Congrats England for their win in SL..Finally England win in Asia and held their no 1 status.Fantastic performance by Kevin Peitersen and superb bowling by Swann.

also fantastic piece of captainship by Ganguly against Mumbai while defending a low total of 129.

Originally Posted by LeEnfield

I don't think any one has come close to that great Australian Batsman Sir Donald Bradman who average 99.8% runs per test match

Yes very true.Its really sad that his batting couldn't be filmed as the technology at that time was still infant.

Talking of Cricket I wonder if we will ever see the likes of Dennis Compton, a fine batsman a good captain and played a many fine innings for England, yet during the winter he would play football for Arsenal and even England, will we ever se the like again.

Nope you wont because professional sport and contracts will not allow it.

Even if they allowed the way the game is played nowadays makes it impossible to take another sports.Cricket has evolved during its time,it is not a gentlemen's game anymore and tours n matches have increased ten times since the era of Compton.

Bye the way there is a kiwi who i remember played cricket and rugby not long back.

Botham played both cricket and football, he played football in one of the lower divisions but not at the level that Compton did

Here are some of the players who has a good educational background:

Just Retired Rahul Dravid:-B.Com
Javagal Srinath:- Engineer from a reputed college
Anil Kumble :-Engineer from a reputed college
Geoff Lawson: optometrist
Kumar Sangakkara: Lawyer
Stephan Fleming: MA
Misbah ul Haq: MBA
Ravichandran Ashwin: MTech IT from a reputed college in Chennai

At one time the Irish Rugby team was full of doctors and lawyers as all there members came from university teams.

Originally Posted by LeEnfield

Talking of Cricket I wonder if we will ever see the likes of Dennis Compton, a fine batsman a good captain and played a many fine innings for England, yet during the winter he would play football for Arsenal and even England, will we ever se the like again.

And he was a fine rugby performer when asked to take part.(war time).

Also, his brother Leslie was a regular centre-half for Arsenal; a big man, good player; I believe he was capped on occasion by England at football and cricket. He was a wicket-keeper .

Originally Posted by Janet92

A little bounce in the Pitch and Indian Team is back in the pavilion.

A lil spin and the pomps,saffers,kiwis,aussies n windies back in the pavilion.

by the way an american knowing about India's weakness?