Confirmed News : Both Rohit and Virat are going to play the 2027 World Cup

[Muloghonto]

On 3/18/2025 at 11:31 AM, R!TTER said:

No one's blaming the batters for losing the WToss trophy in 2021, or the finals in 2003 - but apparently BRat's paid(unpaid?) bots want to conveniently forget how he bowled first on an absolute belter in 2017 finals! Better still we also dropped Shami/Umesh our two best bowlers in ICC KO, even now, & let's not forget the complete cluster* with the selection of 4 wks in 2019 SF when Kja/Dud were both being playing for the middle order role for 3-4 years, right till the WC started  

 

You can't tell me you excuse the greatest Choke master ever for his failure to chase big/modest totals & then completely forget the *ing fact that he was the captain 

I don't care what you call him, he's a certified choker & grade A failure in KO games!

 

Opposition team Australia  or England  or India  or New Zealand  or Pakistan  or South Africa  or Sri Lanka  or West Indies

Start of match date greater than or equal to 1 Jan 1990

Trophy ICC Champions Trophy (ICC KnockOut)  or World Cup

Match type tournament finals  or tournament cons. finals  or tournament semi-finals  or tournament quarter-finals

Qualifications matches played greater than or equal to 8

Ordered by batting average (descending)

Overall figures

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
SR Watson (AUS)	2002-2015	11	10	5	427	136*	85.40	521	81.95	2	2	1	38	13
SC Ganguly (IND)	1998-2003	9	7	1	403	141*	67.16	474	85.02	2	1	0	39	13
JH Kallis (SA)	1998-2011	10	10	2	475	113*	59.37	647	73.41	1	3	0	39	7
S Chanderpaul (WI)	1996-2011	10	10	2	472	80	59.00	702	67.23	0	4	0	43	4
MJ Guptill (NZ)	2009-2019	9	9	1	397	237*	49.62	420	94.52	1	0	0	37	15
DPMD Jayawardene (SL)	2000-2015	12	11	3	387	115*	48.37	452	85.61	2	1	0	36	3
SR Tendulkar (IND)	1996-2011	14	13	1	574	141	47.83	712	80.61	1	4	0	66	7
Yuvraj Singh (IND)	2000-2017	11	9	2	329	84	47.00	361	91.13	0	3	1	41	0
RT Ponting (AUS)	1996-2011	18	18	2	731	140*	45.68	896	81.58	3	1	2	61	13
KS Williamson (NZ)	2011-2025	10	10	1	390	102	43.33	465	83.87	1	2	0	38	4
BC Lara (WI)	1996-2006	9	9	2	299	111	42.71	337	88.72	1	1	0	36	1
KC Sangakkara (SL)	2000-2015	12	11	1	422	54	42.20	682	61.87	0	3	0	42	2
MS Dhoni (IND)	2011-2019	8	7	1	242	91*	40.33	286	84.61	0	3	1	15	5
RA Jadeja (IND)	2013-2025	9	7	3	161	77	40.25	156	103.20	0	1	0	9	6
V Kohli (IND)	2011-2025	12	12	1	432	117	39.27	505	85.54	1	3	0	31	4
MG Bevan (AUS)	1996-2003	10	7	1	232	69	38.66	364	63.73	0	2	1	16	1
PA de Silva (SL)	1996-2003	9	9	2	267	107*	38.14	295	90.50	1	1	1	40	0
MJ Clarke (AUS)	2004-2015	9	8	2	224	74	37.33	262	85.49	0	2	0	26	1
AC Gilchrist (AUS)	1998-2007	12	12	0	434	149	36.16	395	109.87	1	2	0	50	13
R Dravid (IND)	1998-2003	9	7	0	253	58	36.14	382	66.23	0	1	0	20	0
LRPL Taylor (NZ)	2007-2019	10	10	0	333	74	33.30	519	64.16	0	1	0	15	4
RG Sharma (IND)	2013-2025	9	9	0	275	76	30.55	291	94.50	0	1	1	24	13
ST Jayasuriya (SL)	1996-2007	12	12	0	350	82	29.16	351	99.71	0	3	2	44	7
JN Rhodes (SA)	1992-2002	9	8	1	196	61*	28.00	248	79.03	0	1	1	12	2

 Brilliant post.

Also addendum : Tendulkar's 5% lowest strike rate than mr Virat comes in an era that had like 25% lower strike rate overall. Tendulkar wasnt just run-scorer, but also genuine top order toofan by strike rate factor - for longest time , ONLY Jayasurya out-strike rated tendulkar as opener and jaya scored like 20% less runs at his pomp than Tendalya did. Only when Gillchrist + Sehwag came around and cemented their spots by around 2000-2002 period in ODI crickets, if memory serves correct, did we actually have any top order batter as much of a toofan as Tendalya who could actually score some runs. Else you had like walking wicket pinch hitters like Kaluwithrana or Rutherford who'd score 15 in 15 balls and get out.

90s was the era where pretty much on any pitch, a 275 is defensible and a 300 is near impossible to win against, even if you are Aussie maharathis or Saffie super-deep tick tock scoring team.

This is the era where Tendalkya shone and still only just 5% behind the strike rate of greats of today's ODI game in crunchtime. Tells you why the country stopped on a dime to watch Tendlya bat - no one faced and delivered under pressure as much as he did, but as he showed, excellent batter alone is just not enough in cricket if you have **** overall batting + **** bowing + **** fielding. Which was 90s India outside India, even in Sri Lanka, where near the end of the 90s we got killed.

People often forget how horrible Indian fielding was - Kumble, Srinath, Manjrekar, sidhu, etc. were ALL horrible fielders. Like local club level horrible fielders.  Azharuddin was our only world-class fielder in the 90s, while Robin Singh + Jadeja were ' we do nothing amazing, but we do not suck' type of competent  fielders and Tendy was your typical 'solid hands, rarely drops a catch, but not athletic fielder, can outfield a bit but wont dive' type of below average fielder you may wanna hide in catching positions (Yet Tendy wasnt a great close in catcher, he was a decent catcher in mid range, aka mid on/mid-off he is super reliable catcher).  Dravid was also a Tendulkar mould guy but better close in catcher and often sat in the slips or close by but also not the 'dive around to save runs' type of fielder.

Thats it, the end. Ganguly, Sehwag etc. were all so bad on the field pretty much Indian team meant half the team are gonna cost the team +20 runs in the equation that good fielding sides of the era, like South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka & Zimbabwe didnt have to worry about.

Pakistani were same level suck as us as fielders, but had mucho strong bowling attack to generate more chances and be more threatening and Pakistani didnt have west indies of today's type of batting lineup where nobody can but, but more like west indies of mid 90s period, where they can bat but were just so fragile that team can easily be 300/3 against best or 30/6 agsinst worst, its a coin toss.

 

England were pretty much the only team of that period who were worse fielders than us, but even then, they had less butter-fingers than us is how i seem to remember them as the worst odi team of the 90s.

People often forget, those of us who watched ODIs in the 90s, we'd happily take a knockout vs England over Zimbabwe back then - who were a bigger threat to pretty much anyone in ODIs.

 

Edited March 29 by Muloghonto

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Yesterday i watched trailer of Sikandar which is Salmans new movie. I expected it to be garbage and trailor confirmed it. If this movie was made with any new age actor it would have sunk without trace. Salman is living off his past glory.

 

Same with Virat and more so with Rohit. Its painful to watch him bat. Sure he will get lucky and may produce a gem like CT final but such innings are going to be far and few.