THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING WITHOUT KNOWING THE FACTS WHILE QUOTING STATISTICS. ONE GENTLEMAN HAS QUOTED THE BATTING AVERAGES OF IRFAN AND VENGSARKAR. WHEREAS VENGSARKAR MADE HIS RUNS WHEN BOWLERS LIKE HOLDING, MARSHALL, ROBERTS, GARNER, LILLY, THOMPSON, BOTHAM, HADLEE, IMRAN, DONALD ETC. WERE PLAYING AND THE PITCHES IN THOSE DAYS WERE NOT THE 300 ONES. EVEN INDIA WON THE WORLD CUP IN 1983 BY SCORING ONLY 180 RUNS ONLY. I CAN RECALL MANY ONE DAY MATCHES WHEN THE PITCHES SUITED THE HIGH QUALITY BOWLERS OF THAT ERA SO MUCH THAT IT BECAME VERY DIFFICULT FOR BATSMEN TO CHASE LOWLY SCORES OF EVEN 150 ODD RUNS. AND THE AVERAGE SCORE OF EACH TEAM PER INNINGS WAS CLOSER TO 200 RUNS. NOWADAYS THERE ARE VERY FEW FAST BOWLERS AND MOREOVER, THE PITCHES ARE PREPARED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THERE IS RUN RIOT. SCORES OF 350 TO 440 ARE BEING SCORED AND BEING CHASED SUCCESSFULLY. SO WHEN YOU COMPARE THE AVERAGES OF THE BATSMEN YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE PERCENTAGES ALSO. IN A PARTICULAR TV CHANNEL, FOOLISH COMMENTS WERE BEING PASSED ON THE SAME LINES AS MADE BY THE GENTLEMAN QUOTED ABOVE IN THE PRESENCE OF A GREAT CRICKETER LIKE KAPIL DEV WHO DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY FOR EVERY CRICKETER IS NOT A GREAT ANALYSER. ANY BATSMAN SCORING AT AN AVERAGE OF 25 RUNS IN A SCORE OF 300 IS SCORING ONLY 8% OF THE TOTAL RUNS SCORED WHEREAS ANOTHER BATSMAN WHO IS SCORING AT AN AVERAGE OF 34 RUNS IN A SCORE OF 200 IS SCORING 17% OF THE TEAM'S SCORE WHICH IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE SCORING RATE OF THE FIRST BATSMAN, REPRESENTED BY IRFAN IN THIS CASE AS COMPARED TO VENGSARKAR. HOWEVER, AS FAR AS PATHAN'S PLAYING OR NON PLAYING IN THE WORLD CUP IS CONCERNED, THAT WILL BE DECIDED PURELY ON HIS FORM AND FITNESS AS IN THE CASE OF ALL OTHER PLAYERS. NO ROOM FOR EMOTIONS AND DRAMA IS TO BE ALLOWED THERE. COL. VENGSARKAR, A NO NONSENSE MAN IS THE BOSS WHO WILL DECIDE THE MATTER.
