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Martin Crowe - The captain who sent the spinner to start bowling

by Chandravanshi चंद्रवंशी Social & Political YouTuber
18 February 2015. Second Test being played in Wellington. New Zealand vs India. Brendon McCullum was in his youth. 298 runs by playing five and a half hundred balls. Zaheer was cut off on the first ball of the 200th over and Brendon took his score to 300. The entire ground was filled with applause. This was the first time that a New Zealand batsman had reached beyond 300.
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Everyone was standing and beating their hands. A person standing some distance away from the pavilion was seen most happy. Put on a blue check shirt, put on glasses. In the days of youth, it used to be very wide, but still looked weak. However, he had the same glow on his face. It seemed as if his own son had killed 300. What is hinduism 

This person was Martin Crowe. Brendon had just broken these records. Martin scored 299 runs against Sri Lanka in February 1991 playing 523 balls. I like 1991 very much. My year of birth.

I have seen Crow playing. on Youtube. He has seen a partnership of 467 runs with Andrew Jones. It appears that there was a crash course in hitting the spinners for six. The current used to run in the legs. Never had learned to stay in a place in the crease. He taught the world to come out of the stump and sweep behind the wickets.

1992 World Cup. Official name - Benson and Hedges World Cup. It is also known as Martin Crow's World Cup. Martin scored 456 runs in 9 matches and became the tournament's biggest run scorer. He was playing as the captain of New Zealand. Martin's batting in this cup was not the only thing that was visible.

As captain, he made some decisions that can be called the first step of modernizing cricket. It was Martin Crowe who gave the ball to a spinner to throw the first over. Apart from this, it was Martin Crowe who introduced the cricket world to the principle of pinch-hitter.

He sent spinner Deepak Patel against Australia for the opening of the bowling and during the World Cup he started sending Mark Greatbatch up the batting line-up as a pinch hitter. Deepak Patel had no faith that he could open with the new ball. But more than all the batsmen of the world, he was read by his captain himself. Australia defeated New Zealand in the first match. Crowe himself scored 100 runs. Deepak conceded just 36 runs in 10 overs.

In the semi-finals, New Zealand had made full preparations to crush Pakistan. Crowe himself hit 91 runs in 83 balls. Pakistan, who won the 1992 World Cup and Imran Khan, the greatest all rounder in the history of this country, had to eat 59 runs in 10 overs. Martin pulled his hamstring while batting.

He felt the total score of 262 is too much for Pakistan. He wanted to save his leg for the final. When New Zealand came down to fielding, it appeared that Captain Martin Crowe had not landed in the field. It turned out that he was worried about his leg, so he was resting in the dressing room. He was succeeded by John Wright.

New Zealand (read Martin Crowe) had the idea that New Zealand could not lose that match. Javed Miandad himself wrote in his autobiography, The Cutting Edge,

Eden Park's boundaries were small, but a target of 263 in 50 overs was not an easy task. Apart from this, we did not score 263 or more runs while batting in other innings throughout the tournament. We were all nervous. '

Pakistan's team had lost 4 wickets for 140 runs in 35 overs. Javed wrote,

'Enzi came to me for advice. He was feeling nervous and was looking as if he had seen a ghost. '

In the entire tournament, Martin Crowe's biggest sign of not letting the new batsmen pressure him from the very beginning was the spread. John Wright sat here doing something else. He kept Gavin Larsen and Chris Harris on the attack and Inzamam got the chance to open the run. Pakistan now needed 104 runs in 13 overs to win.

As an excuse to go to the bathroom at drinks break, John Wright went to the dressing room and asked Martin Crowe about the bowling plan. Martin asked him to bowl continuously to spinners Deepak Patel and Andrew Jones. John made another mistake. He did not just throw the ball to Jones.

For this reason, when Pakistan needed 36 runs in 5 overs, Chris Harris had to throw the ball. Earlier, Inzamam along with Moin Khan prepared the ground for victory. He completed Pachasa in 31 balls. And had re-districted Pakistan by forming an 87-run partnership with Moin Khan.



Crowe blames himself for this defeat. They said,

'I was stuck between not being able to play in the final and resting myself and being available in the final, while injuring myself even more while fielding. I was in the hunt for two birds with one stone. I thought that my team would win and I would also be fit in the finals. '

But this could not happen. That day, Inzamam-ul-Haq stood firmly between Martin Crowe's New Zealand team and the World Cup final. And after years there was an amazing coincidence here. Coincidence of date The birth of Inzamam, which gave Martin Crow a lifetime, and the date of Martin Crowe's death - 3 March.

In 2012, Martin developed lymphoma. Blood cells form tumors. Understand a type of cancer. In 7 months, Martin also defeated him. The doctors gave a clean chit. But this disease happened again in 2014. Martin followed on in the second innings. This time the disease became incurable. Martin died in Auckland on the morning of 3 March 2016. His family was with him only. Martin, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame of New Zealand and the ICC, has now reached another world.

During the last visit of Martin Crowe, the children of the school where Martin Crowe used to perform cultural war dance for him:
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