Curious to know more about Rohan Kanhai
Raju Dixit
Could anyone tell me more about Rohan Kanhai? I have seen his stats and
record etc. and now I want to know about his style, Technique. Was he
solid batsman and compiler of runs like Gavaskar and Boycott or he was
like Richards etc.
waiting for some Info.
raju
Krishnan
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Krishnan
Sunil Gavaskar sort of hero worshipped Kanhai. In his book "Sunny Days"
he talks about the time he was in school and had gone to see match between the touring
West Indian side and the Indian or Bombay side.. and watched Kanhai make a brilliant 153. He said that all he wanted to see was the "falling sweep" shot from Kanhai,
and it seems Kanhai played a great many of those. Can any of the old timers who have
actually seen Kanhai make that shot comment on it please?
cheers
AK
shr...@imap1.asu.edu
Krishnan (kris...@drk.controls) wrote:
: Sunil Gavaskar sort of hero worshipped Kanhai. In his book "Sunny Days"
: he talks about the time he was in school and had gone to see match between the touring
: West Indian side and the Indian or Bombay side.. and watched Kanhai make a brilliant 153. He said that all he wanted to see was the "falling sweep" shot from Kanhai,
: and it seems Kanhai played a great many of those. Can any of the old timers who have
: actually seen Kanhai make that shot comment on it please?
: cheers
: AK
: ---
In fact,as far as i know, gavaskar named his son "rohan" after Rohan kanhai.
Shridhar.
Dipak Basu
As a kid I've watched Kanhai score 256 at Eden Gardens in one the most
brutal batting displays I have ever seen. It was bloody murder. Kanhai
had partnerships of 72 with Conrad Hunte (23), 108 with Collie Smith
(34), 217 with Basil Butcher (103) and 57 with Gary Sobers before he was
finally out. Sobers (106*) and Solomon (69*) went on to add another 160
when WI declared at 614/5 against one of India's weakest attacks ever
(Phadkar, Surendranth, Gupte and Ghulam Ahmed). Later India were
flattened by Roy Gilchrist and lost by an innings and 336 runs.
Kanhai and Sobers contended for the best batsman distinction agianst the
much stronger Australian attack of 1960 (which had Davidson and
Benaud). Jack Fingleton in his fabulous book (The Greatest Test of All)
described Kanhai as "hating the ball". It was like an explosion going
off every time he wound up to hit a boundary. He hooked so hard he
would land on his back in the follow-through (later Roy Fredericks
adopted the "Falling Kanhai Hook" style) always in danger of hitting his
wicket. Sobers in contrast was all magic, all style, all fluidity. It
would probably be cricket's greatest experience in watching these two
geniuses in full flow together. Ironically (and Fingleton mentions this
in his book) while Kanhai and Sobers have been involved in many huge
partnersips with other partners, there are only a couple of barely 100+
partnerships with each other while their illustrious careers went along
for a long time in parallel.
Kanhai was Sunil Gavaskar's batting hero -- to the extent he named his
son after the great man. What better tribute can a player have?
Dipak.
Krishnan
True.. in fact his sons name is
Rohan Jaivishwa Gavaskar.
Jaivishwa being coined by the first few leters of Jaisimha and Vishwanath both of whom
Gavaskar admired immensely.
cheers
ak
Krishnan
In article 48...@cisco.com, Dipak Basu <db...@cisco.com> () writes:
<snip>
>Kanhai was Sunil Gavaskar's batting hero -- to the extent he named his
>son after the great man. What better tribute can a player have?
>
>Dipak.
>
>Raju Dixit wrote:
>>
>> Could anyone tell me more about Rohan Kanhai? I have seen his stats and
>> record etc. and now I want to know about his style, Technique. Was he
>> solid batsman and compiler of runs like Gavaskar and Boycott or he was
>> like Richards etc.
>>
>> waiting for some Info.
>>
>> raju
THanx for that recap Dipak.
cheers
AK
John Hall
In article <330D96...@aol.com>, Raju Dixit <raju...@aol.com>
writes
>Could anyone tell me more about Rohan Kanhai? I have seen his stats and
>record etc. and now I want to know about his style, Technique. Was he
>solid batsman and compiler of runs like Gavaskar and Boycott or he was
>like Richards etc.
More like Richards. A small man, he excelled at the back-foot shots.
Apart from Sobers, I'd rate him as the best WI batsman to play between
the 3 Ws and Richards.
--
John Hall
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him;
for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
Sid Boyce
Raju Dixit wrote:
>
> Could anyone tell me more about Rohan Kanhai? I have seen his stats and
> record etc. and now I want to know about his style, Technique. Was he
> solid batsman and compiler of runs like Gavaskar and Boycott or he was
> like Richards etc.
>
>
> raju
delight and sheer grace, regularly he would end up on his back after
hooking a ball for 6 or sweeping for 4.
