Sandeep Patil : The Jack of all
Shyam Prasad Talluri
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: 5) He had the strokes and the game specially for ODI. I certainly rank
: him far better ODI player than Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri, Ashok
: Malhotra, or todays Amre, Sidhu, Manjerkar, Tendulkar or Kambli.
Talking about Sandeep Patil and his hitting, the great innings
at the Adelaide Oval readily comes to my mind. Patil was injured
by a Pascoe flier in Sydney and was very uncomfortable in the
first few overs he faced at Adelaide.Dennis Lille, the great
thinker that he is bowled to a plan and at the other end Lenny
Pascoe as usual was letting the fliers go. Patil played and missed,
edged a few but was fortunate not to have nicked to Marsh.
After the initial trouble, Patil came to grips with the bowling
and started firing on all cylinders. He hooked, drove and cut
the pacemen in "Viv Richards" style and played a few glorious
lofted strokes to Yardley.
One stroke which I really enjoyed was a flick off Lillee which
travelled all the way over the fine leg boundary. He was
also very severe on Rodney Hogg thumping him to the boundary
whenver he pitched up. I always enjoy watching that recorded
innings.
It's a pity such a good hitter, sandeep Patil couldnt
get to play more for India. He is easily one of the best
one day batsmen India has ever had. His only drawback was
his sloppy fielding and that must be one of the main reasons
to drop him. It was patil who gave way to Azhar in
England's tour of India.
SPT
: Srinivas Jasthi
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GUNNA, SANDEEP
>Hi,
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> 5) He had the strokes and the game specially for ODI. I certainly rank
> him far better ODI player than Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri, Ashok
> Malhotra, or todays Amre, Sidhu, Manjerkar, Tendulkar or Kambli.
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Thats an hot thing to judge. Certainly the basics of ODs in those days
were far diffrent from the ones used today. The early days of ODs,
especially for India had a line up of batsman who could only bat,
and bowlers who could only bowl (unless you want to come up with the
likes of Binny and Madan Lal; ofcourse the evergreen Kapil Dev was
always there); and fielding wasnt a thing at the premium. Think of the
thing today; a Jonty Rhodes in the team is considered an allrounder.
Him at cover is an additional 20 runs to your team; plus those bonus
2 or 3 runouts which always seem to happen as also those superb catches.
Now I dont consider to be harsh here; and I did watch atleast some of
Patil's innings including probably the one you mentioned above, but
Patil was a hugggge liability on the field, with his non-attacking attitude
and his underarm flips to the wickets. Ofcourse fielding was never
considered to be important; and I dont think the 15 over limit with
only 2 fielders beyond the 30 yard line existed then; as also the fact
that teams won because they hit shots rather to the boundary; than
stressing on sharp singles. A Sandeep Patil in the team would be a
negative 30 runs in the field; and certainly would not be a member
of my team; even considering his wonderful exploits with the bat.
One day cricketers today are utility players; and even a Tendulkar
wouldn't consider his place safe if he had the fielding talent of
my namesake :))
bye
/Sandeep
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srinivas jasthi
A few words oqf one of my favorites of ODI. The NIRLON batsmen was
one of the first ODI batsmen for India. If one remembers Indian tour
of Australia in 1981-82. At the end of first round of B&H triangular
series with Australia and NZ. We won both the matches and Sandip Patil
was man of the match in both. Excellent striker and big hitter of the
ball. His drives are perfectly struck.
Srikkanth never had that power of Patils clean hits, there was no
chance for any of the fielders to stop the ball. It was Pak tour of
India after the World Cup-1983. Zaheer Abbas was the Capt and Imran
was not in that series. The first ODI was in Hyderabad and Jimmy
easily won the match for India. Second ODI (Day-night) was in Delhi,
Kirti Azad with Madan Lal won a match which PAK almost had in its bag.
Third I think it was Jaipur, India was chasing some 180+ (not really
sure) lost early wickets of Srikkanth and Jimmy. Sunny was playing a
sheet anchor at one end and was around 38 when Sandy came in to bat.
The bowler was Nazir Md (senior) was one of good spinners of PAK.
Patil lofts the very first ball for a straight six, second glorious
cover drive for 4, third late cut for a 4 and fourth a single to mid
wicket. Thus started the fireworks, Sunny at the other end was always
cautioning, not paying any attention to Sunny he continued storming.
Zaheer surprised got his best bowler Mudassar Nazar, Patil by the time
was on 45 and Sunny 48. First ball defense, same second ball defense
and still similar third ball perfectly on the half stump cutting
inside, perfect positioning hard hit straight drive and Mudassar by
the time could recover from his bowling action the ball was over the
ropes of side screen. Next ball a late outcutter from Mudassar,
Patils best shot, on the knees glorious square drive, a perfect 4 and
a chanceless 50. Sunny still on 48 could only clap on his bat and
acknowledge one of typical Sandy Storms.
Some Comments on his Career:
1) Most reckless batsmen, never took cricket career seriously. I remember
in one of his interviews he was saying "I never wanted to make a career
out of Cricket".
2) He was even less serious than Srikkanth in batting and had more power
packed and stylish drives.
3) Sunny feels "He was one batsmen always needed in ODI, he was a little
moody, with lotsoff humor and on the Knees square drive is the best
square drive".
4) Like Jimmy, he was very unlucky and was unfortunate to come into
the rift between Sunny and Kapil of England home series 1985. That
virtually sealed his cricket career.
5) He had the strokes and the game specially for ODI. I certainly rank
him far better ODI player than Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri, Ashok
Malhotra, or todays Amre, Sidhu, Manjerkar, Tendulkar or Kambli.
Srinivas Jasthi
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