Is Irfan Pathan another Kapil Dev in Indian Cricket?
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Comparisons are odious. Irfan Pathan has the ability to carve his own identity in cricket. The way he's batting, he certainly has the potential to become a world-class all rounder. I am sure he will travel by leaps and bounds. Whereas, Kapil Dev is a legend. He's the among the greatest all-rounders the game has ever seen. So, in the end, Irfan has got what it takes to be a top-notch allrounder.
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YUVRAJ SINGH\nIRFAN PATHAN\nAJIT AGARKAR
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ofcourse it is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (But still doubt abt Saurav Ganguly and Ajay Jadeja)
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First Test Hat-trick in India- Harbajan Singh against Australia 2001 in Calcutta. (RT Ponting, AC Gilchrist, SK Warne)\nFirst Test Hat-trick in abroad - Irfan Pathan has done it in abroad in Karachi against Pakistan in 2005-06 (Salman Butt, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf)\nFirst ODI Hat-trick in India- Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in Nagpur in 1987 world cup (KR Rutherford bowled; IDS Smith bowled; EJ Chatfield bowled)\nNo Indian has ever taken a hat-trick in abroad in ODIs.
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either this guy, Intikhab Alam\n\nor one of these guys\n\nHafeez Kardar \nJaved Burki \nMajid Khan \nSaeed Ahmed \nMushtaq Mohammad \nAsif Iqbal \nWasim Bari \nImran Khan \nJaved Miandad \nRameez Raja \nAamer Sohail \nWasim Akram \nWaqar Younis \nRashid Latif \nMoin Khan \nInzamam ul Haq\n\nEither way, when you choose a best answer just let post the correct answer, I've just spent 20 minutes looking for it and haven't found it and now need to know myself.
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KAPIL WAS A QUIKIE. AND HE IS STILL RATED AS THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER.\nSO, SPINNER YA PACER IS NOT THE KEY.\n\nTHE REAL ISSUE IS WHETHER IRFAN HAS THE ALL-ROUNDER TALENT OR NOT.\n\nHE IS NOT EVEN A WORLD CLASS BOWLER.\nONE OF THE BEST IN INDIAN TEAM. THAT'S ALL.\nTO HIGH0LIGHT HIM AS THE BEST, SOME POOR BOWLERS SCREENED SO FAR.\nBALAJI IS ONE OF THEM.\n\nIRFAN NEVER HAD BATTING TALENT TOO.\nIF YOU GET A CHANCE TO WATCH HIS HIGH SCORING INNINGS, YOU MAY FIND HE WAS SMASHING OFF-VOLLEYS,\nOVER PITCHED DELIVERIES, AWAY THE OFF STUMP BALLS ONLY.\nNEVER BEEN COMFORTABLE WITH SWINGERS, YORKERS, GOOD-LENGTH DELIVERIES.\n\nBUT, STILL SOMEBODY TRYING TO FEATURE HIM AS THE "WORLD'S BEST ALL-ROUNDER" FOR SOME UN-KNOWN REASONS.\nTHIS IS THE FACT.\nHE HAS NO ALL-ROUND TALENTS.
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This achievement is a result of the joint effort by all of above, all really wants to keep their role best in this.\nVengsarkar being new in this team deserves less ( eventhough inclusion of Jaffer, a big blunder)- \n\nWhat this Chappal & Dravid handle with our team, nobody understand.Their selection of final XI batting / bowling changes in each matches, nobody can digest.\n\nLet us look about the recent stories.\nAfter the continous failure of batsmen they never tried to shruffle the batting order according to their ability. They says to have done experiment with Pathan at no.3, that is not much a hilarious idea. Many punch hitters have been sent to these positions and been succesful for all teams. Even Chetan Sharma scored a century at no.3. So sending as Pathan as a punch hitter according to circumstances we can admit, but how we can consider him as a top order batsman..?\nThey never tried Dhoni at no.2 or 3, who can stay around and also go for big hits after being settled. Insted of Pathan they could have tested Dhoni Yuvraj or even Raina as one more chance. Since middle order batting collapsed worstly, Dravid had to get down upto no.5 or 6 followed by Sehwag.\n\nIn DLF cup Sreesanth was called back & he bowled well against WIndies & the next match he has been dropped.\nAgain in SA, Pathan & Sreesanth was included in the 1st match.After the match has been abandoned without a ball being bowled for the second match surprisingly both were omitted. At least 3-4 continous chance should be given for a player to evaluate his performance.\n\nWhat way these guys are thinking, nobody knows. Then Y this consideration is not giving to substitute batsman for long time in place of Raina or Kaif.\n\nOn recent performance of Indian team, a rotation base experiment of players, ( as Australia did before & hence became the best) since we have numerous young talents as well as experienced ones.\n\nThe present Indian team is not bad, but the utilization of it is important. When they R replacing Sehwag it should be DKarthick who was succesful in one day games than Jaffer at domestic matches, and also a better competitor.\n\nBowling we have all are almost at same range, but in SA type of wickets it is better if they go for Saheer,Munaf, Sreesanth,Pathan & Kumble ahead of Agarkar & Harbajan.\n\nHowever let us hope for the best in coming days...
