Dravid or Ponting?
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Topic: Dravid or Ponting?
Posted By: Rifat
Subject: Dravid or Ponting?
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 12:48pm
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At the moment I think they are equally matched, but I would like your views.
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Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 12:52pm
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Ponting is in the best form of his career... he's currently a class above everyone else, dravid included ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: eddyc_solid
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 12:53pm
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equally matched how manycenturies has ponting made in twelve moths like 8 or something maybe more,tahts astonishing
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Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 1:00pm
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It's 9 in 14 tests Eddyc Anyway, this topic has been done to death, and the answer is Ponting |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 1:05pm
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agreed clobbs.... any chance of closing this thread as well JP or Sledg ??? ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: crownmethod
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 1:46pm
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Yeah, Ponting is in great form. Its obviously Ponting. ------------- |
Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 1:54pm
| ponying no doubt in better form but technically dravids the best for me |
Posted By: Jay dee
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 3:19pm
| Dravid the stroke master |
Posted By: darlo_lad
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 9:12pm
| Ponting any day in my book. I think he does a much better job than Drvaid, although yes Dravid scores runs and I know his job is to hold an innings together, but he can be sooo boring to watch at times. I would much rather watch Ponting play any day. That's only my opinion though |
Posted By: skip_eng
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 10:05pm
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ponting is amazing! ------------- Ashley Giles took three good wickets, outbowling Shane Warne who matched him in the scorebook, but not on the field Best quote ever! Source: Cricinfo |
Posted By: Elle
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 10:31pm
| Ponting for me lads! |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 12:15am
| they are both great players but considering both of their situations drvaid is the better player |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 12:30am
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please explain..... it doesn't make a scrap of difference ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:20am
| well, ricky ponting has it pretty ez and becoz of that he doesnt have too many distractions and is able to concentrate on his batting alittle more, rahul dravid has to deal with the indian media and the speculation of feuds in the clubhouse the sourav ganguly and greg chappell thing and the Ozs have a more complete team and are easier to captain thats y i say under the circumstances i say dravid is better but they are one of the all time greats no doubt about that |
Posted By: MiNiWaRnEy
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:33am
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What is your point... Cricket is cricket, if Dravid can't deal with being skipper he should quit, Ponting can and he has been under enormous pressure after the Ashes defeat..For mind Ponting is absolutely astonishing and they do not come much better then him..
You are bias for sure SEHWAG NO.1... but this time you have no justification for your answer. ------------- |
Posted By: Elle
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:34am
| Well surely Ricky Ponting has to face the Australian media as well? I would hardly say he has it easy I mean just look at all the stuff that was being said about him after the Ashes. |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:34am
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1. Ponting has it anything but easy... you obviously haven't taken much notice of how australia has come back to the pack since the ashes... ponting has been a shining light in an unstable australian team. 2. Not many distractions ???????? pffffffffft!!!!! apart from being the prime-minister in australia, captaining the australian cricket team is probably the next most important job by the public 3. He's been given an ageing team, and has had to captain a team that has had a lot of personal changes since the ashes... thats definetly not easy on a captain. now tell me that ponting has it easier than dravid ????? i very much doubt it
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Posted By: cricket_mstr
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:11am
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Maybe Ponting having it easier means that Ponting got it easy in the cricket scene by going to a top class cicket academy at 14 As Dravid (I'm guessing much like Lara or Tendulkar) built their way up through street cricket ------------- Cricket watcher but tennis player :) |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:17am
| you have absolutely kidding me if u think ponting has it harder than dravid, to say ponting has it easier than dravid would be an idiotic staement, seriously just think about it ponting has got it made when comparing him with dravid and theres no need to argue becoz theres no arguement! |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:23am
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to get things straight, i didn't say that ponting has it easier... you said that dravid has it easier, i proved you wrong, they both have similar pressures being the captains of their particular teams anyway you still haven't shown me how dravid gets it easier... you just posted a bunch of emotional claptrap with no justification at all... i burnt down your first argument... and it seems you have no more facts to back up your argument..... or perhaps what you are really saying is that ponting has it easier because he IS the better player ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:34am
