of equalling Bradman feat of scoring a triple century on a single day. He possibly could do it had he not been cramped towards the end of the days play. Sachin achieved significant milestones reaching 30,000 international runs – way ahead of his nearer ones . Indian God is well on his way to achieve 100 of Hundreds in international cricket. He has now 43 test and 45 ODI centuries. The way he is still batting after 20 glorious years of international cricket sky seems to be his only limit. Rahul Dravid the wall of India ahs returned to his own self. He is closing gap with Ponting as the second highest test run scorer. Gautam Gambhir, M.S Dhoni, VVS Laksman, Yuvaraj Singh all looks in superb form. It may be said this batting line up is not only the all time best for India but also one of the all time best in test cricket equalling in feats with Bradmans invincible and January 2010 Cricket Tomorrow 15
International Cricket Council Membership around the world great West Indies team led by Clive Lloyds in 1970s. India climbed to the top of ICC test ranking for the first time in its history. Its bowling which has several good bowlers Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehera, Ishant Sharma, Hrabhajan Singh, and Ojha definitely needs one or two genuinely fast bowlers balling at or near like 150Kmh. One wonders if neighbour Pakistan can regularly produce exceptionally good fast bowlers why India can not do that. South Africa does not play much international cricket for reasons best known to them. They look promising in all international tournaments but always choke at the right moment. They have so many outstanding players in their ranks. Smith, Kallis, Develliers, Duminy, Boucher, Morkels are world class performers. But bowling often does not deliver. Dayle Steyn has become injury prone. Ntini is a moody off and on bowler. They have just found a good fast bowler de Wet. Paul Harris is a good spinner. But lack of match winning bowlers will make it very difficult for South Africa to remain on top. In 2009 fast bowler Makhaya Ntini become the first black African to play in 100 Tests - a significant social as well as sporting event in post-apartheid South Africa. New Zealand and Pakistan had mixed fortune in 2009. New Zealand saw Captain Vittorie took multi mode responsibilities. Captain, Coach, premier bowler, selector and motivator. He played some outstanding tests some great rescue acts with both bat and ball. The series against Pakistan saw fast bowler Shane Bond make brilliant return leading his team to win the first tests at Dunedin. But injury forced him to announce retirement from test cricket. The greatest problem of the Kiwis is quality top order batsmen. Only Taylor looks world class. They need three to four technically sound good top order batsmen to support Taylor, Vittorie and McCollum to regularly produce match winning scores for their good bowl16  Cricket Tomorrow January 2010
ing attack to exploit. Pakistan as usual remains a highly unpredictable team. Explosive one day very ordinary next day. But the team has possibly the best bowling attack in all conditions now. 17 years old left Arm Fast Bowler Mohammed Aamer looks to a bowler to dominate world cricket in the decade ahead. He looks the same as great Wasim Akram. Moving the ball at pace in both directions makes him very awkward for any batsmen to confront in early overs. If he is not burnt out he will grow from strength to strength with experience. Mohammed Aasif his new ball partner is also an outstanding bowler. Deceptive swing and accuracy makes him a match winner. He is dubbed as Glen McGrath of Pakistan. Australian will soon find a combination of modern day Wasim Akram and Glen McGrath in tandem preying on the green and gold in kangaroo land. Then they have Umar Gul tall penetrative medium fast bowler having lethal toe crashing Yorkers. Asif and Gul are good exponents of reverse swing as well. Danish Kaneria is the best wrist spinner in test cricket now. When he hunts in Melbourne and Sydney Australia will feel the absence of one to replace their own magician Shane Warne. Good Off spinner Saeed Aajmal with his doosra may also cause trouble. Pakistan’s thin batting resources and poor fielding may fail them. Openers Salman Butt and Imran Farhat may play well if they can get over initial spells restricting their stroke play. But the best batsman Mohammed Yusuf must carry additional burden of holding together the innings. Young Umer Akmal will have spotlight focussed on him. He appeared superbly talented in his first series scoring century on debut. He has good technique and skills. He also showed good temperament against New Zealand. Kamran Akmal, Misbahul Huq and Shoaib Malik will have to lift their game. Pakistan cricket seems to be coming around despite domestic turmoil making them forbidden country for international cricket. Pakistan should have won the series against New Zealand.
West Indies had mixed fortunes. They started well winning test series against England. But a terrible mess over payment disputes of the players triggered a players boycott. A depleted West Indies team devoid of all main stream players caused humiliating white Wash against minnows Bangladesh. However, this might have served some long term well as well. Some outstanding players could emerge as well. Tony Roach, Gavin Tonge, Adrian Barath and Travis Dowlin appeared on the scene. All players returned in the just concluded test series against Australia. After Karbala in Brisbane test West Indies played outstanding cricket at Adelaide and Perth. They lost the series 2-0. But with a little bit of luck could win it 2-1, Australins were knocked down on the floor at Adelaide. West Indies just failed to deliver knock out punch. At Perth they came very close to win after bundling Aussies out for their lowest score 150 in any home test for some time. Australia had 208 runs advantage in the first innings. Gayle scored two extra ordinary centuries at Adelaide and Perth. The one at Perth which saw killing blasting with all guns blazing will torment Aussie bowlers for a long time. A bright Youngster Adrian Barath has emerged. He with Pakistan’s Umer Akmal will be the batsmen to dominate world Cricket in the next decade Travis Dowlin also looks good. Mr Benn is a quality spinner. Tony Roach is an outstanding fast bowler. With Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards expected to recover from injury soon West Indies Cricket seems to be rising again. Srilankans got pounding against India. But that could be the fate of any team in those circumstances. It was almost impossible for any bowling attack to contain rampaging Shewag. His avalanche was awesome yet in the first test Sri Lanka scored 770 runs. Sangarakara, Dilshan, Mahela batted well. Great Murali failed to impress. But he is far from finished although this was his last appearance in test cricket in India as he will retire from test cricket soon. Indians are best players of spin and the wickets in all three tests were batting paradise to say the least. Erath and Mendis looked good in patches. But when playing against a team which has 7 world class batsmen some all time best world has ever seen and all peaking at the same time what can bowlers do. Sri Lankans were handicapped with injuries to front line pacers. Sri Lankans bounced back in ODIs. It is in a very interesting stage. One blinder of a match is expected today at Eden Gardens Kolkata. Bangladesh emerged from the shadow of major teams. In recent times they won away series against weakened West Indies and Zimbabwe Also rolled over Zimbabwe at home. Team Capatian Saquibul Hasan is rated as the best ODI all rounder. He also won Wisden Cricket Monthly best cricketer of the year award 2009.Opener Tamim Iqbal, Dashing Ashrfaul , solid Roquibul , stylish Mushfiqur Rahman together with Saquib are their main batsmen. Bangladesh has two world class left arm spinners in Abdur Razzak and Saquibul Hasan, Riad and Naeem are also good off spinning all rounders. In absence of original
Captain Mashrafee the pace attack suffered a little. But Robin, Russel, Dollar will mature soon and with Mashrafee set to make a come back soon Bangladesh may trouble some teams in near future. Return of talened ICL returnee players of quality like Shahriar Nafees, Aftab Ahmed, and Alok Kapali will strengthen the team. Bangladesh learned to win back to back matches in 2009. Technology makes further intrusion in cricket in 2009. Referring system of umpiring decisions has met with mixed success. As traditionalist I have reservations. The umpires are definitely not finding it easy to accept their decisions reversed. We feel that only main umpires should have the authority to refer to third umpires. Captains are also in a dilemma how to make best use of two appeals. Sometimes TV replays are non conclusive. Players may feel deprived. Ego of umpires gets rubbed. We do not think the referral system will do any good to cricket. Several players met serious injuries for too much cricket. If ICC is not careful more players like Andrew Flintoff and Shane Bond may opt out from Test Cricket. Increasing popularity of T20 and huge prospects of earning good money playing much less cricket may take away talented cricketers from main stream cricket if unnecessarily long 5 or 7 matches ODI series are not shortened. Look at Australian team. How many main team players are injured? ICC and individual boards must reduce no of matches that each country has to play every season. Year 2009 was a good year for World Cricket. Year 2010 will see build up for World Cup 2011. India looks in great form. Australia will have to rebuild. West Indies and Pakistan may soon start to dominate. South Africans should play more international cricket. Sri Lankans have to grow in life beyond Murali age. ICC has to sort out problems of playing cricket in Pakistan. Such a brilliant team will continue to suffer if International cricket does not return in Pakistan. India – Pakistan must resume playing bi-lateral series again. C T
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Country Profile WestIndies CT Correspondent
One Day International cricket. A number of cricketers considered among the best in the world have hailed from the West Indies; Gary Sobers, Lance Gibbs, Gordon Greenidge, George Headley, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts and Everton Weekes have all been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame, while world-record holders Brian Lara and Sir Viv Richards were both West Indies Test players. As of 19 June 2009, the West Indian team has played 457 Test matches, winning 33.26%, losing 32.38% and drawing 34.13% of its games.[4] The West Indies have won the ICC Cricket World Cup twice (1975 and 1979), the ICC Champions Trophy once in 2004 and have been runners up in the U19 Cricket world cup in 2004 and have been semi finalist in the ICC T/20 World Cup in 2009.