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Anyone giving you the email ID of Irfan Pathan would be faking! The truth is, he DOES NOT use a computer nor has any email address of his own. Some of the other Indian cricketers who do get themselves involved with the online world are RAHUL DRAVID, SACHIN TENDULKAR, lately VIRENDER SEHWAG, etc. but these don't have them for public display. Their secretaries usually handle it for them.\n\nSo searching for Pathan's email ID would be fruitless. Sorry.
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MANOJ PRABHAKAR.\n\nIRFAN PATHAN.
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Sachin Tedulkar, of course. cause S.D. is for SACHIN DEV
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I think you have not cared to view his other talents. He fields well and has the capability to handle the pressure well. \n\nYou just cannot compare cricketers of different nations. If you recall some Pakistani Cricketer commented that Kapil would not played for the country had he not been born in India. This certainly can not degenerate the achievements and talent of Kapil.\n\nLuck favours the brave but not always. You should have a better cricketer available to replace him. You would also find that after the advent of Raina, Kaif has been dropped several times. So whenever competition becomes stiff, excellence only can prevail. \n\nKaif does not seem to have any God Father in Indian Selection Committee. You should not also forget how Kaif led the UP team to title in Ranji Trophy last year.\n\nHe may be averaging low but see the conditions in which he steps in and at what position he plays.\n\nThe players you have mentioned: Bhaskar Pillai, S Sharath and S Sri ram. These were good players in the domestic cricket but in crucial matches whenever given a chance they all faltered against pace. Though I find Bhaskar was never given a reasonable chance to play. But S Sharath was given a chance to play India A in SA and BD, wherein he did not impress the selecters. S Sriram played 8 ODI for India wherein he averaged 13.5 and could not show his talent and impress the selecters. Technique came into question while playing fast bowling.
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Yes, it was a classic display of swing bowling by pathan... A batsman cant do much about these type of deliveries... But yeas the way middle stump was uprooted... it makes me very happy..... :-)\n\nI think at that moment afridi would have forgot all his styles...
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sourabh and kapil dev
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lol ponting is in the very top form of his life....every player in the world has gone through this phase....it usually ends around age 33...so i would say after next year....ponting will lose his form.....if u compare bradman with ponting....then u gotta compare dravid...tendulkar...lara...kallis...with bradman...and im sure those guys would be delighted with that!!!! AB was the one who got aussie cricket to the state they are now....he and the chappells were the start......honestly....if u ask me...any one could captain this aussie team....when the pressure is on....ponting doesnt know what to do!!!! so border was a much much better captain....batsmen...ponting is better!!! better techniqe!!! altough ponting hasnt done well in india!!! ur right WI attack was by far the greatest ever....only warne and mcgrath would fit into that windies team in the 1980's in terms of bowling....in my opinion....ponting is better than tendulkar at the moment...tendulkar has been outta the game and out of form.....but overall tendulkar is way better than ponting....in all aspects of cricket...ODI and tests!!! lara is also better than ponting.....ponting is in the dravid and kallis class!!!!
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Effort of Pathan, Credit to Ganguly?
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IRFAN PATHAN..\nAN USEFUL,UTILITY,CLICKING MOSTLY CRICKETER IS THE BEST..
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pathan is very effective only in seaming condition. once the pitch dies down, he is less effective. how namy did pathan take inflat wickets in pakistan in first 2 tests.lee is good allround the conditions.