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australian media vs indian media winner indian media better team austrailia more experince austrailia dravid has sourav gangulys shadow over him dravid doesnt have the support of all of his players dravid soesnt have the support from his fans everyone just waits for him and india to fail to jump on him and call for ganguly these are reasons why dravid has it worse than ponting
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Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:36am
| also dravid is always labelled as a boring batsman to watch and always tagged with an unfair label, while ponting is everyones hero with his agressive ways, i am not trying to day ponting has a walk in the park every day but compared to dravid his problems are not much |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:39am
| and the point that cricket-mstr made has to do with this as well |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:43am
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1.if you hadn't noticed, everyone jumped on ponting when australia lost the ashes, and called for warne.... 2. Ponting has waugh's shadow over him, his captaincy is compared to waugh, who had by far the better team. 3. There are still fans who want warne as captain, because the think ponting is to conservative. 4. The media in either countries are quick to jump all over a failure or incident involving their cricket teams as they are considered the most important national teams of any sport in either country....\ i don't disagree that australia has a better and more experienced team. If dravid can't handle the pressure, he shouldn't be captain, ponting has taken it in his stride, and answered the best way possible, his average has sky-rocketed since becoming captain.... ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 4:00am
| ok yes those are valid points but still on the current wave dravid has more pressure on him becoz ponting has proven himself, austraila have won the last two world cups and have dominated world cricket for as long as i can remember |
Posted By: Elle
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 4:03am
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Surely the fact that Australia have done so well is even more of a pressure? I don't think you can just easily say who has more pressure as you don't know every single fact about each ones life. Just based on who you think is the best and not who has the hardest life who would you say? |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 4:06am
| if ur asking me to say who is better i simply cant choose between the two, i mean ponting is just destroy anyone who comes in his way at the moment but dravid kills the opposition in a more slow and painful way, they are both too good to decide between |
Posted By: Rifat
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 4:40am
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Yes, I fully agree with Sehwag no.1. He is not a master blaster but he is technically the best.
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Posted By: MiNiWaRnEy
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 4:58am
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Dravid is the most technically sound batsmen defensively..but Ponting has a much better strokemaking technique... At the end of the day in a world XI Ponting will be chose before Dravid. ------------- |
Posted By: Sachin
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 7:33am
Dravid is better than ponting.Ponting is the worst cricketer .Sachin is better than anyone
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Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 1:38pm
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the worst cricketer hey.... that'd be why he has scored 9 match defining centuries in his last 14 test matches i spose.... he definetly sux...... get a grip man, and if your going to post such 1 eyed, biased crap like that don't even bother.... ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: inzamam329
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:10pm
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Ponting is easier on the eyes! HE IS FAR MORE DESTRUCTIVE AND HAS A FAR BETTER RANGE OF SHOTS! tHOUGH DRAVID IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD WENT IT COMES TO HAVING A SOUND TECHNIGUE! ------------- |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:52pm
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there clearly the 2 best batsman going around i think both are under alot of pressure because everyone expects tthem to make big scores cause there the captains or they've just come off scoring a century ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: MiNiWaRnEy
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:57pm
That's a fair point matey!! Good on ya for saying that. But at the moment no one is bettering Ponting.
The best batsmen in the world on form are as follows: -
There are also a few others in brillaint form too..HUSSEY! for instance. Gibbs hasn't been too bad either nor has Sanga. ------------- |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:27pm
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hayden has been in top knotch as well hussey,hayden and ponting have to be in the top 5 best test batsmen going around ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 4:44pm
if ur gonna but lara there y not tendulkar? |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 4:49pm
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thats on form if you say best batsman ever tendaulker is right up there with the very best ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 5:38pm
| i no but the reason y he included lara is for past performances and ability, lara is in terrible form rite now, so y not tendulkar? he is more of a threat than lara when on his game and is performing more consistenly |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 5:41pm
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lara hasnt been terrible hes 226 v aus wasnt that long ago he made 80 odd v nz in the last test hes been average you could say not at hi best but average ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: SEHWAG NO.1
