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From: sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf)
Subject: Re: WI/Pak ODI
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:36:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.134436.22@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au> WEABEP@DEVAX1 (Peter ABELA) writes:
>In <9212171510.AA16119@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> B536HIND@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU writes:
>
>> 10 overs 8 maidens 3 runs 4 wickets by a West Indian.  On first guess, one
>> would say Ambrose, Benjamin, Walsh or Patterson.  Or even Hooper.  But
>> Simmons?  Against Pakistan?  What sort of a pitch was it anyway?  Info please!
>
>	The pitch wasn't bad at all. The Windies scored a respectable 214
>	remember. Simmons was just bowling gentle (but accurate) outswingers.
>	Of his four wickets, Javed fell to a very good leg cutter being caught
>	behind. Sohail got bowled, Malik caught behind. All in all it was
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	a pretty inept performance. Javed called it the worst by Pakistan in
>	years.
>

	Actually, it was Mujtaba who was bowled. Suhail tried work the ball
away on the leg side, got a leading edge, and the ball ballooned to
midwicket. Terrible shot to try under the circs, I've seen Suhail fall in
the same way before ( I think he went the same way in England, in that game
in which England ran up 360 odd. ). Actually, Pakistan collapsed in a
similar way in that game as well - early wickets and pretty much a dead
game right away.  


>	Simmons has been amazingly successful in the one-dayers. He took
>	1-22 off 10 V Australia, 3-18 off 6 V Australia, 1-31 off 10 V
>	Pakistan. The only reason he's been bowling is that West Indies batting
>	looked brittle at the start, so they played an extra batsman. (Logie).
>	At the time, they didn't know who would be the fifth bowler, although
>	they thought it would be a combination of Simmons, Artherton and
>	Richardson (!!!)
>
	Simmons really has been amazing. But I think we forget that Hooper
has been pretty amazing too !! After all, this guy started as a fill-in
bowler, turned into a regular, and is now the prime bowler for the WI in
slog situations !! Pretty amazing. In case either of them bowl badly,
Richie has Arthurton and Jimmy Adams to fall back on, so at least he has a
few options to work with. 
  
	
			Sadiq [ who likes Hooper ] Yusuf
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Subject: Re: javed miandad
From: shariq@charlie.usd.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:06:43 GMT
Reply-To: shariq@charlie.usd.edu
 <00965433.E34343E0@vms.csd.mu.edu>,<1992Dec18.162106.17398@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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In article <1992Dec18.162106.17398@news2.cis.umn.edu>, suraj@microbe.med.umn.edu (Suraj Muley) writes:
>javed miandad had once again proved that he is the most unsporting
>cricketer the world of cricket has ever seen by blaming the schedule
>for his loses. i am not sure why he needs to over emphasize his 
>unsporting attitude on and of the field repeatedly. Everyone is by now
>pretty much convinced about the fact. give me one logical reason to think
>otherwise.
>
>suraj muley.

So what is your point?

Shariq

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From: bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan)
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Subject: Re: Indian under-19 team in SA
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:20:20 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <msains.51.725705969@ibis.ru.ac.za> msains@ibis.ru.ac.za (Malcolm Sainsbury) writes:
>Some brief news for Indian cricket fans on the progress of the
>under-19 team in South Africa.
>
>They have played 12 matches and won 10.  Yesterday they beat the
>Natal schools side by eight wickets.  Opening batsman Gagan Khoda
>has become something of a celbrity.  He has so far hit 2 centuries
>and has also twice been out on 98.  Most (maybe all) of these games
>have been limited overs matches, so the young man's scores are
>even more impressive.

	Bring him in !!! ;-)

Bhaskar
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From: praim@fraser.sfu.ca (Praim Sankar)
Subject: AUS-WI TEST
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:37:56 GMT

Please if anyone out there is looking at the  game
couls you post the scores for us. We get neither
radio or TV to help us. 
Thanks.