History Of WI Cricket Playing Cricket for Fun, What West Indies is to cricket is what Brazil to Soccer? West Indies play Calypso Cricket which Brazilian play Samba Soccer. The cricket and soccer fans can never accept that Brazil in Soccer and West Indies in Cricket die a natural death. Lot of beauties, glamour, grace and excitement in both the game will evaporate if that ever happens. So many great Cricketers over the years from different Caribbean islands have rocked the world. It is for cricket only several Islands are staying together despite being independent nations. A resurging West Indian team just started redeeming themselves in Kangaroo land after years of indifferent performance and recent dismal show following players revolt. Some leading players and some irresponsible media tried to write them off. But can you do that to a team which has glorious past, which in not too distant past were undisputed world leaders by significant margins from the rest. In 1970s and 1980s West Indies cricket toyed with the rest. Marshall, Garner, Holding, Roberts, Croft pulverized all oppositions. Greenidge, Haynes, Lawrence Rowe, Alvin Kallicharan, Collis King, V. A Richards, Clive Lloyd were dismissive. Then came Lara, Richardson, Gus Loggie, Ambrose and Walsh. But a sudden lack of interest, administrative mess caused a dip. But they have just started putting their acts together. Youngsters like Roach, Barath, Plloards, and Benn are emerging. Golden days are dawning yet again. For those who ride in the past let us refresh our memory a little bit. The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies or The West Indies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of a dozen English-speaking Caribbean countries and British dependencies that form the British West Indies. From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s the West Indies team was one of the strongest in the world in both Test and 18 Cricket Tomorrow January 2010
The history of the West Indies cricket team began in the 1890s, when the first representative sides were selected to play visiting English sides. The WICB joined the sport’s international ruling body, the Imperial Cricket Council, in 1926,[5] and played their first official international match, granted Test status, in 1928[6] thus becoming the fourth Test nation. Although blessed with some great players in their early days as a Test nation, their successes remained sporadic until the 1960s, by which time the side had changed from a white-dominated to a blackdominated side. By the 1970s, the West Indies had a side recognized as unofficial world champions, a reputation they retained throughout the 1980s.[7] During these glory years, the Windies were noted for their four-man fast bowling attack, backed up by some of the best batsmen in the world. The 1980s saw them set a then-record streak of 11 consecutive Test victories in 1984 and inflict two 5–0 “blackwashes” against the old enemy of England. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, however, West Indian cricket declined, largely due to the failure of the West Indian Cricket Board to move the game from an amateur pastime to a professional sport coupled with the general economic decline in West Indian countries, and the team today is struggling to regain its past glory. The West Indies are currently ranked 8th out of the 10 Test playing nations, and 7th in the one-day international rankings, which likewise only cover the 10 Test playing nations. In their early days in the 1930s, the side represented the British colonies of the West Indies Federation plus British Guiana. The current side represents: Independent nations • Antigua and Barbuda • Barbados • Dominica • Grenada • Guyana • Jamaica • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago
WI Cricket Team
British dependencies • Anguilla • Montserrat • British Virgin Islands Other overseas dependencies • U.S. Virgin Islands • Saint Martin (Combined island of Saint Maarten & Saint Martin) National teams also exist for the various different islands, which, as they are all separate countries, very much keep their local identities and support their local favorites. These national teams take part in the West Indian first-class competition, the Carib Beer Cup (earlier known as the Busta Cup, Shell Shield and various other names). It is also common for other international teams to play the island teams for warm-up games before they take on the combined West Indies team.
Flag Most cricketing nations use their own national flags for cricketing purposes. However, as the West Indies represent a number of independent and dependent states, there is no natural choice of flag. The WICB has therefore developed an insignia showing a palm tree and cricket stumps on a small sunny island. This insignia, on a maroon background, makes up the West Indian flag. The background sometimes has a white stripe above a green stripe, which is separated by a maroon stripe, passing horizontally through the middle of the background.
Venues The following eleven stadia have been used for at least one Test match. The number of Tests played at each venue followed by the number of one-day
internationals and twenty20 internationals played at that venue is in brackets: Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados Recognised as the ‘Mecca’ of West Indies cricket, Kensington Oval hosted the region’s first Test match in 1930. It also played host to the first-ever Test triple century, Andy Sandham’s 325. Its capacity has been increased from 15,000 to its current 28,000 for the 2007 World Cup. It hosted the World Cup final. Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad The Queen’s Park Oval first hosted a Test match in 1930. It has a capacity of 25,000. Bourda in Georgetown, Guyana It is the only Test ground in South America, and the only one below sea level. It has a capacity of around 22,000. Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica Sabina Park first hosted a Test match in 1930. The Blue Mountains, which are famed for their coffee, form the backdrop. Sabina Park played host to Garry Sobers’ then world-record 365 not out. In 1998 the Test against England was abandoned here on the opening day because the pitch was too dangerous. It has a capacity of 15,000. Antigua Recreation Ground in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Recreation Ground first hosted a Test in 1981. Three Test triple centuries have been scored on this ground: Chris Gayle’s 317 in 2005, and Brian Lara’s world record scores of 375 in 1994 and 400 not out in 2004. The historic stadium was removed from the roster of grounds hosting international matches in June 2006, in order to make way for the island’s new cricket stadium, being constructed 3 miles outside the capital city expected to be completed in time for its hosting of matches for Cricket World Cup 2007. However, after the abandoned test match between England and the West Indies in February 2009 at the new North Sound ground, test cricket returned to the ARG. Arnos Vale Ground in Arnos Vale, Kingstown, St Vincent January 2010 Cricket Tomorrow 19
for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It hosts first-class cricket but is yet to host its first test, however it held its first one day international on 26 July 2009. It has a seating capacity of 12,000.
