This is a discussion on Murali sets Test retirement date. within the Sports forum forums, part of the Entertainment and Recreation category; This record is not going to last more than 20 years....
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| Jedi knight Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: IBF Age: 21
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Rep Power: 5 | This record is not going to last more than 20 years. |
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I take him as the world's best spinner, if not bowler. I got to meet him once, my freind had his cousins to his house, then i came to know those cousins were nephews of murali, their dad was a brother of murali. He had come to the middle east once, so had met him in sharjah also! | |
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The polio affected wrist gave Chandra an unique advantage. On certain days his wrist could rotate almost 300 degrees. on those days he was just unstoppable. Clive Lloyd wrote about one such day in his book when Chanda single handedly defeated West Indies from the sight of sure victory. but technically speaking that was an action not purely in the rule book. and how do you think he used to sent those yorkers and bouncers from his shortish run up? And as far as reporting bowlers is concerned, so far all such reporting has been done by umpires of one single country. | |
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Rep Power: 10 | I respect Murali for his bowling and humble nature. It's unfortunate that people still call him a chucker even after he has taken 700+ test wickets. Some humor- Bishan Singh Bedi (I respect him too, and consider him a great serious comedian |
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Rep Power: 10 | Yes, that's true. Indians have suffered a lot. Especially Tendulkar and Bhajji. I can't forget the shoulder before the wicket decision he gave against Tendulkar. Another humor from Bishen Singh Bedi- At an ICC or some other award function when the Australians were in their prime under coach John Buchanan, Bedi was invited on the stage to do the honors for Buchanan. Before giving the trophy to Buchanan, Bedi asked him- "I wanted to know if you have made the Australian cricket or Australian cricket has made you." |
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Rep Power: 1 | muralli is the best. 770 wickets ia abig achievement. one who wants to break muralis record will have to forget days and night to achieve that number. |
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Rep Power: 5 | So was said for Fred Trueman.So where is his record now? |
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Rep Power: 9 | It is rarely that a bowler takes more than 6/7 wickets in a test match. Even if a bowler continues to take 7 wicket every test match, he will need more than 110 test matches to surpass Murali. Assuming that he plays international cricket for 12 years (which itself is a difficult proposition for any bowler) he would need to play more than 9 tests every year. under the present circumstances, the odds against all of the above happening togather is very high. |
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Rep Power: 5 | Which is achievable. As this generation is playing more cricket. All highest test matches playing player have come from this generation. |
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Rep Power: 9 | actually all highest test playing cricketers came from the last generation which is retiring now. The number of test matches today are almost 25% less than what was there 5 years ago. and with the popularity of ODI and T20 ever increasing, it going to be less and less only. |
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Rep Power: 5 | Some stats disproving that:- 45(12 months from now) 88 (2 years from 7 Aug 2009) 116 ( 3 years from now) 171 ( 4 years from now) 220 ( 5 years from now) 276 ( 6 years from now) 318 ( 7 years from now) 375 ( 8 years from now) 422 (9) 472 (10) 507 (11) 555 (12) 599 (13) 628 (14) 665 (15) 699 (16) 736 (17) 755 (18) 781 (19) 805 (20) 45 88 116 171 220 276 318 375 422 472 507 555 599 628 665 699 736 755 781 805 Stat of matches played. 43 Only 13% less than 5 years ago. 28 28 55 49 56 42 57 47 50 35 48 44 29 37 19 26 24 Matches played in 80s:266 Matches played in 90s:347 Matches played in 2000's:449 Generalizing these stats are not that easy but one thing is for sure that trend is upward not downward. Test have not been played by some teams due to security concern which has hit it hard but in last 12 months it has bounced back like it did after WWII. ODI had lost it meaning as we have T20. Many crickter had said that it should be discontinued. I am apologizing if i have hurt some body feelings but didn't a great crickter himself said that record are meant to be broken. Thre is nothing sad in that. Murali record had potential to live till 20 years which is quite a large achievement which will be difficult to attain but not it is not difficult to break his record. There were some green years when test were playd more butthese things happen last 12 months is showing sign that we will get this soon. I am not saying he is not a great but he is not the greatest. He had been surrounded by controversies unlike Sachin Tendulkar. |
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Rep Power: 5 | @ Dragon I know that but matches were not played between 2-5 years only because ogf security concern & some country didn't get to be played. I agree Murali is a great player but not greatest like Tendulkar is in ODI. His rate of century making is exceptional in ODI. In case of Murali , he had bowled majority of overs for Lanke. |
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Rep Power: 5 | @ Dragon. Some are calling Murali as greatest which is a great folly. You have to consider Bradman , Tendulkar , Sobers , Barnes and some other bowlers and batmen who have not played much matches or didn't bowl much overs as was with Murali. He is greatest off spinner but not greatest bowler. |
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| Valid point. Every one has his own likes and dislikes, its own choices. Most of us were not there when the other legends, you have mentioned,(except tendulkar) played their best, that's why they might be not their favourite. At the end of the day its your choice. |
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Rep Power: 10 | in my time, Vivian Richards/Gavaskar/Vishwanath were my favourite batsmen Bedi/Prasanna/Chandrashekar/ were my favourite bowlers and Kapil Dev/Ian Botham was my favourite all-rounders |
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| Have never seen many of the legends... tendulkar is the only one i have seen playing throughout.... |
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