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Fantastic servant of cricket, 16 years in the game, will likely retire tomorrow after calling a press conference:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/conte ... 56624.html

One of my favourite cricketers of all time. This is one bloke who mastered the mental side of cricket for a very long time. He was not as talented as a Tendulkar, Ponting or Lara but got so much out of what he did have.

You know you earn't your wicket as a bowler getting the wall out.

wycbloods wrote:One of my favourite cricketers of all time. This is one bloke who mastered the mental side of cricket for a very long time. He was not as talented as a Tendulkar, Ponting or Lara but got so much out of what he did have.

You know you earn't your wicket as a bowler getting the wall out.

Known as the 'wall' yet is the most dismissed batsman by being bowled than any other cricketer in the history of test cricket

CoverKing wrote:

wycbloods wrote:One of my favourite cricketers of all time. This is one bloke who mastered the mental side of cricket for a very long time. He was not as talented as a Tendulkar, Ponting or Lara but got so much out of what he did have.

You know you earn't your wicket as a bowler getting the wall out.

Known as the 'wall' yet is the most dismissed batsman by being bowled than any other cricketer in the history of test cricket

Bro owns bro, Ha!

Nice fact CK.

As good of a player he was he is still just another Indian with an overinflated average from playing on flat dust bowls on postage stamp ovals.
If Ponting had played in India all his life he would have 20,000 runs and an average of 60.
No surprise that his averages in Australia and Sth Africa are a fair bit lower than his overall stats

one of the few indian cricketers i have any time for

CoverKing wrote:

wycbloods wrote:One of my favourite cricketers of all time. This is one bloke who mastered the mental side of cricket for a very long time. He was not as talented as a Tendulkar, Ponting or Lara but got so much out of what he did have.

You know you earn't your wicket as a bowler getting the wall out.

Known as the 'wall' yet is the most dismissed batsman by being bowled than any other cricketer in the history of test cricket

has also had more innings than most people in teh history of test cricket

MAY-Z wrote:

CoverKing wrote:

wycbloods wrote:One of my favourite cricketers of all time. This is one bloke who mastered the mental side of cricket for a very long time. He was not as talented as a Tendulkar, Ponting or Lara but got so much out of what he did have.

You know you earn't your wicket as a bowler getting the wall out.

Known as the 'wall' yet is the most dismissed batsman by being bowled than any other cricketer in the history of test cricket

has also had more innings than most people in teh history of test cricket

He faced 31258 balls in his career over 286 innings. So on average he faced 109 balls per innings.

Ponting faced 22376 balls in 276 innings. On average he faced 81 balls per innings.

Lara faced 19753 balls in his 232 innings. On average he faced 85 balls per innings.

I think he is known as the wall for the amount of time he could occupy the crease not because he got bowled as often as he did .

You think wrong then

Jim05 wrote:As good of a player he was he is still just another Indian with an overinflated average from playing on flat dust bowls on postage stamp ovals.
If Ponting had played in India all his life he would have 20,000 runs and an average of 60.No surprise that his averages in Australia and Sth Africa are a fair bit lower than his overall stats

What's Ponting's Test average in India?....about 23 I think!

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. Dravids work in his last tour of England when India where walloped shows how good of a player he was in varying conditions. Well done to him

Confirmed retired.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/conte ... 56809.html

The Wall has finally come down......


Nowhere near as talented as some of his team mates but certainly gave his best both at home and away

westozfalcon wrote:

Jim05 wrote:As good of a player he was he is still just another Indian with an overinflated average from playing on flat dust bowls on postage stamp ovals.
If Ponting had played in India all his life he would have 20,000 runs and an average of 60.No surprise that his averages in Australia and Sth Africa are a fair bit lower than his overall stats

What's Ponting's Test average in India?....about 23 I think!

exactly average in india 51, average away from india of 53 - an averaged 42 in australia which isnt bad when you consider for a lot of that time australia had one of the best bowling attacks of all time

ponting averages 26 in india

Against opposition:
AUS averages 38.67 (41.64 in AUS)
BDESH averages 70.00 (70.00 in BDESH)
ENG averages 60.93 (68.8 in ENG)
NZ averages 63.80 (63.83 in NZ)
PAKI averages 53.73 (78.57 in PAKI)
RSA averages 33.83 (29.71 in RSA)
SRI averages 48.64 (33.10 in SRI)
WI averages 63.80 (65.69 in WI)
ZIM averages 97.90 (79.16 in ZIM)

Take out Bangladesh and Zimbabwe who have been weak for his entire career, and he only averages less AWAY against South Africa and Zimbabwe.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/site/page2/wc_quiz.html?week=36

Rahul Dravid became the first non-Australian to deliver the Sir Don Bradman Oration in November.

It is an exceptional effort from a sportsman to cover so many aspects of the game he loves. Incredibly humble and very humbling. It's well worth a view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr4bK63WxXY

I love his Warney joke.

pafc1870 wrote:http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/site/page2/wc_quiz.html?week=36

You are a Sourav Ganguly fan who hoped to take this quiz to undermine Rahul Dravid. Like him, you're full of yourself and wish you ruled the Indian team. Don't sulk now. You should have known better than to steal Dravid's thunder on his special day