Tournament history and honors World Cup
WI - Happy Moments The Arnos Vale Ground first hosted a Test in 1997. National Cricket Stadium in St George’s, Grenada The National Cricket Stadium first hosted a Test in 2002. Beausejour Stadium in Gros Islet, St Lucia The Beausejour Stadium first hosted a Test in 2003. It has a capacity of 12,000. This was the first stadium in the Caribbean to host a day-night cricket match. The match was between the West Indies and Zimbabwe. Warner Park Stadium in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis The Warner Park Sporting Complex hosted its first one day international on 23 May 2006 and its first test match on 22 June 2006. The stadium has a permanent capacity of 8,000, with provisions for temporary stands to enable the hosting figure to past 10,000. Providence Stadium in Georgetown, Guyana The Providence Stadium hosted its first one day international on 28 March 2007 for the 2007 Cricket World Cup and its first test match on 22 March 2008. The stadium has a permanent capacity of 15,000, and is to host test cricket instead of Bourda. Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda The Sir Viv Richards Stadium hosted its first one day international on 27 March 2007 for the 2007 Cricket World Cup and its first test match on 30 May 2008. The stadium has a permanent capacity of 10,000, and is to host test cricket instead of the Antigua Recreation Ground. Four further stadia have been used for one-day internationals, but not Test matches. The number of one-day internationals played at each venue is in brackets: • Albion Sports Complex in Albion, Berbice, Guyana • Mindoo Philip Park in Castries, St Lucia • The old ground of Queen’s Park in St George’s, Grenada • Windsor Park Stadium in Roseau, Dominica Windsor Park is another major cricket ground in the West Indies and home venue for the West Indian team. Construction first started on it in 2005, and it finally opened in October 2007, too late to serve as a venue 20 Cricket Tomorrow January 2010
(This is the leading international one-day tournament, held approximately every four years since 1975) • 1975: Champions • 1979: Champions • 1983: Runners up • 1987: First round • 1992: First round (6th place) • 1996: Semi Final • 1999: First round • 2003: First round • 2007: Super Eight stage (6th place) ICC World Twenty20 • 2007: First Round • 2009: Semi-Final ICC Champions Trophy (this is the only other one-day tournament featuring all the top international cricket teams, held every two years since 1998; known as the “ICC Knockout” in 1998 and 2000) • 1998: Runners up • 2000: First round • 2002: First round • 2004: Champions • 2006: Runners up • 2009: First Round World Championship of Cricket • 1985: Third place Statistics and records Test matches
Innings totals above 700 For: 790 for 3 declared against Pakistan in Kingston in 1957-58; 751 for 5 declared against England in St John’s in 2003-04; 747 all out against South Africa in St John’s in 2004-05; 749 for 9 declared against England in Bridgetown in 2008-2009 Against: 849 by England in Kingston in 1929-30; 758 for 8 declared by Australia in Kingston in 1954-55 Innings totals below 60 For: 47 against England in Kingston in 2003-04; 51 against Australia in Port of Spain in 1998-99; 53 against Pakistan in Faisalabad in 1986-87; 54 against England at Lord’s in 2000 Against: 46 by England in Port of Spain in 1993-94; 51 by England in Kingston in 2008-09 Triple centuries scored for the Windies 400 not out by Brian Lara against England at St John’s in 2003-04; 375 by Brian Lara against England at St John’s in 1993-94; 365 not out by Garry Sobers against Pakistan at Kingston in 1957-58; 317 by Chris Gayle against South Africa at St John’s in 2004-05; 302
Indies won the match by 7 wickets. This match was also the first ever Twenty20 international held in the West Indies. The West Indies drew a 2 match series against New Zealand, the first match was a tie in Auckland with WI winning the subsequent elimination overs (meant to replace the bowl-out) and then the second match was lost by 36 runs in Hamilton. The eleventh match was played against England on March 15, 2009 in the second Twenty20 international held in the WI. West Indies won the match by 6 wickets.
World T20 2009 After losing to Bangladesh and hosts South Africa in the inaugural World T20 in 2007 which made them bow out in the first round, the team was led by Chris Gayle for second edition of World T20 held from June 5 2009 to June 21 2009 in England. Placed in Group C with Australia and Sri Lanka, the unseeded Windies advanced to a semifinal slot before losing to Sri Lanka
by Lawrence Rowe against England at Bridgetown in 1973-74 Twelve or more wickets taken for the Windies in a Test match 14 for the cost of 149 runs by Michael Holding against England at the Oval in 1976; 13 for 55 by Courtney Walsh against New Zealand in Wellington in 1994-95; 12 for 121 by Andy Roberts against India in Madras in 1974-75
One day matches Hat-trick The first and only ever hat-trick performance was made by Jerome Taylor on 19 October 2006 at Mumbai in an ICC Champions Trophy league match against Australia.
Twenty20 matches The West Indies have played eleven twenty20 internationals, the first against New Zealand being the first tie to ever take place. The West Indies however lost on a bowl-out. The second match was played against England at the Oval, and was the West Indies first victory in this format, by 15 runs. They lost the return match, also at the Brit Oval, by five wickets. Their fourth and fifth matches came in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa; both were lost as they were beaten by hosts South Africa and Bangladesh. The West Indies split their sixth and seventh games with South Africa, winning the first by five wickets in December 2007 and falling away on January 18, 2008. The eighth match was with Australia and had to be reduced to 11 overs per side on June 20, 2008. West
A Brief Analysis of the Present Team: West Indies Cricket in recent times went through serious turmoil. Indisdutrial disputes of leading players with Cricket board led to players revolt when Bangladesh just arrived to play test and ODI series. I was forced to field a much weakened side which got browm washed by bottom team of worlds test ranking in both forms. They performed a little better in ICC Champion trophy and its Trinidadad & Tobaggo Team in IPL Champions trophy first showed glimpse of returning to their past glory. A temporay truce among conflicting parties brought leading players back into main stream.A full strength team landed in Kangarro land. Many experts wrote them all. They surrendered meekly to mighty Aussies within three days in Brisbane tests. There were cries to suspend them from test families. Some even suggested two tier test matches. But true to their characters Carribeams bounced back and almost made Aussies to surrender to them at Adelaide. They are expected to challenge Aussies in the third test at Perth. Captain Chris Gayle can be one of the most devastating batsmen when on song. At Adelaide in the second Innings he played an innings of great Character and maturity perhaps heralding a new era of Caribbean Cricket. Young Adrian Barath can be one of the new senasation. He scored a century in his maiden test at Brisbane. He looks very compact player very much like Gordon Greenidge. Sarwan, Chandrapaul are experienced quality player. Nash is good nudger, Bravo a good allrounder. West Indies with young Roach and Big Benn suddenly looks to have match winning bowlers with back up of Bravo, Rampall and Sammy. C T
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Learn Cricket Rafiqul Sharif
There are only 11 players in a team, one of whom is the bowler, and usually another as the wicket-keeper, which leaves at most nine other fielding positions to be used at any given time. Which positions are filled by players and which remain vacant is a tactical decision made by the captain of the fielding team. The captain may move players between fielding positions at any time except when a bowler is in the act of bowling to a batsman. There are a number of named basic fielding positions, some of which are occupied very commonly and others that are used less often. However, fielding positions are not fixed, and fielders can be placed in positions that differ from the basic positions. Most of the positions are named roughly according to a system of polar coordinates - one word (leg, cover, mid-wicket) specifies the angle from the batsman, and is optionally preceded by an adjective describing the distance from the batsman (silly, short, deep or long). Words such as “backward”, “forward”, or “square” can further indicate the angle. The image shows the location of the commonly used fielding positions. This image assumes the batsman is righthanded. The area to the left of a right-handed batsman (from the batsman’s point of view) is called the leg side or on side, while that to the right is the off side. If the batsman is left-handed, the leg and off sides are reversed and the fielding positions are a mirror image of those shown.
Position Index (Off Side) 1.First Slip 2.Second Slip 3.Third Slip 4.Fourth Slip 5.Gully 6.Backward Point 7.Point 8.Cover 9.Short Cover 1 0 . E x r a Co v e r 11.Mid Off 1 6 . S i l l y Po i n t 25.Deep Mid Off 26.Deep Extra Cover 27.Deep Cover Point 28.Deep Point 29.Deep Backward Point 30.Thirdman 31.Deep Thirdman
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Position Index (General)
Position Index (On Side)
B. B o w l e r W. Wicket Keeper
12.Mid On 13.Mid Wicket 14.Short Mid Wicket 15.Short Leg 17.Square Leg 18.Leg Slip 19.Fine Leg 20.Deep Fine Leg 21.Deep Square Leg 22.Deep Mid Wicket 23.Deep Sweeper Cover 24.Deep Mid On
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Tendulkar Peak to Peak
team for some years where he alone carried the team on his shoulder.
Ricky Ponting | Batting and fielding averages
Saleque Sufi
(see table in the next page)
Ponting is about 3000 behind in test runs and 5000 behind in ODI. He has scored 4 test centuries in test and 17 centuries less in ODI. Ponting is about two years younger than Sachin. Their batting averages are comparable and look almost identical. But remember Ponting did not have to bat against great Australian bowlers Shane Warne or Glen McGrath which Sachin negotiated so elegantly. Warne the best leg spinner of all times felt Sachin to be the most difficult batsman to bowl against.
