why does dravid get out in the nineties so often in both forms of the game?
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I would not complain about that. I am actually sad about that fact. However, the fact that he makes it to the 90's more often than others makes him a very consistent player.
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Hey u r question is perfectly right but When u consider during the tenure of Ganguly v have also won matches on the foreign soil too.It is only due to politics involved in cricket it dint win the present series of west indies. The main reason for this is the opening partnership. when Sachin is not there to open with Veeru then Ganguly must be called back into the team. Dravid shouldn't open bcoz as v know dravid is the wall of our team.He must come in the middle order and play upto 35 or 40 overs and rest will be taken care by the other players. As u can see clearly that dravid cannot give a good start,he plays slowly and so he is needed in 25- 40 overs period but not during the opening session of the innings. I think this problem can only be solved if Ganguly is called back and placed as an opener. He is the best and dont forget his records. Every player has a bad tenure in his lifetime and now i think the bad tenure of ganguly has been finished and now he must be called back.
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pointing and dravid. dravid for his consistency. aptly called the wall. statistically pointing but you cant compare the older with younger generation.
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Ganguly hits bigger sixes than me or Dhoni: Yuvraj\nSunit Kaul (HindustanTimes.com)\nNew Delhi, April 24, 2006\n\nOne look at Yuvraj Singh and you know he's naturally destined to be a swashbuckler. \n\nTall and lanky and so full of exuberance, the 18-year old was blooded into international arena as a maverick teenager who would first leap before looking.\n\nEven though he soon etched his space with his astonishing ability to wield the willow, a spate of inconsistent performances saw him being embarrassingly dropped from the ODI team.\n\nBut that was not the end of the story.\nHe came back with vengeance and consequently showed the world that he could strike the ball with finesse and power - invariably with a straight bat - and at the same time can take on the mantle of a senior player.\n\nHe has now repeatedly achieved what is termed by mediocres and average players beyond the bounds of possibility. At 24, his coming of age typifies India's assuredness.\n\nIn a candid chat with HindustanTimes.com in the backdrop of him being presented a Ford Fiesta for being the Man-of-the-series against South Africa, the gifted left-hander from Chandigarh gave his views on his recent performance and the road ahead.\n\nYuvraj, your performance in this season has been terrific. What has been the key difference this time?\nI've been in good touch for the past one year. Earlier, I used to think too much while batting out there in the middle. I think, I read situations better now.\n\nYou are really stealing all the prizes. 3 Man-of-the-series in 4 tournaments…\nObviously, as a senior player, you tend to take up more responsibility and if you're in-form, it helps the team as a whole.\n\nWhat has been the defining moment of your career up till now? When you would have said to yourself - 'This is it, I belong here'\nI think, playing in those two matches against Sri Lanka last year gave me the confidence that I belong to international level.\n\nDhoni in a recent interview said that sportsmen other than cricketers are not getting their due. What's your take?\nI agree with Dhoni. Maybe he's saying it because he has just come in the team. But, that's how it is here in India.\n\nDo you see yourself as the captain of Team India in the future?\nEvery player who spends a reasonable amount of time at international level dreams of making it big. Same is the case with me.\n\nMaybe 5 years down the line, we'll see you as the skipper?\n(Laughs) I would be old in 5 years time!\n\nWho has been a better coach - Greg Chappell or John Wright?\nThey both have different styles of functioning; Both have been equally good.\n\nSo how come the team has been performing better in Chappell's tenure?\nThe difference has been the increased level of fitness. Greg has brought in more innovative ideas towards fitness.\n\nThere has been quite a controversy regarding the tight cricketing calendar? What's your take?\nI think we're out there to play in the sun and we have to enjoy every moment we play for the team.\n\nWhat are your plans towards the upcoming Windies tour?\nRight now, we've got a bit of a break. And we're keen to enjoy our time-out… But we will be fully focused when we reach there. West Indies would a proper training ground before the World Cup. We will have to prepare ourselves for more bouncy tracks.\n\nFinally, who hits bigger sixes - you or Dhoni?\n(Grins) I think Ganguly hits bigger sixes than me and Dhoni!
