Dinesh Mongia on fire
Kris Nayak
attain Pointingesque consistency and success?
Ganguly sure has an eye for talent. When he kept persisting with
Mongia during WC 2003 despite public outcry, I think he was being
ahead of his time and far thinking in his approach.
Uday Rajan
> Another century and MoM -- how did this mediocre player suddenly
> attain Pointingesque consistency and success?
Always been a good f.c. player, and that should translate to
dodos as well in this age. Perhaps could have benefitted from a
longer run with the Indian team, but never quite had a settled
role in the odo side.
Numero Uno
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He was never a mediocre player. It just like Kaif, he was coming down the
order and he is not suitable for that.
He always performed handsomely in the domestics, used to score 100's, 200's,
or 300's every match.
FIRST-CLASS
(1995/96 - 2004; last updated 27/07/2004)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 76 110 11 5313 308* 53.66 17 20 93 0
squarecut
Ganguly DUMPED Mongia after WC03 cuz he realized FINALLY Mongia is a
MEDIOCRE PLAYER.
Mongia is HISTORY as far as Indian team is concerned unless ofcourse
somebody gets injured.
Vijay Kumar K
Dinesh Mongia has always had a very decent FC record, with 5313 runs @ 53.
For some time, his performance in the domestics was at a Laxmanesque level.
And despite his bulk, he is said to be a fairly sharp fielder with a usable
spare arrow in his quiver in the form of his SLA that can be handy in
the ODI from of the game.
2000-01 16I 1041R 308*HS 74.35A
2001-02 10I 699R 178 HS 77.66A
2002-03 5I 205R 101*HS 51.25A
2003-04 12I 632R 185 HS 52.66A
Note that Ganguly/Selectors have still not thought it fit to play him
in Tests.
How he fares at the highest level, remains a question to be adequately
answered. And perhaps one that never will be. With the Indian MO in its
current shape, and guys like Sehwag & Yuvraj being asked to open, DMongia
may never break into the side.
Vijay
umesh dandekar
From what I have read mongia's FC record his better than the two guys
who have been selected at #7 - kaif and badani. That however might not
mean much. Might be if there was an opening in the test team he should
have been tried out. In one dayers batting at #7 is always gonna be
tricky - you are either asked to score atleast run-a-ball or if there
was a top order collapse you are asked to bat out with whatever
batting is left. None of them are easy although the first one seems a
little easier than the second - in the sense you are being asked to
play little cameos. Batting first those runs can be made with much
lesser pressure than batting second.
Sehwag's success at the test and one day level [not counting his
recent dip] might prove that all ranji run getters are not flat track
bullies. Or let's hope so :-) To counter my point one can come up with
a zillion others who failed.
~umesh
Gafoor
> Sehwag's success at the test and one day level [not counting his
> recent dip]
Sehwag's dip isn't really recent.
In 2001, Sehwag averaged 29.26
In 2002 - 41.85
2003 - 32.25
2004 - 30.87
Sehwag, I think gives the exact opposite impression as
SRT. You think SRT is doing very badly even when he isn't.
Sehwag gives you the feeling that he is doing very well, even
when he isn't.
Take it easy
news:53ONc.303$WnZ...@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com:
> He was never a mediocre player. It just like Kaif, he was coming
> down the order and he is not suitable for that.
Which is the right place for him?
> He always performed handsomely in the domestics, used to score
> 100's, 200's, or 300's every match.
You mean every 4.5 matches?
>
> FIRST-CLASS
> (1995/96 - 2004; last updated 27/07/2004)
> M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct
> St
> Batting & Fielding 76 110 11 5313 308* 53.66 17 20 93
> 0
There should be plenty of bats in the domestics with this kind of
stats.
Takeiteasy.
Kris Nayak
but my definition of a mediocre player is someone who is fc class, but
could never make it to test/odi class. the likes of t.e srinivasan,
sairaj bahutule, vikram rathour, etc. fall into this category.
clearly, mongia was given numerous chances in odi's, but failed
miserably (except for that one test again zimbabwe where he scored
150+ as an opener). as i said earlier, some critics even said that had
laxman replaced mongia in wc 03, india may have won the cup (wishful
thinking given how strong the aussies were/are).
the fact that mongia now figures in the upper echelon of the english
county circut can only mean one of 2 things:
1) english country cricket standards are significantly lower than
test/odi standards.
2) mongia has improved his game significantly.
#1 can't be true. yes, country cricket talent is lower than tests/odi
talent, but i don't think the difference is significant. if it were
significant, you wouldn't have the likes of mcgrath and pointing
duking it out for their county cricket teams, nor would you have a
simon jones (who represented his country) be left out of his county
team.
thus, in keeping with my original question... how did mongia manage to
raise the level of his game all of a sudden?
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