India play West
Indies in an One dayer at Kochi tomorrow….. lot has changed since WI first
played an ODI series in India – in the first match at Kashmir, Kapil had
figures of 5-1-12-0 and Balwinder Sandhu 7-0-10-0 – in the curtailed match WI
won easily losing no wickets and Madanlal had figures of 6.4-0-51-0. That was
in 1983, immediately after WC and WI won 5-0. There has been no left-arm unorthodox bowler
(chinaman) from Asia and Kuldeep Yadav could make his debut during this Series –
Cricinfo reports that there have been 11 chinaman bowlers in ODI thus far - the most famous of them being Garry Sobers,
who also bowled left-arm orthodox and seam, Paul Adams and Brad Hogg. When Stuart Binny made his debut, he did not score a run, bag a
wicket or take a catch on his one-day international debut earlier this year. Is
this unique?
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has tagged Shashi Tharoor in his Swachh Bharat campaign and
Tharoor has said that he is "honoured". The cat is out of the bag say
some in Tharoor's party and rumours are flying wild that Tharoor is about to
switch over to the BJP. Some in the Congress have not forgiven Tharoor for a
piece he wrote in the Huffington Post that said that as "Modi had remade
himself from a hate figure into an avatar of modernity and progress’ – and some
daggers are drawn in Cong itself.
After a multitude of
complaints over the Big Billion Day flash sale, Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal
and Binny Bansal today issued an apology to all customers for the
inconveniences customers faced, saying that they were "really and truly
sorry". The two founders
highlighted the preparations that the company had undertaken over the last few
months for the day and said that while they did see unprecedented interest in
their products, and traffic "like never before", they discovered they
weren't prepared enough for an event of that scale.
At a time when some
are crying hoarse about chucking, Gavaskar has gone on record stating that there are no bowlers with suspect action in
the current Indian team. He
suggested that the Umpire should talk to the Captain and ensure that the bowler
does not bowl anylonger in the match rather than allowing to win them a match
and later recommending penal action.
Getting back to Stuart Binny's unproductive ODI debut, Cric
info reports that it came against New
Zealand in Hamilton in January 2014 and was far from unique: Binny was actually the 294th
player to make no obvious contribution in his first ODI (and there have been
two more since: Haseeb Amjad of Hong Kong and the UAE's Mohammad Shahzad). It's
rarer to go through your debut Test without scoring a run, taking a wicket or a
catch, but it has still happened 59 times - most recently to Sohail Khan of
Pakistan, against Sri Lanka in Karachi in 2008-09.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar.
7th Oct 2014.
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