Twenty years ago on this very day 15th November a little teenager of 16 years 7 months went into bat against a fearsome bowling attack of Imran Khan, Wasim Akram ,Waqar Yunis and Selim Jaffer. These bowlers could rattle many established cricketers of their time. But a boyish looking 5 feet 5 inches remained unruffled .World cricket saw the baptism under fire of modern day Bradman Indian sporting Icon Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. Twenty years have whistled by. That boy is now 36. He has reached the Mount Everest of cricketing achievements. Nearly 13000 runs in 159 tests , over 17000 in 430 ODI , 42 test match hundreds 45 ODI hundreds. Only Steve Waugh played more tests and Only Snath Jayasuriya played more ODI. Many of his contemporaries retired from cricket .But Sachin is marching on in full steam. He still dominates any attack right from the word go. The hunger for cricket, hunger for runs, youthful exuberance still remains the same. Only the other day SRT played one of the best ODI innings ever scene against the top team of the world. On this twentieth anniversary of SRT Cricket Tomorrow likes offer twenty red Rose to the little master and wish him to carry at least 5 more years and complete 100s of centuries in international cricket. Before we analyse his attributes let us see what he achieved in Cricket so far.
Sachin Tendulkar | Batting and fielding averages
(see table 01) The only other player who can come anyway close to his skyscrapers that Sachin has built is Australian great Ricky Ponting .Let us see his records as well. Riky has additional burden of regrouping Australian team to retain top position in ICC World ranking. True it puts tremendous responsibility on his shoulder. But Sachin also led a much weaker Indian
A few days back Ponting witness the brilliant innings of the master craftsman against his own team. While complimenting Sachin Ponting himself said, that greman played twenty years of top cricket consistently. Ponting thought if he has play twenty years he may have to be carried in wheel chair.
Table - 01 (Sachin Tendulkar) Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
Tests
159
261
27
12773
248*
54.58
ODIs
436
425
39
17178
186*
44.50
20022
T20Is
1
1
0
10
10
10.00
12
First-class
261
412
43
21662
248*
List A
523
510
53
20730
Twenty20
25
25
3
750
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BF
100
50
42
53
85.79
45
91
83.33
0
0
58.70
69
186*
45.36
69
34.09
599
SR
125.20
4s
6s
Ct
St
51
102
0
1872
181
132
0
2
0
1
0
99
170
0
56
109
167
0
0
5
14
0
95
17
When we talk about Sachin several other batsmen came to mind. Among them Sunil Gavaskar Sachin’s own roll model felt none other than Sir Garry Sobers could influence cricket more than Sachin. He does not have the ferocity of Viv Richards or finesse of Brian Lara yet he bats with the beauty and charisma that made Greatest batsman of all time Sir Donald Bradman tell his wife , “ Look at the boy, he bats like me “. Don invited Sachin in his place possibly on his birth day. Last year during a visit to Bradman museum we saw some memorable photographs of little master with great Sir Don. In his very first series at sweet 16, fearsome fast bowler Waqar Yunis broke his nose. Sachin’s ender brother advised him to leave cricket. But little master said that incident made him more determined. Great Pakistani Leg spinner Abul Qadir was at his peak at that time in 1989.Boy Sachin hit him three sixes in one match.. Quadir could spot his talent then and their. Another great Pakistan b batsman Miandad felt Sachin is a blessing to world Cricket. Great Australian Cricketer Allan Border advised Sachin to cut down playing limited over cricket and play more tests to prolong his career .But look at him scoring 175 only other day in ODI which could
very well see the first double century if his concentration did not momentarily lapse. His is living legend.Sachin has already attained immortality. He is wily customer as a bowler also. He has a golden arm. But possibly considering his tennis elbow problem he prefers not to bowl these days. The present generation Indian Cricketers are lucky to share dressing room with Sachin and watch him play masterfully from other end of the crease. The other great thing about Sachin is that when various controversy of match fixing, drug abuse was levelled against several contemporaries he was way above those. He has become victim of many poor umpiring but he never complained. In India he is more popular than any movie star. He is Indian God and rightfully so. We wonder how some one year after year match after match maintains the same hunger same enthusiasm. A perfect gentleman , unassuming character earned respect from team mates , opponents, umpires , media and off course billions of fans all over the world. His upright stance, delicate flick off his toes and off the heap, excellent square drives, crisp cover drives, elegant straight drives will remain enigma for ever. The way Sachin is moving it seems that sky is his only limit. C T
Table - 02 (Ricky Ponting) Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
Tests
136
229
26
11345
257
55.88
ODIs
330
321
36
12311
164
43.19
15293
T20Is
17
16
2
401
98
28.64
302
First-class
236
400
53
20192
257
List A
399
390
49
14610
Twenty20
22
21
2
460
100
50
38
48
80.50
28
73
132.78
0
2
58.19
72
164
42.84
98*
24.21
375
SR
122.65
4s
6s
Ct
St
66
159
0
1093
148
141
0
41
11
8
0
86
248
0
32
88
173
0
0
2
10
0
44
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Umpire review system what is wrong with it Rafiqul Sharif
There are lots of talks about umpire review system these days. Lots of people are showering comments about it whatever they think of it, may it be logical or illogical. But basically there are two major arguments against it: 1. The technology is still not advanced enough to make the calls accurately 2. If the players can make mistakes, why can’t we accept the mistakes of the umpires? The first one is a valid argument, but the second one is definitely an exercise of stupidity over commonsense. If the players are making mistakes, they are the ones who pay for that, but if the umpires make mistakes, it’s the players, not the umpires who pay for umpire’s fault. Umpires are judges of the proceedings and judges should not make mistakes. Let’s give couple of examples! A person who murders or steals or does a crime, they get punished for it, and it’s the judge’s duty to give the verdict in right way – punish if guilty, free if innocent. But if he makes mistakes and do the wrong decisions, will that be acceptable? Will the excuse “If the accused can make mistakes, why aren’t the judges allowed to make mistakes” be valid? NO! Similarly, a student can make mistakes in the exams, and he gets the marks to reflect that. But does that mean the examiner should be allowed to mark them wrongly only because if student can make mistakes, so can the examiners? NO! Accused and Judges, Students and Examiners, Players and Umpires – they are not the same, they are different. Same rules don’t apply for both. Let me pose one question: If Usain Bolt runs the 100 metre race ahead of the competitors in the Olympics and then the umpire rules him second when you can see in the replay that he was first, will everyone push him to accept silver medal? Why not use the technology when that is available to minimise errors? Of course only agreed technology
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should be used which is tested. The argument should be – “which technology should be used” in stead of “if the technology should be used”! Why give batsmen out when they are not out and vice versa, when you have the option to find out? When the batsman who works really hard to build his innings and represent his country’s pride suddenly find himself given out wrongly and from a winning position his team looses, will he bear respect for the umpire in mind? Similarly when a bowler works hard to get a batsman out only to find the umpire ruling wrongly and that caused his team loose a test match (and in some cases it could delay their first ever test win for a few years), will he bear respect for the umpire? Don’t we know how much respect Steve Bucknor gets from the Indian players, or Ashoka De Silva generates in the mind of the deprived Bangladeshi players due to their frequent wrong decisions against these teams? Do we want all our umpires to end up like that? This is not a blind game; umpires were put in the game in the first place so that the decisions can be made correctly. The name of the game is cricket and if you make a mistake and are not ready to admit and amend for it, it’s not cricket! C T
Cricket Jokes Collection
Left me for the milkman A friend asked a devoted cricketer after finding him a bit down in mood: ‘You’re looking miserable.’ ‘The wife’s gone off with the milkman.’ ‘I’m sorry to hear that.’
don’t even remember the day we were married.” “Of course I do,” said Javed. “It was the day Sayeed Anwar got 194 against India.” The boys were playing cricket in the garden and were using a shiny new ball.
Where did you get the ball ‘Where did you get the ball?’ asked father. ‘We found it.’ ‘Are you sure it was lost?’ ‘Of course it was lost. We saw them looking for it.’