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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:42:01 MST
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From:         "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
Subject:      Australia v West Indies (2T4D - Melbourne, Australia, Dec 29)

Australia First Innings 395
   (M.E. Waugh 112, Border 110, Boon 46; Walsh 4-91, Ambrose 3-70, Bishop 3-84)

West Indies First innings 233
   (Arthurton 71, Lara 52, Adams 47;  McDermott 4-66, Hughes 3-51)

Australia Second Innings (overnight 26 for one)

   M.A. Taylor b Bishop .................  42
   D.C. Boon b Simmons ..................  11
   S.K. Warne c Arthurton b Ambrose .....   5
   S.R. Waugh c Simmons b Bishop ........   1
   M.E. Waugh c Adams b Walsh ...........  16
   D.R. Martyn not out ..................  67
   A.R. Border b Bishop .................   4
   I.A. Healy c and b Walsh .............   8
   M.G. Hughes c Williams b Ambrose .....  15
   C.J. McDermott c Arthurton b Simmons .   4
   M.R. Whitney run out .................  13
   Extras (b1,lb8,nb1) ..................  10
   Total ................................ 196

   Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-40, 3-41, 4-73, 5-90, 6-102, 7-121, 8-154, 9-167

   Bowling: Ambrose 30-9-57-2, Bishop 20-5-45-3, Walsh 21-7-42-2,
            Simmons 18-6-34-2, Hooper 2.4-1-9-0

   Overs: 91.4


West Indies Second Innings

   D.L. Haynes c Healy b Hughes ...  5
   P.V. Simmons not out ........... 14
   R.B. Richardson not out ........ 12
   Extras (nb1) ...................  1
   Total (1 wkt) .................. 32

   Fall of wickets: 1-9

   Bowling: McDermott 5-0-24-0, Hughes 6-2-7-1, Whitney 2-1-1-0

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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:37:24 MST
Reply-To:     "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
From:         "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
Subject:      West Indies vs Australia (3T1D - Sydney, Australia, Jan 2)

   The West Indies, groggy from an Australian run feast, came up with
three late wickets to fight back on the opening day of the third
cricket test on Saturday.  Australia, cruising at 254 for two as Steve
Waugh hit his maiden test century against the West Indies, slumped to
272 for five at the close as the Caribbean champions found new life
with the second new ball.

   Waugh, under siege for his test place after knocks of 10, 20, 38
and 1 in the opening two tests, replied to his critics with a defiant
100 in just under 4-1/2 hours.  Waugh, who put on a record 118 for the
second wicket in a Sydney test against the West Indies with David Boon
(76), combined in a breezy 94-run stand with his twin brother, Mark,
for the third wicket.  Just when Mark Waugh, a century-maker in last
week's Melbourne test, looked primed for another ton, he was run out
for 57 going for a suicidal single.

   The West Indian bowlers, jaded from marathon stints in Melbourne
just days before, laboured on an unresponsive pitch and looked down
for the count before Curtly Ambrose captured the scalps of Steve Waugh
and Damien Martyn (0) in the last 40 minutes.  Earlier, Allan Border,
who had yet to open his account at the close in his chase for 21 more
runs to achieve 10,000 test runs, won his third successive toss of the
series to opt to bat first.

    The docile, dry Sydney strip offered little for the West Indians
for more than five hours before the late tumble of wickets gave them
some encouragement going into the second day, already trailing 1-0 in
the best-of-five test series.

Australia 1st Innings:

   M.A.Taylor  c Murray  b Bishop ......20
   D.C.Boon   c Murray  b Adams ........76
   S.R.Waugh  c Simmons  b Ambrose ....100
   M.E.Waugh  run out ..................57
   D.R.Martyn b Ambrose  ............... 0
   A.R.Border  not out  ................ 0
   G,R.Matthews  not out  .............. 0
   Extras (lb16, nb3)   ................19
   Total (5 wkts)  ....................272

   Fall of wickets: 1-42, 2-160, 3-254, 4-261, 5-270

   Did not bat: I.A. Healy, S.K. Warne, M.G. Hughes, C.J. McDermott

   Bowling: Ambrose 20-6-37-2, Bishop 20-4-56-1, Walsh 16-4-57-0,
            Hooper 24-4-69-0, Adams 11-2-37-1.

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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:54:21 MST
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From:         "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
Subject:      Pakistan vs New Zealand (2ODI - Napier, New Zealand, Dec 28)

 New Zealand beat Pakistan by six wickets in the second of three
one-day internationals played at McLean Park on Monday. The series is
level at 1-1. Pakistan won the first match by 50 runs.  The deciding
match will be played in Auckland on Wednesday.