Definitely not a Boycott or Gavaskar, you would remember his innings
for a very long time. He was not a master blaster like Richards either,
it was grace and agility at work, running between wickets or in the
field, he made you marvel at everything he did in cricket to the point
where you wanted not to miss him.
He told one story of how he was humbled by Frank Worrell after he had
made 77 and pulled the side out of a tricky situation, he said he rushed
back into the pavillion beaming a smile and feeling he had done a great
job for the side, only to be greeted by "you should be shot for playing
a stroke like that to get out".
He just had the ability to push the score along at a great rate, never
seen or known of him being becalmed.
We all wanted to be like Kanhai as lads, certainly a top performer and
entertainer, but without the clowning. Gather the original family name
was Fong Hai and was changed to Kanhai.
Regards
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Bob Dubery
Dipak Basu <db...@cisco.com> wrote:
>Kanhai was Sunil Gavaskar's batting hero -- to the extent he named his
>son after the great man.
So did Alvin Kallicharran (Rohan Kallicharran is Kanhai's God son).
Now - how many great players have had *two* great players name sons
after them?
Did Botham call any of his kids Mike or Geoff? How about the Lillee
family - is there a young Rodney or Greg or Jeff there?
Bob Dubery
"To say that these men paid their shillings to watch
twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that
a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much
paper and ink."
J.B. Priestly.
The Good Companions.
Uday Rajan
John Hall <jo...@jhall.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In article <330D96...@aol.com>, Raju Dixit <raju...@aol.com>
> writes
> >record etc. and now I want to know about his style, Technique. Was he
> >solid batsman and compiler of runs like Gavaskar and Boycott or he was
> >like Richards etc.
>
> Apart from Sobers, I'd rate him as the best WI batsman to play between
> the 3 Ws and Richards.
Reputed to be a very creative batsman. A strokeplayer all right.
The stroke most associated with him was a "falling hook" shot; a
hook or a pull that was played with such ferocity that it often ended
with him falling over on the follow through. I think that it was CLR
James who once wrote that Kanhai would every now and then go wild, in
the sense of playing innings filled with new strokes.
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shr...@imap1.asu.edu wrote in article <5ekrjd$a...@news.asu.edu>...
> Krishnan (kris...@drk.controls) wrote:
> : Sunil Gavaskar sort of hero worshipped Kanhai. In his book "Sunny Days"
> : he talks about the time he was in school and had gone to see match
between the touring
> : West Indian side and the Indian or Bombay side.. and watched Kanhai
make a brilliant 153. He said that all he wanted to see was the "falling
sweep" shot from Kanhai,
> : and it seems Kanhai played a great many of those. Can any of the old
timers who have
> : actually seen Kanhai make that shot comment on it please?
> : cheers
> : AK
> : ---
>
>
> In fact,as far as i know, gavaskar named his son "rohan" after Rohan
kanhai.
That's true.Gavaskar named his son after his three greatest idols,Rohan
Kanhai,M.L.Jaisimha and Gundappa Vishwanath.Hence,the name Rohan Jaivishwa.
>
> Shridhar.
>
>
S Jagadish
> : Sunil Gavaskar sort of hero worshipped Kanhai. In his book "Sunny Days"
> : he talks about the time he was in school and had gone to see match between
> : the touring West Indian side and the Indian or Bombay side.. and watched
> : Kanhai make a brilliant 153. He said that all he wanted to see was the
> : "falling sweep" shot from Kanhai,
THat wasnt in Sunny Days, it was in Idols ... sorry for the nitpicking though
:)
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Krishnan
In article 43C2...@juts.ccc.amdahl.com, Sid Boyce <sz...@juts.ccc.amdahl.com> () writes:
>Raju Dixit wrote:
>>
>> Could anyone tell me more about Rohan Kanhai? I have seen his stats and
>> record etc. and now I want to know about his style, Technique. Was he
>> solid batsman and compiler of runs like Gavaskar and Boycott or he was
>> like Richards etc.
>>
>>
>> raju
> A very graceful performer and free scoring batsman. His shots were a
>delight and sheer grace, regularly he would end up on his back after
>hooking a ball for 6 or sweeping for 4.
> Definitely not a Boycott or Gavaskar, you would remember his innings
>for a very long time. He was not a master blaster like Richards either,
>it was grace and agility at work, running between wickets or in the
>field, he made you marvel at everything he did in cricket to the point
>where you wanted not to miss him.
> He told one story of how he was humbled by Frank Worrell after he had
>made 77 and pulled the side out of a tricky situation, he said he rushed
>back into the pavillion beaming a smile and feeling he had done a great
>job for the side, only to be greeted by "you should be shot for playing
>a stroke like that to get out".
> He just had the ability to push the score along at a great rate, never
>seen or known of him being becalmed.