‘Yes. Now we’ll be one batsman short on Sunday.’ A hostile game How is she doing An expectant and nervous father rang the hospital to see how his pregnant wife was getting on. By mistake he dialled the number for Lord’s. “How’s it going?” he asked. “Fine,” came the answer, “We’ve got two out already and hope to have the rest out before lunch. The last one was a duck!
The local game had been a bitter affair, with neither side giving anything away and an unusual amount of hostile bowling. Several injuries were sustained, and after the game one of the batsmen was seen pacing up and down the pitch. ‘Ah, I see you’re reliving the battle,’ said the groundsman. ‘No,’ said the player. ‘I’m looking for my teeth’
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When were we married? Javed was always thinking of cricket. Eventually, his annoyed wife said, “You think nothing but cricket. I bet you January 2010 Cricket Tomorrow 27
Bangladesh Dream Team CT Correspondent
Cricinfo is now making dream teams of major test playing countries. We have already seen all time great Australian and English team. Now they are talking about New Zealand Team. Soon other teams West Indies, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka will come into picture. This tempts us to try and form all time Bangladesh team. I saw the infancy of Bangladesh Cricket. We experienced how cricket struggled to set its root in independent Bangladesh. From very intimate association with Bangladesh cricket in its early days as player, organiser, and sports writer, I will suggest who can be part of all time Bangladesh team. Players of different time and ages can not be compared apple to apple. But technique, temperament, skill and consistency can be basic parameters. Some players are steady, some are explosive. Some are born with exceptional natural talents; some learn it in hard way. Judging from the quality of opposition they play against my selection will be the following:
Openers: Several players come to mind. For making it less complex, may confine discussion among players of post liberation days. In my discussion Raqibul Hasan stands head and shoulder above others to be in the team. He had solid technique, cool temperament and excellent skill. He played some major innings against quality opposition bowling during his time also. He could grind and graft when required. He played all strokes to perfection. Cutting, pulling, hooking was treating to watch. His cover drives were delightful. To partner him there are several others who come to mind. Shamim Kabir, Atahar Ali Khan, Shahriar Nafees, Tamim Iqbal. Shamim Kabir has already past his prime by 1972. Otherwise he was an elegant batsman and had extraordinary skills. Tall, stylish Atahar Ali Khan was wonderfully gifted player. But he was not very consistent. Tamim Iqbal is an exciting stroke maker. But he has just started grounding his feet. I will put Shariar Nafees 28  Cricket Tomorrow January 2010
as ideal opening partner of Raqibul. If he did not opt for ICL he could be a regular feature of Bangladesh cricket by now. We really enjoyed his batting against Australian speed merchants at Fatullah when scored a delightful century.
Middle Order:
If we make a panel that will have Mainul Haque, Lipu, Nannu, Ashrfaul, Bulbul, Akram Khan, Yusuf Babu, Aftab, Alok, Raqibul Junior. If we choose four out of them the choice can be Lipu, Nannu, Ashrfaul and Bulbul. Mainu was a gutsy player, Akhram Khan was at times devastation, and Yusuf Babu was elegant and graceful, Aftab, Alok and Raqibul Junior are still flourishing. Lipu was a class act. Very solid in defence, great tactician in pacing his innings. Nannu was a gifted player too. He had all the strokes in his repertoire and was treating to watch in full flow. No Bangla-
desh team can ignore what little Ashrfaul achieved in cricket for Bangladesh. A world class batsman perhaps under performed a little bit to prove his full potential. But the innings he played against great Muralidharan and Vass to score the record creating test century as the youngest batsman, the innings he played against Australia to beat them in ODI in England, Innings in World Cup against India and South Africa are all milestones. But in a settled team now free from anxiety of lading an underdog Ashrfaul hopefully will become consistent in future. Aminul Islam Bulbul for a while was the best batsman of Bangladesh. He scored century in the first innings of the first test match Bangladesh played. He was technically very correct. His batting even impressed Great Sunny Gavaskar.
Wicketkeeper:
Shafiqul Haque Heera, Khaled Masud Pilot and Mushfiqur Rahim will come under consideration as wicket keeper. But for better technique as keeper and better skill as batsman we consider Heera will be in the team.
All Rounder:
qualifies as all rounder, Badsha can still be in the side as new bowl bowler. But if Nazmul Kader Lintoo is included in the side as specialist spinner we have to make room for Shakib dropping one middle order batsman. In that case, Lipu can not be included in the side. Lintoo was left arm bowler. We remember he foxed great Conrad Hunte and Johnson with Chinaman. Sorry for Rafique in not finding a position for him in the side. Late Daualt Zaman and Mashrafee will be in our side to open the attack with Badshah acting as third seamer. Bulbul, Nannu can also be used as bowling options whenever required. Great human being Daualat was possibly a little unlucky not to play for Pakistan. He could move the ball either way at pace and good effective bouncer. Badshah was the most intelligent pace bowler ever to play cricket in Bangladesh. Masrafee needs little introduction for his raw talent and commitment.
So the Dream Team is:
Raqibul Hasan (C), Shahariar Nafees., Ashraful, Bulbul, Nannu, Shakib, Heera (WK), Badshah, Mashrafee, Lintoo and Daulat. 12th Man: Yusuf Rahman Babu
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Mashrafee Gives Credit to Hard Work for IPL Foray From CricketTomorrow archive
Bangladesh strike bowler Mashrafee Bin Mortaza says his being sold in auction to Indian Cricket League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders at nearly Tk 4.2 crore was a result of hard work he had put in over the years. “Obviously I am pleased. I feel this is a result of all the hard work I have put in over the years and also a reward for being consistent this season,” said Mashrafee in his immediate reaction. “I have a lot of friends and fans in India. That’s why I am excited. I love being there and it is a pleasure to play in India,” said an excited Mashrafee. Kolkata Knight Riders, led by former India captain Saurav Ganguly, dramatically bought Mashrafee for $ 600000 in the most sensational bidding for the crickters in the IPL auction in Goa on Friday. Bollywood star Shahruk Khan-owned Kolkata roped in Mashrafee for 12 times his floor price of $ 50000 as Kings XI Punjab stake-holder Bollywood actress Priety Zinta also locked horns to get the all-rounder.
Mashrafee - in action
Mashrafee said he had often conversations with Punjab captain Yuvraj Singh, who had promised to bring him to his side.
Twenty20 league.
