Yantra Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 This was one of the best batting display from Kapil against Donald and company, India was in trouble with All top 5 wickets gone single figures including Sachin, Azhar, Shashtri, Manju, it will be great tribute to Kapil and those who are young generation would understand why we admire Kapil so much truly best all rounder world has ever seen, no question about it. SUMO, Gollum and Rightarmfast 1 2 Link to comment
rtmohanlal Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I too am eagerly waiting for the video of his innings with mouth watering enthusiam.The great Kapil could play such inns which even ATG batsmen could be proud of.The likes of Jadeja , Ashwin, Woakes etc etc are prime examples of the fact that stats aren't every thing. They all avg: very closer to Kapil, but they can only dream of playing the sort of inns Kapil could play.A genuine all rounder whose bat avg: of 31.05 is easily atleast worth 38 if longevity,aggressiveness, several inns against high quality bowling units etc etc are taken into account.Hope some body would upload his 129 vs SAF video clip one day. Rightarmfast, Gollum, maniac and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment
maniac Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Kapil’s 2 best innings have no footage such a shame His 175* due to the BBC strike and this one ...don’t ever recollect seeing footage for this either. Gollum 1 Link to comment
Jimmy Cliff Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Some of Azhar's knocks in ODIs from that tour have been uploaded recently on YT. So you may get lucky. Link to comment
Yantra Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 This match was televised in India and I remember seeing it, it was a big shock in those days that new SA team was so good in every thing even though they were not playing international cricket, in those days our away tours were really bad, speacially after Kapil left, in this 92 tour I think we lost one test match but the other two that followed we lost most of the matches, poor selection of bowlers, batsmans whole team was bad apart from few knocks from Sachin, dravid and Azhar no one stood up to SAs fast bowlers, sandeep 1 Link to comment
Vijy Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, Yantra said: This match was televised in India and I remember seeing it, it was a big shock in those days that new SA team was so good in every thing even though they were not playing international cricket, in those days our away tours were really bad, speacially after Kapil left, in this 92 tour I think we lost one test match but the other two that followed we lost most of the matches, poor selection of bowlers, batsmans whole team was bad apart from few knocks from Sachin, dravid and Azhar no one stood up to SAs fast bowlers, don't forget amre who played a very fine knock. possibly the best debut innings by an indian. 2 hours ago, rtmohanlal said: I too am eagerly waiting for the video of his innings with mouth watering enthusiam.The great Kapil could play such inns which even ATG batsmen could be proud of.The likes of Jadeja , Ashwin, Woakes etc etc are prime examples of the fact that stats aren't every thing. They all avg: very closer to Kapil, but they can only dream of playing the sort of inns Kapil could play.A genuine all rounder whose bat avg: of 31.05 is easily atleast worth 38 if longevity,aggressiveness, several inns against high quality bowling units etc etc are taken into account.Hope some body would upload his 129 vs SAF video clip one day. diff between woakes/jaddu and ashwin is that latter has scored some 100s (even if against the same weak team). having said that, I agree there's a gap between ashwin and kapil. the same also holds for ashwin and mankad who avg about the same, but mankad was shuttled up and down order in a super-weak team and had an avg of 41 as opener (scored 2 doubles too) Edited December 19, 2017 by Vijy Link to comment
maniac Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 I remember the odi series....didn’t catch much of the test matches...it was the early days of cable tv in India. I remember WV Raman’s 100(I think only Match we won),Kapil Dev’s mankanding incident and also this allrounder called Dave Callahan who was a pain more often than not(I believe he had cancer or something later on which cut his career short) Donald was almost unplayable every time he bowled. The most epic memory from the odi series was Ravi Shastri who was known to be a tuk tuk legend would try to come down the pitch to Donald and co and miss the ball all the time but first time since I started watching cricket saw Ravi Shastri “try”. I didn’t see the test matches...even if I caught a bit of the action,don’t actually remember much except reading in the papers about Amre 100 but I think it was international test debut for Zimbabwe early on in that tour. Gollum 1 Link to comment
sandeep Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 3 hours ago, Vijy said: don't forget amre who played a very fine knock. possibly the best debut innings by an indian. There's a reason why Amre is consdered pretty much the best batting coach in the business today. He was Dravid before there was a Dravid. A bit unlucky not to have a longer career. MechEng and Brainfade 2 Link to comment