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It is POLITICS.\n\n\nYES HE SHOULD PLAY.\n\nBUT THAT WILL NOT SOLVE ALL THE PROBLES.\n\nWhat then?\n\nPRESENT LOT be REMOVED. S/SHRI\nBCCI-PAWAR\nSELECTOR-VENSARKAR\nCOACH-CHEPPAL\nCAPTAIN-DRAVID, SEWAG\nTHE WHOLE TEAM.\n\nA fresh selection is made after deciding criteria for selection for each post. For example DRAVID WILL MAKE 10 - 63 RUNS IN 108 BALLS, It is equivalent to 30 - 160 runs in 50 overs. Such negative play to be retained in the team can make individual statistics good, BUT INDIA CAN NEVER WIN. \n\nSUNIL G. also did same thing.\n\nThey are good for test but not for ODI.\n\nIn the selection criteria shall ensure that these negative factors are taken in account.\n\nSECONDLY,\n\nIf team does not win,\nchange 2 b,man, 2 blrs, 1 all rndr, 1 wickt kpr ( if did not do well).\n\nIf team does not win series,\n\nREMOVE\n\nBCCI-PAWAR, \nSELECTOR-VENSKR\nCOACH-CEPAL\nCAPTAIN-DRVD, SWG\nTHE WHOLE TEAM\n\nMake again a fresh selection.\n\nINDIA IS FULL WITH TALENT BUT POLITICS AND REGIONALISM HAS MADE IT A ROT.\n\nPl come out of POLITICS and REGIONALISM.\nGive chance to the BEST CAPABLE, RESPONSIBLE INDIAN.\n\n\nI AM SURE INDIA WILL WIN AGAINST ANY TEAM IN THE WORLD.\n\nIs it ok?\n\nSURELY.
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defiantly both players in bcoz they have experience a lot . at present the Indian team not performs well  especially tendulker ,dravid. uvi, kefu.shewag, pathan all of not good in this season.So Dada and laxman playing in world cup 2007 in west indies
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He is one of the best cricket player (By the way, Cricket is a game played in countries like India, England, Australia, South Africa etc). He plays for India
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Although Tendulkar is far from his best he is definitely not over. Shewag is still dangerous, but he needs to be dropped once to get him some sense! Dravid is still the best Indian batsman. Yuvraj is too good not to have in the team. Kaif is a solid player, he will be the future Dravid, If only they let him play enough! Raina has not impressed me enough. Irfan should be kept as a bowler only. Please stop sending him 1 down!
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now this a question to ponder about.according to me at  the present senario dravid is the best captain of the indian team bcze he leads the team from the front and always plays a captains innings when the team requires. now if the team doesnt perform well then god also cannt help our team, let alone dravid.as far ganguly is concerned atfirst let him make his way to the playing 11 then we can take him as the captain. as he is more enthusiastic and motivative which our team requires dearly.
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Dravid's style\nBeginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, Rahul Dravid has defied early perceptions to become the mainstay of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs as well as in Tests. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Reebok advertisements was treated by ODI fans as a derisory comment about his inability to rotate strike as he tended to hold up one end playing his front foot defence, neither scoring runs nor getting out. The nickname has now become a tribute to his consistency. Dravid has scored 22 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 57.65, including 5 double centuries, whilst in one-dayers he has an average of 40.16 at a strike rate of 70. He is one of the few Indians who average more at away matches than at home, averaging about 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 28 October, 2005, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 63.20 as against his overall Test average of 57.59, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.95 as against overall ODI average of 40.42. In matches India has won, Rahul Dravid averages 79.51 and 51.54 in Tests and ODI respectively.\n\nDravid's sole Test wicket was that of Ridley Jacobs in the fourth Test against the West Indies during the 2001-2002 series. While he has no pretensions to being a bowler, Dravid often kept wickets for India in ODIs, an 'experiment' that continued for several seasons. He has since delegated the wicket-keeping gloves, first to Parthiv Patel and more recently to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dravid is now purely a batsman, one whose Test average has soared to 67.56 in matches played since 1 January, 2000.\n\nDravid was involved in two of the largest parnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership, and then a 331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which is the present world record. He also holds the record for the greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck. His highest scores in ODI's and Tests are 153 and 270 respectively. Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200, 217, 222, 233, 270).\n\n \nRahul Dravid's career performance graph.Schooled at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore, and college in St. Joseph's College Of Commerce. He was coached by Keki Tarapore, Dravid has played county cricket for Kent and Scotland. He also led Karnataka to the Ranji Trophy, scoring a double century in the process in the final. He made his Test debut against England at Lords in the 2nd Test match of India's Test tour of England in 1996, and his ODI debut against Sri Lanka at Singapore in the Singer Cup tournament in the same year. He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year 2000.\n\nIn 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. On 7 September, 2004, he was awarded the inaugural Player of the year award and the Test player of the year by the International Cricket Council, ICC (associated image below). Dravid's batting average of 95.46 in the past year has made him the only Indian to be in the Test team of the year. On 18th March, 2006, Dravid played his 100th Test against England in Mumbai.\n\nIn 2005, a biography of Rahul Dravid written by Devendra Prabhudesai was published, 'The Nice Guy Who Finished First'.\n\nIn the 2005 ICC Awards he was the only Indian to be named to the World one-day XI.\n\nDravid was nicknamed 'Jammy' by schoolmates because his father worked for Kissan, famous for its jams and preserves.\n\nIn 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.\n\n\nPersonal Records\n\nTests\nDravid has the 2nd highest Test batting average among those who have scored over 8,000 Test runs. (30 March 2006) \nLongest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (94) \nGreatest number of in
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NO DOUBT ITS RAHUL DRAVID.HE CAN PLAY IN ALL CIRCUMSTANSES.IN TEST OR IN ODI HE PERFORMS ALWAYS BEST V/S ALL CONTRY.WE HAVE HEARD OF GOING OUT OF FORM OF PLAYERS,BUT HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT HE IS OUT OF FORM.WHETHER HE WAS A KEEPER OR HE IS A CAPTAIN HE PLAYS HIS OWN GAME WITH NOT AFFECTED BY THIS.