The right-handed pacer said he never thought he would be valued as much and said he had expected to be sold at a maximum of $ 1 lakh. The 25-year old said his teammate Tamim Iqbal had called to break the news to him when he was about to say his Juma prayers. Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful was also picked by Mumbai Indians at his base price of $ 75,000, but Shakib Al Hasan, world’s number one allrounder in ICC one-day ranking, and Tamim Iqbal, the left-handed opener, however remained unsold in the auction. “I would have been a lot happier if Shakib had got a team because he truly deserved it for his sensational form with the bat and the ball,” said a gloomy Mortaza. Mashrafee is now the eighth in the ICC ODI ranking for bowlers and he wants to prove his worth in the 30 Cricket Tomorrow January 2010
“Kolkata is just next door and I know how much people over there admire Bangladeshi cricketers. The auction is over now and my challenge is to go over there and prove my worth.” Ashraful said Mashrafee and his move to the IPL was an encouraging sign for Bangladesh cricket. “Shakib missing out was a bit of a shock because he is one player who has dominated in both forms of international cricket this season. But I guess luck is also a factor in auctions. “Nevertheless I am very happy for Mashrafee. It is also positive for our cricket that two of us have been chosen after stiff competition.” The Bangladesh captain also revealed that signing for Mumbai Indians would allow him to realise a childhood dream. “It’s no secret that Sachin Tendulkar has been an idol for me and as a youngster I dreamt of playing alongside Sachin some day and now we are in the same team.” C T
Men Behind Cricket Tomorrow All creation need creator, all creation need dreams. All dreams do not often lead to a creation. But Cricket Tomorrow is all ready a reality. It started its journey as web based cricket portal on November 01, 2008. And from today, 1st January 2010 it is launching its first monthly magazine. It is dream come true for six Bangladeshi Australians Roysul Khan, Shajadur Rahman, Haseeb Iqbal, Rasel Khan, Quazi Abdullah and Rafiqul Sharif of almost same age. They came to Australia almost at the same time and studied in Canberra. After completing their studies they all settled in the calm and quiet beautiful capital of Australia. They are Bangladeshis in the heart and soul. They came closer to each other through their love of Bangladesh and passion for cricket. They used to follow cricket and used to care about Bangladesh cricket .They all have reasonable exposure to Business and Information Technology. In course of some cricket gossip it dawned on them that it will be a great fun if they can set up a web based cricket publication. The ethics of the game, the nature of glorious uncertainty always used to fascinate them. They thought how the cricket will look like after a decade or few decades. The game
has gone through and is going through much of evolution. Will it remain the same or will it change in type, nature and character? What the concept of globalisation and commercialisation will bring to cricket? They felt the new comer to the world stage including their country of origin was not getting fair deals. They thought only through strong publications these matters can be dealt with objectivity. They thought Cricket Tomorrow can be ideal name of what they were contemplating. They thought if they can initiate, it can roll on. Their love and passion, their dream and vision finally came into light when on 1st November in 2008 the web based newsletter CricketTomorrow.com was launched. Their youthful exuberance and passion have kept it going. Now from 1st January 2010 their efforts have taken a new dimension with the launching of Cricket Tomorrow monthly magazine. Let us stand up and take our hats off for these dreamers and the architects behind this great creation. C T
Left to right Roysul Khan, Shajadur Rahman, Haseeb Iqbal, Rasel Khan, Quazi Abdullah and Rafiqul Sharif.
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mvwKe: Avgiv A‡bK Iqvb‡W g¨vP †Lwj| †ek wKQy g¨vP fvj cvidi‡gÝ K‡iwQ| †m Kvi‡YB kxl© Aj-ivDÛv‡ii RvqMv GLbI Avgvi `L‡j| wKš‘ †U÷ A‡bK Kg †L‡j evsjv‡`k| A‡÷ªwjqv, fviZ Ges `w¶Y Avwd«Kvi wµ‡KUviiv G †¶‡Î †mŠfvM¨evb| Zviv †ewk g¨vP cvq, mdj nIqvi my‡hvMI ZvB †ewk| mxwgZ mvg‡_©i g‡a¨I †`‡ki gvby‡li cÖZ¨vkv c~iY Ki‡Z †Póv Ki‡ev| wbðqB Zviv GKw`b †U÷ wµ‡K‡UI kxl© Aj-ivDÛvi wn‡m‡e
mvwKe: cÖ‡Z¨K wµ‡KUv‡iiB ¯^cœ _v‡K fvj †Ljv, mvdj¨ cvIqv| Avwg †Póv Ki‡ev AvMvgx eQiUv‡KI ¯§iYxq K‡i ivL‡Z| G Rb¨ Avgv‡K Av‡iv †ewk cwikªg Ki‡Z n‡e| `‡ji mvd‡j¨i IciI e¨w³ mvd‡j¨i A‡bK wKQyB wbf©i K‡i|
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cÖkœ: mvwKe 2010 mvjUv‡K Kxfv‡e wb‡”Qb?
cÖkœ: mvwKe Avcbv‡`i eQiUv ïi“ n‡”Q KwVb GKwU Uzb©v‡g›U w`‡q| GUv wK Pvc g‡b Ki‡Qb?
mvwKe: n¨vu fviZ, kªxj¼v GB gyn~‡Z© †miv d‡g© Av‡Q| wZb RvwZ Uzb©v‡g›U †Ljvi Av‡M fviZ-kªxj¼v wØcvw¶K wmwiRI †Lj‡Q| Avgv‡`i Rb¨ Uzb©v‡g›UwU eo P¨v‡jÄ| Z‡e fvj †Lj‡Z cvi‡j c‡ii wmwiR¸‡jvi Rb¨ †cÖiYv wn‡m‡e KvR Ki‡e| Avgiv †Póv Ki‡ev mvdj¨ Zz‡j wb‡Z| evwKUv fvM¨|
Avgv‡KB AwabvqK Kiv n‡q‡Q| KvRwU Ki‡Z Lvivc jv‡M bv| Z‡e mevi Av‡M Avwg GKRb wµ‡KUvi| Avgv‡K fvj †Lj‡Z n‡e|
cÖkœ: AvMvgx eQiUv A‡bK e¨¯— m~wPi ga¨ w`‡q cvi Ki‡Z n‡e Avcbv‡`i‡K| Uvbv Avš—R©vwZK wµ‡KU wU‡K _vKv KZUv m¤¢e?
mvwKe: wµ‡K‡U bZzb cÖRb¥ Avgv‡K Aby¯§iY Ki‡e fve‡ZB fvj jv‡M| Avkv Kwi RvZxq `‡ji Ab¨ivI fwel¨r cÖR‡b¥i Kv‡Q Av`k© n‡q _vK‡e| ¯^Zx_© wµ‡KUvi‡`i Avnevb Rvbv‡ev Aš—Z wb‡Ri Rb¨ fvj †L‡j| G‡Z `jI DcK…Z n‡e| e¨w³ mvdj¨I Avm‡e|
mvwKe: G‡Ki ci GK wmwiR †Ljv mwZ¨B KwVb| †ek Pvc c‡o †L‡jvqvo‡`i Ici| K¨vwiqvi eo Ki‡Z n‡j wdU _vK‡Z n‡e| †h †KD BbRywi‡Z co‡Z cv‡i| G Rb¨ `‡ji cÖ¯‘wZ _vK‡Z n‡e| weKí wµ‡KUviI ivL‡Z n‡e|
cÖkœ: mvwKe ¯^Zx_© wµ‡KUvi‡`i Kv‡Q Avcwb †cÖiYv, Zv‡`i D‡Ï‡k wKQy ej‡eb?
