shane warne is a leg spin bowler for right handed bats man. lets imagine that rest of the players from other countries all are left handed batsman. so will he be still called as leg spinner?

lets say:..batsman played a ball straight down to the bowler and bowler touches the ball and hit the stumps and the non striker is out of his crease. Now at the time when the ball hit the non striker stumps ....the batsman was hit wicket. In clousion the timing of the ball hitting the non striker stumps and the striker being hit wicket is the same. So in this case..who will be out?

I will take brian lara over kevin peterson or stephen fleming any day. He had wonderful last year with five hundreds and was second highest scorer for year 2005 only second to ricky ponting. He had one bad series in newzealand but that he still is much better than the lot. Just wait for the india-westindies test series to begin.

Ok, lets talk about the ENG-SL match...last day SL lead by 151 with 2 wickets left and 45 odd overs left. Can england pull off a victory? Bad light has stopped play...Looks like england is losing the grip....

My opinion: How can England expect to regain the Ashes with this kind of display? They are not going to win the mighty aussies with this bowling attack...

What do you guys say?

Mystreyman...who is this Mahmood in England?? Indian started ruling in England or what??

Mahmood is not indian . He is anglopakistani by blood. It will take ages before india produces a genuine fast bowler.

Oh is it...bidhan?? Thanx for the info. I didn't know abt this guy.

Bidhan, If you are to consider past performances, you will have to include Sachin Tendulkar alsong with Brian Lara as well. Stephen Fleming's inclusion may be a little shaky, but you can find no one to replace Kevin Pietersen. I think it was his innings in the last Ashes test that gave England the Ashes after 2 decades. While the other Englishmen were crumbling under the pressure (esp. from Warne), Kevin Pietersen showed no sign of faltering. And then there is the hundred against India (or was it Pakistan?). Plus, the recent hundred against Sri Lanka. If there is one contemporary cricketer that you can compare to Viv Richards, Pietersen would have to be it.

After kicking Kuwait's A$$, Nepal slaughtered Bhutan:
NEPAL 317/8
BHUTAN 36 ALL OUT

By NepalCricket.com, Aug 16, 2006
The complete scorecard of the match between Nepal and Bhutan. Bhutan won the toss and elected to field. Nepal scored 317/8 before bowling out Bhutan for 36 runs. Binod Das was declared man of the match.

Nepal Innings
Paresh Lohani lbw T Wangchuk ….. 27 (37)
Gyanendra Malla lbw T Wangchuk ….. 52 (81)
Sharad Veshawkar ct D Gurung b P Wangdi ….. 0 (4)
Shakti Gauchan b P Wangdi …. 0 (1)
Mehboob Alam lbw D Gurung …. 39 (32)
Paras Khadka ct J Singhe b L Yonten ….. 87 (68)
Basant Regmi lbw M Adhikari ….. 18 (33)
Binod Das c M Adhikari b P Wangdi ….. 4 (8)
Mahesh Chhetri not out ….. 56 (37)
Dhirendra Chand not out ….. 0 (0)
Extras (nb 3, w 26, lb 5) ….. 34
Total (for 8 wkts in 50 overs) ….. 317

FoW: 67, 73, 73, 142, 142, 196, 210, 303

Bhutan Bowling
Lobzang Yonten 9-1-48-1
Damber Singh Gurung 10-1-61-1
Tandin Wangchuk 10-1-33-2
Phuntsho Wangdi 10-0-60-3
Jigme Singe 1-0-24-0
Manoj Adhikari 6-0-40-0
Bikash Gurung 4-0-45-0

Bhutan Innings
Tashi lbw M Alam ….. 0 (5)
Tandin Wangchuk ct M Chhetri b B Das ….. 3 (11)
Manoj Adhikari ct P Lohani b B Das ….. 1 (8)
Tshering Dorji b B Das ….. 1 (15)
Damber Gurung c P Lohani b B Das ….. 0 (3)
Bikash Sharma Luitel c Shard b M Alam ….. 14 (20)
Phuntsho Wangdi c G Malla b M Alam 2 (13)
Jigme Singhe b S Gauchan ….. 3 (23)
Bikash Gurung b B Das ….. 0 (6)
Thinley W Dorje not out ….. 0 (0)
Lobzang Yonten c M Alam b S Gauchan ….. 0 (3)
Extras (w 11) ….. 11
Total (all out in 18.5 overs) ….. 36

FoW: 0, 3, 5, 6, 11, 20, 30, 32, 36, 36

Nepal Bowling
Mehboob Alam 7-3-10-3
Binod Das 8-0-24-5
Shakti Gauchan 2.5-1-1-2
Raj Kumar Pradhan 1-0-1-0

bidhan, i will also want Lara in that list... but at number 6? what a way to waste such a talent?

bidhan408 and bhalujagate,

How can you miss Glenn McGrath in the test squad as a bowler? he is the best fast bowler aroung at the moment.

Definitely, Glen Mcgrath tops the list at the moment