Pakistan:

   Aamir Sohail b Patel.................  9
   Ramiz Raja c Parore b Patel..........  1
   Salim Malik c Parore b Watson........ 39
   Javed Miandad b Larsen............... 19
   Inzamam-ul-Haq c Parore b Larsen.....  2
   Shahid Saeed run out................. 14
   Rashid Latif c Jones b Morrison...... 20
   Wasim Akram c Parore b Watson........ 12
   Waqar Younis not out.................  0
   Mushtaq Ahmed not out................  0
   Extras (8w, 9lb, 3b)................. 20
   Total (for 8 wkts)...................136
   Fall: 1-9, 2-14, 3-65, 4-67, 5-91, 6-112, 7-127, 8-134.

   Bowling: Morrison 8-0-30-0 (5w), Patel 9-2-16-2, Watson 8-0-39-2 (2w),
            Larsen 9-2-15-2, Harris 8-1-24-0 (1w).

New Zealand:

   M.J. Greatbatch c Rashid b Akram.....  0
   R.T. Latham b Shahid................. 21
   A.H. Jones c Rashid b Waqar.......... 17
   M.D. Crowe not out................... 47
   K.R. Rutherford c Inzamam b Shahid... 34
   C.Z. Harris not out..................  3
   Extras (1lb,1b,8nb,5w)............... 15
   Total (for 4 wkts)...................137
   Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-30, 3-71, 4-133.

   Bowling: Akram 9-2-22-1(3w, 2nb), Waqar 9-0-36-1(1nb),
            Aaqib 8-1-39-0(4nb), Shahid 5-0-20-2(1nb, 2w),
            Mushtaq 4.4-0-16-0, Malik 2-0-2-0.

   Result: New Zealand won by six wickets.

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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:10:06 MST
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From:         "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
Subject:      Australia v West Indies (2T1D - Melbourne, Australia, Dec 26)

 Australia recovered from a shaky middle order collapse to fight their
way into a position of early control of the second cricket Test
against the West Indies on Saturday.  At stumps, Australia were 227
for four, with Mark Waugh undefeated on 63 and captain Allan Border
not out 51.

   The pair shared an unbroken 112-run partnership after coming
together with Australia struggling at 115 for four.  A crowd of just
under 50,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground warmed to the gritty
partnership which combined majestic stroke play from Waugh and typical
defiance from Border.  The 37-year-old Australian captain's ability to
continue playing at Test level has been under question in some
quarters here.

   But he responded with a timely half-century, which followed his
recent 116 against the touring Pakistan team while playing for his
state of Queensland.  Earlier the West Indians broke with tradition by
partially dismantling their feared four-pronged fast bowling battery.
Patrick Patterson was dropped from the side which drew the first Test
in Brisbane, with the West Indies opting to bring in Jimmy Adams to
strengthen their batting.  After Border won the toss and
elecombination of patience and aggression.

   The tourists' cause was not helped when captain Richie Richardson
had to leave the field mid-way through the final session with a thigh
strain, with veteran opening batsman Desmond Haynes taking over as
skipper.

Australia First Innings

   D.C. Boon c Williams b Walsh .......  46
   M.A. Taylor c Lara b Walsh .........  13
   S.R. Waugh c Lara b Ambrose ........  38
   M.E. Waugh not out  ................  63
   D.R. Martyn c Simmons b Ambrose ....   7
   A.R. Border not out ................  51
   Extras (lb7, w1, nb1) ..............   9
   Total (4 wkts) ..................... 227

   Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-100, 3-104, 4-115

   Bowling: Ambrose 20-9-29-2, Bishop 17-1-53-0, Simmons 10-2-23-0,
            Walsh 24-8-53-2, Hooper 19-3-49-0, Adams 2-0-13-0.
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:19:16 MST
Reply-To:     "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
From:         "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
Subject:      England vs Delhi (1D - Faridabad, India, Jan 3)

   England opened their three-month tour of India by restricting Delhi
to 190 for three by the close of play on the opening day of a
three-day match on Sunday.  England Captain Graham Gooch won the toss
and sent Delhi in to bat under an overcast sky.  Opener Hitesh Sharma
made a laboured 87 in 365 minutes and was unbeaten at the close.
Delhi's batting was overawed by the England attack and the home side
crawled to a measly 95 for two at tea.

