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[VIDEO] On This Day: May 21, 1997 - Saeed Anwar scores 194 vs India at Chennai

another reminder of that great knock...
 
Hilarious how some Indian fans still whine about the fact that he had a runner for most of this innings. Seems it still hurts :)
 
What an innings. Wish I could have seen him play he's rated highly on PP :)
 
Top 3 ODI bat of the 90s.

Lara, Saeed, who would be the 3rd? I guess Ganguly.
 
Mamoon said:
True. At one point in the 90's, he was going at the same rate as Tendulkar in terms of hundreds.
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Even Ganguly, Sehwag, Jayasuriya, Gilchrist, Hayden looked threatening than Tendulkar and had those bright purple patches. There is something called going through all phases and winning all contests. If batting became so easier in the late 2000s then some of these players could have (should have) maintained their fitness & form to play along (why should they miss this golden opportunity after the so-called hard work toiled work in the tough times against deadly bowlers, non-batting friendly rules, thin bats, etc.) Tendulkar started much before all these guys and ended like just yesterday (Hence all these references of all players towards him)

Hence Ponting, Lara (and even Kallis to some extent) are the guys who can be actually compared to Sachin who had sustained careers & went through rough phases (but lost to Sachin in the race eventually).
 
Why do people have to bring Sachin in every thread? Saeed Anwar played a great knock appreciate it and move on why the constant Sachin did this Sachin did that in this thread? Is this a thread to prove Sachin is better? No then why are people trying to derail it?
 
big_gamer007 said:
Why do people have to bring Sachin in every thread? Saeed Anwar played a great knock appreciate it and move on why the constant Sachin did this Sachin did that in this thread? Is this a thread to prove Sachin is better? No then why are people trying to derail it?
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Think its natural as SRT set the bar so high - its fine to try and compare with the best.
 
Was a very good innings. Had such a good record against us that whenever he used to come to bat against us, it always looked that he will score a ton against us
 
Hasan123 said:
What an innings. Wish I could have seen him play he's rated highly on PP :)
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Amazing batsman.

He had the combination of superb timing and power. The way he flicked the ball with his wrists was something special. He could smash the bowling to all parts on either side of the wicket and had all the shots.
 
Saj said:
Amazing batsman.

He had the combination of superb timing and power. The way he flicked the ball with his wrists was something special. He could smash the bowling to all parts on either side of the wicket and had all the shots.
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Sounds like the kind of batsmen I would like and one who would fit in the modern game
 
Oh and for the record. Most of today's Pakistani 'superstars' aren't fit to clean Saeed Anwar's boots when it comes to 'talent'.
 
Saj said:
Oh and for the record. Most of today's Pakistani 'superstars' aren't fit to clean Saeed Anwar's boots when it comes to 'talent'.
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But Anwar worked very hard too. Practiced batting alone in a garage (I forgot whose it was) for hours and hours. Our players not only lack his talent but also his motivation
 
Indian_Supporter said:
Against an ATG attack of Kuruvilla, Prasad, Robin Singh, Joshi and Kumble.

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Yes just like Perera, Mathews, Eranga, Dilshan, Prasanna and Mendis. Or Roach, Samuels, Pollard, Sammy, Rampaul and Russell.
 
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aliasad1998 said:
Yes just like Perera, Mathews, Eranga, Dilshan, Prasanna and Mendis.
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Hence no one reads much of that Rohit Sharma knock. We know he is a nothing batsman. Having said that the SL attack was way better than Indian attack of which Saeed scored than 194.

Mind you no way comparing Anwar with Rohit...lol. Anwar was a pedigree player and much superior to Rohit. But people overhype that 194 knock just because it was scored on 90s without considering the attrocious bowling attack of the Indian team. I rate Afridi's knock at Mohali much higher as it came against a better attack.

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My favourite Pakistan batsman- at his best as good as Lara and Tendulkar.
In 1996 he hammered the English bowlers on their own backyard with a number of exhilarating innings.
How we wish we one of the current line up had saeed s ability.
 
big_gamer007 said:
Why do people have to bring Sachin in every thread? Saeed Anwar played a great knock appreciate it and move on why the constant Sachin did this Sachin did that in this thread? Is this a thread to prove Sachin is better? No then why are people trying to derail it?
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Even Anwar supporters (actually before Sachin Supporters could reply) in this thread have compared just this knock with entire Sachin Career and inferred that Anwar is better than Sachin! Hence such replies... If the thread is just about appreciating a good innings its well and good (just like there are good innings like Laxman's 281, Rohit's 264, etc) But once the comparisons are made on player vs. player basis then comes the problem.
 
I was very young but sort of understood what was happening. I still remember the euphoria when he beat the world record and the despair right after when he missed 200 in my house. One of my earliest and most memorable moments in cricket.
 
Credit where due a fluent chance less knock if I remember correctly.

But will always be marred with the fact that he used a runner....a "16" year old runner.

More often than not batsman especially the class ones like anwar see and judge the ball really well once set...usually it is fatigue or lapse in concentration caused by fatigue that brings about the fall of a well set batsman batting on a 150+ score in Odis.... Anwar neither fielded later on or hardly ran in that knock which is probably the reason that despite being a record for many years....no one hardly brings that innings up.

But apart from that some classy strokeplay.

Special mention to sachin whose sportsman spirit aided in that knock for allowing anwar with a runner.

I have seen anwar being a repeat offender when it came to skipping fielding etc so he did have dodgy fitness not taking anything away from his superb silky strokeplay and talent with the bat....sorry to say this but this is a harsh truth.

