Long Rope Club

[The Realist]

Tried to find the old Long Rope Club thread from the good old Dhoni test days but unable to do so.

 

Ishant Sharma and Rav Jadeja were founder members.

 

Pujara and Rahane are carrying on the proud tradition of always being selected despite having miserable stats. In the days when Aus dominated these two would not even get selcted into State teams yet Kohli has made them pillars of mediocrity.

 

[The Realist]

The LR Club now has expanded to include Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli as executive members

 

 

 

An application from KL Rahul is currently being assessed 

[Ultimate_Game]

Kohli's rope has been extended to such an extent that his jersey number has been retired by the long rope club.

[sensible-indian]

They cant use the long rope to get back.

 

They are only good for shooting ropes now.

[Texan]

Kohli gets Lifetime Achievement Award in LR Club. The longest rope that has ever existed in the history of sports with hopeless results.

[singhvivek141]

4 hours ago, The Realist said:

The LR Club now has expanded to include Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli as executive members

 

 

 

An application from KL Rahul is currently being assessed 

KL needs admission to it asap on priority basis. 

Where you will find a top order cricketer with an avg of 33 in 58 Tests spread across an entire decade.

 

[vayuu1]

4 hours ago, The Realist said:

The LR Club now has expanded to include Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli as executive members

 

 

 

An application from KL Rahul is currently being assessed 

U are forgetting ro ro ke arza guzaar da hai GILL haaye mera GILL

[Nikhil_cric]

Fraudeja - useless in most ICC tournaments post 2013 CT but is somehow an integral member of the white ball side. 

[Stan AF]

Op, you missed an obvious one. start with your favourite idol. Annan MS Kallathoni...

 

He was the headmaster of the staying long beyond its necessary.

[express bowling]

7 hours ago, The Realist said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah !  So they know where the kicks maybe directed and taking adequate protection.  

[mani sha]

Kapil 

to some extent Tendulkar is final two years 

jadeja 

dhoni 

Sharma and kohli 

 

people who retired at right time - 

 

kumble 

ashwin 

srinath 

dravid

ganguly

laxman 

yuvi to some extent. 
 

 

kicked out at right time 

 

Sehwag 

lots of 90s cricketers - manju , prabhakar , raju , chauhan 

jadeja a 

 

 

 

people who were hard done / unlucky / short fuse 

 

vihari 

kishan 

ankola 

 

 

 

[R!TTER]

15 minutes ago, mani sha said:

to some extent Tendulkar is final two years 

Last year in test cricket, he was our second best bat in Oz -

https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/series/batting-most-runs-career/border-gavaskar-trophy-2011-12-6636

 

And the second best bat in Eng as well -

https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/series/batting-most-runs-career/pataudi-trophy-2011-6112

 

Now the numbers aren't great for sure but they're nowhere near BRat or RGS bad

15 minutes ago, mani sha said:

jadeja 

Ajay Jadeja?

 

15 minutes ago, mani sha said:

kumble 

ashwin 

srinath 

dravid

ganguly

laxman 

yuvi to some extent. 

None of them did that, Kumble was pretty bad from Oz tour onward so 6-8 games well below par. Ashwin was our second worst spinner in the last year or so, Srinath retired once & then unretired because SCG asked him to, Dravid was doing pretty bad for 2-3 years away from home, except the one good tour of Eng, Same goes for SCG & probably Laxman. Yuvraj is probably the only one I'm partial to in the sense that I'd say he should've played the 2015 WC, but there were better players in the team at the time.

Edited January 7 by R!TTER

[Strangering]

Yuvraj Singh's Test career was cut short because he averaged 34 after 63 matches. 

 

KL is around with an average of 33 after 101 matches. 

 

[Texan]

13 hours ago, mani sha said:

Kapil 

to some extent Tendulkar is final two years 

jadeja 

dhoni 

Sharma and kohli 

 

 

Kapil was chasing Hadlee's record, but he wasn't really playing poorly. His bowling average in his last few years was still in the 20s and batting average was in the 30s. It felt like a long time because we were mainly playing home matches at that time and he had little to do since the spinners were doing the bulk of the work.

