
In recent years various England batsmen have taken great pains to point out that their under-fire colleagues still average 40 in Test cricket. Well, Herbert Sutcliffe averaged 60. And not only that, he always averaged 60 - or more- throughout his 54-match Test career. Ironically it could have been even better, as his last 14 Tests brought an average of just 35.80 after his first 40 had seen 16 centuries.

His side-on position at delivery helped his natural out-swing, and he subsequently added an in-swinger and off-cutter to his armoury. Whereas his bowling was scientific in its approach, his batting was more one-dimensional and not quite up to the standards of the other "big four" all-rounders of the 1980s. It was still good enough to give him two Test centuries.

The movement during the ball’s flight is due to its “lift” or Magnus force, which affects the way a ball reacts during motion. This movement occurs because on the side of the ball which is advancing due to the spin motion the air flow is slowed down, creating a high-pressure region. On the other, receding side, it creates a low-pressure region. The difference in pressure causes a “lateral” force perpendicular to the ground and a lateral movement of the ball during flight. This is known as drift.
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3) Sunil Gavaskar (Batting average 51.12) The most consistent Indian batsman ever also predictably has the highest New Ball Impact – he was one of the most accomplished opening batsmen in history. Despite some landmark successes, the Indian team’s mindset was much more defensive in his time, thus reducing the potential for SDs relative to the Indian teams of the 2000s. Moreover, two of Gavaskar’s greatest innings (221 vs England, and 96 vs Pakistan – his last Test innings) narrowly missed being SD performances by 9 and 16 runs respectively; if they had even been scored by his colleagues, it would have given him an impact neck-to-neck with Tendulkar’s. Gavaskar gave Indian cricket a spine in the 1970s and was their highest impact batsman right through his career. Most interestingly, he was India’s highest impact batsman ever till early-2002, when Dravid overtook him (and then increased the gap dramatically). Despite Tendulkar’s stunning individual performances in the mid-late-1990s, he never overtook Gavaskar, till his own high impact phase between 2008 and 2011. It is one of the most interesting aspects of Indian cricket when you look at impact in a team context.
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@cricinfans: You r wrong. Bowling means not always super fast bowling. Having three specialist, unique and match winning spinners will never make a team worst. This India XI bowling is very competitive, with very strong spin dept. and fair medium fast bowling.
1896 will always be etched in sports fans minds as the first year of the Modern Olympic Games. But while Pierre de Coubertin's Athens show took some of the headlines, Manchester saw another when Ranji made his Test debut against the Australians. Having made 62 in the first innings, he struck 23 boundaries in a memorable unbeaten 154 second time around. In the Golden Age of Cricket he was the brightest light, passing 3,000 runs in both 1899 and 1900 in exquisite style.
This is a good team except MS Dhoni who used to drop a Catch per Inning/Match while others deserve their place. They have 2 Fast bowlers and 3 Spinners and I m so happy that Vinoo Mankad was chosen unanimously. They have all type of Spin and then who is asking where are the Bowlers? Right Kapil, Kumble, Srinath, Erapalli Prasanna and Vinoo Mankad are good enough to bowl out any opposition while you have V Sehwag and Vijay Hazare as additional bowling option for Spin and Medium Fast while don't forget Sachin who's wicket taking ability that changes the match and in every famous win of India like the Kolkata, Adelaide and Multan (M Khan Bowled) is more then good enough. Don't keep cry for the Bowlers.
Not a great team. Forget the recent hype, but Dhoni has no business being there. Kirmani is the best keeper. Sehwag has got the runs, but he is not the purist's delight. I will stay with Vijay Merchant, whose flowing drives along the carpet, on both sides of the wicket, must have delighted many a cricket lover. It was a toss up between Rahul Dravid and Polly Umrigar. I gave it to Umrigar, for being a great batsman, who bowled a bit. He bowled in tandem with Jasu Patel at Kanpur, against the Aussies and won us a game. Hazare was a surprise. I would stick to Vishwanath. Those wristy drives, were pure class. Vintage stuff. I have not seen Nissar, but I have read extensively about him. He is the best India has produced, and he just has to be there, although I am an admirer of Srinath too. Kumble has been a great bowler, throughout his career - but Subhash Gupte was in a class of his own. I endorse the rest of the selection. Cheers.
