#michael vaughan on rahul dravid

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अगर राहुल द्रविड़ टीम इंडिया के कोच बने तो दुनियाभर की टीमें रहें सावधान: माइकल वॉन

अगर राहुल द्रविड़ टीम इंडिया के कोच बने तो दुनियाभर की टीमें रहें सावधान: माइकल वॉन

नई दिल्लीइंडियन प्रीमियर लीग (IPL) के 2021 सीजन को चैंपियन मिलने के साथ ही टीम इंडिया को नया कोच भी मिल गया। पूर्व कप्तान राहुल द्रविड़ टीम इंडिया के कोच बनने के लिए तैयार हो गए हैं। वह टी-20 वर्ल्ड कप के बाद रवि शास्त्री की जगह ले लेंगे। जैसे ही यह खबर आई, सोशल मीडिया पर काफी ऐक्टिव रहने वाले इंग्लैंड के पूर्व कप्तान माइकल वॉन ने भी प्रतिक्रिया दी। उन्होंने द वॉल का टीम इंडिया का कोच बनने को…

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Hey my guys, my lovely cricfam. Here's a little something inspired by something I saw on fb.

What five players made you fall in love with cricket?

Mine would be:

Michael Vaughan - though I definitely do not like him now, the summer I got into cricket he was the main man

Rahul Dravid - same as Vaughan, except I still like him

Brian Lara - 🐐

Charlotte Edwards - she came to my club! And we shared a joke! And most of all, here is a woman who plays cricket!

Katherine Brunt - I was sold on cricket by this point but the WT20 final in 2009 was the first women's match I watched start to finish, and here was a Yorkshire fast bowler tearing through the top order and dancing

There are really more to list, and players even now that make me fall in love a bit more.

Share yours too! Reblog or make a post, tag if you want to as well :)

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Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma can't continue to choose Virat Kohli for his past performances: Michael Vaughan

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Rahul Dravid is going to make a fantastic head coach for India, predicts Michael Vaughan https://ift.tt/31hT9LB

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Teams around the world should be careful if Rahul Dravid becomes the coach of Team India: Michael Vaughan

Teams around the world should be careful if Rahul Dravid becomes the coach of Team India: Michael Vaughan

New DelhiAlong with getting the champion of the 2021 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Team India also got a new coach. Former captain Rahul Dravid has agreed to become the coach of Team India. He will replace Ravi Shastri after the T20 World Cup. As soon as this news came, former England captain Michael Vaughan, who was very active on social media, also reacted. He has called The Wall…

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"World Better Beware": Michael Vaughan On Reports Of Rahul Dravid Taking Over As India Coach

“World Better Beware”: Michael Vaughan On Reports Of Rahul Dravid Taking Over As India Coach

Rahul Dravid is in line to become Team India’s next head coach.© Twitter Former Ashes-winning England captain Michael Vaughan said the “rest of the world better beware” if reports of Rahul Dravid taking over as India head coach are true. According to multiple media reports, former India captain Dravid will take over as the men’s cricket team’s head coach after the upcoming T20 World Cup in the…

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राहुल द्रविड़ के टीम इंडिया का कोच बनने का क्रेडिट वसीम जाफर ने दिया शार्दुल ठाकुर को

राहुल द्रविड़ के टीम इंडिया का कोच बनने का क्रेडिट वसीम जाफर ने दिया शार्दुल ठाकुर को

नई दिल्ली. पूर्व दिग्गज बल्लेबाज राहुल द्रविड़ (Rahul Dravid) संयुक्त अरब अमीरत (UAE) में खेले जाने वाले टी20 विश्व कप (ICC T20 World Cup 2021) के बाद भारतीय क्रिकेट टीम (Indian Cricket Team) के कोच बनने के लिए तैयार हो गए हैं. द्रविड़ हालांकि पहले इस जिम्मेदारी के लिए तैयार नहीं थे, लेकिन भारतीय क्रिकेट बोर्ड (BCCI) की ओर जोर देने के बाद उन्होंने इसके लिए हामी भर दी. भारत के सबसे महानतम…

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Was Shoaib Akhtar's Talent Overshadowed By His Sagas?

