Saturday, July 31, 2004

Bowlers - Second class citizens?

West Indies are celebrating their 75th year anniversary of entering the test cricket. They picked the top 5 players to have represented them.
Frank Worrell, Viv Richards, Garfield Sobers, Brian Lara, and George Headley.
All of them are unquestionably legendary batsmen but not a single bowler in top 5? Atleast Malcolm Marshall deserves to be in.

Mike Selvey argues for the bowlers in this article. Selvey was a good county level seamer who also played a few tests at the highest level. One of those tests was unfortunately at The Oval when Sir Viv played a truly majestic innings which I think finished his career.

Friday, July 30, 2004

Technocrats in Politics

I was reading an article in Najam Sethi's Daily Times, one of the more saner newspapers in the world. It was about technocrats in Politics. Thankfully we had a humanist guiding our economic destiny in those turbulent early 90s.

Monday, July 26, 2004

Atherton v Donald

I was reading ATY in the Cricinfo website. The first item was Atherton v Donald. I remember watching that great duel. I have seen great duels but the one I remember most is Ambrose v S Waugh PoS, 1995. Waugh sledging and Curtley glaring ... A moment to remember.