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Dhoni is the ideal man becuase he can make use of the first power play and score quick runs.1 wicket is not such a big deal, and the risk of sending can be taken at that point, because even if he loses his wicket, the other batsmen can steady the ship , play defensive for a while and then score quickly when settled.
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Dravid and his bowlers are doing a great job. It is just the top order batsmen who are down. It is just a matter of time for the batsmen to gain the old form (Sehwag and Kaif in particular). \nWith the arrival of Dhoni and Pathan, we will now have a great combination in West Indies Worldcup\n7 Batsmen (5 + 2 all rounders ;-) )\n1 Keeper\n5 Bowlers\n\nHarbajan, time and again shows that he can bat well too. That will make the tail shorter and we can bat upto 8 down.
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Actually ,wasn't it Dhoni who started to go back to the pavilion,\nThen it was the Umpire who was not sure about the catch,\nJust take the right out of it ,atleast one of the cricketers once again proved to be a gentleman in this Sport,
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it cannot be said that the craze is more only this time. the thirst for football is always there but it is this time we get the feel that the indians too like the game. with more and more people getting to know abt the world and enriching their knowledge on various fields, the quest has increased a bit. and more restaurants have a giant screen displays to help the people of that kind. so definitely in future the game might rule india more than cricket ;)
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There are plenty of instances of bowlers conceding more then 10 runs from combinations of no-balls and wides.  Ryan Sidebottom playing for Yorkshire once conceded 11 runs from a single delivery with five wides and a six.  See the bbc link to the article below.  \nThe second link is an article that claims a 10 run delivery in 1900 and at least nine instances of 9 runs, mostly from overthrows.  It is possible for an inexperienced team to keep giving overthrows.\nThere is also a record of a player being awarded 7 runs after the batsmen ran three and the fielder deliberately kicked the ball over the boundary line, the umpire awarded an additional 4 runs.  See the third link below.\n\nIn a ODI game against India in 2004 Naved-ul-hasan has this memorable over conceding 17 with only 1 legal delivery bowled (source cricinfo, see last link below):\n Naved-ul-Hasan comes into the attack, replacing Shoaib Akhtar\n  10.1 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, (noball) FOUR, outside off, short width given Sehwag takes it and punches past mid off to the fence\n  10.1 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, (noball) FOUR, long hop - put away in fine style, rocks back and pulls it hard - four!\n  10.1 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, (noball) no run, another noball, plays and misses outside off\n  10.1 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, no run, on the stumps, defended back\n  10.2 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, (noball) FOUR, OH! dear another no ball, hits it over mid off, four more!\n  10.2 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, (noball) no run, bouncer and umpire called a noball\n  10.2 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, FOUR, fuller length, smashed away past mid off for a boundary\n  10.3 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, two runs, full and on legs, whipped away to deep mid wicket\n  10.4 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, no run, short in length, tries to cut and gets beaten\n  10.5 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, no run\n  10.6 Naved-ul-Hasan to Sehwag, one run, pushed to cover and that is 50 for Sehwag
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First of all..Mohd. Kaif is not a dashy player who can come to crease and start slashing. He is a batsman who requires time to settle down ..get his feet in and start knocking around the singles.  \n  In most of the previous matches..he came in around the 40..45th over and had to get moving quicly...no wonder he couldnt deliver.\n  It is clear from yesterday's performance that he takes time but ultimatelty delivers..dropping him now would be a big blumder.