The batting is strong and would have been stronger with Merchant for Hazare. But this attack will not win many matches outside India. The crucial, predictable, error was the unanimous selection of Mankad over Bedi. Mankad has a slightly inferior all-round Test record to Chris Cairns, who was left out of New Zealand's team. Many respected judges consider Bedi, with his subtle flight and variations, to be India's greatest bowler on good pitches. During the 1970s, when he took more first-class wickets than anyone in the world, most critics thought Bedi a superior, more complete, left-arm spinner than Underwood, who has made the England all-time side. Srinath's long uneven Test career should not have gained him preference over Amar Singh or Nissar, bowlers of higher class whose limited international opportunities were unavoidable and more than balanced by excellent first-class figures. Amar Singh's 5.5 wickets per match are second only to Murali among bowlers from the sub-continent.
It is not surprising to see VVS Laxman top the list comprehensively. Everyone remembers the 281 but not that 69 perhaps. From a 99-run deficit in a very low scoring match, India were 14 for 2 when Laxman and Tendulkar came together. Laxman made 69, Tendulkar 55, India set a target of 107 and then Australia were all out for 93. Tendulkar’s 55, interestingly, is his highest impact Test innings (at number 12, just misses the cut here). This would annoy a lot of fans – but in a match context, where we examine every performance relative to the other performances in the same match, and value it as per context, this simply comes up higher. Remember, this is in a match context, not innings. Tendulkar played many high impact single Test innings, but he never played an innings where he helped India come back from behind to such an extent. That was Laxman’s domain.
The goal of a cricket bowler is to take as many wickets as possible with minimal runs taken, so what better way to rank the best test bowlers than by listing the total number of wickets taken. The greatest ever cricket bowler (vote) will probably come from this list, though there are other considerations such as the number of matches played and the conditions played under and the quality of the opposition. The table below was created in July 2011, and none of this list are currently playing. Based purely on wickets taken, Muralitharan is the greatest, though he has had the advantage over Warne of playing more often on spin-friendly wickets.
With this magnitude of spin, the ball’s trajectory is much straighter and results in many wickets as the opposing batsman often plays down the wrong line of trajectory. As a result, Ashwin, who is one of the very few operators of this delivery in the world game, has one of the highest percentages of dismissals for leg before wicket in Test cricket to date.
Dhoni lived up to his billing and didn’t take long to seal a place across all formats after making his ODI debut in 2004. For years, India craved for a wicket-keeper batsman who could beat the daylights out of opposition bowlers lower down the order, and Dhoni turned out to be that.
Indian government showed honour with a trophy in his name, the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a zonal-cricket tournament in India. He and Jasu Patel were the first cricketers to be honoured with the Padma Shri award.
4) Gundappa Viswanath (Batting average 41.93) It would surprise a lot of people to see him at this position, given how much lower his average is than many others below him on this list. In fact, his impact is in the same league as Gavaskar’s – who averages almost 10 runs per innings more than him. The reason for this is the one extra SD Viswanath has, in 34 fewer Tests. Moreover, despite being one of the great stylists in the game, Viswanath was also the go-to man in a crisis (he absorbed the most pressure successfully among Indian batsmen who played more than 50 Tests) and surprisingly consistent (his failure rate on this list is also fourth-best). Given his longevity (91 Tests in 14 years), his place in Indian cricket history is a very special one.
Currently, their focus is on the upcoming T20 Blind World Cup in November and December this year, for which they are raising funds in partnership with Milaap, the fundraising portal. They are looking to raise a total of Rs 50 lakh which will help to pay for their kits, coaches and other expenses.
Ganguly was a great captain - one of the greatest India has ever had, if not THE greatest captain. But he simply can't justify his place in an all time XI on the basis of his playing skills.That's a BIG problem. If you can't find a good leader in all your cricket history who would also automatically warrant his place on the basis of his playing skills, it is a really sorry state of affairs.
King of Swing, Wasim Akram most famous Pakistani cricketer. Akram is regarded as the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. He holds the world record for most wickets in List A cricket with 881. He was the first bowler to reach the 500-wicket in ODI cricket. He was ranked as the best bowler in ODI of all time in 2002. Akram is considered to the Best Captain. He won 17 Man-of-the-Match awards in 104 tests and 22 in ODIs. He took 4 hat-tricks in International cricket. He hit 12 sixes in that, most by anyone in a test innings.
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Brett Lee known by his nickname ‘Binga’ is a former Australian cricketer. He was recognized as the 2nd fastest bowlers in world cricket after Shoaib Akhtar. He is an athletic fielder and useful lower-order batsman, with a batting average exceeding 20 in Test cricket. Together with Mike Hussey, he has held the record for highest 7th wicket partnership for Australia in ODIs since 2005–06 with 123.
