sn di, hajur pani "piyakkad" ho? :P flips wrote: If you have not realized, cricket is a team game and I guess that speaks all. --thanks for letting me know that :P. i didn't know it before. as much as it is team game, personal contribution speaks a lot of volume. and when you are THE master blaster, you are supposed to finish the match off in your team's favor more often than not. have you seen tendulkar play pakis in the asian test championship (98-99) in chennai? india needed 17 runs to win with 4 wickets in hand and tendulkar scored 100. but as pakis started to bowl a tight line, he peed and boom --a rash shot, uncharactersitic of YOURS tendulkar!....India lost to Pakis yet again hahahahahahahaha :P Flips wrote: If you look into the crickt history and spend few mins to ponder rather than just being judgemental, you'll probably find countable matches where only one player's contribution led the team to win matches. If he had more support, probably his centuries would have led his team to the wining seat. I am not saying, you can expect an individual to win matches for you every time. BUT when we talk of much HYPED great players like tendulkar, you expect more but he has left lot to be desired for. Kapil dev once told that tendulkar is low in self-esteem (pees in his pants) and if he was talented like tendulkar, he would have rocked more!!! You wrote: Jumbo may not have taken more wickets in the international scenario, he still has contributed his cameo roles when it was needed! You can't expect people to be perfectionist! hahahahha....Jumbo is a well known mouse outside sub-continent. apart from his debut series in england, the chap does not have heart to play outside sub-continent and leave a mark. he is the greatest pee-er! :P NKC, I am not denying, india is not a good team. but against pakis, they are good only in papers. i hope more from recent youngsters like pathan and kaif though, but all others are scary crows (apart from dravid). Once in an interview, someone asked why we lose so many close matches, in whose response tendulkar said, we are not aggressive enough. its our nature, not only of the team but of indians, in general. HE IS DEAD RIGHT! This is for flips: 1) Wasim's Hat-trick! Watch the second delivery from Wasim (lion heart) to chaminda 2) and this: Arguably, the greatest ball ever bowled in cricket!! 3) and this one: If i ever get a chance to be reborn as a cricketer, I would want to be wasim--Allan Border (Australia) LooTe