Lara Lappa Lari Lappa!
Lara tussi desh ka naam roshan kar ditaa puttar!! No this isn't a punjabi munda lavishing praise upon Lara Dutta, instead the desi version of a Windies Fan crying his lungs out for the man called B. Lara. He yesterday became the first person to score 400 in a test match. And this is the second time he has smacked the three tonner. Can you believe it ?!! Boy! he sure started the agelong controversy over who being the current best batsmen all over again. Here's some comments posted on iitb.general by random users.
[1] history repeats itself after exactly 10 years!!!same opponent(england) and the same venue(antigua)....the only difference is the phenomenal decline of the windies in worldcricket....in '94, west indies were still carrying their unbeaten streak in testcricket (to be broken by the aussies in the very next season) and antiguawas hosting a dead rubber...now too, it's hosting a dead rubber, but with the windies desperatelytrying to avoid a whitewash....how times hv changed!!!
[2] I have seen 2 GODs , one from Bombay and another from Trinidad.
[3] Nah...i wonder if you can call Lara better than Sachin coz of this record. Maybe saying both of them are almost equal wud be fair.Sachin has greater consistency. If you see Lara's career graph it has many ups and downs. Sacin on the other hand has been quite consistent. That explains his 34 centuries. And all this inspite of the number of one-dayers he's played during this time! I think that's remarkable.
[4] sachin has accumulated a lot of runs. but seldom has he won test matchesfor us. u will find that his record in the fourth innings of a test matchis not so good. lara on the other hand has singlehandedly won matches forwindies over past years. hes definitely the better batsman.
[5] Lara has 24 hundreds, yaar. He has 5 doubles and 2 triples as compared tosachin's 3 doubles and no triples. in tests , lara is a touch better thansachin , while in one-dayers sachin rulz.
[6] Let's all remember that we ppl judge based on statistics...we can't judge the talent coz we know nothing about good batting...But look at ppl like the Don...he knows. He can judge who the best is. So can Barry Richards and Ian Chappel...and they all choose...not surprisingly...Sachin
[7] Well look at the stats given in the newspaper today...yes lara has more runs in lesser matches but onhly marginal...and sachin has a higher average...both have equal no. of man of the match awards...so both gave equal no. of match winning perfomances...its only that Lara's team went on to win and India failed... So Lara is not all that much better when compared to Sachin...and if u consider one-dayers too and the no. of matches each one of them plays...i think over-all Sachin stands out as the best.
...and the debate continues!!
[Listening to Upparwale from Khakee]
Lara tussi desh ka naam roshan kar ditaa puttar!! No this isn't a punjabi munda lavishing praise upon Lara Dutta, instead the desi version of a Windies Fan crying his lungs out for the man called B. Lara. He yesterday became the first person to score 400 in a test match. And this is the second time he has smacked the three tonner. Can you believe it ?!! Boy! he sure started the agelong controversy over who being the current best batsmen all over again. Here's some comments posted on iitb.general by random users.
[1] history repeats itself after exactly 10 years!!!same opponent(england) and the same venue(antigua)....the only difference is the phenomenal decline of the windies in worldcricket....in '94, west indies were still carrying their unbeaten streak in testcricket (to be broken by the aussies in the very next season) and antiguawas hosting a dead rubber...now too, it's hosting a dead rubber, but with the windies desperatelytrying to avoid a whitewash....how times hv changed!!!
[2] I have seen 2 GODs , one from Bombay and another from Trinidad.
[3] Nah...i wonder if you can call Lara better than Sachin coz of this record. Maybe saying both of them are almost equal wud be fair.Sachin has greater consistency. If you see Lara's career graph it has many ups and downs. Sacin on the other hand has been quite consistent. That explains his 34 centuries. And all this inspite of the number of one-dayers he's played during this time! I think that's remarkable.
[4] sachin has accumulated a lot of runs. but seldom has he won test matchesfor us. u will find that his record in the fourth innings of a test matchis not so good. lara on the other hand has singlehandedly won matches forwindies over past years. hes definitely the better batsman.
[5] Lara has 24 hundreds, yaar. He has 5 doubles and 2 triples as compared tosachin's 3 doubles and no triples. in tests , lara is a touch better thansachin , while in one-dayers sachin rulz.
[6] Let's all remember that we ppl judge based on statistics...we can't judge the talent coz we know nothing about good batting...But look at ppl like the Don...he knows. He can judge who the best is. So can Barry Richards and Ian Chappel...and they all choose...not surprisingly...Sachin
[7] Well look at the stats given in the newspaper today...yes lara has more runs in lesser matches but onhly marginal...and sachin has a higher average...both have equal no. of man of the match awards...so both gave equal no. of match winning perfomances...its only that Lara's team went on to win and India failed... So Lara is not all that much better when compared to Sachin...and if u consider one-dayers too and the no. of matches each one of them plays...i think over-all Sachin stands out as the best.
...and the debate continues!!
[Listening to Upparwale from Khakee]
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