   Manu Nayyar, the first victim, fell after scoring only 11 runs when
he edged a catch to wicket-keeper Alec Stewart off the bowling of Paul
Jarvis.  Bantoo Singh was next to go after making only 15 when Chris
Lewis caught him at first slip off a delivery from spinner Graham
Hick's first over.  Ajay Sharma stood his ground better than Singh and
reached 30 before Hick caught him off a delivery from Lewis.


Delhi

   Manu Nayyar c Steward b Jarvis ................. 11
   Hitesh Sharma not out .......................... 87
   Bantoo Singh c Lewis b Hicks ................... 15
   Ajay Sharma c Hicks b Lewis .................... 30
   K.P. Bhaskar not out ........................... 22
   Extras (b2, lb8, nb 3, w2) ..................... 25
   Total (3 wkts) ................................ 190

   Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-95, 3-151

   Bowling
    Malcolm 17-7-34-0, Jarvis 16-6-16-1, Lewis 19-1-47-1, Tufnell 22-3-60-0,
    Reeve 6-2-11-0, Hicks 10-5-12-1.

   Teams:

 England: Graham Gooch, Mike Atherton, Alec Stewart, Mike Gatting,
          Graham Hick, Neil Fairbrother, Dermot Reeve, Chris Lewis,
          Paul Jarvis, Phil Tufnell, Devon Malcolm.

   Delhi: Kirti Azad, Manu Nayyar, Hitesh Sharma, Bantoo Singh, Ajay Sharma,
          K.P. Bhaskar, Mohan Chaturvedi, Atul Wassan, Vivek Razdan,
          Firoz Ghyas, Maninder Singh.

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From: aamir@cs.sfu.ca (Aamir Husain)
Subject: Holiday matches
Keywords: Pak win, Aus 227/4, ind vs SA to start
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:22:45 GMT

Pakistan win the 1st ODI against NZ
Pakistan 158/8 in 49 overs
NZealand 108 all out
wasim akram 5/19


Aus are 227/4, someone made a century didnt catch the name

ind vs SA match about to start, Raju replaces Srinath


thats all the xmas news. happy holidays everyone

Aamir
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Subject: New Zealand 14 for 2 after 6 over agnst Pak
From: A.Qadir@massey.ac.nz (A. Qadir)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 02:08:12 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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New Zealand 14 for 2 in their 6th over. NZ needs 159 in 49 overs to beat 
Pakistan.

Altaf                                                        
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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: The way the cookie crumbles - Umpiring decisions
Reply-To: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:55:56 GMT

9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu (Murali Iyer) writes:

	[Murali's intelligent, well-reasoned (as usual) prose deleted]

>p.s: I saw a picture of Kapil, Kirsten and Manjrekar arguing, with the umpire
>in the middle, about Kapil's Mankading kirsten. Kapil is angrily pointing out
>to Kirsten that he had warned him "Three times", Manjrekar is spreading his
>arms and shrugging, apparently saying "So what's wrong in running you out like
>this?" to Kirsten, and Kirsten is facing Kapil, obviously not happy.  Kapil is
>so angry that he has bared his teeth while speaking to Kirsten. 

Try saying "three" with some emotion, and its very hard not to bare
your teeth (especially for one who models for Colgate like Kapil:-).
Glad to see THAT incident has blown over completely and the series has
been played on in good spirit.

>People who have
>seen Kapil will know what a picture it makes. The umpire, in the midst of all
>this, is trying to tell Kirsten that he is out and he should move on. Kirsten
>is reported to have gone into the dressing via the Indian dressing room,
>passing a few choice words to all Indians around. :--) 

Here's hoping for a good Indian performance in the final test.  Go
Azhar and Amre -- make tons (and SRT too before my namesake jumps on
me -- Hi PVR, Happy New Year:-)...

In fact wishing everyone on r.s.c. a great new year.  May 1993 bring
you prosperity, happiness, and lot of wins for your cricket team
(except when they play India of course:-).

