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Miscellaneous: 2nd ODI - India v Pakistan: scoring the Pakistan players

Indian Oil Cup - Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali, November 8, 2007
A Pakistani perspective of individual player performance.
Scores out of 10.
 

Team Pakistan:


Salman Butt
5
 


Kamran Akmal
2
dropped Gambhir’s catch


Younis Khan
9.5

started playing very slowly, amazing in the end


Md Yousuf
3
my favorite batsman:


Shoaib Malik
4
Bad bowling


Misbah ul Haq
7
good batting.
He nearly lost the match with his walking wicket [...]
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Cricket: Kolpaks: Good or Bad?

In English domestic cricket there is a topic causing a lot of debate - the Kolpak rule which allows players from other countries - mainly South Africa - to play and not count as an overseas player due to an EU ruling.
An advantage of this rule is that many qualilty players can come in to [...]
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Cricket: ‘Costly misses behind the stumps?’

Watch these 2 videos:

WPvideo 1.10





and this

WPvideo 1.10





Compare those 2 blunders with this awesome wicket keeping:
Clarke stumped off a 135 kmph delivery.

WPvideo 1.10





Isn’t that amazing piece of wicket keeping?
One wicket keeper in comparsion is Parthiv Patel (drops Gambhir in the recent Challenger trophy (domestic)) that was held 15 days back.
Another is Pakistan’s Kamran Akmal [...]
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Cricket: the day had to come to be


Ashok Malhotra, feels that Ganguly
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Cricket: learning any lessons on a rainy day?


Rain saved Team India yesterday @ lord's. But did we learn any lessons from this test? Did we spend any time on reflecting, during the rain interruptions?
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Cricket: Live - text commentary


First Test Match between England and India starts on 19th July,11:00 GMT @ Lords. So be there. Otherwise: For Live Cricket - Text Commentary, Scorecard and News - try: Silly Points
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