Vijy Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 21 hours ago, sandeep said: There's a reason why Amre is consdered pretty much the best batting coach in the business today. He was Dravid before there was a Dravid. A bit unlucky not to have a longer career. I was under the impression, perhaps wrong, that amre was considered to be very solid at playing well on SA-type pitches. Dravid didn't do that well in SA on the whole. Given that in the early 90s we didn't have many batsmen with 40+ avgs (Sidhu, Azhar and SRT come to mind) I'm surprised Amre didn't get longer rope. Link to comment
Yantra Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 As I was looking for Kapil's innings online I came accross this fine Amre innings from the same tour on YT, enjoy... AuxiliA, Jimmy Cliff, chewy and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment
Vijy Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 3 minutes ago, Yantra said: As I was looking for Kapil's innings online I came accross this fine Amre innings from the same tour on YT, enjoy... yep, fab innings. in my book, finest debut 100 by an indian. edges out sehwag and a few others. Link to comment
Ankit_sharma03 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 On 12/22/2017 at 2:13 AM, Yantra said: As I was looking for Kapil's innings online I came accross this fine Amre innings from the same tour on YT, enjoy... wow thats a quality knock Link to comment
Jimmy Cliff Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Finally up on Youtube probably at the right time considering the shower of shite served up in the 2nd Test. Warning: Don't get your hopes too high as it only features 5-6 fours/1 six from the knock. Kudos to the uploader nonetheless . @Yantra @rtmohanlal Cricketics, The Dark Horse, velu and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment
rtmohanlal Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 5 minutes ago, Jimmy Cliff said: Finally up on Youtube probably at the right time considering the shower of shite served up in the 2nd Test. Warning: Don't get your hopes too high as it only features 5-6 fours/1 six from the knock. Kudos to the uploader nonetheless . @Yantra @rtmohanlal thanks a lot mate.... genuine dashing allrounder taking the team from 31/6 (still trailing by 32 runs or so) to a lead of some 150 single handedly against great bowling in toughest conditions.That was Kapil dev.Even if a few boundaries, it is worth watching. Jimmy Cliff 1 Link to comment
Jimmy Cliff Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 One-armed bandit Quote As his team-mates collapsed and Donald raged, Kapil Dev took the fight to South Africa No pain, no gain Trevor Jones / © Associated Press First there was the motorcade through Durban. And a few days later, a meeting with Nelson Mandela. Then two drawn Tests. Two more Tests remained, and in between India lost the one-day series 2-5. By the time the team arrived in Port Elizabeth, as we prepared to bid farewell to 1992, some of the gloss had already been taken off the Indian challenge. Allan Donald was quoted as saying that Indians ran from fast bowling. His 12 wickets in Port Elizabeth ensured a South African win with a day to spare, but it was the batting of Kapil Dev in the second innings that remains in the memory. He made 129 - the next highest score was 17 - which, along with VVS Laxman's 167 in Sydney and Tiger Pataudi's 148 at Headingley, must rate as among India's best centuries in lost causes. The key was attack, and there were some of the finest drives you could hope to see on a cricket field. Kapil's generous back-lift and full follow-through sent the fast bowlers boundary-wards, and if you ignored the context for a while - and cricket is famous for elevating a phase of attacking batting or mesmerising bowling above even the result of the match - it was the most exciting counterattack. None of the top six got to double figures, and when Kapil came in at 27 for 5 his first task was to stem the rot. The next morning he made 96 of 144 playing with an injured right hand. It was thrilling stuff. Link to comment
MechEng Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Mainak Sinha is awesome! His channel also has those gold Dravid knocks in England 2011. The Dark Horse 1 Link to comment
Straight Drive Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 On 20/12/2017 at 2:57 AM, Yantra said: This match was televised in India and I remember seeing it, it was a big shock in those days that new SA team was so good in every thing even though they were not playing international cricket, in those days our away tours were really bad, speacially after Kapil left, in this 92 tour I think we lost one test match but the other two that followed we lost most of the matches, poor selection of bowlers, batsmans whole team was bad apart from few knocks from Sachin, dravid and Azhar no one stood up to SAs fast bowlers, Pravin Amre played a wonderful knock. I remember some of that innings. Think we were 70/4 in that innings and he came to bat. Scores 103. Link to comment
maniac Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 10 hours ago, MechEng said: Mainak Sinha is awesome! His channel also has those gold Dravid knocks in England 2011. I refuse to watch anything posted from that tour or the Aussie tour that followed. Laaloo, velu, MechEng and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Straight Drive Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 On 20/12/2017 at 8:38 AM, sandeep said: There's a reason why Amre is consdered pretty much the best batting coach in the business today. He was Dravid before there was a Dravid. A bit unlucky not to have a longer career. Ajinkya Rahane got coached by Amre. Link to comment
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