World’s Fastest Bowler Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan

Karthik Krishnaswamy

In Come to Think of it, we bring new perspectives to bear on received cricket wisdom. This week: was Shoaib Akhtar undervalued?

There's a fairly widely held strand of public opinion that would view Shoaib Akhtar as a wasted talent. It isn't just armchair fans who might think this - just look at his ESPNcricinfo profile.

"But that he will end his career an 'if only' or a 'coulda been' is the great tragedy," it says, fairly high up. "He had it all and he blew it." It ends with these lines: "So much so that what he did on the field had long ago ceased to matter and has been eclipsed by his scrapes off the field. For any sportsman, that is a damning indictment."

There are reasons to feel this way, of course, and the profile lists them succinctly: "doubts about his action, ball-tampering offences, beating up his own team-mates, courtroom battles against his board, long bans and heavier fines, serious career-threatening injuries and most damagingly, doping charges."

None of this is untrue, and that list doesn't even include the time Akhtar's board sent out a press release explaining his absence from a squad, and, rather than reach for one of a thousand bland corporate euphemisms, spelled out the exact nature and location of the skin condition that was keeping him out.

Akhtar's post-retirement public persona has done little to burnish his legacy. At the time of writing, he's in the news for claiming that he turned down a lucrative county contract with Nottinghamshire so that he could fight in the Kargil War. He... what? Yeah.

But hard as it seems, it's actually possible to disentangle all that from the thing that really matters, and properly appreciate Akhtar for the magnificent cricketer he was.

There was the pace, of course, and it was a strange and magical coincidence that he came along at the exact historical moment when bowling speeds were first being measured and displayed on live TV as a matter of course. You didn't just know he was quick; you knew he was quicker than anyone else, probably ever.

It was also Akhtar's fate that another purveyor of extreme pace, Brett Lee, came along at pretty much the same time. For the first two or three years of this millennium, the two of them pushed themselves, each other, and the limits of the human body to bowl faster and faster still.

The pace race was thrilling to witness, but in a WWE sort of way, bordering on silliness and fetishising pace for pace's sake. Watch the five balls that this video packages in ascending order of speed. Are they, as claimed, the five fastest deliveries in cricket history? Who knows. Do they make the batsmen cower in fear? Not particularly, and the quickest of them, bowled by Akhtar to Nick Knight during the 2003 World Cup, clocking 161.3kph, is nudged routinely to midwicket.

In the race to be the fastest bowler, one of these two purveyors of pace lost out Hamish Blair / © Getty Images

Pace is pace, yaar, but it's how you use it that counts. The pace race had an inevitable intertwining effect on the careers of Akhtar and Lee, but in doing so, it did one of them a considerable disservice. One was fast and hard-working and a fine first change behind Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie. The other was fast and scary, utterly impossible to take your eyes off, and utterly unplayable on his day.

Akhtar was the superior bowler, unarguably, but even a surface reading of their Test numbers would tell you as much. The point isn't that Akhtar was better than Lee. It's that he was an almost one-of-a-kind bowler who heightened the effect of raw pace to a degree rarely seen at the highest level of the game.

There was, of course, the effect on the spectators, achieved via that run-up, that exaggerated sideways leap and javelin-thrower wind-up, the theatrics between deliveries - occasionally during his run-up - and even that hair. But all that would have come to nothing without his effect on batsmen.

When Akhtar was fully switched on, in rhythm, and at his physical peak, the pace was almost all he needed to have that effect. Pace aimed with thrilling directness at the base of the stumps. It sounds simple, but there's a reason why only a tiny fraction of other bowlers have ever really pulled it off - or even attempted it - on a regular basis. Bowling yorkers at high pace takes a lot out of your body, and there isn't a whole lot of margin for error. Get it wrong and it's a lot of energy expended, and probably a lot of runs conceded, with little left in the tank for the rest of the day's exertions.