 

Add Ravi Shastri, Dilip Vengsarkar

 

Tendulkar, yes. Last 2 years in Tests and quite a few years in ODIs. Worst part was when he was chasing his 100th 100 and we gave away so many matches/tournaments to make that happen.

 

Jadeja is still good in Tests

 

Dhoni - absolutely

 

Rohit Sharma - yes in Tests and to some extent in ODIs

 

Kohli - in all formats. He was done 5 years ago. Dragging his heel for far too long. Longest rope received of any Indian cricketer in history.

 

13 hours ago, mani sha said:

people who retired at right time - 

 

kumble 

ashwin 

srinath 

dravid

ganguly

laxman 

yuvi to some extent. 
 

 

 

add Gavaskar to the list

 

Definitely not Yuvi. He was done a long time ago and should not have been picked for that World T20, which he screwed us in.

 

Ganguly - not quite. He dragged his career during his captaincy years. Even though, he had a late resurgence, it wasn't quite enough

 

Laxman was also fading towards the end of his career. Only Dravid retired at his peak in that generation of batsmen.

 

14 hours ago, mani sha said:

people who were hard done / unlucky / short fuse 

 

vihari 

kishan 

ankola 

 

 

 

Vihari - not really. He got ample opportunities but he did not take them

Kishan - too arrogant, doesn't even want to play domestics.

 

Ankola - yes. Possibly, Kambli also. With some guidance, he could still have had a decent Test career

 

[Forever Indian]

Kohli's rope:

[Laaloo]

On 1/7/2025 at 9:53 AM, Strangering said:

Yuvraj Singh's Test career was cut short because he averaged 34 after 63 matches. 

 

KL is around with an average of 33 after 101 matches. 

 

101 matches? He's played 58 tests.

[Lord]

5 minutes ago, Laaloo said:

101 matches? He's played 58 tests.

 

I think he means innings

[Strangering]

32 minutes ago, Laaloo said:

101 matches? He's played 58 tests.

Sorry, I meant innings. 

 

[New guy]

16 hours ago, Texan said:

 

 

 

 

Tendulkar, yes. Last 2 years in Tests and quite a few years in ODIs. Worst part was when he was chasing his 100th 100 and we gave away so many matches/tournaments to make that happen.

 

 

 

 

Which were the quite a few years Sachin had in ODIs? He averaged 54 in 2009, 208 in 2010 (including his iconic first 200), 46 in 2011 including crucial contribution to our world cup win (before that he averaged over 40 every single year since his injury in 2006)

 

Then he played half of 2012 and retired. So which were quite a few years in ODIs?

 

And what were these many tournaments and matches we gave away from Sachin? Last major tournament he played was world cup which we won.The only one he he is blamed for is the asia cup but we gave bangladesh a target of 290+ which they have never chased against a major team before that, kohli played slower than Sachin that innings. 

 

Dhoni PR conveniently put the blame of not being able to defend 290+ against Bangladesh on Sachin. In fact that's still the second highest score bangladesh has ever chased against a non minnow. 

 

In tests in the disastrous tour of Australia where we lost 4-0, he was still the second highest scorer for india just 13 runs behind kohli and had some crucial contributions even in last couple of years. 

 

Struggling to remember which were the many years and many cups we suffered because of Sachin? 

 

 

Edited January 8 by New guy

[R!TTER]

16 hours ago, Texan said:

Tendulkar, yes. Last 2 years in Tests and quite a few years in ODIs. Worst part was when he was chasing his 100th 100 and we gave away so many matches/tournaments to make that happen.

You could argue 1 year for tests and 6 months for ODI—the biggest issue for him post WC was the 100th ton! He should've gone to WI & completed that milestone ASAP. I'm pretty sure with that bit of less pressure and some practice before the Eng tour, he would've done much better there & maybe even in Oz.