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    End of the road for Shoaib?

    By Scott last year, at the start of September Leave a comment on this post

    He’s managed to get himself sent home from the Twenty20 World Cup after an incident with Mohammad Asif in which he is alleged to have hit Asif with a cricket bat. Pakistan’s cricket authorities can be very forgiving, but you have to wonder if that won’t be the end of Shoaib, at least for the time being. It’s a shame, because in his pomp, Shoaib Akhtar was a magnificent sight, the very model of a modern speed demon. He made a major impression on the world stage in the 1999 World Cup and he impressed Australians like Steve Waugh on the need for speed in an attack, thus paving the way for the career of Brett Lee.

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  • Rusty wrote:
    September 8th, 2007 at 12.04 am

    Shoab Akhtar brings the game of cricket into disrepute.

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