Posted by: no_quiero January 4, 2009
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First of all ,
the whole thing of being number 1 team always comes after some test performance. History has always suggested that. Be it westindies before 1995 (based on their unbeatean run of test series overseas for 16 year and in west indies for 25 years, during this time westindies lost number of ODI series but nobody cared) or Austarlia with a superb 10 years of cricket. Now when they lost the test series in Australia after 16 years this thing has come to light. So test cricket will always be a litmus test to judge the best team. Probably because there is separate world cup in place for One day matches. When Australia beat westindies 2-1 in westindies (which never happened in 20-25 years ) in 1995 , you knew the new world leader has arrived. Mind you the Aussie still lost the ODI series 4-1.
T-20 T20 will by no means decide the better team in the world. Because since it is only 20 overs, the upset and luck are very likely to happen.
And we all know test cricket requires greater skills and ability. It very rarely happens that you are a good test player and a bad ODI player. But it is more common that you can be good enough ODI player but not so good at test matches. So I beg to write off South Africa as a one day out fit. If you don't remember against England is the only ODIs tournament against any good test side by SA played in whole year. So their indifferent ODI performance can also be attributed to the fact that they were playing after a very very long time. And of course one ODI series is no way to judge that team is good or bad.
Lastly, the credibility of India becoming number 1 is much based on the their performance in India. If India wins overseas regularly than their claim will get more importance. South Africa is on a quest of achieving something that has not been achieved in 120 years. That itself gives a huge credibility of them being number 1 team.
So the best thing is lets wait and watch. For India it will be difficult to achieve too much in 2009. Money oriented BCCI don't have much test this year. Only New Zealand series for a long time. So India's race to number 1 will hamper even more. So in next year or so if Sachin, dravid and Laxman retires, india's search for number 1 will end even before it gets any momentum.
As Ian chappel said, believe it or not England have very good chance to become number one team next year. They have a series in West Indies coming up, followed by Westindies series again in England . Then they have Ashes. If they win these three series with a good margin their is every likelihood they will be number 1.
the whole thing of being number 1 team always comes after some test performance. History has always suggested that. Be it westindies before 1995 (based on their unbeatean run of test series overseas for 16 year and in west indies for 25 years, during this time westindies lost number of ODI series but nobody cared) or Austarlia with a superb 10 years of cricket. Now when they lost the test series in Australia after 16 years this thing has come to light. So test cricket will always be a litmus test to judge the best team. Probably because there is separate world cup in place for One day matches. When Australia beat westindies 2-1 in westindies (which never happened in 20-25 years ) in 1995 , you knew the new world leader has arrived. Mind you the Aussie still lost the ODI series 4-1.
T-20 T20 will by no means decide the better team in the world. Because since it is only 20 overs, the upset and luck are very likely to happen.
And we all know test cricket requires greater skills and ability. It very rarely happens that you are a good test player and a bad ODI player. But it is more common that you can be good enough ODI player but not so good at test matches. So I beg to write off South Africa as a one day out fit. If you don't remember against England is the only ODIs tournament against any good test side by SA played in whole year. So their indifferent ODI performance can also be attributed to the fact that they were playing after a very very long time. And of course one ODI series is no way to judge that team is good or bad.
Lastly, the credibility of India becoming number 1 is much based on the their performance in India. If India wins overseas regularly than their claim will get more importance. South Africa is on a quest of achieving something that has not been achieved in 120 years. That itself gives a huge credibility of them being number 1 team.
So the best thing is lets wait and watch. For India it will be difficult to achieve too much in 2009. Money oriented BCCI don't have much test this year. Only New Zealand series for a long time. So India's race to number 1 will hamper even more. So in next year or so if Sachin, dravid and Laxman retires, india's search for number 1 will end even before it gets any momentum.
As Ian chappel said, believe it or not England have very good chance to become number one team next year. They have a series in West Indies coming up, followed by Westindies series again in England . Then they have Ashes. If they win these three series with a good margin their is every likelihood they will be number 1.
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