At Auckland there was
mayhem – 407 runs in 40 overs - at
half-way today, NZ for sure would have fancied their chances setting up a
target of 204 – never they would have imagined that this would be eclipsed with
6 wickets at hand and a over to spare. Score card would read : India 204 for 4
(Iyer 58*, Rahul 56, Kohli 45, Sodhi 2-36) beat New Zealand203 for 5 (Munro 59,
Taylor 54, Williamson 51, Jadeja 1-18) by six wickets.
One could
not avoid thinking it is heavily batsmen’s game – can you imagine a situation
where team batting first makes 115 and team chasing makes 147 in same overs,
yet loses the match by a long way – by 44 runs !!
Team
India won by DL method – the names of
Frank Duckworth & Tony Lewis are known
to every Cricket fan. It is the rain
rule or rather how scores will be calculated when it rains in the midst of a
match. Rain rules are indeed strange;
the revised targets generally favour the chasers as they have the job cut out
in the shortened version. Today it was entirely different though ! The Duckworth–Lewis method (often written as
D/L method) is a mathematical formulation designed to calculate the target
score for the team batting second in a limited overs match interrupted by
weather or other circumstances. The D/L method was devised by two English
statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.
The
basic principle is that each team in a limited-overs match has two resources
available with which to score runs: wickets remaining, and overs to play. Where
overs are lost, setting an adjusted target is not as simple as to reduce the
batting team's run target proportionally, because a team batting second with
ten wickets in hand and 25 overs to play can be expected to play more
aggressively than one with ten wickets and a full 50 overs, and can
consequently achieve a higher run rate. The Duckworth–Lewis method is an
attempt to set a statistically fair target for the second team's innings, based
on the score achieved by the first team, taking their wickets lost and overs
played into account.
Back
home, former India players Chetan
Sharma, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Nayan Mongia and the Mumbai duo of Abey
Kuruvilla and Ajit Agarkar have applied for two positions in the Indian men's
selection committee after the board invited applications last week. PTI
reported that two others, the former India and Madhya Pradesh duo of Rajesh
Chauhan and Amay Khurasiya, have also thrown their hat into the ring. The BCCI
had earlier announced January 24 as the cut-off date to receive applications.
They are yet to release an update on the number of applicants and the interview
date. It's also unclear as to when the new set of selectors, which also
includes a new women's selection panel and a couple of junior men's selectors,
would be appointed.
The
position of chairman in the men's committee is up for grabs with MSK Prasad,
the former India wicketkeeper, finishing his four-year term last November.
Since then, he has been on an extension along with former India and Rajasthan
batsman Gagan Khoda. Sivaramakrishnan is the oldest among the list of people !
~ remember seeing him making ripples as a leg spinning prodigy in 1980s .. ..
and it is stated that as per the rules of the constitution, the person with the
most Test caps will be the chairman of the selection committee.
Today it was match
no. 20 in ICC Under-19 World Cup at
Bloemfontein, a group A match between Team India and Junior Black Caps. India batting first were 115 without loss
in 23 overs when rain came. YBK Jaiswal
was unbeaten on 57 while DA Saxena had made 52*. The Newzealanders did organize their chase
well with RA Mariu scoring 42 off 31 & FF Lellman threatening with a
quickfire 31 – but the bowling was tight backed up by some good catches and
Kiwis were bowled out for 147 in 21 overs.
Ravi Bishnoi, the leg spinner was the best with figures of 5-0-34-4
while Ankolekar took 3/28 in his 5 overs.
Atharva
Ankolekar has risen the hard way sweating and persevering amidst personal
tragedy. Son of a bus conductor,
Atharva Ankolekar was not even 10 when
his father passed away. His mother Vaidehi Ankolekar raised him
single-handedly, working as a conductor in BEST, Mumbai bus services. He was
selected for Indian Under-19 cricket team for the Youth Asia Cup in Sri
Lanka. He is a left-arm orthodox and
left hand bat, currently studying in a college in Mumbai. One of the most memorable moment of his
short career was in 2010, when Atharva
dismissed the legendary Sachin Tendulkar in a practice match. Impressed with
the child, Tendulkar later gave him with a pair of autographed gloves.
In the eight edition of Asia Cup U19 held in Sept
2019 in Sri Lanka - India retained their
title… .. but that was after lot of drama !
The score card reads : India
Under-19s 106 (Karan Lal 37, Hossain 3-8) beat Bangladesh Under-19s 101 (Akbar
Ali 23, Ankolekar 5-28) by five runs.
Left-arm spinner Atharva Ankolekar broke Bangladesh's spirited late
resistance to help India defend 106, taking them to a seventh Under-19 Asia Cup
title with a five-run win in a rain-interrupted, nerve-wracking encounter in
Colombo.
On 22nd
Mar 1992 - SA will ever curse the rule….
Victories over Australia, West Indies, Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe had
propelled the reemerging SA all the way to the semi-finals. Chasing 253 – rain interrupted play for 12 minutes with South
Africa 231/6 off 42.5 overs and the over limit was reduced to 43 overs with the
target reduced by 1 to 252. So suddenly when it rained, the target became 21
off a single delivery….. !!!!
Earlier
in the same tourney, rain had deprived England of the emphatic victory expected
when Pakistan were dismissed for their lowest total in limited-overs
internationals, and the smallest by a Test country in the World Cup. They were
bowled out for 74 and the target was reduced to 64 in 16 overs. It rained again and the points were split….
Pak went on to make history by winning the cup
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
24th Jan 2020.
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