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Gulbadin Naib backs Afghanistan's spin attack against any side in the world
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Sunday, 23 June 2019 08:13
Given the right conditions, Afghanistan's spin attack can trouble any batting line-up in the world, says their captain Gulbadin Naib, as they seek to carry the spirit they showed in defeat against India into Monday's meeting with Bangladesh at the Hampshire Bowl.After a series of heavy defeats in their opening encounters of the World Cup, Afghanistan finally found the fighting…
Bumrah again proves the jewel in Kohli's crown
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Saturday, 22 June 2019 20:48
An hour before the match on Saturday, Jasprit Bumrah was bowling at the spring rubber stumps on one of the practice strips. There was no batsman, the stumps his only target. Bumrah was practising the yorkers.One of the first balls he delivered pitched inches in front of the leg stump and missed. A whiff of dust rose from the Hampshire…
Brathwaite, Bishop, Neesham and what gets remembered
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Sunday, 23 June 2019 02:23
The things we remember.Carlos Brathwaite lives with the burden of three words spoken more than three years ago. "Remember the name," screamed - justifiably - Ian Bishop into the microphone as Brathwaite hit Ben Stokes for four straight sixes in the final over of the World T20 final in Kolkata to win a lost title.Three years later, at Old Trafford,…
'I thought I had enough bat on it': Brathwaite's heartbreak
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Saturday, 22 June 2019 20:51
Carlos Brathwaite was dropped for West Indies' last match. There is a good chance he wouldn't have been playing at Old Trafford had Andre Russell not been unfit. It wouldn't have been a particularly harsh decision because Brathwaite had scored only five half-centuries in 158 innings since his sensational four sixes to win West Indies a lost World Twenty20 final…
Shami reveals Dhoni's advice before World Cup hat-trick ball
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Sunday, 23 June 2019 02:38
As Mohammed Shami ran in to deliver the hat-trick ball in the final over against Afghanistan, he had MS Dhoni's words in mind. Afghanistan had begun that over needing 16 with three wickets in hand, and were now nine down, needing 12. Only one Indian - Chetan Sharma - had taken a World Cup hat-trick earlier, in 1987. This was…
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