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I have never been a fan of Afridi. He has been a casual, non-professional, one-shot lucky, kind of a guy. He has not been in my ODI eleven or test eleven. OK maybe the new T20 form of the game could have somebody like him.

Saying all that, I think the lack of cricket for Pakistan has given him some time to think over it. He does have some talent but it has to be backed up with Read more…

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There has been a new line of discussion initiated by John Buchanan, the former Australian cricket coach where he says a team could have multiple captains in the same game. These would act like specialist captains in each facet of the game.

For example, one would be a fielding captain, the other a bowling captain keeping his eye on the bowling changes etc. Before I even head towards putting in my two cents on the topic, I have to know one thing. Read more…

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Its amazing how such good deeds from footballers go un-noticed. Drogba had thrown a coin at a spectator during a Carling Cup game against Burnleyin November 2008. It may have been considered a good deed considering that is the time where the financial crisis started.

On a serious note, he was lucky to have just got cautioned on the same. He had received at least one coin from the Burnley fans as well but that still doesn’t justify his actions.

Just to revive our memories, Burnley had won that game on penalties.

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I think the one thing that Aussies have missed since the good old days of Simon O’Donnell and yeah Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh where Aussies had good all-rounders. All-rounders are such an important part of the game these days and probably the best all-rounder the Aussies recently had was Adam Gilchrist who brought the new term of wicket-keeping batsman as an all-rounder.

However, other than the big hold Read more…

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What a Match? What a Win? What a Rivalry? Nadal & Federer, the greatest players of the current time are already up in the record books and considering they have not even touched 30, there is still so much tennis left in them. Federer is 27 and Nadal, 22. WOW!!!

After beating Federer in yesterday’s yet another 5-setter of Grand Slam final, Nadal has now won on 3 out of 4 Grand Slam tournaments and the Read more…

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