Akhtar's genius lay in being able to beat the very best batsmen with that direct, route-one method. I mean, come on. Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar in the space of two balls? Ricky Ponting, both Waughs and Adam Gilchrist in the space of 11?

In between, there were six wickets in 8.2 overs in Lahore, which sent New Zealand crashing to 73 all out on a pitch where Pakistan had made 643. Only once has a bigger first-innings lead been secured by a team bowling second, and that happened in a timeless Test.

Watch those wickets again: bowled, bowled, bowled, bowled, lbw, bowled; four pinpoint yorkers, the other two balls also full enough to just about fall under that classification, all of them beating the batsman for pace, with little or no reverse in play - New Zealand's innings only lasted 30.2 overs. This was the definition of taking the conditions out of the equation, and few did it as well as Akhtar.

There might even be a way to measure this.

When Akhtar took wickets, he took them quickly, as have the other four names on the table below. Vernon Philander and Dale Steyn have run through numerous teams, the latter in all conditions; Stuart Broad routinely goes on inspired bursts of wicket-taking; and Andy Caddick was a memorable blow-hot, blow-cold performer.

BOWLERS WITH BEST STRIKE RATES WHEN TAKING 4+ WICKETS IN AN INNS

It's an imperfect measure, of course, penalising bowlers who are part of better and deeper bowling attacks, but it says something that in the Tests where Akhtar burst through the opposition at the rate of a wicket every 23 balls, Pakistan's other bowlers took one every 75 balls. When other bowlers struggled, he often found a way.

At his peak the pace was often enough, but bowling that fast took a lot out of him, physically and mentally, as he revealed to Sidharth Monga in this fascinating interview five years ago. "I used to crawl to my bathroom every day of my career," he said. "I used to limp out of my bed. I can't remember a day I didn't have pain in my knees for the last 18 years."

Akhtar knew he needed other tricks apart from pace, and he certainly had them: swing, seam - look at this ball to Chris Gayle, in Sharjah of all places - the use of angles, the ability to manipulate batsmen with his lengths. Watch him bowl Matthew Hayden from around the wicket here. The late swing is a joy in itself, but what you won't see is the short balls he bowled before this ball, to push Hayden back and stop him from stepping out of his crease as he did time and again to fast bowlers.

Then there was the Akhtar slower ball. No bowler has ever delivered this variation with a bigger drop-off in speed from their stock ball, and he bowled it with no discernible change in arm action. England, fresh off an Ashes victory they still haven't stopped talking about, had no answer to it during their 2005-06 tour of Pakistan. Akhtar bowled many quicker spells through his career, but few approached this one in Lahore for the bafflement he caused. You want to watch this, but maybe not if you're Michael Vaughan, Ian Bell, or Liam Plunkett.

That Test match was Akhtar's 39th. He only played seven more, the last of them on an India tour in 2007, where he outbowled most of his colleagues on largely unhelpful pitches. The skills hadn't gone away but the body was uncooperative. He continued playing ODIs, sporadically, until the 2011 World Cup, and that was that.

Forty-six Tests. Umar Gul, the perennially crocked Umar Gul, played 47.

Even with all his injuries, Akhtar could have probably squeezed in a few more, what with all the bans and disciplinary troubles. But it's a marvel, come to think of it, that he left himself enough room to squeeze in all those spells, and leave us with all those memories.