“It’s a life changing amount of money,” said Stokes, who waited 40 minutes to go under the auctioneer’s hammer after setting his alarm for 3.30am. “I was following on Twitter, I didn’t actually see the auction live. I kept on refreshing. I saw people were tweeting and then I realised that Pune had got me. I wasn’t sure how much a crore was. It was complete carnage.”
Top 10 Most popular cricketers all time. These cricket players having great fame in all formats of cricket Test, ODI and T20 in all categories batting, bowling and fielding.
So, in this instalment, we look at India’s ten highest impact batsmen in 84 years of Indian Test cricket. In the next, we’ll look at bowlers, then players.
The aim of a cricket batsman is to make as many runs as possible, so what better way to rank the best batters than by listing the total runs scored. The greatest cricket batsman (vote) may come from this list, though there are other considerations such as the number of matches played (and batting average) and the conditions played under and the quality of the opposition. The highest test run scorer is the Indian player Tendulkar, though the other commonly nominated greatest batsman, Bradman, is not even in the top 10! The Don was ranked 39th as did not play anywhere near as many Test matches are these players. The table below was created in July 2011. Several players are still active and the figures will have changed since then.
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But even the all-rounder’s surprise could not match that of the Sussex left-arm fast bowler, Tymal Mills, who from a reserve price of £60,000 finished up with a £1.4m deal to play for Royal Challengers Bangalore, some two years after he nearly quit the game.
MS Dhoni Profile There are very few Indian players who can claim to rival Sachin Tendulkar’s popularity. MS Dhoni is certainly one of them. The wicketkeeper-batsman took India’s domestic cricket by storm using brute force. His ability to consistently hit the ball out of stadiums held the domestic circuit in thrall. Dhoni lived up to his billing and didn’t take long to seal a place across all formats after making his ODI debut in 2004. For years, India craved for a wicket-keeper batsman who could beat the daylights out of opposition bowlers lower down the order, and Dhoni turned out to be that. His legend grew to another level after he captained India to the trophy in the inaugural World T20 in 2007. In 2011, he led the team to another World Cup win, this time in the 50-overs format besides winning the Champions Trophy in 2013. He also captained the Test team to No.1 in the ICC rankings, a first for the Indian cricket team. Dhoni retired from Tests in December 2014 and gave up captaincy of limited-overs teams in early 2017. In the twilight of his career, he still retains his power hitting and ability to finish off matches with composure of the highest order.
In the last few years, the CABI supported by the Samarthanam Trust has always ensured that the Indian blind cricket team gets all the help it can get to compete at the international level but currently their funds have dried up. In the past, most of the cricketers have paid for the expenses out of their own pockets.
Just don't agree with nagetive minded people like Mr. Navillus. But i really feel there should have been 3rd seemer backing Kapil and Srinath, Zaheer may be. what is a need of Vinoo Mankad as an allrounder when u got people like Kapil and Dhoni?? The comments written on Srinath here all harsh when he hardly got any succesfull fast bowler bowling alongside him in his playing days. A bowlers average and strike rate can only go up if he gets support from other end like Mcgrath(Gillispie/Lee), Wasim (Waqar), Ambrose (Walsh/Bishop), Holding (marshall/ Garner), Donald (Pollock).
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It is hard to find anyone who hasn’t heard the name of this legendary player. Sachin Tendulkar who is affectionately called Little Master by his fans is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. The 39-year-old Tendulkar made his international debut in 1989 and still continue playing cricket. In his twenty-two years of cricket career, he has achieved many records in both Test and one-day international cricket. He is the highest run scorer and highest centurion in both format of the cricket game. So far he has scored 15470 runs in Test and 18426 runs in ODI respectively. He is the only player to reach the milestone of scoring a hundred centuries, including 51 centuries in Test and 49 centuries in ODI. He is also the only player to score fifty centuries in Test cricket. He is the first player to have scored double century in ODI cricket. He is also the first player to cross 10000 runs in one day cricket.
Mike Marqusee probably do not know much about Dhyan Chand, Viswanathan Anand and Pankaj Advani in stating "certainly in other lands", but that's acceptable. But it's humiliating to see Kiran More's stupid comment on MS Dhoni, a poor corrupt person on one of the greatest wicket keeping batsmen India has ever produced. Certainly lot more better comment would be available from a better person. I believe this XI looks best that could have been taken from the lot otherwise. I would have loved to see Vijay Merchant and VVS Laxman but as it is stated this is the golden era for Indian Batting with legends all around, even all of them could not be drafted into the all-time XI. I feel for Farokh Engineer who wasn't even nominated by the jury and also for Ganguly, Vishy & Chandrasekar. They could make the squad any day. This XI could certainly take any team from any era and put up a strong fight, and even can be the best on a day. Cheers.