Duleep Trophy 2013

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do Mumbai have no better pace bowler than BS Sandhu Junior?

That fat kid bowling at 115 k lol he is a joke, where Is the fast bowler Amir who everyone said was fast, he was in probables last year,Rahil Sheikh did well in local games last year.MCA is a joke

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Day 4 also washed out. Someone give BCCI and Kochi an award for being such pathetic organizers.

I dont think any more cricket is possible in next 2 days . Its raining very heavily and forecast is also not good

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Regarding Mohit sharma he bowled in 125-130 in the odis in zim.He will be that level in tests at that pace consistency has to there otherwise u will be hammered also maintaining consistency when pressure is on will be real test at international level.

[saneindian]

125-130? IIRC there were no speed guns in that series. Was bowling 131-132 in the DT final with a top speed of 137. Will probably bowl 133-134 in ODIs. Can definitely be around 135-136 with some fine tuning.

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Is Duleep Trophy no longer relevant? With tournaments like Champions League T20 nudging Duleep Trophy towards the margins of India's domestic calendar, the once-popular event is facing an identity crisis More... Is Duleep Trophy no longer relevant? With tournaments like Champions League T20 nudging Duleep Trophy towards the margins of India's domestic calendar, the once-popular event is facing an identity crisis Amol Karhadkar October 21, 2013 The spoils up for grabs at the Duleep Trophy, Central Zone v East Zone, Duleep Trophy final, 4th day, October 24, Chennai In a crammed domestic calendar, is Duleep Trophy losing its importance? © K Sivaraman The last time the Duleep Trophy was shared, before this year's edition, was 16 years ago when the 1997-98 final between West Zone and Central Zone in Chennai lost three days of play due to rain. The common strands between then and now are the weather and the four-match format of the tournament. However, the significance of the tournament to India's domestic calendar has changed. Sixteen years ago, the Duleep Trophy was the last hurdle on the domestic circuit to earning a national call-up. In 2013, the tournament is struggling to find a slot in the domestic calendar that allows at least the zonal stars to participate. The tournament has clashed with the Champions League T20 for the last few years, and had the status of the Duleep Trophy not devalued, it would have seen domestic stars in whites rather than the coloured clothing of their franchise. In such a scenario, one of the semi-finals this year was decided by a coin toss, followed by a final that saw just 10 overs played over five days - the last thing the tournament, already in the midst of an identity crisis, needed. Amay Khurasiya, who led Central Zone in that final 16 years ago, feels it's time to realise the declining worth of the Duleep Trophy. "If there are so many avenues for a person to get selected for India, then some avenues are going to dip in terms of significance," Khurasiya, who is now the director of Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association's academy, told ESPNcricinfo. The Champions League matches were mostly held in cities that were unaffected by rain. A match scheduled to be held in Ahmedabad was moved to Jaipur following heavy rain. Yet that facility was not extended to the Duleep Trophy final that was held at the same venue where, 72 hours earlier, the semi-final had been washed out. Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI's general manager - game development, told Mumbai Mirror that October was the only slot available and the tournament could only be held in the southern part of India because other venues around the country were involved with the Champions League or the India-Australia series. TC Mathew, the Kerala Cricket Association president who is also a member of the BCCI's senior tournament committee, also cited the same reasons. "First and foremost, we must understand that the rains were expected to subside in October," Mathew said. "And it wasn't raining every day, so the question of informing the Board of our (KCA) inability to host the final after the semi-final disaster didn't arise. "At the same time, I don't think the Board was in a position to shift the final at the eleventh hour because of the volume of cricket played around the country. At the end of the day, when Kerala has seen rains more than 180% of the average annual rainfall, despite putting in all the possible human effort, we couldn't have more than 10 overs in the game." The BCCI finds itself in a conundrum of scheduling too many tournaments in limited span of time, with recent additions such as the Corporate Trophy, IPL, Champions League and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. With a prolonged Ranji trophy, which now assures each team of at least eight games per season, there are questions over whether the BCCI should let go of the Duleep Trophy that, until recently, used to be a marquee event. Khurasiya isn't averse to the idea. "In an era when a four-over spell or an eight- or ten-over burst with the bat can catapult a youngster into the national team, Duleep Trophy has almost lost its value," Khurasiya said. "Nothing lasts forever. With times everything changes. "You need to have vision. If something's not worth it, you better not continue with it. No doubt plenty of avenues have been created for cricketers to get noticed. At the same time, too much of cricket is also not good if it's affecting the quality. And I suppose the quality is being affected these days."

[rkt.india]

Don't know where to put this anyway NZ seniors like Vetorri spoke about Sodhi's talent and he just got 3-59 in the test match. FC average above 50 but he's 20' date=' talented and doing well in the tests so far. Well done :clap::kxip:[/quote'] what has Vetori and Sodhi has to do in a Duleep trophy thread? :hmmmm:

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125-130? IIRC there were no speed guns in that series. Was bowling 131-132 in the DT final with a top speed of 137. Will probably bowl 133-134 in ODIs. Can definitely be around 135-136 with some fine tuning.

The ball was reaching the keeper on bounce in his first spell.

[rkt.india]

The ball was reaching the keeper on bounce in his first spell.

That was Bullawayo pitch which has been like that, lacks bounce and is slow. Pace does not always equal to bounce. Look at this Shaun Tait bowling 95 mph, ball barely carrying to keeper. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXVWaMXIMs0]Shaun tait vs england - YouTube[/ame]

[saneindian]

The ball was reaching the keeper on bounce in his first spell.

lol because the pitch had no bounce and the keeper was way too deep

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lol because the pitch had no bounce and the keeper was way too deep

How come unadkar,shami had some carry and zim bowlers were even quicker.I trust shami,unadkat are not 145ks. nor are aims

[rkt.india]

How come unadkar' date='shami had some carry and zim bowlers were even quicker.I trust shami,unadkat are not 145ks. nor are aims[/quote'] He might not be bowling the quickest as it was his first match. Everyone has bit of nerves. He certainly bowls around 130-135, occasionally going over 135.