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via Today Bharat Standing on the cusp of achieving a mind-boggling landmark, England will become the first country in the world to have the honour of playing 1,000 matches in cricketrsquo;s traditional format ndash; Tests. On August 1, Joe Rootrsquo;s men will forever etch their name in the history books when they take on top-ranked India in the first game of the five-match Test series at Edgbaston in Birmingham. The 27-year old Yorkshireman will have the honour of captaining the traditional powerhouse in their momentous 1,000th Test match. It took England cricket more than 141 years to reach the unthinkable four-figure mark. England have played Tests against nine different opponents ndash; Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. Since playing their inaugural Test match at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground against historical rivals Australia in 1877, England, across 999 Tests, have established themselves as the pioneers of the game. Their affinity for the longest format can easily be construed from the fact that they lead the list of most Test matches played by a significant margin from second-ranked Australia (821). Apart from England and Australia, only West Indies (535) and India (522) have crossed the 500-mark when it comes to Test cricket. From their present tally of 999 Tests, England have won 357 and lost 297 matches. Despite playing in 187 lesser matches than England, Australia hold the distinction of winning the most number of Tests. They have won 383 and lost 219 matches. With such momentous figures, it would not be wrong to say that England have a rich and varied history in what is referred to as the lsquo;gentlemenrsquo;s gamersquo;. However, from the present England Test squad, there are two names which easily standout mdash; former skipper Alastair Cook and fast bowler James Anderson. Both Cook and Anderson can easily be referred to as giants of cricketrsquo;s purest format as the duo has contributed heavily to England cricketrsquo;s success in the past decade. Cook (59 Tests) had captained England in more Tests than any other player, with Michael Atherton, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss also reaching 50 games in charge. The stylish left-hander also holds the record for being the most capped English player and has scored most number of runs in Test cricket (for England), he has 12,145 Test runs against his name. He is the only Englishman in history to cross the elusive 10,000-run mark in Tests. He is way ahead of second-placed Graham Gooch (8,900), and he also has a comfortable lead in the most Test centuries (for England) ndash; nine clear on 32. Cook is at sixth on the all-time list of highest run-getters in Tests behind Sachin Tendulkar (15,921), Ricky Ponting (13,378), Jacques Kallis (13,289) and Rahul Dravid (13,288). If Cook is the one leading the batting charts with his insurmountable achievements, Anderson is easily the greatest-ever English bowler. The 36-year old quick leads Englandrsquo;s all-time bowling tally with 540 Test wickets under his belt from 138 matches. His new-ball partner Stuart Broad is next best with 417 scalps. 🎂 Happy birthday @jimmy9! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/OV7AlpGd91 mdash; England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 30, 2018 Ian Botham (383), Bob Willis (325) and Fred Trueman (307) are the other players to break the 300 barrier in Test cricket. Anderson needs just 24 more wickets to become the most prolific fast bowler in Test history. Former Australia pacer Glenn McGrath leads the pace bowling tally with 563 wickets. During the last Ashes series against Australia, Anderson and Broad overtook legendary Windies pair of Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh to become the most successful new-ball pair in Test history. In the upcoming five-match Test series against India, all eyes will once again be on Cook and Anderson, who share the biggest workload as England eye a piece of history at Edgbaston.

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द्रविड़ के कोच बनने की खबर से मची खलबली, इंग्लिश दिग्गज बोला- बाकी टीमें हो जाएं सावधान

द्रविड़ के कोच बनने की खबर से मची खलबली, इंग्लिश दिग्गज बोला- बाकी टीमें हो जाएं सावधान

नई दिल्ली. पूर्व भारतीय बल्लेबाज राहुल द्रविड़ (Rahul Dravid New Coach) के टीम इंडिया के कोच बनने की खबर सामने आते ही विश्व क्रिकेट में खलबली मच गई है. द्रविड़ टी20 विश्व कप के बाद टीम इंडिया के हेड कोच की जिम्मेदारी संभाल लेंगे. उनका पहला बड़ा मिशन न्यूजीलैंड के खिलाफ घरेलू सीरीज होगी. हालांकि, बीसीसीआई ने अभी इस पर आधिकारिक तौर पर कुछ नहीं कहा है. लेकिन इंग्लैंड के पूर्व कप्तान माइकल वॉन…

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Rahul Dravid is going to make a fantastic head coach for India, predicts Michael Vaughan

Rahul Dravid is going to make a fantastic head coach for India, predicts Michael Vaughan

Rahul Dravid is going to make a fantastic head coach for India: Michael Vaughan source https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/t20-world-cup-2021/story/rahul-dravid-is-going-to-make-a-fantastic-head-coach-for-india-predicts-michael-vaughan-1873075-2021-11-04?utm_source=rss via Blogger https://ift.tt/3GMOaD4