cÖkœ: mvwKe bZzb eQ‡ii ï‡f”Qv iB‡jv| mvwKe: Avcbv‡KI bZzb eQ‡ii ï‡f”Qv|
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cÖkœ: `j‡K †bZ…Z¡ w`‡Z †Kgb jvM‡Q? mvwKe: AwabvqK nIqv M‡e©i| gvkivwd fvB bv _vKvq
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BwZnv‡mi cvZv †_‡K eZ©gvb AvLZvi“j Avwgb
1947 †_‡K 2009| `xN© mgq| `xN© c‡_i cwiµgv| 47-G †`k wefvR‡bi ci G Dcgnv‡`‡ki cÖ_g †U÷ wµ‡KU †Ljy‡o †`k wn‡m‡e fviZ-cvwK¯—v‡bi g‡a¨ †h g¨vPwU n‡qwQj ZvI cÖvq 55 eQi Av‡Mi K_v| 1955i Rvbyqvwi gv‡m XvKv †÷wWqv‡g hv GLb e½eÜz RvZxq †÷wWqvg bv‡g cwiwPZ †mLv‡bB nq IB g¨vP| †mBm‡½ my`xN© c‡_ Kv‡ji ¯^v¶x n‡q iB‡jv ÔAvgv‡`i XvKvÕ| evsjv‡`‡ki wµ‡K‡Ui BwZnvm GB XvKv‡K †K›`ª K‡iB| †mB mg‡qi XvKv †÷wWqv‡g `k©K aviY ¶gZv wQj c‡bi nvRvi, GB c‡bi nvRvi `k©K †mw`b `vuwo‡q †mB cÖ_g †U‡÷i †L‡jvqvo‡`i Af¨_©bv Rvwb‡qwQj, D”Q¡vm cÖKvk K‡iwQj| Aek¨ g¨vPwU n‡qwQj Wª| Gici XvKv †÷wWqv‡gB 1955 mv‡ji b‡f¤^i gv‡m †h g¨vPwU n‡qwQj Zv wQj cvwK¯—vb Ges wbDwRj¨v‡Ûi g‡a¨| g¨vP fvM¨ Av‡Mi g‡ZvB, gv‡b Wª| 1959 mv‡ji gv‡P© GKB gv‡V Z…Zxq †U÷ g¨vP nq cvwK¯—vb I I‡qóBwÛ‡Ri g‡a¨| XvKvi gvwU‡ZB cvwK¯—vb Zv‡`i cÖ_g †U‡÷ Rq cvq| 41 iv‡bi †mB Rq cvwK¯—vb wµ‡KU‡K mvg‡bi w`‡K GwM‡q hvIqvi c_ †`wL‡q‡Q| Z‡e cvwK¯—v‡bi cÖ_g †U÷ nvivi BwZnv‡mi m‡½I GB eZ©gvb e½eÜz †÷wWqvg Av‡ówc‡ô Rwo‡q Av‡Q| 1959 mv‡ji b‡f¤^‡i XvKvq †Lj‡Z Av‡m A‡÷ªwjqv| †m g¨v‡P AvU DB‡K‡U †n‡i hvq cvwK¯—vb| Aek¨ cÂg †U‡÷ G‡m AveviI Wª‡qi †`Lv cvq Bsj¨v‡Ûi m‡½| 1962 mv‡j XvKv †÷wWqv‡gB n‡qwQj
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†mB g¨vPwU| GiB g‡a¨ c~e©evsjvi gvbyl ¯^vaxbZvi Rb¨ Av‡›`vjb msMÖv‡g Svwc‡q c‡o‡Q| †mB mg‡q gv‡b 1969 mv‡j c~e© cvwK¯—vb wn‡m‡e XvKv‡Z †kl ev‡ii g‡Zv `y‡Uv †U÷ n‡qwQj| c¶wec¶ cvwK¯—vb I Bsj¨vÛ Ges cvwK¯—vb wbDwRj¨vÛ| 1971| GB msL¨vwUi m‡½ Avgv‡`i A‡bK A‡bK Av‡eM Rwo‡q Av‡Q| GB msL¨vwUB Avgv‡`i cwiPq G‡b w`‡q‡Q| †`wL‡q‡Q w`b e`‡ji ¯^cœ| ïi“ n‡jv gnvb gyw³hy×| bq gv‡mi hy‡× c„w_exi gvbwP‡Î VvuB K‡i wbj bZzb GK †`‡ki bvg| evsjv‡`k| ¯^vaxbZvi ci †_‡K evsjv‡`k wµ‡K‡Ui Avjv`v ¯^Ë¡vi D™¢e| 1972 mv‡j MVb Kiv nq evsjv‡`k wµ‡KU K‡›Uªvj †evW©| ax‡i ax‡i XvKv Ges PÆMÖv‡g wµ‡KU wjM nq ïi“| 197475 mvj †_‡K RvZxq ch©v‡qi wµ‡KU cÖwZ‡hvwMZv, 197576 mv‡ji N‡ivqv wµ‡KU GmeB wQj Avš—R©vwZK wµ‡KU KvDw݇j evsjv‡`‡ki ¯’vb K‡i †bIqvi Dcm½| 1977 mv‡ji 26 RyjvB evsjv‡`k AvBwmwmÕi A¨v‡mvwm‡qU †g¤^vi nIqvi †MŠie AR©b K‡i| 1978 mv‡j kªxjsKv (hviv ZL‡bv †U÷ ÷¨vUvm cvqwb) evsjv‡`k md‡i Av‡m| 1979 mv‡j evsjv‡`k cÖ_gev‡ii gZ AvBwmwm Uªwd‡Z Ask †bq Ges wdwR I gvj‡qwkqvi wei“‡× Rq cvq| 1982 mv‡j evsjv‡`k wØZxq AvBwmwm Uªwd‡Z Ask wb‡q 16wU `‡ji g‡a¨ PZz_© nq| 1984 mv‡j cÖ_g we‡`k (†Kwbqv) mdi K‡i evsjv‡`k|
mg‡qi †mªv‡Z Gfv‡eB GwM‡q †M‡Q evsjv‡`‡ki wµ‡KU| 1986 mv‡j Gwkqv Kv‡c cvwK¯—v‡bi wei“‡× evsjv‡`‡ki cÖ_g Avš—R©vwZK Iqvb †W g¨vPwU †L‡j| 1988 mv‡j evsjv‡`‡k nq Z…Zxq Gwkqv Kvc| 1990 mv‡j fvi‡Zi cÖ_g †kªYxi GKwU `j †WKvb eym mvB` wKigvwbi †bZ…‡Z¡ evsjv‡`k md‡i G‡mwQj| Avi GB md‡i cÖ_gev‡ii gZ evsjv‡`‡k †W-bvBU g¨vPwU AbywôZ nq, XvKv †ówWqv‡g wewmwmwe Ab~aŸ© 25 Ges †WKvb eym-i g‡a¨| Gic‡ii BwZnvm Avgv‡`i mevi Rvbvb| 1997 mv‡j evsjv‡`k lô AvBwmwm Uªwd wR‡Z K‡i gvjqwkqv‡Z Ges evsjv‡`k AvBwmwmÕi wbqwgZ †g¤^vi n‡q Iqvb-†W Avš—R©vwZK g¨vP †Ljvi †hvM¨Zv AR©b K‡i| GK eQ‡ii e¨eav‡b mvdj¨I aiv †`q| 1998 mv‡j fvi‡Z evsjv‡`k Zv‡`i cÖ_g Avš—R©vwZK Iqvb-†W Rq cvq †Kwbqvi wei“‡×| Gi c‡ii eQi 1999 mv‡j Bsj¨v‡Û AbywôZ wek¦Kv‡c cvwK¯—vb‡K nvwi‡q mvov ‡d‡j ‡`q| mb Zvwi‡Li m‡½ cvjv w`‡qB GwM‡q‡Q evsjv‡`‡ki wµ‡K‡Ui †jL wPÎ| 19992000 †gŠmy‡g †nvg A¨vÛ GI‡q c×wZ‡Z RvZxq wjM Pvjy K‡i wewmwe| 2000
