Singh bling Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) West Indies from past 40 years has produced so many tall cricketers that one will feel that average height their must be 6 feet , but it is not true Jamaica's average height is 5 feet 7.5 inches just 2 inches taller than India. So how come they produce so many tall cricketer with population of around 4 millions , plenty of Tall Jamaicans play other sports so how come they have supply of Giants On the other hand most Asian teams hardly have Tall players barring exception like Mohd Irfan. Edited April 4, 2016 by Singh bling Link to comment
Vilander Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 WI team are physical specimens..but only irfan lol kuch bhe.. what are Ishant,Pankaj,Yuvraj,Pathan brothers to name a few..do you think they 5'6" Link to comment
Singh bling Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 6 minutes ago, Vilander said: WI team are physical specimens..but only irfan lol kuch bhe.. what are Ishant,Pankaj,Yuvraj,Pathan brothers to name a few..do you think they 5'6" I am talking about Giants 6 feet 4 and above Yes Ishant and Pankaj , Zoysa and other names come in mind , but still Asian nations have never produced Giants like West Indies did and still doing , even their non performing captain is 6 feet 5 or 6 . While in India we need to search very hard to find that . Link to comment
Singh bling Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 5 minutes ago, spoon said: look up black slavery. Then average height of nation should be Up too , but that is not the case, search Jamaica's average height Link to comment
Shivaji bhonsle Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Whites specifically chose tall well built Africans to work hard in the sugarcane fields. 3 hours ago, Singh bling said: Then average height of nation should be Up too , but that is not the case, search Jamaica's average height Link to comment
kosingh Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Their batsman haven't all been tall. Lara, Chanderpaul, Vivian Richards, Shervin Campbell, Kallicharan, Rohan Kanhai, Gus Logie, Adrian Barath......not particularly tall. In the last few years, they've started bringing in these massive, tall and powerful batsmen Link to comment
rkt.india Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 7 hours ago, spoon said: look up black slavery. what had slavery to do with height? Link to comment
express bowling Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 (edited) Increase in the height of Indians , as we have progressed economically as a nation and had access to good nutrition , has been seen in our cricket team too in the last few years. 6'6" -- Ishant , Pankaj Singh 6'5" -- Abey Kuruvilla 6'4" -- Avesh Khan, Manpreet Goni, Munaf Patel , Ventatesh Prasad , Ranadeb Bose, Nilesh Kulkarni, 6'3" -- VRV Singh, Jaidev Unadkat, Tinu Yohanan, Lots of 6'2" players Not like the West Indies but a big improvement by our standards. Edited April 5, 2016 by express bowling doccricket 1 Link to comment
rkt.india Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Kuruvilla was at least 6'6". Link to comment
adi B Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 African genes,they have inherited the 'hunters' genes doccricket 1 Link to comment
Vilander Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 10 hours ago, rkt.india said: what had slavery to do with height? There is a line of thought that selective coupling or arranged marriages that was done by slavers during that period on their african american captives was the reason for roboustness amoung african ameriacan community in north america. This has been discounted often, basically the scientific notion is that when babies with genetic material from tropics ( genetically have no height prohibiting genome) are placed in the temperate zones in developed world with good access to sanitation and nutrition they shall grow taller that local population eventually in terms of generations,local population might have genetic adaptation to reduce moisture loss due to bigger or longer torso. Link to comment
Singh bling Posted April 6, 2016 Author Share Posted April 6, 2016 18 hours ago, adi B said: African genes,they have inherited the 'hunters' genes Jamaica 1.718 5' 7.75" http://www.averageheight.co/average-male-height-by-country By the above logic average height there should have been more Link to comment
Temujin Khaghan Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 anyone else thinks sammy looks like azog sourab10forever 1 Link to comment
Temujin Khaghan Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 (edited) (joke post... nothing personal) The entire Wt20 final felt like a long interracial love triangle story, especially the climax when braithwaite destroyed stokes Black alpha male takes white boy's prize while the latter is content holding hands Edited April 6, 2016 by Temujin Khaghan MechEng 1 Link to comment
kosingh Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 doccricket, sourab10forever and MechEng 3 Link to comment
Yoda-esque Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 genetic makeup is a huge contributor.read up on twitch fibers... doccricket 1 Link to comment
panther Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 On 4/6/2016 at 7:26 AM, Singh bling said: Jamaica 1.718 5' 7.75" http://www.averageheight.co/average-male-height-by-country By the above logic average height there should have been more Obviously sportsmen are not representative of the average height of any nation, India probably has more tall people than the whole population of windies simply due to sheer number of people, but the average is always much less. Link to comment
mishra Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 kya bakvaas hai. Chinese were supposed to be shortest. But now their new generation is way more taller then last one. A lot goes into fooding habbits and wealth of nation. For height, tall gene is dominant over short in gene pairing. So, over period humans are getting taller and taller. PS: Most of Roman age warriors were probably no taller then our SAchin Tendulkar Mariyam 1 Link to comment
sourab10forever Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Compare the heights of other WI/Jamaican teams like football team/baseball/basketball teams then we can get the idea. If all teams have tall players, then we can say that maybe tall guys get into sports teams easily. Link to comment
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