Nevertheless a memorable knock for Pakistanis and despite all the baggage associated with the knock a pretty sad memory for Indian fans
 
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one of the most brutal innings of ODI history. i remember seeing people crying on the street.
 
Napa said:
Cheer up. We were right up there in the mid-90s, ranked #1 twice (once in Dec 1994 and again in Aug 1995).
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Really? Well I don't care about rankings these are my memories from 90's:

1. Beating Pakistan in QF.
2. Getting hammered in Sharjah time and time again
3. Sachin's knocks against Australia
4. Anwars 194
5. Hrishikesh kanitkars 4 to win Asia cup (was in 90s or early 2000s?)
6. Rajesh Chauhan Ji hitting 6 off saqlain I think to win a match
7. Shoaib Akhtars pace
8. Lance klusener
9. India's horrendous tours abroad
10. Match fixing scandal
 
Brilliant innings from one of our most elegant and stylish batsmen to ever play for us.
 
big_gamer007 said:
Really? Well I don't care about rankings these are my memories from 90's:

1. Beating Pakistan in QF.
2. Getting hammered in Sharjah time and time again
3. Sachin's knocks against Australia
4. Anwars 194
5. Hrishikesh kanitkars 4 to win Asia cup (was in 90s or early 2000s?)
6. Rajesh Chauhan Ji hitting 6 off saqlain I think to win a match
7. Shoaib Akhtars pace
8. Lance klusener
9. India's horrendous tours abroad
10. Match fixing scandal
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IIRC Kanitkar's knock was in Independence cup of Bangladesh.
 
big_gamer007 said:
Really? Well I don't care about rankings these are my memories from 90's:

1. Beating Pakistan in QF.
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Indeed this was the top memory. And two particular elements from this match:

A) Ajay Jadeja v Waqar Younis, - 22 in an over featured in Cricinfo's "Five World Cup bowling nightmares".
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/content/story/840261.html

B) And the most iconic moment in India-Pakistan cricketing rivalry: Sohail and Prasad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhs6FP7L8H8
 
Late 90s was all about Anwar/Afridi combo mercilessly feasting on hopeless Indian trundler brigade and Kumble :D
 
One of the Pak players that I really miss. Such a classy and elegant player; not had an opener anywhere near him since.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> 1997. One of the greatest ODI innings ever as the brilliant Saeed Anwar scored 194 against India in Chennai to help Pakistan to a 35-run win <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/jV6JYpQRGF">pic.twitter.com/jV6JYpQRGF</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1130734164851023880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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blue_champion said:
Credit where due a fluent chance less knock if I remember correctly.

But will always be marred with the fact that he used a runner....a "16" year old runner.

More often than not batsman especially the class ones like anwar see and judge the ball really well once set...usually it is fatigue or lapse in concentration caused by fatigue that brings about the fall of a well set batsman batting on a 150+ score in Odis.... Anwar neither fielded later on or hardly ran in that knock which is probably the reason that despite being a record for many years....no one hardly brings that innings up.

But apart from that some classy strokeplay.

Special mention to sachin whose sportsman spirit aided in that knock for allowing anwar with a runner.

I have seen anwar being a repeat offender when it came to skipping fielding etc so he did have dodgy fitness not taking anything away from his superb silky strokeplay and talent with the bat....sorry to say this but this is a harsh truth.

Nevertheless a memorable knock for Pakistanis and despite all the baggage associated with the knock a pretty sad memory for Indian fans
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Agree. Controversial but good innings.
 
Amazing how time flies. I was 10 years old back then. Watched the whole of Pakistan’s innings, and then some of India’s innings before I fell asleep.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> in 1997. One of the greatest ever ODI innings as the brilliant Saeed Anwar scored 194 against India in Chennai to help Pakistan to a 35-run win <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/yt5IK03bPd">pic.twitter.com/yt5IK03bPd</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1263363895592443917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I would like to confess here that despite the fact that Saeed bhaj always gave us a phainty, it was a sheer joy to watch him bat even being at the other end of receiving as for us Indians.

194 although was bit extreme. It goes a step ahead from phainty into sheer humiliation zone. But still if someone has to do that to you, you would always pick a guy as humble and pure as Saeed bhai.

Much respect from India.

A great and an icon.

His life changed when his daughter died so young. If it had not happened he would stayed focussed and fit in his his last few years and ended with much better stats.

Nonetheless, slightly better stats would not make any of us respect him more than we already do.
 
Saeed bhai did confess to Sachin that it was very irritating to face our legendary pace demon The Great Debasish Mohanty :yk
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Love this old footage.. Saeed Anwar was such an elegant player <a href="https://t.co/JXPKgiUfSc">https://t.co/JXPKgiUfSc</a></p>— Nasser Hussain (@nassercricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/nassercricket/status/1263375568940216320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
I remember I was traveling to another city on that day and I was listening to commentary on Radio. I started watching his inning just before his hundred. Wanted him to get out asap but we had such a great bowling attack those days that it looked impossible. :inti
 
Too much importance is given to ODI knocks in bilaterals. World events is where it counts.
 
One among a long list of left-handed bats who tormented us those days. Difference was Anwar wasn't a butcher or worker, he was an artist.
 
Swashbuckler said:
One among a long list of left-handed bats who tormented us those days. Difference was Anwar wasn't a butcher or worker, he was an artist.
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100% agree. Saeed Anwar was an artist. His batting was super stylish and poetry in motion. Those who have seen him play would say exactly the same thing. Unbelievable batsman.
 
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