Nostalgia: India’s previous Asia cup triumph in the Middle East

[Global.Baba]

Brings back memories

That shot at 8:50 though   

 

 

 

 

Edited October 1, 2018 by Global.Baba

[Global.Baba]

Other observations:

1.Jayasuriya almost has a full set of hair apart from a few bald patches

2.what a valuable player Prabhakar was. Opening the batting and a handy 3rd seamer

3.Siddhu was an underrated odi cricketer

4.No Murali??? Was he banned around this time???

5. Refreshing to see the approach to a chase in the early 90s was to finish the game early after a decent start. Not this stupid take it to the last ball syndrome we have now.

6. Why Azhar Why???  would have been one of India’s most beloved cricketers.

7. Sachin the bowler

8. India’s  evergreen problem of letting the lower order back into the game after putting up a fight. Especially after they got Jayasuriya,Desilva and Ranatunga

9. To be fair we were not as bad of a odi team in the 90s as we think.We were pretty decent.

 

 

Edited October 1, 2018 by Global.Baba

[zen]

Note that SL turned in to a different team from ‘96 World Cup

[Nikhil_cric]

6 hours ago, zen said:

Note that SL turned in to a different team from ‘96 World Cup

From the triangular in 95/96 season to be precise. That's when the explosive opening pair of kalu and sanath came together.

[Clarke]

Kumble was the only Indian bowler who bowled yorkers in those days. Venky's cutters deviated more than kumble's "leg break".

[jf1gp_1]

7 hours ago, Global.Baba said:

To be fair we were not as bad of a odi team in the 90s as we think.We were pretty decent.

Oh we were a poor side more compared to others. Aussie, SA and even Pak had superior odi sides. WI were on decline but like we depended on sachin even they had lara, hooper 

[jf1gp_1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Cricket_World_Cup_squads

 

Look at squads from '96 wc. WI bowling lineup was Walsh, Ambrose and Bishop. SA had Donald, De villars, Pollock and a young Kallis.  Pak had Wasim, Waqar, Saqlain . Aus and SL were also pretty good. we should feel lucky we made it past Pakistani and reached semis. 

[Nikhil_cric]

3 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Cricket_World_Cup_squads

 

Look at squads from '96 wc. WI bowling lineup was Walsh, Ambrose and Bishop. SA had Donald, De villars, Pollock and a young Kallis.  Pak had Wasim, Waqar, Saqlain . Aus and SL were also pretty good. we should feel lucky we made it past Pakistani and reached semis. 

Actually the lucky team was SL. They didn't meet a single strong bowling attack until the final . Credit to them for winning that but SL did not face any of Pakistan/SA/Windies/OZ before that. India beat both Pakistan and Windies and lost narrowly to OZ. 

[jf1gp_1]

47 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Actually the lucky team was SL. They didn't meet a single strong bowling attack until the final . Credit to them for winning that but SL did not face any of Pakistan/SA/Windies/OZ before that. India beat both Pakistan and Windies and lost narrowly to OZ. 

true but even coming into world cup they were doing well. they did go to australia where they found the sanath/kalu opening combo. Sure their bowling was always over dependent on vaas and murali but they had a fantastic batting unit. 

 

India was just a poor side. We had Sachin, the only so called accelerator was that cheat jadeja. When it came to bowling Kumble was to bowling what sachin was to our batting. If kumble failed we would get hammered. Srinath was wayward so you didnt know what you would get from him that day. 

 

We only started shaping up post departure of Azhar. Thats when Dravid started getting a longer rope, likes of sehwag and yuvraj arrived followed by Zaheer, Ashish, bhaji. Thats when we started playing a different brand of cricket. Also lets not forgot arrival of Dhoni was godsend. We had our very own gilchrist. WC '07 team was actually good, one poor game just did it for us. 

Edited October 2, 2018 by jf1gp_1

[Nikhil_cric]

2 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

true but even coming into world cup they were doing well. they did go to australia where they found the sanath/kalu opening combo. Sure their bowling was always over dependent on vaas and murali but they had a fantastic batting unit. 

 

India was just a poor side. We had Sachin, the only so called accelerator was that cheat jadeja. When it came to bowling Kumble was to bowling what sachin was to our batting. If kumble failed we would get hammered. Srinath was wayward so you didnt know what you would get from him that day. 

 

We only started shaping up post departure of Azhar. Thats when Dravid started getting a longer rope, likes of sehwag and yuvraj arrived followed by Zaheer, Ashish, bhaji. Thats when we started playing a different brand of cricket. Also lets not forgot arrival of Dhoni was godsend. We had our very own gilchrist. WC '07 team was actually good, one poor game just did it for us. 

Yeah all true, Btw i don't think India were particularly strong in 96. Lanka were easily the better team after hammering us twice and deserved to win the World Cup eventually. I just think they had a bit of luck and they rode it well. The format of the World Cup and the fact that they got points without playing WI/OZ in the group stage helped them top the group and meet a hapless England in the quarterfinal. However, winning 3 knockouts in a row is extremely impressive nonetheless. The format for the 2019 CWC is much better imo where all the teams face each other atleast once.

[Rasgulla]

2 hours ago, UnknownGenius said:

Why did mods delete my post? I spoke the truth. 

 

General Observation:

 

Sachin failed once again in a big game and had to be carried to the title by his captain who remained not out in the end just like in the 2011 world cup final where another captain had to carry Tendy and stayed not out in the end to win the title

This is true right @Rasgulla

100 % Tendya was cancer to that team. 

[velu]

i dont remember this game .. 

but i was afraid of jayasurya more than venketash prasad

[Rightarmfast]

The only observation for me...@ 5:32 - ' If you are a fast bowler, like Srinath is...'

[zen]

19 hours ago, Global.Baba said:

3.Siddhu was an underrated odi cricketer

He used to do well in big matches iirc