Video Shane Warne's 700 th wicket - The Ashes cricket

Shane Warne's 700 th wicket - The Ashes cricket

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Who are specialised openers and do we really need them??

Time and again whenever India goes to play a series outside the same question keeps on coming back. Who will open for India and by the middle of the series there are talks all over for new sets of openers. I was just reading an article by Indian Coach Greg Chappell and was wondering do we really need specialised openers.

I think atleast 50-75% of the times one of the opener fails in less than 10 overs when the ball is fairly new. Once one of openers fail a One down specialist batsman like Rahul Dravid comes down to bat. What it means if not all more than 50% of the times he is opening for India. Similarly if both the openers fail which has happen more often in this test series, the 2 down batsman also act as a opener. So now if your specialised openers are not efficient (which is the case in this series) then you are actually looking for your top 4 who can perform as openers..

Let's take this a little further what happens if your middle order batsman are good and they last the first whole day or may be India loses another middle order batsman (No 3 or No4) or may be both. So you are four batsman down at the end of the day. Next day the opposition team decided to take a new ball so now it's effectively same as opening the innings. So even your no 5 and no 6 needs to be able to work as make shift openers. That virtaully means your entire batting order needs to be specialised openers.

I know this is all hypothetical and doesn't happen very often but was just curious what really Specialised openers mean.

P.S. Sehwag, Tendulkar and Ganguly all were middle order batsman before they were made Openers. So do we really need specialised openers and if we do than I need to understand better WHO IS A SPECIALISED OPENER.

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Flying Stumps Cricket Video

Here are Clean Bowled Video clips from some of the bowlers like Brett Lee, Shaun Pollock, Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akhtar, Mkaya Ntini, Glenn Mcrath etc.

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Ind vs SA 1st Test 2006: 20 Wickets in 1 day

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Sreesanth Dancing Video: Reply to Andre Nel

Pretty funny video from the 1st test between India and South Africa (Ind vs SA 2006).

S Sreesanth and Nel carried on their little battle from Saturday. Nel came out and bounced Sreesanth and then called on the batsman to take on the challenge. Sreesanth replied by charging down the track and hitting the ball straight over the bowlers' head for a six and then celebrated by twirling his bat while glaring at the bowler. Here is the Sreesanth's Video

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Ashes 2006 Video Shane Warne Bowling 2nd Test 5th Day

Australia vs England 2nd Test 2006 Ashes 5th day Highlights

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Muralitharan Run Out Video Sl vs NZ 2006

Here is the controversial Run Out Video from Srilanka vs New Zealand Test 2006. Kumar Sangakkara scored 100 out of Sri Lankas 170 in 1st Test against New Zelanad.

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WI vs NZ: Most Interesting Run Outs Video

Here is the video from West Indies vs New Zealand series. Morton and Chandrapaul are involved in one of the most Interesting Run Outs. Difficult to make out who was Out. Interesting Video

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Ricky Pontings blinder catch video VB Series Finals 2006 Aus vs SL

Ricky pontings blinder catch video against Srilanka in VB series finals of 2006 . One of the best cricket catch.

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Ind vs SA Video : Indian cricket team score first win on South Africa tour wins first 20 20 match

India Tour Of South Africa 2006 Video Dinesh Karthik hit a last over six as India beat South Africa by six wickets in its first ever Twenty20 international at the Wanderers on Friday night. The victory ended the tourists' winless streak on the tour. India needed nine runs off the last over when Karthik (31 not out) pulled spinner Robin Peterson over mid-wicket for a six to virtually seal a thrilling victory. He then hit the winning run with a ball to spare to lift the sagging spirits of the struggling team. India scored 127 for four in 19.5 overs after restricting South Africa, who opted to bat, to a modest 126 for nine. It was the visitors' first victory of the tour after having conceded an unassailable 3-0 lead to the hosts in the five match one-day international series. The main contributors in the successful Indian run chase were stand-in skipper Virender Sehwag (34 off 29 balls), Dinesh Mongia (38 off 45) and Karthik (31 in 28). Earlier Zaheer Khan and Ajit Agarkar claimed two wickets each to put the brakes on South Africa's batsmen. India were off to a poor start again when Sachin Tendulkar (10) dragged a Charles Langeveldt delivery onto his stumps but then Sehwag and Mongia put the innings back on track with a 43-run second wicket stand.

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