Bharat

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Subject: NZ vs Pak/Day 3/Lunch
From: awil2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Andrew James        Willmott       )
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:40:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

Pak 1st innings 216
NZ  1st innings 264

Pak 2nd innings 61/5; Rasheed and Inzaman at the crease.

Pakistan have a lead of 13 with 5 second-innings wickets in hand.
Morrison has the figures of 4-19.

Andrew
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From: RAHULI@UCSVAX (RAHUL INDRAYAN)
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Subject: Re: King Kapil's no. of wickets
Date: 31 Dec 1992 17:44:35 GMT
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Kapil Dev has 408 test wickets after the 3rd test.
-Rahul
In <1992Dec30.115057.1@tesla.njit.edu> sxb8321@tesla.njit.edu writes:

> Could somebody please post the no. of wickets kapil has right now in his
> test carrier?
> 
> 	Thanx in advance.
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
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Subject: PK NZ D2
Date: 4 Jan 93 02:46:11 GMT
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Pakistan 165/8 !!

The good news is:
It's only the second day :-)
Waqar is still batting   :-)

Can Newzealand pull a Huston Oiles here? :-)

j n a
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Subject: Re: World Champions???
From: shariq@charlie.usd.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:21:34 GMT
Reply-To: shariq@charlie.usd.edu
Organization: The University of South Dakota Computer Science Dept.

In article <1992Dec18.154633.5625@bnr.ca>, charan@crchh448.BNR.CA (Cliff Shivcharan) writes:
>In article <92352.165939U17868@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U17868@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>|>The reason why Pakistan's performance is bad in ODI's is that they
>played the O
>|>DI's mostly in Australia and England. The conditions in AUstralia and
>England a
>|>re very different from Pakistan or India or Sharjah. The reason why
>the perform
>|>ance of AUstralia is good is because they play more matches at home
>then away.
>|>Look at the statistics of Pakistan's one day record in Pakistan,
>India, Sharjah
>|>(since all three countries have almost same condtions) and you will
>find out mo
>|>re. I don't know what the winning percentage of Australia is abroad, but I k
>|>now that they lost the one day series against Sri Lanka. Does that
>mean that Sr
>|>i Lanka is better side than Australia? I doubt that.
>|>
>|>Cricket is played in many countries and one should not judge the
>performance of
>|> any team considering their performance in one or two countries.
>|>Sikander Waheed
>|>u17868@uicvm.cc.uic.edu
>              
>A TRUE WORLD Champion should be able to play the game ANYWHERE in the
>WORLD (where cricket is played) and be effective. They may not win every
>time but at least give a creditable performance.
>
>The excuses advanced above for Pakistan's DISMAL showing is just that -
>EXCUSES and LAME ones at that. They won the WC in Austrailia, REMEMBER??
>What happened in the game 2 days ago was a TOTAL humiliation. Those of
>us who follow WI cricket would have LAUGHED if we were told that SIMMONS
>would have figures of 10 8 3 4 in an INTERNATIONAL OD game!!!
>
>When Pakistan won their 1st game, they were TRUMPETED as the WORLD
>CHAMPS and there was talk of THE GREATEST BATSMAN WHO WALKED THE EARTH!!
>What is THIS "GREATEST" batsman's record against the WI?
>
>Just goes to show that ONE SWALLOW DO NOT MAKE A SUMMER. Also CRICKET
>is a game of GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTIES!!!!
>
>Regards,
>Cliff.
Agreed Cliff! Those things have happend to every team in international cricket.
England had the shit beaten out of them in three consecutive series against the
West Indies but no-one laughed.That can happen to any team any time and
anywhere. Remember Kallicharan hitting Lillee for 36 runs in 8 or so balls. Was
Lillee a laughing stock? Not.

The talk of Greatest this and that is once more purely subjective so you cannot
say much about that, and for the record he hit a match winning fifty against 
them in an earlier match and another unbeaten fifty in the world cup and scored
two hundreds on the Carribean wickets, and both of them would have been match
winning instaed of just one if the West Indies umpires had not cheated!

Yes a swallow does not make a summer, nut what are you implying or trying to 
imply?


Shariq

Hail Pakistan, world champions of the greatest game ever. 
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