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 7:09pm
| yes but he hasnt been much better than tendulkar, so if lara is there tendulkar should be there |
Posted By: DRAVID FAN
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 11:51pm
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None of them should be there as they are both not being consistent. They might be in good form, but Punter and Dravid are way higher than them. Coming back to the topic, Ponting is in better form right now. ------------- |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 15 April 2006 at 12:00am
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tendulkar hasn't scored a century in his past 8 matches... lara has scored a double century and an 80 in his last 3.... thats why he is there and tendulkar is not!!!!! ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 15 April 2006 at 5:09am
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thats what i was trying to say ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: MiNiWaRnEy
Date Posted: 16 April 2006 at 6:10am
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I put Lara there because Lara has not been as good as he can be lately, but he has been playing pretty well, particularly compared to Sachin. ------------- |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 16 April 2006 at 6:13am
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sachin has a bad string of games of late if he does play in the carribean tour he might get back into some form considering west indies play like they doid recently ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: MiNiWaRnEy
Date Posted: 16 April 2006 at 6:19am
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Yeah for sure..he is a brilliant batsmen but in big games and in big series he is somewhat disappointing... 248* vs Bang is ominous..I mean his hoghest score is vs Bang and not until 2004 vs Aust ( in a slow, defensive, leg side dominated innings on a flat track vs a second string AUst attack) he got a 200.. LAra's first ton was 280!! ------------- |
Posted By: Sachin
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 11:22am
| i think u hv forgot when sachin used to give warne a charge and hit for a six.warne said that he used to have nightmares of saching charging him and hitting it for a six.u must have forgot his 241* at sydney |
Posted By: DanielFullard
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 6:07pm
| Ponting for me in both forms of the game. A joy to watch and a pleasure that we can say we lived through the eras of Ricky |
Posted By: DRAVID FAN
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 6:26pm
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Yeah. I agree that Ponting is better at the moment. ------------- |
Posted By: DRAVID FAN
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 8:23pm
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Sats wise they are both almost same. In tests Dravid has more runs and in ODI's too Dravid has more runs. But the ODI thing is because Dravid has played more ODI's. Otherwise Ponting has made those runs faster. So practically they are equal. Dravid better in Tests and Ponting better in ODI's. But form wise currently I would go for Ponting. ------------- |
Posted By: cricket_mstr
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 3:16am
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Ponting has every shot in the book and has lots of experience and he's only around 30 I haven't heard much of Dravid making century's recently Every 3rd innings Ponting makes a 100, he doesn't just get 50s anymore he gets 100's ------------- Cricket watcher but tennis player :) |
Posted By: ozzie001
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 6:40am
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Absolutley no question. Ponting wins hands downs, & you can include Lara, Tendulkar & Kallis in that also. Ponting fantastic average (tests & ODI), at home & abroad, all the shots, is mentally strong, saves his team from trouble & finds time to captain of his team also. |
Posted By: Jyothika
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 12:54pm
| I'd say that they are both equal. Just as Dravid is important to india, so is Ponting to Australia. Ponting gets runs at a faster rate, but Dravid is of no less quality. |
Posted By: jumbo
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 2:25pm
| dravid is also a class act but ponting is an inch better than dravid at present. abt dravid not scoring 100's recently, the weather is the main thing to be blamed. u shouldn't expect a player to stay on at the crease in 40 degrees of temp. in india. he is scoring 50's and thats good. he is unable to carry his inn's because of hot and humid conditions in the subcontinent. |
Posted By: eddyc_solid
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 2:27pm
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personally ponting is the more attractive player to watch he gets his scoring done quickly ------------- The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. |
Posted By: Jyothika
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 2:48pm
| It's not about who's more attractive, its about who can play better. It doesnt matter how fast you score the runs, its how many runs you actaully get that counts. |
Posted By: eddyc_solid
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 3:46pm
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yes it is forever play beutiful thats my motto.JOGA BONITO ------------- The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. |
Posted By: jumbo
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 3:55pm
| what is joga bonito?which language it is? |
Posted By: eddyc_solid
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 4:10pm
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Portuguese or Brazilian for "Play beutiful" ------------- The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 5:27am
Dravid is the steady middle order rock that likes batting for the whole day scoring massive totals. Ponting is not an aggressive batsman but likes to score runs quickly but sensibly however takes more risks.If U were playing to draw a match Dravid is better but if U were playing to win or hunt down a runchase Ponting is better. In my opinion Ponting is better! 
