General Cricket thread

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[INS_Vikrant]

Vihari and ashwin did not run 35-40 runs in addition to injuries vihari and jadeja had else we would have won this match.

Aus team seriously underestimated Indian Batting and declared early, if Vihari and Jadeja weren't injured they would have lost the match.

Pant's inning was awesome

 

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Pant's inning was awesome

Pant was out to win it, great spirit. Also hope they can sort this mess out:

we need a decider match, hope they don't abandon it.

 

[INS_Vikrant]

Steve Smith, once a cheat always a cheat.

 

[fatman17]

Says it all

 

[fatman17]

Hanif autobiography

 

[fatman17]

Pakistan 1974

 

[fatman17]

John Arlott on the Great Hanif Mohammad

 

[Sharma Ji]

 

[Sharma Ji]

damn

 

[fatman17]

Arguably the finest all rounder

 

[ghazi52]

Off-duty British army officers playing cricket on the parade ground in Kohat, India, (Pakistan), Circa 1862. This is certainly one of the first, if not the first, photograph of the game being played in India.

The British introduced cricket to India in the 18th century. Initially, Indians were only spectators to contests played between Army and Navy units, but by the late 19th century the game had acquired popular appeal. Both Hindu and Muslim native soldiers took up cricket with enthusiasm. For the British, cricket was part of their colonising mission. The cricketing historian Cecil Headlam, travelling in India during the 1903 Delhi Durbar, reflected on its place in the imperial scheme:

'First the hunter, the missionary, and the merchant, next the soldier and the politician, and then the cricketer - that is the history of British colonisation. And of these civilizing influences the last may, perhaps, be said to do least harm. The hunter may exterminate deserving species, the missionary may cause quarrels, the soldier may hector, the politician blunder - but cricket unites, as in India, the rulers and the ruled. It also provides a moral training, an education in pluck, nerve and self-restraint valuable to the character of the ordinary native'.

Like their British counterparts, Indian Army regiments took part in competitions against both Indian and British units stationed on the sub-continent. Today, Pakistan and India are both cricket-mad nations.

 

[fatman17]

The great Ian Chappell

 

[fatman17]

Colin Milburn

 

[ghazi52]

Lahore Cricket Club ca. 1887