mv‡ji 26 Ryb evsjv‡`k †U÷ †Ljvi †hvM¨Zv AR©b K‡i Ges gvÎ cuvP gv‡mi e¨eav‡b fvi‡Zi wei“‡× †L‡j cÖ_g †U÷| †U÷ †Ljv †`k wn‡m‡e GKw`‡bi g¨v‡P cÖ_g RqwUI Av‡m GB fvi‡Zi wec‡¶B| 2004 mv‡ji wW‡m¤^i gv‡m XvKv †÷wWqv‡g fviZ‡K nvwi‡q †`q evsjv‡`k| Avi 2005 mv‡j wR¤^vey‡qi wei“‡× cÖ_g †U÷ Rq cvq| Gici 2005 mv‡j IwWAvB g¨v‡P A‡÷wjqvi wei“‡× Rq, 2007 mv‡ji wek¦Kv‡c fviZ Ges `w¶Y Avwd«Kvi wei“‡× Rq †c‡q hvq UvBMviiv| 2009| GB mvjvwU evsjv‡`k wµ‡KU‡K bZzb D”PZvq Zz‡j a‡i‡Q| we‡`‡ki gvwU‡Z cÖ_g †U÷ wmwiR Rq cvq GB eQiwU‡ZB| I‡q÷ BwÛ‡Ri wec‡¶| meB GLb BwZnvm| BwZnvm iwPZ n‡Z cv‡i Av‡iv A‡bK| mvg‡bB †`‡ki gwU‡Z em‡Q wek¦Kvc| me †`‡ki gZ UvBMviivI †hb cÖ¯‘Z| AvBwmGj NUbvi ga¨ w`‡qI evsjv‡`k `j wiqv`, bvBg, Rybv‡q`, iwKey‡ji g‡Zv fv‡jv wµ‡KUvi †c‡q‡Q MZ GKUv eQ‡i| †mBm‡½ bZzb K‡i `‡j WvK †c‡q‡Q AvBwmGj †diZivI| bvwdR, AvdZve, Kvcvwj, axgvbÕiv wd‡i Avmv‡Z GivI RvZxq `‡j †dievi Rb¨ wcÖwgqvi wj‡M h_vmva¨ fv‡jv †Ljvi †Póv Ki‡Q|
d‡j †L‡jvqvo‡`i g‡a¨ GKUv fv‡jv cÖwZ‡hvwMZv m„wó n‡q‡Q, hv GKwU kw³kvjx RvZxq `j MV‡b `vi“bfv‡e mnvqZv Ki‡e| GKUz Ab¨ cÖm‡½ Avwm| †gvnv‡gWv‡b I‡cwbs G †L‡j Avkivdzj GLb cy‡iv`¯‘i GKRb I‡cbvi| Avkivdzj‡K Zvwg‡gi m‡½ I‡cwbs‡q cvwV‡q wg‡Wj IW©vi‡K Av‡iv cÖk¯— Ki‡Z cv‡i evsjv‡`k `‡ji w_sK U¨vsKiv| wek¦Kv‡ci Rb¨ GKUv cyj ˆZwi Kiv †h‡Z cv‡i †hLv‡b eZ©gvb Ges m¤¢vebvgqx †L‡jvqvoiv _vK‡e Ges Zv‡`i‡K AvMvgx GK eQi cix¶v Kiv n‡e| Gici †mLvb †_‡K †e‡Q †bIqv †h‡Z cv‡i wek¦Kv‡ci Rb¨ †miv `jwU| Avi... Avi gvÎ KÕw`b ci †`‡k em‡Q UªvBwmwiR| B`vwbs wµ‡K‡Ui e‡`Šj‡Z Bs‡iwR A‡bK kãB evsjvi g‡Zv g‡b nq| GB ÔUªvB wmwiRÕI †Zgb-B| gv‡b wZb †`‡ki g‡a¨ n‡e †Ljv| fviZ I kªxjsKv‡K wb‡q Iqvb-†W Uzb©v‡g›U| Gici fvi‡Zi m‡½ †Ljv n‡e †U÷| G GK KwVb cix¶v| MZ wKQzw`b k³ `‡ji wei“‡× bv †Ljvq GB wmwiR¸‡jv evsjv‡`‡ki mvg_© cÖ`k©‡bi cix¶vI e‡U| Avgiv Avkvevw`| Avgv‡`i †L‡jvqvoiv g¨v‡Pi †gRvR Abyhvqx wb‡R‡`i †g‡j ai‡Z cvi‡j fv‡jv dj AR©b KwVb wKQz bq| †mB A‡c¶vq cy‡iv RvwZ| C T
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mv¶vrKvi / Zvwgg BKevj †mKv›`vi Avjx
cÖkœ: Zvwgg XvKv wjM †Lj‡Z cvi‡jb bv, G Rb¨ Lvivc jvM‡Q? Zvwgg: Avwg †Zv †Ljvi Rb¨B †gvnv‡gWv‡b †hvM w`‡qwQjvg| wK Ki‡ev BbRywii Ici Kv‡iv nvZ †bB| †Uv‡qw›U-†Uv‡qw›U Uzb©v‡g›U †ek Dc‡fvM K‡iwQjvg| wj‡M †Lj‡Z cvi‡j fvj jvM‡Zv| cÖkœ: A‡bK w`b n‡jv †Ljvi g‡a¨ †bB, Avš—R©vwZK wµ‡K‡U Gi cÖfve co‡e wK bv? Zvwgg: mvgwqK wKQyUv mgm¨v n‡Z cv‡i| Z‡e `yB GKUv g¨vP †Lj‡jB AvZ¥wek¦vm wd‡i cve|
w·`kxq wmwi‡R mvd‡j¨i e¨vcv‡i Avkvevw` Zvwgg\ RvZxq `‡ji D‡Øvabx e¨vUmg¨vb Zvwgg BKev‡ji Kv‡Q e¨w³i †P‡q `jxq mvdj¨B mevi Av‡M| `‡ji cÖ‡qvR‡b †Lj‡Z fv‡jvev‡mb Zvwgg| mymg‡qi cvkvcvwk `ytmg‡qI `k©K mg_©K‡`i cv‡k Pvb RvZxq `‡ji GB ZviKv e¨vUmg¨vb| wµ‡KUUzg‡iv WUK‡gi c‡¶ †mKv›`vi Avjxi Kv‡Q †`Iqv GK mv¶vrKv‡i wb‡Ri j‡¶¨i K_v Rvwb‡q‡Qb Zvwgg|
cÖkœ: Zvi gv‡b Avcbvi AvZ¥wek¦vm K‡g G‡m‡Q? Zvwgg: Zv ejwQ bv| AvZ¥wek¦vm Av‡Q, Avgv‡K fvj †Lj‡Z n‡j ¸wQ‡q wb‡Z n‡e GB hv| e¨vwUs bv Ki‡jI wdU‡bm †Zv wVKB ivLwQ| `‡ji m‡½ cÖ¯‘wZI wbw”Q| Avgvi g‡b nq mgm¨v n‡e bv| cÖkœ: w·`kxq wmwiR wb‡q KZUv Avkv evw`? Zvwgg: Avgv‡`i gv‡V †Ljv `k©Kiv PvB‡e `j fvj †LjyK| Avgiv Aek¨B †Póv Ki‡ev fvj †Lj‡Z| hw`I `yB cÖwZc¶ fviZ Ges kªxj¼v GLb d‡g© Av‡Q| wmwiRUv †gv‡UB mnR n‡e bv| cÖkœ: wbðqB Rv‡bb mvwKe Ges Avcbvi Ici wbf©i wkj evsjv‡`k `j? Zvwgg: Avgv‡`i Ici cÖZ¨vkv GKUz †ewk| ZvB e‡j Ab¨‡`i‡K LvU K‡i †`Lvi Dcvq †bB| mevi mw¤§wjZ cvidi‡g‡ÝB `‡ji mvdj¨ Av‡m| Avgiv GKUv `j n‡q †Lwj| R‡qi avivevwnKZv a‡i ivL‡Z mevB wb‡Ri †mivUv DRvi K‡i †Lj‡e e‡jB Avgvi wek¦vm| cÖkœ: gv‡V `k©K †ewk _vK‡j Pvc Abyfe K‡ib? Zvwgg: Aek¨B bv| `k©K n‡jv fvj †Ljvi †cÖiYv| Avgiv me mgqB †Póv Kwi fvj †Lj‡Z| †ewki fvM mgqB eo `j¸‡jvi wec‡¶ †c‡i DwV bv| `k©K‡`i Kv‡Q Avgvi Aby‡iva _vK‡e Lvivc mg‡qI Zviv †hb Avgv‡`i
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Rvbv‡”Qb wµ‡KUUzg‡iv cÖwZ‡e`K|
cv‡k _v‡Kb| cÖkœ: Zvwgg evsjv‡`‡ki I‡cwbs mgm¨v `~i n‡q‡Q e‡j g‡b K‡ib? Zvwgg: I‡cwbs‡q Av‡Mi †P‡q A‡bKUv fvj †LjwQ Avgiv| †Póv KiwQ avivevwnK n‡Z| G eQi A‡bK fvj g¨vP †L‡jwQ Avgiv| I‡cwbs RywU‡Z ivbI G‡m‡Q| cÖkœ: GKRb e¨vUmg¨vb wn‡m‡e wb‡R‡K †Kv_vq †`L‡Z Pvb? Zvwgg: PvIqvi †kl †bB| Avwg †Zv PvB wek¦ †miv e¨vUmg¨vb n‡Z| wKš‘ Zvi Rb¨ mgq Ges my‡hvM jv‡M| †Póv KiwQ fvj †Lj‡Z| `‡ji mvdj¨ Ges mvg‡b GwM‡q hvIqvB Avgvi j¶¨| cÖkœ: Avcbv‡K ab¨ev` Zvwgg: Avcbv‡KI ab¨ev`
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Ôwµ‡KUÕ‡K Iiv †Kv_vq wb‡q hv‡”Q? mvbvDj nK Lvb
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