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Posted By: Jyothika
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 6:12pm
| A nice little explanation, but Dravid has won many matches for India too. |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 7:13pm
| I wouldn't actually agree that Ponting takes that much more risk - he is actually a very pragmatic batsman. You could argue that he is willing to unfurl some shots earlier in his innings than Dravid generally would but I wouldn't interpret that as taking risks. |
Posted By: minimurali
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 8:47pm
Ponting for meas he has proven himself at virtually every levl, apart from last year's ashes though.  ------------- County Sim on extended break until I've got less work and more free time. When I have a specific date, I'll post it in the thread. |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 27 April 2006 at 9:55am
| Finally...a proper comparison. Dravid and Ponting are both great batsman. Both have a great technique and all! They both have great stats. They are both currently their countries' premier batsman. They have both been a gift for their respective countries. But in the end I would choose Ricky Ponting over Rahul Dravid! His approach is more aggressive then Dravids and that's the only reason I like him over Dravid. But that doesn't mean that its bad for Dravid. Sure Dravid plays slow, but he is almost impossible to get out...that's why he's called a wall!?! |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 27 April 2006 at 9:57am
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just 2 months ago we couldn't tell who was the better batsman but now we know its ponting ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: cricket_mstr
Date Posted: 27 April 2006 at 2:00pm
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Dravid is hard to get out, I get nervous watching Ponting sometimes because he usually gets himself out. But thats after he scores his usual 50+ --- Ponting still the batter of this decade ------------- Cricket watcher but tennis player :) |
Posted By: afridi`
Date Posted: 02 May 2006 at 7:07am
| when pontings in form he can do nething, but dravid is jus a solid machine |
Posted By: dhoniisbest
Date Posted: 02 May 2006 at 1:37pm
| That's right. He keeping up his average in every single match. He not like other players who play in one and then make 0 in next. |
Posted By: dhoniisbest
Date Posted: 02 May 2006 at 1:40pm
| It doesn't matter if Rickey Ponting has better average than Dravid. Dravid keeping up his score in consecutive games. |
Posted By: matt1989
Date Posted: 02 May 2006 at 1:52pm
both of you...arent we ment to discuss the players not their pressures? anyway for me it would be dravid simply because he's better playing genuine turn on geniune turning wickets. ponting maybe better to watch but as a player dravid's better due to sound technique which is effective against pace and geniune turn on genuine turning pitches. anyway was the point "sehwag" trying to make earlyer, that ponting doesnt have to face mcgrath or warne? |
Posted By: mazzybabe.uk
Date Posted: 02 May 2006 at 3:35pm
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If we talk about all round Dravid is a much better Dravid trys his best to just kepp the sportsmanship in cricket wheras ponting whinges whenever he doesn't get his own way. He trys to bully the ICC because he captains australia Dravid and him a very equal in batting ------------- The First Century I ever saw was Heschelle Gibbs' 228 against Pakistan |
Posted By: Jyothika
Date Posted: 02 May 2006 at 6:25pm
Exactly, i agree. 
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Posted By: dhoniisbest
Date Posted: 03 May 2006 at 12:42am
| me too |
Posted By: wccc
Date Posted: 24 May 2006 at 9:37pm
| ricky ponting for me |
Posted By: Top Cat
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 7:04pm
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Ponting definitely ------------- |
Posted By: paki
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 7:14pm
| ponting is much better |
Posted By: wccc
Date Posted: 27 May 2006 at 10:14am
| can dravid play at wicketkeeper |
Posted By: dhoniisbest
Date Posted: 28 May 2006 at 6:50pm
| Yeah, he can, he was wicket keeper for Indian team. He had good average that time too. |
Posted By: slogger72N/O
Date Posted: 07 June 2006 at 7:22am
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Ponting is a better player in my opinion. Dravid just sticks around for 7 hours, gets a 50 then plays a stupid shot and gets out. ------------- |
Posted By: jumbo
Date Posted: 07 June 2006 at 7:33am
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to stick out for 7 hrs is a big test Mr. slogger. it needs a lot of patience and concentration. he is a real test player and all the ones who have deep interst in cricket would like to watch him. i admit that i also don't like watch him much but i also don't have that deep interest. ------------- sorry guys i don't have pc in my hostel so i can't use the net very often. |
Posted By: Jyothika
Date Posted: 07 June 2006 at 7:46pm
I like to watch him.  ------------- Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time!!! |
Posted By: dhoniisbest
Date Posted: 07 June 2006 at 9:14pm
| Most of credit for winning 17 games goes to Dravid. He is consistent in batting and he will be. He also stay on the crease for the long time to help out. He's slow but he helps a lot. |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 14 June 2006 at 3:47pm
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What a load of crap!! How has ponting bullied the ICC ???? And how is he unsportsmanlike as your comment suggests ??? Sure he blew up about the runout in the ashes, but that is 1 glitch on an otherwise fine record. Was it not he who called for batsmen to take the word of fielders on controversial catches, yet all the other captains declined!!!! As for whinging when he doesn't get his own way, please explain, if this were the case he would be arguing every decision given against him!! He copped the ashes defeat on the chin, accepted it gracefully, and didn't offer any excuses, or "whinge" as such about anything. He had every right to question the tactics of the english fast bowlers trips on and off the field, as it was not only questioned by the australians, but by many around the world. ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 14 June 2006 at 3:49pm