> We all wanted to be like Kanhai as lads, certainly a top performer and
>entertainer, but without the clowning. Gather the original family name
>
was Fong Hai and was changed to Kanhai.
With due respect SId,:) Kanhai is of Indian descent.. and i haven't heard of an Indian name that sounds like FOng Hai. Kanhai on the other hand could be a shorter version of kanhaiyya.. one of the names given to the Lord Krishna.
cheers
ak
>Regards
>--
>.... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(UK)...sz...@juts.ccc.amdahl.com
> -----------------------------------
>Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent
> the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation.
>
>
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Krishnan
Our national pastime comrade..:) heheheh
ak
Rick Eyre
Bob Dubery <dau...@aztec.co.za> wrote in article
<330e8ecb...@jhb-news.iafrica.com>...
>
> Did Botham call any of his kids Mike or Geoff? How about the Lillee
> family - is there a young Rodney or Greg or Jeff there?
I would have thought a Kim in the Lillee family would have been a neat
concept...
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Ramaswamy
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 19:30:01 -0500 Uday Rajan <ura...@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
>John Hall <jo...@jhall.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> In article <330D96...@aol.com>, Raju Dixit <raju...@aol.com>
>> writes
>> >Could anyone tell me more about Rohan Kanhai? I have seen his stats and
>> >record etc. and now I want to know about his style, Technique. Was he
>> >solid batsman and compiler of runs like Gavaskar and Boycott or he was
>> >like Richards etc.
>>
>> More like Richards. A small man, he excelled at the back-foot shots.
>> Apart from Sobers, I'd rate him as the best WI batsman to play between
>> the 3 Ws and Richards.
>
> Reputed to be a very creative batsman. A strokeplayer all right.
>The stroke most associated with him was a "falling hook" shot; a
>hook or a pull that was played with such ferocity that it often ended
>with him falling over on the follow through. I think that it was CLR
>James who once wrote that Kanhai would every now and then go wild, in
>the sense of playing innings filled with new strokes.
And he relished the game. One of the action logos at CricInfo features 2
batsmen and 4 fielders in an triumphant moment -- that's Rohan Kanhai
smack in the middle, in profile and completely airborne, both hands up
in appeal. The conclusion of the Brisbane Tied Test.
Aslam Siddiqui
>Subject: Re: Curious to know more about Rohan Kanhai
>From: dau...@aztec.co.za (Bob Dubery)
>Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 06:23:37 GMT
>Dipak Basu <db...@cisco.com> wrote:
>>Kanhai was Sunil Gavaskar's batting hero -- to the extent he named his
>>son after the great man.
>So did Alvin Kallicharran (Rohan Kallicharran is Kanhai's God son).
>Bob Dubery
Bob Holland, the former Australian Test bowler also named one his sons Rohan.
aslam
Ashish Banerjee
In <330DDABF...@juts.ccc.amdahl.com> Sid Boyce
<sz...@juts.ccc.amdahl.com> writes:
>Gather the original family name was Fong Hai and was changed to
>Kanhai.
Sid,
this is indeed interesting....Kanhai's origins are undisputedly Indian,
and "Kanhai" is an authentic Indian name, esp. in the Eastern U.P. &
Bihar areas in India, which is where much of the Indian population in
the WI can trace their roots back to. In fact the word "Kanhai" is
close to the vernacular "kanhaiya," a term used in the aforementioned
regions to refer to Krishna, one of many gods in the Hindu pantheon.
"Fong Hai" would give Kanhai some Chinese ancestry, and while I'm aware
that there is a veritable Chinese lineage in the WI (cf. Herbert Chang,
the only Test player of Chinese origin ever), I have my doubts about
this story, and am curious about its origins....care to comment?
-Ashish Banerjee
marer
love him and of course an influx of interest from them.
> -Ashish Banerjee
Probal Kumar Bhattacharjya
Dipak Basu <db...@cisco.com> writes:
>As a kid I've watched Kanhai score 256 at Eden Gardens in one the most
[rest of the great article deleted]
-- Used to hear about this knock in connection with the Kanhai-Gupte
rivalry story where Kanhai had been getting out to Subhas Gupte repeatedly in
the series till this match and Gupte once taunted Kanhai calling him rabbit
(or, bunny -- read it in bengali !) in an off-the-field meeting. So there was
a measure of revenge involved in this !
BTW, somebody mentioned that it was originally "Fong Hai" before being
changed to "Kanhai" - I was under the impression that he was of indian descent
and "Kanhai" is derived from the name "Kanai" (or "Kanha" - epithet of Lord
Krishna) - can anyone confirm this ?
--Probal.
S Jagadish
> Bob Holland, the former Australian Test bowler also named one his sons Rohan.
Was our own RSC guru Rohan-Azza-Chandran's father also a Rohan Kanhai fan ? :)