| I suspect Mazzy was referring to Ponting's habit of going up blubbing to the umpires every time a decision goes against them in the field |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 14 June 2006 at 4:04pm
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dunno about everytime clobbs, but he had a legit reason to in bangladesh, the umpire in question had no problem with it either. In any case i wouldn't exactly call it a habit, watching the 2 series against SA (where the whole debate stems from) there were 2/3 moments when ponting did approach the umpires, and neither of them were "whinging" to the umpires as such. ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 14 June 2006 at 4:10pm
| He did it constantly throughout the Ashes |
Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 5:54am
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Rahul Dravid the best Indian batsman at the moment & Ricky Ponting the best Australian batsman at the moment . Howzthat? ------------- |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 12:28pm
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when clobbs ??? i honestly cannot remember it happening during the ashes (perhaps thats because i don't want to remember much about the ashes at all though ), but seriously though, apart from the Gary Pratt incident, when ???? ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 12:56pm
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Honestly Clapo he was at all the time so nailing it down to one specific example is beyond me. Evidently I was not the only one to notice this, as Duncan Fletcher wrote in his book - "Whenever a decision went against Australia during the series, did you notice how Ponting would invariably walk up to the umpire and challenge his decision using overbearing body language? "Is that what we really want kids to see when they watch cricket? Is that really in the spirit of the game? "Did you ever see Michael Vaughan or any of the England players challenge the umpires in that manner?" |
Posted By: Clapo
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 1:28pm
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i honestly didn't notice it! but on the same token, there were more than our fair share that went against us, but lets not bring that up again ------------- 5-0 You Beauty!!!!! Thanks for the many fantastic memories Marto, Langer, Warney & Pidg |
Posted By: sachin_fan
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 5:07pm
| I would go with ponting because of his great form and aggresion.but darvi is good too.He has playd many match winning knocks.But it is quite difficult to compare the two. |
Posted By: slogger72N/O
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 7:28am
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I really like Ponting, and I find Dravid boring in test games, he just defends until he sees a bad ball, when he promptly skies it and gets caught. Ponting on the other hand is in brilliant form. ------------- |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 8:21am
Test cricket is about punishing the bad ball and Dravid does that admirably. One thing Dravid doesn't do is go the ariel route - if he , as you say , skies it and gets caught , then why is his average so high? ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: ANIL KUMBLE
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 8:41am
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He has the highest average in test cricket out of the current players with 58 ponting also averaging 58. ------------- Check out my blog http://crictopia.blogspot.com/ pretty bad though... |
Posted By: akki18
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 9:12am
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Averages for the players change day by day AK. Although I am a fan of Rahul I have to admit that Ponting is ahead of him at the moment ------------- Counter Strike: the best multiplayer game that ever was and will be |
Posted By: ozzie001
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 11:36am
| These are the best two modern day batsmen. Tendulkar & Lara have faded, Kallis overrated (he has two scoring shots thats it). But if I was captain of a tes team chasing 320 on the last day to win I want R.Ponting batting for me. Likewise if we are 1 for 20 chasing 280 in an ODI POnting gets my vote again. He is a big game player. |
Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 1:43pm
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With the likes of Sehwag and Dhoni in there he does not need to rake the ariel route but if its needed he can hit a few sixes as well ------------- |
Posted By: DRAVID FAN
Date Posted: 31 July 2006 at 3:00pm
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Yup I agree with you. Dravid was the guy who made 50 of just 22 balls wth 3 sixes. Ponting can surely do that but so can Dravid. Its just that he doesn't need and doesn't want to until the situation demands and he has a way for doing thing with just one or two sixes. Ponting was ahead of him this year uptil now. Afterwards I don't know what'll happen. ------------- |
Posted By: DRAVID FAN
Date Posted: 31 July 2006 at 3:14pm
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Plus Dravid is the only player to have already made 1000 Test runs this year. ------------- |
Posted By: DRAVID FAN
Date Posted: 31 July 2006 at 3:15pm
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Thats a fine record by the captain. Hope he continues this and finishes with the most runs this year. ------------- |